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I tried something called Alpha-Brain by Onnit Labs based in Austin. The main ingredients of which are tyrosine, theanine and a bunch of other stuff. It is marketed as improving focus/memory.

I used it for a couple of weeks and saw no benefits. The only noticeable change was my dreams got vivid when taking it (which is also claimed by them).
When taking it, I also had short episode that felt like onset of a sudden dementia, I could not remember anything. Example: I couldnt remember where my car was parked when I was standing right in front of it. I dont know if it is caused by Alpha-Brain, but I was not taking anything else during that period. I stopped taking it soon after.

Like they say, there is no biological free lunch.
I would say the safest way is probably good nutrition, enough sleep and exercise.
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That article was fascinating but ignored the branding factor. I realize that was intentional, but it is an important factor. What's considered food is basically a cultural/fashion issue, and can be explicitly changed by marketing (e.g. rapeseed can sound horrible in the US but was made acceptable by rebranding it "Canola", and likewise the Chinese gooseberry was much more successful as the Kiwi Fruit).

This is different from passive shifts of food from scorned to fashion, such as lobster or oysters, or how açai briefly swept the Whole Foods set -- that's more of a Veblen issue. Once the technical issues are worked out, someone's going to make a killing (literally I suppose) by rebranding ground up mice and crickets as "Natural Field Protein"

BTW I enjoyed this quote:
> "Journalists always ask me what do you say to people that can't get over the psychological hurdle of eating insects?", said Crowley. "I say, 'nothing' - we're not targeting these people. We're targeting people that are receptive to our message, that will be our early adopters."

Good for him!
A degree can be a vocational milestone. It can be a personal milestone.

Most of the people I know who have gone back for a bachelor degree, including myself, have been more intrinsically motivated than extrinsically. This may be more common among older learners in general.

Is it worth going back for vocational reasons? Well for professions such as accounting, engineering, or law that require a degree for licensure, yes. Anything else requires looking at more subjective criteria including personal desire.

Good luck.
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If only food irradiation was less restricted, perhaps they could irradiate everything and at least be assured its safe even if it was spoiled.
Wow, you need ice to take a walk in the cold moon? this is one of those smart tricks that we, common people, never, ever will suspect :-)

okay so... so the goal is to be able to cool quickly our station in case of emergency. We had running out of coolant gasses and so and we have "unlimited" access to the materials in the space: "nothing" and sun radiation.

I wonder if there is a way to reduce the vibration of heated atoms with electricity, magnetic fields or whatever electronics can do?

Is there a physicist in the house?
"Find the Bug: a Book of Incorrect Programs" by Adam Barr: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0321223918/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=...

It has a bunch of examples of bugs, classified by type of bug, and gives you tools for diagnosing and fixing them.
At least they give the option unlike google fiber
Actually I agree with you. I think "we" abandoned Harvard hardware like the Burroughs too soon and should consider more security in the hardware design that also doesn't rely on crypto. Ihe experience I have is the AVR micro processors which have the code blown into the NV flash.

Of course, the first thing someone will write for it is LISP, thus invalidating your "old rules of code" by using "old code design".

These days, one can run OS from an FPGA without impossible effort. If I had significant financials at stake, that's what I would be doing.

I have had no losses, time or money, from viruses, worms, trojans or otherwise in my 25 years of computer use. I must be just lucky.
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There are significant benefits that Linux has derived from its lack of a stable driver ABI.

For one example, adopting the AMD64 architecture proceeded significantly faster on Linux systems because nobody had to wait for binary drivers to become available, thus enabling end users to use their shiny new hardware to the fullest extent.

For another, do you believe that the effort to add real-time capabilities to Linux would have any chance at all at succeeding while being constrained by stable internal ABIs?

Basically only GPU drivers are sufficiently complex that the vendors are actually concerned about protecting their IP investment there and release only binary drivers; though AMD has even figured out recently that they can open source the kernel part of their GPU driver since all the interesting stuff is happening in user-space.

Are driver ABIs of other kernels actually stable across major versions, in all cases? Another comment of yours says this is not the case.

One major difference here is that there's a new release of Linux with substantial new features every 3 months, whereas new releases of NT come out every 3-6 years, and the gap is even larger for Solaris.

Another major difference is that the upstream Linux kernel doesn't have paying customers; products like RHEL and SLES do, and maybe that is the level at which things like driver ABI guarantees should be provided, if there is actual demand for it.
The brain is not being deprived, rather it's deriving it's energy from a different source -

> the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly use the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs [1]

Additionally -

> Because the brain can only power 70% of its action on ketones, glucose will have to be used no matter what. However, because glucose can be derived from non-carbohydrate sources such as protein, a low carb or no carb diet does not starve the brain of its required energy. [2]

And your absolutely right in regards to experiencing the benefits of removing sugar from the diet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

[2] http://www.nootropicmind.com/better-brain-fuel-source-carbs-...
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The analogy I like is cornering a race car. The fastest way through a turn is a combination of velocity, distance, and traction. If the speed is too great, the line is too long. If the line is too tight, exit speed is too low.

Or the race car spins out.
Personally noticed a substantial strain on my cardio after taking OTC Melotonin from GNS to sleep the night before.
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Just because I anticipate if this gets any traction it may prove to be controversial. I want to mention that I don't necessarily believe in or support all or many of the pieces of this "act". I just thought it was interesting. Being considered perhaps the most controversial of the proposals working their way through state government in Ohio, it appears to be quite thorough.
What is the point of getting gigabit internet in order to slow it down with a VPN? Now the onus is on the VPN provider not to track you.
nice..

that loading sound is forever in my heart :) i couldn't load anything on my zx due to untuned cassette player (which months later when I grew older was fixed with a simple screw turning ;).. so had no other choice but to learn how to program something of my own.

and bill gilbert is apparently still cracking speccy games =) http://zxbg.blogspot.com/
"Harsh conditions make the best soldiers". How true is this when this comes to startups?

I mean, living in a country with a dead/non-existing startup scene. Bogged down by stupid irrelevant problems like lack of internet access, etc. Can a startup kick off in these conditions? (obviously moving to a better place after initial traction) or does it HAVE to take birth in a thriving startup hub?
If you wanted to slice off this entire offtopic subthread and stick it at the bottom of the page (or in the trash), I certainly wouldn't complain.
I think it's more to do with lack of knowledge than any huge problems with SVG. At least I found it very easy to draw stuff in Inkscape, at least for simple drawings like icons.
That's why I mentioned projections too. I'd just love to hear a RethinkDB person tell us how they see themselves in relation to it's alternatives. I don't particularly care about their current performance because it's a young project. I don't even know if they see real-time performance as their core value proposition.

Tho of course, a third party analysis of RethinkDB's architecture would be amaizing (-; Benchmarks not so much.
Ermm, second link was meant to be https://twitter.com/mz2/status/579083258631073792
Just in case the site is incapable of handling HN traffic, I put it up on Google Drive:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K6NidCPCG7inv9lsW1EaKSy9...
I too take Adderall for ADHD, and it's been crazy how useful it has been. It lets me actually control where my concentration is spent, and the ability finally follow through on plans pretty nice. I can also access my long term memory more readily, and don't run into corners continuously.

I don't get any of the "high" effects - no endless reserves of energy, no hyper-focus, no mood swings. I do become fairly dehydrated on it, so I end up drinking more water than usual.

All that said, if I didn't have to take it, I probably wouldn't. Stimulants can be pretty hard on the body, and being dependent on a stimulant is not a state I enjoy being in.
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I could only trial the drugs that are approved in Australia, because that's where I lived when I was diagnosed.

My plan is to talk to a psychiatrist about trialling some of the other drugs approved in the USA; we'll see how it goes.
> If you have skills, you should be getting paid 150k+ a year.

and you are an oil-seikh with solid gold bathtube... Come on, most of the developers do not live in Bay Area or in the US. The easy access to millions of $$$ for projects that has no chance to break even in the foreseeable future end up in a distorted expectation and self-esteem.

Salary is basically your share the leadership granted you based on the generated value. How much value do you create in a company that has never made any profit?
It isn't mechanical. It's osmotic. This blog has a nice illustration of it:

https://drgrcevich.wordpress.com/2014/02/23/why-your-kids-co...

More here (pdf):

https://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/JPPS/article...

(osmosis is the movement of water across a semi permeable membrane, roughly speaking, the pill is arranged so that water is drawn into it, creating pressure that pushes the drug out of a small hole.)

The particular mechanism used in Concerta does appear to be under patent.
Speaking for myself, there is no high. There's coming back up to normal. And yes, the positive effects to those with ADHD is 100% driven by the drug itself.

I have 36 years of managing ADHD with coping mechanisms to compare the effects of medication against, and gods below I wish I had gotten help sooner.
For those of you who do take them: Aren't you concerned by side effects and/or long term health effects? Not judging, just genuinely curious; I've looked into them but it seems the general consensus is that their effects, both short and long term, are not very well understood yet.
> I believe I have adhd, for many reasons, how realistic is it getting diagnosed at 18?

I was diagnosed as a 32 year old.
If speed / memory is of essence, it's simple enough to pre-render this .asciimage kind of data with the code @cparnot has made available at https://github.com/cparnot/ASCIImage. I whipped up a quick commandline tool for the purpose as part of https://github.com/mz2/ASCIImage-Super-Studio:

https://twitter.com/mz2/status/579283430858465280

It could of course be rendered to a PDF or TIFF or other Cocoa supported image file format, consider that just a 5-minute hack to demonstrate the idea.
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> As an aside, what is the point of taking a serious nootropic for software development? Typically, a coder's problem isn't failure to get into a groove once they have uninterrupted time. The typical problem is not having uninterrupted time in the first place.

Procrastination can also be a pretty big problem for a coder, and theoretically a drug could help there.
Do you have evidence to present that Google Fiber is using the deep packet inspection referenced in the article? Because they make it clear that they don't here:

https://fiber.google.com/legal/network.html

Also, you created your account two minutes before posting this claim?
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I clicked the link thinking it was about a new development methodology...
What is RethinkDB's business model? I can't find anything about this. It seems they currently live off VC funding but how will they sustain this?
have you tried listening to white/pink/brown noise instead of music? it works wonders for my concentration.
there are numerous noise generators online, i like this one: http://www.simplynoise.com/
Sounds like my job! I'd love to see more YC activity back in their home town to try to fix this. However, the YC programs seem to have a tremendous amount of inertia so it's hard to see how they could run a program similarly-successful on the east coast despite starting out here.
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Yesterday Biogen announced very exciting news at the AD/PD conference: this is the first time a trial for a disease-modifying Alzheimer's drug gives such clearly positive results.

Don't get too excited, this is only phase one so things can still go wrong, but the results are really convincing.
Shouldn't it be just anti-ddos or ddos-protection? I read anti-ddos-protetion to mean that they're against the things that protect against ddos. Which they're not.
One of the companies I work with is fortunate enough to have gigabit in NE Ohio. I've found that with Gb the limiting factor is usually the other guy. I don't see why a VPN wouldn't be a viable solution as long as the VPN provider can keep up.
theanine appears naturally in green tea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theanine
Mechanical delivery means does not exclude using osmosis to provide the pressure. Since the drug itself doesn't travel across an osmotic barrier, calling the delivery mechanism osmotic doesn't explain the mechanism very well.

That said, I didn't know that the generic versions used a completely different delivery mechanism; thanks for the links!
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I've found this FAQ on modafinil, I liked it a lot. The whole site is brilliant, actually.
http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
A software project full of 'male anatomy' jokes is going crazy right now
I'm quite interested in the upcoming official Java driver; I tried to use RethinkDB for Clojure, but by then the DB was several versions ahead of what the Clojure driver supported (the tests would randomly fail, in a different place each time they were run).

Eventually, I swapped my project over to Redis, which was reasonably well suited to the task (a scraper with independent values, the whole db is held in memory and shipped to the client and queried locally).

Still, RethinkDB would have been nice for future proofing, once it is time to implement user accounts etc, so I'd like to switch back in the future.
Following Schneier's link to Gigaom it's pretty hard to get the choice to opt out - even if one already knows it exists.
I actually sent an email offering to help (I have a lot of experience mitigating DDoS attacks) but never received a reply. I imagine they must already have something in the works to resolve this.
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Fades – FAst DEpendencies for Python Scripts
Hello all,

We're glad to announce the release of fades 2.0.

fades, a FAst DEpendencies for Scripts, is a system that automatically handles the virtualenvs in the simple cases normally found when writing scripts or simple programs.

It will automagically create a new virtualenv (or reuse a previous created one), installing the necessary ependencies, and execute your script inside that virtualenv.

You only need to execute the script with fades (instead of Python) and also mark the required dependencies. More details here:

https://github.com/PyAr/fades/

What's new in this release?

- Have a system-wide cache for created virtualenvs: improves reusing
and speed

- As a result of previous feature, don't store metadata per-script (in the script) anymore

- Allow to indicate the project name if the module is different (e.g. "import bs4 # fades.pypi beautifulsoup4 == 3.5")

- Support complex version requirements (e.g. <2.6,>1.3,!=1.9")

- Handle packages that whose names are changed by pip

- Other minor bugfixes and improvements

Help / questions:

- You can ask any question or send any recommendation or request to the mailing list.

http://listas.python.org.ar/mailman/listinfo/fades

- Also, you can open an issue here (please do if you find any problem!).

https://github.com/PyAr/fades/issues/new

Thanks in advance for your time!
I didn't mean to argue about the words. I read "mechanical pump" and simply didn't believe it, and went and tracked down the above. So for my ears, "mechanical pump" wasn't the right description. I assumed that others might have a similar experience and so I posted what I had found.
I was not aware that some nootropics could be used to treat conditions like ADHD. I personally use 2g dose of taurine every now and then for mental boost, but it is basically just placebo compared to what you must experience. Great to hear though that you've found a cure - I happen to have restless leg, which has been enough to shake my mental sanity, as I have been unable to focus on anything. Having that inside your head must been quite harder to cope with, so kudos for you.
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That is exactly why I've never tried it. I'm afraid it will work, and then I'll want or need to use it all the time. Then who knows what will happen years from when I begin.
I can relate to this so well, as a person who has struggled with their sleep schedule since early childhood. People suggest going to bed at the same time every night, but I think those people have the ability to fall asleep when they're given no external stimuli. For me, no external stimuli means my brain starts working overtime, keeping me up.
Safari uses its own PDF renderer, wondering if the Acrobat bugs really apply for that?
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I have had the same reaction as him.

I know insects and plants are not "at the same level" as mammals or birds, but I always have the thought that squashing insects or eating plants is still killing living beings and I can't help being bothered by it. Yes, I also do have a thought for the yeast I'm using when baking bread, waking it up from stasis just for baking it in the oven soon after... but unicellular beings seem much less important as they're mostly clones, they don't have the same individuality.

I grow plants as a hobby, and having a few small trees that have grown from seeds, in pots where they entirely depend on me for their life, makes me really see them as individuals - especially since the genetic variation that comes with growing seeds also means they have observably different behaviours.

On the other hand... I do eat some meat, and for some reason I don't have a single thought for the pigs that have to get killed to make the dry sausages or cured ham I eat. I guess that is because I am just so used to eating these, and they are less recognizable as animal parts than, say, chicken wings.

In the end, you just can't live healthily by only eating things that don't harm any living being, so I just live with it, knowing that I have to kill things to eat.

About the India thing, I have thought like this for a very long time, I remember in kindergarten trying to stop other kids from stomping on ants, and (a bit later of course) my parents being amused when I talked about plant being like ununderstandable aliens. So I don't think this has much to do with trends, it's just a thinking you can come up with on your own.
There are plenty of process oriented methods for solving this one e.g. pomodoros and outside-in development.
They ate dog because the tribes they were visiting had little else: when in areas with other game, they preferred that.

Clark never ate dog, couldn't bring himself to break the cultural taboo.

In the dry areas of what is now eastern Washington, in fact, where there was little if any game and the only other choice was dried salmon, usually impregnated with sand, the men came to prefer dog.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1204_031204_...
Interest in an open-source Android library for image and video frame filtering?
Hi Hacker News,

I've halted development on an open-source side-project for
image and video frame filtering on Android.
The source and a further description is available at
https://github.com/cmusatyalab/diamond-android

Would anybody use this?
If there's interest, I'll continue development and release it.

-Brandon.
In my view this is a result of hardware not actually being "hard".

It would be far better to have a bug that comes back after a cold boot, as part of a known starting state, than to have a mechanism for "updates" (running software) that is inaccessible to the user/programmer. A static bug can be worked around, but a moving target is harder to compensate for, particularly if it is not viewed as user-programmable (for lack of documentation, or license, etc).

To me, this demonstrates that the proper place for security is in software, at as high a level as possible for the purpose. Even secure boot is too low. Boots should be insecure, but repeatable. Turning a computer on should give full control - only then can you lock it down (whatever that means to the user...). Secure boot, if you want it, should just be a bootloader that verifies a payload, thereby protecting itself - not a BIOS-integrated feature, where the BIOS is opaque.

A feature-full BIOS would only makes sense if it were immutable (and even then, there would be disadvantages), or (at the other end of the spectrum) if it were as programmable as the rest of the system - but until then, any unnecessary complexity or "features" are downright harmful.
Machines shipping with Windows 10 may see OEMs enforcing Secure Boot
http://www.google.com/patents/US5449683
Naive question: Is Core Boot in any way a potential remedy for the sad, sorry situation we're in here?

I wonder when there will become a market for manufacturers to start releasing devices with hardware DIP switches or jumpers that need to be bridged for flashing purposes.
As a corollary to this, increase the size of your toolkit. The more tools you have available to you, the more likely you are to have a tool which solves the current problem in a way which is correct, clear, and concise. You'll also be better able to determine when to, and when not to, re-invent the wheel.

By toolkit, I mean:

- Programming paradigms

- Patterns (and Anti-Patterns)

- Metaprogramming

- Knowing when to mutate, and when to not mutate

- Algorithms

- Data Theory

- Knowing the value of stepping away from your code