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I didn't move to China, but Korea, working for a large conglomerate. I was there for two years. I wasn't particularly young, but in early 30's with two kids. There were several expat from the US.

IMHO, the move to the East is worse for Asian Americans than for Caucasians.

Why? Because they expect certain things from what they consider the same race than Caucasians. Over and over, I have seen Caucasians getting a lot of leeways and tolerance for their behaviors, as they look very different from Asian Americans. For Asian Americans, especially those Korean Americans who could speak the language in Korea, they expected the same behaviors as native Koreans. If you don't display what they expected socially, you get cold shoulders. It's even worse in business settings where everyone plays savvy office politics in ever subtle ways. If you can't read or play them, your career will not go anywhere. I've seen VP-level Korean American guys getting crushed, after moving to Korea to jumpstart their careers. I've heard the same from many Japanese Americans who moved back to Japan. I am not sure if it would be the same in China. But, I've also read about Chinese companies hiring Americans or Caucasians for nothing but to increase their credibility for being able to hire a Caucasian.

So if you are a Caucasian, yeah, it could be worth it. As a second or later generation Asian Americans, probably not so much.
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Something does not add up.

The author is claiming that between 1998 and 2010, managers earned between 379 billion in fees.

Generally, hedge funds operate on 2/20 model i.e. 2% of the assets as the management fee + 20% of the profits. [Obviously these varies across hedge fund but for now, let's assume everyone follows this model.]

E.g. If I give a hedge fund 100MM, they would charge me 2MM to manage it. Let's say they generate 10MM in profit. They will take 20% of that 10MM as performance fee. So to get 8MM, I will be paying them 2MM + 2M = 4MM which is 40% of the profits.

Now that's clear, let's run this logic on author's numbers.

Let's assume equal distribution which means that hedge fund earned around 30 billion in fees per year. (379 billion divided by 13 years between 1998 and 2010). If 30 billion is 2% of the assets, it means that they were managing 1500 billion dollars.
The biggest hedge fund in the world, Bridgewater Associates, manages 125 billion dollars. There is no way other hedge funds can account for the remaining money.
Yeah, not too sure why that happened for you. Regardless, I appreciate the props and gave you a vote for it :)
I hate to break it to you, Apple, Microsoft and the rest: they're all essentially internet-based. If Apple doesn't care about the internet, they need to have a long, hard think about why people are buying their products. How many iPads are they going to sell when people can only access a crippled version of Facebook and Twitter is shut down?

The technology industry as it is today exists almost exclusively because of the ubiquity of the internet. Companies whose products stand to suffer directly from SOPA are not the only tech companies that should be worried; any company whose profits are a result of the proliferation of the internet should be scared of SOPA. That's almost every single tech company out there.
I thought the last sentence of the NYT article was priceless- currently, the only way anyone is bringing D&D material to the table on an iPad is if they steal it, because Wizards still doesn't sell any core digital content (magazine articles and access to a rules website you can get for a monthly subscription, but no books)
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This is not just about media companies. SOPA is part of a barrier to blockade anything that may violate any Intellectual Property. This includes selling pharmaceuticals from Canada, edge case property violations like a handbag that looks similar to Gucci's latest model, but doesn't use the brand name, electronics that may violate a patent in the manufacturing process but the end product is not similar to anything else on the market.

If you think its just the RIAA/MPAA pushing this agenda, look no further than the money flow and you see its the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that is the largest supporter. Downloading bittorrents is just the poster boy for this campaign.
Well that's more or less what tese things are. Instead of investing in a startup, your effectively betting that a group of money managers will hit pay-dirt with a unique investment strategy. For te most part only people with so much money they can afford to risk a pile can even play
Please do not attack based on what could be company name typos. The content is presently clearly enough to discuss.
"Mutual funds should net to inflation."

Are you forgetting to include economic growth in your analysis? Historical long term returns of the major indexes are in the 10% range (ballpark approx.), much higher than inflation, which I think was in the 2-3% range (also ballpark).
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Sad that all this mystery meat is making a comeback on the web.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html
Gold isn't money, and it's not a store of value, any more than any other tangible asset is.

I don't know ANY STORE ANYWHERE that takes gold as payment. That means it's not money. You can pawn it or sell it, which exchanges gold for actual money, which you can then use as payment.
This also reminds me of the idiots who paid into the Groupon investment...

You link to an article where they invested at a $4.5B valuation, and now the company is worth $11.5B. It seems your hindsight isn't 20/20, or you think 250% returns in 12 months is low.
While it's nice that opposition to SOPA is getting some traction, the passage of the 2012 NDAA slipped by with little fanfare. Criticism and debate of that legislation are moot now. though NDAA is not a technological issue of itself, sections 1021 and 1022 still diminish our civil liberties much more effectively.

I'm glad to see the knowledge-worker communities rallying around a topic peripheral to our basic freedoms, but I fear we've missed the boat on this one. Regrettably, pizza sauce in school lunches was not the only bit of smoke and mirrors foist upon us.
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The managers are more likely to close the fund, open up a new fund under a new name and start the game over again.

From this morning:

http://darien.patch.com/articles/collapse-of-darien-hedge-fu...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/03/...
Maybe things will change with how the browser implements fractions but 112/3 = 11(2/3) and 3431/5147 = 3431/5147 (there is no 1/5) http://imgur.com/a/4FFNy

Edit: Spelling.
Ask HN: Where do you find data on a market's size w/o spending a fortune?
I'm working on my startup and pitch. One challenge I have is finding trusted reports on the size of the market that I want to sell into. In my case, it's law enforcement technology. I've researched different analysts, but they charge thousands for their reports, and I'm not even sure if their report really has the data that I need.

Any suggestions on how to find this type of data for a reasonable cost? I'm not looking for minutia, but a breakdown of spending trends by municipalities and the Federal government would be a decent start. I suppose this should all be public data, but that doesn't mean its any easier to coalesce.
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You can do allot with a database sure but sometimes you want multiple transactions within a single request and data will change between them. You may also take input from other sources than a database such as flat files, web APIs emails etc and need to do a bunch of processing between them.

Not to mention if you are using Comet or something where you hold a request open for a long time and push and pull allot of data some of which may not be persisted immediately.

Sure you can probably write your controller logic in a pretty functional way but then you probably end up moving your messy logic into stored procs or something else.
Instead you'd prefer the team to just pick Java or a lesser JVM language over Scala because they're cautious about some of the complexities implicit conversions bring?

If there was a safe, 'simpler' subset of Scala, I think you'd see a lot more adoption. And hell, once you get a job there, you can always make a good case for using some of the advanced stuff in certain parts of the code.

Unfortunately in the world we live in, not every programmer should be given the tools to let them write their own DSL as a means to accomplish their day to day tasks..
It's a big market.
http://www.hedgefundsreview.com/hedge-funds-review/news/1938...
> As far as economic disparity between rich and poor, social liberties, and corruption: China is far, far worse than the US

Citation? The only data I can find, shows they are on par with disparity between rich and poor. What data are you sourcing that conclusion from?

Social liberties, very difficult to measure. But I am interested to why you think China is far worse? If you mean they have less "Rights" (from the US Bill of Rights)... then that is probably true of most countries. But in terms of Social mobility, I'd intuitively say that china probably compares favourably to the US

Corruption is certainly an issue, China (75th) ranking far worse than the US (25th) on the Corruption Perception Index[1]. But keeping in mind it is a perception index, and doesn't adjust for bias.

I don't think the article is optimistic, I think it's realistic, China is a booming economy with a lot of job opportunities for "Westerners", compared to the US, with it's shrinking (or shrunken) economy...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
By analogy, we have to expect the author to write a 800-page tome when he gets his hands on Facebook's elusive API.
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It's awesome how the IDE and compiler is just accessible over HTTP straight on the BeagleBone. It's taking bootstrapping to a whole new level.
I wonder if the lack of state is why I keep getting the "Unknown or expired link" message all the time?

I see allot of functional DSLs (Excel for example + autocad as you pointed out).

Was crash bandicoot written in Lisp or was this just an internal DSL used for certain operations?

I don't have anything against functional languages and I'm sure all good developers should know at least 1 but the article seems to suggest that everyone should use them all the time.

There are more important things than having an expressive language, I use allot of Java which is seriously non expressive in many ways but I have more confidence in it to solve the category of problems I deal with than any other language that I have tried thus far.
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And if hedge fund generates only 2% profit, investor ends up paying 100% of the profits.
This may actually be one of the worst times to move to China if you're looking for a fresh start. They've been on a lending binge that's created a massive fixed asset bubble (mainly real estate), and it looks like the correction has recently begun. It's a lot like what happened in the U.S. and Dubai, although on a much larger scale and without the fancy derivatives (at least not yet).

Local governments have actually been forcing developers to borrow more money and buy land from them because they depend on those sales to meet their financial obligations. Real estate agents are offering luxury cars and bars of gold when you purchase an apartment, not to mention buy one get one free deals (the gold and luxury cars allow them to mask declines in the prices of apartments because list prices are still high).

I would stay far, far away... at least for the next 6-12 months so we can see how hard the landing will be. A lot of wealth is potentially going up in smoke and that could wreak havoc on their domestic demand, which is what they were planning to rely on in order to continue their rapid GDP growth (which we now know has been largely artificial).
I moved to HK over a year ago. This is my take:

Top paying jobs are with international banks. You'll make pretty much the same here as you will working for them in London or NY (so, 100K+ yr, for example). From there, salaries slide to ridiculously low levels. (EDIT: it's my understanding that, due to the current economic climate in Europe, most of these banks aren't hiring).

It's a pretty bad place for any passionate programmer to end up. There's an overall lack of passion, risk is avoided at all costs, and creativity doesn't exist. It isn't just in the banks either...there's something culturally different.

I've never worked in a factory..but in my mind, it's inbetween working for a real startup and working on a factory floor. Which explains the long hours you mention...when you work 10hours every day, it's hard to be super passionate and creative.

As for cost of living. Rent is expensive. If you want to eat at a fancy $300-a-plate restaurant every night, you can (and probably a different one for many months). You can buy fancy clothes and expensive jewelry. But, if you are willing to, Hong Kong lets you live cheaply (rent aside). Remember that taxes are ~16%, with no sales tax and no capital gains taxes. If you make $150K, your take home is ~125K.
It seems a bit like WebOS structurally, doesn't it?
Mostly? Hard to say. Sure, there were a lot of celebrities and people we've heard of. But that may just be a case of selection bias. If you're reporting on the story and you have to choose a name, wouldn't you choose Kevin Bacon over some Schlub from Nowheresville?

There are a lot of pension funds and charities on this list:

http://www.finalternatives.com/node/6354
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It looks like a wall shelf. Did you factor in the weight you would put if you lean on it with both of your hands or elbows. We do not lean on wall shelves but definitely lean on desks, and we do it unconsciously. May be we do not do it while we're standing, since I never tried working (with computers) standing.
> The effects of the Great Recession of 2008 may be felt in the United States for years, but they barely scratched China.

It barely scratched China in metropolitan areas, maybe, but certainly had a large effect in manufacturing hubs like GuangZhou (see documentaries like "The Last Train Home").

As an aside: my parents recently made this move after seeing their two sons live in Taiwan on Rotary Exchange (mid-50s, caucasian, from a podunk town in upstate New York) and are having the time of their lives, but the wealth disparity in mainland China is certainly stunning if not somewhat depressing.
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The one thing that makes me mildly uncomfortable about pallet is that, in the end, it's just another "run these shell scripts to set up your server" system. I find I prefer tools like puppet or chef and then extending them to deal with AWS (cluster-chef, for example).
I'm just curious how bankers and the like value industries. Do they value them by the total sum of all company valuations, total sum of all company revenues or total sum of all company profits? Or something entirely different? If anyone in the industry knows could you enlighten me?
California.

non competes are only enforceable for equity shareholders in California. Which I will be as a co-founder.

startuplawyer site is great, thanks for the reference!
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I was thinking about this the other day when I was out for a run. BitCoin seems to have an implementation that works and is secure, but people donate a large ammount of computational power to validate that data. I look forward to reading deeper into it and seeing what applications people come up with.
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Sort of, depending on the model. For most models, if you take your "probability of dying in year X", and sum that over all the years from 0 to infinity, you'll get a 100% probability of dying at some point. The interesting thing is that there's no individual year with a 100% probability of dying - the certainty of death is just because "forever" is a really long time.

There are hypothetical distributions, though, where the sum total of probabilities is less than 100% - where some proportion of the population will, statistically, never die.

Of course this brings us to the real issue, which is that what the model says doesn't really matter - if the model disagrees with reality in extreme cases, reality wins.
I exported all my bookmarks from Delicious to Evernote. Though it took a while to get used to the new interface and not being a social bookmarking service per se. It has served me well so far for the very same purpose (and more)!
We, and by that I mean the guy who is now CEO, used an online service to set everything up.

I haven't signed anything yet.
I think you missed my main point. There is real value to pseudonyms, even if accountability is also good.

If one could be discriminated against for religious views then it's probably a good idea to not use your real name. And the list goes on and on.
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Most Government IT in the UK is outsourced to the British arms of consulting companies like EDS or Accenture.
I suppose you are still employing British people but you would be even with an MS solution, the only difference is the licensing costs which may or may not be an issue.

I'm assuming MS licenses for workstations aren't that much of an issue otherwise FTSE 100 companies would not predominantly use it.
It's been supported in Ubuntu since at least 10.10, which isn't ancient, but I'm not sure it counts as a "very recent version".
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I work in marketing and get the same salary as in my home country Sweden, but with accommodation and food paid. I wasn't hired as a local. It really depends on what you do though; my banker friends make waaaay more.
Wow... I previously worked in finance, and the sad part is that every one of those comments sounds right at home for a Wall St bank. Happy I got out when I did.
Here's how the hedge fund tax deal is different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest
Complement this course with lessons from khanacademy as soon as you stumble upon a concept either you do not know or want to know a bit more than presented by the class. The class is pretty self contained however I found this practice very helpful.

Khanacademy classes are mostly 10 min video lectures, so you can jump to any concept and learn very quickly.

One can not eat an elephant at once, but if you slice it and eat a bit everyday you'll go a long way in short period of time.

www.khanacademy.org/#browse
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I was working out of Dalian and Beijing for a number of years straight after my postgrad as a software engineer / project manager. Great experience, learned the language, was given a lot of responsibility and it was either sink or swim.

Lots of 16+ hour days, they worked me hard but I learned an awful lot. It's a great way to see the world, travel and get exposed to a completely different work culture / ethic.

It's not for everyone but it is definitely an experience that you won't forget!
Caucasian and male. Single female expats don't seem to stay very long. There are way more male expats, and even dorky ones tend to date pretty locals. The expat nightlife and social scene is not something that is appealing to most women.
Citations for any of your claims/assertions? Sounds like FUD to me. Some specifics on the following:

> Local governments have actually been forcing developers to borrow more money and buy land from them

> Real estate agents are offering luxury cars and bars of gold when you purchase an apartment

> GDP growth (which we now know has been largely artificial).
sometimes you want multiple transactions within a single request and data will change between them

Is this an issue with race conditions, or with alternating between reading and writing the state during a single request, or both, or something else entirely?

You may also take input from other sources than a database

This doesn't seem like it should make a difference: you write a function to get the necessary data from whatever source, then call that function in the page request handler (OK, yes, I/O is technically a side effect).

I agree that the processing you do with that data might require some significant rethinking, depending on how it was written/planned out before (sure, state-passing style is always there, though I don't enjoy doing it... really though, I've found that a lot of what I was used to doing imperatively is not all that awkward to do functionally).

Not to mention if you are using Comet or something where you hold a request open for a long time and push and pull allot of data some of which may not be persisted immediately.

What's the conventional way to do this in an imperative language?
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This is such a great book. No fluff, just straightforward examples of how to do basic version control. Plus, Eric is a good writer. (Actually, anyone who can take a dull topic like version control and make it entertaining probably qualifies as a great writer.)
I agree with this article but I have to admit I'm tired of learning programming languages after a number of years in this industry. I've had gigs in just about everything and now I'm purposely restricting my efforts to just a couple different languages even if there is money on the table for work in something else.

You can do just about everything in any mature language - after a while of so to say exploring the landscape for a number of years, its nice to just become deeply fluent in a couple of things. I know people love to talk about this language vs that and how language X will make you rethink everything and usually there is some truth to it but in the big picture its usually pretty trivial in terms of actually getting stuff done.
Raven isn't bad - some prefer it over Fluid. I don't, but I still think it's a solid replacement.

http://raven.io/
Exactly:

"The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable."
Perhaps I am daft. In your example, I can't figure out where the 200k is coming from.

I read 100MM in assets, therefore 2MM in fees to manage. 10MM in profits, 2MM to the managers' pockets (which is 20% of these profits). Total to the managers: 4MM, or 40% of the profits.