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I just finished my Psychiatry rotation as part of my training and there are three things, of many, that I learned: First, America has a long way to go in developing the best screening and management tools for people with mental disabilities. Second, schizophrenia is an incredibly complicated illness that can take manifest in a whole host of unsuspecting symptoms, and is not easily treatable. And third, diagnosing and treating a mental disorder in children is really hard.

The last two points, I think, are very relevant to this article. While I sympathize with you, understand that child development is a very, very complicated thing. You have naturally hyper children, naturally withdrawn children, etc, and physicians are very wary to label any child with an illness, especially schizophrenia. When we're adults and have leveled out, it's easier to discern what is "normal" from "abnormal." But children are constantly changing, being molded by their environment, and so it's much harder to outline a symptomatic threshold of what's considered normal. Additionally, children exhibit mental disorders in very different ways than adult do; there are different sets of symptoms to look out for. And these symptoms can be anything from "pressured speech" (talking too fast. some kids are just naturally fast talkers, right?) to auditory hallucinations (but the child could have a vivid imagination, right?).

The treatment for schizophrenia is an entirely different beast. The goal is usually to just suppress the symptoms and to restore the patient to a functional baseline. In many cases, the disease progresses and the prognosis worsens. In your case, your child had early-onset schizophrenia, which is associated with a worse prognosis than late-onset cases.

Although there are studies that show that early detection and treatment of schizophrenia can improve the course of the disease, chances are your kid would have still developed much of the same symptoms and issues that he has now. It really sucks, and I sympathize with you, but that's the nature of the disorder. It's terrible, difficult to manage effectively, and can ruin lives. I've seen it.
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Yeah, the only way "playing with [legal classification of drugs] is playing with fire" makes any sense is if the fire in question is set by the legal system.

Now, if you want to say "playing with stimulants" or "playing with depressants" or some other scientific classification, then that makes sense (though I would still like to see a citation..).
One thing that seems to be missing from the interpretation of the article is whether or not the temporary monopoly granted by patents is necessary in software patents. When answering this question, one should definitely look at the speed of both innovation and obsolescence, combined with strength of competition.

There have been a large number of good papers published all coming to this one conclusion - speed to market in current software markets is the ultimate strategic advantage and source of reward. Most other things can be copied quickly enough, but the landscape is evolving fast enough that innovators can constantly one-up the competition, reaping greatest rewards.

By contrast, in capital-intensive, slower industries, these "guard rails" make a lot of sense - if it takes me years to make a breakthrough on the drug, but means of copying it a re super straightforward because I am required to publish the recipe for all to see, it makes sense to restrict the use of the recipe.

I don't see anyone publishing Google search algorithms for all to see. In fact there is an entire industry that focuses on guessing what it is - SEO.

To me personally, it boils down to this - if we make it super easy for competitors to ride your coat-tails by forcing you to disclose your secrete sauce, then it's fair to try and give you some protection. If we leave you to compete without that interference, than we should not extend the extra protection... (this is just strictly a personal view, grounded more in my ethical views than anything else).
Which is why they dropped OpenSSL.
One of the first reasons I ever heard for learning either vi or emacs was that they were the only editors that were basically prevalent everywhere, regardless what flavor of unix you found yourself on. Not so much because of how powerful they were.
In my personal experience, it can be very frustrating to try and collaborate on UI design remotely. This is further exacerbated by language barriers.

I have had recent good experience working with a relatively inexpensive design team based in Kansas City (cremalab.com), which was kicked-off in person but completed remotely.
> Memory cards, and USB support has not hurt sales of iPad before.

How could you possibly know?
Also, people need new bikes. Bikes break, people want a new bike, people stop riding and just store their bikes, and people whose bikes are stolen need new bikes. Neither supply nor demand is absolutely fixed.
I think this is too fatalistic. This sets the bar far too low -- you could substitute poverty or crime in here without substantially altering the meaning. No, you cannot "cure" it or "fix" it, but the alternative isn't "do nothing." That's a false dichotomy.

At a minimum you can look for ways mitigate the impact it has on our society. See the pieces elsewhere in this thread which discuss the cost to our society incurred by ER visits from the mentally ill and/or homeless. That's a trivial example.

It might be worth discussing how other western industrialized nations approach this; I suspect that those countries which have some kind of socialized health infrastructure do more than the US than shrug their shoulders and avert their eyes.
The whole "Schedule I" thing is probably a bad choice of words on the authors part. Perhaps something along the lines of "mind altering substances"? Anything with the potential to significantly impact a persons impressions of the world around them is a bad idea in this situation.
Yup. Stylus (https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus) has mixins and a lot more.
Not quite. C and C++ standards discriminate between undefined- and implementation-defined behavior. In the latter case, implementaitons can differ, but each must choose (and document) some well-defined way to handle a case. A trivial example is "sizeof(int)". The standard does not say much about what it produces (IIRC, it must be an int at least as large as sizeof(char)), so it can return 1, 2, 4, or even 17 (well, maybe not in C11. Newer standards tend to put more restrictions on behavior)

A nontrivial example is the value of "-64 >> 3". More info at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2397984/undefined-unspeci...

I think the post you reply to refers to the fact that early K&R C predates any standard that introduced the term 'undefined behavior'. At that time, the standard was just 'whatever that tool Kernighan and Ritchie wrote does'.
It's still a major mood and behavior alterer. A trained professional should be directing the patient's use.
I'd go easy on that counselling and do my best to figure out first what actually happened.

It would not be the first time that the visible aggressor was in fact the victim of a long drawn out teasing campaign by a group of bullies, and girls can be bullies just as easy as boys.

One of the best bits of fun seems to be to goad someone until they snap and then let them take the blame for it all.

Been there, done that, have the t-shirt.
And he is responding to the "finding admin pages or urls".
Sim City isn't just online for DRM, it's a multiplayer only game like Diablo III. There is no single player, there is only making an online game without other people. There is no reloading an earlier save, there is the persistence of an MMO.

It's a shame, I would have loved a new single player city building sim but after seeing how badly Blizzard screwed Diablo III there's no way I'm trusting EA to manage this.
My method was:

- Show up. Pay Attention. Sit in the front of the class
- Take notes. 1 page is slacking, 4 sides is about right.
- Do the problem sets.
- Studying? What's that?
- Rock the tests.

If I sat in the first couple rows, my grade would be an A. Back row, I'd be lucky with a B. Back row in a large lecture at lunchtime was a C. Then again, I was known to be able to answer questions when obviously snoozing in the front row of an 8am class. (Steel design, IIRC. "What's wrong with all you? He can answer the questions and he's asleep")

I needed the notes, and specifically the ear - brain - hand - eye loop to make sure that the info got in my head and processed. If I slacked on notes, then the slippery slope started and I'd end up losing the thread of the class for minutes at a time. I didn't really need the notes later, I might go over them before a test, but not often. Mostly when it was an open note or 'one sheet of notes' test. Though, one time my one sheet of notes was "Don't Panic" written in letters large enough to be be seen by anyone glancing at the sheet.

Problem sets were key. As were the bigger design projects and the labs. You could fake getting the problem sets done, but you couldn't fake understanding them.
I received an invite from Exec for a similar offering this week. $50/hr for 2x cleaners, reserved online, including pickup/dropoff of your house keys so you don't have to hide or give away a copy of your key.
Now here Matt Cutts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=393nmCYFRtA
And importantly, to DRY up his compiled CSS as well.
Using vim helped me write better (or smarter) regular expressions. I tell people starting out with vim to stick with it and it will help them in the long run.
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Certainly it, and any other drug or medication, should be taken with care in this particular situation. "Schedule I" has nothing to do with it though.
The article I'm remembering actually addressed that. The program was limited to a very small number of people--tens, or fewer. They actually had one that wrecked his apartment every week, and still it was cheaper to fix it back up than to let this guy back on the street, where he would incur about $1M a year in ER bills. One of the big objections to this program came from the fact that the scale was so limited.
A key feature of spatial databases, for me, is being able to store and query shapes more complicated than just points.

In particular, roads with long straight segments don't have many nodes, so the nearest road isn't always the road the nearest node is on - and a road that travels through a bounding box won't always have a node in the bounding box.

Does ElasticSearch support indexing on geometry more complicated than points?
The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector - The Linear Algebra Behind Google [pdf] (2007)
Security is all about trade-offs. When I've used mod_status, I've just used a simple username and password that everybody shared. I've also served it from a different URL than the "well-known" /server-status.

I realise that the IP addresses it shows are not on the order of credit card numbers, and its only the IP addresses at that particular instant (as opposed to historical data or something), but there is a difference between my IP address being logged in server logs and my IP address being visible to anyone who happens to visit a popular website at the same time as I do.

Edit: what I'm saying is, its very easy to keep this information invisible from the open internet. I can see no advantages and only potential problems leaving it open. Given that, it seems like the prudent thing to do is to close it off.
Great post. I'd like to expand on your point on how your brain is plastic which is important when it comes to positive/negative thoughts.

Positive Psychology is a really new but active area of psychology. One of the things they have found is that certain jobs are more oriented towards negative thought. For example, auditing is mostly about looking for mistakes. The interesting part is that people in these "negative" professions end up thinking negatively about everything in their life, not just their profession. As you point out, this is because the more we fire a certain set of neurons, the easier it is to fire and less energy it consumes.

But what is even more interesting is that there are certain professions like software development that are neutral on this negative to positive spectrum. In these cases we can actually influence how we think and build these neuron pathways just by context framing. i.e. instead of looking at a bug as fixing a mistake, look at it as an opportunity to improve the product.
Doesn't work on my iphone :-(
Considering that they use the singular term "life's work", I don't think they intend for their signs to apply to people with more than one goal in their lives.

Also, isn't it obvious when you are happy with what you are doing? What we really need are the signs that you are looking at your life's work's job listing.
Oh no, that's dreadful. Thanks for the clarification anyway.
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Absolutely! I remember the basics of linear algebra very well, and can reproduce them easily -- proofs and more arcane aspects of the curriculum, on the other hand, not so much. (Furthermore, I'd argue that the average non-Math major is not going to have to apply such aspects, and thus an introductory course should be relatively cursory regarding them.)
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
The model actually comes from here

http://www.blendswap.com/blends/vehicles/vader-tie-fighter/

where it is download-able
I've found that one of the hardest and most important things about launching a startup is instilling trust in new visitors to your site. That's hard to do when you are using a logo from a discount furniture company.
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Thank you OP for linking to print version, it's much better for reading.
Love it. Clever and clean.
This will actually happen for any extension which requires many IMAP calls, or any combination of extensions thereof. As a Gmail extension developer myself, it takes a lot of effort to be efficient about your IMAP usage to avoid these kinds of issues.

IIRC, the Gmail tema has said that when most people report of slow Gmail mailboxes, it can usually be traced back to an overload of these extensions.
I know this isn't the point of the post, but I'm learning me some linear algebra from online video lectures now and wanted to check my answer for the bonus question, part b. Is it [[-3/2 2 -1/2] [-1/2 0 1/2] [1/2 -2 3/2]]?

My method was to represent f(x) as ax^2+bx+c, giving v = [c, a + b + c, 4a + 2b + c] as the vector in the coordinate system and dv/dx = [b, 2a + b, 4a + b] as the derivative. Then d/dx * v = dv/dx. Then split both vectors into a product of a 3x3 number matrix and [a b c], cancel the [a b c] from both sides, find the inverse of the left matrix, and multiply it by the right. I did the inverse by hand so I might have made an arithmetic mistake. Am I on the right track or did I totally misunderstand the question?
Deferred pattern isn't from jQuery. It's from Twisted and the first JavaScript library to use it was MochiKit. A nitpick I know, but I think it's good to know where things really come from ;-)
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I'm finding more and more often that the best way to teach someone about a feature of their own favorite text editor is to threaten to walk them through doing it in vim. Magically, they've found the plugin or option before I can make it back to their desk with my solution.
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This argument irks me. Have you been on the inside of a homeless shelter?

The constant bed bug invasions, bunking right next to a paranoid schizophrenic, living in constant fear of rape (yes, even for men)? Treated like a social pariah on a good day, non-existent the next? This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, I assure you.

Life inside the system is not nearly as rosy as you might think.

Often I feel like people should be made to work directly with the homeless before letting them spout off on this particular topic.
Alcohol abuse has actually been correlated with High IQ and is most commonly abused by this group because of the despair they see in the world due to their high IQ's. Essentially, because they tend to be more educated, and aware of global problems that makes them depressed.
Banks combat fraud by investing in fraud prevention. They make it work because the margins are greater than the expense of the fraud prevention.

Without calculating the expense spread between the criminal justice system and the mental health system, I'd wager that the savings will be great enough that we can afford fraud prevention too.
I agree. Is it really that hard to turn vim into a regular text editor? Hell it's even easier to use macvim and all you need to know is i and escape to make it behave "normal"
I think you've missed the point of the article. The author isn't saying that Tim would be normal but for the policy changes. He's saying Tim wouldn't be out on the street. Which is true--there has been a huge scaling back of mental health services in this country, not just in the down economy but over the past 30 years.
This is why Filepicker.io seems to be getting a bit of hype. A neat, common solution to this problem.
I don't think that the shortage was by any means short term. The 80s and 90s saw many many baby boomers start to retire, especially in the manufacturing and industrial fields, while vocational and STEM education paths became less and less popular with the younger generations. This also coincided with free trade "reform" and the beginnings of the outsourcing wave, which was very tech/industrial heavy and thus lowered labor wages here for competitiveness (whether or not it was necessary). Wages also vary extremely drastically, even across proximate geographies. I.e., in LA starting software dev positions were at $45-50k a year while in SV they are $70-80k. Having lived in both areas, the difference in cost of living is NOT that big.

While engineering itself may not be subject to much regulation, the H1-B process is. It is the equivalent of extraordinary ability but with a lower barrier to entry based on market needs instead of publications. As such it is very carefully regulated. As for "artificially" increasing supply... that's a weird way to put it. America is built on the backs of immigrants and having maximum quotas for the immigration of the highest skilled ones does not seem like artificially increasing the supply. The reality is that 90%+ of the world would gladly take a salary 30-50% lower than an American just to live here and the H1-B hinders such under cutting.

As far as engineering falling badly behind other fields... I don't see it. The Bay Area is obviously not representative but I don't know of a single engineer (not software) who is unemployed or has trouble finding consulting gigs for ridiculous $100+ an hour rates. Outside of the Bay, most of the employed engineers that I know are older and pretty much irrelevant skill wise. Machinists who know nothing about 5-axis or high speed machining, electrical engineers who can't do high frequency design required by so much of our tech now adays, mechEs who don't have much experience with design for manufacturing, etc.
His Schedule I mention was likely overreaching.

Marijuana is relatively harmless and should be legalized. It is also known to be useful in the treatment of a number of ailments.

However, we do know of one certain negative reaction, with a fair degree of certainty: genetically schizophrenic predispositioned people who smoke marijuana as teenagers are more likely to develop schizophrenia.

Because of this, although it should be legalized, it should not be available to teens.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/teens-who-smoke-pot-at-ri...

http://www.livescience.com/10700-marijuana-worsens-schizophr...
My cousin has (had?) schizophrenia. Despite the best efforts of his wealthy family and a willing mental health system in Germany he disappeared and we haven't heard anything in a very long time. He lived on the streets for a number of years but it's very hard to get schizophrenics on the needed medication and even harder to keep them on it.

I don't think there's a policy solution for this.
This says so much about what's broken in our legislative system:

> Six weeks into my legislative career, I was the legislature’s reluctant new expert on mental health.

After six weeks, he was not an expert. In nearly all cases, our legislators are not experts in any of the things which they are legislating, yet that never stops them from forming strong opinions and trying to "reform" or "fix" things. On HN, we see this frequently with Internet and technology legislation, but this article shows it's a problem with other areas, too.
I think this is great. I'm also really interested in the new public APIs and how these can be used going forward. Good job gov IT team :)
Thanks! That clears things up.
This raises an interesting question - what do other countries do? Have any of them achieved any significant success in managing the care of their schizophrenic citizens in particular?
Things like this are easy to say:

> If I were a legislator today, I’d mandate — and provide funding to ensure — that every teacher receive training in recognizing symptoms of mental illnesses.

but teachers aren't psychiatrists or clinical psychologists and can't really be expected to be.

I was recently watching a program talking about the somewhat controversial theory that schizophrenia (and other mental disorders) are either parasitic in origin or that parasites may simply contribute [1] [2].

The culprit in this case being toxoplasmosis. There's been research to show that there is correlation between the incidence of schizophrenia and the domestication of cats.

This kinda reminds me of how peptic ulcers were once thought to be caused by stress until they were found to caused by a virus [3].

At the same time the elimination of parasites is arguably related to the rise of autoimmune diseases in the developed world (the so-called "hygine hypothesis" [4]). For example, hookworms may combat asthma and other allergies [5].,

I wonder if the coming century will be a revolution in mental health as parasties, viruses and bacteria (or even the lack thereof) may be far more immportant than currently realized, possibly even causal in many cases.

[1]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311085151.ht...

[2]: http://www.stanleyresearch.org/dnn/LaboratoryofDevelopmental...

[3]: http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/peptic-ulcer...

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

[5]: http://www.gizmag.com/hookworms-prevent-asthma-allergies/129...
The term "creative" is misleading though and its use should be discouraged. I worked at a consulting company that started doing agency work, hired designers, promoted creative directors, built a creative department, added a creative area with a creative room and so on and so forth. This was always a point of contention for the developers. It's especially silly when this article ostensibly promotes crossover coders who do both design and development. Why does it have to be the "creative" department and not the "design" department? And in an intelligent organization that encourages multi-talented people and "interdisciplinary" work, why are departments and labels like that even necessary?

The pedigree of the term creative makes sense in the advertising world. At first creatives did visual and textual work and there were no engineers. Then developers became a part of advertising agencies and became a different department from "creative." Now the walls are being broken down and we're evangelizing "creative coders" Instead of perpetuating this silly distinction, let's do away with it and stop implying that just because someone isn't A "creative" that they aren't creative.

Bad naming is bad naming.