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From the article: "The authors are not talking about a political realignment. Democrats continue to overwhelmingly outnumber Republicans among faculty, young and old."

I think they are just describing the younger faculty being less activist about their political views. Take a look at the second graph they provide. There is a small increase in conservatives in the social sciences (probably due to increases in the percentage of economists), but little else to support the claim that faculties are becoming more diverse.

Even that, I'll be very skeptical of. At every university I've been to, self identified "liberals" are socialist and self identified "moderates" are merely left wing democrats.
Some other things you can do:

1) Reduce your portfolio delta. If you're exposed to the long side, you can pick up some shorts, buy some puts on existing positions, or sell vertical calls to overlay.

2) Collar your positions. That involves buying a put and selling a call at the strike. This should be a net gain which reduces your risk (and reward) to the market.

3) Diversify into non-correlated investments. That means expanding out of one asset class (in your case fixed income) into several others that may not necessarily move with the market. That can include some inverse ETFs.

4) Go cash until you have a plan.

Disclaimer: Use at own risk. Due diligence is your friend.
Yeah, that's pretty unreadable for me as well. I guess I haven't seen posts modded down that far; I must be fortunate in my choice of threads.
It's a shame there are no comments to this yet. If you're relatively new to programming (say, a college student), this is a really cool chunk of code to copy into notepad and figure out.

It really shows you how a tiny amount of code can do some pretty cool stuff.
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This could have just as easily been titled "Machiavelli for Money Managers."
I think it's just a figure of speech. You are reading in to it a bit too deeply.
This wasn't "how to keep your shirt" - this was "how to keep your shirt if you have the resources to start your own fund. oh, and you'll basically be screwing your investors- so just don't tell them."

Lewis writes in a tongue-and-cheek style, but he's so deadpan, people think he's being serious.

Compare this article with "This is what happens when you lend money to poor people" (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a5lh...) , and the Hacker News reaction (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50853).
M/R is the interesting part. Making it work over HTTP is just a few lines of Perl.
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I think the problem is you have liberals but not actual conservatives. The conservatives we currently have, care more about gay marriage than keeping the government small and having a balanced budget.
There's no reason to be homophonaphobic... English has lots of words that rhyme.

http://www.answers.com/snigger
I'm glad to see this is not a SOAP opera and has no XML b.s. of any kind in it. In fact you can see one YAML file in the sources.

Jeff Atwood knew something probably...
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001114.html
English probably isn't his first language (the errors he makes suggest he is a native speaker of a Western? Slavic language).

You have to give non-native speakers a break. I know I sound significantly dumber than I am in French and Spanish.
Denmark is now world's happiest nation
What problem does Jerry Yang have, besides losing his job at Yahoo?
They used options on bonds.

High leverage + quant statistical method + six sigma event = fun.
Not sure if you think that term comes from there, but it doesn't.

http://books.google.com/books?id=H-GfO0jkBLsC&pg=PA38...

God damn, but google books links are ghastly. At any rate, the saying goes way, way before that.
And you could bet on yourself by trading options ;)
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As a non-leftist who moves in academic circles, I have to say it's still very difficult. Even in the hard sciences, I find that every social gathering I go to winds up turning into a classic left-wing whine-about-everything, and I have to bite my tongue. More than once I've wanted to get out of academia, just because the lack of intellectual diversity was getting too much for me. And that's leaving aside the direct hostility which I have encountered when I've actually made my views known (which I've avoided doing at the couple of places I've worked most recently).

Of course, it's a vicious circle. If I'm thinking of leaving due to the hostile environment, then surely other non-leftist academics are actually leaving, keeping the environment hostile.

As is usually the case in a New York Times "let's collect a couple of anecdotes and extrapolate a huge trend" articles, the data doesn't back up the conclusions.
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Instead of being pissed at the judge, people should be pissed at youtube/google for actually keeping track of what videos every single user/ip watched. Just goes to show that Google is most likely tracking every single thing you do online
Perhaps, but I'd prefer a seminar on great books taught my one really good professor who knew how to keep his own political views from tainting his views on literature.
I have just checked and the quote is on page 26 of my copy.
The paper is a good read too:
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
This article completely misses the point. Instead of citing outlying cases, maybe it should have dealt with the elephant in the living room:

Vietnam

College students in the 60's weren't "playing politics". They were protesting an illegal, immoral, and unwinnable war. Hell, half the men on campus were there so they wouldn't have to go to Vietnam.

I imagine today's generation of professors would feel a little differently if TV news showed maimed soldiers in Iraq every night, their classes were full of young men who didn't want to be drafted, and their campuses were occupied by armed National Guardsmen who shot unarmed students.

[Prediction: This will be voted up by those who actually experienced the absurdity of the 60's and voted down by those who can't imagine it could have been that bad. Since the average age in this community is probably below 40, this post will end up negative.]
SBCL is now faster than Java, as fast as Ocaml, and getting better
There is a pretty glaring XSS vulnerability, though. I have informed them about it.
Boy, I sure am glad they managed to find a file photo of a guy with glasses smiling to illustrate the concept of "happiness". I might not have understood the article properly, without the benefit of the image.

The biggest problem that I can see with these kinds of surveys is that the shade of meaning of the word "happy" varies from language to language. Hell, even in English if you ask me if I'm "happy" then I won't be precisely sure that you mean.
It's not a bad thing but it also doesn't require you to hire an snakeoil salesman, erm SEO consultant.
Sounds like he's channeling George Bernard Shaw: "I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
I still like using IRC. Its nostalgic.
37signals to Drop IE6 Support
So then... nothing is rotten in Denmark?
I'm not sure he could have spoken the word, with the cloth and water over his face. He may have been holding his breath during that time. He may have thought the word, but I really don't think it was possible to speak in that situation.
And even M/R is just a framework for easily parallelizing "embarrassingly parallel" problems and incrementally aggregating the results (instead of in one step). A cool idea for sure, but not ground breaking -- these ideas are as old as parallel computing itself.
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IRC isn't kludgy / annoying unless if you make it so (which means being on the wrong servers or the wrong channels.)

Case in point: irc.freenode.net #startups
one really good professor who knew how to keep his own political views from tainting his views

You mean like a math or science professor?
First and Second are the same. Third makes no sense.
Happy? That guy looks lunatic.
Professors have always been more liberal and left-leaning than the general population. This goes back further than a hundred years in my reckoning. For instance in the 20s and 30s there was a large percentage of academics who thought communism was the best choice for western civilization.

Vietnam has little to do with it.

Interesting (to me) is the tendency for left-leaning progressives to continue to live and fight battles from the past. The recent Iraq war has caused some to try to replay Vietnam. The coming nomination of Obama is very JFK-ish. We're having a very 60-ish discussion on how man is immoral in his treatment of the environment. I always thought the conservatives were the ones who lived in the past, but I think that has changed over the last five years or so.

My opinion only. Do not operate heavy machinery after reading this comment.
Facebook's internal valuation revealed: $3.75 billion
What Is Facebook Worth?
Why Functional Programming?
Funnily enough, I was reading Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare last night, and thinking how great it was to have literature explained by a man with a clear scientific mind instead of a mushy literary one.

Unfortunately, the Asimovs of this world are few and far between.
An overgeneralization, of course. It's just that those are the ones you hear most about in the media. One could speculate that left-wing media sources are more comfortable portraying the crazy conservatives than the sensible ones (just as Fox News is more comfortable portraying the crazy leftists than the sensible ones).
A few months ago I had read on CNN Money that for the most part technology based jobs are in the clear and will not be directly effect by the poor economy.

I just left a large company and went on a slew of interviews for new jobs, so it appears this is a decent theory so far.
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Vietnam affected everything in the 60's. The only popular media (TV news) was broadcast from there every night. It changed popular culture, economics, and politics. And it spilled over onto college campuses, the only refuge for young men 18 to 21 who didn't want to go to Vietnam or Canada. This was the environment that produced today's retiring generation of professors cited by OP, which never even mentioned Vietnam.

Vietnam and Iraq have little in common stateside by design. Today's political leaders weren't about to make the same mistake twice. So no TV news and no draft. Amazing how well it's worked, huh?
IRC is the only thing I can use during a Steve Jobs keynote that doesn't crash/fail. Yes, it's not the darling simplicity of Twitter, but in most cases it seems to work. Getting the masses to understand that is the problem, I think, which the author tried to point out. It's not really a technical issue more than a stupid-people tricks problem.
That may be so, but this is still just a terrible, terrible ruling. If the linked article is correct, it's the entire surfing habits of every youtube user, ever. A list of users who watched the Viacom videos in question should clearly be discoverable? This? It's a disaster.

IANAL, obviously, but I have to believe there will be some way to appeal this order and get it sanified, no?
I actually think this one is counter-productive.

Firstly, when I see an extremely light gray comment, I'm always curious to see what could possibly have been so ridiculous as to justify that kind of downmodding, so I'm more likely to read it than I am a positive-karma comment.

Secondly, if it truly was a stupid or objectionable comment, it gives some satisfaction to downvote it, and watch it turn an even lighter shade of gray.

So for me at least, this feature actually encourages the two things it's supposed to discourage: reading negative-karma comments and downvoting them to oblivion.
It's a tiny bit dishonest... SBCL is faster than Java 1.4, but slower than Java 1.6. (And using the logic used for comparing OCaml, it's as fast as Java 1.4).
Discussion: Reddit worth 12.8 million dollars? 
Guess many of you know this already. But is Reddit really worth that much?
Their income-source is one big ad on the right that I never even thought about clicking.

http://sam.bluwiki.com/blog/2007/04/y-combinators-portfolio.html

YC Companies that have been acquired / sold:

Reddit
- Valuation: acquired by CondeNast for a reported $12.8 million [3].
- Equity: An initial 8% diluted to 7%, additional 3% in the first round of funding. Justification: They were initially rejected, & YC didn't like their initial idea (hence the high 8%). A year after starting, reddit did seek additional capital (<$100,000). At that time, I'm guessing that they had a premoney valuation of $1MM, meaning their the 8% would be diluted to approximately 7%. My guess is that YC provided at least $30,000 of the this funding, for an additional 3%.
- Invested capital: Initial $15,000 with an investment about a year later of ~$30,000
Great UI - nice and simple.
Pure curiosity here, but why not just put a cap on the amount a post can be downvoted?

Cap it at say, -10; If it's truly offensive, it will probably get flagged anyways.
Dell offers its customers "Windows Vista Bonus." And the "bonus" is, it's Windows XP
"They won't listen to us, but they'll listen to R.E.A.S.O.N.!"
Love the cat pic lol
Doesn't CouchDB already do this in some way?
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Thus proving that you can currently get attention for any goddamn stupid idea if you find a way to link it to "climate change".

A three-foot sea level rise (being the worst case scenario for this century) would be annoying for a few people in very low-lying areas, but they'd move to slightly higher ground, of which the world has a lot, and not to floating cities.
how about perf? how are your measuring that - # of connections?
Was there a list of all of them somewhere? I don't want to click on 10 different "next" links to find out if I'm interested in any.
I think this says more about their customer base than it does about the state of IE6 in the market as a whole. There are lots of IE6 users still out there, many of whom are using corporate installations that they can't upgrade. If 37signals (did I spell it right?) doesn't need that market, more power to them. But the reality is that better browsers just aren't as simple as providing a list of "click here" installation links.
Where does it say it is going to make money?
Am I the only one who clicked this hoping for an article about Paul Scholes? Oh well :)
My mistake then. Interesting.
Watch "The Insider." A key element of the trial was the employer's insistence that testifying under subpoena was still a violation of the non-disclosure agreement.
PGP Desktop has the only true "this message will self-destruct" feature, as far as I've seen.

PGP encrypted messages. Opened in a secure viewer. No copy and paste. No easy screenshotting (dx10 overlay if I'm not mistaken - bypassable, of course, but decent anyway). Close it and it's gone.
Here is a staggering list of items Google definitely tracks:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring...

When I look under Medical Records and think of cross referencing potential I grow a little concerned.
Why does everyone assume that every single online service or website launched has only one end-goal and that is to make money?

Especially seeing as these comments are made on HN - a decidedly money-making-free site itself.
"is Reddit really worth that much?" - Why not? A product is worth whatever you can get someone to pay for it.
Good points. I guess I just meant that some people don't tend to take seriously an MBA who doesn't dress the part, especially when business is the reason for a schoozefest.

I've actually had much better luck being taken seriously as a techie when I don't dress the part of an MBA. Probably one of the most difficult things is being taken seriously as a techie when people first get to know me for the MBA (prime example, employment interviews). It's really quite the conundrum.
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I agree. They customer base (I think) is mostly small businesses, which have the luxury of upgrading browsers.

Any effort to push the web forward (away from old browsers) gets a thumbs up in my book.
The last "job" I worked was rotating shift work, and we went from working 7 12-hour night shifts in a row (6pm-6am) to working 7 12-hour day shifts in a row (6am-6pm) - with exactly 24 hours in between to re-adjust (6am Tuesday - 6am Wednesday).

What worked for me was to stay up as late as I could so that I was really tired. When working the night shift (6pm-6am) I would usually be asleep by 7:30am or so, but on my swing day I would try to stay up until 7pm-9pm. (Sometimes I would break down and take a 30 minute nap, but I tried not to if I could, using whatever it took caffeine-wise.)

It usually helped if I gradually tried to stay up later in the mornings for the last couple days of the night shift just to get my body used to it.

I went to bed fairly early that night (usually before 9pm) to try to get a solid 8-9 hours of sleep that night. Occasionally took melatonin or a sleeping pill but not regularly.

I was usually beat after the first full 12 hour day shift but it reset my body clock pretty quickly. :)
What if you run PGP Desktop under a modified QEMU that can log all changes to memory state in a particular program?
The other reason it won't be the Twitter killer is network effects. My friend isn't using identi.ca, so why should I?

By the time that identi.ca makes any inroads, Twitter will get its technology fixed and people simply won't care.

It's not about the technology, it's about the conversation.
say that to mainstream users!
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Many sources [1] show that IE6 still has more global usage than IE7. Though I'm sure 37signals' userbase is not represented well by global data, turning away users of perhaps the most popular version of the most popular browser is an interesting move.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
I found this article very confusing and written very poorly.

"My ideal workday usually starts at 3:00 am and ends three hours later"

Drink coffee before taking a nap? How exactly does that work?
God, I didn't realize IE6 hit the streets in 2001. What is it that makes corporate cultures so slow in upgrading to IE7, especially if they are locked into the Windows platform?
I agree that it is a stretch, but so is chasing down folks that may or may not have downloaded one movie from BitTorrent. http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/11/loeb-and-loeb-mpaa-extorti...

Obviously the RIAA and MPAA etc. have a hard-on for this kind of thing right now. My hunch is that Viacom is trying to acquire as much data as it can to try to do the same thing.
I knew it all along, some Canadians are simply braindamaged
Also, since the hull is flat, rogue waves will create huge stresses on these things, probably destroying them. Living on a floating island on the ocean is eventual suicide. It's not a matter of if it will be destroyed by waves, but when. There is a way to build habitations on the water and decouple them from wave energy -- use Spar Buoys.
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but there's SEO, and then there's slimy SEO. Too many times people get them confused. There are a lot of smart things to do to earn a higher ranking just by changing the way your site's programming works, and none of them involve link buying, page spamming or underhanded shenanigans.
True- so I'm not personally insulted or anything ;)

It's just somewhat... amazing? I guess would be the word. Amazing (although, truthfully, not that shocking) that there really are many wall-street types that would behave this way.

There's a grain of truth even in dedpan/satire/etc.
I get the impression that many companies have internal applications that were written to be compatible with IE6... software written by employees or consultants who are no longer available.

The mere act of enumerating IE7 incompatibilities in these applications (let alone fixing them) represents a development cost that some companies will put off for as long as possible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhHONpmlxPc

Be warned, Viacom want your IP address...
Why are we making this change? IE 6 is a last-generation browser. This means that IE 6 can't provide the same web experience that modern browsers can.

For example?

If I didn't know any better, I'd think that this was the same old "IT B.S." that we've been listening to for 30 years. You have to upgrade for our convenience but we tell you that it's for yours.

I know of many companies that don't want to pay maintenance. They say, "I don't want any upgrades and I don't want to pay for them. It works perfectly now. If I want anything to change, I'll ask for it and I'll pay for it. Why should this be any different that anything else that I own?"

Is this move for the benefit of the supplier or the customer?

Honestly, I've constantly see remarks that say you're lame or old fashioned if you still use IE6, but I sure would like to hear one of these posts provide some concrete data why. (And please don't say tabs or extensions, those are features many do not see a need for.)
Don't trust happiness studies. I'll say this for every single post about it.

Look where people are moving. Moving to a country, they are doing something right. Moving away, they're doing something wrong. Want to move away but it is against the law: fucked.
Ask HN: How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method?
I recently built a webapp for my company to track the progress of a certain process we were engaging. According to the logs, the google robot came in, followed all our delete links and erased the whole database of information. I have no idea how it figured out our unique url... Luckily this was neither critical or hard to recover from backup, but this begs the question:

How safe are unique URLs as an authentication method? Can you really replace a username/password prompt safely with a url like www.myservice.com/go/HDSFF98XC6Y219G23KJBVXC986R23/ without concern?
"Unless a push is built-in, some server admins may not update, leaving features unavailable depending on which server you've logged into. With the constant innovation in web apps and user demand for a more feature-rich experience, that's an uphill battle for a distributed system."

That's backwards. In a distributed system there's competition between nodes because it's relatively easy for a user to move from one node to another. In a centralized system the competition is with separate systems, and since it's harder to move away an entrenched central system doesn't need to do much to survive.

Individual nodes also don't need to be as conservative about new features as massive centralized systems do.

There is a point where inertia sets in and new features that require widespread adoption become impossible (this is where email and IRC are now), but that takes years.
On the consumer Internet sites I have worked on in the past year, the stats have shown roughly 30% of users still have IE6. For the services that 37Signals provides, it's quite likely that this drops to just a few percent -- after all, their customers are tech-savvy enough to be using Firefox, Safari, and IE7. And when you've got just a few percent of IE6 users, it just doesn't make good financial sense to spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with IE6's inane bugs.
I find that the results of the GCLS are so specialcased and gamed and compiler-optimized at this point that they basically don't reflect anything even remotely near reality.

For example, Ocaml still seems to be the language I can go to for the best performance with high level code. C++ still seems to be somewhat slower.

It's one thing to implement an ackerman function in C++ and another entirely to make a real working application.