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Africa's Aid Mess: Why the philanthropy of Gates, Clinton and Bono fails.
Poker is a zero-sum game (it's actually even worse if the house takes a cut). Trading stocks is not zero-sum; it is possible for everyone to win.
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I think software patents should be abolished. I'm undecided on patents in general.
it's like quitting pro football. There are some people that think you're crazy, because they can't understand another mind that doesn't want to play pro football and throw a ball around professionally.
The headline is rather murky on the subject matters. It is a easy article on intelligence (light), expectations and happiness (heavy).

From the article's introduction:
What will people think of 16-month-old wonder child Jonathon Rader, able to play various musical instruments, if he decides not to pursue a career as a musician?

...

“I was famous for having a 210 IQ and being able to solve intricate math equations at the age of four,” Kim said, adding, “Apparently, the media belittled the fact that I chose to work in a business planning department at Chungbuk Development Corporation.”

Kim says the media denounced him as a “failed Genius” but he has no idea why his life, which he considers a success, had to be called a failure.
What is causing me to create URLs without trailing slashes is the proper use of Play's route-to-URL mapping system. I don't emit trailing slashes because Play doesn't.
You don't think roads and cars alter natural ecosystems?
There should be a chinese wall between the crime lab and the DA. All the DA should be able to do is submit evidence and any matching of that evidence to the accused should be a complete black box as far as the DA is concerned.
I feel for this guy - people can't understand that what he wants is "Life his way" and not to be a martyr to society burning his happiness to solve up equations. The greater good and so forth.

But there is a fundamental angle that I find odd about people's perception of intelligence. People expect intelligence to be always found alongside ambition.

When I watched "Limitless", it did hit me in an odd way. If I suddenly could out-think 99% of humanity, I wouldn't be running for president or becoming a stock trader profiting off the market. Actually, I don't know because I'm not that intelligent - but is that kind of ambition pasted over by Hollywood on top of intelligence?

In comparison, everything from Thor, Dark Knight, Iron Man and even the new Wall Street movie was about clean power - hell, even Inception has got the guy with the windmills. That I felt like was an ambition that could occur with genius (i.e "First thing you do, is find the biggest problem on your planet and beat it").

But government official or company executive?

That feels odd.
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if your a developer how do you go about estimating effort and time for project based on technologies.
Deflation doesn't work period: in the face of falling prices, people will save rather than spend, leading to a vicious cycle. No serious economist would claim otherwise. Deflation wasn't created by the Japanese government; they just didn't do enough to fight it, thinking austerity with its personal sacrifice was the right way to a healthy economy. They were wrong in a big way.

Economies must be managed. Arguing whether Bitcoin is better than USD is vacuous: one is just a crypto currency, the other represents the entire US economy and all the movements that go along with that. Someone has to meddle to keep the system working, if its not the government, it would some rich guys in a smokey back room doing it.
Thanks for your excellent and detailed response! This makes complete sense.
These sorts of realizations always make me a little bearish on the future. Sure, we've got a thousand times as much bandwidth as we did fifteen years ago, but performance sure hasn't improved a thousand-fold.

Sure, despite the best efforts of the industry, performance improvement will sneak in here or there. Things probably will trend upwards. But so, so much slower than they could.
I believe I heard they were, though I can't confirm that. It's only legitimate businesses that are affected by the drone ban, sadly.
Good advice.

One of my favorite articles on the persistent mistaking of luck for skill in the investment management industry is "Track Records are Rubbish (or Why Managers are Factors in Drag)" [1]. A short excerpt:

...most managers are really just overconfident, incoherent collections of habits, assumptions, ideologies, and cognitive and emotional biases emanating from the most dangerous black-box of all - the human mind.

Sometimes these habits, assumptions and biases are aligned with the market, and the manager does well. Sometimes the manager is 'out of sync', and he does poorly.

[1] http://advisorperspectives.com/dshort/guest/BP-130108-Track-...
"functional peer-defined systems for interoperation and safety."

Do you think coming up with that will be shorter or longer than the 1 or 2 year turnaround time at the FDA?
Try a Welsh Rabbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
Nope. Haven't heard back from them.
Noob question here: what are the advantages of XFS over the more "default" Ext4 or the more "everything you might ever need" ZFS?
I think this is my favorite (around 15:55):

Reporter: I think my generation grew up with Sears.

Some Wall Street Guy: And Amazon is worth 20% more than Sears is worth, in market capitalization.

Reporter: How do you view that phenomenon, that Amazon today is worth more than Sears?

WSG: Investors are focused on the future. Amazon has growth potential that Sears doesn't.

Reporter: (Scoffing) A couple of geeks, who sketched out some software, could destroy Sears-Roebuck?
This should apply to games too lol. I hope one day we can rid the world of the 'load screen'! Perhaps with more SSDs and developers putting effort into streaming (both from net and hard-drive), it'll be possible ;)
I'm fine with 3-5 years so long as everyone else responsible in this situation, including DAs are subject to due process as well. There is no way that one person is responsible for almost 34k tampered cases all on her own without many other people being involved or at least aware.

I'm not a fan of our overly aggressive justice system, but if it is going to be overly aggressive, it needs to apply equally aggressively to the watchers as well. Any asymmetry in application of the current practices leaves far more room for abuse in the future than one that is applied equally to all parties. Justice is blind. If she is going to aggressively wield her sword, both your standard street thugs and corrupt government officials should have equal chance of getting struck by her sword.

We can't let the entire system throw her under the bus for 20+ years, while many other guilty parties get away after having been complicit or actively colluded.
I believe this is one of the most, if not the most, under-appreciated "features" of websites and software (all types, including games).

It directly affects usability and therefore user engagement. And that means it directly affects the bottom line for most companies.

But most companies fail to see or ever really do anything about it.
Oh dear; I fear you have gotten the wrong idea.

I spend most of my time in emacs doing things in python, sql or what have you. Usually the only time I talk to a production database directly is when it's already in trouble.

And yes; one's migrations and DDL etc. should all be tested before being rolled out to production; apparently that is not an assumption people make around here.
Why not?

TacoCopter sparked a lot of discussion about drone delivery just a while ago. It's nice to be reminded of it, now.

It just goes to shows these ideas are "in the air" right now. In case you weren't paying attention.
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Why? It doesn't matter what IDE you use. It doesn't write the code for you.
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There are some big places using clojure - the Daily Mail uses clojure heavily for it's website, as do SoundCloud; also, like Scala, it's used internally at some financial institutions - CitiBank have some clojure, and we've been using clojure at IOOF (an Australian superannuation company).

Performance is probably the last thing you need to care about when choosing a programming language for most businesses - unless you are doing hard-core analytics or handling huge scale, you just won't hit the sort of performance problems that are solved by a faster programming language (as opposed to a faster algorithm or architecture).

It really frustrates me that people _still_ put such weight on low level performance. In 1997 I had people saying "don't use Java, it's performance is far worse than C++". It was mostly untrue for business problems then - and computers are many orders of magnitude faster now.
Tip: Round the x and y values of grid lines to the nearest pixel so that you don't have the effect where most of them are drawn over two rows/columns of pixels. It makes it look much sharper.
Everything this article says is true if you accept the postulate that people only trade stocks to make money. There are other reasons to trade individual stocks, however -- for instance, I often buy stock in companies that I want to support or just have an interest in. I vastly prefer getting a decent return from companies that I want to succeed to an equivalent return from index funds.
If it is in fact purely an academic exercise, I'd recommend doing this using a paper account. Many brokers will allow you trade on a paper account to satisfy your curiosity without putting your wealth at risk.
> I almost wish a smaller entity would have become the first major player in drone delivery

I think there was one. I remember reading about somebody doing this last summer on HN.

> This is going to draw a lot of attention from regulators

You betcha

> and I can't help but think they will want nothing more than to stop or slow Amazon from further disruption in the retail space.

And that's where I have to disagree. Average people go to large retailers because they are cheap. My mom works in retail and she manages to buy unbelievably cheap clothes after stacking several discounts - something the average person just can't (or won't) do on Amazon. And that makes a huge difference. The prices and the experience offered by some retailers is unmatched.

Don't get me wrong, Amazon works great if you're buying electronics or books. But I'd never buy clothes, furniture, or toiletries online because the experience is awful and it's usually cheaper to go out and buy what I need IRL. It's not regulators that are stopping Amazon from disrupting retail; it's Amazon.
Shocking: a smart person not willing to use the measure of success created by people that aren't as smart.
I've been beating the market, albeit by only a few percent, for years. I may just be lucky, but I believe my methods give me an edge.

I study the market fundamentals and prioritize the long-term health of a company over short-term profits. I like companies that are never in the news, on the theory that lack of attention lowers demand. I think about long-term economic trends, like the center of US population moving west and the increasing price of oil.

But right now the stock market seems too hot, so I am investing in other assets. Eventually, there will be a bust, stocks will fall and gold will rise, and I will sell gold and buy stocks. Nothing apocalyptic, just the normal business cycle that has been repeating for centuries. Corporate investors do not have the luxury of thinking this far in the future, because their management and clients are focused on quarterly profits. I believe patience is a competitive advantage.
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One word - liquidity. As the numbers go up, it's more difficult to trade since as your transactions become larger there's less potential buyers/sellers at a given price level.

And when I say it's easy, I mean logistically and realistically possible. Few are good enough to make those returns, but it's very possible.

No trader ever expects one stock to double. 5 percent a trade can get you 400 percent a year...
well said! The false positive rate of most static analysis tools is the biggest barrier to wide spread use!
Excellent question and one that raises another one. Could she possibly have tainted that many cases working alone? If not, we should be looking at every one around her including the DA.

Simple network analysis of every person (arresting officer, DA and other crime lab technicians) involved in these ~34k cases should be able to come up with a dozen or so people that warrant additional scrutiny.
There is also a Django example: https://github.com/django/django/commit/c0a2daad78c66def2ce6...
Really fascinating articles, thank you.
It has depended on the project but is usually starting at 100 Terabytes a month.
I have a feeling that most of those searches could be answered by, "It's because you're on an unreliable internet connection".
...developing country's perspective it looks like developed nations used cheap energy to get ahead. Now they want to curb usage of cheap energy in developing nations because:

1. Suddenly, they're affected by climate change, or claim to be.

2. It's just a ploy to increase energy costs for developing nations and keep them behind.

You're spot on, there.
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Buttr is live with a handful of paying subscribers, buying a few thousand dollars a month in groceries. I hacked the product together myself using Zapier and open source ecommerce software. Previously, I served as the founder/CEO of a funded crowdsourcing company ($1.1M from Google & Mitch Kapor) that was acquired last year.

The ideal partner has co-founded a funded company before and witnessed first hand the bullshit and emotional craziness that comes with the territory, and despite everything, wants to do it again. My goal is to build a big, valuable company with a fanatical customer base. Raising money and impressing VCs is a means, not an ends. Hopefully you feel the same.

You should be extremely technical yet understand that technology is only a means to an end, a tool for man to judged only by how it helps men (and women) achieve. Though able to solve the hardest of problems, you should endeavor to architect solutions in a way that avoids or bypasses the most challenging problems altogether. Operating leverage--your ability to do so much with so little--not technical brawn, should be your claim to fame.

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I don't understand. How is this practical? There are many things that won't work here --

- How will it be cost effective? This is not free two day shipping like in Prime.

- How can it be 30 min delivery? That would mean Amazon will have a whole lot of hubs all over the country in 1 hour radii. That itself sounds impractical. Amazon would give up the one big advantage they have over walmart - the fact that they don't own and maintain floor spaces all over the country.
I had the same approach, and when the bubble burst, my darling stock Priceline tanked to 50cents! I liked them, so I bought more at that price, and did well, but that is sheer luck. Many good companies around that time could not claw their way back up.
It's great that cgo now supports C++. I know that it's against Go's philosophy of short compile times, but more than once I had some C++ code that I liked to compile/link with Go code directly.
Except everyone everywhere hates their build system. No one is making enemies here. No project thinks their code quality is a result of choosing make, or automake, or cmake, or qmake, or scons, or ant, or premake, or now I hear someone went and wrote a new one: GYP.

Because of course if there is one thing the world needs, it's Yet Another Build System. Which as it happens, is also a build system: http://www.op59.net/yabs/readme.html
Reminds me a bit of this from just a couple of months ago, about a guy who quit pro baseball because he didn't enjoy doing it as a business. Just because other people think you have to use a talent in a certain way doesn't mean that's what's best for you.

"I quit because baseball was sacred to me until I started getting paid for it. The more that “baseball” became synonymous with “business,” the less it meant to me, and I saw less of myself in the game every time I got a check from the Philadelphia Phillies Organization, the Oakland Athletic Company, or the Chicago Cubs, L.L.C. To put it simply, other players were much better than I was at separating the game of baseball from the job of baseball."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sportingscene/2013/10/...
My terrestrial environment is not destroyed at all. In fact it is quite pleasant.

The occasional buzzing quadra-copter would be sweet music compared to the infernal leaf blowers and lawn-care equipment that gets a frequent workout.

These aren't going to end the world. Especially if it saves lots of people making lots of small trips to the shops for single items. In fact I would say they would make a positive contribution to quality of life.

>FYI I'm not a luddite
But you are talking like one.
Social network analysis using known tampered cases should be enough to highlight all the DAs that could require further scrutiny. I would not be surprised if SNA shows that a few DAs in particular show up over and over and over again in these tampered cases. AFAIK, the DAs are the civil servants with the most to gain and lose from conviction rates and therefore are the most likely to have been involved, assuming others collaborated or were at least complicit.
I'm hardly an expert on games, but I think I hardly think streaming from the hard drive would a big improvement. You would (at best) see stuff partially loaded, or there would have to be some generic replacement (assuming it's a 3D game) for textures, meshes and what not. This would prove to be just as annoying, if not more so.
I've been considering picking both up on the off chance I run into legacy systems. Any suggested reading material?
Yeah, I considered setting up a GFCI after that, but decided that was probably a bad idea in production. I've become religious, though, about GFCI on the test-bench, as that's where most of the stupid happens anyhow.
The only professional investor I am aware of returning 20%pa was Bernie Madhoff, and we all know how that turned out.
Comcast Business Class is pretty solid in SF (as opposed to their normal service, which I've also had and is terrible).
I'm not hopeful, thing have generally been going in the other direction over time.
I really wish companies would stop selling monitors with their logo placed obnoxiously on the front. I don't care if they put the logo on any other part of the display, but why do they have to ruin the front of it? I really love looking at plain black slabs, with nothing to distract me from the content within.

I want to buy a couple of monitors and mount them. But there's just one small thing stopping me. I don't know if it's just me, but something feels wrong about rotating a monitor with such a prominent logo.
Yup, standard throw her under the bus tactic as misdirection.
There are Walmart stores all over the country. EDIT: Why did you edit your post instead of responding to me? I'd say Amazon's advantage over Walmart remains the fact that they deliver to the doorstep, and with hubs across the country, same-day delivery becomes possible; be it via vehicle or drone.
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As "talent" might imply, indeed.

Social expectations ruin everything because everyone disagrees on the details.
> Background checks obviously didn't figure out that she was lying the first time. Why should we trust them a second time?

i think you're somehow confused about the core concept of a background check.

i think also that you've got a bone to pick, and you're trying to figure out who it is with. good luck there, little buddy.
My dog would definitely try to take it out but it's the same as with cats: I would be more worried about the old guy losing an eye than hurting the cat. Those rotor blades look pretty dangerous to me.
So that the user of said library can decide how to handle a failed DB connection?
> whenever you have a reference to your own object, you cannot do any of the linked list operations without an O(N) penalty to go and re-find your element in the list!

Can you show an example of when you actually need to do this? Because when I need to do something like this it usually means that some container other than list is more fitting for the problem.
As a techie I think you can beat the market occasionally.

However, I have personally found only one such moment so far: In 2010 Apple released the iPad. After a few days its success was certain. Takes no genius that a lot of copycats will soon arrive. Now the techie knowledge edge: Is there some common supplier they all need? Energy is important, so they will all use ARM chips. Voila, look at ARM stocks in 2010 following.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:ARMH&sa=X&ei=3i6cUsb...
It's a new thing. People are always scared of new things. And soon enough it's just a part of life and you can't believe society ever got along without it. There is a massive danger that overly conservative regulations will impede technological progress and innovation.

And to be perfectly honest I'm not worried about privacy from it. There isn't much you can see from a drone you can't with binoculars and possibly a ladder. And besides that, no one is going to spy on you. It's going to be something minor that happens to one out of a million people and then gets completely exaggerated by the media.

Whereas changing the world's distribution system has massive implications on everyone's lives, and many of the other possible uses of drones can change the world as well. Besides it's an awesome hobby and I'd hate to see it get banned just because it became more popular.
or both?
3840 x 2160 in 24 inches = 183.58 pixels per inch, compared to 204 for the IBM T220/T221

We're almost back to 10 years ago, yay.