skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure some people's school grades benefit from taking amphetamine-like drugs, but that still doesn't imply they are suffering from a disease in the first place.

It's far from clear why having the symptoms of ADHD should be considered a disease, in any objective sense. If kids are suffering because school is boring or society is restrictive, that doesn't mean there's something wrong with them.
As another who probably sits right on the border of "could use medication, but isn't interested in it after self-management for 20+ years" I really like how you mentioned practical habits that can alleviate the downsides to the symptoms. To-do lists. Taking notes. These can be learned and if they work, to make life more constructive while not really getting into the physiological side.

Honestly I enjoyed having the mind-set to be rough & tumble in the Proposal Coordinator (or Manager/Writer/etc) type role with 2-6 overlapping projects. It is/was almost a natural fit for being kind of hyper & then shutting down at the end of the day (go home to cook, beer, pets). Having multiple projects was plenty of stimulation, and breaking them each into smaller, prioritized To-Do lists with lots of human contact meshed nicely. Stressful at times, sure, Murphy's Laws are like that, but being the relentless, focused type to put all the pieces together for the whole is quite important when the scale increases (e.g. billion dollar construction projects).
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Instapaper is joining Pinterest
I guess AirBnB will go the way of ebay: First thought to be for normal people to make their excess stuff to money, now a platform for big sellers.
>we don't have good enough science to know how potentially dangerous or helpful ADHD drugs really are.

We have nearly a century of usage which suggests these drugs are incredibly safe.

We medicate a lot of problems which are caused/worsened by society. We need a solution: Either we fundamentally restructure society, or we medicate.

Since we're not fundamentally restructuring society any time soon, medication is our best option and we have a lot of data suggesting stimulant medications in these doses are pretty damn safe—and certainly outweigh the negatives of not medicating (failing school, abusing drugs, other mental illness).

The real epidemic here is the pejorative use of the word "medication". The distrust of treatment is always based on ignorance and appeals to nature, tradition, etc.
> Doing synchronious is much clearer and easier, most of the async patterns (like yield/await and promises) really just try to simulate a sync paradigm.

I'm currently working on some lighting (DMX-based theatre lighting) software and the ability to have my 'effects' written in a sequential manner by using 'yield' is actually incredible. It's simplified my code a huge amount and made it a lot easier to reason about.

There is a function called every frame, which then calls each effect. Since each effect is a Python generator function, it can be written sequentially and just has to yield whenever the frame is computed.
Actor models don't solve the problem of getting a good-sized ecosystem going. If you have production-ready actor-model libraries for all the random things I might want to connect to, great, but I'm not currently aware of such things existing. (Maybe that's a failure of listening on my part!) If you want to develop that ecosystem, awesome, and I totally support that.

But I would much rather bring a knife to a gunfight than some totally awesome, straight-from-the-laboratory gun that's never been tested in combat.
The only solution to this problem is technology

Naw. See the well-documented phenomenon of the Jevon's Paradox:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Two really interesting things in the article:

> Raj Chetty has estimated that every $1 of tax subsidy only leads to around 1 cent of additional saving (making it a pretty good place to start if you have a large budget deficit to sort out).

Wow. That's horrific. I suspected it was inefficient, but this is much worse than I thought.

> Think about ‘social trust’. It’s a better predictor of national economic growth rates than human capital, and varies greatly between countries.

Viewed alternately: Mistrust is a drag on economic growth. The people I spend to keep you from ripping me off are people that make no net contribution to the economy as a whole.

And here's my take on what needs to happen to macroeconomics: People want different things. Some want savings. Some want status. Some want to improve their human capital. Some want to have fun. (And, there may be other major categories as well.) In fact, most people want several of those things. At any given time, they seek several different goals. The economy is made up of people who have different amounts of emphasis they place on the different categories, but the economy as a whole might be characterizable by the sum of peoples' emphasis on each of the categories.

A change in circumstances can make them change the emphasis that a person gives to different category. A large, economy-wide change can change a the emphasis of a whole lot of people, and therefore change the behavior of the economy as a whole. Macroeconomics might be able to figure out from, say, the shock of 2008, that many people are going to be in fear, and place much more emphasis on preserving their savings, and from that figure out what the effect on the economy will be going forward (at least until peoples' perception of their circumstances changes).
In the UK they are GBP 50 for one or GBP 90 for two (Lloyds Pharmacy,EpiPen not generic). How come they are so expensive in the US?
I'm not using it outside of Google but I will start for some personal projects with this announcement. I can say that it is one of the best parts of our tech stack and one of the great things about building systems here.
A little humility goes a long way.

The most controversial area -- which Fred Wilson doesn't touch -- involves VCs' "contributions" when startups are trying to sort out interpersonal issues. (Co-founders don't get along; top producers in sales or engineering are becoming hard to work with, etc.)

From what I've seen, about 10% of VCs are genuinely good at guiding everyone to a better outcome. About 40% are well-intentioned and intermittently effective. And the bottom half of VCs have a boardroom style that just makes things worse.

In any company, big or small, people issues usually involve some delicate stuff that isn't easily blogged about. So VCs either don't talk publicly about this part of their jobs, or else they present a very sanitized (and sometime misleading) version of what they do. There may also be a fundamental misalignment of priorities here. For founders, getting the people issues right is crucial. For VCs, it's a time sink that's best dealt with rapidly on any basis, so that more time can be created to go chase hot new deals.
The real problem is that your interface doesn't actually describe a rectangle. It describes a mutable object whose current state is one rectangle, but whose state at a different point in time might be a completely different rectangle. Lest you think otherwise: removing the setters doesn't change anything.

If you could define a type whose instances are actual rectangles, and then another type whose instances are rectangles whose width and height are equal (as a refinement of the original type of rectangles), it'd be clear as daylight that squares are rectangles.
Yeah, I agree with you on the challenges of being a Series A VC. If you are in the top 5-10 funds and have a great brand then you're set -- at least for the next 5-10 years. If you're #15 or #30 then it's a struggle and you starting experiencing a lot more adverse selection.
How secure is data transmission in translation services
The profit is in the same place as weapon or rockets? Governments.
The last time I tried gRPC with Python in Windows it didn't compile out of the box.
Not to mention the 25mb limit. Maybe he just emails the direct links?
I recommend taking a look at GNU Mediagoblin for collecting/sharing your personal media. It supports multiple file types, like pictures, video, audio, and text.
Great series of articles, thanks a ton.

I'm trying to understand the relation between the following observations:

> Maybe, unsurprisingly, the top 5 choice is relatively constant with Python and JavaScript leading the pack and can be a safe choice to learn these days. [...] Surprisingly the drop for Ruby is also noticeable. (part 1)

> Ruby on Rails and Django both look as a solid choice for the next startup's stack. On average both lost some audience, but the gap between them and the next thing is really big.

From the graphs it also seems that Ruby/Rails has a stronger correlation than Python/Django does. Makes sense, since as far as I can tell there are more non-webdev Python jobs than there are non-webdev Ruby jobs.

But it seems that Ruby/Rails is more popular than Python/Django, so although learning Python is better in one sense, learning Ruby/Rails is better in another sense.

In other words, if you are looking for a web dev job, you have better chances of finding a job if you learn or have Ruby/Rails experience. But if you are not interested in web dev, Python is the safer choice. (All other things being equal, of course.)
Jack Ma from Alibaba is another great. example of a successful CEO without a technical background. An early exec there wrote a book profiling the company's early growth, great anecdotes on Ma in there: https://www.amazon.com/Alibabas-World-Remarkable-Changing-Bu....
No Burglarize and burglar came before burgled.
Don't you think that the problems with the environment sort of stem most significantly from emergent social phenomena analogous to (but not exactly the same as) such things as tragedy of the commons? It's not like this version of the human race just got lucky and got all the bad 'uns. Humans are humans, no point in bemoaning reality. But the social structures are in a sense an equally root cause.
While I do think that ADHD is a real condition, I don't think that the solution is to medicate children with a very serious life changing drug that alters the core aspects of a child's personality and behavior.

The true solution is to revamp our country's education system and provide a framework that can accommodate the wide variety of personalities that come into the classroom. Instead of forcing children to think one way, we should let them think the way they NATURALLY think, and flourish with their native mindset.

I strongly recommend this eye-opening video for those of you who haven't already seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
If the choice is between data security and a few family members being unwilling to click an email link, I'd choose data security.

Let's face it: the kind of people who only look at your photos when they're very convenient to look at aren't interested to begin with. Nothing of value is being lost.
In your string example (and in RTOS/C++ programming in general) couldn't you just change the default allocator to not use heap memory ? Then continue using std::whatever ? of course you'd have to keep a very close eye on your memory pool, but wouldn't this be one way to solve the problem ?
If you ignore advice and fail (always the more likely outcome no matter what you do) then you failed because you refused to take advice. If you take the advice and fail, you can't be blamed. This is oddly powerful pyschology
I like this mentality too.

But Bafög (the german student aid) can accumulate to more than 10k€ of dept (you have to pay back half of it) and some of my friends even took credits for their (non-consecutive) master degrees or because they didn't finish their bachelors in regular time. Now they are stuck with 10k - 40k of dept and no way to pay this back in with the money they make.
Amusing that they talk about Oracle 9.3 in the article. Oracle 9.3 has never existed. There was 9i (9.0.x) and 9i Release 2 (9.1.x).
The cost of taking carbon out of the atmosphere by not burning it is going to be far cheaper than taking it out of the atmosphere directly, for a long time. Hell, a lot of the things we are failing to do now are outright profitable through reductions in energy costs even without any costing in of carbon emissions.
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caveat: I work in gRPC team.
read target blogpost link to get a sense of experience of some of the companies. https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/08/gRPC-a-true-Int...
I think that's the problem with elevator pitches, they tell you what the company is currently but not where they're headed.
Ah that makes sense then.
Interesting, I missed that but of news completely it seems.
Thanks
Pinterest acquires Instapaper, which will live on as a separate app
Yes it is. There is no language that is superior for all use-cases.
I'd assume that's just child exploitation/molestation, not pornography. But that's just me.
> The money for more drug research has to come from somewhere, though

The EpiPen has been on the market for awhile. Why the sudden price hike? Were they operating at a loss before?

This does not seem like a case of "we have to recover our costs" and comes across more of a case of "we are a monopoly so fuck you, give us your money."
* the inexorable slide into worldwide famine, war and anarchy*

The projections for increased CO2 emissions and thus warming are predicated on global increases in GDP, because greater consumption correlates to greater emissions.

Thus, we should expect that famine will not be the result of climate change, at least within any foreseeable range of change. Falling into famine would dramatically decrease GDPs, and thus forestall climate change. It seems people fail to realize this connection. The factors creating the problem are symptoms of overall prosperity.

I suppose it's possible for things to go non-linear and mess up that relationship. Perhaps we start to rely more on energy sources that are even dirtier (maybe people burn wood to economize, or misguided environmental regulations won't allow for cleaner natural gas to replace increasingly-dirty coal). Or, as I mentioned above, maybe some threshold is crossed where agriculture suddenly requires vastly greater energy input per calorie harvested. But barring very unlikely events like that, climate change will happen because we're ever more prosperous.
I understand your despair, but there's hope to be found in the fact that this, too, shall pass. We've weathered worse crises as a species and come out of them smarter and stronger - and we'll do the same with this one, though it take a thousand years.
Maybe. What if the lady you're trying to ignore in the seat next to you on a plane sees you type those words on your laptop?

Probably, it would be even worse than doing differential equations while Italian.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/iv...
And that's worked great, with Merkel prosecuting a comedian for insulting Ergodan or Germany engaging in the political imprisonment of non-violent radicals.

While there are many problems with the USA, its legal protections of e.g. freedom of expression are vastly superior to those found in European nations.
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Always found this odd because at least for me, methylphenidate (and its surprise result of mixing with alcohol, ethylphenidate) made me feel more of a "buzz" or desire to take more compared to the typical amp-salts.

I actually had my doc switch me over because I don't like the idea of any more side effects or anything that might lead me to abuse than absolutely necessary.

I guess a lot is down to individual neurochemistry but I felt that mpd was almost like cocaine whereas the generic Adderall I'm on now just makes me able to focus.
Your sentence is dramatically better than theirs because you're referring to the length dimension of the rope and the track. "What length of rope does it take to go around a quarter-mile wide track?" <- using the author's mistake in your sentence. There's not enough information in the sentence to answer correctly.

The correct word for a measurement of wideness is width.

Length [NOUN]:
1.
the longest extent of anything as measured from end to end:
the length of a river.
2.
the measure of the greatest dimension of a plane or solid figure.

It's pretty unambiguously wrong. You can back into what the author meant without ambiguity, but that doesn't mean the author used the correct word.
I'm sure gaze tracking would make rendering more efficient, just render the stuff the user is looking at in high def, the rest in low polygon and low rez textures.
>Is there? Who have this option when the people in power is going to profit immensely.

Oh but rulers do opt out taking IMF money all the time...

Zimbabwe did for the past decade.

Angola just this year did ask for IMF money and then pulled back because the conditions were not acceptable.

Half of Africa is getting into all sorts of alternative deals (China..) for the same reason.

++++ edit

And those unacceptable conditions ?

- please be less corrupt...
- at least try to have some sort of checks on how the funds are spent
- there are other things than building stadiums and palaces

unacceptable
Hi

So how exactly does this work? I noticed that you indicated one can "start for free", does that mean that users will pay for advanced lessons? How much would that cost? Do you have an outline of the syllabus and the time commitment necessary to cover the curriculum? I am about a month or so away from starting my journey to becoming a front-end entry-level web developer and was instantly intrigued by this. Would love to hear back from you (on this and other matters).
Was looking at RPC framework for a project, in the end I went with Apache Thrift since at that time there was no Python 3 support for gRPC [1]. IIRC Thrift also lacks support for my project's Python version (3.5) but at least I can use thriftpy [2].

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/282
https://github.com/eleme/thriftpy
You're right about the Consitution. However, the law isn't restricted to the Legislative Branch. Case law is law too, and the courts have ruled repeatedly that you have no expectation of privacy in public.
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Arguments and data are in the book.
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Nice, if you want to grab something a little more complete or find some inspiration, I remember seeing something like this previously:

https://github.com/mblode/marx
Another way to approach that might be to see (for example) if students from public school diagnosed with ADHD do better in a Montessori school.
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An ISP in Sweden has something similar https://twistedsifter.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/bahnhof-da...
The trouble is not that they don't respond. It is that they tend optimise for the incentive rather than for what the incentive is intended to achieve - which are not always the same thing.
I agree with the fundamental point in the article, but isn't it well known that when you consider multiple levels of the memory hierarchy as a whole, big O notation needs to be modified to take into account the relative cost of access?

I think the problem is not so much the big-O notation, but that the underlying assumption that the data access is from an "all main memory" model with no cache or secondary storage is often forgotten.

For example, in database algorithms, all memory operations are often considered to be unit cost since they are an order cheaper when compared to accessing the disk storage?
The thing is, diagnosis rates in the U.S. are something like 3-4 times as high as in most countries in Europe, which are themselves 3-4 times as high as a country like France, which is averse to ADHD diagnoses. The main treatment for ADHD is lifelong maintenance of powerful amphetamines, when we have no idea what the long-term consequences of that would be, nor what proportion of children would normally develop out of the ADHD spectrum with time.

Overdiagnosis at that rate means that millions of children are being given amphetamines, when they shouldn't be!
A time series database is anything that stores data with time attached, so log storage does count.

The more pertinent difference is event logging vs. metrics.

For the former the ELK stack is popular, and Prometheus.io is suitable for the latter.
World wide consensus of scientists vs random dudes feeling about his local weather this year.

Whom to add salt to. Yes tough question indeed
I understand the point you are making, but in reality drugs will get developed based on their likely risk/reward ratio only.

If you want more diversity, unless there is a non-market force (which honestly shouldn't be needed here, there is high demand), pharma companies will just keep picking at the lowest hanging fruit.

Eventually, they'll get up to the non-stimulant variety, but developing an entirely new class of drugs is a Herculean effort with very low likelihood of payoff. To make it work, you need more data on the disease (e.g. more time), and some luck out of academia (which is where 99% of drugs come from anyway). They will also need a lot of money to do it, so anything they can produce in the meantime is essentially on that track. Thus, the wording "even more drugs".
Convert your 'maybe later' visitors into 'lets do this' customers
> Nobody even uses callbacks anymore now that we have Promise and async/await.

Sadly this is not true (yet)
So how does service discovery work? Where do I read more?
This comment made me think of Aaron Schwartz's article on schools just being instruments of corporations preparing us to be drones in eight hour jobs. [1]

I don't know where I stand on it, but I found myself realizing I believe it a little more when I read your article of preparing kids to work for 9-10 hours and keep focused.

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/127317/school
The scientists been taking the heat island effect into account the whole time. See box 2.1 here, it explains it quite well:

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climat...

In relation to the El Nino, sure, it is a factor in the heat every 5-7 years or so, including last year, but it doesn't explain the trend.
This looks very interesting. The GIT repo is here: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
>It's far from clear why having the symptoms of ADHD should be considered a disease, in any objective sense.

We have children facing social rejection, failing/dropping out of school, becoming dependent on drugs, suffering from depression/anxiety and other mental illnesses, committing suicide, etc.

In a perfect world we don't have to change our lives to fit into society at all! Unfortunately, the world isn't perfect. We have an obesity epidemic because people sit in an office working all day. One treatment I'm sure you'll approve of is going to the gym. Unfortunately gyms are pretty unnatural.

Why should obesity be considered a disease in any objective sense? People are suffering because modern life is sedentary. It doesn't mean there's something wrong with them.

—We change our behaviors to make up for the personal problems that come with society. We do unnatural things like go to gyms and take medication to help our bodies (which were made for a world where we live in caves and hunt wild animals) function properly in this society, because we agree its advantages vastly outweigh its disadvantages.
> Or go straight to Quick Start in the language of your choice:

No plain-old-C?

That's a shame.
now support Python3. http://www.grpc.io/about/#osp
You can get a free cert from StartSSL.
Couple discussions from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10135347, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9114748.
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Yes.
South Korea has been in need of an IMF loan.

As recently as 1997
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2015/09/28/04/53/sp0121...