skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been known for a while that index funds usually do better than managed funds (including hedge funds). So, this isn't really news (though I don't consider Vox to be a news source anyway). Traditionally, hedge funds were contra funds used to hedge against market decline. So, in that sense, in a rising market such as this, a hedge fund should be performing more poorly.

However, modernly, the term "hedge fund" includes any sort of privately managed liquid asset fund. I don't know why they perform worse, probably due to increased risk taken to increase returns over the competition.
Chimps eat other monkeys alive, sometimes even humans, so no particular need to be sentimental about it.
I recall a past article about Americans have a strong irrational aversion to eating alone. Generalizations are fun
I can't find the presentation anywhere, but at HBaseCon 2014 one of the lead developers of Bigtable stated that they went to RS. Even for their older databases.

EDIT: In this video https://vimeo.com/100153741, around the 23 minute mark
It should be obvious they are working on it! But only time will tell if it's good enough.
What's the difference between the free plan and the $5 plan? They look exactly the same, unless I'm blind.
How “Code-Less” Development Could Obliterate the App Dev Backlog
CoinWallet says Bitcoin stress test in September will create 30-day backlog
I'm sorry for what your mother and the rest of your family went through. I have no doubt that the company acted unfairly. Encouraging an attitude of fatalism and "they'll screw you no matter what!" is only going to exacerbate the problem. Companies will only continue to get away with things like that if everyone just accepts them as a fact of life.
High net worth clients only allocate a small percentage of their portfolio (5-20%) to hedge funds with high fees. The rest is invested in mutual funds and ETFs with low fees (<1%).
Thanks, we updated the link from https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html.
What is the actual difference between the Free ($0) and Spark ($5/mo.) plans? I see the difference in custom domain, but it hardly matters with a backend service like Firebase, doesn't it?
A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography (YouTube Video)
My key problem, working with it, is you're stuck with whatever IE the user has installed on their machine.

With CEF (which I've used, as have many other big companies - search your Windows PC for the dlls if you don't believe me), you're guaranteed every user has the same version of Chromium.
No; the institutional investors (pensions, endowments, trusts, etc) who are largely the ones buying these hedge funds are just as much a part of the game as the hedge funds themselves.
Paid plan has custom domain support.
> Perhaps because what BP did there affected US soil and citizens?

When a French user uses Google.com, it's they who are requesting the information. It's not as if Google is actively pushing search results from Google.com into France, like BP's oil pushed itself onto the US coast.

> Since the data owner is in France (according to EU law), the governing jurisdiction regarding that data is also French law.

Again, I have no legal experience with these sorts of issues, but from your argument it seems that the website owner ought to be the one who is responsible for publishing the data. Google search results are merely a reflection of that content, and that reflection is under US jurisdiction.

And if France has no way to force the website owner to take down their content, then why should Google then be responsible, just because it also has operations in France?
PINTEREST: publish your public outgoing IPs so we can whitelist you and block the rest of amazon ec2

It is the responsible thing to do, otherwise other website bots can spoof you.
agreed. That's the main reason I'm upgrading.
As a Canadian, I wonder if Canada is more like America or Europe in this regard. I suppose that it'll be an experiment the next time I go out to eat alone.
I am an extremely social person, but nearly every weekday I eat lunch alone.

My main motivation is it's literally the only time during the week when I can be alone, so I take advantage of that time. Most days I go for a 45 minute walk and listen to a podcast, then grab a sandwich or a salad and eat it back at my desk while browsing the web.

It really makes a huge difference in my day.
That's the problem--you have to look to the context (the other person's argument) to figure out what "begs the question" means. That may be burdensome if, e.g., you're writing to someone about the flaws in a third person's argument.
I think there are a lot of flat file hosts that complete with Firebase Hosting for around $5/month and the Spark plan is just to reach feature parity with them by allowing custom domains.
Efficient Algorithms for Public-Private Social Networks
I really hope this is a brilliant piece of satire.
This trend validates the appeal of Soylent, whose users views eating as a waste of time, rather than a social experience.
Are you taking it for depression? If so, how's that working out for you? How are the side-effects?
/checks date
Wow, for a split second I thought that was real!
Best HN title I have read in a while.
Is it just me or does this title keep changing?
$30/month? It's not that cheap around here!

I think the bigger crash is that people prefer to watch a full season of a TV show in one sitting, rather than once a week for 9 months or whatever. How do you make television when the audience you really want is going to wait until you have already produced a few seasons to even start looking? Nevermind the damage that premature cancellations due to future viewership.
Is this legit? I can't find anything about them.
Alright, fuck em, oh hang on, we bomb the living daylights out of entire cities, i'm lost in the moral maze
Firebase can host your front-end content on its CDN, SSL supported, via their Firebase Hosting package[0]. This is the reason to use the Spark plan, so you have a custom domain for that, I believe.

[0] https://www.firebase.com/docs/hosting/guide/custom-domain.ht...
There seems to be a global massive increase in liquidity being injected in indexed and EFT funds.

My knowledge in finance is zero. But hearing about how indexed funds and EFT funds works it seems to work in reserve to sub-prime mortgages.

Rather and slice debt into hundreds of pieces and and selling it to investors you seems to slice saving into hundreds of pieces and selling it to people who need liquidity.

Could someone with more knowledge tell me why I am completely wrong ? I really do not want to witness another market crash.
What? Who suggested that.

Everyone has their own opinion on that topic, but if we rely on Wikipedia [1]

Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) is a function in organizations designed to -->maximize employee performance<--

another topic tells

Organizations will engage in a broad range of human resource management practices to capitalize on those assets.[2]

If your HR cannot capitalize assets, if your HR cannot maximize performance, if your HR hired asshole, who is the responsible? HR

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources
You will most likely have to compromise on a few of your requirements. Is there a reason you don't want to create a virtual drive?

I would suggest you use VeraCrypt (https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/), or the last full version of TrueCrypt (https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm). Both are free and open source.

Encrypt your files locally then upload the encrypted file.
I spent a little bit of time examining different options in this space a few weeks back, I found these options:

Firebase

Couchbase Mobile Sync Gateway

CouchDB

PouchDB

Amazon Cognito

Azure Mobile Data Sync

Cloudant

My main issues with Firebase (in order of importance) were:

a) Uncontrollable sync. It seems to always use a web sockets/long poll, and count how many connections you have. Which is not appropriate when data changes infrequently and you're concerned about your users battery life. Mainly, I wanted to be able to do push using GCM/etc.

b) Single unmodifiable conflict resolution strategy

c) SaaS-only

It seems very polished and easy to get started with, but since there was no upgrade path to anything else, the fact that it really wasn't a good fit for my sync needs made it seem like a bad option.

I'm not a huge fan of these systems in general since they have you connecting to a dedicated database that you plug code into (eg as a sync function), rather than exposing building blocks for you to build a sync service.

But I'm still using pouchdb on the client for the moment, and I haven't fully figured out what the backend will be, but at least I have a few options in pouchdb-server/couchbase/couchdb/cloudant.
And taste a waste of stimulus
Like many startup they go with ruby as a PoC because it's fast to implement, now when you need a really solid and performant backend you don't use ruby / python.

http://www.quora.com/Why-did-twitter-move-away-from-Ruby-on-...
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>Also, while lying about safe sex is certainly a despicable and immoral act, it's still a private matter between two people.

Why is it automatically a private matter? Perhaps you think it should be a private matter, but someone else may think it shouldn't be, and thus the morality of something like cheating may be to them much worse than it is to you, thus morally justifying more extreme actions to be taken to expose cheating.

Also to note, something does not need to be legally considered a given crime for a person to morally consider it such. You may think them wrong, but their view is still consistent given their underlying values that you disagree with.

That a person may view this hack differently than you may not be the result of a different view on the morals of hacking or the right to privacy, but on something more nuanced like a difference in distinction between what counts as consent.
Well, it's definitely a generalization, but I would say it's right for some Americans. I'll eat alone without hesitation, but many of my friends will not, and have a strong aversion to it. I think there's a point to be made that it isn't so much that we don't feel anxious about eating alone, but that no one in our shared culture thinks it's unusual to see an adult eating alone. By shared culture, I mean to acknowledge that there are several regional culture groups that could be described as distinct in the USA, and by unusual, I mean to say that it wouldn't be viewed as there being something off about the person. But I do think that the case can't be made that we, as a culture, enjoy eating alone.
The paper is kind of long. Look at Theorem 4 in it.

https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30001.1-2-8.shtml
Very little of what was planned was implemented in 1.5. See the design doc: https://golang.org/s/execmodes

edited summary:

- Go code linked into, and called from, a non-Go program

In the Go 1.5 release this mode is implemented, using a .a file, for most Unix systems.

- Go code as a shared library plugin with a C style API

In the Go 1.5 release this mode is implemented for linux-amd64, linux-arm, darwin-amd64, and darwin-arm. When using gccgo it is implemented for any supported target.

- Go code as a shared library plugin with a Go style API

This is not implemented in the Go 1.5 release.

- Go code that uses a shared library plugin

This is not implemented in the Go 1.5 release.

- Building Go packages as a shared library

In the Go 1.5 release this is implemented for the linux-amd64 target only. When using gccgo it is implemented for any supported target.

- A Go program built as a PIE

This is not implemented in the Go 1.5 release.
Based on the creation date from it's whois info I'd say it's satire:

Domain Name: SHUTDOWNIFY.COM
Registrar: 1 & 1 INTERNET AG
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 83
Whois Server: whois.1and1.com
Referral URL: http://1and1.com
Name Server: NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server: NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server: NS3.DREAMHOST.COM
Status: ok http://www.icann.org/epp#OK
Updated Date: 19-aug-2015
Creation Date: 19-aug-2015
Expiration Date: 19-aug-2016
$ whois shutdownify.com
Updated Date: 19-aug-2015
Creation Date: 19-aug-2015
Expiration Date: 19-aug-2016
Humans too.
What's the problem with other bots appearing as pinterest?
I know many people on the Firebase team very closely and they're definitely aware of the downtime issues and they're making it a top priority, I'm sure it will be improving very soon.
I'm quite hyped about ipfs. I think they can deliver in few years.
This is fucking hilarious.
Every time this story is posted somewhere, I just have to read it end to end.
This isn't the first time introverted entrepreneurship has been brought up, but I hope I can add to the discussion. Being introverted can lead to many days being drained doing 'marketing' and others on endless hour coding binges.
While I feel bad for the companies who relied on this service and must now write their own shutdown notices, it's their own fault for trusting a SaaS and not using a self-hosted solution.

Edit: Can anyone suggest alternatives?
Start-ups these days, eh? Serious lack of commitment!
Retraction Watch is close.
Does this count as dogfooding?
Haha, brilliant. I believed it for more than a moment. The WHOIS records spill the beans, though:

Creation Date: 19-aug-2015
System level package management falls quite short of what you want for applications in a lot of ways still.

Different apps will want to specify and build against extremely specific and different versions of their dependencies, and developers will want to be able to change these versions without lots of organizational coordination between owners of dev/CI/stage/production environments.

Currently, this is solved by things like npm/bower/bundler/composer/maven/etc. etc. The code repository describes all the dependencies and they get installed just for that app, testing and deployment process simply incorporate the app's packaging tools.

However, for any dependencies which use native extensions, you tend to need to be able to compile those - across all your environments - which means having working toolchain everywhere.

Not that this is strange or hard in my opinion, but it seems to discourage people somehow.
I think its because so many devs are trying to move away from C++. Qt really is great and its sad to me because its a much better solution than these crappy browser apps.
I thought it several seconds. I even thought "wow this idea must be the dumbest...." before I loaded the comments of this thread and immediately realised that it was I who were dumb.
tl;dr :: shutdownify^2
Berliners call everyone not settling down permanently "tourists" and resent them somewhat, if my impression is correct.
Except you target and interop well with #1 and #2 :)
I'd like to know more about how ticketmaster has affected the world of live music. Its such a bizarre market of scalping and reselling. You have entire companies now dedicated to the act of scalping, like stubhub, where the artist doesn't see a dime of the transactions. The article points out that the revenue generated by ticket sales is greater than it once was, but it still hasn't eclipsed the amount once made from album sales. I have to wonder if the "ticket industry" has something to do with that, but of course its like comparing apples to oranges.
There is no you, yet there you are.
Perhaps under your moral framework. But perhaps some other person's framework is different, either requiring a weaker case, seeing this as being a strong enough case, or maybe even having an exception just for a case like this.
They used to be called startupify, but they pivoted earlier this week to get ahead of the bursting startup bubble.

Unfortunately it looks like they ran out of runway soon after the pivot.
Want to hear something weird?

I actually think it should be really easy for a company to fire someone, for whatever reason they want to.

And I think we should have social services that make you not fear for your life to be unemployed. Free education. Free health care. Basic Income on top of that.

But maybe I'm just completely nuts.
Their incredible journey....
Slashdot still exists, believe it or not.
Related material, number of modules and average growth/day by [http://www.modulecounts.com/]

count | avg/day

JavaScript..214,741.|.379/day.[Bower + npm]

Java..........114,860.|.108/day.[MAVEN]

Ruby.........106,195.|..50/day.[Rubygems]

Go..............86,512.|.299/day.[GoDoc]

PHP.............68,276.|..99/day.[Packagist + Pear]

Python.........64,865.|..56/day.[PyPI]

Modulecounts offers info for more languages, I just did a TL;DR

EDIT: is there a good way to present data on HN?
If any one is interested in learning about biases further, I strongly recommend Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow". It changed the way I view the world in a lot of ways, and made me a lot more skeptical about my beliefs and intuitions than I already was, which I think is healthy.
Parse Improves Push: Error Reporting, Localization, and Reusable Audiences
The Strange Appeal of Watching Coders Code
Colloquial usage is not always perfectly aligned with the dictionary definition of a word. I thought it was rather clear that the phrase "almost indefinitely" is colloquial, given the obvious absurdity if taken literally.
How Zuckerberg wrested control of Facebook from his shareholders
> Side note. Many other databases (i.e Riak, CouchDB, Cassandra) were looked at for this in-depth comparison.

Out of interest: What was wrong with CouchDB for your use case?
They will be their own customer forever, so they can give themselves $10MM a month for the notice, and hence produces revenues of $120MM, and easily get a $6bn valuation.
Would it be better for them to get extinct, or to become advanced enough to understand that there is a much more technologically superior race in the same planet and that their lives and deaths totally depend on that race?
2008 letter to Jeff Bezos from employee
It's interesting that with such a huge and diverse, rich set of Clojure repos on Github that everyone depends on and loves, they still didn't even rank enough to be on this list. I'll admit that was a bit surprising at first, but perhaps it shouldn't have been.
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The term is self-hosting compiler, when a compiler can compile itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
"Our board has decided that the company should shut down now and sell all remaining assets"

I am floored that someone actually invested in this idea, much less an actual board of directors.
It's about $30/mo when you consider the incremental cost of a cable+internet bundle over just internet (since that's what a potential cord cutter would be considering).

And while I understand your viewpoint, cable video does offer on-demand, and they can negotiate for extended series rights if they feel it's important to their product. I don't think that's a deal breaker; just a product feature.

But at a minimum, the price needs to come down -- and I think it will as consumers become used to the idea that not every show will be available on every service. It's no longer completely ridiculous to imagine a cable TV service without ESPN or any of the other Disney channels, for example.
Sorry dumb question. How can bootstrap safely use ES6? Isn't there limited compatibility? Are they using some kind of tool to allow it, or are they only using it for new browsers, and falling back to ES5 if they have to?
He's talking about his management and how it affected himself.

The fact that he has failed to account for how his management effects his team is very telling about the guy's personality.

I'm not asking for much, just a paragraph or two that proves that this "throwaway" account isn't 100% narcissistic.

But again, nearly 3000 words and nothing about teammates or coworkers in there. That's pretty telling honestly.
Most of what Snowden exposed doesn't violate the constitution or the rights of any US citizen.
This interactive map shows how ‘wrong’ other maps are
> Because what the p-value is really telling you is the probability that on repeating the experiment you would see a result as or more extreme than what you observed.

That's incorrect. If you perform the exact same experiment twice, the chances are exactly 50% that the first result is more extreme than the second one (neglecting equal outcomes).

This illustrates nicely how hard it is to properly explain the p-value. Things would be more intuitive if people would report confidence intervals. I prefer "x is with a likelihood of 95% between a and b" a thousand times over "we measured x=c and reject the null hypothesis with 95% probability".
And applicants absolutely appreciate candor, there is no question about that. Thanks for being one of the good guys. :)
I don't see rethinkdb in that list, admittedly you'd have to roll your own layer between database and user, but I think it might be a good option for a roll your own firebase clone.
>The effects the patients describe are pretty much the recreational effects.

Except theyre not. Saying, "My ahedonia feels better today. I smiled at a baby on the street but am still otherwise a little melancholy," is a whole lot different than "Dude, I'm trippin' balls here!"

This is like the difference between taking an opiate to stop pain and taking an opiate to get fucked up. They are not the same effects. How a drug interacts with a sick person is going to be different than a healthy person especially when the doses vary. As a depressive, I never understood how much fun my friends were having on drugs. The effect on drugs on me was always very watered down. I have an unhealthy brain and that means typical means to get high aren't available to me.

/guy who has been on more anti-depressive treatments that he cares to admit
Calling themselves shutdownly or shutdown.io probably would have saved them.
Where this question becomes practical is with the Origination clause of the US constitution. It states that any bill for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives. If the House passes a bill that deals with some topic, and then the Senate amends it by removing all of its' language and replacing that language with something else, did that bill still originate in the House?

See: Sissel v. United States Department of Health & Human Services
Bezos isn't the only one.

The Long Now foundation (http://longnow.org) has some other interesting projects besides the clock.

If you like this kind of thing, I'd suggest reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem. It might be hard to get into it, it might be his most impenetrable book yet but it really pays off later.