skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We definitely agree that Adderall is not something that should be used casually, like coffee.

And unlike coffee, with a little determination it's physically easy to ingest enough Adderall to do serious harm. (Although that's pretty much true for any medication in pill form.)

Were it not too late to edit my post I'd amend it to say that.

I definitely believe your experiences! However, from all of my reading and anecdotal reports from friends, I believe your experiences are not the norm.

> I've taken Adderall XR for several years... I experience
> an extremely severe crash in the evenings

I tried Adderall XR (the extended release version) and it didn't give me enough flexibility.

I didn't crash as severely in the evenings as you report, but the XR seems formulated to give about 8 hours of efficacy and that wasn't nearly enough for me. I now take 7-8mg of Adderall (non-XR) three times a day: morning, noon, and late afternoon. Sometimes more if I need intense focus... less on the weekends.

> After discontinuing use, it takes approximately 4 - 6 weeks
> for the withdrawal symptoms to go away and to return to baseline.

This seems like it would be much more of a problem with Adderall XR since they're all-or-nothing capsules, correct? Are you essentially quitting "cold turkey" when you discontinue it?

With the non-XR Adderall, I have much more control over my doses and can gradually reduce my dosage day by day.
No matter how much you love your father. you can't 'fix' him.

You can however be supportive. In part that means putting aside what you think he should do because it's not your call. Provide love without being asked. Provide advice only when.

Don't expect him to suddenly stop acting in ways in which he takes pride. He would work without pay again if the circumstances were the same. Accept him for who he is. Doing the right things will be hard because it is about him not you.

Good luck.
RSpec – how the let feature works in the source code
It's Game Over for Most Consumer SSD Companies
Could you explain what you mean by "making choices like your grandparents" ?
One thing that wasn't addressed was space junk accumulating around planets because spaceships were blowing each other up. Unless the ships have really think armour or shields, planets would not the place to have space battles.
Business Cards: Debating Form vs. Function
Shopular (YC W12) is hiring engineers – iOS, Android, full-stack. Sequoia-backed
> If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, you should start by becoming a vegan.

I'm going to regret this, I have no doubt.

Vegan != no carbon footprint. In fact, I would imagine that when compared to a typical vegetarian diet, it is less carbon efficient.

Isolation from animal (by)products means that food bound for vegans typically requires specialized handling and processing. Loss of efficiency gained from the economies of scale.

Limited food processing means that food can not be easily stockpiled and distributed. This results in more frequent but smaller food shipments - the opposite direction you want to go for efficiency.

The small intersection with the average person's diet also means that vegan foodstuffs don't gain any production efficiency when compared to, say, a vegetarian's diet.

All of that, and vegan-bound foodstuffs still have to be planted, fertilized, harvested and transported.
FCC gets Comcast, Verizon to reveal Netflix’s paid peering deals
The company I work at provides systems that compete directly in this space, and yet we rarely come across OpenTable as a competitor. I don't think we've gone after a single client that has brought up OpenTable as a obstacle.

Some of our clients use OpenTable or competitors to feed them extra bookings, but most of the ones that do see them as expensive enough to be undesirable as their only or main source of bookings, and prefer to avoid them as much as possible. Most our clients are larger operators, though.

And 31,000 restaurants is not all that much worldwide - it leaves a vast number of restaurants open for competitors. There are more than 30,000 restaurants in the UK alone, for example. Most of these are operated by chains that are less likely to be willing to let OpenTable into their business as more than one amongst multiple third party booking sources.
Not according to the order of forfeiture. "WHEREAS, no claims or answers have been filed in this judicial forfeiture as to Silk Road Hidden Website and the Silk Road Server Bitcoins"

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/January14/Silk...
> Divorce rates are over 50%

This is extremely misleading, though, because the first marriages are much less likely to end in divorce, and subsequent marriages are more likely to end in divorce (with increasing probability for each subsequent marriage).

> women get custody of children 90% of the time.

Women get custody of children far less often when men seek custody. Women get custody more often because women want custody more often.
It takes two to DevOps
> If [the sensors] are so cheap that they are easily detectable

I don't think a cheap sensor would be easily detectable. A cheap sensor would only need an IR camera, a radio to periodically phone home or receive commands, and maybe a small amount of propellant for minor course correction and re-orientation.

I'm thinking there's no reason that the cheap sensors would be anything but tiny, dark, and cold.
At the time of those flood myths, "global" would have referred to a moderate portion of the middle east and north africa.
Black tea does get bitter if you infuse it for too long because of the tannins in the leaves. (The higher molecular weight tannins infuse more slowly and are the ones that have the bitter aftertaste.) It's got nothing to do with the quality of the tea.
That sounds like an automated version of various cities' Restaurant Week promotions, where participating restaurants offer promo prix fixe menus (sometimes all the same price, sometimes different price levels allowed).

Houston's was such a big hit that it's now Restaurant Weeks and lasts a whole month.
Haldeman is the somewhat unusual case for me where he wrote that one book which is solidly in my top SF list and he's never written anything else that I've found to be compelling or memorable.
It's really cool to see how these forms (looking like a terminal) can actually act as a tailored signup form for a specific audience.

An example, there are people to whom a facebook connect/login doesn't look scary, but to many hackers that's an instant "no thanks". A terminal-style signup? That may resonate better with hackers.
The government would post a notice of the seized assets on www.forfeiture.gov. If you had a claim to some of those assets, for instance that you had already paid for them and they hadn't been delivered, you can submit a petition to get them back.

In this case, no one submitted petitions.
Do you mind sharing a link to your designer?
Booking.com is the dominant player in Europe with something approaching 50% of all online hotel bookings going through them. They are unique in that they have tens of thousands of small hotels that use them exclusively as their booking engine and don't distribute to other online travel agencies.

Booking.com uses an agency model so the hotels pay them a commission that tends to be lower than the margin they share with Expedia and others on the merchant model. However, since Booking.com has so much leverage in the marketplace, they have started charging more for premium placement, etc. that hotels have to comply with if they want exposure to their massive audience.
Most people lose, whether they're nerds or cool kids. They end up in unhappy jobs or unhappy marriages for the rest of their lives, which is a kind of prison that can be hard to escape.
Interesting that Wikipedia automatically escapes any forward slashes after wiki/.
You're talking about the idea of the Genesis flood, occurring some 4500 years ago, drastically rearranging the recently-created Earth's geology, wiping out every living thing except for the few that survived on a boat that landed on a single mountain in what is modern-day Turkey?

I think there are some predictions you could make there. However every single one of them is just so far divorced from what we observe that they aren't even worth enumerating.
Many aspects of the Korean War still resembled WWII warfare. The numbers fielded on each side were into 6 and 7 figures. The land area that was involved is comparable to that of major european nation states. I'd say that this was in many ways a full-scale war, "police action" moniker notwithstanding. Then again, there were limitations on the use of air power to limit escalation, so it was certainly not a state of "total war."
He also has a much bigger wallet on his personal computer, $82 million or so, so there is no real reason to claim this one.
I believe a Q-ship refers specifically to the use of fake merchant ships to draw would be attackers in and destroy them with the element of surprise. Would the Soviet/Czechoslovakia strategy be more aptly described as a Trojan Horse?
Agreed... I'm quite worried about unsafe code in libraries that I'd use.
In future the Internet service provider and the telephone company might be separate companies. No wonder Facebook and Google are racing to become ISPs. You will no longer need a voice plan from Verizon.
London PhoneGap User Group Meetup, 16th June 2014
Your claim that it was ever meant to stay "an x86 sandbox" is contradicted by a lot of things, including the actual launch announcement for NACL:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/08/native-client-brings-...

"
The next milestone for Native Client is architecture independence: Portable Native Client (PNaCl) will achieve this by using LLVM bitcode as the basis for the distribution format for Native Client content, translating it to the actual target instruction set before running. "

I actually dislike PNaCL for a different set of reasons, but claiming it was built as an x86 sandbox, and meant to stay that way, is just revisionist history.
If you believed otherwise, it was, in fact, your misunderstanding.
I was there for Dalton's talk, and I remember Joey of Earbits asking Dalton questions from the back.
> Initially, the algorithm can be frustratingly slow to watch

By "frustratingly slow", what are we talking about? It's been running for over an hour with no progress and my computer at work automatically reboots over the weekend. How long do I need to keep this tab open?
Remember, you are dying
Not that jailbreaks aren't a good thing, because I'd hate to be forced to use a locked (aka dumb) device.
> The agreement exempts Google from a 3 percent "PEG fee" that the city charges Comcast.

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

This is very very very bad and sets a horrible precedent. Portland has one of the best cable-access facilities and set of stations in the country. They serve a vital public interest, allow absolute free expression, and "professionalize" niche programs that otherwise would just be someone talking into a webcam.
How about something like http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ ?

Since the optional pattern syntax doesn't use backslashes, they aren't a problem. I'd hack this up myself if Swift weren't Apple-only.
I don't like the hamburger. Not on a desktop. On the desktop that symbol doesn't have any meaning. And that fixed bar at the top doesn't make sense either. If I want, I can press the 'home' key on my keyboard to go to the top of the page. So it doesn't need to follow my screen and flicker when I scroll. If I am reading content, I rarely interrupt my reading to skip around. I don't need that stupid nav bar taking up my reading space. Another thing, if I am on desktop, and I have to scroll when I click on your burger, then your burger menu is too long (in this case its too big. I'm not blind as a bat, I can read smaller text).
They should put big intrusive warnings on operator overloads to discourage their use, like "Warning, you are using the complement operator for an operation which does not appear to be a complement. Don't do this!" (or alternatively, drop operator overloads from the language, because they are abused more often than not).

I don't really see how `name =~ "somepat"` is any more readable or writable than something like `name.matches("somepat")`, which can be trivially added as an extension of String, and needs no special syntactic support. Something like this:

extension String {
func matches(pattern: String) -> Bool {
return Regex.new(pattern).test(self)
}
}
This is very well discussed in Erich Fromm's book "The art of loving". He proposed that in today's society we put too much value on the object of love, and too little in learning how to love. Thus we look intensely for the best possible partner and we may have second thoughts even once we reach a decision, instead of learning how to love and enjoy life.
LinkedIn Ordered to Face Customer E-Mail Contacts Lawsuit
How universal are those categories? Can you generalize the results of this study to other times and places?
Why not just respect the user's desire to remain incognito?
That's because arcs are kind of like semi-random searches through air for a place that will equalize the voltage. See, for example, slow-motion videos of lightning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kI1d7DMbco
I've never understood this position. Why is a symbolic operator name so much more difficult to maintain than a name restricted to [a-zA-Z0-9_]?

Over the last decade I've heard this repeated (and been stuck in languages which don't support operator overloading), and by chance, the very first project I chose to try to implement in Swift and I found a valid use for operator overloading (manipulating coordinates in a simple 3D renderer).

foo = foo.add(bar)
baz = baz.div(car)

vs.

foo = foo + bar
baz = baz / car

or even better:

foo += bar
baz /= car

Unrelated to operator overloading, but taking some Objective-C 1.0 -> Swift resulted in 50% fewer lines of code (and I'm guessing ⅓ the total characters).

edit: bug ;)
Can this be approached as a (low or high risk?) investment, from the borrower's perspective, or is it mostly about helping third world inhabitants without any substantial ROI for borrower?
Porn studio attacks blogger for leading a “fanatical Internet hate group”
that's the search I used, but couldn't find it
I don't agree that the free market ever produces a pareto-efficient solution. If all market participants act selfishly in an unconstrained market you get a nash equilibrium because there are two avoidable downsides which the fully free market will naturally produce: the tragedy of the commons, and the concentration of resources.

The tragedy of the commons can only be avoided by changing the rules of the market through an external force (lawmaking) so participants must act altruistically to act selfishly.

The concentration of resources is typically avoided through wealth redistribution, another mechanism of mandatory altruism.

So, the thing is, the fully free market is only pareto-optimal if you narrowly look at the market, but if you look at the world as a whole, it is a nash equilibrium, unless you force market entrants to act altruistically (through bribe or threat).
The author is maybe not aware that there's already a convenience form that doesn't require explicitly making an NSRegularExpression object.

if name.rangeOfString("ski$", options: .RegularExpressionSearch).location != NSNotFound {
println("\(name) is probably polish")
}

That's existing Cocoa API; in Swift (hopefully!) the API can be updated to return nil if there's no match, so that it can read

if let match = name.rangeOfString("ski$", options: .RegularExpressionSearch) {
println("\(name) is probably polish")
}

which I don't think is too bad!
> Your wife will very much likely turn out the way her mother did, in terms of how well she keeps the home in order, raise kids, and AGE as time goes on. IMHO, it's remarkable how a girl ages the way her mother aged.

IMHO, it's remarkable how your primary measures of a woman's worth are housework, childbearing, and physical beauty.
there is a mathematical link between random walks spanning trees and electrical networks

* http://www-math.mit.edu/~goemans/18434S11/RachelChasin-1.pdf

* RANDOM WALKS AND ELECTRIC NETWORKS Peter G. Doyle (Dartmouth), J. Laurie Snell (Dartmouth) http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0001057
If any of the Code Combat gang is lurking:

1) What did you use (javascript libraries, gaming engine etc.) to make the intro/tutorial?

2) The intro/tutorial is fantastically well done. Like really, really well done.
Is there a "you should never get married" solution? ;)
If indeed

if (array[i] < boundary) count++;

is slower than

count += (array[i] < boundary) ? 1 : 0;

Any reason why compilers can't infer the latter?
It isn't the ones listed so far. I vaguely remember it talking about choices like loops, comprehensions, data types etc. and eventually his code became about 8-10 times faster.

I will continue to search and will post back here once I find it. Thanks for everyone's help.
The vast majority of restaurants don't have a unified system to do this today. Where the company I work for has gone in, it's usually been the first step towards a unified restaurant CRM solution they've taken. It's rare for us to start talking to a client that tells us they already have a CRM solution in place. It is somewhat more common for us to come across restaurants that use services like OpenTable and competitors only as a source of bookings.

> Your employees kind of hate it, but they're extremely proficient at using it since it's the industry standard.

The thing is, it's not the industry standard. It may be by far the largest, but it serves a tiny portion of the industry.

According to the press release, they serve 31,000 restaurants worldwide. There are more than 400,000 restaurants in the US, of which more than 200,000 are "full service" restaurants.

Most of these are still "unexplored territory" where there's either little to no IT investment (the small operators) or a patchwork of custom/partial solutions, often bolted onto the till-system with no central CRM solution (the larger operators)
Looks good.

"Not every place in the world is on TripExpert... yet. We currently feature over 500 destinations, from major cities to Caribbean beach towns, and we’re adding more all the time."

Isn't 500 too less?
Mexico vs. Cameroon 1-0 – June 13, 2014 – FIFA World Cup 2014
This looks really cool. Congratulations on the launch.

BTW, there's a broken link on your home page: /71of71 instead of /71objectives
The point is where the Titanium-esque part is built: kernel-land (native) or user-land (JS)? In Hyperloop/NativeScript (as far as I can understand NativeScript) it is done completely in JS-land, so there’s no difference between Titanium code and app-code. In plain old Titanium (Ti.Current) the bridge is in kernel-space.
Bytecode formats are a balancing act. You have to be careful about freezing in a poor format that makes good trade offs for now but locks you into tradeoffs that aren't as good in the future. Java's stack-based virtual machine code was great when people had visions of 8-bit microcontrollers on toasters running Java from a several megabyte PROM. Michael Franz's SafeTSA doctoral thesis showed that an SSA-based bytecode allows a JIT to generate faster native code, and spend less time generating that native code. Many "embedded" systems today put to shame the desktops (and even many workstations) of the early Java days.

Stack machines tend to have small bytecode and it's relatively easy to write a small low-performance stack machine interpreter. Register machine bytecodes tend to take up more space, but it tends to be easier to write high performance interpreters and reasonable JITs. If you're always going to generate machine code, an SSA format minimizes the work/time necessary for a JIT to generate high-performing machine code, but it's difficult to write a high performance non-JITing interpreter for SSA-based bytecodes.

SpiderMonkey, Java, CPython, Forth, and SmallTalk (blue book) all use stack-based bytecodes. LuaJIT, Android's Dalvik, Squirelfish, and Parrot use register-based bytecodes. Michael Franz's SafeTSA (alternative JVM bytecode) and LLVM bitcode are compactly serialized SSA representations.

Microsoft has done some research on using arithmetically compressed syntax trees as an alternative JavaScript format. Part of me feels this is the best approach, as it speeds up transmission and parsing that all JavaScript engines have to do anyway, without performing transformations that JITs spend a fair amount of effort undoing later.

Ideally, I'd like to see a compressed SSA format, with optional debugging symbols and optional decompiling hints, analogous to WavPack's hybrid lossless audio format. The format could be losslessly expanded back into the original JavaScript source, or it could be stripped down to something like a binary with debugging symbols, or it could be further stripped down to just the data necessary to generate fast machine code.
While Koh agreed to throw out claims based on federal wiretap and stored communications claims, she said LinkedIn may have violated California’s right of publicity, which protects against the appropriation of someone’s name or likeness, without their consent, for commercial purposes.
The End of Cuisine
Hope that LinkedIn lose that suit. I had tonnes of people with me in their address book bombarding me with LinkedIn invitations - it'd make me feel better about that.
I don't think I need one - laws and regulations will do nicely

Okay, then we agree that laws and regulations are the only tool we have to restrict free will and thus behavior of actors in the free market?

If you'll look back at my original post, all I was saying is that Capitalism (Free Market) is orthogonal to whether or not people are shitbags and if anything, you could say that the laws and regulations (the State) are put in place because the assumption is that people (and our society in the aggregate) need to be restricted from being shitbags. If anything, Capitalism is inversely related to the assumption that people are shitbags.

Well, perhaps I do this particular government

So basically you want to stay married to a woman even though she's horrible because somewhere out there is a different woman worth being married to? I'd rather be single for a bit and peruse govermenteharmony.com.

but not the idea of effective government

Once again, we're in agreement. Believe it or not, I would replace our government and culture with some Scandanavian country's tomorrow if I thought it could work. Sure, raise our taxes if there's markedly less corruption and the money is going to good use. But that isn't going to happen. Give more power to the State and they will just be validated that they've been on the right path for the past century.

one of the most ubiquitous and sophisticated propaganda campaigns in human history

Not sure which campaign that is, but I could guess based upon your comment about the Koch brothers. What do surveys like this say to you about who is spending the most on controlling the government and where they see the biggest bang for their bucks? Just look at the top 20 and explain to me why I should worry about minority contrarian voices in the messaging out there like the Koch brothers?

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

The Koch brothers are a red herring.
We did consider adding bitcoin support, but opted to refrain for now because:

- we did not identify a straightforward way to convert bitcoins to cash in borrower currencies

- it seemed from our informal research that supporting bitcoin has not resulted in many new supporters for most nonprofits that have tried it

- supporting another payment method would add overhead weight to our organization

- so few of our lenders use bitcoin that we estimated the savings in transfer fees wouldn't be worth introducing more complication in our payment options

We're keeping an eye on bitcoin and may begin supporting it if these conditions change.