skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say do NOT ask your doctor. I walked straight into an urgent care clinic and had a physician I had never had before. I said "I have a hard time focusing during class and doing homework, I think I'm ADD. Can I have some adderol?". That was it. He wrote me a prescription with refills for a year. Doctors are WAY too happy to write prescriptions and would rather do that then help you figure out the underlying cause of your health issues.

Adderol(and some of the other drugs) were a nightmare for me. I was uber-productive on them, but I'll never use any of that crap again. I'd rather be less effective than use amphetamines.

I've considered using nootropics (sp?), but I think getting good sleep and finding a motivational visualization to focus on before getting to work is pretty effective.
Yup I think you're right - I've added an update to the post. It does look like Opera usage is quite different geographically than the other browsers, which may explain the difference here.
I agree for the most part, but a lot of interesting degree programs contain lots and lots of boring and tedious work, no? :)
I see it too!

It's uncannily similar to the one I knocked out earlier... all hackers must think alike!!
The server is up, but the asp.net code is throwing an error.

Google cache: http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:3eeGFk9AvA8J:www.sdtimes...
I've personally never been a fan full stop - we get quite a few sales letters a week and most go straight in the bin (we will find you). All that gets noted is the product and the name.

Anything over 2 pages is just ignored entirely here. A single page with a simple bullet list of what your trying to sell will be the most likely to get read.

But I dont promise that is what everyone, everywhere does (obviously).
This is one of the first reddit-style sensationalist headlines I have seen on Hacker News. The headline must be destroyed.
These spiders:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/giant-spider-kills-...

[edit: see below post, this is australia. My bad. I googled "new zealand giant spider" and got that link. Regardless, NZ has the same spiders.]
It's all empty words until we find a way to actually measure the efficiency of the Valley, externalities and all, and compare it with the financial industry.
Because doctors know everything. I know a woman whose doctors took a year to find the broken pieces of bone swimming around her leg because they were sure her back was causing her leg pain and a man whose brother was diagnosed with MS because of exposure to a chemical known to cause MS-like symptoms (in a different order). Myself, I've been told by doctors that a joint problem would heal in a month - after it had already been six months. Then there's the story of how doctors failed to notice the absence of one of my male organs until I brought it to their attention at age 10.

Seems to me that most doctors are pretty much robots with a lot of institutionalized "knowledge".
I took a class from George at Berkeley. We used Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought as the text. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

The article (http://edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index....) is well worth reading. She explains that English speakers will usually refer to a "short movie" or "long movie," and that Spanish and Greek speakers will usually say "small movie" or "big movie." Then:

"Our research into such basic cognitive abilities as estimating duration shows that speakers of different languages differ in ways predicted by the patterns of metaphors in their language. (For example, when asked to estimate duration, English speakers are more likely to be confused by distance information, estimating that a line of greater length remains on the test screen for a longer period of time, whereas Greek speakers are more likely to be confused by amount, estimating that a container that is fuller remains longer on the screen.)"

That one parenthetical sentence blew my mind.

Edit: Added some missing context to the article quote.
The Brillant Paula Bean
My question about this classic Daily WTF article (and the long thread of comments that follow) is what HN readers do in their hiring processes to keep this from happening in their own businesses.
In Europe everyone has MMS.

Tho' this is becoming less important because people on all platforms just post to Facebook or Flickr directly from their phones now, but even so, lack of MMS hurt iPhone early on.
Apple steals Microsoft's multicore thunder with Grand Central
Same here. My Rev. A core duo MBP gets about the same, 1.5 hours. Problem is that once the battery hits 20% capacity it will shutdown the machine at any moment.
Right now I'm trying to learn clojure, and write 2d arcade game with it.
I've encountered similar problems (almost everything should be passed almost everywhere), but I think this is actually good thing to choose what part of game can change what beforehand.

My architecture (so far - it's in early planning stage):
2 threads (physic and logic thread going 10 Hz and graphic thread going as fast as it can drawing world)

objects are struct-maps with fields position, animation frame, life etc (all fields are functions of time, and can change between physic thread turns, but not in one physic thread turn).

Graphic thread just gets time and for each visible object draws it at current position (calculated from time by objects position function). So movement should be smooth and not dependent on frame rate.

physic thread in response to player input calculates new functions for objects (only for X next turns). These new functions are encapsulated in event objects, that are added to events priority queue.

On each turn (of physic thread) events for that thread are executed - each event takes set of game objects (not always all objects) and time and returns changed set of game ojects.

In C++ this will be much easier to write at first (no hard thinking needed:)), but later it could become nightmare to change because of side effects.
Solar Power at Data Center Scale
Google will get the data if it wants. Do you think that sharing that with us webapp creators makes it worse? Also, I don't necessarily want it to be only from Google... just want a solid tool that you can rely on. Google is the only company that came to mind when I thought who can deliver that.
“The major driver to the decrease in the forecast is the whole communications and IT spending situation,” Andrews said. “That comes as no surprise to anyone.”
I'm curious about safety. I know this is probably an exaggeration based on too much media exposure, but my impression is that some of these places have high rates of kidnapping and the like. And it seems that if you were a westerner, especially if you were old, you'd stand out as a target.
Just a question, what does one risk by not honoring this NDA?
Your question might have been rhetorical, but it was inane.

I didn't think it was, but I'm once again surprised by the arrogance and self-righteousness of your statement. I thought that this kind of bombast had no place here, but perhaps I'm mistaken?

in a room full of critical thinkers

I take it you're including yourself from that group, but that I'm not a part of it? Or at least that's the implication I'm getting from your comment.

nonsensical relative moralism /
You might not like it, but it exists nonetheless.

Err, no - it was actually a genuine question. When the Chinese hijack the Dalai Lama's computer network, they genuinely think that they are in the right. But you might disagree with that; what makes your right truer than theirs?

This type of question has confounded philosophers for thousands of years. It's not an easy problem to solve, and is fraught with contradictions. The best we've arrived at is that principles like 'equality' are enshrined in our constitutions; each of our opinions are considered to have equal importance, and that includes the opinions of the Chinese and the Iranians. You seem to show no awareness of this, which makes me think that your bombast and self-righteousness may be misplaced.

You may be right that there is such a thing as a higher moral ground, and you may even be right that it applies here; I think it would be difficult to define in an off-hand 10 line comment, but I'd be glad to read your attempt should you care to try.
I don't willy nilly-click on ads, but I make an effort to pay more attention to them on sites I enjoy. If they fit into something I'm interested in, I'll click.
What if Twitter is leading us all astray in Iran?
Good point in this article. It also made me realize how grateful I am that MOST users on Twitter don't stoop so low as to use text messaging shorthand. I guess it is probably a matter of time until that becomes acceptable, but I am very happy we aren't there yet.
Opera has some content blocker built in. Rightclick on a website and select "Block Content". It supports wildcards. I guess most people who use content blocking have Adsense blocked. You can disable it per-site too (rightclick -> site preferences).

I too suspect a high number of Opera users to be very technical experienced.

Also I think Opera users are more prone to be quite cautious about being tracked online. I know several guys who stopped using Firefox and went to Opera since Firefox so prominently bundles Google with it.

Last but not least, choosing to use Opera is an active decision. IE/Safari/Firefox (Ubuntu etc.) are default browsers. Opera is not. So there is a high chance that the user uses it for a specific reason. Not something "John Doe" would do for "his internet".
"New Zealanders are wasting their 20s and 30s"

He didn't say that! He said he wouldn't want to waste his 20s and 30s there. Different people want to do different things with their lives. NZ doesn't suit his chosen 20-to-39 lifestyle.
> Still, I'm a little perplexed as to the media's near-obsession with the service

News is all about status updates. They've discovered that polling really sucks.
I'm not trying to sound like an ass - but really?! Why do we (mostly Americans) always want to turn to drugs to solve problems? Too lazy to eat well and exercise - pop a cholesterol drug! Too lazy to motivate yourself and study - pop some "performance enhancing" drug.

Here's an amazing thing I learned in college - there is always someone who is smarter than you. A lot smarter than you. The sooner you learn this, the sooner you can stop worrying so much about getting as much from the lectures as peers, doing as well on tests, etc. You have to learn to be comfortable with your abilities. The even more amazing thing is that you don't have to be the smartest person to do well in life and achieve success.
Firefox still is awefully slow on Linux. I switched to Opera rather recently (~6 months?) because of this.
Thanks to Opera's amazing session saver and the quick end/restart cycle I find it much less a pain in the backside than Firefox if it gets hoggy (not that it ever did that for me, sometimes it slows down for some reason though).
Good software developers have always been scarce.
Concerning 1), many useful practices which would lower cost are barred by the state.

Some states (e.g. NY) ban catastrophic-only health insurance.

All states ban me from self-medicating (which is actually not very hard to do for simple illnesses). I'm also barred from buying lab tests without first paying a doctor for permission.

Women are required to pay a doctor for permission to buy birth control.

I'm banned from visiting someone with less training than a doctor to receive treatment for simple ailments.

Of course, I'll be the first to admit that Baumol's cost disease plays an important role too, as well as higher costs for newer treatments.
Opera launches Unite, democratizes the cloud
They plan to use low tech solar thermal power and high voltage transmission to Europe. They want to have it up an running within a decade.

This low tech approach (all existing technology) seems to me to be exactly the right way to go.
I think thats the most it can ever really hope for without alienating it's users.
Not working for me -- after playback it shows just empty gray page.

Using Google Chrome 2.0.172.31 on Vista.
Frankly I'd go after the motivation/procrastination problem. If you're 21/EE, then you're probably hitting close to burnout.

I spent many years of undergrad & grad school drinking to vent stress, but eventually it wasn't doing it for me. I got a motorcycle and I picked up a martial art. I haven't been happier.

Look around for better ways to vent stress, not work better under excess stress. The former's a lot easier and more pleasant than the second.
Find people to compete against. Start with the bottom of the class.
"Naturally, for my convictions, I ran the other way. I myself used to be the one who would vociferously debate against these drugs (on the line that if I'm unhappy, then it's for a reason - something happened to me, a certain natural chain of events... getting at the problem with chemical changes to the body sounds like a terrifically frightening idea..."

You already know the right answer. Stick with your convictions.

I disagree with only one word you said. You would not be "getting at the problem" with chemical changes, you'd be "getting at the effect".

I'm a firm believer in

If A causes B and B is bad, don't treat B, remove A.

You already know this. Good. Find your A and remove it. Have fun and good luck.
A 7% average return would require more exposure to volatile assets (like equities) than is prudent for those investing for over a potentially short time like retirement. One must also consider morbidity risk, currency risk and interest rate risk.

I think it is most prudent for non-investing professionals who want to live this life to buy two annuities, one denominated in the currency of their home country and the other denominated in the currency of their new country.
I don't get why there isn't a twitter feature that allows you to use something like bbcode tags to insert a url and only leave the link name in the message.
Seconded. It's link-jacking and Grubber isn't adding anything to the discussion himself.
Walking the Censorship Tightrope with Google's Marissa Mayer
I love the fact that you use webpy for that project. Do you have any posts with more details how smooth the development went with that framework, etc.
Apart from the "squat not" theme this seems like a generic domain trade site. What would be the benefit to other domain trade services?

The escrow link on http://squatnot.com/about/ is buggy.

The design wastes vertical screen. The listing starts in the middle of the screen and I only see 3 sites on 1024x768.
That's the exception more than the rule.

And frankly, what you say happened is illegal in America. Adderall is a schedule 2 controlled substance, which means no refills at all, much less for a year.

edit: I can't reply below so I'll do it here. Agreed -- there's a scary underside to this story and its that at most universities (especially the top-tier), its much too easy to walk in and get a prescription. Also, at both universities I've attended it was known that you could buy it in certain areas in the library.
Most people using adblock I know disable it on sites they visit frequently, if that sites has reasonable ads. So do I.

But when anything makes a new window, sound, or pop up without me wanting it, it means war. And adblock is for such pages.
That's a very good eye opening article, seriously. Most developers think that if the code is good and well designed, people will use it, but marketing is so important, that sometimes a worse product is picked up instead of the better, just because of the exposure..
"I can't quite fit everything in there without sounding like an SMS-addled teenage girl."

What's wrong with that?

Reminds me of the story of the college green where they didn't put in any sidewalks. In order to make sure they put them where people actually needed them, they waited 6 months and them put them where the grass was worn.

These SMS-addled teenage girls have already done that for you. Don't disparage them. Take advantage of what they have taught us.
Doing pseudocode tests and such would probably weed out the worst offenders.

The toughest part is how companies that do not already have internal programming competence select employees and contractors for positions requiring coding expertise. They can't test expertise in something they don't already have expertise in. It seems any sort of third party expertise review system is subject to the same problem of knowing which "expert" to choose.
All of the things you mentioned are stored in database files, so yeah it's all about file sharing.

Although I would disagree that pizza delivery is a piece of data ;)
Required reading:

(1) http://radian.org/notebook/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/brain-...

(2) http://yarchive.net/med/nootropics.html

(3) http://yarchive.net/med/lifestyle_drugs.html

No. 3 is for understanding why most of the prominent naysayers in the field don't have your best interests in mind. No. 1 and 2 will educate you about what substances are available and what trade-offs their use entails.
languages that let you do short parlor tricks

Quite the opposite - functional programming is becoming very appealing as a practical alternative for building large, multi-threaded, correct systems.

True, it might be a bit more tedious to write a program that type-checks, but as many (including me) have been repeatedly amazed, it often works correctly right away, with minimal debugging.

But it also may be that almost no one has been thinking about problems like this

Mutable state is a fundamental issue that every functional programmer deals with every day. Indeed, it might be sometimes frustrating to pass around state that in C would be directly modifiable, but the benefits are huge.

Pure code has been called a "scarce resource", and that's exactly right - once it works, it will always work, no matter how huge is the system you build on top of it.
Can't wait for Apple to steal this idea and make it better ;)
I think the reason is SMS compatibility.
Satire guys, satire!
Thanks to Twitter, I'm creating my own Twitter
His example is amusing to me because state machines are one of my least favorite things to code in imperative languages (especially C). It's so easy to forget an infrequently occurring state-interaction or side-effect. So if you want to be rigorous you end up with a meticulously detailed switch block (or whatever the idiom is in your language) with a lot of repeated code and global variables everywhere. My kingdom for a few closures!
Agree completely. The catch-22 here is that if you're not getting good sleep as it is, Adderall is most certainly not going to help. And not sleeping over time has some pretty hefty consequences.
The site guidelines suggest preferring original headlines to rewritten headlines, and I think flagging this submission will bring the issue to the attention of the site curators.

"If the original title ends with the name of the site, please strip it off, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway. If the title begins with the site name, you can leave it on if you prefer.

"If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In general, flagging a submission is the way to get problems looked at.
there are other good features to some url shorteners beyond just getting your link to fit inside a tweet.

the features like metrics and click tracking behind a lot of these better offerings are quite nice and are useful way beyond status messages.
A major advantage to photovoltaic’s is they still work when it's cloudy unlike concentrating systems. That might now seem like a major issue, but without long term energy storage the peak power output is less useful.
"PV solar is also much more expensive than grid power."

Isn't it about time to provide some incentives for data centers to invest in the long-term payoffs. What better use for roof-tops, sides of buildings, covers for parking lots?
Indeed. My current place of employ has a similar open work space (granted, it looks less like an airport) and it's notably uncomfortable.

The idea that such a layout encourages "openness" and "communication" often doesn't work out, and instead promotes unsolicited shoulder-staring, frequent casual interruptions, and a generally distracting ambiance of sales calls, verbal outbursts, and coworkers' annoying habits. Headphones are my best friend here.

It's odd that you should mention the highschoolish sense of the space, because I notice the same in my own work environment, not only in aesthetic but in the way people conduct themselves and how the business itself has slowly come to be run. (This part is most likely coincidence, but your comment certainly struck a chord.)
"Ehrm, I do. It's great for developing on localhost..."

Yeah, we all do; this is HN. That's not what he's referring to, and that's not what Opera Unite is for.
Having the footer links found on the main page, especially "guidelines" and "library," be visible when composing a reply to a previous reply would be helpful for sharing those links when composing replies to users who don't know of those helpful resources. In general, it helps me find stuff if the footers are the same regardless of state, whether reading the main page, reading the new submissions page, posting a new submission, or posting a reply to a previous reply.
Just to be clear, I'm building a real-time service for sports information. It will have some of the attributes of Twitter, but it is NOT a simple Twitter clone.
Now I have to worry about browser uptime? People don't need a server in their browser, they want reliable services that are easy to use. This could easily have been a nice user interface to a "launchd" and some services. Server side JS might be nice, but there is no benefit to it being coupled to a browser.
Cue the apologists!
Well, this was about 7 years ago so perhaps my memory failed me on the details.

All I know is it is _way_ too easy to get a prescription for adderol (and any prescription for that matter), and my experience is _not_ an exception at all. When I was in college I never knew anyone who went to the doctor to try to get a prescription that was turned down or required to take any sort of test.
Fair enough. The design is still pretty much a default, but I thought it was simple and clean, so I didn't bother messing with it too much (I'll look into the design issue you mention when I get home later).

Most other services charge or at least require registration, neither of which I do. I plan on adding more features soon (twitter integration, etc), bt figured I would be getting ahead of myself if I had no listings :)

Is there any feature in particular you would like that other services don't offer?
Yea not gonna work. I think this is just another case of disruptive tech taking down a giant. The giant is accustom to certain revenues that are very very large. Newspapers have historically made 75%-90% margins! Those margins have eroded since the internet, but when you are making that much money any other business venture is going to pale in comparison. Starting a blog is small potatoes to a newspaper, and so it doesn't look appealing because there's just not enough revenue for them. Nothing can satisfy the giant so he starves to death.

Once the memory of how much money was made at newspapers is gone and flushed from the system. Some enterprising blogger will take over the vacuum left by the newspaper. Newspapers will continue failing to invest in the disruptive technology and viola the newspaper business will be gone. The need for local news is not going away.
Technical details at http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-unite-developer-pri...
Theres also a related series of articles starting here: http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html