skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"That's interesting - thanks for sharing. IIRC Strattera is relatively new; I wonder if the drugs themselves are getting more effective, or if the most effective drug for a person changes over time based on physiological changes or external factors."

Yes, Straterra is relatively new. I became immune to ritalin (well, roughly) after taking it for so many years, and Adderall, even in the XR version, started becoming less and less effective for me. This is apparently normal, and medication switching is common over long term treatment.

My doctor said she could up the dosage, but that she'd rather try Stratterra first, given the advantages of that vs high-dose stimulants

Note that 20 years ago, the common viewpoint was that adult adhd did not exist, that it simply "wore off" as you got older.

Straterra has worked fine for years so far, and i have not seen any of the gradual reduction effect that was completely obvious in all the stimulants over time.

I'll drop you a line.
Here is a website with videos of straight line linkages:

http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/C.J.Sangwin/howroundcom/straightli...
Any chance of some sort of tar of the papers?
“Another level of this is referred to as ‘Yahoo Plus Plus,’ which…. involves the use of human parts and may need kidnapping other human beings for rituals, which is not necessary in ‘‘Yahoo Plus.’’ In Yahoo Plus Plus, the use of things such as their finger nails, rings, carrying of corpses, making incision on their body, sleeping in the cemetery, citing of incantation, using of their fingers for rituals, and having sex with ghosts are common. A few of the informants, however, denied that they use voodoo in the business, whereas others affirmed their use of voodoo.”

I wonder what Yahoo's stance on Yahoo Plus Plus is.
I think the answer to that is the answer to the question of why any sugary soft drink exists at all.
She has some interesting videos here on "how to build a team". http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2198
I would rather see a Green Screen of Death as-a-service. It would take your video, or web cam, and fill the background with some scary or apocalyptic scene.
I think you and she disagree about what a "repressed memory" is. Maybe what you call "a repressed memory" she'd call conveniently forgotten. I think what she takes issue with is the idea that "in order to go on in life, you had to wall off this memory, because it would be too painful to live with." That you remembered a memory in therapy does not mean that you necessarily walled it off previously because it was too painful to live with. Or maybe you did, but she says there is not yet "credible scientific support." Maybe the research just hasn't been done yet.

Seems like her attitude towards "repressed memory" is an overly literal reaction against colloquially popular definitions of repressed memories. Perhaps her attitude is for the best because by not believing in the notion of repressed memories we prevent ourselves from having them? Still, isn't that some form of repression?!
Hope no one minds me sharing this here:

http://lattejed.com/first-five-and-a-half-minutes-on-a-serve...

I'm not surprised most of the comments are positive. Ansible is a great tool. I recently started using it and would recommend it without qualification.

The linked post contains a simple Ansible playbook for hardening a virgin (Linux, Ubuntu in this case) install as well as how to install Ansible (on OS X) and some of the basics.
I think he was trying to make that joke. The quote is not in the article.
How 3D Printing Will Impact the Web
It’s almost impossible to imagine all of the possibilities that exist within the world of 3D printing. At this point almost everything is speculation.
I hope lexers aren't only for parsing regular languages! I definitely want my lexer to be able to parse balanced parens.
I was also one of the customer who ordered 1kg onion at just 9 IND.
Fun fact: "Generous amount of vacations every year (5-6 weeks)" corresponds with European employment standards :).

I have 28 days + Christmas Eve + New Year's Eve (+ bank holidays), which is not particularly exceptional in Germany.
As far as console clients go Mew does very well with imap, in fact more reliably than most of the gui clients I've tried. It happily pulled down multi-GB Gmail mailboxes and kept them in sync without any issues, has sane disconnected-mode behavior, handled network failures well, etc. It's implemented inside emacs, but you don't have to be a heavy emacs user to use it and one of the vi-emulation modes might help if not. Built-in ssh tunneling support; good support for mime, pgp, s/mime; and pluggable search options were what convinced me. It depends on stunnel for ssl/tls, but I'm happy they're not reimplementing support. The manual could use some work, but it's relatively extensive.

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/Mew
http://www.mew.org/en/info/release/
Well, that is a little consolation for you, true, the government lets you keep a little bit to keep you from rebelling and keep you placid.

However, I feel that I'm already paying the government FAR more money than I should be, so I'm simply not bothered about trying to make them more money.
Expect Ads in Instagram within the next year
> Yes, for instance, in Spain it's 250 Euros per month just to be registered as autónomo.

Well, that sucks, I agree.
Xbox Music apps now on Android & iOS free
Thanks for linking David's stuff, that was something I didn't realize I needed.
You also lose unemployment support and other benefits. Very usual for someone who is changing career path. In my country loss would be around 1100 euro per month. Bit expensive for 'privilege' of experimenting with some stupid OS.
> All of the other so-called advantages you can already get simply by running a VM.

Only when you trust the hardware, and hypervisor. There's a huge potential set of advantages here for cloud platforms where people running various VMs do not trust the other tenants, and might not want to have to fully trust the hosting provider.

The possibility of having everything encrypted in memory and encrypted on disk, and with other code running on the same CPU unable to peek at what you're computing might not be foolproof (e.g. you'd have to trust that the provider does not run a CPU that's somehow backdoored), but it would still be a substantial improvement compared to what we have now. It means that a large class of security flaws in the hypervisors would still be unable to expose client VMs, for example.

I do agree with you that un-bypassable DRM is probably part of the motivation, but there are plenty of other uses.
If you have 40/20 (VDSL2, not ADSL) available from CenturyLink, you should be able to get 80/40 or 100/12 (don't ask me why) bonded. Pretty competitive with Comcast and more reliable in my experience. Their problem is that you have to be like 1500 ft. from their DSLAM for 40/20.
"Globalisation is first and foremost the method for rich countries/companies to outsource their workload to a cheaper provider. "

The largest result of globalization has been dramatically raising the standard of living of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people.

"You can't equalize level of life without social rights and globalisation don't push for that"

When you raise people's standards of living they begin to demand their own social rights.
how about building a website that solves this problem? I would say do something for Bitcoin to improve the world. drop me a line if you want nfx9@hush.com
Leading cause of flight deaths: pilots failing to abort landings
What BS article. Card are just one design pattern of many.
That's probably some guy who is easily convinced of some marketing crap talk. There is always the next thing. Cards will become boring. The next one may even be a fancier version of <marquee> and it will be all the hype until replaced by the next thing.. ZzzzzZZZ
Yes. It's good to read "XXX faces YYY years in prison" as "There is no possible way XXX could go to prison for more than YYY years." Though that's more comforting when YYY is something like 5, rather than 100.
The risk is that the same therapy techniques can "restore" memories that weren't there and didn't happen in the first place - and there are no known ways to distinguish the results to see if the memory was or wasn't real.
The problem is, once you make the definition more specific, like this, the idea that "cards are the future" starts looking much more dubious - I'm not sure any of the examples of supposed "cards" in the post fit this definition. Maybe Twitter and Google Now have enough of these elements to count, just about, but I don't see how Pinterest or Spotify do.

"Here's some websites that put information in boxes" is plausible but not very interesting; "cards are the future of the web" is more interesting, but doesn't really have any evidence to support it.
The problem you need to solve determines which algorithms you need to use and which data structures allow those algorithms to perform well. However, that's just whiteboard computer science.

Nowadays, performance depends almost exclusively on memory bandwidth usage and spatial and temporal memory locality, i.e. the only thing that matters is how much memory you are moving and how you are traversing it (the number of additions/divisions/branches doesn't matter that much).

In other words, your machine prefers data structures with good memory locality which determine which algorithms you can use and which problems are fast to solve. That is, in real life (as opposed to white board computer science) the order is inverted.

The question is: are you constrained at all by the machine? Because if you can solve the problems you want to solve without knowing about memory, then you obviously don't need to know about memory. On the other hand, if you are constrained by computing time, power consumption and so on, then you either learn about memory or can't solve your problem.

Again in other words, if you can get the job done in ruby/python/haskell/java/lisp... then do it! You'll do it faster, nicer, probably more maintainable... However, if you cannot get it done there, you'll need to use C++/C/Fortran/D...
Egypts 'spy stork' found dead
In the UK, inheritance tax starts at around £325k - which is basically a little bit above the average house price.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/inheritancetax/intro/basics.htm

You can get around it by 'gifting' things to your kids, as long as you then don't die for 7 years after etc etc.

On your last point, it certainly does exist. What I think happens is people like me don't bother trying so hard, because I'll be damned if I'm going to give the government more money.
However, people who are already making much more than me, just hire a good accountant to 'make the problem go away' - eg register offshore companies etc etc

Are you seriously saying, that when the UK government had a higher tax rate of 97% in the 60s/70s, you would have been more than happy to do that extra overtime work, and would have gladly received your 3%??? Crazy

Anything over 49% is slavery, and will end up crippling the country rather than raising more tax revenue. Which is why it was absolutely right and proper that the current government reduced the top rate from 50% to 45%.
The PGP encrypted emails I sent were very secure - no one ever read them!
You can't trust a third party with your data if you want it kept secure. Period.

It's impossible to do otherwise, though.
If you have a well defined spec and a reasonable test suite, you can throw away the code nobody understands and still have the replacement code work correctly.

The chances of having a well defined spec and reasonable test suite in a place where there's code nobody understands are left as a calculation exercise for the reader (but I'd start at 5% and work downwards.)
> Automatic theorem provers do exist and are employed by mathematicians, but they are inherently limited, as proven by Gödel's undecidability theorems

Human mathematicians are equally limited by Gödel.
FWIW, I am writing a book to get you some part of the way to your goal: http://www.howtofindsaasideas.com

It's about finding/extracting ideas (from domain experts) and then testing them quickly.

(Apologies for the terrible landing page)
Singer James Blunt 'prevented World War III'
They say, 1 order per household & 3000 orders per day for 7 days. That's 21000 different deliveries (even if you order twice with a different account on a different day, it's still a different delivery). An average of 2 km run per delivery & a mileage of 117 mpg (50 kmpl) would amount to 211 gallons (800 litres) of fuel. (they use 100-125 cc fuel efficient bikes, ignoring the bulk transportation by bus/train to the end point delivery hub)

That's a nice blot on the environment. Burning fuel for delivering 1 Kg of onions to scattered destinations all over the country, brilliant idea, though not that conscious.
Onion is something you can easily buy from the shop around the corner. And saving a few bucks won't change your living standard. People are ordering for fun.

On the other hand, offering discounted mobile recharge would have been eco friendly. But that's not the burning topic amongst a country that's obsessed with bargains :)
node.js + angular.js = world domination :P
Responsive design isn't about desktop vs mobile, it is about the whole range of possible screen sizes from very small to very large.
Some hitherto unreleased slides were shown in the video. Some screencaps are here: http://imgur.com/a/FD5VM

Of interest:

* A stolen CA (Diginotar) private key was used to implement at least one MITM attack.

* MITM attack vs. Google.

* Huawei is apparently another "target".

* They can monitor Tor on the metadata level at least.
Most audio and video formats are based on encoding relatively short block independent of what has come before - otherwise when you skip into the middle of the track the player would need to read everything up to that point before being able to restart play.

Many video formats do look back a fair number of frames, so you do sometimes see corruption remain and spread for a few seconds, but then you hit a key frame or block boundary where everything resets and all is suddenly well again.

Audio compression is usually a different bag entirely: over a given time period the compression algorithm looks for what it can leave out or merge from the input signal over that time because human ears are unlikely to hear the difference, there is much less opportunity (compared to still images and video) to be able to encode "copy that chunk from a frame or few back, rotate/skew/what-ever it a small amount, then change these few blobs".
Damage control yes, but not necessarily external.

Google probably knows even though they're mostly in good terms, this may change.

I guess they got uncomfortable with people knowing too much already and don't trust too much
Ask HN: message board projects?
What are some interesting open-source projects in the area of message boards?

I would could count stackexchange as an innovation in this area. I do believe there will demand for more open social graphs. HN is very roughly such a network.
Thanks. We'll check out TokuDB.
This post is broken to me right now. (Monday, 9/9 5am EST)

The URL it points to is: http://lab.varun.io/hn_all_time_top_links/

But the page looks like this in my browser:

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I'm in that situation now (hurting for expansion capital, in part to buy hard drives) so I've thought a little bit about it.

If it was just a packing problem, it's easy enough for me to ship you an empty hard drive mailing carton with pre-paid return postage.

As for SSDs, well, I'm generally more suspicious of SSDs. They are more shock resistant, but I've got north of a decade watching how hard drives fail. I've got a reasonable feel for it. SSDs? I am less familiar with. They /do/ fail just like any other drive; not only after you've written them X times. (I mean, they have that problem, too... but this idea that a ssd is more reliable because it's got no moving parts is bunk. You still need your raid.)

The problem I see is twofold.

1. if I'm buying thousands of hard drives, I can probably get 'em cheaper than you can.

and

2. if we're talking any hard drive you have laying about, (in which case, yeah, it might be 'cheaper' in that you don't want the hard drive anymore, and the effort of selling it is a large portion of it's value) well, then you have the problem of a bunch of different kinds of hard drives, which increases the complexity of your system.

Now, you could make some sort of minimum requirements (e.g. must be from vendor X, Y or Z, must be at least 7200rpm, must be at least 3tb, must be 'raid edition' etc...) and that /might/ work... it'd still be hard to overcome problem 1. (I suppose it would be a reasonable way to exploit 'loss leader' 'limit one' sales, but those are mostly for consumer-grade drives.)
Hacker culture is growing up on stuff like Heinlein articulating non-monogamy and other departures from the mainstream. This is just the plague of the professionally offended drawn in because software is big business now, and the crimethink-seeking drones employers must appoint just to avoid being sued into oblivion.
> "The "Yahoo boys" are ridiculous though because they are fairly easy to spot and are only marginally literate. It is part of a foreign condescending attitude to assume that that level of poor presentation is an acceptable standard for an educated Nigerian. Most of us think people who are scammed are suckers but it's an evolutionary game and some of the scammers are really efficient predators."

My understanding is that the poor grammar in classic 419 spam emails is at least sometimes intentional. Only stupid uninformed people will fall for something that has all the traditional hallmarks of a scam (spelling errors, ALL CAPS, poor grammar), and those are the only people that the scammers want to invest time in.
Stanford scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene
> Have you ever started or steered a company that went on to become something? Even half as big and inspirational as Groupon?

This is a terrible line of argument, since it considers the possibility of problems being obvious even to a layman as nonexistent. The next time you're tempted to make such an argument, ask yourself: "Have i ever made a full-length feature film?" I'm sure the answer for yourself is no, yet you have surely criticized one.
The one I saw in a local model shop was identical, they also do a mini-version which has the same interface but is tiny by comparison.
> If the NSA were only focused on industrial espionage with these programs then I don't see why they felt the need to target Google (a U.S. corporation in the first place).

Many foreign companies use Google.
Yes I actually thought this was about the sale of The Onion website, until I saw a picture of actual onions in the article :) The aljazeera logo also kind of looks like an onion though...
Groupon Acquires Blink App to Expand Last-Minute Travel Offerings
what is so strange? vegetables are good :)
EBay is showing some love to Bitcoin (or is it all in our heads?)
We have more customer support agents than any of our competitors- we have over 220 people in our support centre. We also provide support in 10 languages, which no-one else does. If you have a specific issue I will be happy to look into it.
Hold on, are you saying the big integration effort between the different Microsoft products is the ability to search with Bing inside random applications and devices? Come on, this is not something any consumer would ever see as a value add. This is a waste of resources, nothing more.

Integration is only integration if it adds value. No wonder Microsoft is dieing if this is the kind of thing they are wasting time on instead of useful features. Who would ever want to search with Bing from their xbox?!

The awful Microsoft Accounts just gives consumers one new and popular question to ask: how do I turn off Microsoft Accounts? That's literally the most asked question in regards to that piece of terrible functionality.

Come on anybody at Microsoft reading this, get rid of people like this and focus on giving consumers something they actually want. You might be able to turn this around if you act quickly.
Proofs from the Book is awesome. Another book in a similar vein, but requiring less of a mathematical background and targeted more at the curious layman is "Journey through Genius". Journey through Genius also spends more time giving general background about the players involved and telling the story leading up to the proof.
Then perhaps the question is: are there more situations where we can display information as more digestible, shorter pieces of content?

I've definitely found that bringing that simpler design from mobile to desktop has tested well with people in a lot of situations.
How did the international community accept it when it was done by other countries?
Whats interesting is comparing Angular to other frameworks. This page compares frameworks from a Github perspective: http://js-toolbox.org/category/frameworks

AngularJS clearly has the most open tickets which also might mean high level of activity and interest (or being the most buggy framework, but I seriously doubt that =) )
Are SEO Companies Doing it Wrong? [You Need To Read This]
In 2003, search engine optimisation, better known as SEO, was a fairly new idea. Myspace had just hatched, Facebook was still a few years away, and inbound marketing was a foreign idea almost a decade from fruition.
Show HN: The Ansibles
Since the number of (extensive) Ansible examples are still sparse, I decided to clean up the ones I have been writing and release them, for reuse and educational purposes. I know I would've benefited greatly from them when I started out, and hope they will help others now. I have a couple more of them, but they need some additional clean-up before I will add them to the repo.

Inspired by the "NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours" article, I created a similarly complete setup for a personal (mail/web/...)server on a VPS as al3x did a couple of weeks ago using the scripts I had, and wrote an idiot-proof tutorial on how to set it up (https://github.com/pjan/the-ansibles/blob/master/docs/cloudbox.md). Manual steps are minimal, and "It just works" - start to finish should take you less than an hour.

If you haven't tried Ansible before, there's no more excuse not to now.

Enjoy.
It's worse than that.

Imagine if in the 90s MS had written Outlook, Excel etc in VBA and you ran them inside Word as macros. They would have been laughed out of the market, but that is is exactly what modern app developers do, shoehorning everything into a web page inside a browser.
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Hi there. I will forward this onto engineering to take a look at.
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Roger & Ebert never made a movie, but I agreed with most
of their reviews.
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