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The second comment in the article is interesting. Basically, ETFs are open-ended funds - you can't run out of the ETF securities because you can always create more. So, if the naked short is called, and there are no ETF securities on the open market to buy, the shorter can have an 'authorized participant' create more ETF securities (see link). Note that this is a very different situation than a stock, where there is a fixed amount of the securities available, which can only be created by the company issuing more stock.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund
Last time I checked, that would constitute illegal circumvention under the DMCA.
The same thing happened for British tests near Australia - although there was an increase in cancers of those present for the tests it was determined that this was due to the control group (soldier not at at the tests) were unnaturally healthy!
"Then I remembered that you actually need light to see, and it probably couldn’t see much at night."

:) This story made me smile. Good for the author!
Not really. If/when I do I'll see if I patch it up if the owner hasn't already.
I read the parent's comment differently.
> I have heard nothing about how programmable those are

They are excellent. They come with a Red Hat OS, with Python, Smalltalk and lots of goodies.

> But Sony made it non-expandable (boo)

They needed to do it because they sell (sold) it at a loss. They want you to buy games, not to browse the web or crunch numbers. I would pay for an expandable, non-subsidized PS3 (extra geek points if they resurrect the News name). I bet it wouldn't be that expensive now. And I wouldn't ask for PS3 compatibility.
Remember reading about limnic lakes a few years back. Crazy stuff. I also recall from even earlier a story about a beach bursting into flames, the scientific rationale given for why this occurred begged the question why didn't happen all the effing time? Been unable to find it online though so now I'm worried it maybe shouldve been filed under Fortean Bollocks.
Couldn't someone theoretically figure out how to enable these features without paying intel? I suspect if intel starts doing this people are going to figure out ways around this.
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Even worse. That gives first-class status to the "HTML version" which contains links to all of the other "versions" of a webapp.
In mine, it's not. 80% of the current textbooks I'm using (freshman textbooks, at that) are unavailable on any filesharing site.
I worked on the replacement c5, 20 years ago.
It ran at 5700 rev/s and had 137 frames in 120deg of the arc.
So took 137frames in (0.33/5700)s = 2.4M fps
yes, but the naked short must have the liquidity and solvency to purchase the underlying securities needed to cover her naked short in ETF.
He's not calling the death of Cable. He's saying he's paying for cable for 6 more months to see if he wants to keep paying for it.

-yawn-

I realized a while back that I could -buy- the DVDs for my shows and save money over a cable bill. That was when I pulled the plug. I'm quite happy to see Amazon selling VOD now, even if it's a bit more expensive than I want to pay. (It's still cheaper to buy the DVDs, but that's not HD.) It means I get to watch the shows when my friends are, instead of waiting 6 months. It's nice to be in on the conversations.
"Merchants have a lot more money sitting in their bank accounts (on average) than consumers. The last thing they want is everyone knowing their account numbers."

Why would they? The only thing anybody could use that information for is for sending them money. Here in the Netherlands, those account numbers normally are on the company letterheads. Is that different elsewhere?
You have to judge the costs of each alternative when choosing? Really!? Tell us more!

One of the things he notes is that it's more expensive to program for multiple cores at the moment than just 1 core. And that's true, but the cost will go down as more software is developed to that end. And as long as there is some profit in doing so (money or otherwise) people will work on it.
By the way, he solved his major complaint in the article, iTunes. He simply switched to mac a week ago: http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/09/11/rejoining-the-apple-fa...

Beautiful article, very touching.
Yeah, don't try this in the USA. Fortunately it's just software, so you can sell it from anywhere as long as the USA doesn't block your advertising or payment processing.
People have associations and feelings about the things they used in their lifes. That's human, we don't know it and like to feel that we are "rational"(witch we are too but in a higher level layer) but we associate the same Paulov dogs did.

I loved so much fried chicken I got a so badly indigestion that I don't like it anymore(my mind associated it with bad feelings, so much pain)

My grandpa gave me a book before dying, and that made that book (and to a lesser extent all books)special. My first girlfriend send me notes on a book. My family read a lot of books. I learn a lot from books, enjoyed some books a lot, and in general had good experiences with them.

But young people will have good experiences with ebooks-tablets as good as we had with books. Maybe their first girlfriends will send then furtive IM messages they will later remember later in life, whatever. They won't understand how we can use those old and stupid things that can't display movies or read text.

They will have children with different devices and we will die and nobody will use books anymore.
Whether or not the author of this article is able to cut out Comcast, he's going to be at the mercy of one or another video content intermediary until either football stops making exclusive deals with said intermediaries, or until he decides that broadcasts of current football games aren't must-have content.

I'm not holding my breath for either of those to happen.
The huge hit sold a couple million units. That's about a million times more than the Kin.

The C64 was a hit because if offered much more than its competition did at the time at a lower price. 64K, 200x320 and 3-voice was pretty high-end 8-bit system by then.

But I agree - to have a monster hit these days you have to move a couple million boxes a month. That's seriously hard.
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I've just seen an add on Facebook and I was a bit surprised (ok, socked) to see the google logo. I didn't quite think it was a Google ad but when I clicked it (which I usually don't do) I got to this page: http://www.google.com/landing/instant/#t3&utm_campaign=launch&utm_medium=oa&utm_source=facebook

Does anyone know if Google started any ad campaign in regards to their search services?
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Same as any other stock. No reason ETFs are in any particular danger.
Have you thought about all the legitimate uses for a capital market? Say, issuing stock to fund a plant that will make a product? No one denies that investors will play equities for short term gain, but for every one of those there are more who are actually deriving true value from this 'market'.
Did you actually check at all?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0...

Doesn't look to me like it covers CPU features.
Sounds good. I'd hope to be in high demand. I'd rather be in high demand in the local dating scene, to be honest but then, this isn't Lovesick Hacker News, so I'll keep that to myself.
Why do you fear an employee would leave you after you invested in training him? Unless you are particularly abrasive, most employees would look favorably at an employer who helps them advance in their job than one who doesn't invest anything at all.
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'foreigners' is relative to who YOU are.
I'm a more "traditional" type of employer -- I have technicians, they go to homes and businesses, they set things up and solve problems, and I don't mind hiring under-experienced techs so long as I think they're willing to learn.

I have a pretty good hunch why a lot of businesses aren't interested in doing this anymore: there is an extreme amount of external pressure not to do it. If one of my techs doesn't know how to do a particular thing right away, the client doesn't want to hear that. Instead, they want to hear that I'll give them a discount on the tech's time. If the tech makes a mistake, I have to cover the costs for making up for it. Even if a tech knows how to do something, but they're just out-of-practice at it, and they take 3 hours to do something that I could do in 1, I probably won't bill the client for a full 3 hours.

It creates a hardship on the business. The culture around the customer-business relationship in the U.S. has changed from the stereotypical 50's ideals to one where the lower price usually wins, and if you're competing on price, you can't afford to train people.

It doesn't help that there are an awful lot of people out there now that seem to think that they're worth a lot of money even if they don't know how to do a job. Go ahead and try telling a potential employee for a technical position, "Well, you're not familiar with any of this, but we're willing to train you if you're willing to start at $10/hour". Unless they're in high school, it probably won't fly.

Or, as another anecdote: one of the things that my business offers its clients is professionalism. Techs are supposed to show up polite, friendly, clean, and dressed for business casual. Repeatedly nagging my techs about their appearance hasn't helped; they still show up with bed hair, with cargo pants, with t-shirts not tucked in, despite that I pay them better than any of my competitors. I'm gonna have to get mean about this soon, and that makes me a little sad.
Couldn't tell if he was sharpening his sword to do battle, or impale himself.

I have had Comcast for about 2 1/2 years now, paying around $70/month, only for internet. I sometimes use an over-the-air ATSC box for some local channels. Recently got the price dropped to $30/month (strange story).

I have an Xbox 360 that is seldom used for games, mostly a dedicated Netflix device.

Not a sports fan, particularly. But, I do find it interesting when watching cable/satellite tv at a friend's house or bar, somebody is paying to have commercials served to them.

I actually do miss commercials, though not interspersed with the content I am viewing.

I was probably the last guy to find out about the 'Old Spice' commercials.

Not sure why satellite is not an option for this guy, though. Dish network has some pretty cheap plans.

Also, he could get a slingbox and a good friend that would let him install it, maybe pay for the extra cablebox rental.
I went without television altogether for quite some time. I have since then experienced both cable and broadcast content. Frankly, I find both services lacking in quality content. The broadcasters seem content on offering mostly reality television shows, legal dramas, and medical dramas. The few comedies that are on can be watched on Hulu. (NOTE: PBS still has good stuff, but its shows can be found all over the Internet). As for cable, since the Discovery Channel stopped showing good science stuff and the History Channel stopped showing history stuff, I see no reason to ever return to cable.
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In conclusion, from the manufacturer point of view, there is more profit to be made by selling a product at multiple profit margin levels using the same manufacturing process.

But at the same time, doing only low profit margin manufacturing might be: or not profitable; or not enough to drive and push development of new technology.
>4 ... have shown no ability or drive.

So you wouldn't hire a new maths PhD for your trading software group if they didn't have C++ experience?
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I'm more concerned with functionality being disabled at a later time.
Interestingly, these are things I suspect the majority of programmers don't have.
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For all we know, every modern appliance is counting down the days until the warranty expires at which point it self immolates, forcing you to buy another.

That isn't the case in this situation, though. The expectations of the device were entirely up front and this was more of an "aha!".

As an aside, my auto has a built in system that monitors car telemetrics, has GPS functionality, a built in cell phone and "lojack" system, etc. I paid for this as a part of the car. It is completely useless the moment I stop paying a monthly service fee.
Please, read this article by Joel Spolsky on (software) pricing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...

Amazingly informative, taught me a lot about how pricing works in the real world.
The market demand is for a cheaper processor. That the vendor is able to sell high end ones as lower ends (and volontarilly damaging them in the process...) and still getting a profit is a sign that they are artificially increasing prices by this trick and others, and while in a true free/perfect/unbiased/whatever market this kind of economical evil behavior (from the whole world/humankind point of view) would soon disappear thanks to the great idealized market, there is no such thing in the real world, especially not in the processor field, especially not in the x86 processor field.

So the little Chinese kid will indeed get a kind of wiseness by learning that "in the great American Capitalist system, goods are damaged on purpose to fulfill the optimum of their system: [...] chip manufacturers damage their own goods on purpose. Why do they do this? Because the rules of American Capitalism dictate it."

Because for the most part, that's the most unbiased view you can get.

(But the rules of American Capitalism applies more and more to China too, so the little Chinese kid will either don't be taught that or learn soon enough that he will be part of the very same system regardless... (Not saying that real attempts to organize society by communism was better anyway))
How is this preying on uneducated consumers?

If I bought a netbook that had an Atom 450 in it, and I knew what the processor was and what it was capable of, and then I took delivery and found out later that it really is an Atom 450+ that can morph into a Xeon 7500 with a payment, there's no loss or detriment to me to not take the option. If anything it's a convenience.
Theory aside, has this ever been a problem in real life for you?
Please keep writing comments like these.
There's a lot of HN posts about A/B testing, I'd love to see someone test out these techniques and see just how much of a difference they make.
Great idea and execution, definitely needs better security. I was able to find several other galleries just by poking urls
Firms haven't started to realise it yet, but by excluding the trainable people, by insisting on this glass ceiling of "two years' experience," they aren't doing themselves any favours.

The lucky handful of geeks with "two years' experience" already under their belt are not going to sit back and let the employer dictate how much, or how little, they are going to get paid. The employer wants to pay them as little as possible - but the candidate can ask whatever the market allows, as much as possible, and if his name's that good, he will be able to gouge the employer for as much as he can get. And if the employer listens long enough, he'll find that all of the others will all seem to be adopting the same gouging tactic, for exactly the same amount - like a cartel structure.

Basically, you're going to end up with a small clique of experienced coders circulating between firms, raking in the money and coming up with the same tired code they've been peddling to the same firms from day one. The incentive to come up with original solutions isn't there - they're not after hiring newbies who might have something new that could knock them off their perch.

In the meantime, businesses find themselves financially in a hole paying for these bloated whales, they're just as much in the dark as they've always been, their programs are just as rubbish, nothing new seems to work - why should it? Working code costs more money, so you might as well just issue new patches - and folding left and right.

There's more money to be made running a cartel of consultants than by opening the jobs market to newcomers, offering them training and keeping the market fresh, competitive, adaptive and, most of all, viable.
"As far as I'm aware from the economics blogosphere, arguments about "structural unemployment" are popular these days mostly in right wing think tanks."

Actually, I heard Bill Clinton talking about the same thing on the Daily Show this past week.
From a technical perspective, you're absolutely correct. This is just the logical next step in what's been going on for 20 years.

But from a consumer's perspective, this is a big shift. It's taking what was once an open secret in the industry and shoving it right in the faces of consumers. And I wouldn't underestimate the backlash that can come from something like that.
I don't see how being self-driven, independent and generally more self-reliant makes you more suitable for employment. Why would such a person want to be an employee?
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In many ways the most important eye opener lecture I ever saw, and I very rarely say such things. This talk sums up a why most of the things done in computing (like web programming) is not done well. It starts by looking at what humans are. If only less than 1% of us is intrinsically interested and looking for really new ideas, and also must have ways of discarding the mediocre to bad new ideas, it becomes clear why it is so hard to have new ideas that change our outlook (epistemological stance). In computing today that is the reason we have so little new ideas, Still this talk is the first step in realizing what to avoid when having new ideas. This approach did yield me some new ideas like message passing systems, scalability like the internet and massive parallel processing to solve the manycore dilemma we are faced with today.<p>View with VLC. Better to download first
Taylor was employed by the Wrights, so yeah, they worked together on it.

I included the wing warping as part of the 3 axis control. Yes, it was an original (and crucial) contribution by the Wrights.
The system doesn't have to be automatic. It could look for a list of possible duplicates by ignoring the query string, then show them to the user if the list is shorter than some threshold.
The article explicitly says that EFT's are a way to achieve naked shorts. Whatever you think will be the next crash, naked shorts are key topic in the article.
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This seems like a great idea to me - sell the slower processor cheaply to the customer with the promise that they can upgrade it later via a simple code with no hardware changes necessary. The customer can get a performance boost later down the line when they have the need/money for it.

Intel gets the opportunity to make a little more money and the customer has a little future proofing - like I said seems like a great idea to me....
That's more in line with what I fear, if your "lojack" system has remote disable.

What is to prevent a rogue employee, system error, or virus from disabling your vehicle at the most inopportune time?

"Sorry, your [phone|cpu|car] is bricked. Just have it towed, and I can JTAG it."
The Canon EF mount has a fairly short back focal distance = the distance between the back of the lens and the film/sensor is less than most other cameras so it's easy to make an adapter to hold another lens the correct distance away.
The difference between naked shorting and regular shorting is that with naked shorting you only need the liquidity later. And they find out ... you don't have the money!

All "financial innovations" boil down to ways of gambling with other people's money. The brokerage that can do naked shorts in a conventional way are doing it (see LTCM) and the article claims that EFTs open up this club to a wider membership.
I always enjoy theatlantic submissions here; this one is really sweet.

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My hat is off to you and you make a good point that you can act autonomously and you didn't waste time searching for a co-founder.

While going solo does have these benefits, I personally think that lasts only so long before you start to miss out on the benefits of having a co-founder working along side you. You will fight, argue, and yell at each other for sure, but you'll also collaborate, pick up each others spirits when times are tough, and have a more diverse set of skills that pack your startup's talent portfolio.

In general, if you can start out working alone and get as much done as you have, then by all means do it; but I'd be on the look out for someone that compliments you and can help propel your company forward that much faster. Don't force the connection, but don't take the mind set that "I've come this far alone, I don't need anyone else" either.
I ♥ AMD when it comes to pricing. Their pricing ratios seem to reflect the realities of production yields rather than market segmentation, and seem more closely correlated with performance. (Desktops; haven't looked at server CPUs lately).
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I'm speaking anecdotally, of course. I've had pretty good luck finding scanned versions of my engineering textbooks, to put onto my iPad. There's only been a couple of obscure or OOP books that haven't been available. It does take some digging, of course. The initial sites were quite open about it, but the publishers have driven it underground onto private sites.
Many of the good History documentaries are on Netflix streaming.

After again experiencing cable/broadcast, what was your feeling/experience when vieweing commercials?
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How does someone formulate such a question?
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