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With one month to go in the last year of my computer science degree I was diagnosed with ADD.

The psychiatrist gave me some stunning advice: Ritalin or medication will not do your work for you. In my last month of university I was enabled with the ability to start working on projects well before the 48-hour cram period that I had come to know.

I had spent most of my schooling as a child to be made out as an idiot. As I result I'm now awfully quick to recognise when someone is not giving me their respect.

ADD is supposed to be picked up through your younger years. However when I grew up, it was the naughty children that had ADD/ADHD... they were the ones that caught their teachers attention.

Someone like me would never be correctly diagnosed, I has happy internalizing whatever it was that I was thinking about.
Hey Brandon, congrats on launching Samuru! I'll be curious what you think of running a search engine after being an SEO for so many years.
> Also, look into innerchild / regression therapy. There's usually an underlying reason why our behaviours lead to procrastination. Good luck.

I guess I've sort-of known this, though it's nice to hear someone else confirm it... I know that my procrastination and perfectionism are quite interrelated, as whenever I try and work on a project, my mind manages to find zillions of problems with it, I don't get any real stimulation out it, and I return to distracting habits that give more immediate pleasure (damn you HN!).

Perfectionism, in turn, has its roots in childhood stress (at least it does for me). Not getting enough positive feedback for so many years, not believing in myself, etc. It seems so simple in retrospect, but I didn't realize how much emotional stress I had built up my whole life until maybe a year or so ago. Incidentally, I noticed this when I was reading about the causes of RSI, which turned out to be caused by psychosomatic effects (TMS, again, at least for me). So these stresses, left unresolved, can turn into real physical pain.

The human brain is fucking weird.
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How about we throw away the HTML lineage and go with free-form XML, suitable for data archival. Sure it will be harder to make popup menus but, on the upside - it will be harder to make popup menus.
It wouldn't hurt considering it would be free advertising. If I generated steady income off a popular app, I would be letting everybody and their momma know about that app. I would even throw a sales pitch right now!
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One could also argue that your willingness to quickly diagnose an individual coping with a traditionally high-anxiety situation (interviewing) with trendy cognitive bias issues calls your ability to recognize your own weaknesses into question.
Matt, any insight for people wanting to build new search areas out?
I would convert from a B2C to a B2B company. Focus on partnering with existing medical school on a subscription basis to supplement their textbook. Easily charge $10 / student / year. While in the end, the same student is being helped, the rate of adoption skyrockets due to a "me-too!" affect. All medical schools are in a race, and if one school has a tool, the others just have to have it. All you need are two or three schools to get started, and you can give a discount for it initially.

In the meanwhile, I am also working on a project myself, and could use an experienced team to help build the prototype. Let's discuss both projects! Email in profile.

edit: This is essentially SRS for anatomy? Cool, good idea. Nice detailed pictures as well.
I wonder why you decided to follow the same old search formula. There is so much to innovate in this area. For example, Nuuton uses #hashtags for trending results. Say you go and make a search. All related terms would appear as #hashtags somewhere in the page. These are created by the users and by the system. It also uses the / and the ! to filter results in different ways. Say: /Honda !modified, gets you pages of modified Hondas. Click on a #hashtag, say #turbocharged, and you would get turbocharged Hondas. Why so many tools that appear to do the same thing? They are close in functionality, but affect different factors in the back end.
This will only ever be enforced in the case of someone sending a request under a false name.

Anything else is impossible to prove
You might be right, but it's possible considering all of the modern distractions and passive entertainment we have that it really is a matter of mental conditioning (or something like that).
I am enjoying it. We went with the approach of how can we make this impossible for Brandon Wirtz to game. How can we make this about the content more than a popularity contest.

Now that we are both in the business of stopping spam we should grab lunch sometime.
Spoken like someone who hasn't the slightest clue how mental illness and mental disorders work, or what it feels like to suffer from them.

"Just do X"! If only it were so easy, the world would be a much different place.
I recognize that, but i also recognize that people who are devout in their beliefs have little reason to think otherwise (it is a belief after all), so in the end i do it anyway for my own laughs :P
I suppose you could write a sort of safe Maybe template class in c++. You could pass in two callbacks to handle Just and Nothing respectively. It would be really ugly, but should work, right?
P.Z.Myers criticized this rather severely[0] a couple days back. "They cherrypicked their data points. They didn’t include lungfish, ferns, onions, or some protists because that would totally undermine their premise; those are contemporary organisms with much larger genomes than mammals’, and their shallow, stupid exercise in curve-fitting would have flopped miserably. It’s a great example of garbage in, garbage out."

[0]http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/04/18/graaarh-ph...
I find it funny that a Google competitor search engine using Google Analytics and AdSense.
Please correct me if I'm wrong; Bootstrap is to get started quickly and to focus on functionality before you focus on form. Bootstrap allows you (as a developer) to quickly prototype without having to be bogged down by HTML/CSS details.

However, when you're ready for the next stage and want to implement your "real" design you don't have to shoehorn it into Bootstrap. You can just toss it out and use something else. And if you decide to keep using Bootstrap that's cool too...
The good thing about this bad publicity is that more people know he is missing. Hopefully, he turns up and in good health.
Null would mean whatever the programmer inteded it to mean. In the C world it sees to me it tends to mean "nothing", while in SQL it usually means "unknown".
I'm in an extremely similar situation to you. Here's my advice: if you're looking to get put on a medication (don't feel bad about feeling like you need it), start getting help now. I'm saying this because getting treatment for ADD is a LONG process. Once you're locked into the medical system, you're good, but it can be a hell of a time getting there.

1) If you're away from home and don't have a primary care doctor, get one. Like, right now. Depending on where you live, wait times for accepting new patients can vary between 1-3 months. They'll typically set up an introductory physical. Once you're there, explain to them that you think you have ADHD and want to discuss treatment options.

From there, the meeting can go one of two ways. The way you want it to go is for the doc/NP to start you on a trial medication.

On the other hand (and this happened to me), you may find that your primary care physician is either 1) entirely against ADHD medications and/or 2) won't prescribe them, instead requiring you to go to a psychiatrist. If this is the case, then you must start the 1-3 month waiting period all over again trying to get in with a psychiatrist. A shortcut here might just be to go directly to the psychiatrist, but depending on your insurance, that may not be possible.

Tips:

Don't bother getting help through your university. They get too many kids coming through there looking for easy Adderall and Vicodin, to the point where they treat everyone like drug addicts. Getting that kind of treatment from others can be really off-putting and make you feel bad about having ADHD. That's the last thing you need.

If you can't get meds through your primary care, make sure you see a psychiatrist, not a psychologist. If you call a mental health center that has a mix of psychiatrists, psychologists, and counsellors, make sure you know you're getting set up with a psychiatrist. You can still get diagnosed with ADHD by a psychologist, but they don't prescribe medication, so you'll have to wait another 1-3 months to meet with someone who can after you get diagnosed.
The book the OP mentioned, Delivered From Distraction, is a great resource. The author is a psychiatrist who does a good job of presenting med and non-med options in a balanced way. He has ADD himself and did not find that meds helped him (they work for 80-90% of folks), though they have helped his children and many other patients/friends he describes.

Basic things like regular exercise can help, but meds are still a mainstay for treatment. Although studies have shown therapy to be as effective as meds for depression, there isn't great evidence for therapy for ADD. Meds are effective for most folks, have practically no side effects (at least the stimulants, Strattera can have side effects though it has other advantages), and have been safely used for decades without safety issues. The effects of the stimulants also disappear within hours so if you don't like being on a med you can simply stop. It won't change who you are. And if one med doesn't work well, sometimes another works better.
Just like some others here, I feel like I could have written this post myself. I was diagnosed w/ ADD at five and have only recently sought treatment (at age 34). I resisted the idea of taking meds for years but now I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to address the issue. My entire life, I've been limited to intellectual disciplines that I could assimilate w/in 48 hours or just BS my way through (liberal arts). If I had been able to read more than two pages w/o losing focus, things may have been different. Now I'm receiving treatment and for the first time in my life, I think that I might be able correct the problem (or at least mitigate it). For me, that means accepting that I can't do it without help.

My advice is to talk to more than one mental health professional. Try to keep an open mind about the different methods and combinations of methods used to treat ADD. Whatever you decide, do not wait to address the issue.
Thank you for sharing this, I am in a similar situation and often think this, however always fall back to the "I'm just being lazy train of thought".

I didn't actually make it through the exams that would allow me to study Computer Science, after studying hard I just couldn't concentrate when it came to the exam, I had plenty of time and knew it was important however couldn't focus. (I was like this throughout most of my education, good in class - failed the exams)

Perhaps this is just more excuses in a modern world full of distractions, either way I think I'll seek some professional advice.
>Am I kidding myself thinking I can somehow get past this without medication? Is there any other REAL path forward?

Maybe. But this is something that you really need to talk to a therapist or doctor about.
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You also left out the plan to interrogate him for information that could be admissible in court that would/could conflit with self incrimination as reference in the 5th amendment.

But hey, lets us tort laws because the ends justify the means, because we all know something like this will never happen again once this person or all possible related persons are brought to justice.
Is it really that simple? Or is it that crypto is difficult and buyers have no knowledge and thus are wide open for people selling snake-oil?
Not only that, but if you sort any of the metrics descending, the countries one might expect to top the list in traffic fatalities (Vietnam, India, China, etc.) are all near the bottom.
Just as a heads up more serious mental illnesses have symptoms similar to ADD in there very early stages. Instead of self diagnosing with ADD do 2 things 1. get a real psychiatrist ( sorry to say but this person will probably not give you adderall, dex or Ritalin on your first visit). Get a nuero psychological exam done by a nuero scientist ( a real psychiatrist will be-able to connect you with one assuming you need one) Lots of people who think they had ADD in college go on to find out they have more serious conditions.
There is time to link to this excellent video by James Duane

Don't talk to the police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

From what I understand there is no such things as miranda rights. They are miranda reminders about your rights granted by the US Constitution.
If mistakes can be made, they will be.
Is that legal?!
Its almost as absurd as thinking Moore's Law will last forever.
Origin of life may be anywhere, but this particular paper is pseudoscientific bullshit.
Just listen to Cryptography I in coursera.

Never ever, use your own algorithm for encryption. Always use tried, tested and known algos. And don't even change it one bit (literally!).

Only the key remains secret.
So, Boore's Law?
"if prevention rather than prosecution is to be our new main goal"

I find this increadibly dangerous. Does that mean the police will move against "potential" crimes? Against people making plans? I hereby jokingly declare that I am planning to steal a cucumber at my local supermarket. Does this make me a goal of preventive action? Did I commit a thought-crime?

1984 and Minority Report come to mind when people say stuff like this.
The problem here is that you're basically required to be connected at all times in any post-secondary environment, unless you're working for a company that has made it a core value to limit connectivity.

I have professors now that e-mail the class at 1:30am on a Friday creating new assignments due the following Monday. They all say the same thing: this is the world we live in now, get used to it. Crises happen at work around the clock, and the expectation now for pretty much everyone in the working world is that you have at least some way to be reached 24/7.
No, Tsarnaev and his brother did not plant bombs as of the current moment. They are SUSPECTS in a criminal investigation in which one or more parties planted bombs.

Be VERY, VERY careful before you throw out that distinction. One day you may find yourself arrested for something you did or didn't do, only to find public opinion very much against you based on little more than hearsay.
And you wrote your comment because.....
So far, this is the most convincing argument I've heard for Rendr.
Counterpoint. I was surprised by it. A couple weeks ago I decided to start recording any search phrases which I felt were tricky or required good language modelling.

"baby features kept in adulthood" is the only one I've thought worth recording so far. You can compare the results in Google, Bing, DDG. Only Samuru and Google have it on page 1. Samuru has it as the first result. But this is just one example so I can't draw any conclusions. Curious to see how well it performs in general.
There is no such thing as Miranda law. It is just a warning/reminder about constitutional rights.

Also any country worth living in has anti self incrimination right.
This is interesting. Superficially at least, it reminds me of MAX/MSP or PureData, which are used to create music and other media. For me, it has the same shortcoming: it is very 'mousey', and with MAX/MSP and PureData at least, I grow tired of using them quickly because of this. Basically, I would like to use the keyboard for everything. Still, I respect the work, and I imagine this type of environment could be given a (perhaps VIM-like) mode that could enable keyboard selection and chaining of widgets.
So he wasn't a hacker, or a designer, he was something bigger - an ideas man.

Also, why was it necessary to troll vinyl lovers aswell as Jobsians?
What's the app or idea?
I went to highschool with this guy at CRLS and after going there you know your miranda rights as well as exactly whats legal and whats not. they make sure of that, and that he'll stand up for them. weather the FBI cares or not is beyond our hands reach at this point
I found out that my case is more severe than you...
But the comments here don't seem to come to any conclusion...
Maybe I will find treatment as well..
I'll be up in Seattle in June for the SMX Advanced conference. Not sure if you'll be at SMX?
So how exactly do you get better results 30 seconds later? How do you index more relevant pages? Do you... Google it?
I said this on reddit a couple hours ago. I don't care if he murdered 100 men, he still deserves the same rights as any of us.

If we don't treat the worst of us the same as the best, what can the rest of us expect?
Unfortunately, this gives Carmen Ortiz every chance to be known for something other than the prosecution of Aaron Swartz.
Just like depression (oversimplified) is being fed up with life, ADD is being bored with life. Your environment has created artificial boundaries that prevent you from doing what interests you, hence said boredom.

Get into the hyper-focus at all cost (it's actually just 'really caring about something,') then learn to stay there longer and longer (also known as 'finding your passion.')

You'll have to break through some boundaries to get there, but that's OK. Once you're passionate about something most of the time, you'll be fine.

P.S. This is intentionally written from the one-sided perspective that does considers ADD to be caused by external factors and not a mental illness or chemical imbalance. Those perspectives are equally valuable; pick the one(s) that works for you.

P.P.S. Remember that if your hyperfocus is valuable enough to other people, you'll be able to pay people to do anything you can't bring yourself to.
Jan. 2013 was _why's first reappearance. He had actually updated his website with the first couple entries in the print queue in December, but no one noticed until January. After people noticed ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5015087 ), _why started updating it with more pages in the print queue, one of which said the print queue was going down until April 18, and would then be up during the hours of 4 to 12. Which sounded like _why was going to do something big that day.
Either that, or our methods for dating geological strata are flawed.
>without Steve Jobs, someone else could have taken the spot

Sculley, Spindler and Amelio all did, and all of them failed to various degrees, which illustrates just how facile that comment is.
I think the most mature thing to do here is get into a pissing match about whose cancer is worse rather than just agree that it's all probably worse than being yelled at. Let's meet under the bridge to discuss.
There's no death penalty in MA.
Though Steve may have done many things wrong,stolen designs, mistreated staff, but how many people know about this? What matters is the result you produce, not behind the curtain mess.
Of course, Steve built Apple 1 without a support team, so obviously he deserves to be called a hacker.
But the biggest inspiration that one can derive from him is his determination to not stop even when removed from his own company. Not everyone can go and build another successful company after being removed from one.
The road was tough and you can't expect a fair play all the time and get success at the same time.
The November CTP is a one-time experimental release. Subsequent formal VC++ updates don't include what it has. So for all practical purposes it might as well not exist.
Boston Bombing: Where Do We Go From Here?
"Papers, Please" puts you in the shoes of border control
Java has supported @Nullable and @Nonnull for a while, it's pretty standard in good Java code these days, and the IDE's will perform static analysis to make sure you use these annotations consistently (e.g. warn you if you are checking a @Nonnull against null or if you are forgetting to test a @Nullable against null before dereferencing it).
I wish you luck with this!

Google is excellent. Bing is also excellent (with minor differences). DDG and Blekko are adding interesting and useful features.

But they all feel a bit like they're a mono-culture, and thus vulnerable to gaming. Black-hat seo seems to be something that Google is pretty good[1] at dealing with. White hat SEO and ads have changed the web drastically from what I remember.

So it's really nice to have an alternative method of search that searches in a different way. Your post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5580321) highlights a few things I find frustrating in search at the moment.

[1] It's odd that all the work they do isn't noticed.
I was doing the "Implement a language with llvm" tutorial [1] last night. LLVM really is awesome... Why do we even make new languages for the JVM (apart from access to JVM libraries). LLVM seems so much more powerful as a basis.

I don't really know how long LLVM has been mature yet, so maybe it's not used because it's rather new. And of course it's way more low level than the JVM. It's probably easier to go JVM and not implement your own garbage collector.

Still, this could be the "portable platform" of the near future.

[1] http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/index.html#kaleidoscope-implem...
Maybe. I'm in Phoenix because that's where Stremor is based, but I'll hit you up next time I am in Mountain View
No. One directly started a company (well, two and a half), and as a CEO and general supervisor, several of the best selling US exports (and huge domestic market hits).

The other worked within the confines of a established company and co-developed C and Unix. Both had other developers already working on them. Arguably both could be created even without him, by Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan et co. And the more widely used versions of both were released by other companies later, not AT&T (the UNIX vendors of the 80's, the C compiler companies, and later GCC and Linux).

He was a great of computer science and our Unix culture in general -- just not the kind of figure that grasps the public attention, turns over whole sections of the economy, and dines with Presidents.
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with seeing a psychologist and/or psychiatrist. There are many possible scenarios, including that something other than ADD is causing your symptoms, or even that there's nothing "wrong" with you. I think there are many good mental health professionals who focus on providing a minimal viable treatment for patients. Simply getting diagnosed with something doesn't mean you need to be medicated, and being diagnosed with something isn't even a necessary condition for a professional to help you find a way to help yourself succeed.
We have a shallow index of pages. We do a Deep index only if a page then shows up in search results.
If something can be destroyed by the truth, then it should be.

If a crypto company abuses DMCA to fight this, then they deserve the Streisand effect. You should send the materials to someone in a free country where DMCA doesn't apply and speech is still free, and they can host the documents and discussion.
"My contention is that he appropriated other people's original ideas, and other people implemented his modifications."

So what? Ideas aren't very special in and of themselves. I have lots of ideas every day that end up having no impact on the world, because I don't do anything about them.

Also, I think you underestimate the importance of editing. There is a reason writers have editors, bands have producers, actors have directors, and so on.