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> Adderall is not the answer as these journalists like to claim though. It's useless for basically anything other than very rare usage and has difficult to manage loss of productivity during withdraw. It has an incredibly fast tolerance buildup. If your work requires steady output instead of rare bursts, it's questionable whether it even surpasses coffee because of these downsides.

The problem here is that Adderall isn't meant to be used in this manner, nor is it meant to provide the user with bursts of productivity or euphoria when dosed properly.

Proper usage, as in ADHD or sleep disorders, involves titrating the daily dose to a point at which the attention and/or wakefulness-promoting effects reach the appropriate therapeutic level over the long term. This process takes in to account the inevitable tolerance that comes with downregulation of the systems that are directly (norepinephrine, dopamine) and indirectly elevated by Adderall usage.

Casual users and abusers, on the other hand, are always chasing the initial rush of drug-induced euphoria and the associated productivity and mood boost that comes in the early phases of treatment. These effects are highly prone to tolerance and downregulation (as intended) and thus can't be maintained without constant dose escalation or taking frequent breaks to pay back the built-up tolerance. Neither situation is sustainable or healthy, which is precisely why Adderall should not be considered to be a substitute for the milder stimulants that people consume casually every day.

Beyond that, Adderall has some potential neurotoxicity issues due to the way it upsets dopamine sequestration in neurons (dopamine has neurotoxic metabolites and the systems that clean up these metabolites can be overwhelmed in certain Adderall dosing schemes). Coffee, on the other hand, is associated with a reduction of certain neurodegenerative diseases.
Your Paypal example isn't the same scenario - You can boycott any company, but taking something from them without something in return, unless it was a gift, is stealing. Stealing is unethical at the very least.

We're not discussing the risks of advertising vs subscriptions. The long-tail of websites and niche content only exists because of advertising. There are way too many sources of content for even the best theoretical and fair payment solution to handle. Advertising is the primary viable business model for internet content.

And yes, publishers still allow content to be viewed even with adblockers because its hard to defend against, they can claim higher reach/users numbers and they might benefit from shares. It doesn't mean they want to and I'd bet every one of the creators you talk to understand why adblockers exist but would rather they not apply to the content they produce. Ask them that specifically if you haven't already. A small anecdote about the gaming community does not apply to the entire internet when for most publishers, their financial success is exactly tied to how many ads they serve and how much revenue they generate.

What I feel you're missing or just actively ignoring is that just because you can do something, does NOT make it right. Technology has made it very easy to find, download and filter exactly what you want but this enabling has lead to things like massive piracy.

Let me just ask you this: Do you think it's "right" to just download a movie without compensating all the work that went into it? Because consuming written content without paying and blocking the ads is exactly the same thing.
Just recently picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad and immediately installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it. It's quite unfortunate that the bar is set so low with Linux laptops that the thing I enjoyed most is that everything worked out of the box, including wifi, suspend/hibernate, and external monitors. Hopefully this trend continues with more laptop brands so more people can enjoy the freedom in choosing an OS that works best for them without having to worry about whether or not standard features work without difficulty.
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You make some good points. Re: your question,

Realistically: People with severe handicaps can't compete in major league sports, and society makes no serious effort to "fix" this. If someone's brain chemistry makes them unable to compete in a field for whatever reason, they shouldn't make that field their dayjob.

Pipe dream: See eli_gottlieb's insightful comment. Basic income maybe?
I would find the poorest billion people and give them $1000 each.
I am not sure what you mean. If AI replaces higher and higher levels of abstract thinking then it's always been true and in fact if you look at job creation per decade.

https://plot.ly/~BethS/8/job-growth-by-decade-in-the-united-...

Its shows something else than the claim that technology replaces the jobs that are lost due to technology.

And even more specific numbers

http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...

Shows how production output and employment is separating.

What have been clowding this reality is in fact the cost of products and globalization which made it look like job growth would be steady in the west and then spread to the rest of the world.

The reality is that job growth have been declining decady by decade and even worse so. The jobs that are left are either very very well paid but few or grossly underpaid (but still priced logically compared to it's relative value.

"The ludite fallacy" is in fact itself a fallacy.

How many cars are still occupied as serious transportation means in the West? We are simply a higher level animal than the horse but also our skills can be replaced.

Hardware and software continues to evolve, we don't.
Nice! I'm trying the ChromeOS browser + terminal experiment myself. Just bought a 2015 Chromebook Pixel LS and outside the local storage issue it's a glorious machine.

In terms of terminal use, I thought a chroot would be a little heavy handed and I didn't want to get rid of Google's verified boot, so I bootstrapped Linuxbrew and gcc using this guide: https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Instal...

Given that I use vim + bash + go + ruby / python + js + tmux...well, everything seems to work. And it's easily the fastest web browser I've ever used. I tried installing Gentoo Prefix but couldn't get it up and running...think that would be better than Linuxbrew, but for now this seems to suffice. If I run into any roadblocks I'll probably wind up doing the whole crouton/chroot thing, but for now I'm a happy camper.
Local reasoning is absolutely impossible unless you have some kind of contract which ensures that your (local) code is pure. This is almost definitional.

What I haven't claimed is that no other fragment of code in another language can be pure. In nearly any language (1+1) is pure. My point was that literally any impurity inside of a fragment of code makes the whole thing impure (in most cases) and therefore destroys local reasoning.

The "in most cases" bit above is important because there are ways to "purify" a code fragment so that code which uses it cannot witness the impurity inside and therefore it restores local reasoning "above" that level. The ST monad is such an example.
no it isn't.

it exists to weed out the absolute moronic and deranged. not everyone is a supervillain with an iq of 300.

plus, i guess it also exists for legal reasons. lying to the question can be used against you.

there is a lot of smart people out there, working keeping things running and safe. if something looks ridiculous from the outside, it still might be ok - you just might be lacking context to understand it.
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Home: Ubuntu 14.04 for both desktop and HTPC (MythTV). Both are custom builds. Became exclusively Linux at home around 12 years ago, when I built a cheap PC for £160, then had to pay £200 for a Windows XP licence, but couldn't install it because the CD was covered in holograms which the ultra-cheap CD drive couldn't read.

Work: Desktop is Windows 7. Believe it or not I'm one of a handful piloting Windows 7 - most are still on Windows XP.
Political move, pushed by lobbyists paid by the radio stations that have fewer and fewer listeners.
> to line the pockets of the credit card duopoly and ensure the merchant always gets screwed.

First, in the US there are four companies, not two (or three, if you don't want to count Discover). And chargebacks aren't the reason that there are so few players - they're far from the biggest barrier to entry for an upstart, aspiring credit card provider.

> In many developed countries there are consumer protection laws which entitle the buyer to Replacement, Repair, Refund (in that order usually), so a merchant not adhering to these laws could endup in serious legal trouble as is.

That's not what chargebacks are generally for, and in fact using a chargeback for any of those three things is oftentimes considered misuse of the chargeback system. Chargebacks are for handling disputes regarding the actual goods or services promised or rendered.

Furthermore, having laws in place means nothing if it's prohibitively expensive for consumers to actually get them to be enforced in all but the largest disputes. Chargebacks are a tool that consumers can (and do) use to ensure that merchants adhere to these agreements. No individual is going to go to court with a merchant over a few hundred dollars on a disputed credit card charge. The consumer delegates this authority to the credit card company, who is more than happy to aggregate this risk across multiple customers, in exchange for a cut[0]. This is not a problem; it is the system working as intended!

I'm saying this both as a consumer and as a merchant who has gotten screwed over by one of the four (not two) major credit card companies[1] - chargebacks suck, but they provide an essential protection for consumers that the judicial system cannot.

(All of this is separate from fraud, which is a different matter entirely.)

> I forgot the last time I had to use a credit card (or paypal and their "consumer protection") in the last year, and my life both personal and business is easier and better for it.

I've had to make a few chargebacks in my life. The largest was for almost $2000. Even though the vendor was clearly in the wrong (and I had the written contract to prove it), it would have been way too expensive to actually try and get our money back through the judicial system. Fortunately, my credit card company was more than happy to settle the matter for us.

[0] The consumer doesn't pay for this service directly, but they do indirectly (which isn't fundamentally different from many other products and services, in which the actual cashflow is invisible to the end consumer - this can be problematic in its own right, but that's a separate matter of discussion).

[1] I have plenty of chargeback horror stories as a merchant, but that's the topic of another post. And that doesn't mean I don't see the value in chargebacks in general.
How does somebody tell if they actually have ADHD or they are just easily distracted?

Isn't "Do they respond to ADHD medication?" our only test?
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Nope, most mobile phones here don't have FM reception. Not the iPhone, not most Android phones. Mostly the Lumia ones and few select others.
Sorry for sounding like a shill for this comment.

as far as typing on silly surfaces, minnum has personally had my eye the most. tl;dr make the keyboard 1 dimension, and then use excessive prediction to correct the issues with that.

combining that with a watch with a distance sensor (up along the arm), you then would have a keyboard and trackpad in the space of a watch.
http://minuum.com/future-of-wearable-typing/ for explanation
I'm not sure about outside the U.S., but inside you get almost constantly harassed to get store-only credit cards. My wife likes Anne Taylor, and every time she shops there they ask her if she has an "Anne Taylor" card. This is not a discount card, it's a real credit card, only usable at Anne Taylor stores.

Almost every retail clothing store and most department stores seem to want to be in on this kind of thing. Originally, when we were a little dumber and before we bought our first home and started really caring about credit scores, we found our wallets slowly filling up with these cards, not really realizing they were actual credit score altering credit cards.

I think it finally dawned on us when our credit score started to be hurt by having too many revolving credit accounts open, and we finally realized what these cards were. So we closed them all, just have 1 each of the three major cards (and we'll be getting rid of our AMEX card once Costco switches over) and our credit scores are amazing and credit management is simple.
Nah. I actually found it a bit formulaic... as if he were writing to impress literary critics.
Credit Karma's scores and "recommendations" like that are jokes. Of course Credit Karma wants you to have 20 credit cards - they hope you get them through their affiliate links!
Honestly though what percentage difference does this make in productivity and is that percentage really going to be the difference between a startup's success and failure? Being fired or not? Being happy or not?

If the thing makes you happy then that's one thing. If you think getting 10% or 20% more work done is going to move you from mediocre to exceptional or is going to make you happy, I beg to differ.
This really shouldn't be a shocker. I was diagnosed with ADHD in elementary school and have been on and off medication ever since. A large number of friends in the professional world use these stimulants regularly.

I think that these drugs are very useful for short term sprints where one needs to focus, or do rather mundane tasks. But it's incredibly easy to become dependent on them. At one point, I could even begin to focus unless I had the max dose of adderall and a strong cup of coffee.

I don't judge anyone who uses stimulants to increase performance. Just because I was diagnosed with ADHD doesn't mean I'm not using them as a performing enhancing drug; it's just legal for me to do so. However, I would encourage everyone - whether you're prescribed or not - to use them in moderation. It's very easy to build up a tolerance and become dependent, and once you're dependent, you're no better off than where you started.
Linux, moving to FreeBSD, OpenBSD on routers, Windows for some legacy products, OS X.

Toolchain mostly lisp, bit of ruby, C, python

(My Windows NT box finally died)
Work is MacOS X and Windows 7 on a Retina MacBook Pro. Windows is used for PeopleTools, but everything else (SQL Developer, NetBeans, etc) runs in MacOS.

Home is Mac OS X on a 4-year-old MacBook Pro (which, after replacing the HDD with an SSD, feels a lot faster than you might expect) or Kubuntu 14.10 on a ThinkPad x131e (working Linux, cheap, and rugged were the main requirements when I bought that). Personal projects generally involve Python or Java, so a text editor and NetBeans are my tools of choice.
I remember a few years back being dismayed when I plugged my brand new DAB radio into my Kill-A-Watt and rather than register nothing like the FM radio that it was substituting, it was showing ~ 4 W, going up to ~ 6 W when playing.
OpenSuse for work (not my choice), FreeBSD on a private server, OS X for the laptop, pfSense (based on FreeBSD) on a firewall, Raspbian for the little things, and I just ordered a NAS that will be running FreeNAS (also based on FreeBSD).

Vim, Git, Intel compiler, Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Mathematica.

Python for scripting, Haskell for analytical mathematical stuff, Fortran for high performance, Mathematica for fiddling around and sanity checks.

A total of 224 Xeon cores and 5TB of main memory.

For my private hacking I just use a laptop and whatever language seems to fit the purpose. Also, I'm about to buy a desktop computer and I was thinking of using Arch for that.
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It doesn't matter what people do outside costco if I know that I will have significanty lower instances of fraud on transactions that happen at costco then it makes sense to offer them extremely low processing fees if their clientele is a customer base you want to attract.
Not just in the workplace NFL players are using ADHD drugs to mask concussions too so as to keep their jobs and be "more productive."

http://www.beyondchron.org/will-ritalin-become-the-human-gro...
Both of these things lead to indecision

"I don't know right from wrong all the time, I wish I did, but one thing I cannot be is indecisive." - Frank Underwood to an Arab in a wheelchair, justifying his choice to blow that man's legs off via drone strike.
> And thus these practices disturb statistics about the true prevalence of ADHD.

Maybe in the future doctors would say "You have no prior history with ADHD, so we'll have to run a long check to see if you really need these meds". Then of course parents will start getting ADHD perscriptions for their children when they're young, so they will have a history... and we come full circle.
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Home laptop: Linux Mint 17.1 on an Asus UL30A (it was free) using Sublime Text 3 (and various plugins) developing Javascript and Node.js

Home PC: Dual boot windows 8.1/Linux Mint 17.1 on a custom tower. Windows is for playing games and developing unity games, linux is the same as on home laptop

Edit: I also use GIT across all of them
QEMU is another one that I know of: http://blog.vmsplice.net/2014/01/coroutines-in-qemu-basics.h...

Coroutines seem like the type of concept that relatively few programmers understand and use, but when they are used well, it can simplify the code flow greatly.
Outside a few niches (zeroconf, IPv6 SLAAC, financial data distribution) in closed environments, I don't believe we ever reached the point of figuring out how to handle Internet-sized multicast deployment.

Not sure what the state of the art here is, but IIRC multicast introduces significant extra state into every router and switch involved, and with limited ability to control who is able to transmit to a multicast group.

On the radio network side, I don't think IP multicast has any specific support in e.g. LTE, so even if a mobile client could subscribe to a group its bandwidth usage over the air would be equivalent to a unicast stream. Guess this was omitted for the reasons from the previous paragraph.

LTE has something called multicast but AFAIK it's totally unrelated to the IP/Ethernet concept.

edit: whoa, apparently 802.11 networks handle multicast properly - stations don't generate layer 1 ACKs for reception like they handle unicast traffic. There's a ton of cool stuff you could build with this on a LAN!
There is a branch of JOE which uses co-routines:

http://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tre...

The main release doesn't use them yet, but the Windows port does.

My co-routine library also allows arbitrary arguments, but it just uses va_list for this.

Also I use setjmp/longjump and stack allocations (if ucontext is not available), but do not depend on c99 dynamic arrays to do it. BTW, the array trick doesn't work on some architectures: IA64 (there are two stacks) or Cray (the stack is a linked-list).
True. The study provides the requisite observation variances and effect sizes for this analysis as well.
In light of the excitement recently over Comcast offering 2G at a similar price in the Bay Area.

I think the excitement is that it has pushed 1G down to $65/mo.
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I agree it's fairly atypical, but it's not only Costco. Sam's Club, their most direct competitor, only took Discover for many years, which is an even more unusual choice of card (they now take MasterCard). There's also a significant AmEx-only niche in Manhattan restaurants. Not sure what's going on with that one, and it's not something I've seen with restaurants in other cities.
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> Why is it poor quality?

While the scoring was done in a double-blind fashion, it's still completely subjective. Maybe the person scoring the tests had just eaten a meal before scoring the tests with the alpha-wave frequency stimulation (which has been shown to increase scores that people give in general). Maybe the grader was hungover for the tests with the bad scores. Maybe the grader was being paid $9/hour and just assigned scores at random out of apathy. Maybe the participants just happened to be in better moods on the day they did the alpha-wave frequency test.

Having only 20 participants and doing a single trial of each frequency leaves the study vulnerable to small effects like the ones I just mentioned. Do you believe that all of those things, plus all of the factors I haven't even thought of combined couldn't result in just a 7.4% variance in scores? If the study had a control group we might know. Or if they had a much larger sample size we could rule out random variation. So it's not that 7.4% is a small but interesting result, it's that it's not a result.
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Selling publicly known stolen bitcoins seems to me as a rather difficult task. Exchanges could refuse dealing with those addresses, and researchers would surely jump if they noticed a set of dormant addresses suddenly starting to see usage. It seems as the same problem as art thieves have, as even if their identity can be hidden, the goods they try to sell are inherently identifiable.
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A simple google for "mindfulness study" brings up some interesting material. At the top is this review of a couple dozen studies:

http://marc.ucla.edu/workfiles/pdfs/MARC-mindfulness-researc...

I haven't attempted to look at the studies in detail, but it should be pretty easy to pull up peer-reviewed work if you're really interested.
Imo the flaw in this reasoning is, altough we may know an aweful lot about chemistry and the physics of atomic and molecular interactions, the problem of predicting the folding of proteins from the sequence of amino acids is exceedingly difficult. This is why we still dont have custom engineered protiens.

This is an example of a highly important and interesting problem that is limited by computational ability, among other things. Knowing some physical constants is important but the macro problem is still hard.
After a natural disaster or extended power outage, all that digital technology isn't going to reach anybody. When I was a kid all I needed was a crystal radio to pick up broadcasts with no power source.
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Nevermind the Facebook page, they took her son into custody and questioned him without parental consent or legal representation? I truly hope this ends badly for the 'authorities' responsible, as it sounds to me like kidnapping.
Looks like good list, It will be useful for us when we launch our app in a month.

Can I check, is it useful for unreleased/beta products as well?