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1) I think overall, the suffering is most likely to outweigh the benefits.

2) Starvation. Our soil is dying. What Acari used to do for free, we now do with chemicals, poorly. Peons have to buy their seed instead of re-using their own (mostly due to the usage of hybrid seeds, which are designed to reproduce very poorly). Plus, the seed is not adapted to the soil which then has to be irrigated, pesticized etc. Not to mention transgenic plants, which are not used to feed the world, but starve it (terminal seeds and patents come to mind).

We are already seeing some of the effects now, and it sucks (health, peasant suicide…). But for now it merely sucks. The real danger lies elsewhere.

See, we hardly need fertilizers or pesticides. Except when the soil is dead, with no fungus nor acari to provide what the plants need to grow. Or when the soil is compressed by excessive ploughing, and the roots can't set in. Or when the soil is burned by the sun at the end of the summer, and is not protected by weeds (which in this case wouldn't actually be weeds). Most our soil is suffering all three. Therefore, we badly need a heavy industry, mostly based on oil.

When there is no oil, we starve.

It won't be quick. Oil will get more expensive, and so will food. Add in some random financial crisis, and the industry could halt for a time. This wouldn't be a big deal if our soil was alive. But when it's dead, you can't grow squat on it without a relatively heavy industry. Fortunately, we can revive soils. With hedge wood, actually (systematically cutting hedges was a really bad idea). It takes 3 years however, so we'd better start before we actually need live soils.

> You don't get 10 productivity growth points ever year

I wasn't clear. I just meant that producing more and more goods in less and less man-hour would be a wonderful thing, and we should basically push for it. I also meant that we do have bit of that kind of growth (if I recall correctly, productivity doubled since the 70s, mostly due to computers and robots).

> Economically an politically speaking things get better slowly.

Agree. It does get better. My fear is that we are too slow. We need something good enough before we start starving. Because if we do, things will get ugly. Will something good come out of that? Maybe. The French Revolution itself started as an ugly uproar of starving people. But I'd rather avoid it, if at all possible.

> Well we clearly see is that what works is to grow the food where it grows the best and bring it to where people want to eat is.

It works in the short term, for the West. I think the cost of transportation is vastly underestimated, because the price of fossil fuels is vastly underestimated. The market hardly measures environmental costs, nor does it plan for several decades ahead —classic tragedy of the commons. I have some hopes for a cleaner (and actually cheaper) transportation however. (Airships and self driving cars come to mind.)
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On the TV version of TekWar they had roll up mobile communication devices. Whenever I read of eink or flexible displays I always think of TekWar.
The airline industry grew tremendously over the last 50 years, but you wouldn't know it from many stocks in that industry...
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This is the kind of business where your competition really doesn't matter. They can't take away from your business very easily, as in they can't make deals with certain partners to cut you out and being first to market or having lots of leverage doesn't matter.

Focus in the product. The site is great, although it's hard to know what a gift is at first glance. It almost has the look of an eCard site, which lead me to believe it was those annoying virtual gifts. The first three lines don't mention gift cards, just gifts.

There's a difference, I like the idea of sending someone a gift card with this slick product but not virtual or physical gifts. For me this makes all the difference.

The idea of giving something with physical value but digitally makes a lot of sense. I think this model could be taken further if after some traction you made deals with certain partners to offer more or make it even more unique.
The title is a bit misleading. The campus is not "for Google", but rather a space for start-ups. Only the building is owned by Google.

On a side note, the bear looks like one of the United Buddy Bears from the original Berlin collection. I'm not entirely sure how they got one, but it's an awesome thing to have around. Clearly it's being put to good use, given the Tardis decorating its arm :)
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Tommy nice article man! And you're on top of hackernews. Why dont you create an app to send gift cards with? Apps are hot, and its quite easier to rise to the top i think....

However i might be biased :-)
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That doesn't sound like burnout. It sounds like you lost faith in shitty managers and left. Trust me, this is an experience that almost everyone will have.

The movie portrayal of success is that you become someone's protege and he takes you under his wing. Bud Fox meets Gordon Gekko. The douchebag character that Shia LaBeouf played in that execrable sequel gets a $1.5M check for kissing a suicidal old man on the top of the head. The real world trajectory is rockier. No one powerful gives a shit about you, no one powerful looks out for you. You work your ass off anyway, because it's the right thing to do. You do your best to deliver on promises you make to colleagues, because it's the right thing to do. You get really, really good at a few important skills (written communication, computer programming, and social skills are all very important). If your boss takes interest in your education and career development, you reciprocate with extreme diligence and loyalty. If he doesn't, you steal an education and find ways to learn anyway. Self-mentoring. That's how most successful people will actually come up.

I don't like the term burnout. It suggests finality. It's an artifact of the Western obsession with age and entropy and transience, the idea that people who excel can only persist for so long. It's not true. There's such a thing as "motivational crisis", but it's usually transient. Like earthquakes, most are harmless, and the only ones that are remembered in 10,000 years are those that produce features of beauty. As I get older, they come on quicker but they're of much shorter duration. That tends to be a general pattern. Permanent burnout? No such thing. All fear comes from a fear of permanence (including fear of death) but Buddhism teaches there is no such thing and therefore nothing to fear.
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I, for once, don't see a problem with getting paid doing open-source software.

With kickstarter I get an assumption that if for some reason he won't raise enough money - he won't work on the project. That, in my opinion, is wrong. It shouldn't matter if one raises money or not, as long as you like what you're doing. Otherwise why bother in the first place?
> Democratic governments are "liable" in the sense that they can loose their jobs for screwing up.

Can, but don't. At best, a random staffer loses her job.

Moreover, you wouldn't say that McDonald's is "liable" for serving a hamburger that I don't like because I can refuse to buy their hamburgers and that's a greater consequence, so why would you say that govts are liable because they're subject to even less consequence?

Governments aren't liable. That's a problem. They're both socialized and systemic risk. That's a bigger problem. And, they're usually much larger than any "too big to fail" private company.
Sometimes I think we have an addiction addiction. To me, it sounds like real work is more boring than consuming information for the author. My solution? Find less boring "real" work. I generally find that the amount of time I spend on HN is proportional to how bored I am with my job. If the work really is interesting, I find that I almost have to force myself to use HN just to take a break.
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This looks great, and one of the apps where social will continue to win over mobile.

I wish there were a way to do group buys of gift cards. There are a lot of people I'd buy a $1-5 item for, but not a $25 gift card. A $1 gift card is less than useless to he recipient. If you could do group contributions to a single gift card, a lot of the marginal $1 people could become $100 gift card.

Also, please add amazon.
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I have invested in the stock market for about 1 year. Initially, I used options to leverage what little money I had and blew up my account. I learned three important lessons, of which I had read more than once prior to, but they are as follows:
1. Do not try to predict the market. Follow it. To be more specific, and less "duh", invest in securities that show (from a speculative standpoint) the potential to continue to move in a direction, but with "smart" money behind it. This brings me to 2.
2. It takes money to make money. This is not to say that it is impossible to turn $1,000 into $1M, just a lot less probable. When you are following the "smart" money, you are playing the game and the game is based on probability. The more money you have to invest, the more potential candidates you can hold. By cutting losses short and riding out the winners, you can make a considerable amount of money. Discipline and money management are the key here. Being right or wrong is not the way to look at investing; I tend to say, "I held the stocks that made me a profit, and sold the ones that didn't."
3. You will lose money, you will be in the wrong security and the worst time, and you will 2nd guess a great investment. It will happen over and over. You have to be mentally prepared to look past this. You have to be objective and you have to discipline your mind to treat loses as a necessary part of the game.

Well, to actually answer the question, I am invested in BAC, PFE, GE, and VZ. All of which are for testing purposes for a new strategy that makes us of technical analysis over a long(er) term.

I realize my knowledge is minimal, but I hope it helps.
> All the aspects of the product that have resulted it reaching the top of HackerNews are unfortunately a lot harder to reproduce.

Events of the past week suggest the technology is the only part that anyone's really interested in.
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That's a fantastic looking curve, but keep in mind the absolute numbers shown. They are at 1.6 million direct queries per day. Still a ways to go to be truly competitive (3 billion per day for Google). Still, if they keep up with current growth rates, they could do some real damage.
While I agree with the premise of your posted link, the grammar starts falling apart later in the post. Seems to have some logical leaps there at the end as well. Just seems like the author is not a native English speaker I suppose.
If every single person who wanted to help out just kept saying "But these people need it more!" Then these kids wouldn't get the morale boosts they so sorely need.

People need to do these things. You can't just say "He isn't being efficient enough! Malaria patients need it more!" Because that's just unfair on these kids.
No that's not what I am saying.
GWT doesn't work well with Maven. Support has improved recently but is still terrible.

I may just be hitting a lot of outlier samples but Google Java projects seem antagonistic to Maven (I've used GWT, GAE and GData). GData's really bad; see comments at: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-java-client/wiki/Dependencies

I'd never have ended up using GWT if I'd tried it first as a mavenized project. But GWT itself is a really beautiful toolset and I'm sad to see it abandoned because of a weakness in one area. It's really frustrating that that weakness is probably the first thing that a whole bunch of people will run into when trying it out.

Also if you don't have to use GXT, don't. It is rubbish.
Why the downvote? It's a common misspelling and I merely intended to educate...
I certainly felt some difficulty first in setting Duck Duck Go as my default search engine. Google trains you repeatedly, implicitly, over the years on how to optimise your query for Google. I often still find myself adding "!g" to my DDG query to perform the search on Google, but at least Google isn't my first point of contact any more.
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if i get that right, people are doing a lot more API calls than direct searches... Which begs the questions of (i) who they are, (ii) what they're doing, and (iii) how this can be monetized?
Classic bait-and-switch is what you got. Usually, it's a lot less brazen and more subtle (project allocation, promised managerial support that's not delivered) so it can be attributed to shifting priorities, but... yeah, it hurts.

What happened to you: don't these fuckers realize that this is bad business? I don't find it surprising that people in control of business decisions are greedy. They're supposed to be greedy (but hopefully not unethical). It's astonishing to me how stupid a lot of them are.

Let's get real about this shit. An employee who is around for less than 6 months is of very low value to the organization. You want people to stick around? Treat them decently.

In our parents' time, a 6-month job tenure was a black mark, so companies could treat employees like garbage for the first 2 years because it'd be career suicide to leave. It meant you probably got fired, because people just didn't leave stable employment. This day in age, fail-fast is the rule and there's just no such thing as stable employment-- unless you're a senior politician in a one-party district, because the voters are disinclined to fire the bad ones.
Collins,

Good points, we know people will be turned off by Facebook connect (as evidenced by comments...), and we're working hard to add more login options.

We definitely should not require "extended permissions" at login, we should wait until the posting is needed.
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"8.No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers" - I have personally experienced this and was speechless then my bplan fell flat. Listening more and talking less will help understand the problem.
Amusing (and recognizable) that you use the long developing time as attention getter and then feel the need to point out that you're really a fast developer. O Vanity. :-) Seriously though, site and API look great. The best of luck with your business.
I'm not quite sure why so many people are complaining about Facebook Connect... I know it is the hot thing to do, but this product is actually using the data from Facebook, not just requiring an account to login for sake of ease. The entire point of this project seems to be to hook into Facebook, grab the numerous events/birthdays, and then track those for you, so that you can respond. If you don't have a Facebook account, I don't think you are the target audience.
rdl,

You actually can give "group gifts", we haven't played up that point yet until we're sure the messaging is clear.

If you send a gift card, you can invite friends to contribute. The recipient will get one card from all of you, for the summed amount.

edit: Lot's more brands, including Amazon are coming soon.
I think it's amazing that we continue to find new species here on land without going anywhere "extreme". It's rather humbling, actually.
I use duckduckgo as my default search engine now. If i need some more info i just use g!. Really like the bang syntax!

And its doesnt track all my stuff, and this stupid google+ (failure) is not integrated. I just want to search stuff. Google did it right in the past, now duck duck go is my uberlord.
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Of course they are not a bad thing. It's just that Go has character. It doesn't have generics or C++-style classes just because every other language has them. I respect that.
Brackin,

Agreed, we need to clarify what types of gifts you can give. Digital (e)Gift Cards are one of the types you can give, they're delivered instantly but have physical value, as they can be redeemed online or printed out and redeemed in-store.
Taleb is not a source of investing advice at all - he merely illustrates his philosophy with examples from finance as it's something he's more than familiar with.

Stock market is a fool's game by its nature.
The graph is for direct searches though. You can see API calls stable at around 9M for quite a while, and direct searches have sky-rocketed.

You're right that there are a lot more API calls still (~x6). But the gap is closing quickly.
Pointing this out in thread gets upvotes, in another thread it gets downvotes.

Downvotes for pointing out the facts of the issue at hand. Classy.
Wow, thats a great curve. Just wanted to throw in my personal experience with DuckDuckGo, and it doesn't necessarily reflect on DuckDuckGo specifically, however:

After seeing them pop up here once or twice quite recently I thought I'd give it a go, I opened up preferences in Chrome and switched my default search over to DDG. It felt good, made a nice change but was certainly a bit "odd". I found what I wanted, most of the time albeit it with a slight drop in quality vs Google.

But my biggest gripe with them was confidence. I'd just started out at a new job as a programmer and as you can imagine, I was searching for a good few things, usually things I was struggling with and I just didn't feel sure that I was getting the best results I possibly could be. You might think thats totally crazy, but when your battling an issue as many of you know, you want more than anything to work out whats going on. I didn't have any margin for error, I wanted the best results right there that second.

Specifics aside, knowing that Google is far superior in their results makes it real difficult to use another search engine really, extra features (!so etc) or no extra features. I personally search because I need to "find" something and I usually don't know where that something is, opening up Stack Overflow isn't that much of a chore for me. Its the other bit I need help with.

Anyway, I commend their mission and hope they succeed in taking a fair slice of the market. I think he's a great entrepreneur and I wish him the best of luck. I can't imagine what it must be like to be head on with... Google.
nik_0_0,

You nailed why we're using Facebook connect, without it the site is very empty, since we can't automatically pull events in. We need to communicate that better.
Just one at a time is all it takes. :) Replace starfish with searches..and bend your imagination a bit.

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Time and again he kept hurling things into the ocean.

As the man approached even closer, he was able to see that the boy was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time he was throwing them back into the water.

The man asked the boy what he was doing, the boy replied,"I am throwing these washed up starfish back into the ocean, or else they will die through lack of oxygen. "But", said the man, "You can't possibly save them all, there are thousands on this beach, and this must be happening on hundreds of beaches along the coast. You can't possibly make a difference."
The boy looked down, frowning for a moment; then bent down to pick up another starfish, smiling as he threw it back into the sea. He replied,

"I made a huge difference to that one!""
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