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This is coming from someone that used IntelliJ before moving to Sublime Text 3 before moving to vim for Python development.

I am by no means a master of vim's varied features but the best productivity gain for me is vim running in the terminal. I use a lot of command line tools (grep still beats most things for search and the git command line tool is still better than any editor plugins), it's just much more convenient for me when it's all in the terminal and I can switch between them seamlessly with keyboard commands especially when using something like tmux.
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It's sad that the article didn't even mention exercise as a potential treatment for ADHD. The OP implies that kids will simply "grow out" of ADHD, drugs, or changing the environment may be enough.

While these are valid solutions, exercise may be equally or even more effective.

John J. Ratey, one of the pioneers of ADHD [1], recently wrote the excellent Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain[2]. In it, he explains in colorful details what happens in the brain, and why exercise may be the best treatment for a bunch of neurochemical imbalances - including ADHD.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven_to_Distraction_(ADHD)

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Spark-exercise-improve-performance-bra...
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We're looking for fellow engineers who have design taste that ideally are full-stack and whip smart; you get major bonus points for also having NLP/ML/visualization skills. Our stack is Scala+Postgres+Redis on the backend, a custom json-based document model (think Parse but nicer API), and iOS & Mac apps. Android/web will come after.

We've got what we believe to be the next great cloud offering that smashes down data silos and facilitates far easier collaboration than is done by anybody today. Oh and it all looks and feels oh-so-pretty. We like pretty.

Empirical is very focused on strong morals (our original team came from building tech for post-earthquake Haiti), dreaming big, open sourcing our work (still to come), seeking diversity (the CEO, me, is gay & Jewish for example), and frequent laughing.

Not much info on our site: http://empiric.al

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This is a very Keynesian way to look at things that isn't necessarily absolutely true. There are a lot of times when this ideal of "slight inflation" is detrimental given the actual output of said policies.
I've always thought that our brains are more complex than we can model at the moment. There is some fundamental concept that we are missing and it allows the brain to classify things we can't do with even our best neural nets today.
Are you sure this really negates the problem? (doesn't that essentially make it equivalent to a downsampled input?)

I think a more important question than trying to come up with a work around is to consider whether those cases really matter. If the probability of those "adversarial noises" is low enough, who cares? Those cases becomes a curiosity. We have noisy systems that may fail catastrophically operating everywhere with some low probability noise vector, but we manage those probabilities.

Unless of course it is an adversarial application and the network is made public; but then I think there are other also simple ways of defeating the attack, e.g. some random smoothing (so that the smoothing isn't also attacked), adding some more noise, etc.
The UK does not tax worldwide income. In fact, if you hold your money in an offshore account, you can declare yourself a "non-domiciled" UK person. This special category exempts you from all tax on foreign income in exchange for a small fee.

It is not for no reason that every corrupt Russian oligarch and oil baron and African dictator flocks to London.
Once you’ve done it once or twice, throwing together a simple programming language is actually just a weekend project, provided you have clear goals.
You need to read up on Persona more, specifically on persona gateways. They are not what you think they are.

I meant what I said: talk to Dan. You'll find it interesting, I am sure.
In my view the right to a jury trial doesn't just protect the innocent, but provides the system with much needed oversight. In a trial, the prosecution has to make its case, not just before the judge and jury, but in principle, before the entire public. And the public gets to see the quality of the evidence being presented.

Bypassing the trial lets the prosecution work in darkness, and darkness invites corruption or incompetency, even if only in the name of getting the job done more efficiently.

I'm thinking out loud here, but maybe the problem isn't the plea bargain, but the pleading process itself. It might be less subject to abuse if the prosecution had to present its evidence before the court and in public, and if the judge could reject the plea and compel a trial.
Once you're good at vim you can edit at the speed of thought. Not really much better way to put it. Watching non-vim users edit text is eternally frustrating.
How do you propose someone fix a vulnerability without releasing a patch that fixes the vulnerability?
Try posting as a Show HN. For some reason it's showing under Ask HN.

Congratulations on shipping and wish you all the best!
Ok, let's revisit in 2 years to evaluate the setback this event turned out to be. Perhaps I'm overstating it.

By the way, the spacecraft cost $500 million.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/31/technology/virgin-galactic-s...
Eh, I've been using vim for 15 years and find it incredibly rare to repeat t or f's. Usually they're one-offs.
That is a absolutely horrible idea for frameworks that Drupal. That essentially implies that someone has arbitrary write access to your servers and is free to modify things as he or she wishes.
I thought that more or less all of AI researchers admitted now for a long time that NNs aren't human brain and shouldn't reasoned about as if they were, because essentially these are different things. They can be used to study some particular behaviour of the intelligence, to make something more clear about how actual brin wokrs, but one must always remember that they are not actual brain. Recent post by LeCun mentioned that as well.

Anyway, that would seem natural to me. Consider numbers on the rightmost image in OP-link (I'll refer to that blogpost as [0]). Program recognises them "correctly". Would you? Well, I do recognize some, but not all of them for sure, and I guess it would be easy to make such dataset so I would lose flat to that NN.

That makes almost all of [0] pretty much nonsense to me. Author operates common-language words lacking of technical meaning, like "similar". He point's out that two images similar to human are not similar to the algorithm, but if we keep in mind that similarity is property with respect to some observer (ie human, neural net). And that is natural that what is important for that NN is different from what is important for most of us, humans. After all, it often happens that you don't recognize something on photo, but your friend does, and as far as you know you are both humans. More than that, after he tells you what it is you are like "Oh, right, I see now! Silly me!" So it's kinda common sense that for every two different classifiers you can find two objects that will be classified as similar by one and different by another. Well, yeah, humans have more in common between themselves compared to NNs, no big surprise as well. After all your internal image classifier doesn't receive exact pixel values on input, so of course one can find two images so you won't even see the difference and that NN fails to describe them as similar.

So essentially it is saying only that "every particular NN doesn't think like human" which is nothing new. Well, nice catch is that you can easily construct such counter-example manually, but that doesn't seem like "the biggest news in neural networks since the invention of the backpropagation algorithm". More than that, if the first notion (about absense of meaningful features for individual neurons) is completely true, it doesn't explain why deep learning is so successful.

So, I'm confused. If it's really something "backpropagation-size discovery" I'm waiting for comment from some expert we all know and trust, who can explain things clearly. You know, Hinton, LeCun. I just don't see what's so important about that paper.
> They may understand hardware, but like Sony, their software choices are questionable.

Could you elaborate? I know some Sony phone is not well-made (late release, bug somewhere, laggy etc). But i don't knos about their other consumer device.
Exercise is the miracle cure for everything, it would seem.

Though it'd be a moderate help if we could agree on what "counts as exercise" - a 15 minute walk? Resistance training (how many sets/reps)? HIIT? The fads can be tough on the average person who just wants health.
Don't renew at the border, don't change jobs at the border. Renew while in the country where your company lawyers send a small booklet of paperwork. Since there is no personal aspect to it, and everything is definitely in order, it gets approved and it only takes a few weeks. It's a far more objective process. It's what I've done twice so far.

You can theoretically only do the border visa part once.

Also remember to have the documentation when you cross the border, in case some border guard forgot to stamp your passport with your renewal number, which has happened to me.

Their computer systems are so bad (or they are so untrained) that they can't just look it up by passport number. It's supposedly a pretty complicated process on their end at the secondary screening office.
This isn't an entirely perverse incentive. For most crimes, I would imagine that prosecuting the correct perpetrator would be the one most likely to result in a conviction.

And rate, vs count, is also the correct metric. Unfortunately, prosecutors are often under a lot of pressure from the public (i.e., us) to put somebody away. What's a prosecutor to do after Nancy Grace tells us who the murderer is?
It's interesting, but I wouldn't let my kids under 15 get picked up by random strangers.

Further I'm wondering if there is only a very small select amount of parents doing this and this more PR then a major reality.
We (msgooroo.com) use the .Net stack on Azure and have found it to be quite good. We have even been experimenting with the new vNext / OWIN stack which appears even better and will give us the flexibility to run on Linux.

Azure is a bit hit and miss. Its brilliant for getting something up an running quickly (using websites / SQL Server), but is a little flaky at scale.

Key problems include connection issues with SQL Server, connection issues with their hosted Redis service, pricing of SQL Server when using advanced features like geo-replication.

All in all though, its a pretty good development experience once you get your head around the fact that in the cloud services fail and there is nothing you can do about it except plan for it.

Oh and the Bizspark program they have gives you $100 worth of free hosting on Azure which is always nice.
It depends on what you're looking for in size/portability. Personally, I don't mind lugging around big cans. Beyer DT770, Sony MDR-7506, Audio Technica ATH-M50, Sennheiser PX100 are all good options. I've owned all of the above except for the DT770s, but I break headphones a lot, so right now I have AKG K240s which are probably not ideal because they're half-open and will leak a little noise to the surrounding environment.

The 7506s are actually my favorite I think. They're affordable but don't feel cheap. Good isolation. They're very simple looking compared to others but have a unique sound that I miss. Might get another pair soon.
I'm wondering how many Australian government departments - who're all encouraged to use a government supported Drupal platform - are dealing with this properly: https://agov.com.au/
IMO the terminology of neurochemical imbalance should be avoided. It's the sort of framing that is much preferred by the pharmacological industry, because it suggests that the nature of the problem is well understood and can be directly addressed with their products. In reality there is only a very vague idea of mental illness and related neurotransmitters. To make a computer analogy, it's like calling a problem an "electron imbalance", without even knowing whether hardware or software is to blame.
Ask HN: Who is job hunting / available?
To complement the Ask HN: Who is Hiring post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542892) please paste the role you're seeking, brief skills / experience, factors important to you, your availability to start and any visa requirements.
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> is restrained to protect the rights of minority groups.

yes restrained somewhat. But there still are many minorities in the US whose rights are not protected.

> Contrast this with anarchism, where the majority can tyrannize over minorities which have no recourse.

I think you have it in reverse. In most constitutional democracies, the majorities can legally tyrannize over minorities with the minorities having no recourse at all. Unless your argument is that the US hasn't been a constitutional government for most of its history.

Anarchy is about eliminating the monopoly of violence that governments use to obtain obedience from minorities.

>> Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

>> - Errico Malatesta
I would be interested in reading a longer blog post on your process. Any chance you've written one?
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Noise isolation & travel: Shure SE215 earphones. Good quality at a reasonable price. You can coil them up into a zipper baggie to keep them clean, prevent tangling and to reduce the amount of space they take up in your carry-on.

Sound quality & home office: Sennheiser HD485 (which seem to have been replaced in their lineup by the HD558's) Doesn't block any noise, and people can hear what you're listening to. But excellent bass response and they have a long cord. Comfortable for longer wearing sessions.
I'm not sure I agree with calling drugs a "crutch".

Nobody in their right mind would tell me that Singulair or Dulera is a crutch for my asthma. Nobody would call albuterol inhalers overprescribed or asthma overdiagnosed either. My allergist always has to tell me not to work my life around my triggers past a certain point too. Yet I hear it all the time about the Adderall and Vyvanse I used to take, and about ADHD. All. the. time.

I have pretty bad ADHD too. My parents didn't want to put me on any meds, so I learned all the coping mechanisms the hard and expensive way _and_ feel that I lost out on a lot of opportunities when I was younger as a result. It's the only childhood issue I still hold a grudge over. When I could finally do whatever I wanted, I felt like a huge burden was lifted with meds because I never stopped struggling with said coping mechanisms anyway. Including stuff like "take a shower" and "eat lunch" on my daily-todo HabitRPG checklist.

Unfortunately I'm trying to get pregnant and had to get off almost everything, so now I'm back to digging myself into a hole, getting frustrated with even my non-standard and fun life. If it wasn't for the fact that I have a partner to rely on, I probably would be telling my obgyn to go fuck herself about her judgment call regarding non-stimulant ADHD meds known to be safe. ADHD is a huge negative impact on my life, and I'd even qualify it as being worse than something potentially life-threatening like asthma >:P

Obviously not everyone is the same, and abuse is definitely a problem. That doesn't equate to a crutch IMO. Not to mention there's a million other problems in the way, one in the US being a lack of accessible and affordable quality health care so people with ADHD can easily get help with non-medication options...
Ah, Dr. &rest, prolific!
> I think many (most?) people people are aware at some
> level of the media manipulation of populations using
> crude psychological ploys, the hegemony of the big banks
> and multinationals and the hidden agendas of so-called
> benevolent nation states and governments.

I think everyone acts in their own self interest, and trying to gussy it up as a conspiracy is pretty counter-productive.

If you take any kind of historical perspective, then the ability of the rich and powerful to control the proletariat or bend the world to their will is at an all time low. I welcome any research or sensible citation that counters that, because to me it seems prima facie, and 2 minutes Googling suggests we live in a more democratic world than at any time in history.

US special interest groups are still worrying, as is their ability to influence the foreign policy of the world's biggest military force, but surely they're more worrying because we know more about how they work than ever, and there's considerably more transparency? Arguably the big let-down of the Obama presidency was his inability to work effectively within the system he was part of (as, say, a contrast to Bill Clinton). Labour organizations / Unions unambiguously count as special interest groups, which is sort of ironic.

Anywho, your real point was:

> More interesting is what we (can?, should?) do about it?

I think you can get involved with good faith technological and political movements that want to increase transparency. In no particular order, and with no particular claim to exhaustiveness, I am impressed by:

* https://www.mysociety.org/ - British charity and tech-dev company with many projects that increase government transparency
* https://gds.blog.gov.uk/ - UK civil-service digital service
* http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/11/fact-s... - American equivalent of the above
* Mozilla - perhaps the world's only/biggest technology NGO?
* https://mayday.us/ - Mayday PAC
* The BBC

Are any of the above perfect? Of course not. Are they all focussed on making the world / their country a better place? I think the answer is unambiguously yes.
I have no problem believing what you are saying, but at least statistically, there must be exceptions.

Which is actually an interesting thing to consider when you are applying laws to millions of people.

(still, from where I sit, convincing people that prison should not be a hell pit is a much bigger win right now than sweating false convictions)
Shouldn't down votes be reserved for people who are being inflammatory or trolling? This guy just expressed his opinion. Just because you don't agree with him, does that mean you need to down-vote him? Doing this only encourages people to have the same viewpoint.
Stack Exchange is a .NET shop as well.
I hope you succeed in changing the system. School for most kids is "prison-lite". Like if you don't show up on time for roll call, you get punished by being held in recess or forced to pick up garbage around the school.

And this is not some third world school I am talking about. This is schools in cupertino, one of the wealthiest and most "progressive" areas in the world.

http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/stopstealingdreamsscreen.pd...

> Years ago, five friends and a I were put in charge of a 150 rowdy fifth-graders for
a long weekend up in Canada. It was almost impossible to be heard over the
din—until I stumbled onto the solution. All we had to say was, “points will be
deducted,” and compliance appeared. There weren’t any points and there wasn’t
any prize, but merely the threat of lost points was sufficient.
Well anything that increases the prosecution's chances of winning a case will increase their power in plea bargaining as well.
Aperture could do effectively this. Bummer that Apple decided to discontinue it...
I remapped ; a long time ago (to ":", because I can't be bothered to hold down the shift key) because I rarely need to repeat a t/T/f/F motion. I typically already know how many times I need to invoke it (and use "3f)" for example), or I use a quick "/" followed by a couple of letters in the word I want to jump to.
For example, when? There are very fundamental truths here; e.g. consumption has to match production with very few exceptions, no matter how much someone has to save (or can't spend according to what they are earning). You might be able to save for a rainy day (or retirement), but it is impossible for the world to do that (instead, they must invest for the future to prepare for that rainy day).

I'm not sure you could find a single serious economist who would claim "slight inflation is bad;" i.e. would argue that 2-3% is worse than 0%. Maybe a libertarian, but there is a good reason we never vote them into power.
> If it were to be banned outright, you'd likely have plenty of notice and be able to sell it before the laws took effect.

Ah, but who would want to buy Bitcoin in that scenario?
What happens when you add random noise to the inputs to the neural net?
The person who replied to him basically just said, "I disagree." They didn't provide any reasons for this. They were also being rude. I think his response was appropriate.
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Actually, vim is a cross-platform editor.

You can use it on Linux, MacOS, and Windows (among many other operating systems).

vi is even more ubiquitous. Even if one doesn't use vim as one's primary editor, it would behoove one to learn the basics of vi, as it's available on virtually every operating system.
Are you talking about state or federal?

The article is largely talking about the federal penalties for going to trial, where you have to be 80% sure you will win before it makes sense to reject a plea bargain and go to trial.
Ask HN: I just started using Google Apps and Google Sites to document my life
Is this a good platform to use, or does anyone do anything similar with different software. I'm using it as a diary, calendar, budgeting software via google sheets, and some other stuff.
Everymove in Seattle is, I believe.

https://everymove.org/
True - like I said, I was being hyperbolic...

I still think the "potentially illegal at some point in the future" is a real consideration in the discussion about using Bitcoin "to store value in for the long-term".

As for the difference between "sending Bitcoin to developers" vs "making it available for them to claim" - think about how you'd feel if someone in Colorado was running a website saying "Donate marijuana to wyager for each of his upvoted HN comments!", then had your local police come round to your place asking you about"your" 7oz of illegal drugs? However "in the right" you are, being put in that position without being asked, and having "that guy" argue about whether he needs to stop doing it when you complain... I personally wouldn't want to be involved in those arguments, nor would I be at all happy about other people supporting :that guy"'s rights to keep doing it.