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Realy its taken this long a "hedge" fund was always a niche investment option where etf's are more core investments for a portfolio.
Unless you have a bond/guilt crash (one is due) and you can lose 30-40% of these safe inventments
I plan to play, rather than work.
Think about agencies, not private actors — then this site makes a perfect target. Recruit and subvert are basic tasks for these agenices, and to do so you need information about the candidates. This website had probably a significantly higher proportion of interesting prospects.
No pun :) All I wanted to do was share more stuff about Shep because this is the exact path that got me into him - discovering "I, Libertine", listening to the HV two-parter and then trawling the Brass Figlagee archives
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I've been reading his writings for a while and this sums up very nicely my skepticism of his ideas. Thanks for articulating it for me.
You could also just explain to smcl they spelled piqued wrong.
Will you be adding some comments or tests?
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What I had in mind, is the fact that with defined overflow you could
unconditionally perform the operation, and then observe the result to decide if
overflow have in fact happened. For example, following pattern to check if
adding 100 to an integer 'a' overflows would be valid:

int a = ...;
if (a + 100 < a) overflow

So this is one of cases where wrapping behaviour could potentially fix bugs in
existing applications. Obviously, rewriting this to work with overflow is
trivial if you are already aware of undefined behaviour that could occur.
There was a good documentary on PBC about the canal recently, the US basically staged a coup for Panama to gain independence from Columbia and in return got their Canal Zone
Wow. This is an incredible database with a lot of interesting things. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, I don't really understand, "Financialization" of solar pannels has always been quite obvious (because it's an expensive and long term product) and almost every solar company has always proposed some options for that, I has been there since the birth of the industry.
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Oh man I feel stupid
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Whenever I'm in the u.s. I think people look bizarre with their super-white teeth. I mean, my teeth aren't yellow or anything, but they don't glow in the dark either.

There are some things that don't transfer so easily between where I live (switzerland, but I think germanic europe in general) and the u.s.: super white teeth, visible tattoos, and piercings. (although I'll see a small nose piercing on women every now and then)

(and if you're German, you should probably leave your puma track suit and aviator glasses at home when you go to the u.s.)
they could use frivolous, but already defeated, software patents. No harm in reading them anymore.. and a reminder to what the USPTO thinks is innovation.
What's the copyright on patents? Could this be done as an actual business?
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Wish we had seen these when we were decorating our office. The architects, who happened to be involved in decorating as well, had picked out some 'iconic patent images'. The only problem was they were from an Etsy store and the artist just collected random, but plausible, image from the web.

We had a patent for Sputnik, that might have been ok until I spotted this https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c7/4f/06/c74f...

Its a V2 rocket.
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I usually only notice how yellow my teeth are when I brush my teeth, by the contrast with the toothpaste that is usually whiter than white.
> Implemented in pure C language

It seems to me that enormous performance gains could be attained by JIT-compiling the assembly instructions to native assembly instructions.
1993 -- Intel Pentium floating point divide error.

Here's a joke from 1993. It's been a good year for Andy Grove, CEO of Intel. They've rolled out the Pentium and it's been a big success. So he walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a shot of 22-year old Glenmorangie Scotch to celebrate. The bartender puts the glass in front of him and says, "that's $20, sir."

Andy puts a twenty dollar bill on the counter, looks at it for a moment, and says "keep the change."
IRC is still getting updates: http://ircv3.net/
Nope, about 160years.
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They take a few cases of people doing what they like and present it as nobble.

What about millions of people who are the "retiring type", but have to work well into their 70s in shitty jobs (from Walmart and downwards) to make ends meet.
It was the way the DJ and his audience were openly 'discussing' the hoax on the radio show and feedback in the evenings that I found interesting (and funny).

Suspect any gentle conspiracy like that now would have to be in a closed forum or mailing list or something.
Why would this addition hurt reliability?
>IRC is definitely still out there and heavily used.

The protocol is still under active development as well: http://ircv3.net
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As someone who is fairly good at this (I spend a fair bit of time creating vectors of old motorcycles for livery design), I'm also intrigued to know.
>This epiphany he writes about sounds almost religious in nature. Did he really not consider writing before that? Does his memory fail him, is this a memory construct that makes for a good story but doesn’t hint at what really happened? I’ve never experienced anything like this myself.

Depends on the person. Life-changing decisions do come like that to some people (usually stuff I think about for months or years I never go anywhere with, whereas decisions I take in the moment, I do carry through).

>Except of course when I turned 13 and got into playing rock music on my guitar. I spent the next 7 years feeling lost, because I really wanted to be a musician but the career opportunities seemed unfeasible. It wasn’t until after a brief stint as a data entry clerk in the UK that I came to the conclusion that I needed to get my shit together and go to uni.

Coincidentally Elvis Costello took the inverse path: working as a data entry clerk he decided he wouldn't take it and followed a career in rock.

So, perhaps people who went to do those more unconventional things have more unconventional "deciding moments"?
So you're calling Brendan Eich and the Mozilla board liars.

What's your evidence? Have you asked them yourself? What did they say? Have any of them made any statements that support your accusations that they lied, or are you just making up those accusations yourself, or parroting someone else's accusations that Brendan Eich and the Mozilla board are liars? Who said that?

Hey Brendan Eich: this guy "notsony" just called you and the Mozilla board liars, and claimed that Mozilla forced you out by "creating a hostile work environment" -- care to chime in to support or deny his accusation?
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But what information was even held on the website. Wasn't it just a public listing of usernames with the score.

According to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8181773 then don't even store emails anymore.
There are plenty of other motivations. It could be:

1) a novice hacker looking for experience
2) an automated bot that scanned IPs for some vulnerability and acted on its own when it found one
3) someone looking to extort the owner for money
4) someone with a personal vendetta against the owner
5) someone looking to secretly plant bitcoin mining software on the servers (who got caught)
6) someone looking to alter their own score to help them get some sort of math job

I could probably go on for a while, but you get the point. It's hard to ascribe intent to this sort of thing without more information.
Thought I did that..
Done..
How would that fix existing code without modifying it?
> Uber says that its drivers on average have seen steadily increasing hourly trips and earnings. The company said the average driver had net earnings of $27.26 an hour as of June 1, up from $26.10 at the same point last year and $21 on June 1, 2013.

Can this claim be verified somehow? I find it hard to believe. (They are probably only counting driving hours, and leave out the waiting periods).
How would that interact with code that modifies itself?
>Another angsty young man searches for a girl with serious emotional issues, and there's some metaphor heavy dream sequences and talking animals along the way. I haven't read his recent books but I've read five books of his and it was really tiresome, repetitive reading after book 2-3

So? Unlike, say, detective fiction, literature is never about the plot, only about the way the story is told and what it carries with it.
According to http://patents.stackexchange.com/a/78, "the text and drawings of a patent are typically not subject to copyright restrictions" (except when specifically accompanied by a copyright notice). So I suppose the answer is yes, this could be done as a business.
USPTO has the answer:
http://www.uspto.gov/terms-use-uspto-websites.html

Patents are published as part of the terms of granting the patent to the inventor. Subject to limited exceptions reflected in 37 CFR 1.71(d) & (e) and 1.84(s), the text and drawings of a patent are typically not subject to copyright restrictions.

And if you follow the links to those laws, you'll see this:

(d) A copyright or mask work notice may be placed in a design or utility patent application adjacent to copyright and mask work material contained therein. ... Inclusion of a copyright or mask work notice will be permitted only if the authorization language set forth in paragraph (e) of this section is included at the beginning (preferably as the first paragraph) of the specification.

(e) The authorization shall read as follows:
A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material which is subject to (copyright or mask work) protection. The (copyright or mask work) owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all (copyright or mask work) rights whatsoever.
FWIW, the year 2027 has the same weekdays as 2038. If the worst comes to the worst, setting the clocks back 11 years on unremediated systems has a chance of allowing them to keep working.
>No one ask Van Gogh to paint another Starry Night, man. (It is this quite, oft-repeated by my parents, that makes me thinks Jodie Mitchell is a true genius).

That's because he wasn't that famous when he lived anyway. If he had any success, art dealers would ask him to paint "another Starry night" all the time.

Besides, it's not like his work is composed of paintings entirely unlike each other. In that sense, he already has like 10-15 Starry nights.

(Constrast with Picasso, who had several entirely different periods of work).
"It appears that the voidnull account has been disabled on Hacker News."

I think they ban tor, or new-account tor users (which completely defeats the purpose of using tor in the first place).
Contrast tends to be a balance. #000 on #FFF (or vice-versa) rarely ever occurs in nature. It also tends to strain eyes. Optimal contrast for most people tends to involve a dark grey, as seen on her website.

The easiest design trick to make a website more reader friendly is to move a black font to a grey font. (Obviously there are exceptions and personal preference involved, such as yours)
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Windows 10 doesn't automatically share your wifi password with others. You have to intentionally choose the specific network and click the "share" button.
He improvised the words on Mingus's The Clown. See second link.
We can do better for RSA and bigger number. Feel free to comment
Some gems of adventure games are among my all time favorite games and I revisit them once every couple of years but I still have to admit that the genre is almost always broken.

Adventure games very often rely on puzzles based on lateral thinking, it makes a lot of sense on paper in order to entertain the player and make him feel smart but I can't remember how many times I thought up a good lateral thinking solution, just to be thwarted by the game. It was just not the solution the designers expected, and the game does not even bother explaining why and push the player in the right direction.

Not to mention frantic pixel hunting & obscure death conditions forcing you to check a walkthrough.

Having a player die in an action game usually means that he will need to replay the last segment. It is a bit bothering if it happens too often, but these action sequences are why the player is here and with good emergent gameplay playing twice the same sequence can turn out very differently and be extremely entertaining.

In an adventure game, it just means that you will have to listen again to the same dialogues, and make the exact same actions, with just a slightly different step somewhere along the way.
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I enjoyed how he could explain his work in elementary terms, without invoking any jargon. This is a sure sign he understands it.
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It's a valuable book, despite it's name. My tipping point was a Warren Buffett interview, where he mentioned how it influenced his early life.
You can also shackle yourself for decades by borrowing money on student loans, some of which you can't discharge in a bankruptcy thanks to legislators who thought the student lending industry needed a handout.
Just curious: What do you think would be of interest to HN readers? Why, specifically, do you think this isn't interesting?
The more your salary is and also if you enjoy the job the less likely you have to rerite.

I see professors in their 70s and beyond still teaching. I collaborate with one.

The people that are forced to work in shitty jobs will keep on doing shitty jobs.
Credit is hardly a new innovation.
How can someone pretending to know what "should be of interest to HN readers" not know that:

1) HN readers, as a collective and as subgroups, have many and varied intellectual interests, including literature.

2) It's our voting that defines what "is of interest" to HN readers, and this had been voted to the front page and received lots of comments.

So, unlike the story of Murakami, your comment couldn't be more removed to both the spirit and the mechanics of HN.
Precise (+-2cm) indoor “GPS” for autonomous robots
Off-the-shelf indoor navigation system based on stationary ultrasonic beacons united by radio interface in license-free band.

Location of a mobile beacon installed on a robot (cart, copter, human) is calculated based on the propagation delay of ultrasonic signal to a set of stationary ultrasonic beacons using trilateration.
This makes more sense than it might first appear. By adding this to CUPS, you can take advantage of its print spooler, filter pipeline, and OS connectivity support (USB, parallel, etc.).
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"does NLP really need to bring novel ideas for it to be recognized?"

Of course not. It could be synonymous with "best practices." But even if it were identical to best practices, it uses set of unique terminology which makes it harder to understand. Why does it do that?

I do not know the answer to your last question.
The most charitable view I can think of is they were in on the joke. The least charitable is in line with yours.
Notice how none of these things requires a government to be fullfilled, much less the kind of governments we have now.

Merely coordinated action, which could also be spontaneous in some cases (we need X, we get together and build X), or constrained to the desired goal in others (we need an army, we devote some of our resources to that goal alone).

>Or if companies are doing something bad. Or if companies are treating people poorly. Or if companies are selling dangerous products.

In the real world, they mostly do those things in cohorts with governments.

Besides "companies" are a legal entity, their existence pressuposes a government (and a whole capitalist/market based ecosystem).
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What irritates me is the language.

We're making a choice based on a button with a one sentence dumbed down description. But what is the full legally binding extent of what we're agreeing to with each click?

Nobody knows. "We share with our partners". What's being shared? Who are the partners? Who are their partners that will also have access? What's being done with it? Am I personally identifiable?

Etc. Even if they wrote a page for each box, which they haven't, it will still be pointless because there is probably some other waiver in the 300 page EULA.
If the emulator detects a memory write to one of the already recompiled blocks it can invalidate the results of the previous translation. If branch occurs to that block or to a new area in memory where new instructions were emitted, it can translate that part and cache the results. With a JIT binary translator this is no big deal. However, AOT translation of self-modifying code would not work.
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gwene.org is half way there (RSS/Atom to NNTP, read-only).
It probably still does not activate 100% of the virus. Some still remains and reactivates later.
I had a problem with that scene. That works for a fire. I would not expect it to work when the entire room, toilets included, are filled with water. Wouldn't the toilets just continuously "flush" due to the water pressure, the same way as they flush if you manually dump a bucket of water into a regular toilet?
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I was interested to note that Theodore Sturgeon, who ended up writing the real "I, Libertine", is the same science-fiction writer and author of the famous "Sturgeon's Law": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
I don't like the super white teeth either. Every person I have known, on a personal level, who had very white teeth; had a mouth full of cavities, extensive bridge work, or a bunch of money wasted on veneers?

Good teeth don't have to look flashy?
While my comment was a bit glib, new features do have a tendency to introduce complexity & bugs on seemingly entirely unrelated parts of software. If CUPS is going to make a big push on integrating 3d printing, I'd bet you that it causes more than one bug with the normal 2d printing, even if it is a compile-time option.

I just hope that the 3d part of CUPS is easily removable... I'd hate to see it part of the common user experience, CUPS already has a reputation for a complex and bewildering UI as-is.
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Ok, So I have decided to focus and master Lisp after reading Paul Graham's material.

The first thing I want to do is to create a personal site like Paul Graham's www.paulgraham.com.

Where do I start? I am currently using Lispworks Personal Edition on my MacBook OSX Yosemite Version 10.10.2.

How and where do I start work on this project? If anyone can enlighten me, I would appreciate it very much.

Also trying to get answers in comp.lang.lisp ...
Really, no visible tattoos or piercings in Switzerland? I think you may be going a tiny bit too far if you want to generalize that as an European thing. Any decently sized city in Germany will have certain parts of it or just places where you will see plenty of people with tattoos and piercings. It's no big deal and has been this way for years now.

On the other hand I have never seen the specific tracksuit+aviators combination you mention. In fact, while I have seen plenty of aviators in the wild (usually combined with jeans and t-shirt or maybe even a proper shirt), I don't think I have seen many tracksuits at all, much less Puma tracksuits. (I think if you wanna go for tracksuits you should definitely go for some authentic Adidas.) I mean, aviators are kind of a thing like, say, Chucks are a thing (you see them often enough to notice that quite a few people seem to wear the same sunglasses/shoes, but it's not as though a majority of people wears them) but tracksuits are not even that.

Or maybe we just travel in different subcultures. Germans living in Switzerland are probably quite unlike Germans living in Germany. And maybe we can generalize this even more: There can be quite a lot of diversity in different groups of people and our simplistic differentiation along nationalities is just not precise enough and our stereotypes fall short. I'm willing to bet that there are certain groups of people in Germany and Switzerland who are absolutely crazy about teeth whitening and for whom no shade of white can be white enough – both of us just don't know any of those people. And maybe it's not yet as popular here as in the US – but that's as it usually goes with these trends. I mean, the future is already here, it's just spread around unevenly – and the same is probably true for our teeth whitening future. (Or maybe we will leapfrog the trend and jump right beyond to the next trend of super-natural looking teeth-yellowing or something like that. Or maybe a competing trend will be adopted by different subcultures or something else altogether. I bet there are also plenty of people in the US who would never ever whiten their teeth.)
Thanks. Thus it seems that I misinterpreted it (I was on NT 4): I've got somewhat solid confirmation that Perl also supported it on NT, thus I guess I got to the conclusion from old docs that were written for Win95/98/ME.
How much do you know about life in Poland? It's a rapidly developing country. You might be surprised.
Or 7) someone who did it for teh lulz. While rare, this also happens. But I agree; it's hard to guess motivations behind the attack without more info.
I think it's more likely that China would finance a canal across the Kra Isthmus first.
And here's an example of a tiny exclave that was not only completely separated from a "mainland", but also surrounded by the country extremely hostile to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinst%C3%BCcken

Between 1949 and early 1970s the only way to get there was with a helicopter (they even later installed a monument to it in there).
5) The Bitcoin mining thing is a bit of a historic artifact, today you could barely achieve a cent per month on even the very fastest of cpus
Run away, parkour style.
Just to get the chronology straight, Perl 4 was released in 1991; the first Perl 5 was released in 1994.
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Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_problem . I'm not a mathematician, and I'm probably wrong, but I think it has to do with infinite series that "circle" around a value, and asymptotically approach a value, only accurately expressed in terms of pi.

"Euler's original derivation of the value π2/6 essentially extended observations about finite polynomials and assumed that these same properties hold true for infinite series."

Sorry, not very convincing or geometric, and I'm sure someone else can provide a better answer, but that's how I visualize it.
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