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Going against the Fed is probably the worst thing you can do. You never go counterparty to Big Money.

I just shorted Treasuries via the TLT when it was 122 and just covered this morning at 116.75, when it hit the 10 day MA. I made a small profit, but there's no way I'm going to hold onto a position like that for 3-4 years. You have no clue where TLT will be trading at that point, and you could go broke shorting it.

Trading is about getting the DIRECTION and the TIMING down right. There will be a time to short treasuries, but now is not the time, at least in my opinion.
Not really. This move is making commodity hardware only run Windows. So you'll end up with Windows on commodity hardware and OSX on Apple hardware. Sounds like a great free-market solution.
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"Some do this."

Well that is the problem isn't it?
The article is a little breathy, but it's a serious problem. If we don't get some kind of industry consensus on this, we're looking at a future where those of us who want to use a Linux desktop[1] are going to have to do it on jailbroken hardware. While the enthusiast motherboard community might be OK with some extra firmware settings and UIs, laptop vendors are simply never going to install and test extra junk that someone doesn't force them to. This is very scary.

[1] You can tell us apart by the fact that we're taking this issue seriously. People who code on Macs and deploy to Linux servers (probably 70% of the user base on news.yc) obviously won't see a personal impact.
>As economics, as a field, becomes more powerful, the economy becomes more stable.

umm..Nope.
I can give you a subtle, nuanced argument about why that's plain false. However, I will defer to Dr. Derman here -
http://blogs.reuters.com/emanuelderman/2011/09/23/the-perils...
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Your use of the generic 'MSFT employees' is misleading. Your statement suggests that MSFT employees in general consider traffic more important that the CEO laying out the companies future. That statement is essentially false. Some tiny number left early. Just like the year before, and the year before.
I haven't done it myself, but a reader of the site has written a script to do it for you: https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-some-erlang-kindle . I've worked with him to make sure vital images are kept -- the rest he might have dropped, I haven't used it myself. It seems to give pretty good results.
Indeed. I recently ran YSlow? on my blog and it was a embedded Slideshare in Flash that was causing load times to increase 400%.
I laughed at this however I believe the folder is actually a camera outline.
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I guess the Quake 3 match fell through. Too bad.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2895491
I completely agree.

I was involved in a conversation with a fellow programmer who was complaining about how much investment bankers made, and that they didn't do any real work.

I pointed out to him, that as programmers, all we do is think and type. We have the "luxury" of sitting in a chair all day long and only moving our fingers.

There are teachers, police officers, and coal miners that think the exact same thing about us as well. So let's not start throwing rocks here at other people. We should just be happy that we're so well paid to be doing something we love. No need to start saying that investment bankers or traders aren't doing anything "useful". I'm sure their clients would disagree.
>This is typical behavior from geeks, putting the decision of about the choice of modules.conf vs. conf.modules which the user doesn't care about and just wants the software to work.

I want my software to work too, as a geek. This entire mess might prevent that. How is that justified? Hint: it isn't.

If they can't find a solution that's acceptable for both sides of the equation, then they should not be allowed to do this. To simply tell us geeks to "suck it up, consumers are more important" is an equally as fatal mistake as "fuck the consumers, the geeks demand something".
Indeed very, very good news - this will be the first slide sharing site that allows me to view their content as flash is software I am not willing to run on my machines.
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I'd worry more about Bitcasa, because they are taking the same "ease of use" idea, but making it even easier and cheaper.

Google is not the best with marketing, I haven't heard of any friends using Google Deals instead of Groupon yet either.
> "I disagree only b/c this creates accessibility problems for some users."

Capacitive buttons create accessibility and usability problems for all users. They look great in demos and quick previews. They're crap for use.
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I think you need to do a Yahoo! search on Lawrence Yun, economist for the National Association of Realtors.

Then you will understand why I find your comment quite humorous....
I think part of it is the cynicism that develops from bad clients. Some people don't understand that the designer is a professional. Designers just draw all day, and love what they do, so why would I pay big bucks for a website?

After all, my nephew does computers and I can have him make a website for cheap.

There's also the "Of course we want you to have creative control. We just want to be able to tell you how it looks, what colors to use, and what the tone is."

So, I'm not surprised with the responses here. It's the same one I'd have if someone tells me they want to make the next Facebook, only better. Compensation? I'll give a share when it gets big. Details? No, it's a secret...
Interesting. I have heard from so many friends that current iPhone camera is about as good as it can get. Curious what you are expecting more - just bumped up mega pixels? Not sure how much that would matter - going from 5MP to 8MP for e.g.
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Forgive me if I've misunderstood trademarks. But aren't Bethesda, as trademark holders, required to defend that trademark or risk losing it?

I don't agree that a trademark on Elder Scrolls should cover just Scrolls, but it might just be a case of a legal department going through the motions.
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You've got to imagine the BBC does some kind of background check on the people it puts on air. Typically speakers hail from the big banks and funds, it's unusual to give a virtual unknown the pulpit. I wonder what kind of guidelines they establish before they allow you on air. Did they know he was that biased?
I bought an inverse, rather than shorting. I don't think it likely, or possible, for the 30 yr to go much lower. I can wait, my position doesn't have any time decay, and I'm in no hurry.
To all those designers comparing their pricing to car sales, consider this: I can wander around a car sales lot and browse the cars and their prices. I don't have to invent a "car spec" or give you a budget, I can see for myself what I can afford. Unfortunately, web designers don't take this approach or else I could browse through example (or previous) sites with their price tags proudly attached. I could see how much $1000, or $3000 or $10,000 would buy me. Unless you want to go down this road, never respond to me "well, how much is a car?"
Honeybees are much larger than mosquitoes. Could you simply screen the honeybees out?
That doesn't seem to be true at all. I scroll in vim on my thinkpad all the time, the setup of which makes it very simple to scroll (I have that mapped to my entire touchpad) without moving the cursor (which is only done with the clit-mouse).
"Feature Supported" isn't well defined here. jQuery Mobile's persistant footers are anything but persistant on iOS. That's a big feature for most UIs, and something Sencha Touch got right a long time ago. That poor support for viewport manipulations is lost in the rankings.

Instead of a Green/Orange/Red score for each platform, I think a letter grade or percentage of supported features would be better. Someone who hasn't developed with jQuery Mobile will think that since it has a green ranking for iOS, that they'll actually be able to make things that look like iOS apps. They won't (although iOS 5 should fix that issue).
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I would be very surprised if any of the major Linux vendors even attempted to get a 'universal' Linux key. From the perspective of the major Linux providers, getting logo certified is a competitive advantage against their peers, and it would take a significant amount of altruism to obtain those keys on behalf of others if it is even possible, which is anyone's guess.

As far as the OEM providers, no, I don't have any sources to back that up, but I don't know how you could logically argue against the idea that RH logo certification will increase sales to RH customers.
Legal departments going through the motions are a big problem, though.
Take it up with the individual OEMs who don't build machines the way you like them. Or better yet, buy those that build the ones you do like. This seems downright silly to sue about.
I'm new to the freelancing business and that's a great tip!
Personally speaking, so long as I can turn off secure boot, I don't really have a problem with it.
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There are many surprises in the way of how the story develops just using the cameras positioned internally,
"Mainstream economists are masters of the ad hoc explanation for whatever happened yesterday." - John Michael Greer
> Arguably, an ObjC programmer should know that booleans are YES and NO and not true or false

It's just C. 0 is false, anything else is true.
Read the technical specifications for market interface APIs. I just read all I could on the largest 18 stock markets in the world and can tell you that there's some interesting stuff out there. I even found myself - much like the first read of TCP/IP Illustrated (re: remote OS detection / late ~90s) finding potential hacks in their systems just by reading the specs.
I'd like to see some proof that photography led to a crime.

It's obviously just thuggery to disallow photography in a public place.
It might promote machine learning ;)
Maybe it's their lack of attention to detail that I have a problem with?
I can definitely understand how the masses would side with Mojang on this one. Big media corp vs small indie self-made studio, etc.

However, not knowing all that much about "Scrolls," I feel like Bethesda (Zenimax) has a good argument here. The only artwork I've seen from scrolls depicts Fantasy-style characters in leather and metal armor. From what I understand, it's some sort of card game, but that's not obvious from the at-a-glance view, and I think there could be some confusion among those unfamiliar with the two games in question.

Any major trademark holder has to actively protect their copyright/trademark and I feel like this, though perhaps unfortunate, is a pretty standard legal practice.
Seems like a decent motivation to make you upload a real one.
Unfortunately not when using my MacBook Pro unless I've got Win7 up in a VM.
Oh man, how many times I hit "back" when I meant "menu" on my android phone.
This is a lot easier if you don't support PowerPoint animations. A few years ago I used to work on a competing product and we did support PowerPoint animations. I thought about how to support animations in HTML and JavaScript quite a bit and it just became obvious that doing it in Flash was far easier.
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Worst case Mojang changes the name of an unreleased game (that I hadn't heard about until now).

Bethseda on the other hand looks to be trying to beat up on the little guy. After Oblivian's "Too bad you leveled wrong. No stat points for you." character system, the next elder scrolls already lacked appeal. This case certainly won't help.
Netscape initially charged for the browser.

"Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
It's hard to imagine for most, but I think what is being displayed here is that experienced freelancers learn early on that not every project is a good fit. There are a lot of jokers out there, there are a lot of people who aren't ready to turn their ideas into a reality. To be successful as a freelancer, you have to sift through the sea of prospects to find the situations that are going to be mutually beneficial.
I went through it and there's still some ugly hackery involved on Windows. These are technical issues (e.g. how ffmpeg is compiled via MinGW), but they make it complicated to generate a non-branded, psuedo-official build. That said, all the pieces you need (minus the closed-source plugins) appear to be in the repository and can be built and compared against an official release. It could definitely be made easier, but would require some non-trivial engineering to do so.
Actually, many did. Economists were telling us that the economy was shaky all through the 00's. Economists told us in 2006 that the market problems from Wall Street would spread into housing.

Again, there is a difference between stock analysts and economists. Economists are looking at numbers, trends and history more like a computer scientist. Economists are even often specialized into various regions of the country.

A stock analyst is going off of timing and trends more than data. If you've ever traded stocks heavily, you learn quickly that traders throw away yesterday...'that money's gone'. Having worked to make companies profitable, it's unsettling to realize that the stock market is full of people who know how stocks work but have no idea how business works.

I think I've posted this before but in one past company we moved millions of dollars of product around before we did our annual inventory just so our numbers would match what Wall Street expected. We actually needed much more on hand than the stock market wanted just to do business, but they wouldn't have any idea about that.
No, I think he's saying that MS put out a browser bundled with every windows computer sold, so that was what dominated. Now google can do something similar in leveraging its existing userbase (everyone with a google account) to drive adoption of gdrive (ala google+). You won't have to sign up for something new... it'll already be waiting for you.
This is an extremely obvious point masquerading as something controversial.

In a market with 10 large financial firms, all of varying strength, a capital crisis may put a few of the weaker ones out of business, since a capital shortage means that a firm doesn't have enough liquid capital to cover its underwriting obligations and its cash flow needs. When this happens, weaker firms are hamstrung if they can't raise additional capital. Typically the government provides free capital in the form of below market loans which can be turned into profitable short term loans at zero risk.

This means that the valuable assets will be gobbled up by the stronger firms and there will be less competition across the board.

Thus Goldman, as the strongest global financial firm, stands to gain the most from any crisis.

Regulators required all US financial firms to accept bailout assistance precisely to avoid what would have likely been the outcome of the crisis -- one or two super firms.

Even if all surviving firms shrunk by 80% post crisis, the resulting diminished competition would be a win for the surviving firms' investors.

It's debatable in the scenario of the 2008 crisis whether Goldman would have survived if AIG hadn't been bailed out. I think it likely would have, but it would have had to raise additional capital from investors... As it was Buffet invested around $5B (but could have easily invested much more -- and the yield would have been way better if more competitors had been allowed to fail).

As a result of this, and the various interests involved, much effort was expended to preserve the status quo.

One might ask what it would take for there to be legitimate competition in the financial services market... My take is that policymakers' desire for cheap (below market price) credit can only be implemented through the sort of public/private partnership... aka socialized financial services like the ones we have in the US. To put it succinctly, cheap credit is a right.

It would be interesting to run an experiment to see how much this policy has impacted American democracy (for better and worse). I don't think such an experiment would be possible though.
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They definitely need to buy their own servers at some point in the future. I do remember storage is their main cost. With the big round they just closed, I can't imagine there's not a few engineers working on that already.
1. One man's root kit is another man's Linux kernel.

2. Windows 8 may boot on untrusted hardware, but will it play rented movies, work with Office 365, run apps from Microsoft's store, etc? If Windows on untrusted hardware will not be a second-class citizen, why would Microsoft bother with secure boot?
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What could the badge on the phone icon indicate? That's the biggest puzzle...
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But why do web developers and designers always get these kind of questions? One would hardly go into a shop selling watches and ask how much _a_ watch costs. Why then ask a vague question that just cannot be answered? I think giving an equally vague reply is fair.
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Demanding that someone take action to protect you from your own ignorance is rubbish.
In my spare time I tinker with content-recreation using wikipedia dumps.

Imagine software that could find and generate content as good or better than the quality on Wikipedia.

I guess skys the limit on how much you could make in ad revenue.
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Google Video (rescued by throwing a few billion at the competitor who was running away with the space), Lively (its like IMVU except without the users), Dodgeball, Wave, Google Page Creator (its like Weebly except without the users), Orkut (debatable whether one can put it in the failure column for not being FB but it certainly isn't FB), etc, etc.
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Are fonts working for anyone else? As they're all pixellated horribleness for me now. They look especially bad in their demo. Probably just a small bug.
Link on MDN https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/plan-b-retr...
They have to defend the trademark itself, yes. But not things that aren't all that similar.
8mp, 1080p, etc.

The Android world (the HTC Sensation being the first to pop into mind) has finally surpassed the iPhone 4 in camera and video capture quality.

I imagine Apple will leapfrog them again as usual for a healthy competitive market.
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I checked all the checkboxes and got the whole chart. In fact the entire site could be replaced by that chart?
I'm not suing over it.. I'm just upset over the entire situation.

"buy those that build the ones you do like."

There are two very large problems with this:

1) Now I have to do yet another piece of needless research whenever I buy a piece of hardware. That is a pain in the ass, pure and simple.
2) Everyone else I know won't be doing that research. So when my dad says to me again, "Hey, your mother is getting viruses again, stick her back on Ubuntu", I have yet another thing to worry about.

Yeah yeah, I get it. They have a right to do it, the market will sort it out, blah blah blah. Fact is, I also have a right to bitch about it, regardless of their rights.
Right, totally agreed. But are we talking about a capacitive button or a no-button, touchscreen-only front?
When Apple announced that they didn't want flash on their i(pod|pad|phone), I instantly knew I'd see this in the forthcoming months:

1) The exact same HTML5 documents work on the iPhone / iPad,
Android phones/tablets, and modern desktop browsers."

That was such a huge move from them. I couldn't imagine another big company than Apple to do that.
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I think a more accurate statement is that a 'good' economist can tell you what the economy MIGHT do, based on what it has done in similar circumstances in the past.

Economics is the study, and explanation, of the way things work - from a historical perspective.
This is unexpected given their position on it before [1]:

Google was about to launch a project it had been developing for more than a year, a free cloud-based storage service called GDrive. But Sundar had concluded that it was an artifact of the style of computing that Google was about to usher out the door. He went to Bradley Horowitz, the executive in charge of the project, and said, “I don’t think we need GDrive anymore.” Horowitz asked why not. “Files are so 1990,” said Pichai. “I don’t think we need files anymore.” ... “You just want to get information into the cloud. When people use our Google Docs, there are no more files. You just start editing in the cloud, and there’s never a file.”

Are they admitting they were too ambitious? This seems to weaken the case for the mostly file-less ChromeOS and competes with their Google Storage offering.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20110425/how-google-killed-gdrive-and-...
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> Huh? What previous attempts at species destruction are you referring to?

This one, maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign ?