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I agree with you that counting on a stable job in academia is probably a mistake for most PhD students. But your previous categorical statement goes too far.

It's a perfectly valid choice for me to decide to do a PhD for no reason other than an intense desire to learn more about some topic and then plan on making a living as a kayaking instructor or elementary school teacher or a handyman for the following two or three decades. As long as I have no delusions about the feasibility of my plan.
Personally I find the italic and cursive writing styles very illegible. They are very stylish and nice to look at. But I have a hard time reading anything written in a "stylish" font.
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> Turns out it takes about an hour for an app to propagate to all the app stores.

I'm relatively sure most iOS developers have panicked over that at some stage.
Longer and deeper, sure, but Crossrail is a whole other level of complexity due to being built under of one of the world's largest and most congested cities.
> Time is the only true constant in the universe

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but relativity would seem to contradict you.
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> covering up "refugee” crimes

This. Facebook agreeing to work with German government to do something about “racism” comments in German version (read: FB users talking about Cologne attacks that weren’t covered by mainstream press at all for weeks). FB blocking links to a mainstream respectable media’s article about freedom of speech in Czech version.

I have no doubt that FB doesn’t consider it bias. They’re righteous and seeing that attitude all over the supposedly “liberal” sphere is frightening.
Agree.

I do believe that carbs are bad with people with broken metabolisms (poor insulin sensivity, poor glucose control, etc), but once you have that fixed, carbs are an excellent source of nutrients and energy. Again, that was my case (38 years old at that time; 45 now)
I don't know Riak, other than its a distributed NoSQL key-value data store.

Time series has always been prevalent in the fintec and quantitative finance, and other disciplines for decades. I read a book in the early 1990s on music as time series data, financial tickers, and so on.

How is Riak different, or more suited to use than Kdb + q, J with JDB (free), Jd (a commercial J database like Kdb/q)[2], or the new Kerf lang/db being developed by Kevin Lawler[3]?

Kevin also wrote kona, an opensource version of the "K programming language"[4].

Kdb is very fast at time series analysis on large datasets, and has many years of proven value in the financial industry.

[1] https://kx.com/
[2] http://www.jsoftware.com/jdhelp/overview.html
[3] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kerf
[4] https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona
I had no idea about Thiel's politics. Is it acceptable to judge someone's character based on their political beliefs?
As a person whose first language is not English, I find phrasal verbs one of the most challenging parts of the language. In fact I just searched set upon and was greatly surprised that it means attacking violently! I would have never guessed that from the words alone.
Are there performance numbers available?

We're on the look out for suitable remote storage for prometheus.io, and would want to know the hardware that'd be required to handle 1M samples/s and how many bytes a sample takes up.

It doesn't support full float64 which we need, but we could workaround by putting it into a 64 bit unsigned number.
I only see 50k+ offers in London though, and I have no intentions of moving to London. I also don't think it's entirely fair to be comparing web developers to C++, I would say I'm an advanced C++ programmer but I would need to learn how to do web development from scratch, it's not like I can pick up a web development job and just get on with it.
Yeah because you let everyone know it's up and they can't download it...
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I live in Germany and the web search workaround (click on "web" link below title) worked perfectly for me.
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Trust me, I won't. I know why they keep low profile though. I was mostly mocking the recent media wave of "no one in SV likes Trump" articles.
Seems cheap. Why have they not earned more?

Edit. I know snark is not the HN way, but when faced with the total obscenity that is 25 people exploiting pension funds to the tune of $12.94 billion in one year it is more than I can stomach.
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Well, I don't live in London. My fiancee also works in IT, she makes 30k per year, and we can easily afford to rent a 4-bedroom house, have two cars, and save enough each month to get a mortgage in a couple years. I really like my job and I'm comfortable financially, so why would I need a new job, especially if it meant moving to the crazy city like London. No, thank you.
Sure he’s interested – for the moment. It’s whether the interest will persist that we have no way of knowing. My point was that since he has done this for such a short time, the size of his collection can’t, as it normally would, indicate time spent and thus a larger than passing interest.

Also, my comment was to someone that seemed to claim that someone that young could simply “work hard” and earn the money. Now, unless you’re surrounded by people with way too much money than they know what to do with, this isn’t true.
Only if you can make the right judgement. The Trump support is very heterogenous. Unless you know the reason that specifiic individual support him, you may judge wrong.
Your examples are all AAA titles, where the expectation is one of voice acting and highly polished animations, etc. It's pretty difficult branch plot lines when you carry such a high cost of production. Perhaps one day, computers will be able to improvise voice acting, plot lines and art. Until then, if we want any semblance of real openness, we have to stick to relatively low-cost of production / algorithmic / generated content, like Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, No Man's Sky, etc. These games are all limited in many ways, but at least use the player's imagination to fill in the gaps in creative ways.
you bet? yet in your previous comment you stated it as a fact
It's actually the opposite.

In a waterfall project you know you are behind schedule.

In an agile project you haven't planned two years ahead and so you simply adjust future expectations.
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And you ask why I am afraid to install that "flash player update". :)
However being system admin of a PostgreSQL database managing a lot of timeseries I was just like "meh use timestamp and good index, what's the deal?". Also for performance sake just cluster the data using the most used index...

But yeah I guess if you really need NoSQL this should be nice. However sharding based on time will probably be one of the easiest approach for horizontal PostgreSQL deployment.
i'd bet it doesn't matter.
"once, you're lucky. twice, you're good" could be a reasonable metric for execs who take on high risk projects.
I find it refreshing that there is a place for humor in otherwise “dry” contexts, such as academic journals. After all, the joke is obvious to the intended audience, or at least ought to be, and gets published for its own sake.
Today, it's faster and uses less bandwidth to watch a video than to visit a major news site.
If they are providing their customers at least 10x that value then what's the problem? Customers decide, or do we want to go back to the Middle Ages and leave decisions up to kings? One way or the other somebody is going to manage huge wealth, I prefer the first because in this case at least that somebody is not there because of born rights.

By the way, want to lower salaries of hedge fund managers? Make great startups that: 1. provide serious automated financial tools for investors; 2. make this financial stuff so that it can be used by everybody on the planet, not only by US currency holders
As somebody who works with one of the companies on that list, I just want to say that, yes, using Rust in production is a great experience. (At least once I made friends with the borrow checker, which took some experimentation.)

We especially like the way that Rust code is simultaneously high-level, strongly-typed and fast. The code feels "crisp", and if the compiler doesn't return any errors, the program will almost always work correctly on the first try. The code refactors easily. Plus the tooling (cargo, unit testing, etc.) is well thought out. And we like the ability to build static binaries against musl-libc and copy them into an Alpine Linux container.

I would happily use Rust again, at least if I wanted C++-level performance and most of the right libraries were already available for a given task. (I can find most basic, useful libraries on crates.io, but if I'm looking for something like an HTTP proxy server using async I/O, I may not necessarily find a mature implementation yet.)
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Mary Lou Jepsen gave a talk about her ideas at the Media Lab 30th anniversary:

http://www.media.mit.edu/video/view/ml30-2015-10-30-03

Her talk starts at about 45:20.
I wouldn't even know what to do with all that money. If I had just 1/1000 of Kenneth C. Griffin's 1.7 billion, I'd be more than set for life.
Sure, feeling safer matters. But in a neighborhood that's already extremely safe and residents feel safe, you don't need glaring white lights to accomplish that. Slightly brighter lights than the sodium ones, sure. But "brighter" and "feels safer" can be accomplished while keeping them at a warm temperature and somewhere halfway up the scale from dim, instead of cranked all the way up to glaring.

Besides, as I mentioned in a previous comment, the blindingly deep shadows produced by the higher contrast of the bright lights makes me feel LESS safe because I now can make out less of what's around me.

And finally, feeling safe in and of itself doesn't have that much value, as anyone who disapproves of the TSA's security theater or the NSA's surveillance will gladly explain.
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Strange, most hedge fund managers do not collect much if any salary at all.
The same argument is what drug dealers and pimps use.
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I think a redeye is an overnight flight. An SF<>LA flight takes about 45 minutes, so I doubt anyone is planning to get any considerable amount of sleep on one.
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I think the concern is over what you mean by “providing”: some would say that it seems unlikely they actually create that value as much as they confiscate it.
Preventing that was what made kings popular, until we improved on who should control the police.
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They failed economically, though, not technically.
I am pretty sure quite a lot of tattoos are just fashion accessories like the lower back tattoo, white guys with tribal tattoos, tattoos of chinese characters.

I live in Sydney and I've also noticed other sub-genres:
- Middle class women with tattoos of silouettes of a flock of birds in flight.
- Women who dress in 30s fashion with tattoos of swallows usually around their collar bones. I have not spotted any in the last few years.
- Asian girls of the Lotita sub-culture with tattoos of antique cutlery.
"Hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin made $1.7 billion"

"Mr. Griffin’s firm, Citadel, has grown from a hedge fund that managed family and pension fund money into a $25 billion firm"

"Citadel’s flagship Kensington and Wellington hedge funds returned 14.3 percent over 2015."

It might be true but seems incredible, that would mean he personally took 6.8% of the entire fund's capital as a salary. Not salary of course but carried interest - he only has to pay capital gains tax rate because Wall street.
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This might be changing though. I'm following a CQF program, and while the tools are traditionally excel, VBA and C++ - Yves from Python Quants is there lecturing about using python.
Agreed! It has made quick work of organizing my library.
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I think the problem is that they generate so much money without making anything of value. They just shift money around and with that, extract money from the economy, money that represents value generated by someone who made something that other people gladly pay for.

I'm probably just to poor at economics but if someone could explain the use and benefit to society of these hedge fund managers, that would be great. If they simply extract value by some complicated process of obfuscation, we should vote for a system where they don't exist.
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Intuit (sic) actually have fifty words for different types of _taxes_, the snow thing is a myth...
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Whats the term, security by obscurity?
Most successful FOSS projects are backed by companies who have employees work on them. I would love to see some statistics on pure "hobby FOSS" vs "commercial FOSS" and their deliverables.

Based on my own experience I would say most hobby FOSS projects ship a lot less frequently than the commercial FOSS projects.
You could train a language model from a corpus of writing by e.g. ESL students or young children, and then disallow any words with p<p(thousandth_word) given the preceding context. :)
To me this was a real sunshine story. All too often you hear the story about the teacher who was NOT replaced...
Lattice-based crypto seems to be on the way out already: most papers I see exploring cutting edge crypto are based on ring-LWE, which is a different problem that was proven (by Regev) to reduce to the SVP problem over integer lattices, thus being equally as hard. But it's not actually a lattice problem itself.
It's not even ASCII. Blocks and "double pipes" fall out of the 127-character range easily.

I also agree that a lot of the benefits and crude aesthetics is lost on using extra codepages and fancy characters: I enjoy my NetHack on plain ASCII mode as it doesn't depend on any particular font for instance.
For sure, but I would class those more as "sandbox" games, which the article specifically includes. But as always, indies are where the interesting experiments are!
This is just PDM.I built a system that does all of this, more, and integrates into our company's existing products for managing manufacturing data. While my version only watches the directories you tell it to, it also detects file movement and changes via a service and through the hashing of files. I'd be more impressed if someone built this into a file system directly. Combine advanced tag based indexing with zfs and you've got something impressive.
Wikipedia gives some idea of what Griffin does with his money. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_C._Griffin#Philanthrop...
Not close to 10x, according to the article he took as a salary about 1/3 of the returns from all investor capital. The fund returned 14.3% last year and he was paid 6.8%
My only point is that we can’t judge a person with this kind of collection by the size of the collection alone. The effort and dedication usually needed to amass such a large collection is what we really admire (or should, anyway), and the size of the collection is usually a proxy for that, so at first instinct, we are impressed by this person. But the size does not imply effort and dedication in this case, for two reasons: Firstly, he’s too young to have been doing this for very long, so we don’t know if this will simply be a passing fancy of his. (I’m not saying it will be, I’m saying that in this case we don’t know; unlike a normal aging collector which we can reasonably assume to have put in the years required for our admiration.) Secondly, as a consequence of the first, he must have bought it all relatively quickly, and we all know that when you want something fast, it’ll cost you. Also, things like an Apple I don’t come cheap nowadays, no matter how many years you spend roaming flea markets looking for them. This suggests that he has a lot of money – much more than the average adult, even – which in turn suggests that he hasn’t made any significant monetary sacrifice in acquiring the collection.

So, we can reasonably deduce that he hasn’t spent much time, effort or money (for him, anyway) on this collection, at least compared to the usual collector with a comparable collection. Therefore, we can’t say anything about his dedication to and interest in this subject, because the collection alone does not demonstrate it.

I am not trying to denigrate him – I am simply not impressed by him yet.
this is a complex topic. adequate housing is a relative term, and it's unreasonable to expect that everybody's wish to live as they want will ever be fulfilled, nor should be. that wallmart employee working in central new york should have a right to big condo near central park because... why? he has 3 kids?

if somebody is a wallmart worker, I dare to say they are not trying hard enough. almost everybody can do better, definitely in western society. if they don't, it's more a matter of personal choices (what to study and do with your free time, willingness to relocate for better work, etc.) rather than anything else. it doesn't cover 100% of the cases, but most of them (also from personal experience).
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>Yes but distros accomplish that by being highly opinionated on the build process you use to build packages whereas Sandstorm tries to be unopinionated on this point.

How's that exactly? I looked it over and can't see any difference at all.
I would love a new text entry method using gloves or finger/toe trackers. For recording thoughts while on the go.
The deal is often 2 and 20. 2% of the invested funds and 20% of the earnings. That lines up okay with your numbers (say he owns a big chunk of the fund, that would make up some of the difference).
bit of context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798

Wow, I was about to comment on the first-worldishness problem statement wrt the OP title alone, but this...

I sort of missed that one. Not sure whether I should start weeping in the corner or burst out in laughter ( I've had my fair share of ruby gem hell during the past 8 years and this is exactly the reason I am sceptical about every minimal piece of JS code to be packaged into a standalone node module to begin with..)
Please detail how hedge funds exploit pension funds.
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What a useless exercise. It seems to me that we're seeming more and more of these irrelevant posts hitting the front page.
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What's the controversy here? They make what their clients are willing to pay them. Now whether they should be taxed at a higher rate is a legitimate issue but there is nothing wrong with "25 people making 12.94 billion"
I remember when I was studying English in the U.S. with other foreign students some years ago, when the topic was phrasal verbs the grades decreased for entire class.
I am Brazilian, the class was composed most of South Koreans and Saudi Arabians.
They literally generate value for their investors. A waiter in a restaurant is just shifting money around without 'making anything of value' - should we vote him, and the entire service economy, out of existence as well?
I think insurers have caught on nowadays, but MRI scanning used to be a major profit center for US hospitals because the cost of the machines had gone down but their prices kept going up. Probably still is if you have to pay list price.
Also, why isn't "homomorphic encryption" mentioned at all since that's what this is all about?
3. Or maybe we can tax them at, say, 90% for every dollar earned over $50 million/year and use the proceedings for the common good?
nowhere near as expensive as a well designed and executed tattoo.
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I don't believe a single hedge fund manager can personally contribute $5 billion per year in value. Some of the people in this list managed funds that lost money, so they obviously didn't.
Yeah... Qt and Rails are in the list too. And is Symfony a language, too?
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So, which statement is right/better?
> they generate so much money without making anything of value

If they aren't making anything of value then why is anyone paying them? Clearly they are making something of value in someone's eyes.

Or by 'making' do you mean literally manufacturing? If so do you not value the work of doctors? They don't produce any goods either.

> if someone could explain the use and benefit to society

Why does everything have to be objectively useful and beneficial to the whole of society? Why can't we judge things based on the simple question of 'is something willing to pay for it with their own money'. Here they are, so it's clearly useful and beneficial to someone.
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I avoid all services with prices behind sales rep when possible. I always feel I'm not an astute negotiator, the sales rep will be ergo he will see me as a mug and take me for all he can get. If I do buy, even if I'm happy I'm always left wondering if I'm paying 2x as much as other customers.
Hopefully speeding up image acquisition will also bring down cost. If you can reduce the acquisition time by a factor of 4, you should be able to make the scans at least 2 times less expensive, with correct management of the queue.
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I think Datomic which has been doing time series data for years now answers the "what’s the big deal" question for me:

"Given a value of the database, one can obtain another value of the database as-of, or since, a point in time in the past, or both (creating a windowed view of activity). These database values can be queried ordinarily, without having to make special queries parameterized by time." http://www.datomic.com/rationale.html

So in other words you get to see exactly how the whole database looked at any given moment through history (certain parallels with the blockchain I suppose).
The major investors in hedge funds are pension funds. Every dollar paid in "salary" to some hedge fund manager is a dollar out of someone's retirement.
Personally I don’t really care what hedge fund managers earn, since they don’t (directly at least) get any of my income.
the life expectancy for blue collar and low income white collar workers has sadly kept steady.
If it was a level playing field then what you said is true, i.e. provide better services in the asset management space. However, the reality is more complicated.

Firstly, financial education. How many asset managers like pension funds want to put part of their portfolios in hedge funds even when their returns are sub-par. The industry is very opaque in terms of disclosing returns, and many indices are biased upward due to survivorship bias.

Secondly, the lobbying to keep the taxes at a low, and other tax loopholes, onshore and offshore, mean that the profits made by the industry are taxed lower than what would be made by a manufacturing firm.

The industry as a whole will never be truly free-market due to many regulations and laws, so your point about having a universal solution for everyone to invest across borders is probably not going to be realized in the next several decades at least.