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>I have researched it, I know this topic much better than you do, and at present ADHD is firmly in the pseudoscience category.

You refuse all the decades and heaps of evidence by some summary hand-waving over what science is supposed to be. The idea, that double blind trials are required to call anything science is ridiculous, and you prove it by not admitting any double-blind trials as evidence in favor of the existence of ADHD...

Your rant about the DSM is completely off topic. Which might be explainable by your obvious complete lack of medical training, and arguably little understanding about scientific methods in general. Otherwise I just can't explain why you want to prove the non-existence of ADHD by saying that some diagnostic manual (which isn't the only way or manual to diagnose ADHD, btw) is not useful in medical research. You don't even acknowledge the difference between medical research and medical practice.

There is a course by coursera called "Pay attention: ADHD through the lifetime". This course offers a thorough examination about diagnostic criteria, symptoms, neuroanatomy and treatment. ADHD is a physical thing that can be shown physically.

If you were inclined to listen to scientific evidence, you could go to google scholar and read any of the dozens of double-blind studies where children are diagnosed with ADHD, get treatment, and improve in several objective and subjective measures.

But, probably, while thousands of real scientists aggree on the validity of these studies, you will probably find some reason, why this evidence is not clear enough to draw conclusions you donb't like.

"DSM contains conditions which don't have physical/physiological manifestations" is not proof for ADHD not existing. For one thing, because these physical and physiological features have been well studied...
Ah, I missed that you were specifically talking about -webkit-box-sizing use there!
I went through a Montessori school and struggled to make the transition to regular education resulting in poor grades, mostly due to me being bored. On one hand it lets syudents explore curiosity but on the otherhand it doesn't teach important skills like paying attention. As I learned in college not everything can be learned by doing, or perhaps that it would take too long to do everything by hand.

I had to learn these the hard way, my
and cannot recommended the system. Interestingly in practice Montessori education is not a chouce between traditional and experimental education, but rather a choice between dysfunctional public schools or experimental education.
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They may not "compose", whatever the hell that means, but they do work, despite the lies of teachers' union shills like David Kirp.
It depends on the version. More recent releases (that is, >= 9.2) do have native JSON support, but it's still young — though steadily improving.
Technology is very winner take all. Like peter theil says, last mover advantage is high. Google has largely ended the race for the market to develop search, and microsoft was the last enterprise operating system. So the top VCs typically have access to the top entrepreneurs. However, this is a huge industry and the best VCs and the best entrepreneurs are in minority.

So the rest of the companies, most of which are not great or innovative, get funded by finance VCs who want to maximize return, but are not as connected, knowledgeable or high-profile as someone like DFJ or Sequia. Basically the A team entrepreneurs get funded by the A team VCs and everyone lese pretty much get's beaten by them.

Good VCs make money for their LPs which is why it is so hard to get into those funds.
I guess, but honestly using a JSON parser sounds like less work. I mean, using regexes for this quick job is fine, it just sounded weird.
While I am all for companies and software to expedite data cleaning, I don't think any software can cleanly solve this problem in the near future.

1. Data hygiene issues show up inconsistently, even within the same data source: I experienced this first-hand as a quant trader: I only had half a dozen, well-structured time series data coming from our trading apps and switches. You would think that I can get reasonably clean data every day, or failing that, being able to automate the data cleaning script. Nope! I experienced every data hygiene issue imaginable: from ntpd being broken, local time/UTC inconsistencies, switch firmware acting up, all the way to human errors in the ETL process. Building a reliable data pipeline has so many moving parts that I am fairly pessimistic about any one-stop solution.

2. Then there is a volume issue. If the data is small enough, humans can correct them fairly reliably, especially with some help from automation scripts/software. That said, doing this at scale is a very hard problem. One thing I learned working at a big data company is that many folks use MapReduce as a data cleanser at scale, and for that, MapReduce is a pretty awkward tool.

3. Anecdotal evidence: I have talked to employees at various big data platform/software companies, and though they have a wide ranging opinions on stream processing, Hadoop, Spark, etc., they all agree data cleaning is a huge pain/deal-slowing/-killing nemesis/unsolved problem that their employers semi-solve with increasing Sales Engineer headcounts. If this issue of solving data cleaning at scale was easy, I feel that someone would have come up with a very effective answer by now (and as an industry insider, I should have heard about it).
It's a paint program that lets you draw on non-square grids. http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/
If you can't build it, then you can't build it. I don't think you can expect people smarter than you to do the work for you and still let you take all the benefits.

(unless you can pay a decent wage of course)
Reading this sentence from the article reminded me of Computrace:

because even a rudimentary NTFS driver would require at least several tens of kilobytes of space when compressed

The Computrace option ROM is a little over 20KB (compressed), yet it contains much of the functionality of the NSA backdoor described in the article - including write-support drivers for FAT/FAT32/NTFS.

http://securelist.com/analysis/publications/58278/absolute-c...

So the reason for using the RAID controller's option ROM may be for stealth instead of size restrictions, and it also means that, if the NSA can tell Absolute what to do, they already have a BIOS-level backdoor into nearly everyone's machines.
why isn't this on the homepage...

hell, this is a better homepage all together.
While I agree that Firewire never went after the low end, it is that very fact why it, in the end, failed. We had a plethora of ports in the olden days, slow ones like serial, parallel, and PS/2, for modems, printers, and input devices, and we even had SCSI ports for external storage, and ethernet jacks for networking. Those days were terrible. We converged into a few physical ports than can do all of that for a reason, and that reason was because we wanted something inferior. The reason was because one port is better for humans. Computers are here to make our lives easier, not the reverse. Firewire was good for external storage and moving large amounts of data (like audio/video) fast, and when USB became as good, while also handling everything else, then Firewire became obsolete, as it was yet another port to take up space and cable to hang on to and lose. USB has greater utility than Firewire due to its flexibility of being a very nearly universal port.

USB wasn't necessary invented as a competitor to Firewire, but it's not a myth that it became one, and it won in the end.
Does this confuse causation? If governments are lauching large scale information gathering and hacking, doesnt this mean tensions are already high? Is Russian military equipment a better indicator of growing tensions?
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> need mental health treatment.

That's a fantastically stigmatising view of mental illness.
The biggest list of learning apps, many of which do support SRS is http://www.flashcardapps.info/

It's iOS only but my point is to show how there is a huge variety even for iOS users.

I did my own free SRS flashcards app and focus much on cooperative content creation:
https://fluxcards.de/

My suggestion is to try it out if you never did as it is truly amazing. It can't replace a teacher or actually using what you are trying to learn but it can make sure 100% that you learn faster and never forget facts that you want to make sure you know. Try Anki or any other other SRS app if you don't want to fall for my bold self-advertisement but try it out. It's worth it and should be known by all.
> If an employee only loses their company 50K this year compared to losing 100K if another guy had the job... then he's worth 50K to the company. Is paying him a couple of grand really that big of a deal?

You know what would happen in this situation. The employee would be fired.
The most important equation in that was this:

Dr * (1 – EQ) + Er * EQ
Where: Dr = the appropriate return for debt funding invested
Er = the appropriate rate for equity funding invested
EQ = the proportion of funding invested as equity

While it does not take into account risk it separates out private equity vs loans. If you get a loan at 6% for 90% of a project's costs and that project returns 6.5% then your private equity return is 6.5% + 9 * .5% = 11%.

Thus, if you can get a vary low interest loan say 2% your private return can be high even if the project barely breaks 2%. Why might he be able to get a loan for 2%, well China might look at having an alternative to the panama cannal in another country as worth a vary low interest loan.

Or far more likely IMO the project might be building more than just a canal as infrastructure projects often make other local investments vary valuable. AKA build a subway and now every apartment within walking distance is suddenly worth significantly more.
It's possible for a closed-source product to be written by experts, while the open-source competitor is only written by hobbyists. When it comes to crypto, you probably want the experts.

Also, someone needs to actually audit the source code for the 'open-source' part to really come into play (other than from the discontinuation of support angle). Even with open source code, it's only really been recently that TrueCrypt itself ever got any sort of in-depth audit.
Further I don't think that making it easier to get involved is helping. The ideas of incubators and demo days and all that kind of stuff means really well. But it's along a faulty line of thinking IMO. It goes like this: making it easier to start a company will get more people involved and increase dealflow and that'll increase successful outcomes.

The problem is that as many people have said, tenacity or stubbornness or gumption are highly valued for founding a company. There's the assumption that bringing more people into the startup ecosystem won't substantially change the demographics and thus the statistically likely outcomes. Making it easier doesn't cause everyone to have less gumption but it does lower the bar which allows people with less in and that lowers it on average.

Changing the demographics like that seems to be somewhat self-defeating in a way. It just increases the pool of candidates from which the VC has to successfully winnow down to the ones he/she thinks have the best odds of going ballistic. The game is harder, not easier.

I think a large part of the problem is that the country/world as a whole doesn't change fast enough. In order for a VC to bag a 1000x return it's got to be a national or global scale company. For that to happen the whole world or a substantial fraction thereof must learn about the company and want to avail themselves of the products or services. That's a few billion people you've got to convince; these companies are largely consumer-oriented as of late. But human beings only spend so much leisure time learning about new things to do or buy or what-have-you. It's very, very difficult to convince the whole friggin world to change within the roughly 10 year timeframe of a particular VC fund.

Investing in companies which need more money to have a reasonable chance at success sounds really dumb until you analyze the situation a bit. In those cases, money might well be the real limitation rather than the entire world. As such a VC might have a little more control over the outcome and that's an edge.
It depends.

If your startup is focused on providing a service that is truly innovative and not being done today:

-you may be able to sacrifice on craftsmanship in order to get the MVP out the door

-the fact that you are providing a new and novel service will buy you some time to get the design straightened out.

-it will also give you a mechanism for collecting feedback on the product, including customer criticism/praise and usage data.

HOWEVER, if your service only provides incremental innovation/benefit over competitors - or you are targeting a demographic that heavily prioritizes design in buying decisions:

-you really should invest in the design of your product upfront.

-it doesn't have to be perfect and you should have no expectation of not iterating based on feedback

When making decisions about where to spend design money, always prioritize the resources that are figuring out how the app will work. The screens, controls, and logic of the app make your product. You can skimp on the visual design aspect of things if you need to - but make sure you nail the experience from a flow perspective.

:)
"A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets. If that objective is persistently left unaccomplished, investors will allocate their capital elsewhere."

Presumably the level of returns in the equity market is somewhat dependent on the amount of new business entering the equity market and therefore the on the amount of VC capital available, so it doesn't necessarily follow that you do expect to see massive profits from your overall VC investment if you are a large enough investor to consider it to be part of safeguarding your equity investments.
Derek Lowe covered this here:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/08/13/sulfates_and...
You would think they learned a lesson about centralized closed source services. There are many decentralized FLOSS alternatives to twitter.
Spit the hook. lutusp is effectively trolling when the discussion is anywhere near psychiatry.
Did you mean 3D Studio on DOS?
Another thing:

> Is paying him a few million really that big of a deal?

Paying anyone, anything, is supposed to be a huge deal. Employees get fired for sub performing for even a few weeks to a month! And we're not talking millions of dollars here, we're talking thousands. How can anyone think of "a few million" as an afterthought? That's easily the salary of 50 people. If the CEO deserves it, show us how that he is better than the 50 people we could have hired. And I mean what he specifically did, and not the 10,000 engineers under him.
I think perhaps we are thinking different things by "take control", and perhaps "get heavily involved" would be a better way to phrase it. Ask questions, do research, and discuss treatment options. It's also important to know your own limitations (and confirmation bias is always a human limitation).

While I feel comfortable with my knowledge in certain areas[1], I definitely don't have the breadth of knowledge a doctor does (and the more specialized the doctor, the more true that is). But even in that situation, after a visit to the doctor, it's time to hit the books and understand what is really going on, what the current state of research is, and what options exist.

1. Yes, I do believe there are certain, narrow areas where I am more knowledgable than the average doctor, but these are areas that are, unfortunately, not covered well in medical school. I consider it unfortunate because they are also areas (most likely) underlying much of the chronic illness in the US and other Western countries.
Awesome (and addicting) games.

Also particularly impressive as the creator(s) seem to be high school students.
But if there are no examples of the principle, the principle would seem to be questionable.

Disguising yourself being an additional, quasi-separate offense puts it into the pattern of hate crimes, where a legal action harshens the penalty for an illegal one. But it doesn't illustrate the idea that an offense can be composed solely of actions which are all individually OK; if you're banned from a store you commit an offense by entering it, and entering in disguise necessarily involves entering.

It's probably worth mentioning blackmail, which is a standard example of a crime made up solely of legal acts. But that very property of blackmail has meant that judges (and some legal theoreticians) hate it and try not to extend what sorts of conduct might be considered blackmail or draw analogies to blackmail when considering other crimes.
The part that really irks me is the optimization for revenue that seems to occur with red light camera intersections. They are hoping that you will run the light.

For instance, a north-south road has the red. The intersecting east-west road has a left turn arrow. The north-south's right turn lanes should be able to turn, and before the cameras were installed, they simply had yield signs. But now that there's money to be made, there is no turn on red.

Another variation on the same idea: The north-south road's light is turning red. The east-west road will get a left turn arrow, and the north-south road will get a right turn arrow. Before the cameras were installed, the right turn arrows started at the same time as the yellow in the same direction, so right turners didn't have to stop. Now that there's $100 per violation to be made, there is a 3 second delay between red light and right turn arrow.
Where did we get this idea that a CEO is the one earning or losing every dollar that passes through the company? Is everybody insane?
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This looks like it's well suited for isometric drawings. Is that the intent?
I don't think we are. I bet that a modern Hitler could slowly exploit the same reactions in the general population and have the same arguments against opponents as used before.

It already happens where I live where we have what I'd consider a mean government in power, winning the vote based on fears over financial position and terrorists and Muslims and whatever else.

I think the belief that we're more wary and would "see it coming next time" is quite dangerous.
I collaborated on a project related to epsilon Aurigae, the grad student who led the way was able to image an occulting disc using interferometry on the star system at 2000 light years!

http://www.universetoday.com/62159/astronomers-image-mysteri...

Nature article: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7290/full/nature0...
This explains the crazy valuations we are seeing now. I've always been wondering who is benefiting from the huge valuations: definitely not the employees and to some extent, the founders, as all their worth are not liquid. So the ones benefiting from the high valuations are VCs, who has incentives to raise bigger and bigger funds.
Needs a [2007] in the title.
Communities really do still exist. My advice is travel through the developing world for awhile... you'll see the difference. I also find big-city western lifestyle suffocating.
R.mutt says its art.
You kids and your fancy API's. I remember back in the day when we had to... something something regexes.
It might be a myth that Firewire failed to beat USB as you say but it doesn't seem too far off to say that USB succeeded in beating Firewire. I don't think the article was too far out of bounds in portraying it as a competition.
Do you think the closed-source crypto did get any sort of audit?

From what I gather, crypto experts are strongly opposed to closed-source crypto.
is there someone i can give money to yet to reserve a pyra?
That all makes sense, but you didn't propose an explanation for why people are choosing to put their money into VC rather than an apparently better-performing investment.
Can we PLEASE not refer people to penlight anymore? It's half broken, poorly documented, and poorly maintained. It drives me crazy to see it referred to all over the place as a good example of anything.

That being said, this is FANTASTIC. Due to the nature of lua it may well always lack a good community but thankfully people seem to be trying.
But no VC hands out executive roles to anyone they don't believe to be top talent; they'd destroy their own career, reputation, and compromise the returns of their fund.

Well, then they're just really awful at judging talent, because founder quality is at an inexcusable low.

I doubt they'd destroy their careers by placing incompetent people in these startups. Why? Most of them fail anyway, and that's part of the design. Also, most non-founder executive roles are sinecures.
God forbid we should use treatments that could reduce suffering in patients...
A private consultant tooting his own horn with no timeline corroborating his claims of causation. When exactly did the spikes happen?
I completely agree. However I think there is also plenty of room for improvement in the ETL process that doesn't necessarily mean a one-stop solution.

For example, the common denominator data format for many use cases (not all) is a relational database. Why isn't there something that can grab data from anywhere in any common format and import it into a relational database with only a couple commands or mouse clicks? Right now the situation is that you either have to pay a lot of money for such a tool which usually doesn't work very well or you piece together the various data conversion tools with scripts. There is of course a lot of other steps in the ETL process, but that alone would save a lot of time.
Is working in the sharing economy more uncertain that the same people working somewhere else?
The short version:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1520800/why-regexp-with-g...
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Good. Bringing the deals in house lowers costs (ever meet an ibanker that didn't take a decent chunk), increases flexibility (no intermediaries) and let's deals move faster.

It's like buying and selling a house without paying for a real estate agent. Both parties save on time and fees.
No, not yet :) Preorders should be available later this year, i guess.
Are there alternatives to penlight you'd recommend?
Why do you expect the average government to care more about workers can the average "sharing economy" company?
PL is an enormous library so its really superseded by a few different libraries. The stuff I used most often were the functional tools and Moses (https://github.com/Yonaba/Moses/) blows the doors off of PL in that regard.
But the problem is still the "public" part of it. A private company can generally not put up red lights cameras and start forcing people to pay fines without direct cooperation with the government.
Yup, I've done a bit with 9.2, and it accepts JSON just fine (although not with automatic string conversion) but it's a short road to wishing the data were in standard tables and columns.
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Am I missing something? This is just a review of some MTV reality TV show. Why is this article interesting to anyone (least of all Hacker News readers)?
We are known locally and everywhere else for our political corruption. I think it extends way past politics though. I have lots of local connections – the "I'll scratch your back you scratch mine" mentality is strong around here. I would be shocked if we were unique for it, but it seems to be a common feature of the land.