skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree somewhat but maybe you are being a bit harsh on the PFP crowd: it was only 10 years ago where FP research was considered quite niche! Now the tables are reversed in that object people are now rebels and FP people are now the establishment, crazy. I think we are all searching for what are right answers, just that we are looking under different lampposts.

While Roberto's team in Brazil is more pragmatic, FP people like SPJ also care about producing useful artifacts. I would be worried if all PL research was oriented around FP, but it isn't :)
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> The author estimates that the NYC pensions were paying a roughly 0.25 fee on their funds.

Where does it say that? I just did search on the web page and the string "25" doesn't appear anywhere.

Perhaps you're rounding up from this number: "total fees of about 0.24 percent a year on all assets, including private assets."

If you are, you're not comparing like with like. The closest equivalent in the article to your index funds is this: "The fees that NYCERS pays for U.S. domestic public equities are about 0.08 percent a year".

So we're now comparing 0.05% for an index fund vs 0.08% for "US domestic public equities", which almost certainly includes actively-managed funds, which incur higher fees than an index fund (e.g. Vanguard's average active fund expense ratio is 0.27%[1] vs 0.13% for index funds[2]), which would explain the 0.03% difference.

1: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/actively-managed

2: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/index-funds
Throwing more money at a problem to try and fix it in the way that makes sense in a very surface level way isn't smart when the stuff you want to fund has been shown to be minimally effective.
The server market is going to get interesting. Right now Intel wins relatively easily against the first ARM servers, but you can tell from their recent developments that they feel the pressure (Atom C2000-series, upcoming Xeon D, ...)
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I love dramastically as a portmanteau neologism, but I guess you meant dramatically AND/XOR drastically.
If you purchase a container of gotu kola from your local holistic market, you’re buying almost entirely on faith.

How so? I get my gotu kola in dried leaf form, perfect for teas. 100% verifiably pure.
I was making a similar point to a friend last night, but I think the article just slightly misses it.

Apple has always sold "premium" products, but most of them max out fairly reasonably at < $2000 for a mid line MBP

The problem now is Apple maxes out at $10,000+, which puts them on par with the Louis Vuitton and Gucci's of the world. Those people won't want to see a line at the store; won't want to deal with the store traffic; and expect to be catered to when they walk in. Apple now needs to provide a much different experience at it's flagship stores, to sell the value of a luxury product.

Conversely, I have a few pieces from LV, Gucci, etc... and would have stood inline this morning, even though I'm not dropping 10k on a watch, but own some products from similar luxury brands.
Not sure what you mean, unless you are saying food and shelter is minimally effective?
In my dark-tinted view from actual experience of working on multiple standards and the associated politics, I am inclined to say most standards are like this - on multiple occasions 95% of all people discussing what needs to go into a standard didn't even read the conceptual papers associated with them, yet ended up super vocal and forced their view. Maybe I was just unlucky, yet now I know what does it mean "design by committee" from an actual experience.
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CryptoLocker isn't amazing. it's petty thuggery.

No it really isn't. It's smart software written by smart people. Our continuous underestimation of the 'enemy' is the reason we keep finding ourselves in these situations.

The sooner we stop dismissing the blackhats as just 'dumb kids' and start accepting that many of them are probably smarter and better programmers than most of us, the sooner we as a society can start getting a real grip on computer security.

Your appeal to is humanity is noble and I certainly agree that it would very nice indeed, but it doesn't help solve the immediate problem in front of us.
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I wonder if there is a way to come down with the full force of the police & surveillance state on this. I mean it has to be good for something....

For example (and I'm just making this up): If the malware contacts a server, send a rapid response team there. Find out where the data goes next, repeat. If they make it a national security or terrorism issue, they would have the cooperation of many western/interpol states (at least Europe, Australia and Canada). I also can't imagine that its in the interest of the Russians to be a host to this kind of crime, so you might get them to cooperate, too.

I realize that this is complicated through the bitcoin protocol (if the malware doesn't communicate back in any other way - although it has to get the key from somewhere). But in an age where the GHCQ can record all trafic in and out of the UK for a day, it shouldn't be beyond their technical reach to monitor all bitcoin transactions passing through their nets in realtime. A transaction from/to a tainted wallet was issued from your PC? Expect a SWAT team in 10 minutes at your door.

Of course this would be grossly undemocratic, complete overkill, and create huge collateral damage. But I believe the capabilities for such a crackdown are almost there. And if criminals start targeting infrastructure and law enforcement (and don't just "accidentially" attack them), something like that might happen.
And then set it's self up as a corporation. And "corporations are people my friend." It would need human directors but the AI could hire them with bitcoins.
I see there's no love for Zodiac puns. Oh well, I still love you guys.
> annual fees for U.S. equities of about 0.08 percent. So the funds got 99 percent of the returns on their investment, and the managers got 1 percent of those returns.

If you round up 0.08%, it should be 99.9% and 0.1% respectively.
Public sector IT is nearly always terrible. Why?

It's a slow-change environment. Salaries are low. Morale is often low. Sometimes it's contracted out to the lowest bidder. It's a procedure-orientated environment.
If ovh ever puts ssd on their kimsufi, they will blow all the micro-servers out of the water

http://www.kimsufi.com/ca/en/index.xml

Meanwhile for $42 you can get dedicated SSD

http://www.soyoustart.com/us/essential-servers/

The only problem with all of these is no ECC
It should be illegal to pay.
"It's what you get if you throw a uniform random dart at the real line and round it to the nearest floating point number."

Only when you throw the dart, repeat until you are in the target interval, and then look for the nearest representable number. If you throw the dart, look for the nearest representable number and repeat until that number is in the interval, you get something different.

Worse, neither approach gives you a uniform distribution in the general case. The hypothetical uniform dart is as likely to land between 1 and 2 as it is to land between 2 and 3, but there are more representable numbers in the first range than in the second.

I also think your rand01() + 1.0 example is flawed. It is just because floating point is hard that this kind of functionality ends up in a standard library.
While it seems easy, there are lots of challenges with this where I work. We have 10+ different 'top level' domains (*.example.org), lots of sub-sub domains example.example.example.org, and route everything through an external CDN. Rough back of the napkin calculations for 100% SSL coverage with our current setup and provider is $10k/month, and that doesn't cover maintenance overhead expenses (my salary) which adds up probably to more than anything we'd pay to a SSL cert provider or CDN provider.
XFS is great, now. It had some problems with metadata performance at scale a few years ago (affected early versions of RHEL/CentOS 6, and may be one of the reasons it was not the default in those versions), but it's now the best of the "traditional" filesystems.

> From Btrfs, GlusterFS, Ceph, and others, we know that it takes 5-10 years for a new filesystem to mature.

Those are bad examples - they are all significantly more complex than XFS/ext. Two of the three are distributed filesystems that aren't solving any of the same problems.

However, their inclusion in the article is worth noting, even if the author put them in the wrong paragraph.
Increasingly, large volumes are becoming distributed over lots of individual servers, with technologies like glusterfs and ceph. Both of these, and some of their competitors too (xtreemfs is also really good, despite the silly name), use traditional filesystems on the underlying server volumes that are presented as a large distributed FS. XFS is generally used for this task - and unless an individual node got larger than ~ 8EB, there's currently no reason to change this.

The real question, then, becomes - will a single server need a local FS larger than 8EB by 2025-2030? Possibly not. It's very dangerous to say "X is all anyone will ever need", but I think that we're going to increasingly see bulk storage go the same way that CPUs did - instead of a single huge local FS (analogous to increasing single-core clockspeed), we'll see an increasing number of storage nodes combined into one, via a distributed filesystem (analogous to higher core count).

Part of the reason for this is that there are quite a few disadvantages with having very large volumes in one place. RAID rebuilds become unreasonably long, if you use RAID, and RAID rebuild speed is not currently keeping pace with storage growth. If you don't, and solve redundancy with multiple nodes, then the bigger the individual node is, the larger the impact if it fails. At some point, you're also going to need to shift data off that box, and while we're likely to have 100GbE server ports around then[1], even 100GbE is going to take an unreasonably long time to move 8EB anywhere.

1: https://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog56/presentations/Tuesday...

EDIT: Just did some quick calculations. Assuming a 100 Gigabit server port, that's 12.5 Gigabytes/s. At 12.5 GB/s, it would take over 20 years to transfer 8EB anywhere. The idea that we're going to have 8EB of data on an individual server in that timeframe is starting to look a bit silly, with that in mind - how's it going to get there? What on earth would you do with it once it is there?

Even if by some magic we invent 1TbE and make it cheap enough to use on servers (and invent 10+TbE for the network core) by 2025, that would still take over 2 years to fill the disk. Yes, sorry, but this is just silly. 8EB across lots of individual servers? Sure. But all on one server in a regular filesystem? Not going to happen any time soon.
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I was fooled by the name for a long time. "SQLite? That's what you use to store 160 phone book entries or something." How wrong I was.
lol. I use NFS for "throwing [data] across the office". Faster than disk transfer and no physical media involved.
People writing aggressive malware aren't tipping back and forth based on the language they see in message board comments.

Their default state is no shits given.

Imagine them having an interview where they say they were going to give it all up, but then they saw that one guy remark that their software was effective at doing what it does, and they were so chuffed that they went on to scam thousands and thousands dollars more out of people. It's preposterous.
"Atomic Rockets" has a section about "Dark Matter Planets" on their "Weird Astronomy" page. Those planets could even be heated to temperatures where liquid water can exist by exotic particles - If they are close enough to the galactic center...

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/weirdastronomy....
Your answer's better than mine, I kinda half-assed it.

I don't know if Macrium made it into our last round of backup software evals, and we're overdue for another one anyway (and not terribly happy with Acronis).

Anything about it you don't like?
In my opinion, Apple is a software company.

Hardware is neither here nor there. The general population do not care about the tech specs/hardware of general computers (e.g. PC, or MAC). They only care about how fast and easy and nice it is to use software (e.g. different OSs).

It really is kind of embarrassing to see Apple going for a cash grab such as this. They know people who have the money will buy these extremely expensive products, because they 1. don't care about the technology behind it, and 2. they don't even have the patience, and/or time, to use the product enough to access its full potential.

People who have the money to buy those expensive watches; likely won't care about how it works, or how to work it.
Before learning about paralel reconstruction, I wasn't cynical enough to conceive that they would do something this unethical.
If you are concerned about weighting too heavily into large cap, CRSP also has small and micro cap indexes. Take a look at their total market index methodology [1], which points you to the small and micro cap sister indexes. Even in FI/RE (financial independence/retire early) and Boglehead circles, there are a low percentage of people with $10M+ investable assets, the level at which tinkering with the kind of optimizations you are pointing out starts to become interesting. I picked CRSP because Vanguard uses them, but indexes like Wilshire's are about the same.

Most middle- to upper-middle class individuals with a 2+ decade investment time horizon (which should describe the majority of HN readership) are better served with starting on a relatively vanilla FIRE/Boglehead approach, and fine-tuning with allocations to broad bond/EM/International indexes as they go along and get a feel for their personal risk appetite.

The plentiful exceptions are people for whom investing is a hobby, they are good at tracking their own performance, and they have domain knowledge about a specific industry. Small-scale active investment can work, but for the vast majority of people who just want to set aside a comfortable retirement without having to spend a lot of time tinkering with it, I have yet to find a better generic approach than passive index tracking on very broad market indexes, though I'm certainly very open to suggestions.

I somewhat doubt passive indexing will ever catch on to the levels you mention due to human nature. Indexing only really works over extremely long time spans, and the data has so far consistently shown most people do not plan that far out for their personal finances. As long as most people are personally responsible for the majority of their retirement finances, I don't expect the consistently-applied delayed gratification a successful indexing strategy requires to cause "too many" people to sit in indexes. I classify that as a "would be a nice problem to have", so I'm not worried even if it somehow comes to pass.

[1] http://www.crsp.com/files/Equity-Indexes-Methodology-Guide_0...
Facebook admits it tracks non-users, but denies any breach of EU privacy law
Except for swimming (which is quite rare for activity trackers and great win for Pebble) we have to wait for 'smart bands'. HRM are getting more and more popular and without it Pebble can't really compete with fitness trackers.
If someone kidnapped your child and asked for a ransom, would you consider it an "overwhelmingly good bargain" because you'd get them back and they wouldn't talk to strangers in future?

There is nothing novel about extortion, even on the internet, and it's not defensible as "doing a good job of teaching users about data loss"
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It's surprising to hear that heritability can be so significant for individuals but races somehow never diverged in those same traits, while they did diverge in other heritable traits like skin color and height.
Earning five GCSEs at grade C or better is an extremely low threshold, roughly equivalent in difficulty to passing the GED. The exams are not graded on a curve but are competency-based, so falling short of that standard does indeed mean that the student is terrible. Young people without those grades are more than twice as likely to be unemployed, and have very limited opportunities for further education or training.
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Part of the issue is that banks and banking in general is so large and they have so many systems that the vast majority of people have no idea on the big picture of how things worked on a more fundamental level.

This changed to a large extent when Bitcoin came about and people (technologists especially) began asking what is money and how does it move.

The average person still has no idea though.
'Unhackable' quantum broadband closer after breakthrough by Chinese scientists
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You're not supposed to round 0.08, you're supposed to divide 0.08/8.24. The 8.24 is the percentage point return for the pension fund and the 0.08 is the percentage point cost for the fees
"having written a complete emulation of GNU make".

The conversation in the office on this is fascinating... writing a complete emulation based on how the GNU Make Manual says https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/ .
What do you guys think of the new 12" macbook that carries one of these cpu's as a development machine ? Is it a really bad choice ?
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yes, absolutely $$() works in a makefile. Backticks just need to die.
With that sort of weight of assets surely they can push the market around enough to gain no matter where prices move?
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I've had good luck with self-writing makefiles, where I write macros to generate the rules. Here's an example:

http://sourceforge.net/p/wordgrinder/code/ci/default/tree/Ma...

While it looks crazy, it has the advantage that it avoids pattern rules completely, which means that everything's explicit and we get to avoid some of make's more annoying misfeatures. It makes the makefiles vastly easier to reason about, as well as allowing things like building the same binary multiple times with different flags, which is really hard with traditional makefiles. The downside is that it looks crazy (and GNU make macros are not what you'd call well-designed, either).

As for switching to a different build system... like what? Every other build system I've seen is horrible in other ways, and make is at least ubiquitous. Every time I need to install some software which uses a non-make build system I get this horrible sinking feeling as I have to go and install the thing I need to install the thing.

...

Incidentally, the craziest thing I ever did in make was this:

http://cowlark.com/2013-10-19-insane-make/index.html

I wrote a compiler for a statically-typed language which targeted GNU make macros as a backend. Surprisingly, it actually worked, although I never got round to finishing the arbitrary-precision maths library needed by the runtime system...
After reading Vonnegut's novel after novel, I needed to stop for a while. In a list of books of Vonnegut which I read, there is no Galapagos, no Mother Night, no Sirens of Titan, no Player Piano, and that's pretty all.
Do many poor children in America also feed and care for their families? I think it's still parents doing that. Of course some children may not have secure access to food and care, but they don't commonly provide it for their families on top of that.
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Here is the message I have : "All C1 servers are busy, please retry in few minutes :)"
"To have any chance of life – at least life like our own – a free-floating Earth would need liquid water. And to have liquid water, a planet needs to keep warm."

Maybe, maybe not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemis...
No offense, but "30 minutes... with a click" is pretty standard in the age of AWS. It's not a good headline anymore :)
The immediate solution to the problem in front of us is to have these talented people stop developing this awful piece of software

No that's the long term solution. A solution that is going to require some pretty huge changes in society as a whole. We need a solution in place today that works while try to figure out to get from where we are now to where we want to be. And we don't get to either of these solutions by failing to understand what we are dealing with.

At the end of the day I think these people realize the quality of their work and us pretending it is any less than it actually is isn't going to have any effect.
Of course it's extortion. That's why I highly doubt the authors much care what people say about them. It's not an experiment, or a public service. It's a clever, sociopathic way to extort a lot of money quickly, and without getting caught, at least so far. They're certainly not going to shut it down for lack of praise on Hacker News.
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I can imagine a drug dealer's defence lawyer having fun questioning the admissibility of evidence that had been "corrupted by Russian hackers" in front of a non-technical judge and jury though...
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Do you really mean poverty, or other qualities that correlate with poverty? Do you think sufficiently high welfare payments would solve poor children's school problems? Somehow children in other countries seem to succeed very well despite even greater poverty than Americans.

I think there's a distinction between forced poverty and chosen poverty. Are the poor people you're talking about actively trying to become wealthier? If not, then poverty isn't the real problem.
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In the different vein as the other sci-fi responses... Stanisław Lem's "Prawda" ("Truth", but probably English translation doesn't exist, I read it as "Правда" in Russian) mirrors this question with talks about how humans don't expect life at higher temperatures.
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GTD isn't suited well for creative, deep work where you can't possibly determine what the next action is.

If you'd like to read more about it: http://calnewport.com/blog/

That being said, whatever floats your boat ;-)
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A)Because with 160bln you're the market;

B) Change the point of view from the retail investor to the pension fund, funds have a very narrow and constrained mandate, they need to hedge risks and deal with the increasing negative cash-flows. They can't merely park their money somewhere and hope for the best.
That's too harsh. We have a rule for instance that we continue the interview for a minimum time, even if the candidate is doing badly.

They might be very nervous, having a bad day, etc.
The gimmick is that it's a "computer on your wrist! like in james bond!!". It's perfect for the Gen X and Y people who grew up watching superheroes and spies use them in TV shows and movies.

It doesn't do anything particularly well, except tell time. For its price, you can actually get a damn nice real watch.
That's only a correlation. It doesn't show that poverty _causes_ poor education. It very, I think probably is, the opposite with poorly educated parents passing those self-limiting habits on to their children.