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The article makes a good point. There have been no trials (let alone convictions) of bank executives because they probably did not violate any actual laws. Reckless financial risk-taking on the part of private firms is not illegal. Sure, there were clear instances of fraud and predatory loaning by more minor players, but the guys at the top of the food chain are most likely not guilty of any specifiable crimes.

But if the overwhelming majority of US citizens do in fact believe that the actions of the bank executives should be illegal, the logical thing to do would be to change the laws. (Of course, this solution is a bit unsatisfying, since no one can accurately predict these major market collapses and the next major crisis will likely be different enough that it could very well fall outside scope of any new laws.)

Sidenote: Unfortunately, the recent conviction of Raj Rajaratnam will probably assuage public anger while not at all addressing this issue. From what I understand, he was found guilty of insider trading, which is more or less unrelated to the mortgage-bubble/financial-crisis.
The newspapers. All of them.
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It breaks the Back button... and the 'Best viewed in Internet Explorer' days seem to be back, although it's now a more apologetic 'Sorry, this site was designed with Google Chrome in mind'.
Not to mention, they got a great gift last month with PSN going down. XBOX will be picking up even more steam in the future.
https://blog.fefe.de conspiracy - politics - technology (German)
http://www.zerohedge.com/ just stumbled over this one, not sure what to make out of it yet
I really like the guys at Short Form Blog, who have a really great, attractive-looking approach to aggregating the day's news online.

http://www.shortformblog.com
Even though I am mostly an OS X user http://lwn.net/ provides great in-depth coverage of Linux and BSD.
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Mostly tech blogs and links I come across on twitter. I try to keep my rss subscriptions to a minimum. If I don't read 5-10 consecutive posts I ditch the feed.
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As the revenue generating end of Microsoft's online services division, the popular bar chart showing quarterly losses exceeding 600M says that it is a failure. This may turn around if Bing hits its magic number in terms of market share. But one would think that the division will have to have start stemming its tide of losses if it is to be given a chance.
Plus, when DEBUG = True, Django leaks memory.
HFT is the legalized way of insider trading and front running
How can we get an invitation ? I can't even vote.
Business Week defending outright fraud by the banking sector?

Shut UP!
I subscribe (i.e. physically) to The Economist and GQ.

I'm subscribed to 243 feeds in Google Reader, of which maybe 50-67% are still updated. Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days. Usually I skim headlines and look for interesting things.

My favorite feeds right now are my city's alt weekly newspaper's blog, my neighborhood's unofficial blog (http://capitolhillseattle.com/), James Altucher, Ben Horowitz, and Cliff Mass (a meteorologist at the University of Washington, and a fascinating writer).

I'll skim Twitter a couple times a day when I'm waiting in line, brushing my teeth, etc. I do so more now than I used to because a website of mine gets a huge amount of traffic from tweets, and I like to stay ahead of the curve on that.

I'll skim TechMeme late at night when I've exhausted everything else.

I'll troll through the NYT and longform.org a couple times a week to add interesting things to Instapaper, too.
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If you take into account stock split and dividends for Microsoft, the total return from 2000 until today is about 13% which is not great but much different than the misrepresentation of a 60% loss. The returns would be much higher if you had not bought in 2000 before the crash which Ballmer could have had no control over. For example if you had bought shares at the end of 2002 than your total return over that time would have been about 130%.

I'm not saying that Microsoft hasn't missed opportunities or that Ballmer shouldn't be replaced but its not quite as bad as pictured in that graph.
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This article, like the headline, is light on facts and high on sensationalism. However, the bill (full text available at [1]) does look pretty ugly.

[1] http://leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-PROTECTIPAct....
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5k seems cheap too. You might just want to ask for more.

In my experience, software projects always work best when the buyer considers the work to be plain expensive, and the developer feels well paid. Actually, that goes for all sorts of projects.
That is why I would be uncomfortable just putting him in front of a computer to find out about saber-toothed tigers.
No conviction does not necessarily mean no guilt. And you may want to take a look at a counterpoint, because convictions may finally be on their way:

Matt Taibi - The People vs Goldman Sachs
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-gold...
http://answers.onstartups.com/
I've got over 200 feeds in Google Reader. However I broke down in daily readings, weekly readings and monthly.
Techcrunch, Mashable, Hack Forum and Delicious feeds are on daily
We need a new constitution.
A few years ago I met a youmg cousin of a college friend who had his own computer at home. I had my first compy at 17, this kid had his at 5.
I was in a TJ's awhile back. Some employees were wheeling stock in and out of the back room. Two of them nearly collided.

"Almost got ya!"

"So close!"

"Maybe next time."

I mean, the assholes who work at my Safeway might have come to blows over this non-issue. But these guys were cheerful and just having a good time. I love Trader Joe's. It feels great to be there. It impresses the hell out of me that they can scale this feeling with so much success across hundreds of stores. Some are better than others but I'll always take a TJ's over any other grocery option.
I agree. Though a bit choppy for me, that was a genuinely beautiful experience, from both a technological and artistic perspective. (running Chrome, but not Canary)
So now that Facebook admitted it, you're still sticking to your story? wtf
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I guess the PR agency was way naive on beliving that won't spilled over them!
If you seriously don't have a Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail or AOL account, but do have a Google account, you really ought to take a step out of Google's back pocket and sign up for one of the other huge services on the internet.
So how about - content creator pushes content to Google, and list of people they think will scrape it. If sufficiently large sufficiently close copy of content shows up on scraper page they're penalized (adwords, search, banned from Blogger whatever).

Edit: I guess that only works if they're fixed IPs.
Yes, you are right. Good insight, thanks. On the same line, my comment that Skype was a private investment also isn't true, because MSFT is a public company.
Apple serves students very well. Take a look at current trends in laptop purchases by incoming students.

http://itc.virginia.edu/students/inventory/compare/

If these numbers are indicative of the US as a whole, 45% of new laptop purchases are OSX. IPhone, IPod touch, and IPad are selling well outside of the premium market. From these data points I still feel Apple is the main competitor to MS.
Yawn.

The entire premise behind DragonFly was wrong. FreeBSD predicted correctly future hardware trends with 5.x and it is bearing great fruit with FreeBSD 8 and 9.

FreeBSD 9 will parallel Linux in terms of scalability: NUMA, multi-core granularity, advanced scheduling.

Meanwhile, FreeBSD also has stable and current ZFS support.

HAMMER seemed interesting in theory but grandiose for such a small developer community and userbase. Now Dillon admits that the design was flawed and proposes and even more grandiose filesystem with even more shit that really needs to be in userland for any hope of sanity.

All I see is an unnecessary fork, a lack of resources, and struggle for relevance. Thanks but no thanks.
Agreed, thanks for the suggestion :)
Of course the finance industry will tend not to break the law. They lobby to have the laws changed instead to allow them to take the risks they want, at little actual risk to themselves personally.
I also want a cut, but no-one ever asks me...
We used to talk longingly about using strongly typed languages when I was at an IB. We mostly used perl for munging data and SAS for actual heavy lifting. It would have been great to have the compiler yell at me for adding a return to a dollar value or whatever.
Doesn't work for me in Chrome 13 on my MBP. That is unfortunate.
I don't have any story, except a reaction of disbelief... Plus, I can't edit the original post anyway in light of new revelations.

The point is, as an ex-intern, I am surprised.
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No, you're not. Compared to your first-world contemporaries, the US imprisons 5-10 times as many people per capita. Far from 'just about any other place', the US is an outlier when it comes to incarceration. First world nations are all pretty much bunched in the 50-150/100k range, while the US incarcerates 750/100k (that includes kids - for just adults it's up around 1% currently incarcerated. 1%!). It's not 'utopia', but 'contemporary nations'. And it's not like it's always been like this - the US's insane level of incarceration was always a little high, but it started going way off the deep end around 1990.

There's also the rape angle as discussed above. Here in Australia, there's no real mindset about rape in prisons, but when I see Americans discuss it, it's either joked about or implicitly/explicitly declared to be 'part of the prison experience' and that you somehow deserve it if you go to jail... and it seems no-one is interested in wondering if it really is justice for a person imprisoned due to carrying a small amount of personal drugs to be raped as part of their 'debt to society'.

I guess it's the old 'glass houses' situation.
I could see how 3D avatar conferencing (like Xbox Live avatars) might actually be much more appealing than video conference.
How about 0%? That is my final offer.
not much, hardly even read hacker news any more.

only daily ones:
gaming forum for a game a bunch of us used to play back in the day.
email

too busy coding.
http://kottke.org is my favorite website.
The article confuses two related but separate questions. The first is who caused the collapse. The second is whether or not they did something illegal. On the first point, the article claims the banks are "not guilty", which isn't really true. They're excessive risk-taking did cause the collapse. That doesn't mean it was necessarily illegal, just that they are "guilty" of causing the collapse. But just because the causes weren't illegal doesn't mean that they didn't commit fraud along the way. The collapse revealed the fraud that had been going on, and while it didn't cause the collapse, it made it worse.

Ultimately, it doesn't even matter whether there was a collapse or not. The fundamental point of people like Ferguson is that we now know of a number of illegal acts which took place before and during the collapse, yet those have not been properly prosecuted, and that's a problem.
SAI
Techmeme
Quora
ReadWriteWeb
Inside Facebook
Gmail/GoogleTV/Goolge/Google Docs blogs
engadget (although rarely nowadays)

Outside of tech:
Yahoo News
SFGate
Sportsline
HuffPo - occasionally
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Yay! Building a volume model was one of my first projects as a quant.
The Chernobyl reactor blew wide open, sent core bits flying, then burned for a couple of weeks. Fukushima remains mostly contained. I think release has been mostly through water. But it's not over yet and we don't know what the total effects will be.
960gs is a fancy template for math. Lots of sites use the 960gs style, without actually including the template.
My daily read includes BusinessInsider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, AllThingsDigital, AllFacebook, InsideFacebook, SocialTimes, Quora, Wired, GigaOm, and Mashable.
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Well, for me sedachv's comment sums up all the "but in the US..." comments in this thread. It's just bizarre.
There's a big difference between "driving the stock back up to unrealistic levels" and totally flatlining - which is what MS has actually done. Yes, the former is ridiculous. But so is the latter.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385301,00.asp

I look at it this way. Chrome notebooks are priced beyond that of PC laptops, they offer no benefit over a PC laptop running Chrome, so why buy one? Further ChromeOs will have limited local storage, and absolutely no native apps. This means no Skype, no local movie player, etc. A buyer would actually be getting less for their money by buying a ChromeOS machine instead of a $350 laptop at BestBuy with Chrome installed.

The form factor for consumption of media, video and news, does not require a keyboard. In fact it does not seem to require much of the laptop form factor at all. The tablet may already be the best solution, time will tell. But ChromeOS is avoiding stepping on Android's toes, and is not expanding in that direction. And that is limiting.

Leasing will only be available for schools, businesses, and governments--entities already in long term contracts with Apple or PC manufacturers. There won't be much penetration in the short term. And when it comes to price comparisons, ChromeOS will not have the support base and personelle which is already built up around PCs.

Lastly Chrome notebooks necessitate a wireless data plan, but as of now no carrier gives unlimited access for a low, flat fee. That means no unlimited Netflix or Hulu. And judging from my experience with a mobile data card, the connection is not stable enough for video streaming anyway, nor voice calls, nor multiplayer gaming.
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It will be looking good if you change the logo type and mark. Also please add an input field for Linkedin.
I recently deleted all my RSS subscriptions and went Twitter only for "feeds".
Yep, or "Wall Street: Guilty" would also do the trick.

But, this is Bloomberg. Just enjoy the irony.
Techcrunch and Quora
The People vs. Goldman Sachs | Matt Taibbi
You can get this from wikipedia, but the short answer is that the graphite moderator Chernobyl used ignited. The burning graphite released smoke fallout, which spread very far due to wind. Fukushima released about an order of magnitude less nastiness, and it hasn't spread as far in quantity (though some of it is in the ocean).
Nope, multiprocessing was added to the Python standard library in 2.6, our previous releases implemented python 2.5, 1.5 implements 2.7, so it now includes multiprocessing.
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Thank God that most of us are lazy and thus need benefits in a wink. This is why we have top free Android apps to help us.
It's a standard though isn't it? As in all browsers should eventually add it, except for probably IE. Not like Chrome has gone off in their own direction here like IE would.
Yeah, sorry, I don't agree with that because I don't give a fuck about my rating, or karma or whatever the fuck you're calling it on HN, so I comment anyway. You should do that too instead of "spending more time asking yourself if you will be adding anything useful to the discussion". ;) My point was that Linus is an idiot and it can be as informative as any other comment for people who don't already know that. My two cents.
Wayne Chang does a great job of telling a story using bits of history to over represent reality.

He claims in several places to have worked at Napster, despite the fact that he was only a volunteer Moderator for chat on the service. Even in his linked in he lists himself as an "Administrator" but that title specifically represented a user access level above "Moderator" (both volunteer community positions) that he did not have.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/waynechang

He also represents himself as a consultant to AllAdvantage, when in reality he created "click bot" that automated AllAdvantage use.

This lawsuit is interesting, but I strongly encourage digging into the history of Wayne before coming to any conclusions.

(Note: I was an actual Administrator for the Napster service, but never employed. I am quite familiar with Wayne "ttol" Chang from #napster on EFNet, and I've had several 'disccusion' about his LinkedIn profile with other people in similar position to me.)
ShortFormBlog is on my list too, along with a ton of feeds in Reader, a handful of Tumblr blogs, TechMeme, and the New York Times.
Reader tells me I 'read' 7,189 items in the past 30 days

Wow, I didn't know this info was available. For anyone who is wondering, it's under "Trends" in the sidebar.

All Reader needs to do now is track how long users spend on each item, relative to how many words are in it.
Not really. See Max Vision etc.
yup, reading fefe too. there should be more blogs like this.
I wrote http://bit.ly/kJdNr4 in 5 minutes to quickly scan the headlines from my favorite blogs and pick what to read. It's been really effective.
Does it support admin roles or authorization (probably via CanCan)?
I'm not at 100 users yet as I have just "launched", but I can guarantee I'll hit 100 users within the next 30 days because I am EXTREMELY active on a very popular internet forum that is directly interested in what I'm building. I'm currently individually referring users but will be launching publicly on Monday on that site, and it will be the channel I will build my business from.

A lot of equity can emerge from giving people a lot of free help and advice on forums. If there exists one that applies to your niche, go help people as much as you can, and you'll start off with a captive audience when you launch
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I think Jobs is fully booked. However, Schmidt is currently available. And MS could do with some adult supervision.
First you were arguing that the profit equaled the utility exactly. Now you are saying something different. Taking your new example, since the trading profits are roughly the same whether the advantage is 5 minutes or 20 seconds so long as the ship is seen first by telescope man, yet the probability of Bill mistakenly wasting his money on beer when he should have saved for bananas does depend on that length of time, then the utility and the profit aren't equal; and as the time advantage approaches 0, (and thus the utility you are talking about here approaches 0) the profit remains the same.

You are saying there is always some utility. Ok fine, but it gets arbitrarily close to 0. In the case of HFT there is also some cost (brain-drain for proprietary R&D, power drain for datacenters, etc.). Which outweighs which? What timescale do we have to get to? We are already well below it.
Wow, looks great.

A few more years of speed ups, a bit more bandwidth, and better client side web storage and we'll be playing multiplayer FPSs in our browsers.
Makes sense. Currently MSFT stock is valued at holding shares for approximately 24 years by that measure. That seems a bit low even so.
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Yeah, that's the idea I think. Multiscale parallelism: distributed parallelism across multiple nodes, shared-memory parallelism on each (multicore) node, all in one language.
I think it's a disservice to Ballmer to not consider that every business goes up and down.

This chart (courtesy turar) is the real story -> http://ycharts.com/companies/MSFT/net_income#compCos=AAPL,GO...

It just bothers all the Silicon Valley tech press that Microsoft continues to thrash its competitors.

Google makes money via search.
Apple started off with fucking mp3 players and now makes 'post-PC' devices.

It just bothers SiValley that no one can touch the Windows domination.

Microsoft made $5 billion+ in profit last quarter. The CEO who's been in charge for the last 10 years should be given a prize for surviving and growing the company's profits.

A new emerging company will always have more room to grow. If you consider each company at its core competency they are all dominating.

Google has 64% or so search share. Bing+yahoo get 30% or so.
Microsoft has 90%+ desktop OS share. After 16 or 20 continuous quarters of growth Mac is still less than 10%.
Apple is dominating smartphones (though Android might slow it down, notably without making any profit itself - unless you want to count it as a defence for mobile search). It's also dominating Tablets and trying to change things - because it doesn't want to fight Microsoft head-on in PCs - Just too difficult given Microsoft's advantages.

So each company is dominating its niche and trying to find ways to make its niche dominate the entire tech landscape.

Microsoft still being so dominant and the success of Windows 7 point to Sinofsky and Ballmer being God level. Growing profits from a couple of billion a quarter to $5 billion to $6 billion a quarter is extremely impressive.

Apple's growth is more impressive - However, that doesn't mean Microsoft's profits are unimpressive and it'd be foolish to take your personal dislike of Microsoft as a reason to discount some really solid work by CEO Ballmer.

Finally, Ballmer's first duty is to Microsoft and himself and Gate and Microsoft people.
Who fucking cares what the vultures of Wall Street and shareholders who don't do squat think.
What's remarkable is that in spite of being able to rewrite laws in their favor, these bastards manage to break them anyway. I suppose it's simply because they can.