skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem happens when the size of the fund gets too large and there aren't enough deals for the money available." That's a big problem, though. And it's just one ugly facet of the overall clusterfork that is the investment management industry.

My investment firm has a 5/50 fee schedule, instead of the standard 2/20 that most private equity firms and hedgies use. [The first time I said that to a potential client, they literally tried to run out of my office - but couldn't because they were hyperventilating too much. ;-) ]

To explain, we take 50% of any outperformance beyond an appropriate benchmark (S&P or DJIA index fund, for example) with a 5 year lockup. We charge an early withdrawal fee if the client wants to pull their money during the lockup, but there are no management fees. We therefore have no incentive to grow our AUM beyond what we can invest wisely. Problem solved. We also don't have to justify how we're "incentivized" out of the corner of our mouth like most firms do, because we only get paid if we outperform. [FYI: Starving if you fail is an incentive not to fail. Having to downgrade which luxury sports car you drive because your carry was weak is not. Declaring bankruptcy if you fail is an incentive not to fail. Having to postpone your purchase of a luxury vacation home until next year is not. I personally wouldn't want to pay some bozo for just coasting along with my money - I would want results. Why should my client's expect less?]

I like to say "5/50 instead of 2/20" during client presentations, because I like to see the shock and/or outrage on client's faces before I explain everything. I'm sick that way. Everyone assumes I mean a 5% management fee and 50% of profits. Fortunately, no one has had a heart attack before I explain yet.

I love performance-based compensation in ALL industries. Unfortunately, most industries have at least some restrictions on using it...including this one. The greedy and incompetent always fight to maintain the status quo, and sometimes government 'protections' backfire.
Google is still king of freshness:

http://knowyourcode.com/badabingle/results.php?query=badabin...

(At the time of posting, Bing returns no results. Google already indexed it)
Facebook took 2 years. The company was founded in 2004 and by 2006 they were generating an estimated 1M per week.

Source: http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/04/faceb...
To answer you last question, because we are starting with the premise that the free market does not properly price certain externalities (for example, the costs from environmental damage associated with climate change). You may not agree with this premise, in which case a debate about how to effectively encourage energy efficiency is a strange place to find yourself.
Zoho grew out of parent AdventNet (now Zoho Corp) which has been around 13+ years. They became successful selling server and network management software and then started up multiple divisions of which Zoho is the most recent (and glamorous).

More here: http://blogs.zoho.com/general/so-whats-in-it-for-zoho
How do they tell copyrighted content from noncopyrighted content? Granted for the more popular content it's fairly easy, but once you start getting into things that may or may not be copyrighted, and the authors may or may not have given their permission for it to be on torrents, it starts getting difficult.

While I can't argue the decision, I feel this will just end up helping the large copyright holders, and ignoring the small ones.
WoW not one of the top 10 sold cars is a GM model - though that's not surprising. Though you'd think since all their troubles which were noted in Nov 08 they'd try to get a car out in the market that would be more attractive then any Honda, Toyota and Ford.

Why did we bail them out? For the 40K Volt that may provide 230mpg?
http://www.directededge.com
How to find low buy-in mutual funds, i.e. investing for poor students
A possible approach to learning Common Lisp
The statstics I'd really be intersted in (and these would be impossible to measure precisely, buT well-thought-out estimates woul be helpful.) would be the total estimated energy usage of new vehicles purchased under the program, compared to the energy usage of the clunkers traded in, and with that net result compared to the energy used in manufacturing all those new cars.
Watch for Dropping Nuts: 2 killed, 2 craniotomy in Papua New Guinea
From the title, I'd thought somebody discovered a specific BAC & breath speed combination that'd crash the analyzer, or something. That would've been much more exciting.
I'd also recommend creating a prioritized todo list the night before and the instant you sit down at your desk start on task #1.
The scenario is: keep my 1 TB of data and store backup completely off-site, without having local copy of it when doing increments (so the backup tool can not compare the original data and backup to find the changes, but need to consult catalog instead).
Landscape - Movies, Surfing
Portrait - Coding
However I have 1 22'' monitor which I use parallely with my MBP as a landscape view. However if I could hack to to use portrait view, i would be more than happy. Any tips ?
Good idea, doesn't need to be geo-aware.

Getting strangers to rate each other's outfits in real time would be fun.
shows how much I know. Thanks.
http://taskfreak.com/
Here's the breakdown by manufacturer from the DOT press release:

New Vehicles Manufacturers

Toyota - 19.4%
General Motors - 17.6%
Ford - 14.4%
Honda - 13.0%
Nissan - 8.7%
Hyundai - 7.2%
Chrysler - 6.6%
Kia - 4.3%
Subaru - 2.5%
Mazda - 2.4%
Volkswagen - 2.0%
Suzuki - 0.6%
Mitsubishi - 0.5%
MINI - 0.4%
Smart - 0.2%
Volvo - 0.1%
All Other - <0.1%
The software in a separate token can't be modified.
"It costs Adobe many millions to port Photoshop to Cocoa."

Yet in the end it must be done, and the earlier you do it the cheaper it gets (both in terms of good/bad press and actual development cost). Instead of being proactive and investing in the port over several releases, they are now in the position of 11th-houring it after binary support for Carbon APIs have been removed.

This isn't some idle, idealistic call for good code - deprecated API will lose binary support at some point, it's entirely on Adobe's head that this has gotten to this point at all.

I've worked at companies similar to Adobe's model (e.g. professional tools, regular releases to keep the cash monies flowing), and the death march for "bullet-point-able" features is relentless. The constant mad scramble for new features to justify the release cycle, along with management's complete lack of willingness to invest in rudimentary code maintenance, results in a code base that simply becomes unwieldy over time.

Obviously I do not work for Adobe, but it's most probable that their current Cocoa porting efforts will end up far more expensive than if they had start the effort much earlier, and it certainly would present a lot less frustration to their customers now.
"HARD good things about PYLONS", quite an interesting view you have. ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levinthals_paradox
pretty interesting, but it sounds more like the protein folding nature does isn't NP-complete. Like, Scott Aaronson says, nature may just have selected a subset of proteins that it happens to have figured out how to fold well:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
(also discusses other instances of nature seeming to solve NP-complete problems)
oBYCFactoid:
Bing finds my posterous page, Google doesn't.
I wonder which is a better explanation for the numeric disparities:

1. The Dunning-Kruger effect (I'm a good enough driver to pay attention to what's going on around me and maintain control of my vehicle while texting, but I'm damned if I'll have my life endangered by all you other incompetents)

2. The Nash equilibrium (I'm not going to hamper my social and business life while everyone else is staying in touch with their friends more efficiently by texting while driving. If everyone else stopped, I wouldn't mind stopping as well.)
Yawn. I might as well have two browser windows open. This should ferret out duplicates and merge the two sets of results. Like a metasearch engine.
Like any pattern, its value comes from knowing when to apply it.

Yes, a new thing (experience, hire, book, bauble, etc.) might turn out to be better than you had anticipated, but how valuable is that speculation? What is a good ratio of anticipated enjoyment to anticipated indifference? I think a lot of people are unhappy because they've filled their lives with things that they are mostly indifferent to, but still cling to them on the off chance that they'll be valuable later.

It's like the old pickle jar theory. You want to fill your life up with the best stuff available (big rocks), and leave the speculative stuff to fill in the gaps (sand), not the other way around.
There's a difference between not patching vulnerabilities and "allowing" viruses to take over your computer. One is negligence, the other implies active collusion. The FSF is way out of line with that comment - but who am I kidding, this is hardly surprising.

The free software movement would be a lot better off if more tempered people were in charge of the FSF.
I definitely agree with a lot of the things you're pointing out, so I'm guessing the real truth (if there can be one) is the usual: everything is good in moderation.

Doing things that aren't fun is often important (well, how else would we deal with things like taxes, or marketing for tech startups, or etc etc); equally, if you live based only on what is important (rather than letting yourself do what sounds fun), you might not have a very pleasant or rewarding lifestyle.

It's really too bad we can't come up with a lifestyle philosophy in under 144 characters, since we have to compromise all the time. (Although I guess that could be one: "Everything in moderation" is only 24 characters.)
item 6: no more custom chips.

item 7: everyone can create custom chips in their garage.

Color me befuddled...
I routinely get 40-45 MPG on the highway in my 2003 VW Jetta TDI with an automatic transmission while driving between 70-80 mph with the air conditioning running at max. I have never had a problem with diesel fuel quality or availability.

My choice of a diesel was not simply to achieve a lower fuel cost per mile. Maintenance costs and reliability are also better due to the lack of certain systems within a diesel engine (i.e. no spark plugs, alternator, etc.).
I also find task managers beneficial. I use RememberTheMilk (http://www.rememberthemilk.com/) for more general tasks, and I use FogBugz (http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/) for specific coding tasks. To be honest, I don't think it really matter what task list you use. Some are better than others, but they all essentially do the same thing.

What's important is how you use your task list. Do you find that you begin by jumping into your work, and then glance at your task list rarely? If so I'd recommend a change of strategy. Try using your task list as your home base instead. Work religiously to eliminate the items found on it, and ignore all else. If you need to do something that's not on the task list, then add it to the list -- even minor tasks.

I find I'm able to zip through my work when I attack it like this, as you'll eventually get to the point where crossing an item off the list itself feels like a reward.
When users want a pony, give them a unicorn.
Is this because the semantic web is completely unattainable, or because the definition keeps shifting (e.g. todays "normal web techniques" are yesterday's "semantic web")?
Yeah its a great site whenever you feel your ego getting to big, it knocks you down a few points
I hope your legal team is on standby.
Here's a state-by-state breakdown per capita: http://bit.ly/rVneF
This project seems shockingly ambitious. I think anything that you get, you will have to write quite a bit of manual stuff for your specific use cases. I think quite a lot of work has gone into the Netflix Prize and the discussion of this has a lot of useful points. Also, did you check academic research on citeseer?
This reminds me of rush tickets http://www.kimmelcenter.org/planning/tickets.php
Raising Capital: Closing The Deal
I agree with you regarding the fact that Adobe should have done the transition sooner. They were way too reluctant and lazy to move away from Carbon.
However this happens for almost all the major corps, 11-th houring and regular releases of meaningless newer versions to keep the cashbook ringing.
'Obviously I do not work for Adobe'
Don't worry, I can imagine employees of Adobe getting a newer jobs of porting stuffs to cocoa, newer deadlines and stuff. Currently they would be more frustrated than the customers which is a potential problem in future. However they are paid for that frustration, isn't it ?
Sam Ruby has his own Planet set up too; I find it to be pretty relevant: http://planet.intertwingly.net
I'm intrigued by Prophet. Anybody here using it?

Prophet is a lightweight schemaless database designed for peer to peer replication and disconnected operation. Prophet keeps a full copy of your data and (history) on your laptop, desktop or server. Prophet syncs when you want it to, so you can use Prophet-backed applications whether or not you have network.
This really is an amazing combination of repeating facts from people who know what they're talking about, and clueless extrapolation from a reporter that doesn't really understand all of what he just heard.
The original link is not really that long: http://verifiable.com/charts/3803
I agree with this response. But your prior idea of an energy tax, I disagree. Instead of a tax, you could simply make it illegal to sell vehicles under a certain efficiency rating. Congress has taken this approach, sort of. The only thing wrong with it is the bills get watered down with loopholes and the efficiency numbers are too little too late.
These are predictions about the future, so they don't have to be consistent. IMO one of these is correct and the other is just wishful thinking.
Ah, yes, nature doesn't have internal combustion engines, but all life is driven by super-efficient 3-step motors! (F_0F_1 ATPSynthase)

I'm not sure if I'd call it exactly selection bias. I guess it depends on what selection you're talking about. A really interesting aspect of NP-complete problems is that the can be solved in P, but require NP to check for correctness. To translate that to the world of proteins: proteins fold kinematically (P), but in doing so the reach thermodynamic minima (would take NP to verify that this is the case). In other words, while Nature might not have solved P=NP, it seems it has found a subset of molecules (the 20 amino acids) that allow it to "cheat".
The presence or absence of anonymous functions is the deciding factor in terribleness now? I guess that makes PHP non-terrible, right?

(and yes, I'm being sarcastic)
I can't believe raganwald's homoiconic hasn't been mentioned yet:

http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/tree/master
And at the very least, your two browser windows will render the page without frames and in a readable format without having to maximize.
The point is that it is worse to miss out on "hell yeah" because you're doing "ok" than it is to miss out on "ok" by doing "hell yeah", and all else being equal your feelings of anticipation are the best indicator that you have of whether something will turn out to be great or not.
In the real world 6 would be more along the lines of "hardly any big custom chips".

The whole article does suffer a bit from multiple personalities. How are ASICs going to be too expensive to produce in the future if hordes of Indian engineers will be making them on $50k fabs in their garages and Moore's law will slow down enough that design complexity will no longer increase exponentially with time? Why are the big iron chips still alive if they're dead since they're 1 Billion transistor+ designs?
You're a Prolog programmer, I infer...
The government is treaty-obligated to provide health care to a section of the population and are doing a offensive job. If they can't do it right for ~7 million Native Americans, what chance do they have to do it right for the rest of the USA?
LEGO Logic Gates
So I've only looked in passing at Scala, but I've certainly heard first-hand from several people who are forced to code Java on a daily basis that they have managed to use Scala for bits of their system.

They all claim that their lives got better. Might be worth looking into.
This is a blatant "hey can I crowdsource my duties?" kind of question. If they suggested something and you've never heard of it, you could look it up.
Spring framework still keeps me addicted to java. It's excellent.
Although I'm generally progressive and agree with the environmental goals of this program, I worry that it's essentially encouraging people to take on new debt through car loans. Aren't we as a society already highly overleveraged?
JobScore is a pretty awesome product, which I can now say (publicly) since I no longer work for a competitor. Dan seems like a sharp guy, and it all seems like good advice.
It's true that proteins don't have to be in their global minima function, but they do if you want them to stick around for a long time and not cause problems (see: Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.). There was some research a while back that took the question of: what sort of molecule would have it's global minimum conformation also be the quickest to fold to? (Unfortunately, I don't have the citation handy...) The result they came up with was something that looked an awful lot like proteins.
Maybe you should get to work on fixing that, then.
Perhaps I should whip something up more central to web businesses than halfbakery is?

I mean, it's a good concept of course, but if I'm looking for entrepreneurial web ideas, I have to figure out whether they're in 'business', 'computing', 'culture', etc.

Also, many of those ideas suck, which is fixed easily enough with moderation, but it makes you wonder how many people would have upvoted Twitter or Facebook as an idea? I'm guessing far fewer than use the service, for sure.
Interestingly though, in conversation with a road safety researcher, apparently texting is not as bad as talking while driving.

This doesn't negate the fact that texting while driving may be dangerous, but apparently because unlike talking it is self-paced (i.e. you can punch in two characters, look at the road, punch in another two characters, look up at the road) and so it is less demanding on your attention.

I just thought that was interesting.
The statement is misleading, because it does not provide the revenue splits. My assumption is that the Zoho side of the business (web 2.0) is responsible for less than 10% of that money, if that.

Also its easy for a particular part of the business to be the fastest growing business if it starts out close to zero.

I'm not trying to put down what Zoho has accomplished (brand awareness in a crowded field, as well as competing with the big boys), but merely point out that people should not assume that they are making a ton of money on their web 2.0 stuff.
They do it right for veterans, and they even do it fairly well for the elderly. Why not everyone else?
perhaps this post by Sridhar would throw some light as well...

http://blogs.zoho.com/uncategorized/why-we-compete-with-goog...
I completely agree with the comments on design, but ignoring that for now.

I'm not completely sure you've done the best job explaining what you are doing.

'So you don't have to mess with your browser in the heat of a conversation', my first thought is 'So instead, i have to mess with this other application, download it, and figure out how to use it, and hope it does what I want, when I know I have a perfectly good choice of browsers.'

What problem are you really solving?

Now I realize that you are making connections between web-searches, and topics in the conversation, but is that something that people are willing to provide data on? Wouldn't you be monitoring conversations for keywords to accomplish this task?
Splashtop Instant On-Desktop
It'd be a nice touch to include if you have a limited quantity of something. Like... I have flour, salt, sugar, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, but I only have two eggs; what could I make?
Although interestingly, as I post this, Bing returns the one (correct) result while Google attempts to redirect me to a Sopranos Wikipedia page and clutters the main results with a few irrelevant links.
Just checked out the 2 sites. They don't seem to be active? The movies there seem to be dated.

Actually flixpulse.com classified some reviews wrong. Here are some of the "bad" reviews on "Bolt":

-- "Bolt" is bringing AWESOME back
-- @seanbonner awesome! BOLT loves you back.

Whatever algo they use need some tuning. But I don't think anyone is actively working on it anymore.
The presence is meaningless; the absence is a deciding factor in terribleness.
Also, modern refining technology allows a greater percentage of a barrel of oil to be made into gasoline, and the low-sulfur mandate has also added to the cost of production.

Diesel fuel used to be in some sense a waste product and thus historically was cheaper than gasoline. It's only been within last 5 years or so that diesel has been consistently more expensive than gasoline, at least in the US.
You aren't kidding.

"[The Power 7] could probably download the entire iTunes library to your computer in about a minute or two"
I'm more thinking that if they were more proactive, and less complacent in their position as a market leader, that they would be saving themselves a lot of money, bad press, and their engineers would be a lot less frustrated, a lot happier, and their customers wouldn't have to deal with all of this on the eve of a new OS release.

Seems like a win for everyone, all you need to do is drill into the heads of upper management that regular code maintenance is an absolute must to the long-term health of your business.

I don't think Adobe was lazy in terms of the Cocoa port. From what I can tell they thought they could pull a quick one on Apple like they constantly do to Microsoft - i.e. use their ginormous size and market influence to keep any deprecated API in binaries. It's a "we're too big for you to screw us" mentality, and I'm glad Apple stuck it to them. One of MS's most fundamental problems is that they can't remove API that's been deprecated for a decade for more - they won't just kill old software, they will kill lots of new releases also!

Not to mention, unless Adobe has been on a hiring binge or loading up on temps (never a good idea), the next release of Photoshop will be light on new features and heavy on invisible elements like the Cocoa port. So they threw caution into the wind in favor of more shippable, sellable features, and now they're stuck on an entire release cycle without.
From personal experience of friends, they mess up a lot of veterans' lives, and that, in my mind, is a serious breach of trust. Look at the recent scandals in the VA for incidents.
I think you are on to something. Maybe the ability to code with flow is also a major factor to liking a language and the task it is used for. To sit in an uninterrupted "Aha! I fix!"-loop with the feeling that there is progress and one get kick out of it continuously.

When doing maintenance on patchy code, working with a flub-language, or having a edit-compile-debug cycle that is annoying, one is more likely to be in a "Uh! Wtf!"-loop.

Now... how can one turn these theories around to something useful that one can apply to our day-maintenance-programming-job to make them fun and tolerably? Because they do pay well, and there is typically much to learn.
Netboot.me - Turning netboot into internetboot
I've built an application called ideaKIN. It's basically a place where you enter in ideas, and look at other people's ideas, add them to your 'container', etc. The ideas are treated more like simple 'tasks' where you can either complete or not.

Anyway, I just built this a few days ago, and it's still in its super early phase. http://ideakin.com