skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible that ADHD drugs don't boost grades, on average, because grades are a strong function of the home environment. Thus, improving a child's focus without improving their home environment won't magically improve their grades. Work is work and there is always something more stimulating a child could be doing in an unstructured environment. ADHD is heritable, so it's possible some parents don't themselves have strong study skills or discipline, value grades, and/or have self selected to take the easy route (drugs) before trying the hard route.
ChatSecure (open source encrypted messaging app)
FreeBSD is still fine on desktop systems and even works quite well for a desktop in some cases, but Linux is just so big at this point that it supports more things, while FreeBSD has always seemed more server oriented.

Apparently you have not tried FreeBSD on an Acer Aspire One netbook, because if you did you would realize that your last paragraph is outdated by at least 3 minor version iterations.
I first tried PC-BSD 8.x in 2009, and with KDE as the default DE it unusably slow, but when I tried FreeBSD 8.x last year I was pleasantly suprised with how well the system ran on my little netbook.
Then, when I upgraded to 9.0 I realized that I had finally found what I had been searching for all these years. Now, with 9.1 the system is even better.
Awesome post. It's great to see a top comment on HN that isn't hugely disagreeing with the article in a (perhaps borderline) disrespectful way.

Furthermore, I agree that often times the best way to go about doing things is being reasonable with people, but it's also just _hard_ to do. You're human, and sometimes you might lose it for a dumb reason --- just fall back, understand what you could have done better, and learn from the experience.
I work for a supermarket in Japan...doing some IT grunt work + db admin + CRUD apps. Itching to try out new things...preferably remote.

Trying to get pgxplorer.com off the ground as a side project to "vacation" profitability.
The key point's near the end:

The current controversy over the agency’s surveillance policies was first set off after Mr. Snowden leaked a secret FISA court order telling Verizon to turn over calling data from all of its customers. Mr. Wyden now believes that the White House is beginning to recognize that the program raises so many privacy concerns that it is willing to drop it.

“I have a feeling that the administration is getting concerned about the bulk phone records collection, and that they are thinking about whether to move administratively to stop it,” he said. He added he believed that the continuing controversy prompted by Mr. Snowden had changed the political calculus in Congress over the balance between security and civil liberties, which has been heavily weighted toward security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

“I think we are making a comeback,” Mr. Wyden said, referring to privacy and civil liberties advocates.
I think the GP is correct. One such question is something similar to:

"You may have opened an auto loan in January 2010. If so, how much is/was the monthly payment?

A. $0-99
B. $100-299
C. $300-499
D. $500+
E. I did not open an automobile loan in January 2010."

Information like that could certainly be obtained from your credit report but I doubt the DMV knows how much my car payment was.
The terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 didn't start two wars and introduce countless (bad) societal changes, we did those things in response to the terrorist attacks. The distinction is important. We made a choice.
The appletv Flickr screensaver is really very nice. That might do the trick.
VIKING OS: A BSD based platform for or HMD (Head Mount Display) devices
Is the implication that doing the right thing is almost always a firing offence?
>Interesting claim. Any chance of a reference for that one?

For one, other animals don't ask for references. And surely not to academic publications.
Addict.
Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers
Perception vs Reality, metaphorically speaking
It's using a video tag for me; sounds like it fell back to Flash for your browser.
"full steam ahead to the biggest walled garden on earth."

Ok, English is not my first language, and that "to" seems a bit ambiguous to me... But in context that was pretty clearly a move toward a walled garden, not a move done by a walled garden.
But NVIDIA and AMD are not likely to make one as they would have to share less code between OS, resulting in poor drivers.

They will probably make an Android-ish driver and have Ubuntu use it.
exactly what I did..don't want to grant access to my corp calendar..not sure if it would copy my schedule to their servers...

Do not want to give it access to my contacts..

deleted the app.
Course Of The Force
Habits of people who don't give a s* about your inner peace
I think the author is seeing things in C's for loop construct that aren't there. C's syntax is conspicuously clean of unnecessary abstraction. The for construct is just three expressions grouped together for the sake of being convenient. It's not a coroutine. The head of the loop can't be a separate context, or part of the loop's scope: it's not inside the curly braces (which aren't part of the loop, anyway; you can use them anywhere -- loops don't have a scope). The first clause is available to initialize variables, but it's perfectly good style to leave it blank and use an already-initialized variable. It doesn't want to be an anonymous function with its own scope and parameters, because then you couldn't do this:

int c;
for(c=0; str[c] != '\0'; c++) {}
printf("Length of string = %d\n", c);

C doesn't have a message or a worldview. It's just about saving typing and making common things convenient.
Pogoplug is not a free service. I bought one thinking it was. They actually cap the amount of data you can store. I believe it is 5GB for free.

Mine's running Arch Linux Arm now, with Open VPN, NFS, Samba and simple DLNA. Much more useful! I just wish I could re-encode the stream to my iPad. Often the video on my iPad refuses to playback proper.
I used to run a PC-BSD system and it pretty much worked out of the box, that is until I got an AMD 6* series video card but I hear the radeon driver is being developed and very close to being integrated into FreeBSD 10 and backported to 9.

Yes, FreeBSD lacks some features that Linux has, but it's still being developed and it has its uses outside of the server market too. For example, Sony is reportedly using it as the core OS for the new PS4 and there's a project that is aiming to create a HUD device which is also based on FreeBSD, http://hmdviking.blogspot.jp/
string s,f;
map<string,int> M;
set<pair<int,string> > S;
while(cin >> s) {
M[s]++;
int x=M[s];
if(x>1) S.erase(make_pair(x-1,s));
S.insert(make_pair(x,s));
}
set<pair<int,string> >::reverse_iterator it=S.rbegin();
int topK=10;
while(topK-- && (it!=S.rend())) {
cout << it->second<<" "<<it->first<<endl;
it++;
}
"Let's Dismantle the Web"
I sniff packets and write analytic/metric applications on the data, as well as protocol analysis.
I use unsalted stock exclusively in my cooking, because I like the ability to add salt in later, and if I'm adding other salty ingredients, I don't have to worry about overdoing it.
In any big company, I'm sure that anything you do which is not based on manager's request is potential career killer. I understand that some new initiatives might be good for the company as a whole but, from employee perspective, upside is so small while downside can be disastrous.

On other hand, if you do have initiative to do things on your own then a big company is probably not a place for you.
we have been thinking the same thing.. the gap here is between the public that knows nothing and developers and integrators that DO. unfortunately, its all about marketing, and marketing is often a bunch of lies
Hahaha, perhaps because we don't have a fancy graphic designer, marketing budget or PR firm? Version 2.x does have some bugs that we are working out, stemming from a large refactor to use Core Data. However, we actually don't touch the crypto ourselves and delegate all of it to the official libotr library. If you want to come help improve it, come check out the source: https://github.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS/
A fellow had just been hired as the new CEO of a large high tech corporation. The CEO who was stepping down met with him privately and presented him with three numbered envelopes. "Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve," he said.

Well, things went along pretty smoothly, but six months later, sales took a downturn and he was really catching a lot of heat. About at his wit's end, he remembered the envelopes. He went to his drawer and took out the first envelope. The message read, "Blame your predecessor."

The new CEO called a press conference and tactfully laid the blame at the feet of the previous CEO. Satisfied with his comments, the press -- and Wall Street - responded positively, sales began to pick up and the problem was soon behind him.

About a year later, the company was again experiencing a slight dip in sales, combined with serious product problems. Having learned from his previous experience, the CEO quickly opened the second envelope. The message read, "Reorganize." This he did, and the company quickly rebounded.

After several consecutive profitable quarters, the company once again fell on difficult times. The CEO went to his office, closed the door and opened the third envelope.

The message said, "Prepare three envelopes."
The former chairman of Quest started a six year sentence in 2009 for defying the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

They don't even have to prosecute you for not obeying a secret order, they can easily use some other law to put you away, especially given they have legal access to any communication about, from and to you. I choose to believe him rather than the NSA on the reasons for that prosecution.

I imagine that case had a sobering effect on anyone high up in these companies who was inclined to stand up to the NSA.
I dunno, I work in the cloud space, largely with fortune 500 companies, and I don't know of any off the top of my head that are investing in Azure.

That doesn't mean the article isn't technically accurate, of course, but I'd suspect that MSFT is being very generous with their definition of "using" and counting any pilot project in some engineering team as "using" - in which case I'm sure that most of the fortune 500 have someone somewhere playing with Azure.

But that's not the same as using from the standpoint that we typically think about it.
"the multimillionaire and erstwhile astronaut wrote"
It seems like whenever someone writes about Shuttleworth, they feel the need to point out he's a multimillionaire or something similar. More so than most other people they write about. To me, it just sounds like poor writing. Trying to "fluff" things up a bit.
Snapzu
I really like Any.do but if you download it and sync it across the web via the Chrome extension, don't be surprised when a bunch of random tasks show up on your manager.

I emailed them about it and they said tasks are added as part of the tutorial and that it's intended functionality. I thought that was kind of weird.
Well, SQL is by far the most used functional language in the world.
The Deep Blue Color of an Alien World
Cool project.

For the "tutorial", I read through maybe the first 3 boxes, then got tired and clicked until I could explore it myself. I bet it's the same for most users (feel free to measure to get real data). If you can, defer teaching to mouseovers and other hints in the UI.
Wikipedia opens up to describe an operating system as "a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs".

Since the majority of the programs we build today run on servers, not desktops, we needed new APIs to compute / storage / network. A new class of OS provides these, which we call IaaS or Cloud Computing. Some of these new OSes also provide the aforementioned 'common services' such as datastores or event loops.

I think the excitement lies around having an open source OS for programming your infrastructure to, instead of a (nevertheless excellent) proprietary one.
I've made sure to omit the HN hits from GA.
Report Indicates More Extensive Cooperation by Microsoft on Surveillance
Pretty nice. I had a similar idea a while ago but not using "spheres", and this works well, well done.

UI wise, the lines crossing each other when you select a sphere is not very elegant. WHy dont you make the news you select appear on the left, while keeping the suggested news on the right ? That would look so much better, and be less confusing for the user.

And the tutorial was a bit too long. I would rather have in-line help than a mandatory tutorial.

one more thing, there is little to no value of providing a pre-visualisation of the web page. It would be so much more useful to provide the first few lines of the articles. There are libraries to scrap articles that do that very well.
> Each time a study comes out and people will link it
> to me (I've already had this linked to me three times)
> claiming that my ADHD medicine doesn't do anything and
> that it is worthless...

Unless any of those people is a licensed psychiatrist you should ignore them and move on.
It's more than icons and design.

Users. Do. Not. Understand. Certificates.

If the word "certificate" or "public key" or "private key" appears anywhere in the process, it's a non-starter. If they have to select a certificate from a list, look at a "fingerprint", or deal with any other jargon like "x509" or "certificate authority" or anything along those lines, it's dead in the water.
>He's basically saying that because there was one CIO somewhere, anywhere, in the Federal government that it's appropriate to tar every military and civil servant with that same 'idiot' brush.

Well, I don't know if he meant it that way. But whether he did not or did, there are two counter-arguments to be made.

First, one has to note that he didn't say that broad a thing as you accuse him of: he merely wrote about "these people", that is "those described in the article". So it could very well be that he did not meant it for everybody.

Second, even if he did intent to talk about all "military and civil servants" ("all" meaning "most", as it mostly does in conversation), why assume he was basing it on this particular case only?
What sort of parents don't put their kids on medication even though it makes their lives easier?

One they are probably hippies, but two I'd say they are quite invested in their child.

Which to me could mean they put in enough extra effort to keep their kids grades high.

I'd view the study cautiously.
Well yeah, google wanted it in the cloud. How are they going to track and thus monetize you if you're not phoning home for the map?
It is also funny that every package for popcorn has instructions that specifically state 'Pop for X minutes. Do not use the popcorn setting on your microwave'.
POI data used to be notoriously bad for Nokia maps. They have been working hard to address it, and now it is up to "mediocre" ;)
If that were the case Canonical could have participated in the development in order to help.
Could you productize some of the work you do? So, perhaps you create a software solution that eliminates some repetitive work for you, or something the customer pays for monthly - like a white label option.

It sounds like you start from scratch with each client. Your hours of work, work force & expenses are growing but is your revenue per head growing at the same rate? You could easily have a concerted effort for your team to produce something once & sell it many times. Perhaps a less bespoke product that may appeal to a wider business audience - then you may get clients you can upsell at a later date.
Beautiful Soup or how to pull data from HTML and XML files with Python
Idea: Instacart for Local Farms
It's not even clear what the actual study says, since it doesn't link to it, and characterizes it in very different ways.
Typical science press.
Here is the way I've come to think about neurotransmitter-affecting medications: they're like glasses. Which is to say, ADHD, depression, and other "diseases" are like near/farsightedness.

A lot of people need glasses, and a lot of people always have, because for at least the last few thousand years (since the advent of agriculture), distance-vision hasn't had any particular selective pressure on it one way or another--it didn't increase your chance of successfully reproducing to be able to see farther into your own farmland. We don't really think of near/farsightedness as a "disease", per se; parents don't worry about passing bad vision onto their kids, they just assume they'll get glasses too.

But it is useful to be able to see things that are very close up and very far away--and we structure our society assuming that people can do these things. We print relatively small text in books, and expect kids to be able to read a blackboard from the back of a classroom. We have a system of transportation that expects drivers to be able to see, interpret, and react to road signs from a distance. And so forth.

In the same way, it is useful to be able to summon focus and motivation and single-mindedness to a possibly-boring task, and we structure our society assuming people can do this, as well.

You likely could find a place--a French vinyard, perhaps--where nearsightedness was irrelevant. And you likely could create a little pocket of our own society that permits you to live productively without glasses (live in a city, work as a jazz musician, and take cabs everywhere, for example.) But this is extremely limiting, when the other alternative--just wearing glasses--is freeing. The choice is between letting a quirk of your genetics dictate your path in life, and taking control of your own body and thus taking any path you please.

---

Postscript: all this relatively ignores the question of whether a parent should seek treatment their child, who is not yet formed in their own will enough to say what they would like out of life.

I think the answer to that is simple: if and when we have the medical equivalent to glasses, something that can be put on and taken off, and doesn't affect the wearer except to allow them to experience what is "standard" (i.e. doesn't give them any extra boost above that "standard", doesn't give them a "rush", etc.) then there is no reason to not supply that item to the child, and allow them to decide for themselves the advantages and disadvantages of it.

I, for one, was found to be nearsighted in grade four--and, after getting glasses, never had to be prompted by my parents to put them on. I preferred having them on, for what they allowed me to do.

If we do not yet have a drug that works like that, then, to the degree that the child will be "changed" by the drug, that same degree of consideration will have to be given as to any potentially-harmful course of action parents decide for their child (such as, say, sending them to a boarding school.)
A quick request, too: having a link to share a selected period/view would be great. That way you could share with friends a specific period of time/news that you find interesting.
Like those fancy kitchen drawers that you can't slam. They slow down to a satisfying glide at the end.
There are 2 such apps in the WP store. gMaps and another whose name I forget
Leading Australian Telco storing data on behalf of US government
You should mention your tremendous contributions to this space (https://whispersystems.org/). Thank you for all the great ongoing work you're doing!

If anyone has room to make an informed comment here, it's Moxie...
Indeed because no one who isn't a licensed psychiatrist knows anything about neuroscience, drug mechanisms or interactions, coping strategies, physiology or mechanism. Neuroscientists, pharmacists, biochemists, none of these people could possibly have any relevant expertise. Only licensed psychiatrists are worth listening to.
Maybe the iPhone people just knew where they were going?

I used to deliver pizza. If you had to stop and look up addresses you lost money to the drivers who didn't. It was to your advantage to learn your way around the delivery area.
That goes against the principle of requiring only residency or citizenship, why would you kick children out of it? Wouldn't you then need to provide a separate welfare program for needy children?
If Plug ended up being widespread enough all they have to do is focus efforts on penetrating Plug devices. Security in the hands of end-users, while great for the tech savvy person with lots of free time, is a disaster for "normal" people.
Don't you have to get up and stir every once in a while?
New Google Maps Mutilates the Bike Layer (in NYC)
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Kids for cash scandal
If the client source proves that the message is properly encrypted though (they're using PGP), the servers can be as insecure as the open internet and it should be ok
How do you pack up your laptop and bring it somewhere else without it melting down in the bag? Just make sure nothing is burning CPU, pack it up, and hope for the best?
Wow, this sounds exactly like what I've been experiencing for the last four to five years. Even the misdiagnosis, which have mostly turned me off from seeking any kind of mental health treatment. Can you recommend how to screen for a competent psychiatrist specializing in adult ADD?
#1 was Google, which includes Search, Gmail (found at mail.google.com), Google Docs (found at docs.google.com), etc.
Thanks. This is a treat to see this article. I've long wanted to read Pearl's book on this topic, but haven't had the chance to carve out the time. I'm going to dive into this article now.
Raise your rates. Stop billing hourly; set a 1 day billing increment for normal clients and a week-long minimum for all but preferred clients. Offer retainer agreements to every new client and to every client you have a strong relationship with. Get better at recruiting, which will ultimately reduce your overhead.

Except for the last one, those are things you can do immediately, without thinking hard, for an investment no larger than a couple hundred words of sales copy.
Laypersons can and should read peer-reviewed medical journals and learn how to make their own, personal interpretations, within reason.
Orrin Hatch wanted to make it legal for intellectual property holders to remotely destroy the computers of pirates.

> Mr Hatch said damaging computers "may be the only way you can teach someone about copyright".

> "If we can find some way to do this without destroying their machines, we'd be interested in hearing about that," Mr Hatch said. "If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines."

> He said if a few hundred thousand people suffered damage to their computers, the online community would realise the clampdown was serious.

> "There's no excuse for anyone violating copyright laws," Mr Hatch added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2999780.stm
Good reading in addition to Pearl himself is via Cosma Shalizi.

Ref list:
http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/caus...
Chapters:
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA/13/lectures/ch22.pdf
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA/13/lectures/ch23.pdf
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA/13/lectures/ch24.pdf

Incidentally, Shalizi is a great source for going back to the basics. His course at CMU "Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View" has course notes and exercises available gratis: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA/13/. And any time I need to get a reading list, the best place to start is usually his 'notebooks' page.