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TARP is Exhibit A in the government's special treatment of the banking sector, and that vote helped ignite the Tea Party. Many of the politicians who voted for TARP have been replaced by the Tea Party...it was a huge factor in the 2010 election gains by the GOP, and also the purging of GOP moderates in primaries during the same cycle.

TARP will still end up losing tens of billions, but TARP was superseded by far larger (and less transparent) bailouts run through the Federal Reserve. The banks that have repaid TARP only did so because they had other forms of government support, from over a trillion in Fed lending guarantees, to bailouts of their counterparties at AIG, to the bailout of worthless bondholdings at Fannie and Freddie.

And, we aren't out of the woods. Today the banking system is more concentrated and perhaps just as fragile as it was in 2008.
"Become a part of the culture before trying to influence it"

This is a tricky balancing act, because sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can be helpful, but OMG! I have recent experience with a new hire that needed to be shown that point. Everything he saw he declared the stupidest thing ever. "Why is X built with Y, when it could just be done with Z?"

He changed his tune after a month or two and gained some background knowledge of the engineering tradeoffs involved... but not before he burned many bridges in the process.

Were I to give him a word of advice back then, it would be to archive his rants in a text file, sit on them for 6 months, THEN go off at the mouth. He'd have more background to prevent him from committing some serious newbie faux pas, and enough credibility for his better arguments to be heard.
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I have a pet theory on the whole thing. Humans are pretty much pattern matching machines. I get the feeling that a certain percentage of individuals in abscense of a known crisis will value the pattern over basic feelings. It gets worse after someone else has had to perform actions and now the person who did nothing must do something. So resolving out of pattern things is a priority.

I know it sounds weird and I am probably doing a bad job explaining, but it just seems like some people cannot stretch beyond the pattern that the rules say should be there. You are absolutely right, it doesn't excuse anything, but it just seems like you can make some amazing predictions of post-crisis behavior based on what you think they think the "pattern" should be.
Instead of writing my CV in TeX, I did it in markdown with pandoc [0] extensions. The good thing about this approach is that (a) the source is much more readable than TeX and (b) there are more conversion options, e.g. html is much saner than when using one of TeX2Html converters.

The result is in my website [1][2], the source code is on GitHub [3].

[0] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

[1] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.pdf

[2] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.html

[3] https://github.com/alexkay/homepage
Blackboard had the advantage of being one of the first commercialised learning management systems in the current incarnation. They were able to secure a large part of the market by being first, and then by acquiring others (WebCT/Angel/Prometheus etc - see http://www.quora.com/How-many-acquisitions-has-BlackBoard-ma... for a more detailed list).

Their really controversial patent ('138 - the one that pretty much patented anything that resembled a group of students accessing materials online), was overturned. Although they have a number of technology patents, and are litigious, it isn't stopping competition. There are quite a few out there.

(Full disclosure, I'm one of the founders at http://www.lexim.com.au - one of these companies).
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For future viewers, I asked around and it appears payment services in general do claim the power to run credit checks as a legal buffer/protection but aren't done in a compulsory manner.
It's not so surprising if you consider that humans are much better at pattern recognition in general, where the space of possibilities is too large for a brute force search (even with clever optimizations, such as minimax, alpha-beta pruning, and hard-coded openings/endings).

Here is a specific example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)#Computers_and_Go

They've made a bit of progress with Go, putting in heuristics and strategies specific to Go. But it basically amounts to translating human intelligence into code, or what researchers refer to as "domain knowledge".

Surely, machines are orders of magnitude faster than humans, for certain things. Just not all.
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Has it been at all shown that the placebo effect is at all correlated with any psychological frame or disposition whatsoever?
Ask HN: Where should the absolute beginner investor start out?
I have a few thousand dollars that I'm looking to invest. I know that it's not a lot, but its enough that I don't want it lying around in the bank.

I am a high school student with just about no financial experience/education. However, I would like to learn a little about investing - enough so that I can make some educated investments that might pay off in the long term.

Given that I'm a busy student, what would be the most efficient use of my time when it comes to making investments? I have heard from many people that a mutual fund might be the way to go, as opposed to buying individual stocks that supposedly takes more time and experience.

If I were to go with a mutual fund, would it be a bad idea to choose one with higher risks? At this stage in my life, I am willing to take more risks than I probably will want to in the future.

Thanks!

- solipsist

P.S. Any good online stock brokers out there that may support accounts for minors?
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They say placebos are getting more Effective. That seems a euphemism for "new drugs work just as good as placebos", which is to say, not at all.
For those living in the bay area the oakland port is definitely quite a sight. I am constantly in awe at how much stuff goes in and out of it every day.

I remember on a whim looking around the internet for how much it costs to ship something from Oakland to Dalian (another big port in china). For some reason it is really hard to get a quote without going through a licensed agent.

I feel like the shipping industry is ripe for disruption because of sites like this:

http://indonetwork.net/arrow_dynamicid/508168/ocean-freight-...

Right now I can price a trip from SFO to LA within seconds. Try doing that if you are shipping cargo.
It's not devolving into Calcutta for sure, but certainly a nation with the wealth that we have can (and I'd argue should) provide a much higher standard of living for the members of society on the lowest rung of the ladder. If not by direct assistance then by structuring society so that the people at the bottom don't bare an unreasonable amount of the burden. (I'm thinking restructuring payroll taxes, tax vouchers for necessities, etc.)
Anytime there is money, there is always an extensive paper trail. Enforcing financial laws is possible to do if you apply the requisite resources. Unfortunately, we don't do that in this country.

But at the end of the day, if a financial product is so complicated that it can't be regulated, that's a good sign that it never should have been created in the first place.
Not SSL > 1.0 - TLS > 1.0. Big difference. TLS 1.0 is roughly the security era of SSL 3.0, perhaps even newer.
It is true, at its core it is a form of computation. Though it blurs the line a little- the human brain isn't exactly pushing around numbers.
> So sell me!

This. attitude. is. the. problem. Why don't you sit down and watch a student deal with this crap for a couple of hours? Anthropologically, empathetically, observe.

> Does your software do these things better?

Our motto was to make med school easier one less click at a time. Do that. Focus on that. All the time. And you'll find what you want, even if you have to hire people to write it. IF you have to hire people, make them hand code the solution for your population from scratch. It's cheaper and better than trying to wrap their heads around the steaming pile of crap that any existing LMS is.

It's not hard. An ical script, a document importer, a quiz module, connect the three with a database. Add LDAP functions so you can interact with the university's authentication system. The database can poop your grade book on demand. If you want a script to do that, I'm sure there are some abused 4th graders who could put it together for you#. A few med students hammered that out over a Christmas break and some 20% time. The rest is just trash.

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#only slightly conflating these two essays:

http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/dead-trees/53003.htm

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gs...
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>> The idea that a client should break if the schema changes, for example, leads to very brittle systems.

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

>> The idea that a client should break if the schema changes, for example, leads to very brittle systems.

That's the point, imagine building the web using string values instead of constants. With constants, if it changes, you immediately get notification from the IDE via the compiler and can fix it straight away. If it's a string, then it's up to the poor testers to find it and good luck, it has to be in a known use case.

I think for general communications REST is better than not following any standard by far. For web services though, my money is still on SOAP and I'm a Java/Linux lover not .NET these days, SOAP is still best for Web Services in my view.
On second thought, I would dispute calling it a reductio ad ridiculum. We obviously share the opinion that serious belief in Santa Claus as an adult is ridiculous, but in reality belief in Santa Claus and belief in God share equal amounts of supporting evidence.
Agreed, which was why I included: "...while some of the conditions may be real for some people". I'm not disputing real conditions like your wife's, I'm saying some medical conditions these days have symptoms so loosely interpretable by the general public that anyone with achy legs may think they have it, and thus possibly try to medicate it. Perhaps this leads to a greater number of these people in study groups.... and perhaps that leads a measurable rise in placebo effectiveness. Anyhow, just an idle theory.
I normally send both the LaTeX source as well as a PDF.
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They've managed to take over the Republican party. It's far from clear if they've had a huge impact. We won't know that for a while.
I don't understand how this works, different site will have different SSL connections, injecting a js to file a SSL request with known plaintext only shows you key in that connection. It won't affect your proxy, because each site has a CONNECT tunnel which is not related to each other.

Unless of course, you are using a openvpn like all your traffic go through single ssl socket, where it can be easily fixed by just have multiple socket open and cycle among them
Absolutely, there are many things you can do as a developer, and regarding taking on clients, the problem with a lot of developers is that they don't spend the right time spotting the crappy clients. You have to interview them as they interview you. Analyze them more and you'll find great time working. If your answer is "yeah, but there aren't many clients like that", then get more skills, they'll find you.
"religion is both wrong and harmful"

This is akin to saying that human sexuality is wrong and harmful, or male competition is wrong and harmful.

It is taking a purely evolutionary phenomenon and assigning it a nebulous moral value. Religious behaviour is a direct result of natural selection. Comparable phenomena include homosexuality and extra-marital pairing. As scientists, we cannot make value judgements on these natural phenomena. If we do so, we must clearly leave the realm of science and enter the realm of advocacy.
I can't say I would absolutely need any of these things, but their uses seem like they would work well in special cases, like some with some big company or something. I suppose there is a market for these things, but overall I'm not sure how necessary they really are...I think I may just not be reading about them detailed enough, nor do I want to cut down on the hard work of these developers, but how necessary is the next step in social TV, or something..
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"Just because you do something, does not mean you're good at it." -- Count

This goes both ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen-plaintext_attack

Let's say an ISP in an oppressive country is hooked up to a government system which sniffs all traffic. It's able to record all your SSL traffic but is unable to decrypt it since it doesn't know the session key that was used for encryption.

At the same time you're browsing on the SSL-secured site, you're also using a site which isn't SSL-secured in another tab. The ISP can inject the unsecured site with specially crafted javascript for your browser to execute. This javascript fetches data from the SSL-secured site using specific known plaintext[0] and the ISP records the resulting traffic. Presumably this separate tab would not have to renegotiate the SSL handshake from scratch, thereby reusing the previously randomly generated session ID.[1] By doing this very deliberately with specially chosen plaintext, over time you have enough data to reverse engineer what key was used to encrypt the data.

[0] I'm guessing it takes the form of a GET request to non-existent resources. You know part of the input, and the resulting 404 page is almost always the same so you know part of the output.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Resume...
"Aside from that, the power of belief can also be a reasonably powerful treatment with a positive response on the body/mind."

No it can't. Your mind cannot heal anything. You can change your perception of symptoms but not heal. This is how placebo works. It only changes perception.

I strongly recommend listing to episode 5 of Mark Crislip's QuackCast podcast:

http://www.pusware.com/quackcast/quackcast5.mp3

It covers placebo very well including info about studies done on it.
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What I say too hard, is saying this is way too much trouble for a problem that should be solved at another perspective. that is, fix the network or authorization problem.
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You can already replace the last two groups with a loyalty card aggregator app like CardStar and its ilk.
I promise you that if the legal reasoning in "In re. Alappat" and "State Street" were applied to Benson and Flook, those cases would have been decided the opposite way. The legal precedent in those Supreme Court cases was overruled by the Fed Circuit.
That's my fault for not phrasing the field correctly. It really should be "We need this in X days", and not "This is X days of constant work", which is how most people are interpreting it.
Wasn't able to figure it out. :( Any hints?
See my reply to anigbrowl.
The underlying vulnerability in TLS1.0 is described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg10664...

Surmising from this and the scant details released: It is a chosen-plaintext attack. Requests to the logged-in SSL site are made by injected Javascript in a separate non-SSL page. By changing the length of the requested URL (easily done by appending GET variables), the authentication cookie header is pushed out so that the first unknown character is right at the end of a cipher block. This allows us to make guesses at that character, testing each guess using the method described by Wei Dai in the linked email (using another crafted request to the server). Once we've found the first character, we push the cookie one byte further back and work on the second character, repeating until we have the entire unknown portion of the cookie.

If this turns out to be somewhat accurate, a workaround could be to have the browser force the HTTP headers to be block-aligned, by inserting a dummy first header if necessary.
The requirements are so vague it's hard to tell the number of hours they expect in that fortnight.
Totally seconded - ripe for disruption, but you'd better have some good old-man skills!
There are some similarities. One relevant difference is that the GreenArrays GA144 has 144 CPUs on one chip, not just 48. Another relevant difference is that the GA144 uses up to 200 milliwatts, not up to 125 watts. A third relevant difference is that the Intel chip can run existing software, while the GreenArrays chip needs software to be written specially for it. In large part, this is because the Intel chip has 296 kilobytes of RAM per core, while the GA144 has 64 18-bit words of RAM per core (1152 bits, 144 bytes).

The communications infrastructure is also different. The cores on the GA144 are directly coupled to adjacent cores on the chip, so if you want to route messages, you need to devote some of your cores to routing. The Intel chip instead has a router attached to each pair of cores.

I don't think you'll ever see Go running on an F18A core like the GA144's. But maybe that's okay, because you can run several hundred F18A cores for the same power and silicon real-estate budget as a single IA-32 core.

This paper is the best information I've seen on the SCC.
> I would really like to know what you would cite from TARP as a solid investment.

TARP's purpose was to buy off various groups, which it did.

What? You thought that it was supposed to help the economy? What evidence is there for that proposition?
Until you actually acquire those skills... which is actually really hard to do (it's harder to find a good business cofounder than it is to find a good technical cofounder), you should not be dismissive.
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The usual advice from experts who aren't trying to sell you anything is to go for a stock market index fund with low fees. For example, the Vanguard VTSMX and VFINX are hard to beat. If you picked individual stocks, you would pay more in transaction fees and probably have lower returns -- beating the market is hard.
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One of the knock-on effects of our third-world telecommunications infrastructure is that it limits the level of innovation in small startups that might want to build systems that are bandwidth dependent. That sucks on toast.
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You're describing bikeshedding

http://bikeshed.org/

I love finding out there is a single word for something it would take an entire paragraph to describe.
Clever hack... you're gaming the job application process to receive free PR for your company from aspiring applicants who are doing pro bono work. All that free advertising essentially done by an army of interns working on spec, who hope to be the one winner who is offered employment. One downside is that if enough people are applying earnestly, Google could think you're a content farm. :)
Fair point. I am also working on this. I didn't want to necessarily have people copy/paste their entire spec here, only a pitch.
Maybe it's an example of the Hawthorne Effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

Unfortunately, there probably isn't an ethical way to subject people to medical testing without their knowledge.
Its a great step for NFC adoption in the US but permit me to brag a little by showing you the NFC-payment system in Hong Kong (Octopus Card) which you can use in:

- all public transport (subway, bus, tram, ferry, etc)

- shops (7-11, drugstore etc)

- as access card to buildings, offices, residence

... and on a run-down boat which charges you HK$1.80 per ride (US$0.23). This is the ultimate Mom and Pop shop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_EtTiLP_EE
No, PostgreSQL is way better.

It has a mostly compliant SQL dialect.

It is more compatible with other DBMSs, specially DB2 but also Oracle.

It implements a host of procedural programming languages and extensions, including types and operators.

It is way faster, and scales way more.

It is totally free (no paying Oracle to do InnoDB hot backups).

It is way more consistent.

It does geographic data second to none.

Its development is totally open and way faster. Reading the PostgreSQL TODO wiki page is a joy.

And so on and so on.
I'm pretty sure you botched the title of your submission. The book failed to find an American publisher and later went on to win the award.
The point of owning your self improvement and taking pay cuts to learn is very true. Most of my big bumps followed tactical stepdowns. People who only chase today's dollars are suboptimizing.

The one point I disagree with the author is referrals. It doesn't matter the finders fee, I always try to help with the connection. It's karma. If you aren't doing it for karma, 500 and 5000 are both too cheap.
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Thanks, this would have been my response for the most part. National Defense, Police, Fire, Education, Roads, Water Systems, Sewer Systems, and Healthcare(just a form of nation defense IMO). These are all very expensive endeavors that simply don't work that well if the individuals "shops around".
I know the price of anarchy. We don't have such a thing in this world. So no sense in learning the "price". We COULD learn a thing or 2 by looking at the PROS though.
Well, sometimes reading the purpose / preamble in the bill that they voted on gives some insight to the purpose. So, the answer is no, it was not a solid investment.
Yes, I understood your position to be that from your previous comment. I'll repeat that I think you're missing the point.

The offensive part about religious fundamentalism isn't stubbornness or denial of respect. These are corollaries to dogmatic thinking, but not its defining features. Positions rooted in science are by definition not dogmatic and therefore cannot be fundamentalist. Lack of respect for differences of opinion is indeed a shared trait between Richard Dawkins' views and those of fundamentalists, but that's a rather trivial similarity. At their core, they are philosophical and moral opposites.

Consider as an analogy what would happen if I had a difference of opinion with my doctor about what my illness is that was completely counter to the best information available through examinations and tests. My doctor wouldn't be stubborn or dogmatic for considering me an idiot in that instance. My opinion has no value and therefore is owed no respect.
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I actually stopped working with C++ like 5 years ago. But after the new improvements I am also interested. I have been working so much on Java and C# projects that going back to the bare metal could be good.

Still I don't know if these changes came in too late. I don't imagine myself working in a full C++ project anymore. Lately I have been more interested in Erlang for performance and concurrency. I used to turn to C++ for that.