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Not to dull the shine of my own brilliance but I'm pretty sure I've seen dhh say something along those lines in his previous commentary.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this subject, and have only recently begun to feel confident enough to speak with some authority on the subject.

I think people aren't thinking critically about their code in quite the right way, despite their blog posts on the topic, but I've hitherto been unable to compose my thoughts outside of comment boxes.
Forza Motorsport 5 on PC (DX12), that's a good news.
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Take a look at the online 101 I did[1], let me know how it sits with you and where we can improve. Feedback is always appreciated.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izaolRP_fFc
It's an interesting collision of values. One is "every life has equal value", which implies optimizing for existing, present-day lives. Which is honorable in its own way. The other is optimizing for best chance of future life. Those two values will have a lot of implications in common, but they can also conflict. I don't think there's a wrong answer here, it's just a matter of what value each person chooses to optimize for.
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Which do you think will have a bigger impact on humanity, and deserve more chapters in history books?

a). Prolonged a few more lives by eradicating some viruses.
b). Set up a colony on MARS

The people loving Bill Gates "second act" seem to forget how he made all those billions in the first place - by being evil, crushing better competitors, monopolistic practices, etc etc etc. And by basically creating terrible software, holding back the computer industry for years.
It appears that men labeled as genius were simply men of high charisma capable of convincing and inspiring others.
A summary of this thread:

- Larry Page bad
- Rich people heartless
- Capitalism bad
- Investing in innovation and progress not important
- Profit bad
- Charity universally effective and good
The profit motive and capitalism have given the Western world the best life for the "bottom 10%" in the history of mankind.

Look at the Internet when it was "non profit". It sat there for years in universities and labs, availing the lower 10% not at all. When the profit-motive was allowed to explore the possibilities, the Internet exploded. Now the Internet is available fairly universally.
anyone know what the charting library is used for the time series graph?
Sure. I guess I'm wondering how it compares to running plain old Apache/PHP in a production environment. Or, is it more like a Django/Rails stack? Does it use the same memory footprint as PHP, etc?
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How do minutes and texts work when all of it redirecting to another number? In other words, I already pay for unlimited text and several hundred minutes as part of my mobile phone plan. The vast majority of my communications are forwarded to that phone. Would I have to pay SendHub again for those minutes and messages if they were routed through SendHub?
OpenGL support seems rather iffy on Windows. Minecraft uses OpenGL and wouldn't run on my i7. At one point it wouldn't even load, but a while later it ran, but at laughable framerates.
Holiday 2015? That's like, 1.5 years from now!? Or 10 internet years!
That episode was fantastic.
Well, "good" depends for who. The beneficiaries would be first-world population in one, and third world in the other.

Besides, putting all eggs in a basket could be a fitting metaphor, except if the person holding the basket has a perverse passion for stomping on it.

Moving to Mars wouldn't be a way to save the population, it would be an excuse to find another planet to destroy.
They have these at Google Venice (in LA), but I think they are prototypes because these look much more refined. Maybe it was a different brand actually.
Counter point -- I usually read the comments before the articles themselves (personal preference). The tl;dr above made me go read the article. It is indeed great.
My wife is Asian (Thailand) and this is exactly how she sits at her desk at home: http://bitehype.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/desk-squat.jp...
Since you implemented all those tools, the next obvious question is: what does the data say? ;)
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No matter what there will still be more than 7 billion people left on earth.
He better hope he doesn't have stock in Musk's companies already. If it turns out he owns a bunch of Tesla stock he could get accused of a pump and dump scheme. ;)
Yeah, Node didn't exist.

Python was over ten years old in 2003. In Python web development there had already been CGIs, mod_python and two major releases of Zope, with hope of Zope 3 on the horizon.

Ruby is almost as old as Python.
you should find metafun interesting: http://gergo.erdi.hu/projects/metafun/
and finish.

The big thing there, the part that resonated in my mind, was finish. I need to finish more things...

The person that started less 'brilliant', through finishing, can usurp the brilliance of the one that started strong. Intelligence is a gift and should be nurtured, not presumed on.
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Sadly, history is full of "saviors of humanity" with undesirable local-sphere characteristics. These are pretty orthogonal elements, it seems.

You can certainly restrict your lauding to people who succeeded in both the world-changing and good-local-interaction spheres. Your laud-space will be commensurately smaller, but I don't think it's zero.
> Congratulations for admitting your ignorance, and lending open ears to experts as to why they made certain engineering decisions.

Yes, they made certain engineering decisions now because the decisions they made back then were stupid, and they have to dig themselves out.
It's all about prioritization, e.g. the big rock-small rock MBA parable, so any argument about which one (e.g. saving polio or to create a backup population on Mars) is better is pointless. The real argument is how to allocate resources among these things that must all be done.

Humanity needs to be saved but only if we don't lose our humanity, everybody needs to be given a fair chance, even if it's one in a million. Some of the kids I sometimes deal with operate with slightly above this chance, some I read about get much, much lower.

I suggest you do this: While browsing, whenever you encounter a story like this (http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1wsybd/til_in...) or this (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07photo.h...) or see a photo like this famous one (http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/kevin_carter/sudan_child....), save it to an out of the way folder on your laptop. Whenever you get too cocky, take 15 mins to look at that folder and think how far we have to go. Great way to degauss your perspective.
There's going to be tons of stuff on it once 1.0 comes out.
I don't see how that follows. Look, any one person, no matter how rich, can only do so much to address the world's problems. Gates chooses to direct his charity one way, Buffet does his thing, and Page has his angle. There's nothing wrong with different people choosing different aspects of the overall situation, and focusing on the aspects that they care about.

I often daydream about what I'd do if I was billg rich. And I keep coming to the conclusion that there are certain, very specific charitable activities that I'd choose to fund, and they wouldn't necessarily be the same ones that gates chooses. For example, my prime angle would be to focus on poverty by contributing funds to help with education for disadvantaged people, and by focusing on programs that teach and promote entrepreneurship. Now, does that mean that I don't care about people with polo, or malaria, or people in developing countries who need clean water? No, it just means that I'd choose to address the things that resonate with me for whatever reason, while acknowledging that one person can't do it all.

It sounds to me like Page just has his vision of how he would want to help make the world better, and I don't see how it makes sense to criticize him just because his hot buttons aren't the same as yours (or mine, or whoever).
And it's not like Page isn't interested in health: https://plus.google.com/+LarryPage/posts/Lh8SKC6sED1

In the context of this quote:
"You’re working because you want to change the world and make it better; if the company you work for is worthy of your time, why not your money as well? We just don’t think about that. I’d like for us to help out more than we are."

His philosophy could make sense.
The idea that our species is geopolitically stable enough to ever maintain two populations is laughable.
Surely developing the technology to deflect a killer asteroid is orders of magnitude cheaper than the technology to colonize Mars.
I did not know about tagnifi. You are right they just offer the raw data while we go one step further by creating the financial charts from the raw data but I would be keeping an eye on them from now on.

As you pointed in your comment that they don't appear to parse pre xbrl data while we do.

In your earlier comment you said most startups in fin-tech space are not passionate/interested about actual investing, I completely agree. I have seen many startups claim that their users by using their service will get above average returns.

So if their service provides above average returns why are they even selling the service, just trade/invest your own money and you will be rich in no time.

The reason we started Craytheon because we wanted a service which would help us make better investment decisions in the stock market. Which is why the first US company we added to our database was Enron.

Check out this link, I think you will like it

http://craytheon.info/articles/enron_fundamental_analysis_ac...
Great stuff. I wish this was posted yesterday before I filled out mine.
This is a great step as the requirements for the MVP program were pretty stale, the majority I met who had been invited to be an MVP actively sought to keep up a public profile in order to maintain status rather than actually being a valuable professional.
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That's a bit of a negative way to look at it. I think in the end the goals don't have to be mutually exclusive. Elon Musk does what he does best, and Gates does his thing.

They're both great goals and I'm glad we live in a time when going to mars is something we can propose as a serious point of discussion, instead of being an unrealistic dream.
Actually that's the definition of the opposite of a free market. A market in which you can wield arbitrary force - without little to no consequence - against another person and their property, is not free.

None of the great free market economists responsible for laying down the very definition of what "free market" means - from Smith to Friedman to Mises and so on - have argued that to have a free market you must be able to destroy someone else's life or property. They've argued the exact opposite, that among the most important things in a free market is property rights and the defense of said property rights.

A free market does not mean a market free of protected individual rights, it means a market free of the government initiating force against individuals to arbitrarily restrain free association among people, and a market in which the government performs its proper duties, including the protection of property rights.
Anyone have issues with finger numbness with a standing desk? I used a GeekDesk for about 6 months and started to get numbness in either hand that I tried to use my mouse with. I guessed that it was related to the new pressure on the wrist, because my arm no longer rested on my chair's armest. I've went back to sitting most of the time and the numbness went away.
We are really friggin close to eradicating polio!

The Americas (North and South) have been polio free since 1994. The last 1% is what has proven to be difficult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_eradication
given the time scale of the duration in which a major impact event is likely humanity's technology will have advanced radically beyond which we could possibly imagine
Nobody on earth is rich enough to get the bottom 10% out of poverty.

700,000,000 (bottom 10%) divide Bill Gate's net worth (70 billion) and they will all get $100 each.

The only way to improve the lives of the poor is through capitalism. We've seen this in China: "Between 1981 and 2008 ... 600 million people were taken out of poverty." [1] The profit motive is an incredible force.

Btw, I say this as a huge fan of Gate's charity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
Good writing and ok advice for someone who wants to run a grocery business. But it is absolutely untrue that "brilliant" men cannot also be careful, detail-oriented and have good business sense and skills. And certainly innovation and risk taking can be just as critical in business as following proven formulas and paying close attention to the bottom line. It depends on the business and circumstance. Overall I think in the context of high technology, the article is dated.
It seems like you can only move the active square. Example, combine 2 + 2 --> 4 can move this 4 to combine with an adjacent 4. But if another tile comes into play, those two adjacent 4's are toast until you make it an 8.

That's probably not understandable....
Lenovo ThinkPad - one of the full sized models with a good keyboard and matte screen. Max out the RAM, install a large SSD, and replace Windows with Linux (in my case, Linux Mint). I'm currently running an L520 as my personal machine and an L530 at work.

Oh - and buy a cheap netbook for when you're traveling somewhere you might have your main machine lost, stolen, or destroyed.

And encrypt the disk on all your laptops.
Money is a massive scheme to convince young people to do things for old people.
So how does this work when the CA's are less than reputable, Google has to comply with various homeland security acts, they didn't notice people tapping their fibre, have had numerous problems with their own staff and they have done evil before?

Sounds like marketing fluff to me.
Does Kotlin have immutability though? You might also want to check out Rust.
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Some people may have said this before Polio vaccine was discovered:

"Almost everything about the plan to help Polio victims, especially about creating a "polio vaccine" is uncertain. Compare that to the current, immediate suffering and lost potential that is caused by poverty and disease."

See how this works?
If we go to Mars then for that population wouldn't lots of viruses be a theoretical problem?
Similar but more detailed post from Netflix about 2 and a half years ago: http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/11/benchmarking-cassandra-s...
I'm a little confused as to the need for Hack unless you have a code base in PHP and need to ship tighter code (which is a problem Facebook has and my team probably has as well).

Adding lambdas makes PHP more Ruby-like and generics and type checking are straight out of Java. I'm still unconvinced in how this makes programming websites more efficient or bug-free than existing languages. Can you please elaborate on that?
And what if an asteroid hits Mars first?
Keep in mind, it's not "One Million Writes Per Second," it's "One Million Writes Per Second on Google Compute Engine" with "Google Compute Engine" being the key point to the article.

The "one million writes per second" for Cassandra has been written about before (in this case, on AWS): http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/11/benchmarking-cassandra-s...
And as soon as he's dead, whoever is running it may totally screw up the mission.
This is all that I use Google Voice for. I love having a transcribed voicemail emailed to me, for free. Are there any other options out there? I've noticed lately that the Google Voice app sucks - the UI is unintuitive and is painfully slow to refresh my messages. I'd be happy to switch if there is an alternative.
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I raise chickens. You make websites.

You want ten of my chickens. We agree that, in exchange, you will make me a website for my chicken farm.

Then, you want ten more chickens. But I don't need any more websites. However, you have a friend who knits llama wool scarves, and needs a website. You make your friend a website; your friend gives you five llama wool scarves; you give me the five llama wool scarves and I give you ten more chickens.

When you want yet ten more chickens, you introduce me to your friend who grows corn. I wouldn't mind some corn, but the harvest hasn't come in yet, and I'd need to wait a few months. You want the chickens now. So you build a website for your corn farmer friend, who gives you an "I owe you" certificate for the corn. You give me the certificate, and I give you ten chickens. A few months later, I present the certificate to your corn farmer friend, who gives me the corn.

Eventually this becomes a pain to keep track of, and it becomes increasingly difficult to arrange personal connections with people who need chickens or llama wool scarves or corn or websites.

Money lets us exchange goods and services in the abstract. I give you ten chickens, and you give me money, which everyone else will also accept in exchange for goods and services. I can go across town and find somebody you don't know at all and buy a camera from them with the money you gave me for the chickens.
Did you have the drivers installed? Minecraft runs just fine on many, many, many windows i7 machines.
One plan is long term, the other is short term. Both are needed.
D has very good support for this. here's a quick string templating function i wrote, for instance: https://gist.github.com/martindemello/2686640

it calls a function at compile time to expand placeholders, and then compiles the generated string via the mixin() statement and carries on with the code. far more pleasant than c++.
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Cool. Ever thought of verifying the addresses to make sure you're not missing apartment numbers and stuff? SmartyStreets would be happy to donate unlimited service to your startup for free for a year.
We would be able to transfer heavy industry and resource extraction to space, using robotic factories! That would solve all the problems, starting with scarcity!

Pollution is bad in a biosphere, but why shouldn't we strip-mine the asteroid belt with von-neumann machines?
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For money, one could have Google provide ads to users who vote for specific party. After a few days, you look at the logs and create a database of people and their voting habits. Thus you will now have a database of personal information, created by the action of giving money to Google. When you pay money for a product, its called bought.

So I will call it bought personal user information, regardless if it has been laundered by advertisement clicks.
How will those people with polio feel when we are vaccinating the back up population on Mars but not those on Earth?
Wicked!! This is awesome, thanks!

Edit: Wonder if I could stain that top!
When ever I want to grab one of my super awesome platform specific tools I tame my enthusiasm and say to myself: Yes, JavaScript and HTML suck, but we all suffer for a greater good - we can build platform independent solutions and not discriminate anybody for their processor architecture, operating system or browser. And then somebody slaps it directly into my face: IMPORTANT: This game only works on the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome browsers.
Better make a back up of that back up. To the moon!
The Gates Foundation is to exhaust all of its funds within 20 years after Bill and Melinda's deaths [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundati...
It's not all that terrible. I've not been poked by metro once for about two months.
nice work. one of the biggest problems with external tracking services (mixpanel/kissmetrics/google analytics) is reconciling the data with what's present in your database. this solves that problem really well. great start
It would be much cheaper and easier to build a city underground or underwater than on Mars. Wouldn't protect against species 8472 or the Death Star, but still.
... says some random guy posting authoritatively and indignantly to HN.

The level of judgement and arm-chair quarterbacking in this thread is hilarious in a sad, "I can't believe I'm wasting my time reading and responding way".
If 300,000 people are living on Mars and an asteroid hits Earth, that's still 7 billion people dead.
Better multi core utilization. Less cpu use. Less dependency on single threaded performance.
It seems like you're not reading my comments. I just said that I do not define government by a specific set of functions.
Engineering decisions made in 2003 need not dictate the future of the company more than a decade later. Keep the systems that are written in PHP around for their nature life. Write new systems in whatever is more sensible at the time. Lazy-load your way out of shitsville.

Of course this is vastly complicated if they been neglecting modularity and SOA for the past decade and most of facebook is still a monolith.....
The UK drivers license system is substantially similar, with points for infringements that stay on the license for 4 or 5 years.
Sure thing... its a modified version of nvd3 (nvd3.org) using cmaurer's awesome angular directives: https://github.com/cmaurer/angularjs-nvd3-directives
Even when polio was at its worst it never threatened the survival of the species. Curing polio would save many people's lives, but it would have minimal impact on the survival of the species.
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I disagree. We have had a bunch of significant investments in Akvo and we are non-profit. The investments aren't structured for maximum financial ROI, but maximum societal ROI. Nevertheless they are investments.

http://Akvo.org/
Perhaps with the account data encrypted with a two-part key, one part on the will, one part in the hands of said company.
Perhaps you missed that the title says unwisdom? That is, not-the wisdom.
True, but still seems like lying by omission, or at least for PR gain...
I didn't even mention the military.
Hmmmm... 2010 was apparently much worse than 2011/2012.

#1 - Look at 2012/2011 [1] - "As of December 31, 2012, our worldwide portfolio consisted of 500 properties (135,144 rooms and units)".

Property has value, even without income. AirBnB has no such thing.

"[...]We primarily derive our revenues from hotel operations, management and franchise fees, other revenues from managed properties and sales of vacation ownership properties. For the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, revenues totaled $3.9 billion and $3.7 billion, respectively, net income attributable to Hyatt Hotels Corporation totaled $88 million and $113 million, respectively, and Adjusted EBITDA totaled $606 million and $538 million, respectively.[...]"

[1] Source: - http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9M...

#2 - Your $30MM ($300MM) is before taxes, before expenses, before costs of expansion (servers, but also support, legal, etc etc) to get to the $300MM, and based on them not paying taxes, not adhering to local laws, etc etc.

In short: I think it's fair to state that the $10BB valuation is rather 'bubblelicious'.
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That won't end asymmetry, it's will just increase the asymmetrical advantage enjoyed by actors such as Google or Acxiom.
If you ever get to ask these questions you've made it.... Well sort of
Immediately reminded me of an Ayn Rand quote:

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started."
If you include Sir Isaac Newton in a case against employing geniuses, your case is pretty thin.