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The "upper echelon" of any group is going to be like that though. Using the exceptional few to excuse the vast majority does no one any favors.

However, the millenials are defined by their entitlement. It is the one trait everyone notices. The readers here may not fit the mold, but you are using a self-selected group of people posting to a VC news site as a counter-point. That doesn't resonate well either.
Good thoughts.
As you say, this is for a 'lump sum' investment, not investment over time, which has the benefit of dollar-cost-averaging. As I mentioned in my post, I may look at that next, probably in v3.
The tax is is good point too, but I'll leave that off the table for the next version as people's tax situations vary, and it gets complex - maybe v5..
Your best share the traits of the best of every generation. Because they don't fit even for whatever reason.

Your worst is your vast majority. And it is the arrogance that breed the laziness. They already know they are awesome and deserve all this stuff, so why aren't people just giving it to them already. Not to mention, the WSJ article seems to imply that there is a high reward/low risk expectation from these people.

And what you say about "talented people who value growth and productivity over playing nice and paying dues" is nearly the same traits that made up the stereotypical "arrogant computer person".
I don't know what your site actually does without signing up or clicking around. The first page gives me a vague explanation and some weird browser-in screenshot.

I would recommend trying to make it easier to understand what you do in your opening page. I see after clicking through that it looks like a journal for your WoW character
To the parent: This where I've been. I've built many of my own tools and frameworks. Problem is, they're still related to the space that I no longer enjoy being employed in. It was fun work, with plenty of great challenges, and proved to be a great strategy for securing most of my sanity. Elevate anything to a "higher purpose" and you'll find some extra motivation to get the job done.

To edw519: This where I'm going (in addition to looking for another line of work I might enjoy more). I've been making my own tools for about three years. I guess that's my "breaking point". I'm using them personally, but I don't want to be at shops without some kickass tools and practices already in place. I like my tools, but working at a place without any useful abstractions is no fun. In the meantime, I'm trying to make the best use of my tools and talents on my own dime, for my company (http://greaterscope.com). There I can solve the problems I want to solve, without restrictions (until I get customers). Hopefully it'll be a much better ride and I won't post another similar thing in another five years.
Like there aren't enough problems to tackle now days in Australia, this is what they are dealing with?

Censorship never solved anything, if its illegal send the content providers to jail but don't start messing around with the entire network.

Sounds like a smoke cloud....
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Yep, my school recently started teaching Python as the intro programming language -- for the bioinformatics program, at least.

C, C++ and Fortran have similar enough characteristics and capabilities for scientific work that once a researcher has learned one, there's not much benefit to learning either of the others. But scripting/glue languages make it possible to hack together something in an afternoon that's impressive enough to get another scientist's attention and perhaps consider that languages do matter.

I think Python will convince new scientists that C++ and Fortran deserve to be replaced, and another fast, easy-to-parallelize language will be the actual replacement.
All Kevin Rudd showed is when he looks at non-sexual pictures of naked children, he thinks sexual thoughts.

Going by his own hysterical reasoning, the Prime Minister is a paedophile and clearly not fit for office.
OK, here is the explanation. Maybe it isn't as obvious as I thought.

Let's say that you invest in 100 random stocks in 1978 and intend to keep them as a long term investment. In 2008 when you want to sell your stock it has on average risen by x%. But some of the companies you invested in have gone bankrupt, and thus these shares are worth nothing. This pulls your entire portfolio down by quite a bit.

Now if you look back from 2008 instead of looking forward from 1978 you will see a different picture. If you pick 100 random stocks and see what their stockprice was in 1978 (which is what this guy seems to have done) you might expect to get the same result, but you don't. A lot of companies have gone bankrupt in those 30 years, and you don't include these in your back-looking portfolio. Yet, as we see these days, it is a real scenario that the company you have invested in will simply tank and your shares will be worth nothing. Over thirty years my guess is that 3 out of 100 companies will go bankrupt, meaning that bankruptcies alone diminishes your portfolios value by 3%.

I think this is quite substabtial.
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Ask HN: Is clojure (lisp in JVM) next big thing?
There seems to be a lot of people even some intelligent ones who are lately talking about and exploring clojure, a new lisp dialect run in JVM. It looks really promising, but a lot of people especially lisp programmers have an inherent hatred in java. How is that? what do you think about this ``lisp in JVM''? Is the clojure the future of lisp?
Depends on the field -- I think Matlab is still a little more popular, especially among engineers, but SciPy (or just plain NumPy) is good for biologists.

There's also a need for glue code and other non-numerical scripting. For example, PyMol is a pretty popular program for molecule visualization, and as you can guess, Python is its scripting language.
Just wait. I have a few friends at hedge funds that are very worried about their job security. The layoffs have already begun; I think we'll see some major hedge fund blowups within the next quarter.
The name makes me think of "Ivy Leagues", which makes me think it is something for students. Also... white text on a light-coloured background is quite hard to read.
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That's kind of true - yet you could with a powerful PC of today leave Vista's voice recognition running all the time, almost dedicating a core to it, if you will. You couldn't previously as it was too demanding. I can leave many browser windows open because the overhead of many windows of interpreted javascript is minimal. You can use expose and similar as if they were free because the OS can offload to a beefy video processor. I run a Windows Server on my Mac laptop in a virtual machine barely thinking twice at what a marvel it is, at work we run 8 virtual servers on a physical box that takes up a quarter of the space of our 6 year old server.

People in general might do the same things, but that's not because the hardware can only do the same things.
they probably are, they just aren't letting the public know about it. So that they can close quietly without the panic
That fact is right just half right.
Coz social networking sites itself have this porn content creeped in. And the recent adultfriendfinder valuation too shows that.

IMO, Social networking sites are popular than porn. And porn is popular in social networking sites too.

"since sex is both a basic animal (and human) instinct and also something we frown on and obsess over to the extent"

Just wondering when people will chuck these junk and remain happy with code or stepper motors & microcontroller boards(or what you like to work on) and a girlfriend. You don't have to change the world and make a million dollars to be happy. You can still make a million dollars and be happy by changing with the world.
I wonder if the "upper brain" segment, so pronounced in mammals could be associated with the "meme machine" of Susan Blackmore, et al. In other words, I wonder if whereas genetic evolutionary pressures were responsible for the lower and mid sections of the brain, it would be interesting to explore if "memetic" evolutionary pressures were largely involved in the development of the upper brain. A related point I find interesting is inherited hard-wired behavior. I read somewhere that infants might have a 'facial recognition template' that enables them to recognize the female humanoid face, e.g. the mother, and this template is 'pre-progammed' into their brain, without having to be learned. If so, this would represent I think an example of a meme. The female humanoid face could be a meme in some sense, which is hard-wired into the "upper brain" segment of the infant. Just as the mid and lower sections of the brain are focused on the promulgation of the "Selfish gene", perhaps the sole purpose for the existence of the upper brain is the promulgation of the "selfish meme", i.e. the upper brain is the "meme machine", and consciousness (and ourselves in the sense of 'self' for that matter) is sort of an accidental by-product of the meme machine - it is better for the meme for there to be 'itentionality' about its replication, 'intentionality' is found in consciousness, ergo, we have consciousness. Anyway cool article, and I like the intro video explaining embryonic brain development in the humanoid.
Hey, it's still faster than a handful of dice and a blank notebook. Sometimes the point of a course's first assignment is to show students how wrong their preconceptions are.
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Good point. I would like to analyze returns assuming re-invested dividends (TSR), which I will try to do in my next analysis. However, as I search around the web I'm having trouble finding enough data (SPDRs only go back to '93, and even the economagic data only starts in 1970, which isn't really enough data to meaningfully look at 'average' 30 year investments)

Does anyone have access to data going further back?
I will continue looking myself, maybe also looking at DJI data.

In the spirit of hypothesis lead analysis, perhaps we (or I) should lay out hypotheses for how the TSR analysis will differ (Total Shareholder Return). Clearly the curves will be shifted to the right, probably by the ~1.37% that Matt mentions. But what about the variance? (which is more interesting IMO). I need to think about that..
Sure, I totally agree.
The reason Clojure is successful right now IMHO is because:

1. It isn't afraid to revisit the basic design tenets of Common Lisp and Scheme
2. It has reasonably useful libraries (both through the JVM and written in native Clojure)

No other Lisp dialect has done this recently. My point is that its success doesn't have much to do, from what I can tell, with the actual design of the language. Clojure does fix annoyances in CL and Scheme (low hanging fruit) but I personally still prefer other modern dialects, like arc, in terms of basic language design.

The reason arc is crashing and burning right now is that it doesn't address #2 at all. Plus, arc is suffering from an absentee benevolent dictator.
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There is a video (http://clojure.blip.tv/) by the creator of Clojure which argues (quite convincingly) that it is really Java, the language, that some people may have problems with and that Java, the runtime environment, (JVM) is a great platform in which to target your code.

Lots of work is being done in areas such as JIT and adaptive optimization in the runtime environment. By targeting the JVM you get to take advantage of all that work put into optimization and thousands of libraries; it gets you a lot of leverage fast.
greaterscope looks very promising!

Good luck and keep us posted.
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In theory hedge funds are supposed to make money regardless of the market direction. In practice, they need liquidity to do so, which is why the current crisis should be pretty bad for them.
Read the note at the bottom.
Given where the NSF's funding is actually going, I chalk these statements up to a backlash against the trend of more people doing small amounts of programming as part of their "real" work. Scientists tend to view programming as more of a chore than an art, but it's still essential to getting real, relevant work done.

It's clear to any of these researchers that a program just amplifies your own efforts. From a distance, it may appear that an academic rival is letting the computer do all the thinking. That just wouldn't be fair, would it? If the computer can't think, isn't it better to just publish great thoughts in raw form, and let some benighted industry worker do the calculations and data entry?

Obviously, no. Thinking programmatically is different, and allows a researcher to answer new problems -- in any field. Even psychologists and sociologists crunch statistics on population groups: collecting and encoding data is tedious and time-consuming. Traditionally, surveys are filled out and crunched by hand; but looking at the massive amount of data available on social networks, for example, just crawling and aggregating that data could yield much better information than manually roping in 130 undergrads at your own school. Or you could splash a task out on Mechanical Turk to analyze the Turkers themselves. This would be big, and it would upset a lot of academics who built their reputations on traditional methods, and perhaps blew off computational research as a fad a decade or two ago.
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Skimming the article, it is sounding a little bit like "intelligent design", when it talks of "programming" humans.

In a sense, natural selection programs all organisms by allowing only the fit variations in a given generation to survive, promulgating the "fit genes" forward, but "design" or "program" are terms in this context to be used metaphorically. Natural Selection is itself an alogirthm:
Variation + Selection + Inheritance = Evolution of new forms of life. So in this sense it is a "program" but only as a metaphor.

I have neither the time nor the patience to argue with an intelligent design advocate, anymore than I would spend time arguing with a flat earth advocate.
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Nice way of looking at a real story and re-framing it with a better approach based on past experience. And the old adage, "honesty is the best policy" probably does work in this case.
arguing about clojure vs. scala is the next big religious war

http://www.cio.com/article/print/454520

http://almaer.com/blog/the-next-big-language-theory-practice...
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I've often wondered how much of Vista's adoption problem in corporations came down to the higher system requirements. It was pretty common for companies upgrading from earlier versions of Windows to buy the rock-bottom cheapest systems capable of running XP, much less Vista. Upgrading to Vista would mean replacing every computer in the office, on top Microsoft's bill. Why do that if there's nothing fundamentally unsatisfying with XP?
I'm embarrassed that this, and an arithmetic correction, are 2 of my 3 highest-rated comments from the past month. Please stop upmodding this stupid crap I post when I'm tired. I'd delete it, if I could.
That's alright, but not quite what I meant. I mean a resource you can give to the media that isn't a satire.

Maybe a one-page website that, in essay form, outlines the issue in full.
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its success doesn't have much to do, from what I can tell, with the actual design of the language

Of course it does. "Revisit[ing] the basic design tenets of Common Lisp and Scheme" is actual language design. Moreover, "fixing" CL and Scheme is not "low hanging fruit". It's a hard thing to do, and most people who try make a mess of things.
Actually I think that purple cow, meatball sundae, ideavirus, the dip, sheepwalking, etc. are very important ideas. It's just that the words Seth chooses to represent these ideas kind of suck. What Seth calls an ideavirus is the same thing that Dawkins calls a meme, and that's a word we pretty much use every day. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future someone else coined a word that meant the same thing as sheep walking, but was actually usable without sounding daft.
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"nothing fundamentally unsatisfying with XP"

The security was pretty 'unsatisfying' to say the least. Vista came a long way in protecting users .. from themselves.
What about the design of Arc do you prefer over Clojure?
Wow, if what you're saying is true then the cultural rot made it into a field with practical, physical consequences. That surprises me. When I encountered deconstruction and such things, they were only thriving in environments like literary studies.

On the other hand, architecture as a field (at least the elite stuff) seems to have been moving away from "reality" for such a long time that perhaps this is just going the whole hog.
Lisp will never be popular. We are humans and our brains are wired for a certain type of thinking. Lisp breaks this model, and so it's difficult for people to pick it up.

The trend has always been to easier and easier languages - I don't remember any case where a more complex language, no matter how useful, has become the next big thing.

The only thing that can make lisp popular is a framework or API based off it. Something that offers something new or something easier.
"find new resources to exploit"

instead

make use of resources we already have found, but remain unused for the most part (solar etc).
Well, in a sense, he is correct. But the global organism is a very dumb one - it's like an amoeba. Each individual part wants to survive, and so the entire thing survives. But there is real communication between the parts of the organism, so it's very basic.
Interesting idea. How are you going to keep signal vs noise ratios worthwhile for Journalists?

If I'm launching a start-up and want to have to send out a press release, I need to either hire a PR agency or find a list of people I should email, which means I am at least minimally competent. If I understand correctly, on IvyLees, I could just sign-up and issue a press release into my industry. Assuming the site becomes popular, won't Journalists be more interested in the companies that are capable of reaching out to them 'the hard way' rather than issue a massive press release?
Wires and radio waves? You've got to be kidding me. The global superorganism exists already as the interconnection of all ecosystems on Earth, which includes both living systems and the long, slow cycles of minerals from oceans to land and atmosphere and back. Check the books from Dorion Sagan and Lynn Margulis, and from James Lovelock, on the subject.
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So how does that trend explain C++, or Java, or C#, all of which are clearly evolving in the direction of increased complexity. Likewise Python today is a vastly more complicated environment than the language I learned 8 years ago. And Ruby is quirkier still, taking most of perl's weird syntax and adding an object model from smalltalk and a statement-based execution metaphor that comes straight out of BASIC -- certainly not a "simple" language.

C is a simple language. Scheme is a simple language. Everything else is growing more complicated by the day.
In a corporate environment, XP PCs are often completely locked down. There's not much Vista could do to improve on removing the user's ability to modify anything outside their home directory.
My Google interview a few years ago was very similar. No matter how confident you are, it's amazing how nerves can cause you to stand there at the whiteboard babbling like a newborn.

Google actually had me do two on-site interviews (one in my hometown and one in Mountain View). The first one went very well. I had a great rapport with the (single) interviewer, and had fun solving the (single) problem he gave me.

The Mountain View interview went more or less like the one described in the article. Marathon style. Had good rapport with some of the interviewers, less so with others. Once you start stumbling your confidence starts to fall apart, and it can really hurt you for the rest of the day (the interview lasted all day).

I also didn't exactly end up with the job. They offered me a testing position with "fast-track" promotion to engineering. I passed on that.

Good advice in the article though: practice problems on a whiteboard at home or with friends. Especially fundamental problems that you learned in your first algorithms class and the like.
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we can build this pretty easily, but I don't know arc. If anyone wants to volunteer to help build it, you can get a rev share too.

pg seemed open to the idea the other day
I don't think they stress over the the APIs and standardized protocol stuff, its much more consuming tuning the system to provide optimal performance than it is to swap out a computer. A modern car now has tons of sensors and it takes a lot of testing and fine tuning to get every last bit of performance out at the 'ring.
"We are humans and our brains are wired for a certain type of thinking. Lisp breaks this model, and so it's difficult for people to pick it up."

Please elaborate. I'd love to refute if there was something in there to refute. I really don't see how Lisp is inherently less (or for that matter, more) graspable on a fundamental level. Are you a neurologist? And do you have any actual experience with Lisp?
> We are humans and our brains are wired for a certain type of thinking. Lisp breaks this model, and so it's difficult for people to pick it up.

If you have ever parsed a syntactic tree, you'll realize that it's inherently an s-expression. That means that everything you ever say, and all human communication for that matter, are s-expressions.

Sans the logic, operators, symbol quoting and observance of rules (first item is interpreted as a function), lisp is at its core as close to human language you'll ever get. Popularity depends on other things, but lisp doesn't break the way we think.
Investing a lump sum by spreading it out over a period of time ('dollar cost averaging') has been shown to produce lower returns than making one large initial investment. Most experts regard it as a marketing gimmick used to ease nervous customers into investments.
You can express ideas without creating ridiculous buzz words. And like I said, sometimes the creation of a new word (e.g. meme, kool-aid) is necessary, but not at the rate consultants and marketers do it. They're just marketing.
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Sounds like the community is not very happy, for various reasons (some valid).

If I were an arclanguage community member reading this and seeing pg's responses, I would not feel better.

The whole situation sounds like a big mess especially considering lisp's history of "community fragmentation and trivially incompatible implementations."

I sincerely hope things get better.
The author seems to be advocating DSLs unknowingly.