skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
while (1); or for (;;);? (tldr; one results in less compiler warnings)
But who would you sell the equity to? Wouldn't it be really hard to find a buyer for equity in a private firm? Or am I missing something obvious here?
Sooo... what happens if the returns are negative? Does the fund manager cop 20% of the loss?

What happens if the gross return is 2.5%? Does the fund manager still get everything (2% fee plus 20% of the 2.5% gross)...?

Clearly if the returns are between 0 and 2% the fund manager wins and the investor loses. Seems to be open to all kinds of gaming of the system.
I suspect that many more Chinese, given the option, would emigrate to the West.
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Not trying to relitigate copyright? Focusing instead on the terrible bill that people both ideologically in favor of and against copyright would oppose if they were fully educated about it? Is that a troll question?
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You are right. It was my mistake, I fixed it. That's what I get when I try to write a comment while trying to juggle some code on the side.

And now that I think about it more, if you consider that hedge fund can lose the money (and still charging 2% management fee), there could be a situation where the managers get the lion's share of profits.

Even then, 379 billion dollars in fees seems really high.
In practice, a sufficiently low probability is indistinguishable from 0.
Gas may be very cheap, but we pull it from the ground.

We may pull a lot of our electricity from the ground at the moment too, but there are options for renewable sources of electricity.

GE rates their induction cooktops are being able to boil water about 25% faster than their gas cooktops with similar gas output. But I have seen other scores that show that induction is only slightly faster at boiling water.
I don't have any info besides Yeggie saying it.
Americans are also subject to U.S. taxes on the amount over $92,000.

http://www.greenbacktaxservices.com/resources/blog/expat-tax...
I second that... also pollution is far lower.
Well argued... until I realized that his argument hinges on C/++ compilers not being able to guarantee non-aliasing. That's why they introduced the `restrict` keyword in C99....
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Been there. Done that (twice). My two three-year stays in Taiwan were some of the happiest days of my life, and both times led to new career opportunities when I returned to the United States. Taiwan is wonderful for immersion in an entrepreneurial, forward-looking culture of people who are happy to live free.
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I don't know who downvoted you but that's a valid question.

No, if the fund doesn't make money, they don't get performance fee NOR do they have to take 20% of the loss.

Also, the 20% performance fee is applied on the 'Net Gain' and not gross return.

E.g. Going back to my example, if hedge fund made, 10MM on 100MM assets. They will first pay themselves 2MM and charge 20% performance fee on 8MM and not 10MM.

Again, investors are not stupid either, if the hedge fund can't show them gains, they will take their money somewhere else. [Obviously they can still become victim to Madoff like outright fraud.]
You really shouldn't be slamming anything into anything. You don't have to be that careful with tempered or borosilicate-style glass.
Based on the info here in the comments, it seems that pseudonyms are any names other than FB logins.

Perhaps this could be as much an analysis of the quality of a comment left by your typical FaceBook user. I know that as the Shepard of my own digital identity I'd much rather register www.myname.com and have a blog than use FB on a regular basis. Perhaps those of us that have been posting online for longer still live in the days of 'doing it ourselves.'

It wouldn't be surprising if FB adoption is higher among web novices than web pros simply because FB wasn't there when web pros started. This is then reflected in web pros leaving more useful comments for a variety of reasons.

In addition, as other commenters point out that pseudonyms are not just another form of anonymous posting, often with more personality than the poster's actual name. Being forced to give a real name requires a lot more commitment from many posters.
Poll: Do Politics Matter to You?
The US is in the beginnings of what looks to be a crazy election year. The EU is in the middle of a crisis. Myriads of other countries are in political turmoil.

So my question is simple: do the politics (whether that is your vote or something less/more) in your country matter to you? Or do you rather sit back and make awesome stuff without worrying about the government?
Only when it affects my job/hobby
Perhaps it is an estimate on the volume of data that is archived, hence is suitable for future analysis.
One of the sharpest changes (I guess a "point of inflection" it looks like?) seems to be at about 65, or the most common retirement age (here in the states at least). I wonder if there's a connection?

In hunter-gatherer societies, elders older than 60 have been observed as 1) looking healthy and 2) still being able to hunt, fish, trap, build, and pretty much everything else along with their younger counterparts. Perhaps at a slower pace, but they're generally far more fit than the modern world's old.

Pampered bodies grow sluggish through sloth, movement and their own weight exhausts them. - Seneca
If the markets [or the managers] performed better, a higher proportion of investment gains would go to the investor.

As mentioned in this thread, fund managers are compensated based on a % of AUM and a % of profit, such as 2% and 20%. When the fund loses money, investors are the only ones that experience a net loss (the managers still net a % of AUM, or nothing at worst). If managers end up not losing money, the investor mathematically keeps a larger proportion of the gains.

Also, when you invest in a fund, the idea is you are trusting someone else with your money. This article does not imply managers as shareholders. With this in mind, it does indeed make sense that in times of low performance and frequent losses that the people with no way to lose money end up keeping a greater proportion of earnings.

EDIT: This might seem obvious, but its worth mentioning that in times of very good fund performance, the investors will keep an increasingly greater proportion of earnings.
A relatively old article but absolutely worth to read; Kurzweil on Singularity
Galois is a company which uses functional languages, mainly Haskell if I'm not mistaken: http://corp.galois.com/

If I'm not mistaken, Jane Street is another functional programming shop: http://www.janestreet.com/

These are companies using OCaml: http://mirror.ocamlcore.org/wiki.cocan.org/companies.html
Whichever gets you the figure you want at the time. There's no real standard that's followed. The figures really only matter in context anyway; they mean nothing in a vacuum.
There is less separation between mind and body than you are assuming. Old age disease of the mind ARE the direct result of breakdowns in the body.
Indeed it's not at all unreasonable that the largest firm would be < 1% of the market.

In fact it's fairly logical, given that:

A) hedge funds are pursuing strategies where the individual investment opportunities are often fairly small (this is taken to the extreme in high frequency trading with many trades each yielding small returns), and;

B) funds typically adopt a small number of strategies (e.g., 1)

Consequently it's more difficult for large funds to find consistently good investments and thus there's a proliferation of small(er) funds.

(Alternatively, if you believe in the Efficient Market Hypothesis much of individual funds positive or negative returns are dumb luck. It's then simply a matter of the fact that the probability of a fund having consistently positive returns -- and consequently having $125bn AUM like Bridgewater -- are exceedingly rare.)

(Edit: extra text deleted)
This is exactly the rub. Managers take no haircut when the fund gets hammered. It is true that most managers won't take a profit on investor's money until they return to the "high water mark" of how much $$$ that investor originally put into the fund, but often times when a fund loses too much money, the manager simply closes it and opens another, therefore dodging the high water mark requirements.

But honestly, if rich people can't figure out that their fund manager is ripping them off, then to hell with them. Fund managers, at least, prey on people who are already rich. Better than a lot of other sleazes who take advantage of the undereducated and poor. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that if you have enough money to write John Paulson a check, then you should know what you're doing. I can't say the same for an old woman in a bad neighborhood who was talked into refinancing her house of 50 years so she could take out cash to buy a conversion van. The people who preyed on her are far worse, in my mind, than your average fund manager who does nothing of virtue for his clients.
Thanks Marlon,

It is helpful.

I was thinking of managing todo-list type of emails-data with task management software as todo-list type of emails are actually not meant for emails. Similarly there might be other categories of emails-data (e.g. scheduling time for meetings etc.) which can be processed by data organizer software resulting in fewer emails.

Neal
I suppose I can see cable box manufacturer, but why would the maker of your TV care in the slightest?
My biggest desire to learn a language like Haskell or Scala would be the total shift in thinking required to grasp the language (the author mentions this). I've started playing with clojure lately and even though I've barely scratched the surface (primarily poking around 4clojure.com) I could already feel my brain twisting in ways I've never experienced before. I firmly believe once you turn that corner and really start to get it, you start seeing and attacking problems in such a different light that there's no going back. The big problem I've had recently is finding the motivation to learn anything outside of work (programming/engineering related at least); once you start getting paid to do something its really hard to do it for free, haha.
Young people don't become less adaptable when educated. If anything learning new things fights cognitive decline it does not speed it up.
> I don't know how far over to the functional paradigm arc leans but hacker news is programed in it.

HN doesn't look as an outstanding piece of software.
According to the last comment on http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestartupkids/the-start...

Dec 1: We have already submitted it to some film festivals so now we are crossing our fingers and hoping it will be accepted!
It's not an attack, I'm just pointing out that it's unprofessional and makes the author look like he pays no attention to detail.

When dealing with legal issues, detail is of course paramount.
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> Author complains about the inability of the compiler to prove some property of his code.

No, the author is complaining about the complexity of the language. Maybe you should go back and re-read the article. Start with the title.

> Untyped languages

Lisp is not untyped. "Not statically typed" is not synonymous with "untyped."

> Therefore, you are completely missing the point.

Which of us is missing the point remains to be seen.
Well I suppose thats one way to lower our unemployment rate here in the US
I think it's more useful to think of pseudonyms as a superset of read identities--they're names that do not have to be your real name, but they do not have to not be your name either.

Since most sites would not proscribe using your real name as a username, this definition makes the most sense.
How much does it cost to get a scientific paper?
I appreciate your interesting comments, but just FYI, it's "a lot" not "allot". I wouldn't normally point out a spelling error but I noticed it enough to be distracting and thought you might not know (in case of ESL).
Not to be a jerk here, but has the bug submitter ever worked for a large company before? From the screenshots and the timestamp of the xda post, it looks like this issue he's submitted is roughly only two days old.

Forum posts such as these have to get triaged by their forum managers, TT's cut to the appropriate groups responsible for the issue mentioned, accepted by the proper group, placed in a priority queue based on severity of end-user impact, and assessed along with all of the other work they are doing. At least this is how it is at the large company I work for.

Sure he has a lot of 'laurels' for his post, but a two day old post of one person not being able to compile their Nook sourcecode is probably not high on the list of things which must be addressed immediately. Chill out and give it some time to be addressed.
I completely agree. At least in the hedge fund world, they have to work hard to get in the money. [They can't advertise in traditional media.]
C already does have closures on the compilers I use.
When Kickstarter started, the types of payment logic they needed (user approves payment now but don't execute it until later; user feels like they're approving one payment, but it is split between multiple recipients (Kickstarter and the project owner)) weren't supported by PayPal, but were supported by Amazon Flexible Payments Service

In 2009, PayPal rolled out a set of very similar API's that would allow them to do these things (see http://x.com). I would guess that the fact that they haven't made the switch is just a matter of inertia, the difficulty the transition might present, and having more important things to work on, but I'm not intimately familiar enough to know if there are other reasons they might be staying.

I do know that a friend of mine had a startup that started on FPS but was very, very eager to switch to PayPal when X came along because FPS presented so many problems. They were a lot smaller and less wedded to the platform, though.
Apologies if it sounds like a 'me too' post, but we faced/may still be facing the same issue at http://www.RapiDefs.com

Please give it a quick try and let me know if you find the response time acceptable or not. Thanks.
What exactly makes these languages "advanced" (as opposed to "complicated" or "difficult")? Or does "advanced" here mean "harder" as in "advanced math"?
This is my favorite: http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2006/06/16/15-exercises-to-...
Well, since he can do whatever he wants, why not just see if the internets can do it for him regardless?

https://www.stypi.com/niels/kn0thingComments

update after 30 minutes: 12 people have visited to stare and possibly replay my one abandoned attempt. No one has done anything. Anyone care to help?
You have to assume going forward there will be economic growth. It is a perfectly fair assumption, but not a fact. And, I will certainly not argue with that assumption. (although there are a lot of people that may)

Hedge funds should still net to zero though. Which is much more important for this discussion.

-I'd be interested in hearing what others think, maybe I'm off on my assumption that hedge funds should net to zero, or maybe I'm missing something else.
Dan needs to maintain his composure when talking about DNS.
I just ordered a copy of the EAP. Looks like it's just PDF now. Do you know if they plan on offering kindle/epub versions later in the MEAP or on release? Some manning books seem to have them and some don't. Device specific formats are often much easier to read than PDFs are.
"I'm not convinced that I would be more productive developing say a web app , database app or game using say Haskell rather than Java or Python especially since a large amount of programming is all about state and side effects."

Haskell isn't about avoiding side effects. It's about managing them.

Seriously, it's time to drop this criticism. Obviously Haskell can "do things". It may not have thousands and thousands of apps of every type, but when it has an X window manager, a DVCS, and a few web frameworks under its belt, it clearly isn't about "not having side effects". (Nor is that a complete list; my point is that is sufficient evidence to show that things can be done, not a complete app list.)

Every functional language you've ever heard of has reasonably serious apps, but I'm not sure there's one yet where you won't encounter at least one of 1. a tooling problem (Erlang, Haskell) or 2. an impedance mismatch between the tooling and the language (Scala, Clojure). Time is correcting this problem rapidly, but if you don't feel like being on the cutting edge (and that's a fine position to take), I wouldn't push them on you. (But I would say that all four of those languages I mentioned are indeed the cutting edge and have come off the bleeding edge. Real work can be done in them if you stick to their strengths, but you may hit some bad error messages, or road blocks you'd normally just download your way around.)
> If you're asking about places where FP is often used, I know it's big in finance

I've heard this a few times (mostly from the Scala crowd) but very little data to back it up, so I'm still skeptical.
So the article first states a mathematical definition:

> A bounded lattice is a mathematical structure that has a least element (bot), a greatest element (top)

And then proceeds to define a typeclass that does not satisfy the definition:

instance (Ord k, Lattice a) => Lattice (Map k a)
where top = error $ "Cannot be represented.

:-(

You can't even fix the definition of top, since union of arbitrary Maps is not bounded, e.g. there is no finite Map String foo (map with String keys) that is a superset of every Map String foo.

You could change Lattice to a weaker structure, but I think it would be better to present a simpler typeclass like Show or Ord.
The article does call them gains, but if it's truly only the capital paid out this is a good point. More likely, these numbers are abysmal because of the poor performance of equities over the selected period (1998-2010) and consequently the fact that investors have paid a lot in 2% management fees and received little upside in the way of gains.
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The legal discussion is about the content, not the author.
I did the same thing -- two three-year stints in Taiwan (separated by six months in China and SE Asia). I arrived in 1993 with a duffel bag and about $1000, and proceeded to make a life there. The learning curve was steep, but it was wonderful. I learned Mandarin, got my career off the ground, made tons of expat and local friends, traveled all over, and generally had a fantastic, eye-opening adventure.
I don't know, Twitter API at least works in consistent manner.

If you ever tried Facebook API ... People complain that there are no examples for Facebook API: the problem is that they cannot keep up with example to work with constant changes, so they just gave up on examples.
Right, sorry, I knew that. I'm Canadian and things are a bit different. Canada and Hong Kong don't have a tax treaty, which could be horrible for me. However unlike the US which requires that you pay taxes for 7 (??) years after leaving, Canada lets you declare yourself as a non-resident and forgo paying any Canadian taxes going forward.

You need to be very careful (hire a good accountant) because you don't want to owe back taxes + interest + penalties if you ever come back, but it's doable.

I've heard of people leaving Canada for 10 years, not paying any Canadian taxes...grossing millions..coming back and having the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) say that, in their eyes, they were always residents and having to pay 500K+ in taxes/interest/penalties. (a big part of it is how many ties you keep in Canada, if you own a house, or your wife/kids stay in Canada, those are "primary" ties, and make you a Canadian-resident for tax-purposes).
According to the CSS3 Fonts spec linked in another comment, you get small-caps with:

font-variant-caps: small-caps

...and contextual alternates (such as swashes) with:

font-variant-alternates: contextual

If you want to configure a bunch of variations at once, there's a short-hand property:

font-variant: contextual small-caps

The font-feature-settings option is only there for the wild and crazy OpenType features too esoteric to have CSS attributes.
What about using an higher level language for game logic, and optimizing critical section of code with C/C++?
I read him religiously but I don't remember him even coming close to making such a claim and searching for "yegge amazon lisp" doesn't turn up anything.
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What needs to be addressed more than anything is the capricious wording of the legislation, and how it puts an extreme amount of power into a very select few individuals who remain hidden behind drawn curtain.

More than any inconvenience this provides for a company which operates on the web, this is censorship in its highest form.
Can't speak for the OP but I see it on Windows XP with cleartype turned on when viewing webfonts.
hibernate will make you throw up with all the verbosity and nonsense.

sqlalchemy, on the other hand, is good.
+1 for this, it sucks being a westernized Asian precisely because you're getting squeezed in between 2 cultures when you try to work in Asia. China is worse than Korea or Japan, if you are ethnically Chinese then you can expect to be treated as a Chinese Citizen in China.

Multinational companies in Australia have gone so far as to be advised not to send ethnically Chinese executives to do business in China see here: http://www.smh.com.au/business/fears-beijing-targeting-ethni...

I haven't tried to work there but when I am in China I basically 'act local'. I wouldn't think about working there because as you said I would get crushed politically and socially in an office environment as my language skills wouldn't be up to par and my thought processes would be too Western when I would be expected to act Chinese.
Studying engineering isn't the same as innovating, but you accept that people need to know the field first. the same is true for other fields, even if the domain knowledge isn't obvious to you.
I agree, with you this post titled "B&N has a Legal Obligation to release full source code" is very adversarial. It sounds like he might want to sue B&N and them might believe he is committing libel. There is no reason why they would want host his comment. He would be much better off, if he was friendly asking (not demanding) help from B&N or other users who might of gotten it to compile, and thanking B&N for making the Nook and providing the source code.
Or no commas, similar to transform:
font-features: kern(0.5px) ligatures small-caps;
No, he's saying it won't boot. Big, huge, enormous difference. He can clearly get it to compile, since he apparently produced some image that he thought (apparently wrongly) that the Nook would be willing to boot.
I agree...I have seen a handful of T shirts with "hacker" or "cracker" and it's not something most would buy.

Something cool.....without the word "Hacker" or very small
> I know that for my own usage, Scala's benefits only really became evident once I understood implicits; before that, it was simply a slightly better Java. With implicits, it's a tool that makes Java look like COBOL

I would be interested to read any examples you may have which demonstrate this contrast.