skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Larger funds do cost more to manage. There's a point at which you have to diversify not to mitigate risk but because large buys drive up the cost of the purchase. Also, there are a whole bunch of extra SEC rules that kick in when you're changing your position in a stock in which you have a nontrivial percentage of outstanding shares.
Ha, that was my first thought too! Would be a lot more logical to put whining on one axis and capability on the other.
As you rightly realise, we can't have a situation where all money is blindly invested in passive index trackers, since everyone will be following the herd and no one will be leading it.

If active managers are under-performing, then at some point as passive funds grow we will reach an equilibrium point where they are causing such price distortion that they will produce opportunities for active managers to profit from mispricings, correcting the situation.
Reconstruction kind of loses it's historical grit when we frame it solely as the battle for equality. I know modern historian have an obligation to hunt down, expose, and destroy the Neo-Confederates' lost cause mythos, but leaving out just how insane and chaotic that time was does the entire historical narrative an injustice.
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I really hope someone tried that in the interview.
It's the same thing. If you don't have a monopoly then it's a feature, if you do have a monopoly then it's anti competitive.

I do agree that Microsoft did a whole boat load of other, really down right despicable, business practices as well. But in the MSN Messenger and Defender cases it was purely about shipping their own products preinstalled in Windows when competitors weren't included.

I guess you're right that my wording was perhaps a little too vague though. But my point was that when it comes to software bundling, Microsoft are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Right, it technically exists, and for some common scenarios, some people may get it to work. Step outside that, and it seems like a world of pain. Like, for instance, IIS's half-baked reverse proxy, ARR (Application Request Routing). Despite being aimed at a very narrow set of applications and overall being cumbersome and annoying, all of the docs I've found on it are screenshot-and-clickhere based.

MS has a ton of work to do if they wanna make a non-GUI Windows viable, and it seems like if they don't have a lot of that work done upfront, they're going to end up providing a very unappealing first taste to customers. I hope they succeed, just that it seems to be a much larger problem than just cutting out parts of Windows.
The idea being that in a perfectly competitive market the risk adjusted return for everything should be the same.
The hledger website makes it hard to find the web interface. Here it is, for anyone interested:

http://demo.hledger.org/journal
How come Happiness and Productivity have become opposite things. Why there is no happiness in Productivity ?

Can an unhappy person be truly productive, not just doing some thing mechanically and painfully ?
Hi, here's how I'd break it down:

Firstly, a job and starting your company are two different things. Dissatisfaction with you job should not be the primary reason you should consider for starting up your own company. If you do want to startup your own company consider the reasons why you are risk averse, is it just fear or failure or the fear of the consequences of the failure. If you have the financial appetite to risk a startup and truly believe that you can commit 5-10 years to it (that's how long what most startups take); go for it. Of course this is an over-simplification because there are a thousand other things to consider like your former colleague being a co-founder, where and how you execute etc...

Now secondly, if you decide that starting-up is not for you, here is the thinking I have developed over time. There are 3 factors:

1. Are you happy with your salary ?
2. Are you happy doing what your work ? As in do you enjoy it ?
3. Are you happy working with the people in the company
and your colleagues in particular ?

In my experience, most people quit jobs when at least 2 of the 3 requirements are not met. Having all 3 is of course ideal but 2 are required at the minimum.

So in your specific case, it is obvious requirement #3 is not being met, and if #1 and/or #2 aren't either, will changing to a different team within the company enhance requirements #1 & #2 and also possibly #3 ? If not, look for a job at a different company. If yes, stick around. If however, #1 and #2 are still being met -- stay with the team.

HTH
Apple Store is down
we all know why. Who's buying?
Yep, there are a couple recent studies showing diet sodas have no weight loss benefit over regular soda.
One Codex (YC S14) is hiring engineers to work on infectious disease diagnostics
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FYI OS X can be virtualized, but only run on Apple hardware. VMware have some details on the other caveats here -> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
But then apart from the FDA, Canada, the UK, Europe, Singapore, probably many more, have all OK'd it and it's still approved. Surely his political influence doesn't cover dozens of countries over nearly half a century.

Aspartame is 50 years old now. Any researcher that showed a clear damaging effect would instantly be set for life, no? I know that isn't strong evidence, but it's some evidence.

I don't know what it is about artificial sweeteners in general, but I think people hate the idea of getting something for free, that you can literally enjoy a sweet dessert without paying for it in calories.

In SF, it's obnoxious, to the point of places not even carrying sucralose or aspartame, only <shudder>, Stevia. Or people saying, with a straight face, "Yep, our tea has real sugar, so it's far better for you."
Just finished The Martian last month...any recommendations to follow it with..so many choices in this thread
I understand that even simple problems may seem difficult when you're under stress (being interviewed). I know that I perform a lot worse under those conditions than under "normal stress", as I have to prove myself to someone else and not just to myself. But with that said, this shouldn't be a problem for anyone who have been programming for a year or more.
This has nothing to do with the Amiga, but shameless plug for a cool in-browser ray-tracer we made for a school project http://camargo.github.io/tracejs/#/

Rendering times become exponentially slower with more objects in the scene (100% native Javascript, hence 0 hardware acceleration) but it's fun to play with if you're in the mood!
I had the same experience recently. Not my cup of tea. It's almost like they want to see how poorly you do when heckled by annoying coworkers. I directly judge company culture based on the methods and attitudes of those who interview me. The worst part was it they used some sort of web-based editor that was a very poor editor (glitchy/laggy compared to vim).
I found their REBLS workshop paper:

http://www.ceu-lang.org/chico/ceu_rebls14_pre.pdf

Here is the connection to Esterel:

> In contrast, the imperative style of Esterel is confined to the domain of real-time embedded control systems. As a matter of fact, imperative reactivity is now often associated to the observer pattern, typical in object-oriented systems, because it heavily relies on side effects [20, 25]. However, short-lived callbacks (i.e., the observers) eliminate any vestige of structured programming, such as support for long-lasting loops and automatic variables [3], which are elementary capabilities of imperative languages. In this sense, callbacks actually disrupt imperative reactivity, becoming "our generation’s goto" [13, 15].

> We believe that the full range of reactive applications can benefit from the imperative style of Esterel, which we now refer to as Structured Reactive Programming (SRP). SRP extends the classical hierarchical control constructs of Structured Programming (SP) (i.e., concatenation, selection, and repetition [14]) to support continuous interaction with the environment.
And about the Intel backdoor (AMT/ME):
http://de.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub
Aspartame has been approved in many, many countries. It is unlikely that Rumsfeld influenced all of them.
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I'm sure there's ways we can force it, but I don't think it's terribly natural to consider "Just x" or "Nothing" to be "tak[ing] an input, giv[ing] an output". "Just", certainly, but not once you've applied it.
what it really says is that there is no warrenty but perhaps the first few clauses render the whole thing questionable. We must test it in court to see if code can own itself.
From the abstract: "forced to obey a certain constraint that is pathologically unlikely to be satisfied by any dataset"

Like assuming your data come from a normal distribution? Box guides us: 'all models are wrong, some are useful.'
Just a few of mine:
cointracker.io
ecm.consulting
dms.consulting
rimpire.co
I have read this as well, and to my experience, it really isn't available in my windows 10 preview vm.
status Meetings are usually about words and abstract concepts, not real things (like a piece of code or some interface design
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Arkisto – I built cloud backup software in my spare time
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instead of using above service use spoof call for anonymous call

http://haktuts.com/how-to-change-your-caller-id-1/
Your backup drive may have been indexed by Google
OT: Heroin can actually be safer, due to the long onset and long lasting effects of methadone. Methadone can take several hours to kick in, leading patients to think they might not have taken enough, and take some more. It also lasts much longer than Heroin.

3x10mg methadone pills may be enough to cause an overdose in a naive patient. Given the long times involved, this isn't an unrealistic scenario. Whereas with Heroin, a: oral bioavailability is rather low, and b: action happens faster, thus an OD is less likely. (Not true for IV usage, but hopefully such patients exercise more caution in the first place, reality excepted.)

And both aren't really "bad" for you, as far as long-term medicines go. The side effect profile is positively tame compared to other commonly accepted medicines such as anti-depressants or mood stabilizers.
Dear VentureBeat, clean up your web site.

Two giant popups in the first 10 seconds.
> why does the compensation need to be tied to the difficulty rather than the assets under management? you haven't actually made a case for that, just assumed it was naturally correct.

Because in a competitive market, the price of a good is equal to its marginal cost? "Difficult" here is being used synonymously with "expensive".
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> and each method call could mean one of many different things depending on the runtime class of the object it’s being called on. That makes it much harder to look at code and know what path will be executed, so the code becomes much harder to keep in my head.

This is precisely the problem DCI solves. It puts system level behavior (collaboration between objects) into contexts, so that the code path is readable within a single method, rather than spread out across the network of objects.

You get to keep the abstraction and malleability of your objects, while still being readable. If you're not familiar with it, this is a great talk:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-DCI-Architecture
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e.g. http://www.benchmark.com/
You bet that you can crowd fund Capital markets. It's just done with much bigger checks. One of the very large food and ag banks told us (AgFunder) that they were losing clients to JPM and GS because they didn't have their distribution power, and that if we could provide them with a distribution platform they would literally bring us billions of dollars of deal flow. On the other side of the table we have sovereign wealth funds and PE funds that are asking us when we can bring on larger deals. One conversation today said that they were looming for $500m deals to invest in.
Many people already joined in with great comments, but I'll also add mine.

For now Quiet seems more about getting to appreciate the differences between introverts and extroverts and how getting to respect the way introverts "works" (being someone else or even yourself) might lead to better performance and happiness.

It's not a self-help book (at least for now).

Nice book, although now I'm in the part where it's super-filled with references and it's kinda boring (I started reading it after writing the comment on HN :D )

Usually we are filled with self-help book that describe how to be "super".
I was a bit bored by all that topic (although some takeaways of the self-help world are valuable), and I wanted something that went in a totally different direction.

Reading something like quiet (aside from the fact that I feel like I'm a bit introvert) is a great way to expand how I see things, because it does give me new point of view about people and the world.

Hope it helps ;)
Too bad I'm from italy :) (although I'll be in SF for a trip next week ;) )
"The closest you can come is to specialize the monad in context to ((->) e) and then talk about that kind of combination."

I think >> also feels a lot like composing functions when we've specialized the monad to State.
I just finished reading Dark Star — an entertaining scifi noir epic poem set on a planet with a dead sun. It isn't going to tell you about the practicalities of this type of thing but it is a good yarn.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Star-Oliver-Langmead/dp/1907389...
Best practice for naming a Boolean variable or method
I have read about flag is a trap. But sometimes using a Boolean is unavoidable. What is the best practice for the naming convention , to make it meaningful to read yet not confusing?
Yes, the Amiga was a great piece of hardware.

I was the only one from my friends having a PC at home instead of an Amiga, but luckily we had lot of scener parties at their places so I got to learn lot about the system.

It was an environment ahead of its time with dedicated hardware for sound and graphics, pure multitasking even if lack of MMU meant occasional crashes and the whole libraries concept was great.
With XP this was valid, but from Windows 7 onwards you don't need to do it anymore unless you actually want to play a game - the majority of users would never need to at all.
Yep, I'm listening to the audiobook.
Being a non-native english it's a nice work.

At first I bought the book thanks to many suggestions but didn't realize it was a philosophical book, it is sure training me to new levels of listening and concentration.

Sometimes I end up relistening to a part because I just didn't follow it enough closely.
But that difference is diminished when you also take into account that you would be earning interest on your capital in the period you were out of the markets (e.g. through a savings account or short-term bonds).
Would be fantastic if someone put the effort in making this guy a really great website, with amazing UI/UX, and a great backend.

Just for those people who can never find an idea, but want to do something ;-)
// Duff's Buzz

#include<stdio.h>

int main(){

register count = 0x64;
register a = 0x0;

{
register n = (count + 0x9) / 0xa;
switch (a=count % 0xa) {
case 0: do { printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a);
case 9: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x1);
case 8: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x2);
case 7: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x3);
case 6: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x4);
case 5: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x5);
case 4: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x6);
case 3: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x7);
case 2: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x8);
case 1: printf("%d\n", n*0xa+a-0x9);
} while (--n > 0x0);
}
}
return 0;
}
I read the first post, and now reading the second, and its difficult to parse because I'm not in academia.

As far as I can tell, MPI is actually a standard/protocol for doing distributed computation, much like Hadoop & Spark. (Confused as to why I've never heard about it before - does it get absolutely 0 use outside of academia? Why?)

If I have this right, then a more general title is "Specialized high performance machines are on the way out, commodity cluster computing is the future"
>> Is it because someone has to be paying for hosting?

Yes, unlike an animal that can live on its own, somebody's computer must actually run the thing. Indeed, as in the case of "worms" and the "breadwinner bot" we can clearly trace responsibility, it is quite difficult to claim that there is autonomy here. Although it is foreseeable that as a society we may find it convenient to claim that programs run themselves, right now we have objective information to the contrary...
Monetdb (although not distributed).
Well, I find the app more comfortable than glasses when lying in bed...
You are absolutely right.

On a sidenote this post made me remember a small part of "The Art of Learning" (Josh Waitzkin), where he shares that on chess the opponents would always try to make him feel anxious.

To fight this he always took his time, maybe after the move from the opponent he would just go to the bathroom and take the time he needed to get back on track.

I don't how if this could be applied to your situation too, but I think it might be worth a try.
If the situation is anxious too you, just ask for your space and time (maybe even ask if they can give you some solitude).

Silence is gold ;)
TREC, as far as I know, doesn't have a competitive question-answering format, with definitive right or wrong answers.

Jeopardy is a widely-understood game format; a competition-via-API would be understandable to a wide variety of competitors, from leading researchers to precocious cranks.
Can you sell your stake in the corporation to itself?
Goes right along with expressing costs in Really Big Numbers! without giving context. For example, the $200M/year spent on pension fees is 0.2% of NYC's annual budget of $78B.
You're right that there exist some flaws in my method of explanation and attempt to form a convincing argument for you. I'd like to thank you as I've learned something from you. However I would like to propose that any logical unsufficiencies in my explanatory efforts thus far do not at all implicitely indicate any diminishment of degree of truthfulness of my words. In plain words, I didn't try to tell others what I do not actually know, and I maintain that all my claims here are true and that anyone can verify these truths by proof that exists in reality. As a consequence of these qualities of what I've said, no proof will be found to contradict my claims, and yet my claims, to my knowledge, should be quite easily theoretically "falsifiable". My question for you is whether you would have an interest in the truth and try to verify these matters or maintain your existing knowledge and level of understanding.
No, you misunderstand. This is related to the O_PONIES problem (http://lwn.net/Articles/351422/). The bug was software that failed to use datasync when it should have. The files weren't getting zeroed out on shutdown. The data had yet to be flushed to disk, and it wasn't required to be flushed to disk. The metadata was required to be flushed to disk. For security reasons, and unallocated inode data space has to be filled with 0's. So... data not flushed to disk? You get 0's when there is an unclean shutdown.
Code is not a legal entity, only persons or organizations (consisting of persons) are legal entities, therefore code can not own itself.
Thou hast exposed me! I flee!

http://www.stgeorgenorth.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Wh... for everyone else.
The question itself is idiotic, as well as this answer. If you need drugs to understand the things you have mentioned, you should think about changing career and getting professional advice would help here. I do not understand this valley culture of drugs, hacking body things and all the related stuff. Before starting to "hack body" to understand "on deeper level", you should consider getting medical advice or if you really want to proceed further getting education in medical sciences would help. I always wonder what implications you all will have in a long term, but those people tend not to think about it at all.
Sure, Jeopardy is peculiar. Still, it's popular and well-understood, so an open competition, where anyone can upload their playing-agents (quirks and all) could draw big interest. It'd be more like recurring competitive computer chess tournaments than the stage-managed Watson-on-Jeopardy series.
So, and this is a naive question, why on earth does a Vanguard fund charge a percentage for what seems to be very simple administration (sell 1000000 shares in X, buy 100000 shares in Y, make sure VWAP is good).

I mean - if I was a trustee of a million fund let alone billion I would expect to know the baseline level of dumbest simplest possible investing process. That approach seem the simplest.
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Ask HN: Supplementary education system
What impact a supplementary education system can make? Is it worth investing time and effort on this?

https://www.techinasia.com/purple-squirrel-raises-funding/