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AFAICT, these aren't APIs that even Apple's own software consumes. Instead, these are the higher component-level equivalent of "private functions" in a module: there for the public functions to call (and for the public functions to be implemented in terms of), but not part of the contract.

Windows, to contrast, is written in such a way that you get developers finding random things (registry entries, unexported symbols, resources in random DLLs) and writing their software to depend on those being there. These are supposed to be implementation details—they're undocumented, and are supposed to be allowed to change, but—since Microsoft allows the developers of their third-party software to convert these previously-private-APIs into public APIs with API contracts, and assumes the responsibility for maintaining those APIs from then on to prevent that software breaking—it could be said that Windows doesn't really have any private APIs. (Or didn't. This is changing, first with the CLR and now moreso with Metro app sandboxing.)

OSX's public/private framework split is in large part a reaction to that, I think: Apple draws a clear boundary between "frameworks you can link against" and "frameworks we will punish you for linking against." This means that anything within the public frameworks is up for grabs—exported symbols, unexported symbols, the embedded-est of undocumented structs-in-structs-in-structs—which forces Apple to make sure that everything in them is merely flattened proxy representations, rather than something the system cares about. They're effectively following the SOA approach, with each of their public frameworks being like a service endpoint, returning self-contained resource representations rather than passing up anything from below.
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Structure influences functionality. This is the case in both engineering and biology.

For example, dolphins have tails and flippers while I have arms and legs. No one disputes the dolphin is a better swimmer and I am the superior runner.

Why should this be any different with brains? Brains with different structure are suited to different things.
Contracts are constructs that exist only within the confines of a legal system. This cannot even hope to function without human laws.
Eh, Jeopardy success requires way too much Jeopardy-specific tuning. It has lots of quirks and conventions.

The data they use is much purer, and makes a much better evaluation for general-purpose QA technologies.
If you are in a financially constrained situation wait for some more time at least till the company goes to IPO. This will save you financially and also will help you in your next venture with more freedom. Since you asked about joining another company, I have a feel that you need to wait for some more time till you get the complete hope of starting on your own. Regarding staying on the same company, talk to an advisor/mentor who knows about the market in your region. All the best on your next venture!
You can use KeePass http://keepass.info/ instead and keep the master database yourself. If you want sync, you could use an external service, or just copy/sync files yourself, or use a USB key.
I've been thinking of developing a "Betterment in a box."
What if a bionic leg is so good that someone chooses to amputate?
I'd have to check but I bet, in real terms, those wanes chairs are around the same price as they were, adjusted for inflation. What has happened is the production of even cheaper mass produced furniture. What you're not looking at is the extinct hand made, ornate expensive furniture from the decades prior. Things that would be, if sold now, even more pricey than an eames chair.

Properly cared for, one of those chairs will last a lifetime. That cannot be applied to cheaper furniture.
Ah, of course. Increase in volume is cubic, area is square.

Thanks.
This is the funniest thing I've seen on HN in quite some time!
Yes, good point. This would provide effectively "infinite" backing storage. There might be some hurdles to overcome, though. For example, when you delete a file, will EBS know that the blocks are now free and thus can be decommissioned? This might mean the whole stack needs to support things like TRIM. I'm not sure the rest of the stack is smart enough yet. I'd love to hear from a storage/FS expert on this.

Edit: coincidentally, I just saw this article about XFS which observes the following:

"Over the next five or more years, XFS needs to have better integration with the block devices it sits on top of. Information needs to pass back and forth between XFS and the block device, [says Dave Chinner]. That will allow better support of thin provisioning."
https://lwn.net/Articles/638546/
The biggest recurring issue was deadlocks in the garbage collector. It would start cleanup in a subvolume and trip all over itself. After that, any I/O to that specific directory would never return. The only solutions was to reboot the server and fsck for a few hours.

Second frequent problem: Hitting 90% capacity in a filesystem has a non-trivial chance to ruin it forever. Hit the wrong code path, and, even if you immediately delete a bunch of things, I/O to that filesystem would be forever 3000% slower.
> extract from the text all location identifiers

That's what one of MetaCarta's products does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCarta
for (i = 0; i >-100; i--)
print i + 100;
So, why didn't XFS "win" out over ReiserFS, ext3/4, btrfs, or whatever else is being pushed nowadays?
The Noguchi table and the Eames plywood chair in the "Modern Furniture" article you linked to would also be regarded as midcentury modern. (And check out the Noguchi "cloud" sofa: http://observer.com/2014/12/the-six-figure-sofa-mid-century-...). If this is kitsch, count me in.

In other words: It's a slippery slope from what you might call "high modernism" (e.g., Bauhaus) to midcentury modern. Trying to characterize one as pure and one as consumerist seems like a category error -- these adjectives pertain more to specific pieces or arrangements than to the whole movement.

Similarly, arguing about whether these pieces are "dated" seems beside the point. The works were a product of their time. Some of them continue to impress.

Another point of reference regarding the idiosyncratic ways that modernism presented itself is Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect and designer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto). His furniture and interiors would also be regarded as modernist, and (being Finnish) very centered around wood. Some of it might look "spindly and kitschy", especially depending on how it is arranged in a room. But check out http://www.archdaily.com/85390/ad-classics-villa-mairea-alva.... Again, count me in.
The "you" in the comparison changes as well, though. Indeed, the copy for (say) EC2 isn't comprehensible to the same people that the copy for Elastic Beanstock is. But different people will be reading the copy for those two things. The person AWS is selling EC2 to isn't a newbie developer wanting to run their app; it's someone wanting to build out something like Heroku: someone with lots of system-architecture experience.

Or, to put it more simply: the intended audience for AWS ad copy is exactly the set of people who are currently trying to compare some specific AWS service to similar services of competitors. AWS is never trying to "create a need" for something nobody was already asking for; they're just trying to serve the needs people already do have better/cheaper/more flexibly.
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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.

edit: typo
0 equity risk. You're still running currency risk with whatever currency you're holding in.
Optimized? A lot of those chairs look pretty uncomfortable.
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Orly? So you're OK with paying an extra 1% above the market rate on your mortgage? Because that's the kind of thing you're talking about. 1% a year will eat quite a lot out of your retirement over 40 years. I.e. 40%.
nailed it with no whining :)
do you mean that it takes more work to do the stuff surrouding the machine learning like gathering data to build a dataset that takes months and other resources where as the fun stuff is actually very short and easy to do.

I smell commoditization.
Anecdote time: My home gym is outside (Bay Area) and I had to stop wearing my blue blocker sunglasses during workouts because I feel significantly weaker when wearing them. I can't say why.
If they underperforming benchmark will they eat the loss?
What are you going on about? You can absolutely use RocksDB standalone, as you can Postgres and SQLite.
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Does the growth of AGILE mean the death of product management?
My sense is that if you're asking this question find someone else to handle it
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$200 TB SSDs is not what you should be excited about... sub-$400 400GB 2400MB/s consumer NVMe SSDs (Intel 750) is what's exciting.
The fees are 1% on returns not on the "balance" as it where. The total fees as a percent of total invested assets are 0.2% per year.
Sure you can. It's just that that flat fee is going to represent .5% of your investment or more.
Another option is imported original mid-century from Europe. In LA (where Joybird is) try Amsterdam Modern: http://amsterdammodern.com/about
At last, I find someone who uses qmake on HN. I've been using qmake for 4 years now. At first I started experimenting with it for a small project. The learning curve was quick and eventually fell in the comfort zone it created.

Now I use it for large scale C++ projects and I've never looked back for other build tools, not even CMake.

Surprisingly, I never understood why KDE project that uses the complete Qt ecosystem doesn't use qmake but rather settled to CMake.
Ok, so I'll be the guy on the other side of this hypothetical deal. In the scenario he's described, either I get market returns by paying the elite guy to keep his alpha, or I get sub-market returns by paying too much to a guy who isn't actually elite.

So, best case scenario I get market returns? Then why not just invest in an index fund?
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I know about getting permalinks to Github. Also:

* You can shorten the commit id:

https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/e5b7582/boltons/test...

* You can highlight ranges:

https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/e5b75821781b37ee8ccf...

* You can ignore whitespace in diffs:

https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets
I'm not sure I understand - what's the benefit to the customer? If you gain alpha from hiring (3), you gain proportion of alpha + alpha. If you hire (4), you're paying a fee of alpha for a gain < alpha. The customer assumes a lot of risk, especially the more common (4) gets. It seems the customer is most likely to lose in this scenario.
I used to fall for this a lot so now most string comparisons I do something like

// string contains string against lower case / no whitespace
cityFromList.indexOf(cityFromPost.trim.toLower())

Might help in your case too?
The 0.17% is only for the "investor class" shares, which starts at 3k. Invest 10k and you get "admiral class" shares which charge only 0.05%. At $5m you can get "institutional "which only charges 0.04%, and at $200m you can get "institutional plus" that charges 0.02%, which any big pension fund could have
This looks simple on the outside - is it really necessary to pay a percentage fee when investing this much money? I would suggest that the number of funds in excess of 100bn in the world must fit in a decent sized auditorium. That makes "Unionisation"'of the market quite possible. One could easily see a situation where all the funds just said "50 m pa or fuck off"

So my question to HN is - what is so hard (or not) about making market returns for a fund of this size?

I mean the obvious approach seems to buy 100m worth of shares in the top 1000 companies and just hold?

Perhaps it is worth not being fully invested all the time? Perhaps just making market is not worth it - but if it is, is the saving in fees compensating?
You had me right up to the 40%. Could you provide the math there? I think the context of the 1% would be 1% of the interest rate, not the principle.
Here is a list of some good business related reading materials:
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I think it could be done in stages. Give the seller 48 hours to deal with the problem privately. If you buy one of my products I already have your name, address and phone number. All I need is to connect your review with an order number. So the argument for privacy might not hold water here.

All I want to do as a reputable business is serve you, my customer, as best as humanly possible. Amazon denies me that opportunity. And, if you think about it, they also damage you by not allowing direct private conversation with the seller. Why? Because often times it is impossible to help you due to the fact that it all has to be in public. Sellers are not allowed to post links or email addresses. Neither are you. And nobody would want to do that publicly anyhow.

Product reviews isn't where customer service should happen. It isn't the right place and it doesn't allow for proper communications.

Questionable competitors could (and do) use this public forum to bait a seller into responding and then start a horrible flame war that cannot be controlled. Amazon does not offer any moderation, editing or even the ability to delete false or damaging statements made in product review comments.

Their approach to dealing with grievances, small or large, is a great example of non-customer-centric thinking, despite what cool-aid Amazon management might be drinking.
> Verily, thou doth sound like a pretentious ass.

Surely you meant to say "thou dost sound"?

EME thy/thine and my/mine make for a more interesting case than old verb conjugations, because present-day confusion about the verb conjugations stems from the fact that they are no longer present in the language. That's also true for thy/thine, but the EME word my/mine still exists as the two separate words "my" and "mine". The fact that modern English draws a distinction between what are in EME two forms of the same word causes no end of confusion in modern speakers.
Would it be sensible for a fund trustee to ask to divide the fund in two - one managed as per usual, one simply invested by an internal hire into a simple market tracker (ie no percentage basis).

And see which pays better?
I think you are describing TREC[1]. Over on the chatbot arena, there is The Loebner Prize[2], also interesting, but in general the systems are over learned.

[1] http://trec.nist.gov/
[2] www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html
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Thanks for your feedback! For what it's worth, that's not my GitHub account. I just posted that list of remote working resources.
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You really can't trust reviews at all. The best advice I can offer is to mentally average scores across two or three pages and use that to decide whether scores are being gamed or not. No product will produce 100% satisfaction. If you see something with 100% 5-star reviews it is almost certain it is being gamed in one way or another. 1-star reviews can be hard to evaluate. I know one seller who had a massive 1-star review attack launched against them. Their revenue went from tens of thousands of dollars per month to nearly nothing within 30 days. Horrible.
I used to intern at a quant fund and our biggest clients were always pension and social security funds, which we charged a standard fee for assets managed. This would often be around $200 million - $2 Billion. Not sure if it is new information to people. I always felt slightly fishy about it.
The public market funds outperformed their passively managed benchmarks, even considering the management feeds paid. To continue your mortgage comparison, New York is paying a real estate professional a certain percentage of money to find them a better deal on their mortgage, and NY still gets a better rate going through them after their fees are paid.
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Your example is true in as much is it discredits your overall stance. A, if not the, major cause of housing crises (meaning keeping people affordably sheltered, not as in housing bubbles) is zoning law.

At its best, it keeps industrial sites from being built within certain residential areas. At its meanest, it's used to create economically and racially segregated communities, oust families from their homes, and freeze cities in time. Upholding its use for any of the latter could generally be assumed to be the result of particularly stubborn and selfish mindsets towards one's own convenience.

Also troubling about current US zoning practices are its weird exclusive use-per-zone rules, the threat to one's right to unencumbered use of their land, arbitrary development cost increases within cities (contributing to sprawl), and rent increases from zoning exploitation to artificially raise a community's median property values, and, as a side effect, driving up the rent in surrounding areas.

I consider these and any act which would potentially lead to the eviction of someone from their home to be much larger threats to the availability of equitable and affordable housing than people with the wealth to be mobile being bothered by not having the right to control what others do on and with their own property.
Ask HN: Is this idiotic video I just made worth keeping around?
I'm waiting to pre-order the Apple Watch and decided to make a short video to market an upcoming indie game that I'm working on. The video is way out there, maybe because I made it while half asleep. When I say out there, I mean total cookoo land out there. Should I even bother keeping the video around, or do you think I should just delete it and pretend it never existed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhqaJ_QBUr8
And I have no background in making these kinds of short films / videos / comedies. Clearly :).
Surprisingly good article.

I wonder if index funds ever get widespread enough adoption that they start to drive prices of the major indexes up and underperform... maybe it sounds crazy right now since institutional investors don't really go for index funds heavily, but if there's a shift on those parameters I could see it happening.

Also, I've started to get more down on index funds as I look into them more. An index that has a weighted average of the stock market is always paying for past performance -- you're going heaviest on the largest market cap stocks always. In an era with both stability and upside for large market capitalization stocks it'll do well... in an era where the best private companies don't IPO until they've ran out most of their growth trajectory and then IPO once they've relatively stabilized, you're going to get hammered, no?
You basically reinforced his point. People know what they're doing wrong, and when they want to change that part of their lifestyle, then they will and any doctor will be more than happy to help them. There's such a thing as a dietitian after all.
The reason I suggested it is because thin volumes are well understood, so the issues are straightforward... and it's been implemented in many products (lvm; virtually every san; xenserver & vmware; etc). So there really shouldn't be many surprises if amazon were to implement it.

And yes, trim is used to mark blocks as free.

Honestly, it's so widespread, I would be surprised if Amazon weren't already using it to over-commit ebs.
> So my question to HN is - what is so hard (or not) about making market returns for a fund of this size?

Boggleheads have been asking that question for like 40 years. Vanguard funds (which simply pick the top 500 shares, or all the shares... depending on the fund...) outperform something like 85% of actively managed funds.

One theory is that modern markets are extremely efficient, which means that actively managed funds do not provide a benefit over just "trusting the market price" of various things.
So glad to see this - there are things here I thought I was weird for having to make and want myself - liked chunked iterations. I assumed there as something wrong with me ... Glad to see it's not just me

Nice one
Isn't XFS the default file system for RHEL now? I remember a video showing the RedHat Devs discussing how they were adding on new features to it.
Let me start by saying I do think there are definitely "Null Professors" who do not properly teach, and thus allow competent students to fail.

However, I must agree with the notion that some people inherently can't program. To take the most extreme case, do you think the dumbest human on earth could learn to program? I don't. All concepts require some level of intelligence to grasp. Many animals have some intelligence, but cannot learn how to count. Humans know how to count because humans originated the concept, and therefore the first human to do it must have had some intrinsic ability others lacked. Teaching can spread the insight, but it cannot create insight from nothing.

I will go one further to say some people who can't program make it into universities. Admissions aren't perfect. People can get in because of their parents, because the school wants them as an athlete, because of Affirmative Action, or a simple misjudgement by university staff.

I think people lose sight of this because intelligence and knowledge are so hard to measure. Footraces are much easier because you can only measure speed against a clock, and I know most humans will never have the ability to run a 4 minute mile. No women has done it yet.

This is not to say this makes some people "better" than others, but everyone has their own skills. It is folly to think everyone can do anything anyone else can do, even in principle.
The model is from the perspective of fund managers. If you believe his model, then from the other side of the board, as an investor, your conclusion has to be that managed funds are a bad deal, or a break even at best if you find a manager with alpha.
I was interested myself, and a Google search for "is coke zero diet coke" showed me:

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While shopping around for statistics PhD programs to apply for, I found it strange that MIT seemed like the only "name" school that didn't have a program. So n=1, but seems to me that they recognize that they are losing out by not having a formal stats PhD program.

Edit: Just noticed on page 20 that one of the discarded name proposals for the new program was the "Institute for Statistics and Information Systems (ISIS)."