skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "benefits" of lithium come at a cost, which this article doesn't really address. Lithium evens out your emotions, good and bad, some describe it as "turning into a soulless robot." That could mean a more docile society (the legal, behavioral, etc benefits described) but sounds pretty close to THX 1138 to me.
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Why isn't a good free server that let's people use their own domain?

This could be one, but it seem such a hassle, mailing and explaining et cetera.
Fascinating.
Presumably it wouldn't be possible for any planets to be orbiting in the vicinity of the 0.258 days orbital period binary. Or maybe, if far enough away?

However, imagine being a species on such a planet, and trying to work out astronomy. Motions of objects in the sky would be rather confusing. To put it mildly.
Yes, predictability is something normal people value, and are entitled to structure their society to encourage.
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

Doesn't work on mobile :-(
Celiac disease is also very real.
this just doesn't make sense. people sell bottled water! why can't they sell lithium?
> But anyway, I think the ability to be a good colorist in art has a whole lot to do with practice.

Indeed. I scored 12 on that test, despite being colorblind with moderate-strong protanopia.
i wonder when someone will make a 3d printer that can print more 3d printers to build something very big
It's not quite as bad as that. You can always take a common element, create a particular formulation you get past the FDA and market and sell that.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/15/fish-now-by-prescriptio...
Using the word "millenniums" twice in an article the topic of which is not idiosyncratic diction is obnoxious.
I think of it more as a condition of the license to be physically on the property in the first place (e.g. no shoes, no shirts, no service).
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Wow. The kind of cancer reported on in the article is the kind a good friend of ours who lives across the country where we used to live was just diagnosed with this year. When we heard the news a few months ago, we weren't sure that she would still be alive by now. But she is, and just celebrated a birthday in apparent remission from her case of leukemia. Patients with adult-onset acute myelogenous leukemia (ALM) used to have much less hope of survival.
I've found that a lot of people are using Facebook to share airline deals with each other.
They are talking about amounts that are a tiny fraction of the therapeutic dosages of lithium for mood disorders.
> I'm very worried that there is a Great Filter[1], and that it is some sort of abuse/misuse/weaponization of biotech at, or just beyond, our current level of technology.

So you are very worried, that the Great Filter is in the somewhat near future of humankind.

But in the link you gave [1], the author personally thinks [2] that the Great Filter is probably in our past, in the evolution of higher life forms and intelligence.

[1] http://hanson.gmu.edu/greatfilter.html

[2] "I personally think that most of the Great Filter is most likely to be explained by the steps I think we understand the least about: the steps in the biological evolution of life and intelligence"
Congrats on raising money, I'm not sure what Product Hunt will do with $6 million and how it will get a return on that investment, but I guess while a gold rush is on you sell pickaxes right?

I'm sure what they are doing is valuable and they certainly have an interesting audience, I just don't have the imagination to understand what they plan on doing with it.
I just wonder why there's zero info about who's behind this.
Both Merriam-Webster and Oxford says it's acceptable:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/millenniums

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/millenn...
You can easily block all cellphones on private property without broadcasting crap. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
If you don't change the default styles, sure. It looks decent enough that you can get an MVP into production without having to do much other than a light top coat for branding. Later on, you may want to invest in more heavily customizing some elements, but Bootstrap will pretty much stay out of your way.

Source: Senior front-end dev that puts around one app per month into production using Bootstrap (some more heavily tweaked than others).
Yes. It is a threat.
> my wife who spent the best part of a decade dealing with drug addicts.

Here's the problem with the experience of your wife (or anyone in medicine): selection bias. She only sees drug users whose use is a problem.

Even if positive drug experiences outnumbered negative ones ten-to-one, a hundred-to-one or even a million-to-one your wife would still have the same subjective impression: that all the drug users she sees are people who can't handle it. Same thing with the police officers. If somebody does drugs a few times and finds it a positive life experience, they probably don't go to a hospital or deal with cops.

Steve Jobs claimed taking LSD was one of the most important experiences in his life - he took it a dozen or so times (and smoked pot weekly for about 5 years). Many other people have made major creative breakthroughs or used these drugs to successfully deal with PTSD or depression. There is an upside. Your wife's experience by its very nature will never encounter that upside. So what she tells you is data, but not definitive data. You need to put it in a larger context to reach conclusions...which is where large-scale studies, Portugal and the rest comes in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)#Side_effec...
The dosages required to achieve "beneficial" psychoactive effects will probably result in adverse side effects in a significant portion of the population. Lithium should be prescribed by a doctor on a case by case basis, not indiscriminately dumped into the water supply.
Well I think it's well known that Ryan plans on splitting it into many different communities "subreddit" style, I believe he even discussed the move with a co-founder of Reddit on his podcast. $6 million is a lot of money though, so you'd think there was something more.
I live about 3 miles away from Lithia Springs, but I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water.

I know our water and sewer authority publishes a report on water quality each year, but I don't remember seeing lithium content in the report.
I live just a couple of miles from Lithia Springs, Georgia, and oddly enough I've never seen "Lithia Water" on sale anywhere around here. I suppose it gets bottled and sold to retailers in other states.

As for lithium-infused water chilling people out; well, I've lived here long enough to know that I wouldn't walk the streets of Lithia Springs at night. There are some rowdy people living there. Maybe they all drink Dasani or Aquafina instead of the local tap water.
Because instant gratification. We are living in the real-time world after all!
I loved Solaris (the book). It's one of the greatest sci-fi novels ever written, because it points to the unsolvable question of consciousness that lies near the heart of all of humankind's greatness and flaws. It was the first piece of literature I encountered that actually made the typical human idea of the divine God palpably ridiculous; the idea of the planet Solaris palpably holy. The universe was revealed forever larger after I turned the last page.
The article was talking about trace amounts, very far below the therapeutic dosages that cause those side effects.

Trace amounts of lithium already occur naturally in many municipal water supplies.
Indeed, I didn't even know a handheld game existed.
I can actually see infrared on the dark quite easily. But I think it should be due to some falloff of the light spectrum emitted by the LED.
The article points out

1) therapeutic doses of lithium as a prescription medicine for mood disorders are MUCH higher than doses occurring through lithium in the water supply, and yet

2) there is perhaps some epidemiological signal suggesting differing rates of suicide and depression in places where lithium levels in the water supply are higher.

Kay Redfield Jamison, author of some of the most compassionate books about depression you will ever read,[1] credits lithium with saving her life. I'm glad her life was spared so that she could write from the inside about what it is like to have a severe mood disorder, and apply her creativity to communicating with people who cannot directly understanding her personal experiences or the experiences of other patients.

I think the article's call for further research, at a minimum, is worth taking seriously. The neuroprotective effect of lithium demonstrated in animal studies (verified by necropsy and examination of the animal's brains after the animals die) is well established, so we may as well check whether adjustment of water supplies by intentional supplementation has a beneficial effect if (and only if) epidemiological studies and animal experiments suggest doing so. This is, after all, how the beneficial effects of fluoride on tooth enamel strength and resistance to decay were discovered.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Kay-Redfield-Jamison/e/B000AQ1IC8
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I'm just inside Paulding County with a Powder Springs address, and that's who I pay my water bill to, but the yearly water quality reports I get come from Cobb County. It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source.
Interesting!

She is so cool and smart.
Hi, you can setup socioboard on linux using mono framework. We are porting it to mono for the linux community.

Also an open source desktop version is under the works in python so it will be cross platform.
someone to publish some "How To" information on how to assemble and use a quick and painless drug solution, all on your own

There are a lot of sites and organizations dedicated to that exact thing. An interesting one, in my opinion, is "Max Dog Brewing"[1] which uses nitrogen as an alternative to the helium asphyxiation technique. No drugs required.

I regret that this comment is so brief, as I don't want it to appear curt. I just have a lot of opinions that I don't feel like putting in this thread.

1 = https://youtube.com/watch?v=tY5ysgqMMPE
Yeah, she was way too gung-ho about potentially forcing this stuff on people via the water supply. But I'm not surprised that an academic would want to social-engineer this way.
I'm not so sure a "more docile society" is a good thing - given that one of the definitions is "easily led or managed", which brings to mind dystopian government controls...
I would be more concerned about me smashing into a tree at 40mph than the bike. 40mph is an exaggeration, isn't it?
> The generated keypairs are 1024-bit RSA public and private keys ... This is sufficiently strong for use on the web in the present day

1024-bit RSA certificates are considered deprecated, no longer issued, and if they don't already throw browser warnings then they will soon.
Sorry to take so long to get back, busy day.

The team already holds 10%, the backer will retain some, some offered for investment and some reserved for future. Backer is committed to pay the employees for a time as well as keeping the lights on for a time. In the 3rd week if investment is eminent we would reevaluate, else I guess we tried.
No. But I honestly like this product!
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The dose makes the poison, the higher PPM of lithium, the larger the percentage of individuals that will be affected. Even if it affects a tiny fraction of the population at the proposed concentrations, it's still unfair to that demographic. Would you wan't to have to buy special non-lithium supplemented water?
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> It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source.

The spring is privately owned. Here it is on google street view [1]. Lithia Springs gets their tap water from from the Dog River Reservoir in the southern part of Douglas County.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8005688,-84.6403093,3a,75y,1...
At prescription amounts, yes it pretty much turns the patient into a robot. My stepfather is bipolar, and his doctor had to stop prescribing him lithium because it stripped away his normally upbeat (when not in a depressive state) personality, to the point that he was difficult to interact with.

Again though, that's at prescription levels. Trace levels in drinking water probably won't make us all into soulless robots ripe for totalitarian rule.

edit: missing words
If there was a legal framework for assisted suicide, you could state your wishes unequivocally today -- while you're still competent -- and have help carrying them out later when you're vulnerable and no longer competent.
There needs to be restrictions on both, conceptually. Actual implementation is yet to be proposed. Relying purely on data usage reform is a pipe dream, just as the ideal of having an intelligence agency that works completely within the framework of law. It didn't work for the Church Committee, and the whole point of an intelligence agency is that it will do borderline or outright illegal acts (black bag operations, disinformation, psyops, etc.) to further state interests. Almost inevitably, this includes domestic surveillance, which the USA has been conducting en masse since at least 1945.
Thanks, I've never actually been to the spring itself, though we drove by there just today playing Ingress.

I grew up in Cedartown, where the natural spring is also the town's water supply, so I just assumed it would be the same for Lithia Springs.
Thank you! :) Yes we were very particular about documentation. We plan to improve it further!
There's a long list of precursors at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#T... , including the Kenbak-1, which "is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world's first personal computer."

It was designed in 1970, and first sold in early 1971, so several years before the MCM/70.
Wow, what a major disappointment. Apparently available for phones, not for tablets, which is what I'm waiting for
Resonance is witchcraft.

That's all anyone needs to know. Move along.
Holy smokes, another Электроника game I played 20 years ago. http://www.pica-pic.com/#/space_bridge/ I'll definitely ask my parents to look for this game, maybe it's still somewhere there.
A second faulty assumption is that a totalitarian regime would in fact protect the environment. Even if it we're put into place for that purpose, who watches the watchers? China is a good example... Nominally communist until the elite there gave up on communism and decided to get rich. A generation or two can change a lot.
Not at serious downhill events, a lot of protection is worn though.
Who uses Tor without VPN? When I'm using Tor, all Comcast sees is an encrypted tunnel to Private Internet Access.
Driving safely on an empty freeway at 100km/h is one of the most monotonous things I can think of. Hell, if it's a straight flat section of road you are literally doing nothing except trying to stay alert in case something changes. The human brain (or at least mine) is not good at staying in a focused hyper-aware state for a long period of time while nothing's happening.
Assume an environment where VMs are already used for rough isolation... If we wanted to further lock down VM guests (and hosts for that matter), and SELinux is too cumbersome - does AppArmor or grsecurity strike a significantly better balance between usability and effectiveness? Is there something else?
I tested click through rates for blog posts on the front page of Google with and without dates in the URL:

- 2+ year old articles (2012), removing the date in the URL tripled traffic.
- for recent, same year (2014), date removal was a marginal difference either direction.

My advice would be, if your article has a long shelf-life (like an article comparing PHP's sync nature vs. Node's async nature, since this is doubtful to change), an old date can inappropriately put a shelf-life on your appeal.

If you're writing on the 1.0 release of Angular and how you got around an annoying issue, that date will save me from copy/pasting your solution :)
No, Apple never claimed to invent the personal computer. The Apple ][, along with the TRS-80 and the Commodore PET all came out in the same year (the "1977 Trinity"), so it's not really right to say they were the first to develop a successful commercial personal computer.
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This is why I don't text and drive: Werner Herzog's short doc on what can happen when you do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk1vCqfYpos

Since this piece I haven't had the slightest urge to text+drive however as I use my phone for navigation it's impossible to turn it off. I would definitely appreciate some kind of technology installed that was "hey, i see you are moving. no calls or texts for you".
cat and pup play well together.
This is where I originally read it, but there've been several studies I've seen in the past several years, I just don't keep those handy: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/483365/Red-wine-s...

One of the studies even observed pregnant women, but their dose was one glass per day, and still registered health benefits.

Anyway, I personally don't need any studies as something that's been on the table of virtually all ethnicities for thousands of years, I think, is a "study" that surpasses all others!
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And I'm prompted to install a now obsolete plugin to watch the video. Oh, the irony!

Anyway, here's a link for anyone else who wants to watch their introduction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKL4PJICS40
THX 1138 is a reference to the George Lucas film about a dystopian future society.
I've been working with a team of four amazing women on Glassbreakers - a mentorship platform for women. Glassbreakers connects women in the workforce who can help each other. Our minimal lovable product is a mentor matching service for women based on skill sets. Ie imagine an OKCupid for women in the work force. We've built a content publishing platform to inspire our community as well as a forum network for women to publicly or anonymously crowd source career advice.

Glassbreakers is focused on solving the problem of gender disparity in the global work force. Our platform is gender gated to insure women in business will have a safe place on the Internet to talk about work. Finding a female mentor is hard so we're automating the process of connecting women with other women who we know can help each other with their careers. Mentorship comes in many sizes. With Glassbreakers, we're facilitating mentorship both online via our forums and content as well as offline via our mentor matching service in an effort to make mentor relationships more casual and skill based.

We're applying to YC's winter batch so we can launch our product as soon as possible. We already have 1,000 women signed up for beta and enterprise customers interested in using our tool for their organizations. Tell your female colleagues and friends to sign up for beta at www.glassbreakers.co.
God is perfectly just. How would you like to be invited to hang-out in the whitehouse main room? That kind of perk is priceless but no money.

Talk with God about dinosaurs... or make money.

If you make money, you don't get the angel perks. Best songs in eternity.
And then you hit control-C and resume editing. None of this is as dramatic as you describe, and syntax-highlight freezes aren't as common now with the improved highlighting algorithm in 7.4.
In case anyone doesn't know, yacc is equivalent to GNU bison.
> your typical consumer

commando.io is a server management tool. I would imagine it's fairly likely that a nontrivial percentage of their customers (developers) pay attention to startups.
Congrats to Ryan and the team!

I know there must be more to the plan (in addition to divide and conquer), can't wait to see what's in the works.
When I did driver training they taught us that being lost is a major contributor to accidents. I am very skeptical that I would be safer and less distracted while squinting in the distance for street signs than I would be having a quick glance at my windshield mounted phone with GPS.
Indeed, the article describe certain patients with Pancreatic Cancer whose disease was halted for several hundred days. Time that they were glad they got and with more time, might give them more treatment options yet.
I'm in a similar space as the founder of Glassbreakers. We're automating the process of connecting women who can mentor each other. We should all lunch -
I've had a similar experience; I've worked and volunteered with several nonprofit organizations, and I've worked for several for-profit companies (not startups), and the nonprofits were dazzlingly inefficient by comparison. The executives in the nonprofits were pretty driven and at least somewhat visionary, but average nonprofit employee seemed less competent than the average for-profit employee to me.

Dug around to see if I could find studies about this--most seemed to be about the beneficial effects (if any) of profit-sharing. The closest I came was this survey of hospital workers (http://www.gallup.com/poll/7042/ForProfit-vs-NotforProfit-Tw...). Very roughly, it suggests that for-profit employees may be slightly more committed to doing quality work if the difference found in the survey is actually significant. Besides that, work at not-for-profits seems to be significantly more humane based on the responses. Unfortunately it's only about hospital employees and doesn't specify the sample size or the methodology.
What exactly about malkia's comment deserved ridicule?
I'm going to second the price on mountain bikes.

I picked up my first "real" (not a department store bike) mountain bike, a giant NRS XTC, in 2000. That bike cost me $1800 which I thought was outrageous. But, it was basically a top of the line giant at the time, complete with nearly the best components money could buy.

I rode it weekly for a decade on trails designed to destroy bikes. I replaced it with a lower mid-range trek superfly fs a couple years ago. That bike cost me nearly $4k. And besides the 29" upgrade (which makes it weigh more) I'm not convinced its actually a better bike. For sure, the more expensive versions (which were pushing $10k for the carbon versions) weren't a better ride.

So, I agree the prices for mountain bikes are ridiculous, especially if you don't buy into the idea that there has been a lot of technology progression since the late '90s early 20s. Most of the "progression" seems to be more style than substance. Take the recent axle/skewer fiasco. The general claim was that the skewer was a problem so it needed upgrading, but who has actually had a problem with them? Absolutely no one I know, has ever had a wheel come out of a front fork unless they failed to tighten it. Nor do I buy the idea that its more stable because the skewer wasn't providing any rigidity to the front fork, that was the job of the axle (which if you notice is the part that makes contact with the fork for all directional forces except laterally). In the lateral case fork manufactures were putting locking indentations in forks since the early 90's. Further unnecessarily changes, 27.5" wheels, nonstandard head tubes, etc.

The lack of _ANY_ competition in "local bike shop" sales channels due to franchise licenses and regional restrictions also serve to easily quadruple the prices too.

Bottom line is that I agree. Buy a used bike if you can. I'm pretty particular about size/fit so its harder for me, but people who are closer to average size don't really have an excuse.
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