skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, this is the section of the article he was referring to: "Actually my simple dumb model for investment management fees is that managers should, on the whole, charge more than the value they add, since (1) good managers who add value should charge fees equal to the value they add, (2) bad managers who don't add value should charge fees equal to the value that the good managers add, and (3) there are at least as many bad managers as good ones. So I think New York's pensions are doing rather well in getting the managers to give up any of their outperformance."

The way this reads to me is that his idea of an actively managed fund should either match index performance after fees (in the case of a good manager) or perform worse after fees (in the case of a bad manager). In which case, you'd be better off sticking with index funds instead of betting on whether or not you have a good manager.

To put it into your example: The S&P 500 has returns of 5% for the year of 2020. Guy_A has his investments managed by Investor_Good who gets gross returns of 7%, but charges fees that leave Guy_A with 5% net returns (~1.87% management fee). Guy_B has his cousin Investor_Bad manage his scratch-off earnings who ends up matching the index with gross returns of 5%, but charges the same fee as Investor_Good leaving Guy_B with net returns of 3.04%.

Edit: I just wanted to add that this is how the how situation (not the NYC Pension, but the quoted section) sounds to me. Finance is not my area of expertise, so I could be misinterpreting something.
How I wished I could have that problem.
Ha not the only thing it's inspiring
When considering the effectiveness of HTTPS everywhere, we should assume the Chinese government will have the ability to create valid certificates.

This would allow them to perform MITM attacks against anyone who visits Chinese websites, even with HTTPS.
It offers three basic models.

I hope they will offer more complex models in the future.
Ah, being in Spain, I thought the website adapted to the country by default.
That was a concern for me as well, especially after having played with beta Ubuntu touch builds.

However, it looks like you should be able to get Kitkat on this easily[1].

[1] http://www.bq.com/gb/products/aquaris-e4-5.html Search for "android"
This basically nailed it.

- Pick an activity, whether it's working out, taking a walk, running, yoga, wall climbing. It doesn't matter. Something even as doing squats and jumping jacks makes you feel more energized.

- Sleep, can't tell you how important this is. Personally, I don't get enough sleep, but I'm trying.

- Hobbies. Find something you love to do and do it. Try to learn something new. It's different for everyone, but everyone loves something.
Fair enough, but syntax-wise it looks like it was designed in the 80's or 90's. Some people see that as a good thing.
It's interesting that they chose to port the source to JS by hand, rather than compiling the C to asm.js with emscripten. It'd probably have been easier, and the resulting code faster, if this approach was taken.
How about collect the names and sell them to headhunter?
Which goes against any full disclosure laws that may exist in those jurisdictions.
Embedded Rust
If all websites went https, they would try to block everything, definitely.
Did I miss something? Why do you think the DEA can break iMessage encryption?
Show me a widespread OS that doesn't have a TLS library.
The other thing hedge funds offer is alternative markets to track. So while some may track the U.S. stock market (which you can get by just buying SPY), some funds track other markets like commodities, foreign equities, housing, bonds, etc. Almost anything that you can put a price on you can find a hedge fund willing to trade. For these "nontraditional" investments it can be rational to pay someone even if they cannot beat the benchmark, simply because you couldn't do it yourself.
The way the world is heading, my advice would be: get technical. Develop a working knowledge of how things work e.g. how web app works, how programming languages work, the internet etc. You don't have to go deep but it's very valuable to have that understanding.

As far as job choice goes, it sounds like you're more of a product developer/manager and or marketer. The thing about startups however, is that roles bleed into each other depending on your skill set. There's not much room for a specialised cog that isn't willing to go outside of their comfort zone when necessary.

Push your boundaries and you'll be happy with the result.
Actually GB stands for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Just my 2¢.
The New Bing Image Search Experience
Apple Fixes Proxy Manipulating Phantom Attack in iOS 8.3
United States then, Europe now (2012) [pdf]
Video guide: How to setup SPAN ports on Cisco switches
> We remain puzzled as to why the GC’s operator chose to first employ its capabilities in such a publicly visible fashion.

This is the most important question here. I think it's fair to assume this must've been a deliberate choice by the Chinese authorities to conduct such a visible attack. The alternative, that they didn't realize what they were getting into, that they thought Github would cave quickly, seems much to simplistic and naive. And whatever else you can say about the Chinese government, you can't accuse them of being naive.

If you believe this was deliberate attack, it seems this is a parade demonstrating electronic warfare abilities. The message being sent seems to be, "don't mess with us, we can do everything you can do and possibly more."
I guess the next OS revision you mention would be "Dano", which according to the Wikipedia article[0] was leaked on the day the company closed down. In that case, there should be quite a number of screenshots floating around, such as [1]. YellowTAB Zeta[2] was also based on Dano.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS_R5.1d0

[1] http://qube.ru/files/images/beos_r51d0_on_amd_athlon_xp_1600...

[2] http://www.osnews.com/story/3692
Russian TV is a great example of propaganda.
Truths viewed from special angle plus subtle lies...
The problem is that a lot of people still believe in everything that the see in the TV :(
How to be a unicorn (and why you should)
Does anybody have any experience with automatic height-adjusting desks? E.g. [1]

[1] http://www.gizmag.com/stir-kinetic-desk-automatically-rises/...
Yeah, if GitHub had used a 301 Moved Permanently to some Chinese website I think it would have been interesting [rather than responding with the alert message]....however that probably would be deemed "attacking" someone.
OT: If anyone from bq.com is reading this: Why can't I select Germany, France, or Austria as a country to ship to? Why do I have to provide my nationality (personal information, not part of the shipping address)?
US nuclear fears block Intel China supercomputer update
There is a multitude of work done in start-ups that requires coding at all. Testing, customer support, book keeping, social media presence, and my personal favorite, cold calling are just a few. Think, Jobs. To be the best, you must be willing to wear a lot of different hats, and take initiative based on the situation. My advice is to get into a company you believe in and be willing to learn. You will naturally find where you bring the most value.
Beyond Short Snippets: Deep Networks for Video Classification
Does multitasking help or hurt productivity?
Multitasking is a very controversial thing. You might either love it or hate it. Multitasking is good when combining certain kinds of activities. But most of the times it hurts our concentration and productivity. Like when you’re listening to music with lyrics and reading. Our brain is incapable to do both things at a time equally good.
Learn why multitasking is bad for you and your productivity, find how good you are at multitasking in the article:http://bit.ly/1Hb97nA
They need to sign those certs with a CA. If they do this, they create a cryptographic proof that they're abusing their trust and are removed from the trust store quickly.
This idea got shot down pretty quick, but I love that it was asked. Coming up with potentially disastrous sideways use-cases for new toys is a favorite pastime of mine.
I'm uber curious about the technical aspect of it. Software side, how it compares to other OSes in terms of cpu and ram usage, battery life etc. How different is the distribution from the desktop/server images (libc, compile flags, ...).
Years? More like centuries. History is rife with examples of abuse from people with power over those that have no power. It's something that has been fought, defended, tolerated, or the cause of revolutions since forever.

This is just a new face to an old problem that has been a constant struggle for the human race.
Yeah, the only new part is the scale it operates on since it can MitM any site in an entire country and use legal means to guarantee its access.
Being unethical doesn't remove my curiosity.
This seems simultaneously wonderful and horrifying -- how many deaths could be avoided if you could simply get a "body transplant" when things go south with your heart, liver, whatever? Neuroscience would gain a new level of importance for sure.

And does that bring to mind for anyone that weird movie about where you have to purchase minutes of life to stay alive? Anyway, creepy, considering how real the illicit trade in transplant organs is already.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6793063
Yep. Using legal means to maintain a privileged position to do malicious things to the rest of the Internet is an innovation that few can enact.
Strength training 3x a week. Why strength? Strength is the most generalized adaptation there is. Training to be strong improves every component of fitness: strength (duh), power, agility, balance, flexibility, endurance (all 3 types) and coordination. I would also make the argument that in day to day life strength is the most important attribute of fitness for someone in the western world. The ability to carry a bunch of heavy bags of groceries, to rack a computer, help a loved one in an emergency etc., almost all depend primarily on strength. It's also the primary adaptation for injury prevention and rehab (knee and back especially).

People may have different fitness goals, but for someone who is untrained by far the best thing they can do is a strength program for 3-5 months before training more specifically for their goals. I'd recommend Starting Strength, which is a simple and popular program (popular is important, because like certain programming languages it has tons of community support behind it so it's easy to ask questions and get answers). http://www.startingstrength.com/
its like $100 more dollars.. looks better works better and less putting together. If I was looking for cheap using pipe I would use plastic conduit and sanded 3/4 plywood and use an old bedsheet to cover it.. Also all those Media carts that used to have vcrs and tvs on them.. perfect absolutely perfect for standing desks.
Free updates aren't usually a bad thing.
Euclideon Unlimited Detail voxel demo available as webdemo
Improving online education systems
I was just thinking about how we can improve online education systems like coursera, udema, khanacademy.

One thing I found is none of them provides real-time classes.

Asking questions to the instructor right on time will pretty fancy.

What/how would you change, alter, add to current solutions?

Maybe we can build up a new startup for that. Thank you for your contribution.
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Oh, I'd never used the desktops, only laptops and iOS devices. I didn't know apple had embraced Bluetooth at all.
How 45 Drives Has Evolved Since Starting to Make Backblaze Storage Pods
The Effects of Moore’s Law and Slacking on Large Computations [1999] [pdf]
Excellent list. Another addition I would make is another contribution from Stack Exchange, this time from Kevin Montrose. It's a high-performance JSON serializer/deserializer called Jil. https://github.com/kevin-montrose/Jil

I've been using it on most of my newer projects this year and I have to say I much prefer it over the (still excellent) Json.net.
Why would China only swap scripts for users OUTSIDE China? And why only 1.75% of the time? If they're willing to do this level of `cyber warfare`, why stop at it's own citizenry, or cap it at a number like that?
carb cycling and weight training
Grandparent wasn't suggesting that.
Well, no it doesn't. For example searching for 'healthy school food lifetime outcomes' on google scholar brings up one clearly related study [1], but it's paywalled. It's also about the UK, not US. And having found the study elsewhere [2] finds that many of their claimed benefits are only significant at the p<0.1 level, which, really.

It seems you expect me to spend 20 minutes validating each of your claims for you. I'm not going to produce your argument for you; if it's only your cached thought then just say so, it's fair enough. If you actually have studies backing your belief, it shouldn't be that hard for you to cite them.

1. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629611...
2. https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/iser_working_papers/2009-...
I wonder if he used to make multiple takes and then pick the best one? Perhaps back then there was a lot of trail-and-error in the recording process?

Certainly, if radio was glitchy or temperamental back then, there was no way to go back and do another take. In contrast, today's "live" recordings can be edited afterwards.
I have this phone since around 20th of March and like it really very much. The Terminal app is hilarious. I was pleased to find much more stuff in the Ubuntu store than expected. Telephony is perfect.

The one thing I do not like is the runtime of the battery. 44 hours was the absolute maximum I had this phone running before it went black (just turning it on, entering the SIM-PIN, having Bluetooth, GPS and WiFi turned off and doing nothing else). In my typical usage pattern, a runtime of 24 hours is the more realistic value. Have to load it every day :-(
Things like that always bug me.

What if I live in Spain and only speak English. What if I live in a Catalan region and want Catalan? What if I live in GB and want to read it in Spanish as it's my first language?

With the world being as global as it is and people readily moving around, geographic location does not equal language preference.

Ideally the site would have geographic specific sections but allow all languages it has translations for in each section. Bonus points if you default language based on my HTTP headers and allow session based overrides.
This website doesn't seem to render correctly for me. It's also the slowest thing ever.
My standing desk solution:
IKEA BJÖRKUDDEN Bar table (£70) 700 x 700 x 110 http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/90087541/

IKEA FRANKLIN fold-away bar seat (£23) http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20199207/

Silverstone SST-ARM22SC (£120) http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=412&area=en
I try to get a solid amount of sleep every night; this may vary for you, but eight hours works for me. This has been the number one thing that affects my quality of life in the last year or so.

When I don't get enough sleep, everything suffers, even though I start to feel like I /am/ getting enough sleep, if that makes sense. But when I do get enough sleep, the difference is like night and day.
"Managers should, on the whole, charge more than the value they add." But wouldn't that, trivially, make every managed fund always and inevitably less desirable than every unmanaged fund (assuming they aren't for other reasons)?
That's around $10k/resident (and the city gets immense amount of non-resident visitors). Given things like public schools, transport, fire/police, etc. it doesn't seem particularly high to me.
There are no dynamic lights, animation or moving objects yet, but some very detailed scanned in worlds. I found video and pictures on the German news page http://www.golem.de/news/webdemo-verfuegbar-unlimited-detail...
Are these the only two programming languages that are also well-known games?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29
Agreed. At only 1.75% of traffic, my guess is that they could pack a much bigger punch if they wanted to.
Honestly I'd just prefer the HTTP endpoint not even exist.
"Nobody buys desktops anymore."

Nobody buys desktops anymore because they haven't gotten faster in any real way in the last 5 years. Probably about 80% of intel's product line can be beaten by a 5 year old intel machine. Sure at the absolute top, there has been a few percent gain, but most people don't seem willing to buy a couple thousand dollar machine to gain a few percent. Sure it may be more power efficient, but I don't think most people buying desktops really care if the CPU draws 30 watts or 80 watts, as its plugged into the wall and the cost savings over years isn't enough to pay for the upgrade.

Intel could be pushing features into the desktop space (say ECC for example) but that would further cannibalize their high profit chips.
That's the whole point. Since NFS is such a round-trip oriented protocol, it's very sensitive to latency. You'll never fill up the bandwidth unless you do large bulk transfers in parallel.
One line you should add to every makefile
I follow a morning routine regularly which includes:

-10 Minute Meditation

-10 Minute Writing/Journal - business quotes, ideas, etc.

-10 Minute Drawing (I'm not good, but the repetition has helped. I bought a book called "642 things to draw" which makes it very easy.)

-10 Minute Reading

-10 Minute Exercise (simple do it at home exercises)

This type of routine is discussed in books like The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod and Level Up Your Day by S.J. Scott and Rebecca Livermore.

Once you get into the swing of things it keeps you on a good schedule for sleeping and waking up early. This gives me a lot more energy each day and stimulates my creative side.
If China is responsible for this, it shows extreme recklessness on their part, a deep disrespect for the rule of law and the customs of the internet. The people in the chain of command responsible for this should be held criminally liable.

The lack of sophistication, ineffectiveness, and bluntness of the attack speaks toward a fundamental capability gap between China and the other "cyberpowers".
>it's a pretty low bar.

Whether the scale puts a C on 4 out of 10 or 7 out of 10 doesn't really tell us anything about the ability if we don't know how the grading is done.
That's really shocking, if he hasn't already done animal studies -- definitely hadn't realized that. Certainly didn't realize it was legal, even under Russian law, even on a near-death patient.

Do you think that his intentions are ignoble? Or do you think he's simply reckless?
Why reversed range? Range is fully capable of descending [1]

You also missed the point of the exercise: start at 0 in your index, but count backward from 100 in output. So the map is 0->100, 1 -> 99, ..., 99 -> 1, 100 -> 0

[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#range
They should have just taken a still of the original and pasted it as a png. Would have been easier, and requires less CPU. But I don't think that was the point of the whole exercise.
The more the better. As a consumer, I like choice. As a developer, multiple options means we move towards open industry standards rather than vendor lock-in and single points of control.
In fact that happened about a week ago:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/google-chrome-will-b...

But if China chose to, they could simply require all Chinese websites to use government-issue certificates, forcing the world to choose between allowing Chinese MITM monitoring and losing access to China.
How about SSH-ing into it and coding within by way of Vim/Tmux. That's what is exciting me.
Exercise. As much as you get the chance to with a proper job.

Cycle to work is my minimum (though personally I like getting into the outdoors, away from the city, takes your mind off things). Its an easy way to save money on transport and gym membership, and get exercise without even thinking about it. In many crowded European cities its the fastest way about, if you are prepared to bend the rules.

If you live too far away, what about driving to somewhere that is cycling distance and cycle from there.

I just turned 40, and started taking DHEA supplements, seems to give me a bit more energy.

And stretch.

And try to eat well.

With the exception of stretching (which I find neutral) I enjoy all of those things.
Petabytes of 20k files?

I think you might want to use your filesystem more effectively.
Parent probably thinks RT is free media
An irrelevant rant, but the map of China looks really, really ugly without the two southern islands, Hainan and Taiwan. It looks like a rooster without legs.

At the very least, include Hainan, over which China's sovereign rights are in no way disputed. And for aesthetics and political honesty, show Taiwan in grey.
Perhaps just an experiment. I doubt this greatfire thing really matters to them, but it'd be a great way to test offensive capability and mitigation strategies without provoking a serious response.
Yes. That and the fact they are using their international surveillance data to prosecute domestically...
Just turned 40 this year and certainly had been feeling the effects of neglecting my physical well being. I knew I couldn't undertake any drastic changes as they probably wouldn't last so I decided on a couple small things that were attainable.

1) Decided to pay attention to what I ate. Not necessarily to change what I was eating but just be aware and recognize I need to eat a little less. This has meant not getting the second round at dinner and cutting out most of the snacks at night.

2) Wanted to exercise. Again going from zero I knew I had to keep the bar low, so I decided on walking 25-30 minutes 3 times a week. Also to tone my upper body I also began 5 sets of 20 push-ups twice a week. These are mostly still on my knees but I'm getting better.

The result after 3 months have been great. I've lost 18 pounds and have a much improved mental outlook.

Importantly I wanted to keep the expectations and changes small. I can always ramp up later but going from zero I needed to make it easy to be successful. Also I track all of the above in a spreadsheet which is a major motivator to get the X's all filled out for walking and push-ups.

I wish I would have done this sooner.
If you hate the gym like me: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend...

Outside of that- I walk everywhere when it's practical, I always take the stairs, enjoy pizza but not for every meal, cut booze out entirely.
"Disrepair" is a strong word. There are problems, but most of the time, it runs smoothly for me. It's an enormous piece of infrastructure that mostly works. That's no small feat.
> Kids in poverty are kids not learning.

I would be a bit slow to just point to poverty as the only cause. There is no debate on whether poverty stunts education.

Consider all the other countries with more acute levels where the children, when provided with opportunities, grab for them.

One such would be the increasing percentage of money allocation to functions that are not core to teaching, such as administration, etc...

Another would be the attempt to force uniformity in curriculum down the throats to a deeply suspicious audience...