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The main issue here is that people that don't fit the norm get labeled as sick - either (or both) by themselves and by society, and drugs will make you or your kids 'normal'. Or 'better', as some of those ads are trying to tell you. We live in a meritocracy, and if you're not able to be awesome, you need to be treated.

ADD and ADHD are both horribly overdiagnosed conditions. Kids will be hyperactive and hard to control, either by themselves or depending on what you fed them fifteen minutes earlier (sugar).

I could rant more, but it's late and my brain's fried.
More likely it's simply the default because it is still the default in many Linux distros
Rescale (YC W12) is hiring FEA and CFD Engineers
The drugs work. Missing a couple days is very easy - and the consequences very severe. From what I've encountered several times, I'm surprised nobody is seriously & publicly discussing the very serious problem of missed doses, as likely the root of much of the associated violence.
> I guess the biggest question I'm left with after this is how professional pilots can make this kind of elementary piloting mistake: Not watching the airspeed on final approach, and not reacting immediately when the PAPI indicates that the aircraft is too low.

If you know you're prevented from making this mistake on an Airbus, depending on your attention and what you're thinking, you may not remember that the 777 doesn't have the same failsafes.
> Google wasn't very helpful with this

Try harder, have some amphetamines
It could be that humans tend to use more bandwidth. I imagine plenty of humans watch Netflix, but very few web crawlers do. :)
China Becomes Third Country to Ever 'Soft-Land' on the Moon
Yeah these sort of "look at how small this fully functional computer is" pieces always make me wonder if they have a real world appeal or if they're more a proof-of-concept or tech demo to pull people's attention to the company's other products.
They say target use is internet of things. Makes for a great personal server too. I use a bunch of really small boards for fun, but not this small.
I'm no psychologist, but part of what I'm reading here is guilt and pressure about your 'potential'. Trying to pursue that potential and whatnot will probably only make your problems worse or equal.

It's not a bad thing to aim a bit lower and just find balance in things.
> Well, could you add instant messaging functionality to IMAP?

IMAP does not reimplement XMPP, which I consider a feature. If you want instant messaging, you should use XMPP, and it's perfectly possible for a client to allow you to use both.

> Can you manage multiple inboxes with one IMAP account?

Yes, this is built in to the standard and every client can do this

> Can you do server side threading with IMAP?

Yes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5256

> Can you manage attachments and messages separately with IMAP?

Admittedly not, but again do you really want to? There are separate protocols for managing files and we already have dropbox.

> Can you upload attachments NOT using base64 using SMTP/IMAP?

Yes: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3516

> Can you use labels with IMAP?

Google do it this way, but it's not standardised: https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions#access_t...

There are also user-defined flags

> Can you manage multiple domains under IMAP?

Yes, almost every client supports multiple accounts.

IMAP is a good candidate for the most often (and most badly) reinvented protocol around. There's plenty of reasons to expose parts off the current infrastructure over HTTP (Mandrill is really useful) but I think if your plan is "reinvent ALL the things" you need to be a lot clearer about what exactly is so backwards about on of the most well studied and well engineered pieces of infrastructure around.
According to the Wikipedia article on the crash, a feasibility study was added to FAA appropriations this year for a verbal warning for low speed. So this may be a practical way to improve communications if it pans out.
>Using an existing system bypasses a huge part of that.

Not really. I'm not sure it's any less work to move an entire app to use a new interface than to move to a new file store. Your mail app doesn't implement an HTTP interface that a unified search engine could consume.
I take steroids for allergies. Did you know that methamphetamine is also an effective ADHD drug? Cocaine is a great painkiller for facial/nasal injuries. Then again, there's a whole class of illicit drugs that make effective painkillers.

The point is, just because your DARE teacher told you to to say no to something doesn't mean that a doctor shouldn't prescribe it and a patient shouldn't take it. Sometimes, drugs that are harmful in the wrong dose are good when prescribed and taken correctly.
Wow, _somebody_ doesn't like windows phones

but seriously, that article had nothing to do with research. it seemed to be a rant at third-rate smart phones from 3 years ago.
Funny you mention it, jesuit formation starts with a university level degree and I met one that's a professional astronomer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_formation)
A lot of these client side solutions make it easier to build quick and dirty websites. I have several ideas for how this plugin could be pretty useful on some throwaway sites.
Given that it seems he was quite loyal until he was persecuted by his country, how do you think that reasoning turned out in the end?
yes. a skilled prosecutor or persecutor could easily persuade an audience of either one, possibly both, at different points in time.

MANY nazis went on to become communists in east germany once the soviets moved in. they were, in fact, BOTH NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS.

i take it you've never really sat down and thought through some of your assumptions of the history of ww2 / europe / asia / america. i urge you to do so one day. it can be quite stimulating.

for example, did you know china was an ally in world war 2, while japan was an enemy?

crazy, i know.
There are plenty of places to offer feedback on Angular, general or specific. All I'm saying is that it's nice to look at the docs and not have to see a big string of "OMG AngularJS docs suck" (only a slight exaggeration).

Also, if your comment is going to be useful on a documentation page, chances are it will be even more useful as a commit to the docs themselves. Mad about doc quality? Whine (give feedback) about it on Twitter, maybe even mention one of the committers.
Can you share any of your Trello workflow? We still have trouble sometimes making everyone happy with our current Trello workflow, I'd be really interested in hearing how you organize your cards!
Hi HN, quick intro here (full details in another thread).

We're a bootstrapped bridal co - we sell online only, offer high quality, and low prices by cutting out traditional retailers. (Think Warby Parker & Everlane for bridal).

Secondary goal is to give brides advice through an insider's perspective. Our aim here isn't to push product, but to empower brides to make educated decisions (and save money/headache) through editorial content.

From explaining manufacturing (and associated markups) to how to get a custom $200 gown made overseas, we want to break open the industry and cover subjects that no else will, since bridal is traditionally heavy on selling brand & image to justify markups.

Thanks for reading!
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i also had this thought, but i realized the value in this is not necessarily understanding the code that you're typing but rather getting better at typing characters in context and in certain sequences. for instance, i realized that i am terrible at typing } and ], but i assume that's because i have an IDE that does autocomplete for those chars. other typing programs i've used are just transcribing sentences, but in programming there are so many other characters we use in the middle of typing things.
I was hoping to move there to escape exactly the same problems here in Argentina!
There's literally no excuse for not watching your airspeed when you land an airplane, of any make. It's one of the two 'oh-hey-my-life-really-directly-depends-on-this-number' factors.

I really don't like the tone that so many post-accident discussions take regarding automation, Boeing v. Airbus, etc. -- when the plain facts of the incidents (specifically this, and Air France 447) boil down to one small, really important bit willful negligence.
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Excellent. With current sensor data (GPS, air speed, control surface positions, engine output), a physics engine, and map/synthetic radar data, it is possible to politely tell a crew that they're a) doing something wrong and b) how to correct it quickly.
A lack of curiosity is indeed reproachable. And while I do consider knowing how a car works basic common knowledge, I wouldn't advise someone that doesn't have that to start with the manual.
Isn't IPv6 a feature of the Linux networking stack? Shouldn't everything that runs Linux be IPv6 capable? Or is there some IPv6 stuff implemented in hardware here?
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It's not unbelievable using idle thrust in the air. It's inexcusable to not watch your air speed though.
I'm sorry but I find really stupid to see this message:

"This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later."

And find there's no way to prove I'm a human. Is that hard to add a captcha?
> There's literally no excuse for not watching your airspeed when you land an airplane, of any make.

Completely agree. Unfortunately, the vasty majority of aircraft incidents occur because of pilot error. People can and will make mistakes. We need to accept that or automate more. I'm in the automate more camp.
Ask HN: Toxic companies like Booking.com
I recently saved atleast a couple of years of my career by reading about what Booking.com does to an engineers career. I have declined their offer.
I am really thankful to the HN community for sharing such important insights.
My aim is to create a list of such companies which are inherently bad for an engineers growth so that we don't fall into their traps.
Could the HN community help me in creating such a list by sharing information about such companies and why they are bad for an engineers careers and if possible proofs.
For example in Booking.com case there is http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-about-bookingcom.html and numerous accounts on the internet about how engineers are treated like dogs.
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This isn't as serious of a proposal as some of the W3C documents on how XML and WS-* works with my name on it (among many, many other smarter people)... and I have a lot of sympathy for someone who had to deal with Win32 APIs (they are locally optimized but globally bad).

I have no love for XML, but the details tend to matter. And you are right that saying "use HTTP" is a bit hand-wavy. XML is great at serializing nouns when you want to enforce the schema of those nouns. It makes interop of nouns, verifying, quantifying, and some types of searches must faster and consistent. XML was a reaction to widespread RPC and endless bit-order compat that wasted so many lines of code. It comes from the same mindset as the people who made SQL -- "conforming to schemas is good and what most people want."

However, in the last 10 years we've seen that it isn't possible to conform to a single schema as requirements change, and that is why XML has generally lost favor to JSON. This is a similar reason why NoSQL wins in many cases over SQL.

HTTP, in contrast to XML, is a set of verbs (called methods) and identifiers (typically urls), which is similar to what a file system is. It leaves the nouns (the body in HTTP) to the application, but it does promote some properties (headers in HTTP) and have conventions for common properties (content-type). The big difference between HTTP and most file systems is that HTTP is stateless, whereas many file operations are stateful (get a handle to a stream, write to a stream, close the stream).

HTTP would work as the API for a file system because it provides pretty good addresses for both local and remote and relatively low-level operations.

HTTP also has the benefit of being widely adopted, even during the Cairo development, which would have solved the chicken-and-the-egg problem from the first essay.

Using HTTP as a file system has key drawbacks: Applications would have to be re-written to use both the new APIs and new mindset of possibly high-latency operations. You can't always assume that a particular endpoint will be available, unlike many assumptions about inodes.

So, do I think they should have done this? Maybe, there were a lot of variables at play. But, I don't think it is a crazy idea to use HTTP as the file system, and I predict we will see a popular -- nay, credible -- operating system use it within the next 5 years.

And I also think it's telling that even in the post-mortem hindsight, the author fails to see alternatives that were widely available in the industry because they weren't invented at Microsoft.
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Completely agree. It makes it a cinch to nicely organize one hundred active tabs or more within a single modest sidebar.

Last time I checked there's nothing for Chrome that's as good. Tree Style Tab is one of the things that could keep me on Firefox forever.
Ask HN: Are you a young startup nerd too?
I'm curious how many of us (relatively) young folk there are on HN. I've been hesitant thus far to participate much in the forums or try to ask HN about things indicative of noob status (i.e. internship opportunities or REALLY early first-time startup idea advice).

Established HN people - would this be received well?

Others my age/weight-class: do you exist?
Which Is More Disruptive: Startup Or Big Company?
Our family does without a car and I take my daughter to school or pick her up in my cargo e-bike. Neither my wife or I wear helmets as speeds are slow around here and there are plenty of other family bikers. I think my daughter is safer when I'm not wearing a helmet, as I can see and hear better and most importantly it's easier to make eye contact with drivers when you don't have a helmet on.
It's not whether Scott is a douchebag or not, it's that nobody really gives a shit. This has clearly touched you on a personal level.

Show us on the doll where Scott touched you.
The first thing I usually look for on projects like these is a "Click here for demo"
Many embedded devices compile out IPv6 to save flash and RAM.
YC's investment + the startfund money is enough to pay for a place to live, even if it's an expensive short-term lease. (Companies find places to live on their own. When you're going to be in a particular apartment/home for 3-12 months you don't need to overoptimize for the last few hundred dollars in rent; it's better to find a place you like and get to work.)
I guess I didnt phrase this very well, with IMAP i mean cloud imap services.

the problem is that it is very complex, and features are not implemented consistently accross clients. Especially the newer, or not standardized ones you listed. You know that there is something wrong when an entire slew of RFCs can be replaced with a few simple api calls.
We know it isn't locally true. That's how the inside of your refrigerator gets colder after you supply it with electricity.
I use coderpad.io for remote pair programming interviews. Great work!
Thanks for Routesy, I use it most days. :)
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Your analogy is missing the public interest: the business is the postal office or similar and has all the neighbors mail laying around. Does not affect your point though (still not okay to just announce it to the neighborhood).
Clarification: I am an undergrad, non-CS major, who has been obsessed with startups for slightly less than a year. Started at square one (at roughly the same time) in a disparate but aggressive endeavor to learn about programming and data science.
If 1% puts you in the hole for a long-term trade, you better rethink your strategy.
> The Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest international incentive based prize of all time, aims to do something we haven’t done as humanity since 1973, safely land on the surface of the Moon.

That sentence wasn't even correct yesterday, before Chang'e 3 landed. The last lunar soft-landing was Luna 24 in 1976 -- a Soviet sample-return mission.

What they meant is that nobody had done what the Google Lunar XPRIZE requires since 1973. The Google prize requires a rover, and the last rover on the moon was Lunokhod 2, in 1973.
this would be fantastic for corporate espionage, snap one into an unused to drop somewhere and you have a beachhead inside the network. Combine it with a Micro SD card you have a great way to exfiltrate data via weekly/monthly data drops, without setting off external firewalls.
If it was "fucking nothing," I doubt they would bother. Rather, they look at it as a good investment that pays off. I know this to be true because of the intense earnestness with which they encouraged me and so many others to donate. Of course, maybe all they wanted was the charitable contribution deduction, that could be true. But I listened to many talks by officers of BigCorp in which they talked about the importance of these contributions to swerve legislation at the local, state, and federal level to their favor, most often to reduce the cost of doing business in the many states in which this particular BigCorp did business.
Hey, I'm all for street-level government, but that's still a government. And one that is not powerful enough to stand up to the more powerful gangs or corporations. You will still need a larger structure of organization to defend against the larger threats.

> The government-run police primarily serve the interests of the rich and powerful and their own interests - they don't do much to protect the poor.

That's certainly the case in corrupt countries, but much less so in the less corrupt ones.

> I'm talking about actual rule of law, which does protect the rich and poor alike.

What law? Whose law? Who enforces that law if you don't have a government? Without enforcement, the law is meaningless. With enforcement, you've got a government. There's really nothing in between there.

What you're talking about are different forms of government. Better ones, perhaps. There are definitely a lot of improvements possible (and needed) in our current forms of government, and especially so in the US. But one way or the other, you'll still end up with some form of government.

> Consider that by social convention when you aggress against me I have a claim against you for damages. Suppose I can sell that claim. If I can afford to prosecute you directly I do so; if not, I sell my claim against you to someone who is more powerful. But selling a claim is an ordinary business transaction - it doesn't give the buyer any special power over the seller.

Sounds interesting, but to prosecute, you still need courts, you still need enforcement, and that means you still need government. (By the way, this already exists. Some legal claims have gone to the stock market even.)
> Elon Musk hasn't commented publicly on ADHD specifically.

Is there speculation that he has ADHD?
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Something that was briefly mention but not really explored in the article is the amount of abuse of drugs like adderall among students, specifically students in advanced placement and gifted programs.

Speaking as a high school student taking finals in the coming week, I'd estimate that around 30% (roughly) of my peers are taking adderall at some point in the coming week without any kind of prescription or oversight. It's not like it's difficult for them to get said drugs; as the article states 1 in 7 people are diagnosed with ADHD by the time they're 18.

What that means is that you've got teenagers taking serious prescription medication without knowing what an appropriate dosage is and possible side-effects, and you have students who actually need said medication to stay focused and productive selling it and not taking it.

The sad part is that this isn't addressed at all. Most of these students are great kids placing in the top 10% of their class and thus it's assumed that they're somehow immune to substance abuse. All of the drug education focused at students assumes that teenagers are doing drugs or drinking for recreation and doesn't touch on prescription abuse and better ways of dealing with things like over-scheduling and stress.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as condescending.

Think of it this way: if you had to take the other side of a thousand random trades by individuals putting down a thousand dollars and one random trade by an individual putting down a million dollars, which one would you prefer? More to the point, if I gave you a dollar for every percentage point a random thousand-dollar trade outperformed the S&P 500 and every percentage point a random million-dollar trade outperformed the S&P 500, over the long run, which one would you rather take? Assume a liquid stock and so no significant market impact by either trade.
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You're right. The term doesn't quite fit. I'll have to invent a new one.

How does "Bottom Up Godwin's Law" sound to you?

;-)
Thats nice. The data disagrees with you. Just google up urbanization birthrate for many papers on the topic.
You'd be surprised.

HN has become mainstream enough that a lot of readers don't know who pg is. This is what getting linked from reddit, digg, etc leads to. I don't mean this is bad, or good. It's the way it is.
Contracts can be negotiated and renegotiated.
Sadly with drones we're moving in the opposite direction of shooting before asking.
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The insistence of aviation and naval industries to continue using knots for speeds is infuriating.

I can forgive the fact that the article uses U.S. customary units instead of SI but the article gives distances in miles and altitudes in feet and needing to convert knots into feet per second or miles per hour as you read is awful.
In the Airbus accident, the level of automation was a contributing factor to the accident. The fly-by-wire system prevents the pilot from placing the aircraft in an unsafe condition. However, this system was automatically deactivated (which is an extremely rare occurence) when the pitot/airspeed tubes were covered with ice and the computer hence couldn't make correctly informed decisions about the aircraft.

In that case, however, you could point to a big UX problem: It was not announced in big, red letters that the fly-by-wire system had in fact been deactivated. If I remember correctly, this was hidden under some menu in the flight computer and simply abstracted away to a "master caution" light or something in that vein.
Read the API docs, only reading DMs needs a special permission, POST direct message only needs the permissions that writing a "normal" tweet would. There's no bug here. Maybe a confusing security model, but no bug.
I agree it's small, but it does add up if you do it a lot (I pay thousands to my broker every year and it certainly puts a dent in my returns.)
The pilot depended on automation to fly the plane. When put into a situation where it was not available, he crashed it showing insufficient piloting skill. That someone with this lack of skill was placed in this situation shows institutional failure.
That's my thought. I can think of a few times where it might make sense, mostly to burn off speed or altitude; but if you're that low and already under the suggested approach speed it seems like it's almost certainly a mistake.

I'm surprised they had to get so low before the stall warning system kicked in (given the speed and throttle position).