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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

FaceTime Audio is iOS 12 Default

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blog.workflowy.com 8y ago

2018 WorkFlowy RoadMap

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cstheory.stackexchange.com 9y ago

Must a regular languange alphabet be finite?

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

The Name Game (Plan 9 and Inferno, Dr Charles Forsyth)

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Does anyone use Google Tasks?

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docs.google.com 9y ago

ToDo List App Comparison

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Mouse Cursor Dynamics

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myfonts.wordpress.com 9y ago

Typographic Abbreviations Series #1: OCR

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www.gnu.org 9y ago

Combining Logical Operators and Regular Expressions in AWK

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Why no regex AND?

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perl6.org 9y ago

Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching (2006)

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www.ibm.com 9y ago

Ropes: Theory and practice

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www.cs.princeton.edu 9y ago

A Regular Expression Matcher (2007)

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github.com 10y ago

Sam Command Language for Emacs

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suckless.org 10y ago

Software that sucks less

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Emacs-like Incremental Search?

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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu 10y ago

A toolkit for appraising the long term usability of a text editor [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Famous Programmers' Editor Choices?

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usesthis.com 10y ago

Emacs or vi: neither (Rob Pike)

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research.swtch.com 10y ago

Yacc is Not Dead (2010)

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groups.google.com 10y ago

Early History of PostScript (1985)

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medium.com 10y ago

Heroin epidemic is at 1996 levels, but the conversation is different

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www.math.utah.edu 10y ago

Context grep (or cgrep)

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www.cs.dartmouth.edu 10y ago

A Research Unix Reader, by Douglas McIlroy [pdf]

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www.onlamp.com 10y ago

Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves (2003)

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Behind the Fiendish Complexities of Airfare Pricing

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thepointsguy.com 10y ago

Has the ITA Matrix Become Useless for Finding Airfare?

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static.googleusercontent.com 10y ago

Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning (PDF; 2003)

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www.itasoftware.com 10y ago

BOS-SFO Trip Study: The Complexity of Airfare Search

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plan9.bell-labs.com 10y ago

Plan 9 for Raspberry Pi

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No, they won't, because the only form available is the IV form. There are no ketamine pills or tablets. Some doctors will prescribe ketamine nasal spray or lozenges to be made by a compounding pharmacy, but the vast percentage of doctors who are willing to administer ketamine in their offices are not at all willing to prescribe a take home dose, and if they are, it's in a very different form with different effects than the IV session. I get regular IV sessions and have compounded lozenges that I take daily, and in my experience neither the nasal spray (which I hated) nor the lozenges are anything like the infusion, and it was extraordinarily difficult to find a doctor in the Boston area that would write any kind of take home prescription. No clinic anywhere is going to give you a bottle of ketamine and some syringes, and neither is CVS.

You got addicted to Tylenol? Could you be more specific? Do you just mean that it stopped working for you? Because if you mean you truly developed a compulsive desire to take APAP, you must be the first person in the world ever to have done so.

Pursuant to Gonzales v. Raich, which ruled that Congress could criminalize the production and use of homegrown marijuana for personal use, the interstate effect of gambling in any form on any activity is almost certainly sufficient for Congress to regulate or prohibit any or all gambling activity.

In addition, the Ninth Circuit has held that Congress has Commerce Clause authority to criminalize possession of homemade machine guns.

Congress has chosen to allow states to regulate gambling to a certain extent, which explains its legality in various forms in the various states.

Learning org-mode plus enough emacs to use it is vastly more difficult than learning OneNote, and the macOS and iOS versions of OneNote are also quite good (it's not at all Windows-only). You may also export to various other formats and it's not text only; sometimes notes aren't only text but include images or handwriting (which can be OCRed and searched).

Any hotel nicer than your average Sheraton (Weston, W Hotels, etc.) will not have free Wi-Fi. Sheratons might not even have free Wi-Fi. Where you have been staying seem like they'd be classified as "motels" (like a Best Western Express or whatever) not actual "hotels".

Steve Jobs worked at Atari. I don't think there was 'gaming' in the sense that you mean it when Steve Jobs was younger.

Unless NZ is significantly different from most other countries, no one has a right to a resident visa (although some people might have a right to citizenship, such as by descent), so they can already arbitrarily determine whether or not to grant a resident visa.

Under what conditions would any of these events actually occur? The government isn't going to waste resources to deport someone solely for forgetting an account; they would only go to such effort if there's another reason that they actually care about to deport that person.

Apple SIM 8 years ago

You're not using the term 'GSM' correctly. You mean to say that your device is locked to AT&T, not that it is 'GSM'-only.

I am feeling better, but not "a lot better", unfortunately, due to the cost of the ketamine infusions and the inconvenience of the TMS treatments. I received Brainsway deep TMS at one of the better / more well-known psychiatric hospitals in the US. FYI, this hospital is just now starting their own ketamine program, using the standard protocols that I described (i.e., 0.5mg - 0.75mg / kg / 40-60 min).

I have had ketamine infusions (approximately 15) under medical supervision, where a general practice MD, in his office, but in consultation with my psychiatrist, administers a specific dosage (usually starting at 0.50mg/kg, going up to 0.80mg/kg) calibrated by your weight and previous responses using an infusion pump, set to deliver the dose under an exact 40 minutes. Each session in (my case) costs $600 cash, out of pocket, with no insurance reimbursement, other than (in some people's' experience) potentially a small portion refunded (the "office visit" portion).

The infusion is conducted in a quiet, darkened room, and I'm checked in on periodically over the 40 minutes. The session makes you feel somewhat "out of it", but not "trippy" or "dissociative" or "psychedelic" in any way. It seems to give you an ability to put things that are causing depression or anxiety "in their place" so they cause less ongoing turmoil. There is conflicting evidence as to whether any of the perceived effects of the infusion have any of the antidepressant benefits or whether the benefits are solely chemical (and not in any way a function of any of this "enlightenment" that may be provided by the infusion).

It's a somewhat enjoyable experience but not "fantastic" or one that makes you feel like you want another infusion right away. The poster who insufflated the ketamine likely had a much higher dose over a much shorter period of time than the dosage used for an infusion, and reputable doctors generally give the infusion over 40-60 minutes, not all at once, and not via insufflation. Some doctors will prescribe a ketamine nasal spray or lozenges for use between intravenous sessions, but they are few and the evidence isn't really there for any potential benefit to this practice.

I have noticed a positive effect on my mood and depressive symptoms generally recently, but I have also had a full course of TMS during the same period of time, so it's difficult to attribute the benefits to one modality over the other. TMS, unlike ECT, does not involve anesthesia or shock therapy, and unlike ketamine, TMS is usually covered by insurance. However, it generally requires 30-36 visits to see improvement, so the timing is distinctly different from ketamine when ketamine works. I would think I'm a medium responder to ketamine and a medium responder to TMS.

If you were insufflating it, you had a very ambiguous dose and were not using it under the care of a physician such as discussed by the article; not to discount your experience, which is somewhat similar to mine, but readers should know that it is very different from what the article is discussing, which is a very specific dose given over a specific period of time by IV by a medical doctor, under his/her supervision.

I was trying to provide constructive criticism. As written, the comment is nearly incomprehensible. If someone is going to take the time to post, he or she should take the time to do a minimum of proofreading his or her writing so that others are able to understand the point of the post.

LLCs may be taxed as flow-through entities (similar to partnerships), but no LLC is organized as a partnership, that's simply a nonsensical statement; an LLC is a distinct and separate type of entity to a partnership, limited partnership, LLP, LLLP and corporation.

An enormous number of people suffer from PTSD who are not veterans. People who have been raped, witnessed crimes, etc. could all suffer PTSD. Trauma can be almost anything if it causes a negative impact (e.g., depression, anxiety) in the future, and persons suffering from depression or anxiety as a result of such trauma would likely be diagnosed with comorbid PTSD.

Piracetam is not approved by the FDA for any medical use and it is not permitted to be sold as a dietary supplement, so it can neither be prescribed nor sold OTC. It may be possible to import it, but that's legally questionable; then again, if you're using MDMA, you're not concerned with questionable legality.

Frontmacs 9 years ago

What language is "Scandinavian"? Also, perhaps the intention was that "Emacsen" was the literal name of a version of the emacs family of editors, of which GNU Emacs is only one (XEmacs, for example, being another one).