skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you justify the 70% number? Do a Google site search of healthgrades.com and you'll find doctors practicing in America who graduated from American University of The Caribbean, which is among the lowest regarded of medical schools American doctors attend. I don't think admission into this university is difficult.
Things like Vim can speed up coding, you spend less time on the actual editing of the text. I used to just use vim (macvim in fact), but for php i recently (1 year?) switched to PhpStorm with a VIM plugin. That was a huge speed increase, being able to cmd+click on method names and be taken to its code and probably about 20-30 other features i use in php storm that i never had in macvim (even with a whole bunch of vim plugins).

(the vim plugin in phpstorm isn't perfect, but definitely good enough)

But I find the biggest speed ups are things like:

- using frameworks (and knowing about them - so you know everything the framework contains/can do) speeds a lot of things up. It helps to know a framework inside out as well as a majority of the popular libraries that are used with it.

- And knowing what libraries exist to do whatever job you are trying to do can save a lot of time. I think almost everyone has at one point coded something then later on found a perfect library (or even 'snippet') that they could use and would have saved a lot of time. As long as the library is mature enough I'd always prefer to include a library and use that rather than spend hours/a day/days/longer on coding something from scratch. It also helps if something stops working - you can probably find someone with experience with that library. Of course it does come with the disadvantage of it might not 100% fit what you need to do...

But it isn't like coding is a race. You often save a lot of time by going slower and planning things out. I used to plan apps out in a text file, but realised a few years ago that getting away from the computer and planning out everything on paper (lots of sheets of paper, lots of arrows, lots of mess, but in the end it makes sense) gets everything planned correctly before even coding, so there is no need to refactor big sections of your app. I always have a notebook of notes when programming now... even with lots of squiggles and messy handwriting it helps a lot more than notes in text files or even worse notes (like in depth to do notes) in /* comments */ or //comments .
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I take nicotine. I am not a coder; I write non-fiction. I figure it was good enough for Mark Twain, it is good enough for me.
I've been taking vyvanse(before that adderall) for the past 10 years. I wouldn't have been able to graduate from highschool without it, I can barely function at my job(devops) without it.

I haven't noticed any long term affects, it definitely works though. It's scheduled so it's not easy to get but it definitely works compared to some of the more hit or miss OTC nootropics.

I'm willing to answer any questions if anyone is interested.
Yeah, the chevron in the article would just be:

DRAW "BM+3,+1 R1 F4 D1 G4 L1 U1 E3 U1 H3 U1"

You could change the scale with "Sn" so you could draw any size, and there were commands to fill shapes etc.

There was a similar language for music as well, they were both nice little DSLs.
>Regardless, my experience was that its only value is the placebo effect. If a substance actually does anything real, and there is potential for a pharmaceutical company to patent and profit from it, then you can generally rest assured that it will be scheduled to require a doctor's prescription. For just about everything, the over-the-counter options consist of vitamins and quackery. So either blatantly break the law, or don't.

Just a counter-point. Melatonin is OTC in the US (sadly not where I live) and the efficacy of melatonin on sleep quality is pretty hard to dispute.
It's not what you'd normally call a nootropic maybe, but having melatonin on hand has significantly improved my life

Edit: oh. Yeah. Of course, Adrafinil is OTC in the US too and that's the prodrug for Modafinil. Definitely not placebo either
Well, luckily there's a drug for improving sleep too

http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
Visidraft is working on making Augmented Reality actually deliver on the promises of presence on mobile devices at the consumer level and give 6 degrees of freedom around virtual objects in the real world context.

We have to make Large scale Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) easily computable across existing mobile devices to bring consumers hyper-precise (cm precision) geo-reference. This is actually super hard but also pretty awesome.

Yes we are hiring. Specifically CV experts.

[1]http://www.visidraft.com

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_m...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom
You should try vyvanse, I used to take Ritalin and then my doctor trailed me on vyvanse and it lasts the entire day with far less negative side affects than Ritalin. I immediately fell in love, it's still patented though so it isn't cheap without insurance.
While I wasn't getting blackout drunk repeatedly, I definitely had an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, and removing alcohol had enormous positive effects on my cognitive abilities.

I also do a heavy dose of caffeine in the morning.
Don't upvote it because it's Terry, upvote it when he contributes in a positive way to the conversation (which he has done on occassion).
Almost obligatory, fabians code reviews [1] are a joy to read (even if you spend most of your time in Matlab).

[1]: http://fabiensanglard.net/
While the Tron styling is cute, I think there's some real map usability improvements here. The high contrast between buildings and roads, and seeing flows of connections between roads (albeit backwards from the actual flow direction), makes these maps really easy to interpret in a dense city environment, compared to, for example, Google maps' low contrast white and pale gray blocks (they're designed to enable typography to be more visible). I find with this visualization, I'm able to orient myself very easily in a city I know, and identify landmarks far more readily than I am on Google's busy view.

If this distinguished between footpaths, train tracks and roads, and correctly interpreted traffic flow directions, it would actually be the beginning of something pretty useful.
In the 80s I made most of my games by using the Amstrad's font support to draw sprites in a similar fashion. :)
read up here...
https://www.elastic.co/blog/resiliency-elasticsearch/

they had a major data corruption bug last year but have taken measures to correct it. I asked if elasticsearch could be a source of truth at elasticon and they didn't say yes, but they indicated that you "could do it" and it is a goal
MIT has a patent on doses less than 1 mg and some(not exactly >1 mg) higher doses can have harmful effects.
you could also apply for a Thiel Fellowship
you are correct. A lot of the code is still the same from the original (1.8) matz' interpreter.
Okay, so I'm a college freshmen who graduated high school in three years but did that in a combination of excelling and getting absolute 0's in classes because I'm not able to concentrate. I believe I have adhd, for many reasons, how realistic is it getting diagnosed at 18?

Also, is there really not many noticeable long-term side effects, because I took vyvanse once and holy god it was the first time I was able to sit down and work on something straight for more than three hours without getting distracted other than things that I would naturally get in the flow with.
If I remember correctly it is The Gophernicus Project.

http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gophernicus.org/
or you can use the overbite extension for firefox.
Great advice all around.

Some advice that may not be obvious:

Keep extensive notes about stuff that you refer to repeatedly. This may include code snippets, test examples, shell commandlines, and so on. Over time, a good programmer can accumulate their own library of stuff that helps them execute effectively.

Meditate for at least 5 mins. Self explanatory. Productivity is directly proportional to your ability to manage distractions. Meditation is an effective tool.

Pace yourself. Just like in a marathon, you keep a steady non peak pace, it can be useful to allow yourself some patience (vs being hurried all day) , take some breaks, and take a few deep breaths here and there in your schedule, to let your mind reduce hyper activity and let it be more centered.

Have a good learn list. When you got some spare time, you can refer to it to learn something in your field... Remember knowledge is a key component to productivity.
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Having been burning Ketones more than Carbs for more than 2 years now, i can absolutely attest to that.

Previously i had to use Caffeine and occasionally Ephedra to stay properly focused on programming tasks. But the people around me often thought i was angry and annoyed easily, that is completely the opposite now that i'm "on" Ketones.
Source on the harmful effects? I have not seen any credible study showing any significantly harmful effects.

Did not know about the MIT thing. That explains why it seems impossible to find melatonin in reasonable doses. It took me a long time even to find something as low as 1 mg pills here in europe (why would anyone ever want to buy 8 mg melatonin pills??)
It is possible to patent the quantity of dosage for a given chemical? There must be more to this than you let on, no?
How do you feel at work when you don't take it?
8. Can he travel alone in the neighborhood (four to eight blocks) to store, school, playground, or to a friend's home?

Hell no.

Even though there was a lot of lead in the air back in 1979, today there is a risk of skin cancer. Sunblock may contain phthalates.

And what if a truck drives past? I'm sure diesel exhaust must have been shown to cause cognitive danage in a rat study somewhere.

If your kid gets thirsty, they need to drink water (fruit juices contain arsenic and soft drinks have artificial colourants) ; but water is contaminated with hormones-it needs to be filtered at home. And only a glass bottle will do- phthalates again. But it's difficult for a six year old to lug glass around.

Finally, what if there is lead in rice [1] or arsenic, and the friend has some at home?

No, I don't actually think like this, but with the the levels of scaremongering around, parenting in Internet age is quickly turning into an unpleasant and fear-filled experience. I'm not sure if it'a grant-hungry scientists or a media desperate for hits, but helicopter parents are partially manufactured by society. Overprotective parents from when I grew up in the 80's would be regarded as borderline-neglectful by today's norms.

[1] In 2013, thanks to a study linked to from the front page of HN, I stopped feeding my kids rice for a while. It later turned out that the study was totally broken. Since then I've made a point of flagging toxicology studies off the front page, along with most health stories.
Here we go again with the Water Buffalo bashing!
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I'm reasonably technical but had no idea I was supposed to be security-patching my BIOS. I googled and found that (1) most of the articles about updating BIOS don't mention security, (2) finding BIOS updates for your hardware isn't necessarily trivial, and (3) applying the update is a fairly involved process with some risk of bricking your computer.

Is there any way hardware manufacturers could make it as easy as OS updates?
4 Common Mistakes Founders Make While Building a Product
The contrast between the code on the page and the fact that the page contains multiple megabytes of content (including the embedded video) is a nice reminder that you can do a lot with a little if you try hard enough.

Makes you wonder what you could squeeze out of present day machines if you used them as efficiently as you pretty much had to in the 80's.
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I think you are forgetting Linux Mint KDE. It is updated regularly and is fantastic to work on.
Health is your biggest asset. No career will be fun if your health is ruined. Be careful and treat your body well!
oh yes ! heartily recommended. i have a copy from amazon, and the stories are just incredible. it is just like a magicians trick. you know it's a trick because laws of physics and all that, but quite fun to deduce.

the writing style is very engaging. some stories are fully resolved, others just conclude with a plausible hypothesis that explains the data, but due to lack of sufficient evidence cannot be confirmed.
I see your point and I find it reasonable. In fact, a good way to see it's those sculptures are the touch of a human being and, destroying them, they're also destroying the essence of the human lives that created them. Something we'll never recover.

What scares me is how the Islamic State got to the conclusion they could attract more attention by destroying art than killing human lives. As if they'd have simply measured their acts and they'd think they could get a higher impact by destroying artifacts...
My elementary School was built in the countryside where once was a train station. The only thing left was A LOT of bricks. Kids used the bricks and trees to build several forts, each one owned by a different faction. We took advantage of playground's most strategic spots. There were wars, alliances, betrayals... It was very fun.

Every summer the teachers would go to the playground and destroy the forts, because they thought them to be too dangerous. Yet, we built them again at the beginning of each school year. Soon after I went to middle school, the adults decided to remove all the bricks.
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I've read a number of books on debugging, it's something of an interest of mine. The best general-purpose debugging book I've read is the cumbersomely named

Debugging: The 9 Indispensible Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems by David J. Agans

Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hardw...

What I really like about it is that it gives a number of high-level approaches to solving debugging problems and is written very accessibly.
Never took any drugs. Found that hot chocolate worked better for me than coffee to wake me up. However, the one safe drug I keep hearing about is modafinil. How safe? I don't know.

All it takes for me to get focus when I'm sleepy is the glow of a computer screen. It turns out that light hitting your eyes tells your brain it's not time to sleep.

http://sleepdisorders.about.com/b/2013/01/26/30-days-to-bett...
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>At these moments I remember Stallman wasn't completely crazy and wish Linux was licensed under GPLv3 so that the phone I bought wasn't tivoized.

In which case Google would most likely simply have used a BSD variant as Apple did.
You sure your high does not come from clearing out your withdrawal effects? To elaborate, smokers seem to be anxious before they get nicotine, but to what I understand the relief itself does not really come from nicotine, but because your brain is not used to not have it on hand.
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Ideas aren't worth much. The real idea that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had was that personal computers and software were compelling products that would have value to ordinary people.

I suggest you read the book "Hackers" by Stephen Levy (aside from probably giving more accurate insight into the origins of Microsoft and Apple, also includes timeshare, Unix, the free software movement, and IIRC Lisp Machines in its recounting, all in a lot less space than Isaacson's complete ballsup).

http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Heroes-Computer-Revolution-Ann...
For me personally - a significant difference. My productivity has increased due to rarely incurring cognitive fatigue due to fluctuating energy levels (i.e that afternoon slump after lunch goes away, skipping a meal has little or no consequence). I can code for 8 straight hours without having to eat where before if I skipped a meal I'd start getting hazy.

Additional benefits include weight loss while eating as much as you want, never getting hungry, being able to do a 10km run on an empty stomach and still be full of energy ..
The mainboard I use has an autoupdater in the setup screen. Connects to LAN (DHCP), requests updates, installs them.

UEFI also allows updating from within the OS, and it looks like they formalized things a bit more, so that can be streamlined. (see https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2015/03/03/updating-firmware...)

Then again, this is only necessary because UEFI is more complex than some operating systems, and thus provides the attack surface that they then have to defend like that.
I have a friend who has taken it every day for the last 2 years. No negative side effects except when he doesn't take it, he feels like he is not performing at his best.

The major concern with Modafinil is that we just don't know what the long term side effects are. That's the risk you take.
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no headaches?
Show HN: ForPlayers.com, Turning gaming skills into profits
Prilosec as well. Works remarkably well, for an OTC solution.
Would you trust those benchmarks if they did? Much better that a third party creates them
Except for the Enrollment Key, that's how TPMs work.

And the EK is not so much an issue of "control", but of "privacy" - and as long as you control the OS, access to that key (or any other) can be mediated properly.
A VPN solves this cheaper for me (until AT&T MITMs the root CAs, anyways), but I'll have to keep an eye out for my less tech-savvy friends and relatives.
Google will give me the dates in 5 seconds, and then I can reason about it.

I doubt you know (remember) the date of everything that happened in history. I do not doubt that you can reason about, understand, and learn from history.

No one is arguing for no memorization, ever. We are arguing against rote memorization and for learning how to think and reason. It is not a dichotomy, it's a continuum. Of course any example that someone comes up with by way of illustrating their position is going to have a quibble or counter. But that is kind of missing the forest for the trees, IMO.

To expand that line of thought. We have new tools now, like google, and an ever increasing body of facts. It was perhaps reasonable to 'memorize the world' in 1912; there is no chance of it today. A few dozen European, white dead authors to read, handfuls of major population centers, tons of jobs related to shipping corn and such (thank you ships and trains!), and so memorizing the almanac and learning percentages made a lot of sense (perhaps, I'll stipulate it). Now, to have an effective mind you have to be able to find and assimilate data from several sources quickly, and find the meaning behind the facts. I don't know the answer to your Monroe Doctrine question, but I have no doubt that I could get you the answer quickly, and write an "A", graduate level paper in a few days should I choose. That's what I need to succeed in this world, not know the stupid date of some treaty.
Thank you for the info. I would have never imagined hunting them would take so long.
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Its unlikely that depriving your brain of fuel is having a positive effect on concentration, but since eating carbs triggers insulin, which supresses the effects of adrenaline, you might just be experiencing the benefits of not saturating your diet with sugar.
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Check this one: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0549783229
I just started adderall for add-inattentive. So far I don't notice a pronounced effect. I've tried Modafinil in the past and 10mg of Adderall 2X daily doesn't really compare.

From what I understand, the effect should be something like putting on glasses when you have myopia.

What was your experience with Adderall and why did you switch? Vyvanse is an all-day dose, right? Did it affect your sleep?
That's so true about the other factors that sap productivity - it's a rare moment when our brains are the limiting factor, rather than the thousands of distractions tugging us from every direction.

It's also true, though, that there are things that help us deal somewhat with the distractions - both directly (various ADHD medications, stimulants) and indirectly (getting great sleep, exercise, happy home lives, etc).

And, of course, anything that would actually help us during those brief blessed stretches of uninterrupted work would be wonderful as well.

> If a substance actually does anything real, and
> there is potential for a pharmaceutical company
> to patent and profit from it,

Well, maybe not?

There's two things there - efficacy and potential profitability. There's a whole wealth of substances, from vitamin supplements to aspirin to melatonin, that are quite effective but not overly profitable... at least not on the scale of a blockbuster, patented drug.

I don't think there are any magic cures for cancer that fall into the category of "effective, but not profitable" but I do think there's hope that there are substances that might boost brain function by... let's say 5% or 10%, or some other modest but useful amount.
There is also Concerta - which is basically a mechanical pump contained in a pill that delivers Ritalin spread over 8 hours. They aren't under patent, but the extra mechanics built into the pill still drive a generic 30 day prescription into the $200 range (pre-insurance).
How do you obtain it? (I understand you might not be able to be specific)

I've heard of it being prescribed off-label for people with ADHD diagnoses.
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I'm 30 and in med school, had a similar experience in high school, and my first attempt at college wasn't too different. I couldn't have changed gears without the right diagnosis, support and medication (though medication is truly just one aspect of it).

I was diagnosed in my 20s. If you go to a therapist/psych to talk about your issues you have a good chance of working them out and getting the support you need. the first psych to dx me was through the university health department, don't be afraid to use the services that are available for you.
Try it. Switching your brain to keytones definitely has a zen-like effect.
I naively asked a lawyer what his win rate was when I was seven. He explained, fairly patiently, that that was an exceptionally poor metric to judge lawyers by. "Few disputes end up in court. Most are settled out of court, with trials meaning a negotiation broke down or one thought one had a slight edge. If they have a major edge, you beg for a settlement. If you do, typically their lawyer will.

If you never lose a case it's because you are being insufficiently aggressive on behalf of clients with strong-but-not-unbeatable claims and are disposing of them pre-trial to the detriment of the client. A lawyer who would do that is a poor lawyer regardless of the stats."
Funny, but yes... even if I drink more than say... two glasses of wine, I am noticeably less alert, drowsy, and impaired the next day. So, not even "blackout drunk..." Better off waiting for the weekends for any alcohol.
hah, those guys just hired people to write reviews. Their "users" had hundreds of reviews each, and almost all were freelance writers. I wonder if they told investors they were "growth hacking."

The reality is that it's pretty unlikely to get traction with a review site unless you have a very cheap source of traffic (like an existing rental site).

A review site is just a two-sided marketplace, as the first commenter pointed out.
> SLEEPING WELL! [..] It's easy to fix and...

I know you meant in the normal case, but it's definitely not easy to fix for some people, like with certain health problems.

Not referring to you in particular, but it just gets a little grating when so many people talk about a good night's sleep as if it was something that anyone can just get.