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1. As another commenter wrote, investors as an aggregate are the market (hedgers, as another listed, are also considered, or could be considered investors who are investing for reasons other than direct belief in the individual companies/stocks).

Fair enough, I set myself up for that. It sort of like, "if a million people join this group, this group will have a million members", though.

3. You talk about option strategies, but for every move you make, say buying a call, another party had to have written the option. For individual investors, your point could still be very accurate. However, at some scale (though ridiculously large these days), this will break down.

But both parties theoretically benefit. Imagine you want to sell some stock, but you don't care that it happens today. Just write a call for it, collect your premium, and if the stock hits the strike price, it will probably be called away. But if not, you got some free money.

On the other side, the call buyer is protected against a severe market fall. If he bought the stock and it pulls an Enron, he would have lost a significant amount of money. But if he has the call option, it just expires, and he is out a few bucks per share.

So as with anything, spending money isn't necessarily taking a loss, but getting the money is taking a gain. (Consider homeowner's insurance -- even though your house is probably not going to burn down, few people consider the insurance a waste of money. You win peace of mind, and the insurance company gets some chump change.)

But I guess we mostly agree. I spent a long time thinking there was nothing interesting about the stock market and that everyone should just buy index funds, but now I am not so sure. A slightly more aggressive trading strategy could slightly increase your returns.
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Listening to someone and deciding to agree with them aren't the same, either. Parents listen to their children asking for unhealthy foods, and then deny it to them. Facebook knew that a dislike button would hurt their userbase sociologically just as much as any HFCS-laced soda would physiologically (it would allow people a quick, automatable way to bully others, it was shown when a closed test was attempted to be taken far out of proportion by the recipient compared to the signaler's intent, etc.)

That's not to say that Facebook's current privacy attitude is "healthy" for its users (and it's not to say that it's unhealthy, either); it's simply that Facebook has to consider their userbase as a society with interactions, which can't be swayed by the aggregate opinion of self-interested individuals who aren't thinking about how what they want will affect others.
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Seriously, this.
I'm very happy people wanted to give them some money so they can hack all summer with no financial worries, but this is just too much.

This won't go anywhere, even most of the people in this tech community won't use it, let alone someone like my girlfriend.

We get it, facebook is going too far, but this isn't the answer
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Technically, this is really the same thing. Either way you cut it, if you bring someone in as as a limited partner or shareholder after the company is formed, and they arent an active member of the company, then these rules apply.
I was at the ACA meeting last week, and the consensus was that things are going to change, but they wont be this radical. They have an amendment that is currently going through committee that takes out some of the absurdities of this (SEC oversight, etc). We'll see what happens.
They warn about Java, yet their two most popular languages are Delphi and Visual Basic? Are those taught in universities at all!?
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Mike, Git seems unintuitive because you don't have a good grasp of what it does behind the scenes.

In other words, Git's abstraction is leaky. That's usually considered a bad thing in our profession.

Except that since it's Git, we all use it, and it's better than the alternatives, we all pretend that's a good thing in this case.

I'm fine with the way Git works internally, and by now I've come to deal with the fact that sometimes it takes five commands to carry out what is, in fact, one desired action.

But Git's main point of failure is typical of all young projects that are in any way involved with Linux - there's no effort to make it elegant or pretty, and anyone that points that out and suggests that maybe things could be easier is ridiculed for not understanding it.

Usually "That's not very intuitive" is, in fact, an indication of something that could be improved...
Then he "invented" RSS.
If I were doing data mining for them, any accounts that had had at least 80% of their core information altered within a year (after their initial configuration) would be thrown out of the dataset.
yea it's unfortunate. the good thing is the current administration's Race to the Top requires states to remove protectionist laws before even being considered for the grants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbDv0zPBV4#t=12m
Paulson was a govt official at the time. (Yes, there is a revolving door between GS and govt.)
I dunno. I'm a developer and I should know how to drive software. When I distrust the UI enough that I'm not sure if I've pinned down my privacy, then they're failing. I guarantee most of my friends don't know what they're sharing.

I think they should have "everyone / friends of friends/only friends" options as a default selection, with an advanced option if you really want to dig around. [Insert user-tested improvement here.] At the very least, you should be able to see every privacy related option on one page, not a tree of pages.

Also, when they add extra 'features', FB should stop switching new privacy settings to the least secure options! It's like whack-a-mole - you have to check them every so often just to see what Zuck has come up with while you weren't looking.
I think we need to pass the bill to find out what's in it. The time for debate is over. Anyone against this bill is for the status-quo. Our country cannot afford any more delays or deception. If you oppose this financial reform bill you are probably a racist.

EDIT: I was being facetious :)
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I want to know what is going on in the world, but don't want editorial spin on my news. I want to have a better perspective about what is important.

Perhaps it's that I want to make up my own mind about what's important rather than trusting it to the current news organisations.

How about some kind of fact based news service where stories bubble to the top based on the "severity" or impact on the world or my community.

So for example, on the front page of the international section, global events of the last 7 days are sorted in order of "severity".

We may have to make some assumptions about what severity means, perhaps lives lost, financial loss, environmental impact. Perhaps a user can sort by a preference. Users could also filter by Global, County, State, City ect.

Clicking on one of these news events could present a nice collection of links to standard editorial content on the net, or relevant Wikipedia pages.

I guess the content would be community driven, and you would add some game mechanics to encourage adoption. (Karma ect)

I'd like to do this myself for fun, perhaps as a side project one day.
I would agree that this should be kept to university only (where hopefully it will be taught correctly). Schools need to concentrate on the basics (reading, writing, arithmetic, mathematics and traditional sciences). I'm from Scotland so we don't do A-levels (our equivalent is standards, highers and advanced highers) and although we did get C/C++ it was never covered very well. Its such a critical component of computer science that it has to be done right.
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My commenting, and most peoples' commenting I would assume, is done to get a weight off their chest, not for karma. Unless we can redeem karma for cash, even karma itself has little incentive to be gained by users. I'm not sure how voting making more people vote would make more people comment in this way.
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So, let me get this straight: he likes two things that aren't really a part of the C language (inline asm and the preprocessor), and gives a terrible example of using pointers to justify how great they are? Well, I'm convinced. :P

To put it in a less snarky way, sure, inline asm is great, but it's just a compiler-dependent extension. Also, there are plenty of non-C language compilers that implement it.

The preprocessor, OTOH, is somewhat more of a necessary evil when dealing with C. Beyond giving symbolic names to constants without having to actually allocate memory for them, the only real, good use I can think of for it is conditional compilation (which, granted, is a pretty good use). Oh, and, as devinj points out, the preprocessor has nothing really to do with C.

Pointers, I'll admit, are a great feature, but did he really have to give such a lousy example? It was kind of like Fire Marshal Bill telling me how cool propane torches are, but without the funny.
What the previous two answers did not mention is that Steam requires online verification and that it can lock you out from being able to play the games you played for (DRM).

See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)#System...
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> No, the question is, in a sufficiently complex system, can or should you boil everything down to sentence-sized absolutes?

That's a question, but it isn't particularly relevant as no one claimed that everything can be boiled down to sentence-sized absolutes.

> You agree with this, unless

Not so fast. The military isn't an example of a regulated market.

Net neutrality is an interesting example for you to bring up. Last-mile bandwidth providers have a govt-granted monopoly. Ford doesn't tell me what I can do with trucks that I buy from it.

> Don't turn your brain off just because it's comfortable -- examine situations with a fresh mind. Follow the incentives -- market failure is a real phenomenon.

Patronize much?

The existence of a problem does not imply that the existence of a solution with desirable properties.

To be more specific - the existence of market failure does not imply the existence of solutions to said failure that are better than said failure.

If you want to argue for regulation, you need more than "market failure". You need to show that regulation costs less. Since your examples of the need for regulation have been caused by regulation....

Note that the success of regulation in one area tells us nothing about whether regulation will succeed in another.

And then there's the small problem that we don't have ideal regulators, we have US regulators. Surely their record is relevant....
See also: MTA (Transit) in NYC. I frequently see one MTA employee doing work and 4 watching/talking.
How does this work with friends/family situations then? I'm not playing devil's advocate for once, I'm genuinely interested :-) The whole idea of stopping people spending money seems crazy to me, but we don't really have such rules here.
Oh heck, there goes my next hour.

Wow that's fantastic. Now someone make Missile Command.

Pegs my CPU though (Firefox and Chrome)

Open source too: http://github.com/dmcinnes/HTML5-Asteroids

update: I tried a few flash versions on the web to compare

sorry to say they use a fraction of the CPU, at least under Flash 10.1rc4
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In practice, year to year, the ability of kids varies. While you might have a strong group one year, the next year things can be much different. Imagine the jockeying by teachers to get the best students if it meant their job or a raise. Do the less able kids get kicked the the curb because teachers are worried about getting fired?
> ability got you nowhere.

Sadly, this appears to be true in many walks of life.
> 2) Destroy all local modifications, if foo is a file.

Not exactly. It updates the file to the state from the index.

git-checkout is just poorly overloaded. The idea is the same in both operations (updating some set of files in the working directory to some state from this or some other branch) but the two should be separated.
Yeah, this is weird. Max Payne 2 was originally "scene released" by DEViANCE. There is no hint at Myth anywhere on any pre-db I checked. Seeing as many of the Remedy Entertainment developers had their origins in the demoscene, a connection to the warez scene and thus an ex-scener "faking" this does not sound too unlikely.
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The new UK government plans to let groups of parents and others to set up their own "free schools" on the Swedish model. Perhaps some varient on this would solve the problem?
For a great look at this, check out the documentary [1] The Cartel. He focuses on New Jersey for the most part, but he touches on how difficult it is to remove poor teachers because of the teachers unions (which fight for the teachers at all cost, and essentially don't give a damn about education).

One example given was of a 17-year teaching veteran- an English teacher that was illiterate! I'm not entirely sure how that happens, but anything is better than what is currently happening with our schooling system- and make no mistake, it's not an education system, but a schooling system as former NYState educator of the year John Taylor Gatto [2] argues [3-5].

[1] http://www.thecartelmovie.com/

[2] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Sch...

[4] http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Instruction-Schoolteacher...

[5] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
Before which, he was working at Goldman Sachs since 1974.

It was essentially his decision to do the bailouts (despite the obvious conflicts of interest.)
> Besides how many programmers would like their value to be assessed by a piece of software?

If I knew the criteria, I wouldn't mind, because then I could game the system.
Which reminds me, I like your assumption that govt spending, specifically teacher salaries, are the most important priority.

Your tax base took a hit because people took a huge hit, yet for some reason you think that teachers should be spared. Other folks take a pay cut and lose jobs, but ....

Which reminds me, do those teachers have defined benefit pensions? Are they fully funded? Few folks in the private sector have such pensions and none of them have taxpayer guarantees.

And yes, I noticed that you ducked my questions about budget components. As I wrote, I've gone through this before.
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I think he is getting down modded because game executables are usually packed when they come from the distributor and the crack groups pack them again some more to save space and protect the changes they made from competition.

Cracking a game like that involves running it getting the image of it from memory (perhaps multiple times) and then reconstructing important loader structures (library imports, sections, resources). And only after that can you actually concern yourself with removing or overcoming the actual software protection
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There is no evidence that this particular version was an original.

It is beyond their control if some hackers in Russia downloads the original, stuffs a trojan, and then passes it off as a copy.
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> Its in vogue to bash the teachers these days.

The popularity or lack thereof of something doesn't tell us whether it is wrong.

> In California, the teachers unions have been more prominent in recent years in state-wide political debates, and that seems to have had an impact on public opinion, which is unfortunate.

How so?

Feel free to explain how CA's teachers unions have been a net positive for society over then past 10 years.
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Databases used to be so stodgy. But now it is seen as a lead-gen for an enterprise sale.
Build a Sin Bin for articles with bad or mis-titled headlines. I've posted something along these lines already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283954
> What's the difference between an "angel" investor and "begging from friends"?

There is no difference.

> I mean I appreciate the difference, but why couldn't you put together a deal with an "investor" as if they were just a friend or acquaintance?

You don't understand. There's nothing special about friends and acquaintances. If you're taking money from folks, there are certain rules. The rules are a lot tighter for taking money from ordinary folk than they are for accredited investors. (Close family might be a third category - friends aren't.)
I think the issue here is that Elgg doesn't solve the "distributed" problem. Without that, you cannot migrate billions of Facebook users to a single Elgg install.
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It's a trade off — I'd disagree that a niche player can lose their position any faster than the incumbent. The incumbent, as you allude to, tends to only see change as having the potential for loss and hence tries to avoid it; often to their detriment.

Also, given Apple Computer Inc are now Apple Inc, a major OS X release has been stunted by a phone and an update of their laptops has been pushed aside for the release of a tablet, I wouldn't characterise the iPhone/iPad strategy as a defensive one.
> Seriously? Without a stable government enforcing property rights and the rule of law you wouldn't be able to conduct business reliably. Government provides the field business is played on, they have every right to a cut to pay for providing that field. Peace isn't free.

Some states manage to do those things for a lot less than 9.5% plus income tax.

The US federal, state, and local govts collect more per person than most EU countries (even after you deduct defense) and we don't get anywhere near the services.
Demonstrate a working, genuinely useful semantic system and the world will believe you. Until then, the SW is a monumental waste of everybody's time

Develop the atomic bomb and you can stop WWII, but until then it's a monumental waste of time. (Ok, bad example, but you see what I mean.)

We've created the entire web in the last 15 years, and it's all wrong. It's all text. For the written word, articles and books, that's fine. For the rest, it's rubbish. We have to reboot the whole thing.

Larry and Sergey tried to shop Page Rank but had no takers. Everyone had to be shown why it was better.

I've got a working, genuinely useful semantic system. It will take months more before I can get it to that demonstrable form. But when I do, I think you will begin to see how cool the SW is when it's rendered in clear, easy, and useful way.
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I also think they should add a principle to their privacy approach: "surprise the user as little as possible". While this isn't easily attainable, it is something to strive for.
Although I don't actually take Comp-Sci myself, a few of my friends have in the past and still do; at all colleges near me all default to VB with absolutely no consideration to other languages to the point of running windows on brand new iMacs for better support.

VB is a horrible language to learn, but the UK system of learning computing is the worst I've ever seen anywhere; I took it as a GCSE and at the same time as getting through a fair amount of Google Code Jam, Getting a job building web apps I managed to fail the web design module - was my site valid? yes, did it follow the spec? yes. I failed because I didn't submit my write-up as a .doc; instead I used a valid open .rtf format.
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"Touched the whole spectrum"? Hardly. What about logic programming languages (eg. Prolog), stack-based programming (eg. Forth), concurrent programming (eg. Erlang)? And that's leaving out more esoteric ideas like FRP (Functional Reactive Programming), the funky type systems needed for efficient purely functional languages, and the less-well-known OO constructs (multimethods, metaobject protocols, etc).

No CS curriculum can ever both touch the whole spectrum of what there is to offer and be reasonable to mandate for all students. Inevitably, some students will want the minimum necessary for practical work and others will want to explore as many avenues as possible. The importance is in striking a good balance: exposing students to enough different paradigms to produce good computer scientists without requiring so much that they never get enough real experience with specific languages to be good programmers.
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It shows very good why it's not ready to ditch Flash completely.

I mean.. that's asteroids, i have a Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, 1024MB graphicscard und the asteroids are not smooth, they are flickering a little...
I did a computing A level in the UK , and I had no idea languages other than pascal and visual basic were options. Good to see python on the list.

The computing a level is a massive mess, though. The extent of programming taught is practically an afterthought and the curriculum is polluted by massively outdated stuff - i had to learn a textbook definition of baud rate and how to do binary subtraction on paper. The whole thing is in need of an overhaul.
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