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The fact that this is not using Twitter Bootstrap makes me so happy. It's delightfully refreshing to see something that uses even just the barebones rails scaffolding styles.
ADHD may be over-diagnosed. That does not mean it doesn't exist.

If you could actually focus an function properly, yes, you probably don't have ADHD.
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It's been so overly diagnosed that right now the opposite is started to happen. There's a lot of doctors and people diminishing it, and even saying it's no real sickness.

I was a straight A student until I finished high school. Not because I focused and studied but because the level was shitty and it was enough for me to be sitting in class to known enough about the subjects. I started failing when classes became so boring and I became old enough to be skipping class.

I was diagnosed at 22-23 and took medication for almost a year. My productivity was better on those months and it helped me gain some structure and organization I lacked. I stopped taking medication because I moved to a different part of the country and I didn't want to waste time seeing doctors (I needed to change meds as the ones I was taking were making me angry all the time).

I'm good enough now. Sure, I'm still more or less a mess and I do procrastinate a lot, but those months gave me enough willpower and organizative skills to be able to get things done.
I think the challenge is that they are prescribed so casually with so little monitoring.

I guess we could just say that he's an adult, and can OD if he wants to. But I cringe at the damage that can do.
Note: Article from 2009
Android only competes in a supercilious way. Android powered phones compete with the iPhone and Android OS does not compete with iOS. You cannot install Android on an iPhone and Apple does not offer iOS without an iTrinket. Samsung is a competitor of Apple not Android.
This company builds tech for using municipal water supplies as a power distribution system http://www.lucidenergy.com/
And how does copyright aid this? What's the school going to do, start suing kids that plagiarize?
They don't have even a fraction of Amazon's inventory.

They might compete of some selected products, but it's a long way to the "we have it all" of Amazon.
wow! you're right

comparing the net income of Apple to Amazon.. in 2012 the difference was astounding at 98,000 vs 41,733,000!

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL+Income+Statement&an...
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Some universities have plagiarism detection systems and to tell if you're copying from your buddy who took the course last year they store all submitted work. Often these systems are outsourced to companies like 'turnitin' [1] which can also compare work between universities. Work is stored forever, and if anyone submits something similar to your work, professors get to see both side by side for comparison.

In order to store students work in the plagiarism detection system, the student has to grant the university/turnitin an appropriate copyright license.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnitin
How much of that pricing power would remain if Costco carried as many items as Amazon? Amazon is predicted to eclipse Costco (and Target) in terms of sales this year (http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=34532428-58cf...), so given an equal catalog, Amazon would be able to sell more of each item and command a lower price, no?

Amazon's catalog is so much bigger than Costco's along two axes; more kinds of products, and more varieties of a given kind of product. The latter axis can be good for Amazon, since people have different utility functions, brand loyalties, etc. But one thing I like about Costco is that their catalog seems to be curated; whatever brand/model of a given thing they happen to carry, it's usually pretty decent. Amazon, by comparison, carries good and crap versions of pretty much everything, but you can use the customer reviews to separate the wheat from the chaff). By removing the paradox of choice, Costco not only reaps the usual benefit on the buyer's psychology, but is also able to negotiate better wholesale prices on the items they buy due to higher volume. Maybe that's a way for them to compete?
Whenever I see comments about ADHD over diagnosis and abuse, I look at http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/prevalence.html and remind myself that over diagnosis is a regional problem. If you're from North Carolina and claim to have ADHD, I'm frankly going to doubt you. California, not so much. (Disclaimer of bias, my son has ADHD, diagnosed in California. I've seen the process by which that diagnosis is arrived at here, and I don't think it will create a lot of false positives.)

As for college, according to the medical literature about 1/3 of ADHD cases disappear when your brain finishes developing. Maybe there really are a lot of low-level cases that only show up in adulthood. I haven't looked into the topic. It is not impossible - after all a lot of teenagers use their parents as external organizers, which can really help. But the reported numbers and frequency are too high for a mental disease which is believed to be in the 5-7% range.
Google posts all their takedowns to ChillingEffects (http://www.chillingeffects.org/)

From their search HitFix seems to be hit a few times - http://www.google.com/custom?q=HitFix.com&sa=Search&... - not too much though.

Studios are going to continue mass automated takedowns of legitimate content until there's some kind of punitive measure put in place for blatantly incorrect notices.
I recently wrote a short paper that involved reviewing some recent literature on ADHD diagnosis, faking, treatment options, and abuse. I've created a pastebin with my references for those interested in these topics.

http://pastebin.com/Kf6W2vUA

I'm also happy to discuss the topic with anyone without access to these journals. I'm not an expert, but it's something I'm learning about.
That's why I always struggled with the concepts of dividends.

If you have so much money you can pay dividends, it means you have grossly high margins and not investing in growth enough; which means someone will come and not only destroy your margins but your business also.

If we're talking tech not mining.
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One of the things that must be considered is that from 1995-2006, Windows machines were better.

I was a Mac user through that time. Windows 95 came around with preemptive multi-tasking. The Mac was still more polished, but Windows 95 was a better operating system. This period also saw Intel processors far outpace the PowerPC. When OS X came out in 2001, it was so slow as to be nearly unusable. 10.1 helped, but comparing it to a Windows XP machine was simply disheartening.

Looking back on this period, I find it hard to believe that I (mostly) stuck with the Mac platform through it. OS X is wonderful today. However, I think it's important to realize that during the dark days for Apple, they were really selling inferior machines and an inferior operating system. From 1995-2001, Apple was selling a cooperatively multitasked operating system against a more technologically sound Windows 95/98. Intel processors were very significantly better as OS X came around and Apple was having trouble getting good PowerPC processors out of IBM and Motorola. Apple introduced a 700MHz iMac in 2002 against around 2GHz PCs. Apple did try to spin it and we all know that MHz isn't everything, but there was quite a gap - a gap that would simply become larger until the Intel switch.

So, it's easy to say that "Windows machines competed on price," but I think looking at the history, Windows machines were substantially better for a decade. Mac OS was still better polished and a more pleasant interface (in my opinion), but the classic Mac OS was ancient by the technology of the day, OS X was dreadfully slow when introduced, and Intel processors wiped the floor with PowerPCs. The Windows machines weren't just "competing on price", but were better.

While people may prefer Android or Windows phones, the iPhone's processor is as fast or faster than what is being offered in the competition. You may want a different mix of features than iOS offers, but I don't think a reasonable person would say that it's technologically inferior to its competitors. In many ways, Apple is still the state of the art. The A6 processor runs circles around the Galaxy S III (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/10), iOS is well liked, the build quality of Apple's devices is arguably the best in the industry, etc. Apple does have competitors and it would be foolish to discount them. However, Apple's current situation is absolutely nothing like 1995-2006. In that period, a dispassionate person would look at Apple's products and find them woefully inadequate. Today, dispassionate people don't find Apple's products lacking.
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The retail comparison is apples to oranges, in my opinion. Amazon is purely eCommerce, no brick-and-mortar, so the comparison is strongest when considering other eCommerce outfits.

Consider a site like NewEgg. At ~250M annual revenue they're an appreciable fraction of Amazon's size with a lot of catalog overlap. Certainly for commodotized consumer electronics they are direct competitors.

I think the difference the author is trying to articulate is that NewEgg's overlap with Amazon (for example) is considerably less impactful on Amazon than, say, Samsung's overlap with Apple. Phones and tablets are a huge proportion of Apple's profit generation - an area where they cannot afford to be dethroned. With Amazon and consumer electronics, having NewEgg overtake more of their sales in that area would hurt, but Amazon has such a vast catalog that the company, investors, and stockholders know they'll soldier on in a variety of other markets.

That's Amazon's power. Apple's no one-trick pony but they are a pony with a countably limited number of tricks. Amazon is a platform for selling anything and everything. They've abstracted out their distribution network to adapt to selling the Next Big Thing before it's even been conceived. Competitors can take a swipe at a chunk of their market but at the end of the day they're in so many markets that it's a truly monumental task to dethrone Amazon in any meaningful way.
Definitely a good idea. But consider the real root of the problem - not just some, but the vast majority of the content we generate is hosted by someone else. Even this post is hosted by Hacker News, and pg ultimately controls it's representation. Facebook hosts your content, as does Flickr, Twitter, or even Gmail (which reminds me I need to setup a periodic IMAP backup of my gmail account...)

Anyway, my point is that I think you're right, but the first step is to be the change you want to see, and provide whatever content you, personally, have produced in a way that is readable on lynx (which, by the way, is totally available on Homebrew).

Oh yeah, one other pro-tip: if you're really really concerned about accessibility, try simulating their experience to really see what works and what doesn't. There was an article posted here a while back about a guy who spent a few days using the internet wearing a blindfold. The biggest takeaway for me was that the alt attribute on images was totally ignored!
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I don't think they intended to:

> Questioned about the policy after it was introduced, Jacobs said it was never the board’s “intention to declare ownership” of students’ work. “Counsel needs to restructure the language,” Jacobs said. “We want the district to get the recognition . . . not take their work.” Jacobs said last week that it was possible amendments could be made to the policy at the board’s next meeting. The board approved the policy for consideration by a vote of 8 to 1 last month but has removed the item from its agenda Thursday.
Are there any amusing ways of hacking this policy?

What are the implications, for example of a student preparing a piece of work that breaches the law in some way and then immediately informing the authorities since the school board now owns said work.

I can imagine the Board finding themselves owning all kinds of work that 'accidentally' breach copyright. It might be interesting to try and engineer such a 'poison pill' piece of course work and watch the board squirm as they argue that 'this really doesn't belong to us'.
Since when does P/E matter for any company that is not paying dividends? If you buy a company's stock knowing that they aren't paying dividends, then you are obviously paying for growth.
Well, not that competition isn't a good thing, but the comment also mentioned Wall Street's short-termism, which is also a problem that needs to be fixed too.
I actually think brick and mortar stores are competing with Amazon - and there is also an emerging hybrid approach that threatens Amazon as well.

In many places, suburbs and cities alike, people don't want stuff delivered to their doorstep. The existence of Amazon Lockers is proof enough of this - sotres now offer online shopping with local pickup (Best Buy, Staples, and IIRC Wal-Mart). This competes with Amazon.

Wal-Mart is also attempting to reposition itself as an Amazon alternative (i.e., pure online shopping) and has the capital and existing supply chain infrastructure to do so (they are one of very few).

On top of that Amazon continues to struggle with specialty goods. Amazon is very, very effective at selling mass-market products, but their attempts to move upmarket have been extremely mixed. Lower-volume, premium goods are not their forte, and brick and mortar stores (as well as niche online shops) still have a firm grip on that.

Not to mention we know that the public is extremely price-sensitive. Amazon continues to price-compete with Wal-Mart, despite its substantially lower volume, leading to even thinner margins. They do this out of necessity, because at this point for many people the conveniences of online do not trump a quick trip to Wal-Mart if the product is cheaper.

I don't think it's at all prudent to discount pure brick and mortar businesses as competitors to Amazon. Amazon very much exists in the same sphere as all retailers, online and off.
Mathematician Paul Erdos heavily consumed amphetamines, and they did not consume him.

This guy most likely had some psychological issues to begin with. You'd have to be a medical student, end up in a psychiatric hospital and not see that as a big red warning sign.

Sadly, policy is made around these incidents.
I can't vote this up high enough.

I'm fairly ADHD (though I realized I was not an extreme case when I met some ADHD people who require hospitalization/safety measures simply as a result of their ADHD) , and I was on ritalin well before it was popular, (IE early-mid 80's). From there I moved to other stimulant variations over the course of 20+ years as they stopped working due to me building up a resistance.

Over the years i've seen quite a number psychiatrists for medication management/etc. Every single one i've seen since the age of 7 has required me to do more frequent GP visits to make sure heart rate/blood pressure/etc stayed normal.

Nowadays, there are actually non-stimulants like Straterra that can be used (though it depends on your exact symptons,etc). There were definitely blood pressure differences for me after being on stimulants for a very long time, and then moving off them.

Yet most doctors try stimulants first (some i've met who claim to specialize in ADHD didn't even know straterra existed).

It's clear that ADHD is over-diagnosed, and like you, i'm surprised how easily you can get stimulants. I would have expected you'd at least have to have gotten various learning disability testing done (which an actually quantify your level of detriment). Instead, as you say, you can just walk into an office, and walk out with adderall. The sad truth is that all this seems to end up doing is making it harder for those of us who need treatment to be taken seriously.
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Have you looked at Piwik ?

Its open source, fairly well established and can be self hosted.

A list of its main features can be seen here : http://piwik.org/features/list/ .
You are correct, I don't know and was perhaps overgeneralizing based on the belief that the parent was accurately representing his/her experience as common.

What can you tell me about how the process in your experience has changed in the last six years? Experiments, even social ones, have little value unless their results are shared! ;-)

I'm always looking to improve my HR skills. Hiring is so hard. It's my opinion that one of the reasons it is so hard is (primarily?) because of all the subterfuge/deception involved by both parties of the transaction. I wonder whether the experience of successful dating services have any insights to offer? Seems like a similar problem but without the messiness of physical attraction to get in the way.
Some companies are cash cows and don't have to worry much about huge new innovations. Think of Coca Cola. Sure, they have to compete with Pepsi and are probably investing in new equipment but at the end of the day, they aren't entirely reinventing themselves the way most tech companies have to.
Thanks for the link, I thought the article would give readers the gist of the paper. Those who want to go deeper can read the full pdf.
The difference is complexity. There is no F = M * A waiting to be discovered based on human DNA. There may still be plenty of usefull things but there complex useful things with exceptions not simple universal laws.
In theory, I would love to say "go for it". But it won't work. Companies are too smart for that. You can probably negotiate a higher salary but you cannot use the argument "I am cutting the middleman, so can I get his share ?" The reason clients pay recruiters is because they are lazy and simply don't have time/inclination to go find candidates. Even if finding candidates just mean that the recruiters fish for your profile online somewhere, match a few keywords and reach out to you for the position.
Growth with no profits after 15 years? Amzn should make $5-$10 billion to justify it's $130Billion valuation. They will not gobble the world, Walmart, Costco and others are not going to roll over on a trillions and trillions of market.

By the way: a Good P/E is probably correlated with cash in bank, a higher buyout /sale price and likelihood of getting some cash back via dividends or share repurchases.
gun, you sound like a logical and un-biased man. I humbly await an answer to the question asked.
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> Side note: You may even be unconsciously censoring yourself in fear of losing karma.

I've thought about this, actually, and based on my comment/karma history, it appears that I'm too dumb to keep from blurting out things people downvote.

I'm free of the tyranny of the hivemind by virtue of ignorance and stupidity!
I think contracting is driving it by virtue of the corp. tax loophole for 1099 workers. By definition a 3rd party must handle the "temporary" 1099 workers.
Oh, that's 100% true. But there is free time after work and we all grew up as gamers, so that's what we love to do in our free time.
Please +1 this pip ticket if you feel that supporting TLS cert and GPG verification should be given the highest priority.

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/425

I think it's paramount that pip gets this done right now. Installing code directly from PyPI is extremely scary now and has been for years...
This is why learning how to be good at doing drugs is easily the best thing you can do for your health in terms of ROI. Drug use kills or contributes to the deaths of something like 1 in 3 Americans, meaning that if you want to live a long and health life then being good at doing drugs is just as important as eating healthy and exercising. Except for that unlikely eating healthy and exercising, which you have to do every day, when it comes to learning how to be good at doing drugs you just spending a couple months reading a handful of books and then you're done, that's it.
This is first year business school stuff here. In a five forces analysis[1] of Amazon, Wal-Mart would certainly be a substitute, not a rival.

In general it is true that Amazon has a high threat of substitutes. I think what @silverstorm, and this article, are trying to say is that rivalry for Amazon is pretty low, given how expansive their business is.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_five_forces_analysis
Is this really more a efficient way to transmit energy than electrical currents? Anyone has a link to a economic analysis?
Amazon is very far from being world-wide. Amazon is patchy, here and there in some countries in the world, which is much bigger than that.

Apple can cross borders much more easily, which it does.
I don't know, but from the Wine ARM wiki:

"""Possible goals: run the assembler parts of x86 in qemu and call function in Wine compiled for ARM"""
Is it easy to separate karma aquired from submissions and karma aquired from comments? My average comment karma is below 3 and I've only had a few comments over 20 but most of my karma has come from 2 or 3 submissions of interesting links, which seems almost like cheating.

I think the most karma I ever got was from being the first to post about Sublime Text 2. This was interesting but I only got the karma because I beat everyone else by a few seconds. I feel that's far less valuable than the odd thing I've spotted which no one else would have ever come across.

In the same way, I wonder how many people have high karma just because they are one of the first to comment on popular submissions.

Edit: typo (I wonder how proof reading my comment more would have affect my karma)
> when told she couldn't get what her children needed, she would say, "Who do I talk to to get an exception?" She understood very well that schools are bureaucratic organizations, and that all bureaucratic organizations have some higher bureaucrat who can make exceptions to rules.

That's excellent advice, and it's something I quite often. "I don't know your system, and so I don't know who to ask or what questions to ask. What do you suggest?" turns unhelpful conversations into productive discussion.

In the UK there has been some problem with photographing your children at school events. Schools claim compliance with a variety of laws, but the reality is they just don't want people taking photographs.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jun/23/photos-ch...)

(http://dpnow.com/7640.html)

> But only recently news emerged of a parent who, in 2007, was threatened with arrest by police as he arrived at his daughter's school if he proceeded to break the school's ban on photography at a nativity play. The same school in Leicestershire still has the ban in place, although photographs can be taken after the performance is completed.

This follows a weird restriction on photography in public in general in the UK. Youtube has many videos of people being told by police to stop taking photographs in public. This has been such a problem that one police service had to issue updated guidance.

(http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm)
"I just will feel guilty about screwing over another startup"

I like your confidence. Just by copying their idea, you think you will be able to screw their startup? Think again. It may not be as easy it might appear to you.

But again, should you copy the idea or do it better ? Sure, hell yea. Why not ? Most ideas are anyway a derivative of some other idea.

Stop worrying about this. Go build your stuff and ship it.
Sorry, but this is more than a start up. Here you define the negative conditions of a typical skunk works project rather than a start up.