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Silicon Valley is built on the demand by NASA and the military industry in the regions. Now angels are chasing successful deals there just because of historical reasons it all started there.

In small Bulgaria there are already 3 start-up accelerators.
Title and video being silly.. yes, but putting that aside....

IT sector in Bulgaria has increased dramatically over the years. And apart of the large companies having their offices (hp, vmware, vray, microsoft, google opening soon.. and few others) and potentially thousand of little studios that outsource on a global scale, there are good amount of engineers abroad.

With 2 startup incubators, 2 shared coworking spaces and the amount of people involved in IT is it good to think about expanding your team in Bulgaria probably yes (providing small pre-education will ensure your engineers fit your needs) Is it comparable with SV dont think so. But the percentage of young people working in the IT for such a small capital (Sofia) (estimating 2-2.5 million people) is rather high.
SV is all about investors. Ideas pop up everywhere, it'd be crazy to think that there aren't as many ideas popping up in Bulgaria, India or London. The problem is mostly with the environment -- investment culture and ease of running a business (how hard is it to deal with the state).

*Edit: gii, you're hellbanned.
iOS?

I'm too seeing a default Google page with just an entry field on it. Nothing else.
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With no defined height you can still use the `translate(-50%, -50%)` hack, right? I'm kinda surprised it hasn't been mentioned in this thread at all; I use it all the time. http://codepen.io/padolsey/pen/NqKzVG
I highly recommend people read the book "The Ascent of Finance" by Niall Ferguson. It was a change in finance and economics that helped propel the industrial revolution. The book really highlights how crucial finance was, above other factors such as new phhsics and engineering discoveries, which made the early days of capitalism possible.
Well, we want to minimize camera sizes, particularly for phones. Besides that, the only other reason to minimize sensor size is cost. But nicer/fancier digital cameras have bigger sensors. Look up "full frame sensor" and "three quarter frame", here's an example google result http://improvephotography.com/699/the-difference-between-ful...

I suppose that right now the resolution of this new self-powered camera is so low, it's hard to really compare the technology to traditional CCDs. Maybe it's fundamentally limited to less quality for the same sensor or lens size, since some of the light must power the controller and flash writing. I have no idea.
> We need to try to get the aid to those deserving, as opposed to the wastrels in the earlier example of my "friend," and similar lifestyle hobos, or in the case of those who are making a conscious bootstrapping decision like Austen and myself.

The easiest way to do that is to just help everybody. The money we already spend on welfare is enough to provide basic assistance to everybody, without wasting money on figuring out who doesn't deserve it and crafting elaborate schemes to keep them out. Not to mention that even when people are self-destructive like your acquaintance, helping them out can still be cheaper than dealing with the costs of their homelessness, like constant interactions with police and ER trips because they don't have a warm, sheltered place to sleep.

Our welfare systems are designed around a fear of free-riders, rather than to be simple and easy to administer.

Soup kitchens are a perfect example - sure, there's always a few people there who don't really NEED it, but trying to keep them out would be inefficient and use up more resources than the $2-3 of food they're getting.
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Everything you've said is true for me as well. But then people say things like "I need noise and stimulation to concentrate," whereas I can't get anything done unless I have total silence.

And I don't have ADHD.
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I became interested in Bulgaria last year after being granted a scholarship to study the language for a summer. After learning a bit about its history and thinking about its growing potential, I started working on (and am approaching completion of) a scifi game set in Bulgaria.

It'd be interesting if Bulgaria went on become a major tech hub in the future, if just to make my project somewhat prophetic. :)

More related, but after making my project public, I got quite a few small companies from around the region contacting me about wanting to do cross promotions with their games. I was rather surprised with the number of games coming out of the region, as well as the overall quality of them. The Balkans as a whole seem to have decent potential for tech growth, likely due to the low cost of living and fairly high percentage of english speakers.
Also, [0], since “All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection, ...”.

[0]: https://www.ostraining.com/blog/coding/bootstrap-right-way/
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I'm not interested in diving into what you mean by "full-throated support," but would instead like to ask, why shouldn't they? Why are those groups of people not worthy of support, full-throated or otherwise?

If those groups are now working to obtain more economic and political power, in a world that has historically and remains economically and politically skewed against them, why would anyone not support that?
That's a real problem. There's little need for a nosql database (except redis maybe, because it's so fast) if you're not trying to overcome partitions and ensure HA...
The point it makes adds to the story, but I think it's an awkward passage and I understand why it was cut.
It shows you're not a doctor, but you're right: it's complicated condition (maybe even "configuration") and on top of that it's hard to diagnose in adults, because they tend to have formed habits around this condition.

There's a crude test though: Take (a small dose) of Ritalin, Adderall or other stimulant that increases activity in the striatum and see:

* Do you mainly feel sweaty, agitated and super-alert: probably no ADHD.

* Do you feel like you're able to think properly for the first time in your life or get sleepy even -> hints to ADHD.
So much misinformation here. For one, Angular 2 will allow for server side rendering as well, as it doesn't rely on a DOM.

Secondly (and I already linked this in a separate comment), I built a very ugly but effective reddit angular client that receives no HTML whatsoever and renders pretty much instantly. This is in Angular 1.3 and much slower than Angular 2.0:

http://bredd.it.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/
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Not necessarily. A tax increase for the largest corporation might create opportunity to create smaller businesses.

Automation doesn't mean people have to live by it, on the contrary, we could still try to live away from large cities, and thrive by improving life standards. There is so much more thing to do in more rural, less populated areas now that technology is there.

The current problem is the anti competitiveness, that's what ruining young people: most of them just stick to the cities, where it's easier to be poor.
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The Laundry series by Charles Stross, though that probably has a better fit on BBC or SyFy.

HBO should give Dune the high production values grand costume drama adaptation it deserves.
My doctor has insisted that dextroamphetamine is not a resistance-inducing or habit-forming. I've found the later more true, though I've heard of folks who'll take "vacations" from it to try and reset what they feel like a tolerance.

I moved to a different country a few months after I was diagnosed (and since it's rightly a highly controlled medication in the US, couldn't take a long-term supply with me), so I've been able to observe myself both with and without the medication. If I can find a doctor with good enough English, I'd like to reestablish the prescription. Having that support from the dextro was like night and day, eventual tolerance or not.
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If I paste this into Safari on iOS it redirects to a blank Google page in my country: https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=cr&ei=yqk0VcmaLaa07QbeqoH4C...
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>> There is no mechanism that will force a quick contraction

I'm curious - what do you think the mechanisms are for unraveling private investment over exuberance?

Just for example, if we assumed that valuations are 100x above reality and things will continue getting worse for a few years. Is it effectively like sub-prime rather than 2000?

Sub-prime was pretty sudden with banks rushing to exit their positions. What could happen here? A couple of fire-sale IPOs and then all these investors have to admit their balance sheets are nonsense? Would this cause economic contagion or will it be the pension-funds that are left holding the bag?
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Nope. Completely opt-in.

Most of the people on these block lists are... I'm going to charitably describe them as "trolls". Generally, accounts are added for harassment, abusive or threatening behavior, outright hate speech, deliberately triggering someone's PTSD symptoms, encouraging specific suicidal people to commit suicide, and that kind of thing. Oh, and trying to evade a block, or encouraging others to harass someone.

On any even lightly moderated discussion forum, these users would have been banned. Most of this is actually against Twitter's TOS, and theoretically could be grounds for suspending an account, but Twitter doesn't really do anything about it. They know it happens, but haven't come up with any kind of workable solution yet.

Most of the users of the block lists are people who have been targetted by those same trolls, and who have chosen to just ignore them.

The people using the block lists tend to be women (especially feminists), various racial minorities, LGBT people (and related activists, especially transgender people), and various other marginalized groups. They are pretty much universally harassed for what they are, and for standing up for themselves against the standard pervasive sexism / racism / whatever.
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>I'm really surprised people on HN don't see the complexity

I never said it was a trivial problem. I said that it was a problem that the utility companies have a vested interest in not solving.

I'm really surprised that people on HN are blind to this.

>The power companies don't want it because the changes need to be paid for by current customers but only benefit ex-customers

This is false. The power companies do not want it even if it is paid for by current customers because even if it is, it eats away at their profit margins. Every kwh generated by a home owner's solar panel is not a kwh they are being paid for, even if they just use it themselves and don't transmit it across the grid.
Do you mean "The Ascent of Money"?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money
I first read this in grade school, and keep revisiting it decades later. My wife and I bonded over it when we met, and growing older, I find the messages even more apt.

I agree as well, the passage was best cut. It's a little too essay-like, a bit too wordy, in what was a scene where Meg could finally catch up with her father. But I'm really glad they found this and shared it, and it helps give a new perspective on what was guiding L'Engle's thoughts when she wrote the book.
This seems so obvious in hindsight. Why didn't someone find this 10 or 20 years ago?
Somewhat similar scenes of injustice are taking place in colleges in USA today. Courts composed of administrators without law training are judging using Preponderance of the Evidence as standard of proof instead of Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, without appeals and without ability to being represented by professional lawyer. And victims of this kangaroo courts are selected on basis of gender.

At least no torture is involved. That's a victory! /s
Coffee in the Nordic region is about many things, but taste is not high up on the list.
I agree with your point about the lcient, but there's always a client... What's missing in the postgresql test is high availability, redundancy and partition tolerance... Similarly any inprocess db would beat the competition :)

That's why I said it's unfair to say "postgresql did well".

Call me maybe is supposed to test all the difficult problems of CAP, which have not been tested at all with Postgresql.
That reminds me of a window forms program I wrote for a customer, I added the ability to do a right click, add comment to pretty much anything on the forms and controls. Getting that input simplified a lot of things. For one the context of what the user was complaining about was usually utterly obvious.

Sometimes a comment was a bug report. Or a feature request. Or just fixing my poorly written help docs.
I think you're on to something here. I was an avid musician as a pre-university student. My (obviously super scientific) data point suggests to me that as a decreased music rehearsal/learning through university, my academic performance tracked with a strong correlation. My academic high-point was probably the semesters in high school / secondary school where I had 3-4 hours of music instruction and practice per day.
How about an opt-in attribute to enable ordering then?

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Bulgaria has great potential for that, well-educated people, low income. Young people really want to start building something. Yet, most of them move away.

Politicians need to create a climate in which start-ups get support and funding. Most importantly: Bulgarians need to tackle corruption if they want their country to be successful in the future.
WritingOutliner (http://writingoutliner.com), is a Word addin that tries to help professional writers, including academic writers to write large scale documents, the main concept is splitting long documents into smaller trunks. The screenshots there will tell a lot.

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That's pretty nice, actually.
Dell XPS 15 L501x. Bought it in 2011, battery doesn't work anymore, replaced HDD twice and upgraded RAM. Still going strong and I expect it will server for another couple of years. I use it primarily as my home computer, because it is a bit bulky to carry around. But one hell of a laptop.
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A fairer way would be to treat electricity transmission as the natural monopoly that it is and to ensure that companies that do generation are not involved in transmission and vice versa.

Transmission would be better handled by local government. If they want to favor homeowners' solar panels, so be it. If they want to favor the local power plant, again, so be it.

If you let generators run the grid then they will do everything in their power to kill any forms of competing power and they will succeed thanks to their monopoly power.

There is no intrinsic reason why rooftop solar shouldn't be given subsidies (direct or indirect), also. It is greener than almost all alternatives, after all.
it's called marketing ;)
Divs with display:table/table-row/table-cell _are_ non-semantic tables.
Anything by Larry Niven really. Mote in God's Eye was also fantastic.
Personally, I'm thoroughly fed up of the tactic. So many things look interesting, and then never see the light of day. Once bitten, twice shy, I don't bite any more.

Speaking with some of my friends and colleagues, I'm not the only one.
A big part of the problem is lumping all drugs together in the first place and painting them with the same broad brush.

While it may be true there's no non-self-destructive reason to use some drugs (meth and heroin come to mind), there are plenty of others that many people are able to use responsibly and gain enjoyment, insight, or other benefits from.

MDMA, for example, while widely abused, has shown great promise as a therapeutic tool for treatment of PTSD and can have powerful strengthening effects on relationships. Is it your place to tell someone who stands to benefit greatly and plans to use this drug responsibly that there's no good reason for them to do it? Shouldn't that be up to them?
Ah yes that one, I was going off memory.
HP laptop from 2009. Kind of underpowered but add a SSD, extended battery, and some ram and it gets the job done.
I did the online tests (which were pretty difficult, a lot of logic), and I was admitted to get in to do some additional testing.

It's in Paris, and the cost of living there is astronomic. Thanks but no thanks.

On top of that, what's the point of taking the smartest young individuals and teaching them how to be engineers ? It's elitist. I agree that the fact that it being free is great, but to me, those students would have been great programmers without that school.

It's easy teaching kids who already know almost everything.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/05/data-best-programming-tale...

"Another way to look at the country numbers is to determine the average country ranking of Stack Overflow users above the 5,000 rating threshold. On this basis, Bulgaria has the highest average reputation among top users in the
world. Here’s how: If we sum up the reputation of Stack Overflow’s top users by country, and divide it by the number of top users, we get each county’s “average reputation”. Bulgaria has “only” 40 users with a 5,000+ reputation, but their total score makes it the country with the highest average reputation in the world. In other words, if you are top user in Bulgaria, chances are you a total Stack Overflow rockstar."
Sure. I think this school is very useful and a genius idea btw. I just don't think that it will be the key to creating the new google in France. Unless it becomes so popular that it starts to attract people who are strong in maths ( at first this school attracted people that didn't fit in the very math oriented french education).
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Since 2005, 9 % of global billion dollar exits have come from the Nordics[1], a region less populated than Germany. In comparison, the rest of Europe only accounted for 8 % of global billion dollar exits. So the Nordics win, hands down, here.

Also, between 2000 and 2014 Sweden saw 263 exits valued at $23.7 billion. That's more exits than the rest of the Nordics put together.

I would say Stockholm is a safer bet than Berlin :)

[1] http://arcticstartup.com/2015/03/16/creandum-9-of-global-bil...
Isn't that the neighborhood currently undergoing a huge corporate gentrification? If it's what I'm thinking, there was a great article on it I read last year that I'm sure I'll not be able to find, talking about how the startups are being pushed out by skyrocketting rent from all the posh folks filling it up to make themselves, their companies, law offices etc. seem hip.
Don't underestimate "19th century factory style" school systems. I think it's dangerous how fast rote memorization is put aside, when it's the only reliable means of reproducibly teaching certain topics.

On the other hand, deep learning researchers now make their neural networks memorize and reproduce their input, in order to better understand and deal with the data. There's a lesson to be learned here!
Maybe it's pointless.
In Europe we have this hope to find/create a Silicon Valley to compete against US. The problem is, we simply can't. We don't have, as well said before, the "Siliconvallish" investor. We can keep trying, but it's a culture problem, we need to change that, then maybe we can try to compete.

Silicon Valley is not about ideas or just tech-companies, is about investors and culture. In Europe experimenting is very very difficult, I worked on a project involving big data, predictions and very advanced live stuff that at the moment are hot in SV, but in Europe investors look not interested or ready to support this field. Another huge problem is the poor ability of European investors in following the tech-trend. 6 months ago I did a presentation about a product I was working on, looking for fundings, it was for one of the biggest VC/Incubator (focusing on medtech, green energy and hi-tech) in Switzerland and at the of the presentation I have been asked by the president what "a phone notification is" and "what is bluetooth LE", so I spent my QA time answering basic questions about the current technology instead about the product I was working on. I know not all European VCs have a similar mindset, but the general importance order for an European VC is: intellectual property protection, amount of money required to release, high market barriers looking for no short-term competition and, lastly, shipping time.

An American investor doesn't care too much about competition, as long as the company provides a far better service (with a clear real advantage) this is not an issue, IP is important, but only if the product gains traction and goes mainstream (so it means $ that mean patents), the amount of money as well is not an issue, with so many VCs you can manage to get all necessary fundings if the product is valid, so what really matter is entering in the market as soon as possible with something that is good enough. These are just few examples I faced, but there are many other differences...
Several of Wagtail's users are using it just like this - a tool for authoring and managing content, with an API for delivering content to web, mobile and print channels.

Here's the API documentation:

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Asus EEE pc 701. Tiny, underpowered, glorious. Lasted five years and got very hard use for pretty much every day.

I wish more computers were made from the same plastic.
btw vray (or Chaos Group) is actually a bulgarian company
> In fact, most people think it's weird that I live downtown. It's definitely not a common choice around here.

That's a good thing, it keeps prices down.

I live on 1st & Union.

Everything is next door:

- the market, Target, Kress, dry cleaners, all downtown stores

- all the bus lines stop on 3rd, 4th or 5th

- the light rail station is 2 blocks away

- numerous bars and restaurants in a 3 blocks radius

- Belltown is 5 min away

- Capitol Hill is 15 min away

- Pioneer Square is 10 min away

- the waterfront is 2 min away

I have a room, with view on the Puget Sound, with my own bathroom in a 2 bedrooms apartment (1200+ sqft) with a parking spot.
The building has a doorman and all utilities, even internet are included. I pay $1,250 / month.

It is a bargain compared to other neighborhoods.
No, it's not. For one thing, even at this pace Bulgaria's IT industry will take years or decades to come to close to even certain other cities in Europe.

Secondly, Bulgaria has a well deserved reputation in Europe of being plagued by corruption.
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