skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal anecdote: people (incl. doctors) laugh at me when I say I may (within 3-sigma) have ADHD, either because "that's for kids only", or because "it's just a myth and I should get my act together and quit being lazy". I have no hope of getting any form of medication for my condition.

I was lucky enough to discover a few sports (snowboarding, rollerskating, climbing) at the right time i my life that managed, unbeknownst to me, to get me through the parts of life where I needed the most focus (incl. my degree). Things went downhill when I started to work and got a car, which dramatically reduced my physical activity, up until I picked myself up and went running, then skateboarding. This changed my quality of life on so many levels: although I still get both periods of numbness and hyperfocus, the positive feedback loops are much more frequent and negative feedback loops much less so. I still have to take great conscious care about not exerting (physically or mentally) myself too much because there seems to be no warning telling me "hey this is too much" and I regularly wear myself out. Still, I now have control over my life, but the fact that all of this I had to find myself early in my 30s and still get scorned at to this day is terrible: how many are being cast away as either unruly or lazy and left to their own devices?
Anywhere except where you want creative intellectual work to happen.
They have an API http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/contrib/api/
AFAIK the PNG format does not provide for animation. You'd need to use another format such as MNG or APNG. Am I mistaken?
No, it's a clear tenet of Wagtail's design that it should place no restrictions on how you render content.
Technology have always made some jobs obsolete. 100 years ago, jobs like barrel maker, timber floater was among top 10 jobs. None of those jobs exists anymore. There will always be new jobs, new possibilities. Automation make products cheaper as a general rule even thought the central bankers try and reduce the value of money as much as possible.
Normal people today can buy stuff every day which even Kings could do 100 years ago. Electronics, but also food from all over the world which is available all year.

But why do we still work as much as we do?
If you watch the video, there is nothing that suggests Satya is not talking about the way things are in the workplace, not they way they should be. I just don't see where you are getting this idea from. Do you have a single source for this?
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They didn't claim "ownership". People seem to forget jews didn't invade this land militarely. Under the ottoman empire or the british empire that would have been foolish. They purchased pieces of land.

Only when the empire collapsed after two world wars, and israel was created, did people start to fight overall the country.

Let's not inverse the chronology here. They didn't come from russia and ukraine with guns, but with agricultural tools. The Tel aviv region was built from scratch out of swamps and rocks that noone wanted. It wasn't "claimed". The fact that population got displaced is a result from wars, that happened after the state was created, and which were absolutely not part of the initial project.
For my ADHD a combination of ritalin, a LOT of sport (martial arts) and playing the piano did wonders. About a year of the sport and I've managed to lower my dose by about 50%.
The trouble in Bulgaria is, almost any profession outside of IT is paid laughably low. This creates an atmosphere where a lot of young people see this industry as the only viable career choice.

A commonly held belief is that IT can somehow propel the rest of the country out of poverty and corruption, but this is not realistic - the amount of people employed in that sector is still negligible compared to the rest (and it barely exists out of Sofia).
> Myself (and many others) have also been stigmatised from getting the correct medication because of a fear becoming addicts.

No. For most people with long term pain opiate meds are the wrong choice. Those people need rapid access to specialist pain clinics; cbt for pain; short term pain meds to enable them to take part in physiotherapist guided exercise; and possibly weightloss.

Opiate pain meds for long term use are not effective for most people; and are addictive. It is wrong to give someone a med that won't work and that has side effects and that carries a risk of addiction when there are less risky, non-addicting, better solutions to try first.
It's just as well this passage was cut. Can you imagine this book having had any kind of readership in America had she dared be critical of the U.S. in her writing at the height of the Cold War?!

The book would have been burned in McCarthyist witch-hunts, she would have been arrested as a communist sympathiser.

She only had to substantially obfuscate the message of her book to manage to get it published in a backwards, repressive regime which fancies itself as a bastion of freedom.
Sorry for using monkey coders term, just took it back from the original comment. My comment was not meant to be elitist at all. I know that Epitech/Epita produces lot of great coders, no problem with that.

The thing is that the french system lacks a proper CS education.
"Grandes Ecoles" has the best student but offers pretty limited courses in CS (except maybe TPT, not that sure) and not that much coding experience. Universities are the only offering deep theory education and sometimes good coding experience but their degree are not well recognized so they don't attract good students. As a consequence private schools try to fill the gap by offering a great education in programming, however lacking the CS foundation.
No, the ads are to install other mobile apps. The advertiser of the mobile app (say, for instance, Clash of Clans) only pays FB after the app is actually installed on the device. For instance, on iOS, those FB mobile ads open up the Apple App Store. From there, the uesr still has to click "Install".

I think it's safe to say that 99.99%+ of app installs are on purpose. No one really "accidentally" installs an app on his or her phone.
Open Source needs to become a charity. Most businesses don't mind wasting resources on charity as long as it generates good PR.

Two day manifesto makes it sound like a tax. Companies don't like taxes.
Postgresql doesn't even try to scale horizontally.

Regarding Mongodb, all I'll say is that I've switched from mysql to mongodb 2 years ago, and I've never looked back. YMMV.

I'm also a user of ElasticSearch and Redis, and looking to add Couchbase to the lot. One size doesn't fit all. mysql and postgres certainly don't fit all either.
Hm, had you said 1978, I would have gotten the reference (Spoiler: TeX, though maybe not really 2-column at the time?). Did you have something specific in mind when writing 1979?
First, thank you for the information. It is still very much an edge-case, though. Most HTML ist published on the web, not in emails and most emails are plain text. A few have very simple formatting in HTML. Very few actually have a complex layout, and how many of those could possibly benefit for vertical alignment? And that tiny fraction, if viewed in Outlook 2010 will display - well - not centered.
CPI dramatically understates inflation, because non-compressible, and non-substitutable items are excluded (such as fuel.) The basket of CPI goods is arbitrary and changed from time to time to massage the numbers, and the things that would show inflation the best are excluded from the calculation.

Unfortunately, the correct measure of inflation is monetary inflation, but the fed stopped publishing the numbers to derive that over a decade ago-- about the point when inflation was regularly exceeding %10 a year.

At this point, to be honest, with the FOMC's efforts to "manage" the "markets", which really means, manipulating the economy to make the Fed's inflationary policies seem less damaging, and the fed's direct monetization of treasuries (an open secret) the economy is pretty highly distorted.

This makes these kinds of comparisons wrong, but it also means the economy itself is in a bubble because the distortion obscure the true price of money leading to mal investment.

Eventually this will no longer be sustainable.
Hi Eric, thanks for an AMA.

I build a startup for entrepreneurs who want to create a web or mobile app with no programming experience. For example you can create a wordpress clone or more complex apps like CRM without coding knowledge. Or you can buy an app and you can modify it for your needs.

Can you give me some advice?
Don't forget the large amount of state aid flowing into Silicon Valley due to the massive US defense budget. Bulgaria does not have trillion dollar jet fighter projects, surveillance satellites, large-scale graph databases for NSA/CIA/Homeland Security, various nuclear weapons systems, ... - all which demand many many billions for innovations in software and systems every year..

History lesson: http://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Yup. And that description pretty much backs it up too. SV has the same problem.

Exposed air conditioning ducts above one's head used to be the sign of an unfinished office undergoing renovation. Now in London it is the sign of hip and cool startups, or more established firms going through a mid-life crisis ;)
I just wonder when people will stop searching, creating, copying Silicon Valley.
France doesn't have such thing as student debt, higher education is close to free in the public system(tuition <1K€/yr)
Every area in the US that isn't the Valley tries to claim it has, or is working on, an equivalent. They are mostly where you are in terms of replicating the valley.
this is blogspam for the actual press release available here (PDF):
https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/NewsFeed/GetNews?Title=Q1%20201...
(everything except the two quotes in the blog post are in the press release + a lot more info)

All of the historical data is also available on money tree's website:
https://www.pwcmoneytree.com/HistoricTrends/CustomQueryHisto...

Clearly, even after adjusting for inflation, we haven't hit what was seen during 2000 yet

Note also, that this is the best _first quater_ since 2000... it's actually 10% less than q4-2014 (8% fewer deals).
Has the 20-20-20 rule actually been scientifically verified as the optimal regime for relieving eye strain or was it something thought up by some bloke off the top of his head?
Outlook 2007+ use MS Word as email layout engine, instead of Trident (Internet Explorer). MS Word "web view" is based on Frontpage (which itself forked of trident) and produces broken HTML 4 output.

The HTML email world is stuck with HTML 4.1, inline CSS and many corner cases (worse than the IE6 era!).
Whether Palestine was ever a nation or a kingdom is completely irrelevant to the issue, it seems we agree on this. So the argument made by bsaul that

"No palestinian kingdom or nation has ever existed, and this land was under the ruling of turks since the 13th century, and it has belonged to many different people througout history. Saying that only the arabs are legitimate there is a strange view of history."

has no relevance whatsoever. The only thing that matters is who was occupying the land, and by what means they have been displaced.

IfAmericansKnew.com is not recognized to be an anti semitic website save from those who have a political interest in declaring so (namely, zionist organizations like the Anti Defamation League).

Sure, having being evicted loses you the right of return, at least after a couple thousands years. Living people matters, remote history is an abstract concept.

Finally, I think nobody here has advocated the destruction of Israel. To me, the same principles apply to Israel than those that I've been applying to Palestine: you can't displace people against their will. Settlers are few and recent, they can be removed from the land they're illegally occupying. The rest of Israel will stay where it is, it just has to stop the aggression and the land grabbing.
> Personal anecdote: people (incl. doctors) laugh at me when I say I may (within 3-sigma) have ADHD, either because "that's for kids only", or because "it's just a myth and I should get my act together and quit being lazy". I have no hope of getting any form of medication for my condition.

If those are UK doctors I politely urge you to complain.

Otherwise, try showing them this: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg72/resources/cg72-attenti...
People have JS disabled without their intent. Corporate security standards, broken JS in CDN served libraries, mobile proxy browsers, the list goes on…
And the things you do to properly align stuff in CSS are anything but simple. You took the complexity from the place where it could be well-defined and heavily optimized and have it to the hands of every developer to do it in their own, broken way.
The great value of unit testing is reproducibility. You can't always find the cause of the bug just from failed test logs. You might need to re-run the test to debug and tweak the code. And if your test is randomly failing, it would be quite tricky to do that.

Randomness is OK. Just make sure that RNG yields the same values each time test run. For example in Java the class Random is guaranteed to yield the same values for the same seed. I'm not sure that JavaScript has this class, probably you'll have to write your own version or find it in some library.
Long-term effects of a ketogenic diet in obese patients
I always enjoy reading others have these behaviors. My wife thinks it's funny how I pace when on the phone. Sometimes I even move from room to room and back, pacing the house.

I have recently been working from home, and one of the added benefits is I can take a walk and it's not a big deal and no one bothers me. At work it was awkward walking the parking lot and usually people would stop and try to chat. walks significantly lower my anxiety level and help me focus.

I use the White Noise app on my phone with the rain on a tent sound loaded to get to sleep. It's a great little app, takes me significantly less time to sleep.

Showers are great, I also enjoy a long drive during periods of little or no traffic. Really anything where I'm thinking and engaged but also sort of in autopilot - routine acts.

I didn't realize I had ADHD until I was older, and I went to therapy for anxiety and depression. When I was young I struggled a lot, but it was always approached from the angle of discipline and 'just focus and get it done.' I started to develop bad habits of internally beating myself up when I couldn't focus, or I realized a simple homework item was taking me ages - usually because I'd stop to read something out of a novel, or work on a drawing, or just doodle all down the sides of my paper. Then I'd bring myself back, "C'mon, don't be an idiot, this is easy." I developed the same bad habit for depression, "Just cheer up, stop being such a gloomy ass." I often wish I had been more open with my difficulties earlier in life and talked to my parents and teachers about how I was feeling. As a kid, though, that was an unappealing notion.
I always say, if you want to replicate the Valley you need to steal Valley's investors, but I don't see any valid reason for them to leave... :)
I think that's kinda silly to say. I knew there was going to be a housing bubble in 2001, before 9/11. The reason was the the changes to the CRA under clinton forced banks to make uneconomic loans (Because otherwise was considered "racist' because poor ethnic people had less ability to repay loans and were more likely to be denied. When ability to repay was included in the analysis, it was clear that the policies weren't racist, but this didn't happen until much later.)

The other reason was the Fed had interest rates at artificially low levels to try and boost the economy after the dotcom bubble burst (Rather than just let it work out and let interest rates be at the true cost of money.)

When you force people to buy things and you incentivize buying things by making the cost of them lower, you're going to get a lot of people buying that asset.

In 2001 that asset was houses.

By 2007, I had spent 5 years investing on this thesis and called the top. I as off by a year, and missed the actual top which happened in 2008, but I am not complaining.

The point being, people who understand economics is a science and were paying attention to what was going on knew there was a bubble, long before it burst, and in fact, before it startsed to inflate. I didn't figure it out myself, btw, I read an article in 2001 that clued me in.

I can't say whether there is a bubble in startup valuations. I'm not making that argument.

I will say there is a bubble in the US Dollar, because the strategy employed by the government to fight the dotcom bust is the same one they deployed to fight the housing bust, they just changed the targets.

As a result we're seeing the stock market in a bubble and a lot of froth in the economy, but it's widely distributed (rather than concentrated in houses).

This will likely allow the bubble to inflate much longer.... but it also means the bursting will be much more dramatic and damaging.
The largest city by funding after Silicon Valley would appear to be London, which raised 2/3 of the around 1/30th as much funding in the whole of the UK as in the US [1]. I suspect that there are more than 1/30 as many startups but that the average deal size in Europe is much smaller.

I would say the problem is less the "local rules" like tax systems - after all, nobody would call California tax-friendly on a global basis - and more the sheer number of existing, successful, wealthy entrepreneurs for whom angel investing is second nature, coupled with a professional, long-established venture funding industry with diversified, long-term committed and professional LPs (such as endowments and pension funds).

PG commented on the aggressivity of deal making in the Valley even compared to the established and world-famous hub of Boston [2]. The whole essay expands well on this thread topic.

As a Singapore resident for several years, I used to think that "the rules" were what mattered - taxes, government regulation, ease of obtaining visas, cost of living, proximity to large untapped market and cheap talent... but the stories appear in HN and elsewhere regularly for a reason: none of the hubs have even a fraction of the activity of the Valley and are unlikely ever to have it, no matter how much matched funding the government does. Would you rather raise 2m for 10% in 3 weeks, or 200k for 20% in 3 months? Of course, that 200k is several years' funding for an Indonesian startup.

In my own attempts at fund raising, I often had to explain what a startup was (thank you PG for your great essays, which are immensely helpful there) to seasoned "classical" investors with dozens of deals under their belt. I don't blame Singaporeans and other "foreign hub" residents for moving to the Valley as soon as they can. The result: typing this on an American-designed Macbook Pro whose OS is based on BSD (where B stands for Berkeley), on a browser designed by Google in Mountain View by the same company that designed my phone. The tech landscape is utterly dominated by American companies even if as much as 40% of their founders are first or second gen immigrants [4].

The sad thing is that governments know full well that the rules have, at best, only a marginal effect on an established industry hub [3], and so get away with a lot more than they should.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/02/londons-startups-hit-a-high...

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html - "Over and over, I've seen startups we've funded snatched by west coast investors out from under the noses of Boston investors who saw them first but acted too slowly. [...] And yet within a month it had happened again: an aggressive west coast VC who had met the founder of a YC-funded startup a week before beat out a Boston VC who had known him for years. By the time the Boston VC grasped what was happening, the deal was already gone."

[3] David Ogilvy mentions in one of his books that his agency paid as much as 73% tax. How's that California tax rate looking now?

[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/04/25/40-larg...
It's not the site that's broken, but Safari.
Google’s Steely Foe in Europe
http://www.dejal.com/timeout/ looks similar
I'm from Torchbox, the UK agency who created this CMS. We launched Wagtail here on HN just over a year ago, and are currently preparing to release version 1.0, whose headline feature is 'StreamField', our attempt to handle the old CMS dilemma of editor flexibility versus structured data:

https://torchbox.com/blog/rich-text-fields-and-faster-horses...

It's been an exciting year for us, but we've seen a significant increase in interest in the last couple of months, with a handful of household names adopting Wagtail, including one particularly high profile site which we hope to be able to talk about soon.
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SJWs are annoying as hell. On the other hand they are self defeating movement (except the fat acceptance part of them that does not move at all). If you victimize yourself you will never make anything out of you ...
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I see what you're trying to say, but at this point in history there is not a lot of intersection between "advocate for commune living" and "communist." Politics is an odd thing.
especially something in this space, a communication platform. even if you completely exclude the chances that your sofware will ever be less than perfect... who knows what messaging platform will evolve into your space and when one will find the keys to network effects that eat your lunch.
The attitude is the result of a thing that just keeps annoying people. It's certainly not a cause of a slow web.
Aliyun, an Alibaba Unit, Is Building China’s First “Cloud Hospital”
Add autoprefixer to your build chain: https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer
Turning Ethiopia's desert green
This kind of writing is more amenable to slow reading than quick skimming. Try reading it aloud, pausing at each comma and colon, it reads quite nicely.

I encountered this kind of style very often when reading French classics of the 19th century. I'm French BTW, and the modern mantra of "sentences must be short and convey only one idea" is still not as strongly followed here as it seems to be in the US.
>those of us
who are for historical reasons
unfairly advantaged should work
especially hard at listening to people
who aren't

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

If you don't mind I have a follow-up question -- actually two related ones. The approach you are suggesting is essentially about ethics and epistemology at an individual level. What I wonder is, how, if at all, should it extrapolate to government action? I.e., to what degree should government decisions about aiding people who are at a disadvantage be informed by listening to them versus dispassionate observation and statistics?

I ask because "listening" is inherently hard to "scale" to a national level in a large nation. In a Western liberal democracy the usual answer on how to do this seems to be "voting."
In practice besides voting the supposed public voice of any disadvantaged group is also shaped by self-appointed spokesmen for the disadvantaged, typically journalists and academics. Personally, I have little faith in either doing more good than harm.

My second question is, how should it be determined who is considered advantaged and who is considered disadvantaged?
In recent years, Sofia is booming with large multinational companies, exploiting the relatively cheap labour there. There is a disproportionate amount of young people attracted to these jobs, because they are still paid a lot better than anything else.
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The internet is filled up by all sorts of people. What's the difference between a con artist and an unsuccessful serial entrepeneur? I think we may have found it.