skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well to be fair, it's also not the real hurdle than any investor in Hedge funds use. It's more of a marketing term than anything else (and often funds don't target the S&P as their benchmark, but something else closer to their trade category).

Almost all investors in hedge funds will want to see the portfolio of all previous funds you've managed as well as how much of your own money you have in the fund, how much leverage you are doing, alpha, beta, risk adjusted metrics etc.

That said, the Hedge Fund industry is going through a consolidation. Lots of small funds were essentially S&P indexes with leverage/hedges and execution ability. The rise of ETFs, the decrease in execution costs, and the creation of a true history of performance has made those funds pretty obviously useless and they are (rightly, I believe) dying.
Zuck creates a social network when we had so many social networks- but its almost like he's saying going after a 100% blue ocean... ?
> whereas you earlier said "you should always use some other condition like |x-y| < epsilon, and NOT x == y”

Good job on that strawman by picking only half the sentence and out of context.

> I’m not the one who “came with this argument”

I don't care who originally came up with it, you are the one who brought this into the discussion, and then you pull a 180 "Why are you worried about this?".

Anyway, the mistakes made in IEEE floating point are nothing that programming language designers can't fix. Hopefully future languages will make the sensible decision to let == compare floats exactly, and stick the IEEE == deep inside some library somewhere as ieeeFloatingPointComparisonThatIsVirtuallyNeverUsed(x,y).
Most likely to be private equity. IBM got SoftLayer after GI Partners rolled them up with a couple of other acquisitions.
Like if Microsoft was the first OS.

Like if Google was the first Search Engine.

Like if Facebook was the first Social Network.

...
Engineer's version: Write-only memory

"
Out of frustration with the long and seemingly useless chain of approvals required of component specifications during which no actual checking seemed to occur, an engineer at Signetics once created a specification for a write-only memory and included it with a bunch of other specifications to be approved. This inclusion came to the attention of Signetics management only when regular customers started calling and asking for pricing information. Signetics published a corrected edition of the data book and requested the return of the 'erroneous' literature."
There's a naive implementation of an STM in the concurrent-ruby gem that is a good overview of how an STM can work.

https://github.com/jdantonio/concurrent-ruby/wiki/TVar-(STM)
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Well I certainly didn't say that. But they were less frequent than the PS3 and generally much smaller/faster.
Have you guys checked this out? It's completely amazing to finally invoke GNU utilities (cal!), ipython et al from your Android phone. I made my small donation and hope it improves over time.
not yet, but probably eventually. I'll start with just doing it for a project first to test out the model. I have a nonprofit on board with needs. I have connections with developers. I can find an intern. I can get most of it in place but lack time and experience (haven't done this before). So I want your help to iron out the model as much as possible to not waste time.
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This blurb makes it sound like a repackaged Blue Ocean Strategy. Don't try to fight entrenched players in mature markets? This doesn't sound novel at all.
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No, but the sales balance on the National Grid is still based on competition, because it is regulated by the interaction of dozens of companies. The distributor has no control over who generates power, or how much is paid for it, and that is why there is no shortage [1].

With non-power utilities, even this isn't an issue - water or gas are never randomly shut off without warning.

[1] There is a small deficit of generation capacity under some conditions, primarily due to recent underinvestment in nuclear energy, so power is purchased from France routinely, who have a large surplus due to their much stronger generation infrastructure, but even if this became unavailable, the capacity is enough to prevent US-style grid failures.
It sounds like an obvious solution doesn't it ;) ?

The key to making this work would be an adequate capture of the context as well as a description of the problem. In the product design world we use "Personas" as a vehicle for packaging problems into descriptions of user needs. They give the user a demographic and allow the designer to imagine that person and how they might use a potential solution. This allows to designer to avoid imposing their own preconceptions or doubts onto the context or idea before it is even a mere wisp of a concept.

If you can capture this in a spam free, usable and elegant website I reckon you'll be on to something. Not sure how you'd monetise the output, but then that's why I've never finished the 50 or so website projects I started.
Incomplete or inaccurate, but "silly"?
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Look, if I'm going to get out of Diamond in Starcraft 2...
Without getting into the pluses/minuses of Thatcher's leadership, saying that she "simply refused to subsidise" the coal industry papers over a lot of very anti union activities.

You can argue for or against these activities, but the reason she is despised so widely has nothing to do with subsidies and everything to do with criminalizing non-violent Union protests.
Bitcoin Foundation hit by resignations over new director
Be careful not to confuse "problems" with "solutions" (you saw my other comment :)
Slightly off-topic, but if you're looking for a good party console I'd recommend a GameCube. You can buy a used one and a few controllers for about $100. There are a ton of great local multiplayer games: Smash Bros, F-Zero, Def Jam, Mario Kart, Blitz 20-02. Plus, no need for updates.
In a business where information security is so important, it's discomforting to see mishandled HTML escaping on their own News page:

> Bloomberg TV &#8211; Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Interview on Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;In the Loop&#8221;
good question, I edited post to clarify.
I dunno about that.

(Easily) arguably brilliant, important and (undeniably) quirky symbol of an interesting cultural and technological movement stays at your house for a day or two. Sends your wife a 14 page instruction manual for hosting him (enjoys parrots). Wears a hippy robe. Gets philosophically cranky at your kid's gameboy. Teaches your 9 year old daughter to emacs for email. Pulls out a creaky old laptop out at the dinner table. Your daughter now uses the web by emailing some program that fetches the relevant pages and emails them back. She installs GNU/Linux on her brother's gameboy. He cries.

Sounds like good story potential. Sheets are cheap.
It would be awesome if you deanonymized yourself and wrote it up.

Edit: (I mean from publicly available data, didn't realize how ambiguous that was until I reread it)
Thanks you two.

I'll dig into serverfault.com. Since I'm not a network guy Hacker News seemed like the correct place to ask this question.
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> Are there many here that were BeOS lovers?

I'm one. I used BeOS 5 on my home computer for a while, a long time ago. Not for production work, mind you, but for everyday stuff and programming of my own, nonetheless.
> The missus was not pleased :-)

She should have been just as 'not pleased' had your bet paid off. Going on the assumption that one should not bet such sums without full consent of one's partner...
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Props for asking for help.
I use Spectacle with alt+cmd+up mapped to 100% window, which I tend to prefer to actual "fullscreen" (OSX is weird with fullscreen on multiple monitors).
>Then the users need to be educated about those things too.

If you have some magic trick for doing it, go ahead.

A majority of people are stupid. They don't care about their privacy, they use chrome because google advertise it, they leak data everywhere they go, and either don't care, or are imbecilic enough to believe "If you've got nothing to hide, it doesn't matter".

In a way, HN acts as a reality distortion field if you get the bulk of your news from here, because people here are likely to make well researched comments with thought behind them; which makes it easy to forget that a lot of the world's population is very stupid and/or apathetic about most issues.
Can you not pre-order Kindle books, or am I missing something?
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Is there context here I'm missing? The screen shot with the legal fee leads me to believe so, but I can't sort it.
> you often don't want to maximize...

No, I always want to maximize when I want to maximize. When I want to make text more readable, I have other options like zooming, snapping to an edge (in Windows or with an add-on to OS X) or using an application specific function such as "reading mode" or "print layout" (in Word).

Apple got window management completely wrong in my opinion. I mean, here's an example of a situation where an open window is orphaned from keyboard access of any kind:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/128720/how-to-switc...
So the locks in a Distributed version work something like the NRW concept in Riak ?
Scientists discover 'brakes' to stop cancer-causing 'car-crashes' in cells
A cautionary tale about not having the requisite "minimum viable" social skills. A person with no STEM skills but above average social skills will almost always have a job (sales, management, con man) the reverse is a more difficult proposition.
What web developers thought of in the noughties as being MVC doesn't scale
I listen to Radio 4 in the mornings as I get ready for work, and then Radio 4 (mostly) podcasts on my commute.
I loved BeOS after a co-worker at one of my first jobs waxed poetic about it. Bought the BeOS Bible and read all about it. Really wish it had been more ready for primetime. As it was, you pretty much needed the BONE extensions to make it useful on the internet. And NetPositive was a minor upgrade over Mosaic and Firefox didn't run very well, at least in my experience.

Still, you can't argue with 5 second boots. Took Apple what, 15 years to catch up with that?
It's supposed to be A each for:

1. Graphics & Sound

2. Controls

3. Gameplay

So the game would get a magazine review rating of A,A,A (top in each). Hence, AAA.

Remember, it was coined at a time when those three factors were significant to a gaming experience. Not so much now, but still relevant enough.
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Quantum Qubits and the Non-Artificially Intelligent Machines of the Future
So you claim to be a decent programmer, but haven't been working a traditional job in years because why? You claim to be smart but don't know the value of maintaining a basic financial safety net. It won't be hard to bail you out, but this should not be happening in the first place. Let it be a lesson to others. Or is this just a fake?
Google bot showing up in Google Analytics?
We have had 10's of thousands of suspicious visits from Google show up in our Google analytics starting yesterday, and continuing today. Hoping the community can help me figure this out!
I simply can't resist it, but alas, see what will happen to you if you code in emacs!

On the serious note though, he did admit he enjoys procrastinating. Why would I help someone who never had and still does not have any motivation?
A modern Emacs setup in OS X
Nice introduction for flows.
what student would get is a tech mentor and a chance to solve real problem with a good cause. wouldn't that be a competitive selling point vs. a paid internship with perhaps a few thousand dollars? Perhaps I'm being naive / optimistic?
Just be aware that it is spackle-ware.

The support team was unwilling to acknowledge and escalate my report that it failed to install the correct msvcrt, it just hopes it is already present.

(Which usually isn't a big deal, but it's not a way end user software should ever fail either)
Where do you go for design inspiration and why?
A lot of inspiration websites are generically boring. What is missing from the design inspiration world?
Almost sent the OP money through PayPal, but I saw this at the bottom of the post:

> i won't actually be able to draw money from paypal, due to bank/IRS problem.

Which is confusing because in a few lines above, this is written:

> if you can help, paypal to xah@xahlee.org

Can someone who knows the OP provide more context to all of this?
The idea is actually not simple, and as I've commented elsewhere it turns out it is actually worthy of patent protection, and this particular company couldn't have even brought to market without it. I know it seems incredible, but that is the reality.

Moreover, if they had not gotten patent protection on it and then a grant (from how I read their email to me on this subject, included in my other comment), they wouldn't have even been able to finish developing it.

If they hadn't developed it, but only described the idea, people would have probably thought they were nuts.
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> Not enough frameworks make this as seamless as it should be.

There are lots of options for Node.js, for both low-level socket-like libraries (SockJS, SocketIO, EngineIO), and frameworks (Meteor, Derby, SocketStream).

Thinking of this, it's a pity that SocketStream failed to gain traction. It has a lot, technically, and was way ahead of its time (in 2011). Beside the middleware framework for WebSockets, it also provides

* RPC and Pub/Sub, built on top of the middleware stack,

* live reload for development, including swapping CSS files without reloading the full age, which enables

* automated, continuous testing in as many browsers as you like (keep your test pages open, they are reloaded on file change)

* a Browserify-like environment to structure the client code.

* an elaborated asset pipeline, that handles JavaScript, HTML and CSS preprocessors, and packs/compresses everything for production.https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream

Both the socket layer and the asset preprocessors are based on plugins, which makes the framework flexible.

A really good system, that was plagued by a severe case of not second but third system syndrome, which scared users away, since they (rightfully) feared that the rewrites would leave them in the cold.

The original developer (Owen Barnes) is a visionay and a brillant programmer, but he still failed to execute by never being satisfied with the implementation details. He has now moved on, and the framework is being maintained by Paul Jensen. Things have now stabilized. A third rewrite of the framework has been canned. The frameworks is still as good, but it remains marginal because Meteor managed to get the mind share.

[0] https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream
Focusing on governments seems like a good focus. They are much more powerful, have a much darker history of abusing that power, and opting out of giving info to businesses is much more realistic, while still hard.
This reminds me of some IRCd configurations, in which the server will not function properly unless you've thoroughly read through the conf file and found the single commented line which disables the entire process.
Solidarity
The problem lies here: "well, i can only say i procrastinate"
> The problem is if you switch between Mac and Linux computers (and sometimes Windows): it's highly annoying when the 'shortcut-muscle-memory' has to 'think'...

Or you just need to double the amount of shortcuts you know ;)
He mentions the IRS pulling money from his account, I think that's what the legal fee stuff in the bank account screenshot is about.
Edit: He seems to have a lot of interest and worked a lot on good documentation, which is the bane of the typical OSS project. Why doesn't Red Hat/Google etc. throw some money at him to write docs for underdocumented OSS stuff? Sounds like win win for all. It's hard to find really smart developers that are interested in writing documentation.[End edit]

If you don't really know him, his LinkedIn profile shows more details about his work.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/xahlee

Xah Lee's Summary

Full stack web site development. Heavy backend experience + unix sys adimn. Seek startupish, small team engineers environment.

Accomplishment highlights:

• Autodidact. High school dropout. No degree.
• Taught graduate math students at National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taiwan.
• Invited speaker to Geometry And Visualization workshop, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
• Work cited in US Patent.
• Well-known open source contributor in emacs and LISP communities.
• Expert in: JavaScript, Perl, Python, PHP, Emacs Lisp, Mathematica, MyLinux, SQL, Second Life Linden Scripting Language. Each with at least ten thousand lines of code. (working knowledge Java)

Specialties:
• Design, code, entire system. Understand language, protocols, raw. Do not depends on frameworks/libs when unnecessary.

Portforlio:

• Xah's JavaScript Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/js/js.html 〕
• Xah's {Python, Perl, Ruby} Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/perl-python/index.html 〕
• Xah Emacs Lisp Tutorial 〔 http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp.html 〕
• Xah's Java Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/java-a-day/java.html 〕
• Xah Linux Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_index.html 〕
• Xah's HTML5 Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/js/index.html 〕
• Xah's CSS53 Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/js/css_index.html 〕
• Programing Language Design 〔 http://xahlee.info/comp/comp_lang.html 〕

Xah Lee's Experience

Author and Webmaster
XahLee.info
January 2007 – Present (7 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay Area

Creator and author of award-winning website http://xahlee.info/ , since 1997.

• 8 thousand visitors per day. 240 thousand visitors per month.
• 5 thousand HTML pages
• Frequently cited in academic journals as well as online sites such as StackOverflow, Hacker News, Reddit, Wikipedia. Also cited by Microsoft TypeScript publication. (see list of citations below.)

Published more than 50 software. Have a look at

• Xah's JavaScript Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/js/js.html 〕
• Xah's {Python, Perl, Ruby} Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/perl-python/index.html 〕
• Xah Emacs Lisp Tutorial 〔 http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/elisp.html 〕
• Xah's Java Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/java-a-day/java.html 〕
• Xah Linux Tutorial 〔 http://xahlee.info/linux/linux_index.html 〕
• Programing Language Design 〔 http://xahlee.info/comp/comp_lang.html 〕
Xah Lee's Projects

Programming Tutorial: Python
June 2006 to Present
Team Members: Xah Lee
Google launches live election map in India
> why i didn't seek job all these years? well, i can only say i procrastinate and is ok living on a dime.

Why would anyone give this guy money? It sounds like his money woes are all his fault. He's just begging online rather than begging in the street.
The algorithm described more closely resembles a CP system (in its need to successfully lock the majority of instances), since it requires majority to be available and in order to lock a resource. Also it is not a tunable algorithm, at least the majority of nodes must be locked in order for the safety to be guaranteed.
No problem. I admit I was being very terse, so I understand how that could be seen as mean.
Who would hire a 45 year old programmer? Certainly good as dead. Have fun at the laundry.
Is anyone else finding this article's pale-gray-on-white color scheme very difficult to read?
If you're not willing to participate in, and accept the conclusions of, your democracy in the first place, what makes it likely you'd be willing to do so in any other system?

Those revolutions were about asserting an effective democracy, not a particular policy platform. The governments they removed were actively rigging elections, not just successfully attracting the majority of the vote and implementing polices you didn't like.
I've come across his blog multiple times when I started with emacs and he seems like a cool guy(anyone that can spoon raw oatmeal into his mouth like it's the greatest thing ever is cool by my book).

It's great he's asking for help instead of showing up on the front page as another dead hacker.
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Oh my.. I need need a cup of coffee to get all the way through this one
Here's the recycled cons at the car of ANSI Common Lisp section 12.4:

Common Lisp includes several functions that are allowed to modify list structure. These functions are destructive for reasons of efficiency. Though they may receive conses passed to them as arguments, they are not meant to called for their side-effects.

For example, delete is a destructive version of remove. While it is allowed to trash the list passed to it as an argument, it doesn't promise to do anything. This is what happens in most implementations:

> (setf lst '(a r a b i a))
(A R A B I A)

> (delete 'a lst)
(R B I)

> lst
(A R B I)

As with remove, if you want side-effects, you should use setf with the return value:

(setf lst (delete 'a lst))

Because garbage collection and homoiconicity can sometimes feel like magic, it can be hard to think of Common Lisp running closer to the metal than a language like C. But it does. Cons cells are locations in memory, and symbols are pointers and there's nothing in between. A programmer doesn't even get `free(array)`. Memory locations can be shared willy-nilly because just as in Clojure, two distinct lists/sequences can share a tail. From ANSI Common Lisp section 12.8, "Constant Structure":

> (defun arith-op (x)
(member x '(+ - * /)))
<function:arith-op>

> (setf lst '(as it were)
(AS IT WERE)

> (nconc (arith-op '*) lst)
(* / AS IT WERE)

> (arith-op '-)
(- AS IT WERE) ;; bad

> (arith-op 'as)
(AS IT WERE) ;; even worse

"Oh Shit!" moments like this are why Lispers like Graham developed a functional programming style. It's a lot of what motivated the design of Scheme. It's not really what motivated Clojure because Java already solves this problem. Clojure is designed to solve the problems Java doesn't more easily.

That fundamental goal is why what makes Clojure unique matters when explaining Clojure. It's also what makes Clojure a less than ideal vehicle for teaching functional programming style - it's designed for programmers who are solving problems on the JVM [or CLR or V8], and not really so much as a general purpose language. It's designed around interop. As weavejester says in his linked talk, Clojure is a Java library.

There are better languages for teaching functional programming - Scheme/Racket. What makes them objectively better is that helping people learn to program in a functional style is one of the problems they are trying to solve, and they have almost four decades of development toward that goal. Education is entirely orthogonal to Clojure, even more so than Java with its two decades of introductory text development and promotion via vocational arguments in CS departments. And, Racket/Scheme isn't trying to solve JVM problems.

Teaching functional programming style is hard, but a largely solved problem because the internet allows pointers to excellent materials.

http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/AUG_19_2012.html
If you "simply cant resist" making a joke when another human is in the midst of a terrible situation you are a horrible person.