skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an editorial decision on the part of the New York Times (and most major news outlets). None of its scientific op eds include proper citations. It isn't the author trying to pull a fast one over on you.

You can google "adhd bibliography" if you want to read a bunch of studies. You can tell the bibliographies that come from places that are pushing a particular therapy (medication or otherwise) because they include no articles critical of their approach.
I can't imagine using this for real. Perception is so much more parallel than that. If I see

char *(*fp)(int)

I see that it matches the pattern

returntype *(*function)(args)

It's the "* (* )()" that one sees all at once, and that signifies "this is a function pointer".

This actually reminds me of some research where kids are asked to trace the direction of interlocked gears. They start by looking at each one, but soon they move to more general strategies.
Edit - this is the one, in case anyone is curious: Dixon, J. A., & Bangert, A. S. (2002). The prehistory of discovery: precursors of representational change in solving gear system problems. Developmental Psychology, 38(6), 918.
It's probably more fair to compare this to WWI. With US gun owners being the equivalent of the cavalry, and the US military being the machine gun.
But go on discussing the relative merits of your horse breeds...
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Great news! Glad to see Opera adopting webkit, since many mobile html5 frameworks use webkit features that Opera Mini/Mobile wasn't able to use. That way we can get full compatibility with the mobile web and get to use Opera Link and Opera Turbo.
I think the point is that the spiral rule is just a way to remember/implement the right left rule.
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I love using Opera Mobile on my Kindle Fire. It's a fantastic experience and I can watch any flash content I want!

Seeing it move from Presto to Webkit kind of makes me nervous though. Is Webkit an open standard or it controlled by Google (a single entity?).

Competition is good and I would love to see Opera flourish like that.

The swipe features looks gorgeous.
I have known a fair few people over the years who have had security tokens --to be able to login at work.--

For work purposes, i.e. you need it to do your job so it may be required at any point. TFA is saying people will leave it just by the PC they use most often, i.e. at home, which defeats the point.

I think the use of smart phones for 2-factor is the way to go, since it is not something else I need to carry around. Up until recently Barclays Bank (in the UK) had a fairly bulky card reader which I would insert my card, tap in my pin and it would generate a secondary password (I also have to chose letter X and Y from my password). They now have a smart phone app. Much simpler for me now.
Re: (1): Grieving friends and family, while the best sources on some topics, may not have a completely accurate understanding of the suicidal mind. In their desire to make the loss "count for something", and work through their own "survivor's guilt", they may be especially likely to ascribe to acute tangible external reasons something that was equally or mainly caused by chronic non-specific internal reasons.

From timing it's likely that the lawsuit pressure was central in Aaron's reasoning. But in suicidal depression, accurate reasoning breaks down. Survivable, tolerable, and temporary things can seem permanent and intolerable. Without one apparent trigger (the prosecution), a depressive mind could latch instead onto other rationales... even rationales that seem to outsiders like personal triumphs. Inside the depressive mind those triumphs might not deliver the expected satisfaction, or may seem to represent a peak that can never be matched again and just wasn't enough.

I know it seems pat to say, "it was depression, period". There should be more consideration of the particulars than that. But it's equally pat to say, "a smart guy killed himself, he must have had logical reasons, let's rank all the potential logical reasons from public information, and conclude the top item on that list is 'the' reason". Without severe depression, all the publicly-known logical reasons aren't enough to explain this suicide.... but severe depression, or other stresses not publicly known, might explain it.
> A more appropriate response would have been "I'm sorry, but we just can't replicate it on our end.

You're totally right. No excuse for the casual tone there.
Yes! forgot about that one. Hosting services practically hand them out.
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Gains eliminated once everyone on level playing field.
No, he wouldn't. "If you don't want Google to tell the government you've been searching for illegal things, you shouldn't tell Google you've been searching for illegal things" is what he'd try to say. But he'd mince the words and make himself sound evil, somehow. So maybe you're right.
And it also leads to issues like Minority Report, where instead of someone stealing your wallet, they steal your eye balls :(
I have never had any training my self but I can instantly tell how horrible a "can't replicate it" would sound on the other end.
I am so tired of this argument, and the only people here in support of such a statement, I feel, are the young single and childless.

Take a divorce, child support, travel etc into account and I cannot live on anything less than $150K

Rent for a house with several children, for me, is $2300 for a two bedroom with a garage, yard and an extremely lucky addition of a very large play room.

I am REALLY lucky to have this place - as it would go for $3500+ if I move out....

The argument for less and less salary always sounds to me like peasants justifying their fealty, though at the same time - we should not be decrying arbitrary pay brackets - but demanding more fair pricing for all the tings that are required to survive and thrive.

Everything is overpriced.
Good design choices are better than bad design choices?
I'm sitting in a packed university library and never in my life have I seen so many students look so worried.
> I had a hard time concentrating in school as well.

Why would you think you would be diagnosed with an executive function disorder?
There isn't any reason anyone should spend much time listening to what I have to say about it, but I would expect gene therapy delivery to be increasingly plug and play. My reasoning being, the safety issues are concentrated around transmission so insertion strategies that have a robust story there will be copied. Especially if they are effective. Also, the 'obvious' gene therapy targets tend to be similar mechanisms (approximately because they are available at the level of understanding we have right now).

I don't actually expect this to be available as a treatment any time soon, but I think confident pessimism is probably at least as naive as confident optimism (simply because estimating what is possible is so hard).
funny but this is something that sounds so trivial once someone says it. Most people however overlook this simple formula because they use emotions rather than brain.
Why not just write/design a company you want to do right now whatever the idea instead of waiting for someone to give you an idea? Find something you'd like to learn how to create and get to work figuring it out.

Sorry - not trying to be rude but you've asked a silly question IMO. It's like someone picking up a guitar and then going around asking their friends, "What songs should I learn?" Hell, learn the songs you like and want to learn. You shouldn't need other people to tell you what you want to do.
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Am I the only one that disables this behavior by default?

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

Works like a charm...
Almost every web site has a Facebook button. That's how they do it.

There is also the possibility of web site owners cooperating on the server side to track users. Maybe not as common yet, but not inconceivable.
Yeah, all good and well … but I just used this with a UK Visa Debit card (which are pretty strict in terms of acceptance) on Gumroad, and not only did the thing not verify without a name, but my card got flagged for fraud and frozen until I contacted my bank! I'm pretty nervous about using it now.
More like: good design choices are vastly more important than micro-optimisation, and Haskell is a good design choice.
Re: maintaining gains. Isn't the point to live free of the very measure of gain/loss this present moment?
It doesn't matter what the author's intention was. Until you can at least see an abstract, you might as well act as if the study doesn't exist. Without knowing what study we're talking about, there's no way to discuss it. Hell, the author says "medication", but doesn't even say which medication was studied. As far as we're concerned, this is about as good as "I heard a guy on the train say..."

Edit: As a side note, damn that's a stupid editorial policy. The opposite should be true; any scientific claims in an op-ed should be required to have a citation, even if it's a poor one. I guess it's just one of those places where journalistic and scientific epistemology clash. Journalists say "this is what an expert thinks!", while scientists say "here is some data!"
I'm well aware of what people do, but it's something I would never do unless I had absolutely no other choice. With a one hour commute, assuming 48 working weeks a year, that's 20 days of your year that are burnt just getting to and from work! My life means more to me than money.
The goal of the piece was to dispell doubt in the medication because of its inability to resolve long-term treatment - then it backs this assertion up with...wait for it...nothing!

It's offensive because the diagnosis has finally reached a milestone of acceptance and now we're shaping opinion about treatment through bullshit.
1-2 hours daily meditation is definitely not impossible, especially if you think it is important. How many people spend 1-2 hours daily at the gym?
> Of course, there is also the matter of school being so boring and so undesirable that children need to have pristine focus just to survive. Perhaps it would be best to solve that problem first, before using drugs to keep children focused on "busy work."

You do know that ADD is much more than focus issues, right? It's more of an executive function disorder. They can't focus on the right things when the want to. I'm betting most if not all can hyperfocus and lose track of time when doing something that engages them. What they can't do is manage priorities and turn that focus on and off when they want to.
Nightly is org.mozilla.nightly, so that explains the grandparent's behaviour differing, since the Apple blacklist does not include it.
I've always wondered what Democrats think should have happened in the 2000 election. As far as I can tell, it was a very close one. The idea that Bush "stole" the election lacks credibility with me.

1,000 more votes on either side, and the controversy would have disappeared.
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My take on Vipassana, in a nutshell (having gone through one 10-day course):

An experience gets memorized based on its emotional strength, so, for example, a strong negative experience (a trauma) will get memorized quite well. Later on, in a sort-of realed situation one gets to recall and relive such stored experience - the brain sort of "believes" it's important to remember. If the re-living is also strongly emotional, the memory gets "hardened", but if the reliving is less emotional the memory gets "softened". As you go through life, most negative experiences gets softer and softer with each recall until each one disappears altogether for lack of emotional response, and thus subjective importance. However a small number of such memories become immortal - each re-living of one such memory is as emotionally strong as the previous one, and so the memory of the pain never weakens. Such stored memory is called "Sarkana". The problem with carrying around too many Sarkanas is that eventually any event in your life brings back a negative memory from the past, so you spend your life reacting to something that happened long time ago and bears only superficial resemblance to the present situation.

The immediate purpose of the Viapssana meditation is to learn the ability to direct your attention where you want it to go, not where the pain pulls you, to learn dispassionate observation of your own suffering. Bi learning to ignore an itch on your nose, you also learn to ignore an itch in your soul. The less emotional response you generate, the softer the memory becomes, until it evaporates altogether. When completely through (a multi-year process), you only react to the present situation, not to any ghosts of the past.

You can make a surprising amount of progress in 10 days, but you have to keep at it to maintain the gains. I found it impossibly hard to keep meditating on my own.
> but for every sale you get you'll also get a bunch of customers who think you're an annoying spammer and will want nothing more to do with you.

Facts not in evidence. Sleazy spam still exists, suggesting there is still profits to be made even deep in the gutter.

Not saying companies should spam, just pointing out that the above is not a true statement.
Had to go speak to my bank, turns out that Gumroad came up as fraud and HSBC froze my entire account! The bank said it should work now but I'm pretty put off.
Of course, you are free to think that not having a cell phone is minimalistic. I personally think of it as very liberating.

I bought a brand new MBA ($1300), Canon 60D+Lens (Right on $2k) and a Remington 700 30/.06 ($1200), so I'm not without stuff, I just pick and choose the stuff I want and don't want. We're all free to do that, and I think a lot of people forget that.

It seems like you'd much rather complain about how this isn't going to work for you than start working towards making it work for you.
What is memory overhead? How much memory Java processes consume comparing to the amount of data a node could handle, assuming there must be no swap (otherwise we all know what happens to any Java process).
Okey, well... I guess I ask because I don't know what I want to write(or learn). I don't have such ideas anymore.
I agree with most of the post, but I think it barely scratches the surface. There is just so much to say about this...

* What about a culture where people end up feeling entitled to ask for everything? Should I accept abuses?

* What about personality disorders? There are lots of people out there suffering psychological diseases. How do you diagnose it and handle it, if you are not a psychiatrist?

* You're supposed to be show genuine empathy for your customers needs. I don't know if that is even possible without some emotional vulnerability. How do you control your emotions when people react just plain mean?
But, the author has not explained why you get such elegant and complex results as a result of removing the constraints of time and space.

Evolution selects traits which will spread throughout the population most easily. This does not imply that they are "better", more complex, or elegent. (Think of all the terrible memes that have a hold right now for example).
Adding time alone does not improve the outcome.

I think the author needs to look a bit more into emergence.
See Kauffman: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index....
the most epic 'fuck you' ever spoken to the American people: the attack and occupation of Iraq under false pretenses.

Yes, let's pretend neither the Spanish-American or Mexican-American wars ever happened. (recognizing you're not the OP.)
It's worth noting that Cosma Shalizi has been doing this for about six years now, and it's becoming increasingly popular in certain areas of academia.

Background:

http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/442.html

http://masi.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/864.html

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-i...
No, I'm sitting at my desk right now. I work for a large telco, so I just applied through the normal channels.

I have a flexible work arrangement now where I take every second Friday off, and I'm probably going to take a month or two of extra leave this year (unpaid).

When I travel, I outright quit and just live on my savings
It's obviously very hard to convey how much one advances in their practice in an objective manner without having an fMRI. The only real 'data point' I have in support of my experience was how radically my ability to watch my breath and maintain my posture changed after the course.

Before the course I was more or less haphazardly trying a breathing meditation where you count your breaths (say 5 or 10), and with a bead necklace I would count how many cycles of 10 I would manage in an hour. If my mind wandered during the 10 seconds then I would start again from 1. I averaged perhaps 20 successful cycles in an hour. I know this sounds, and probably is, atrocious. It was a sobering insight into how distracted I was by the rush of thoughts despite my own deliberate efforts at modulating those thoughts. Additionally, I would feel compelled to re-position my body every few minutes. The slightest pain or itch was enough to break my will and force me to readjust the pile of pillows I relied upon, again despite my own conscious desire to not move or scratch.

After the course, I can now sit comfortably on a simple Zafu cushion for an entire hour without losing awareness of my breath more than a handful of times, and certainly without having to move a muscle.

I don't expect my own anecdotes to convince anyone of the efficacy of these courses. I can only strongly encourage anyone interested to 'walk the path' by attending a formal course to give it a try. I have already signed up for another course to further my own practice.
RE Scaling comment - I work for a fairly large company, and we definitely have a template that says something along the lines of, "When you send us an email, you're talking to a real human being. If you can't talk to us in a more courteous manner, we're more than happy to send you your balance and end our relationship."
It is what I have experienced. "from what I can tell" is allowing that perhaps I have missed something in the configuration that solves this.
The problem with that graph is that almost no one invests that way. People just don't dump their entire life savings into the market, wait x number of years, and then withdraw it all at once. Dollar cost averaging and changes in investment aggressiveness will likely smooth out those numbers.
One could envision a business built on providing a convenient wrapper for this strategy, where you sell young professionals functionally equivalent copies of the goods they purchased as college students, but charge three times as much for them. This would let you signal to the young professionals that they have "made it. (They'd probably also tsk-tsk about college kids buying things which cost X. I mean, sure, college kids don't have 3X, but isn't 2X the absolute minimum to know that it is safe for human consumption? Oh, college kids...)
I feel it as disconcerting as well and I think it's because it makes everything seem mundane and gives no distinction on a (may be the wrong word here) biological level that time is actually passing.
I would pit SF's feces/sidewalk ratio against NYC's any day of the week my friend.
WebKit was initially developed (as a fork of KHTML) by Apple, not Google. It is open source, though.
Practicing weight maintenance before temporarily switching to a low-calorie, weight-loss diet helps dieters keep weight off. http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2012/october/stability.html

Low-calorie diets are good for losing weight, but physical activity is more effective at maintaining a target weight. https://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-loss/AN01619

Very-low-carb diets result in higher metabolism but might also increase stress and risk of heart problems. Low glycemic index diets might be healthier for long-term weight maintenance. http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/july2012/07162012weight.h...
This is terrible advice on how to build an application.

As everyone who has worked on a large enterprise type project before knows, the decisions you make at the start live on. It is very rare to completely switch major parts of your architecture especially today where the database you choose will affect your entire architecture.

Cassandra like Riak is multi master which means your deployment strategy would be very different to MongoDB which is still effectively master/slave.
I'm not advocating the decision to spend this much on rent on such a small salary, I was just correcting the claim that $36k wouldn't even be enough to pay for a $1,700 apartment.

Millions of people survive on less than $550 per month. Sure, you won't have your daily Starbucks, no cable TV, and your cell phone plan will most likely come from a low cost provider like Virgin Mobile. In a $36k job, you can probably get away with clothes from Kohl's or even the thrift store, and your apartment is probably not filled with expensive stuff so renter's insurance isn't that much of an issue.
Well, at least he proved himself wrong by posting this link: "Yes, Money Does Buy Happines: 6 Lessons from the Newest Research on Income and Well-Being"

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/yes-money-...
Facts about files on disk that do not apply to the database entries described in the article:

1. A file on disk is the intended result of a download

2. A file is readily visible/alterable in a user interface provided for consumption of the same by the operating system

3. Removing a file means that, without serious effort, the information contained therein is gone
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One of Jeff Atwood's blog posts on the topic: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.ht...
I pay $500 a month in rent for everything, and live with one other person who has become a good friend.

After work, I either go snowshoeing, cross country skiing, out walking for photos or mountain biking. On the weekends I am always out of town hiking/camping/hunting/canoeing/snowboarding/fishing/etc.

Besides cooking, eating and sleeping, I spent less than an hour a week at my rented house, so the fact that it's cheap works very well for me. It also has a grass backyard, so I sit out there and read books when the weather permits.
How does one go about finding a great place in Brooklyn or Queens without getting fleeced by brokers?
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