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Exactly, cash is king.
It doesn't make sense to arbitrarily decide that, if there are two proposals, the answer is to do a little of both. In financial markets, that's often the worst possible course of action. With S&Ls in the early 80's, for example, Congress could have allowed them to fail, or nationalized them. Instead, Congress gave them extra deposit insurance and deregulated their lending -- which caused them to make lots of stupid loans, backed by government insurance. Similarly, California half-deregulated their energy market, which ended up bankrupting their power companies and costing their consumers extra.
Then why does it matter if you slightly affect their efficiency?

This religious Friedmanite bullshit is what got us here in the first place IMHO.
In my experience going from syntax tree to interpreter/compiler is definitely the harder part. Parsing is a relatively straightforward task.
I was dead sure 'abile' was a typo until I reached the end of the post.
The only thing I learned from this article is that the tech/web scene needs some good headshot/editorial photographers.
The recession will reduce demand for oil, the Fed's attempt to get us out of the recession by inflating the currency is making money flee into gold.

The lesson is, you can't push a string, you can not force the smart people who kept their cash out of stupid investments to spend it before the market bottoms.

You can create inflation but that will just force them into gold and that helps no one.
Fascinating video from the Newshouur with Jim Lehrer: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec08/bailoutta...

We do need some kind of government intervention, but the current form stinks.
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So... "inefficient" markets won't fuck up? Wrong.
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i don't want to come across as a jesusphreak, so pm me I guess if you would like a decent conversation? =)

could i suggest that a cognitive dissonance is only necessary if the axiom that "all Christians are loony" is true? You should be having a heck of a time trying to define the two terms, then trying to argue that it is true, before you make the leap into the area of what it thus means to vote for a Christian/loony. It'd be like trying to prove a new theory starting with "1 == 1.1".
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I can't back this up, but I'm doing this out of good will. I want to spare other HN readers. At the end of the day, the bottom line is: Because it sucks.

From the OP: "Since Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University, the social networking giant has been dominated by a freewheeling culture of young, mostly male computer engineers. That all changed in April when the company hired former Google executive Sandberg to become Facebook's chief operating officer. Sandberg, 38, was brought in to provide some adult supervision and help Silicon Valley's hottest startup to grow up—and make oodles of money."

Not cool, BusinessWeek. I hope you get a[nother] hundred hours of downtime for dissing hackers like this. I hope you try turnaround after turnaround as new market entrants eat your lunch.
"Used in reference to somebody of great authority or of a greater social rank than you."
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Each day, only a small part of a company's stock change hands. However, the price of all stocks change, based on that valuation. That is what happened, a lot of stock was valuated as less then it was before (which means that paper money just disappeared).
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However, non-CRA lenders did pressure CRA regulated banks. From the reference:

"Many of these companies are like the one in which my next-door neighbor is employed: they are middlemen who arrange mortgage loans for borrowers including "subprime" borrowers with banks, including CRA-regulated banks"

http://mises.org/story/2963
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That makes Apple friendly to new developers, but I would say that the backwards compatibility guarantee that Microsoft gives is pretty friendly. It's nice to know that your program will run forever, no matter what changes take place.
This is a good article, and I generally agree, but...there's a danger in calling this particular bailout plan "more government", and then arguing against it by saying that more government is always bad.

The problem here isn't "more government" -- it's that the government is showing a willingness to prop up an unsustainable system. If the proposed legislation was a package of hard-nosed reform and regulation, plus some money to bail out the most critical banks to our economy, it would make much more sense. However, in its current state, the bill oinks and waddles just like congressional pork.

We got where we are through a lack of government (regulation), and the solution to the problem almost certainly involves more of it; it just has to be the right type.
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The middle and compromise are not in and by themselves the right answer.

Moderation is often a far superior strategy then extremism, but a little of both is not a superior answer to the question: Is this circuit on or off?

The "middle is always right" attitude reminds me of the US media,
which will often juxtapose facts and spin, then idly stand by, pointing out that both "extreme" positions are equally valid.
One analysis I've heard is that the current problem is due to compromising between strict regulation and strict deregulation.
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There were also a ton in Mensa magazines I seem to remember.

Obviously this is a generalization, so there are a few outlying oddities.
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If their failure hurts us more then not allowing them to fail, then we should really be rational.

But bailing everyone out who's too big to fail just encourages them to get big.

So as the above poster said, we should have an almost automatic break up, or be nationalized law when ever anything gets "too big to fail"
He can't be that smart if he doesn't know anecdotes are useless, now can he?
I've long argued for something similar, just in the housing market: the short-term capital gains tax on homes should be 95%.

The government got into the home-loan business under the pretense that it needed to encourage home ownership to promote community and stability. Then, it allowed flippers to go crazy speculating on home price increases, and effectively subsidized the process via Fannie and Freddie. If we had been taxing short-term home owners at a rate near 100% of their profits, it would have killed the flipping market dead, served to keep home prices in check, and encouraged the values that the agencies were designed to uphold.

(Problem is, of course, that this never could have happened -- for the last three years, the sole pillar of our economic growth has been home price increases. There's no way that congress or the White House would have allowed that pillar to be knocked down. Everyone is conveniently forgetting this today, but it's still true.)
In large part the critiques seem to center around failings of minimal prefix syntax(failings which I would agree with). Minor errors that in bulkier languages are caught by the compiler, become logic errors in a Lisp; an easy way to become frustrated as a learner.
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Wait: invisibility cloaks are real? Where have I been?
Here's a question for anyone that does angel investment: How much does this decrease in availability of VC capital and exit options affect your decision to invest in fledgling startups?
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Every single silicon valley old timer I've spoken to, says the same thing.

There was an almost magical time when the valley was almost nothing but computer geeks having fun, creating new stuff, and starting small businesses that relied on profits from sales.

This dream like reality is long gone, but I wonder if it may return some day.
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Nah. Sell puts.
That was interesting. I have a question though. Lazy languages are simpler to deal with for strictly functional data... But what about side-effects? Is the pain of a monad less than the pain of explaining to a student that (defun if (then else) ...) doesn't work? I don't have experience with Haskell, can anyone comment?

edit: Is there anything better than Lisp macros that makes defining an if possible and that supports side-effects?
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So, what does this say about China's current shortage of women?
I think that his argument is based on fundamentally different assumptions than the Agile practices. One of the most obvious is the idea that programming is engineering or architecture; however, there are quite a few people who disagree that software can be developed this way. Robert Martin suggests that programmers are craftsmen, not engineers; others suggest that gardening is a good metaphor (http://www.artima.com/intv/gardenP.html).

The article implies that one must write all of your tests first when using TDD, but it fails to mention that they don't need to all be written before the first line of non-test code. When designing a bridge, one does need to design it in great detail before beginning construction, but gardening can be more...organic :)
Guess it depends on your definition of "motorcycle" but my Honda Foreman 400 (a 4-wheeler) and so do many others.
Stallman is to Open Source what Ralph Nader is to Liberals or Ron Paul is to Conservatives/Libertarians. He has a well-formed, strongly held but atypical opinion aimed at solving a particular problem, often at great cost in other areas.

In other words, he's the kook that says stuff that blows our credibility with moderates leaning the other way, but does so with good intentions and a kernel of truth that would go a lot farther if posed more pleasantly.

Likewise, he provides good food for thought and frames the situation clearly for people who agree or want to incorporate more of that line of thinking.
>We got where we are through a lack of government (regulation)

I hear this a lot, but what particular regulation do you think would have mitigated the crisis? I can't think of any, except restricting subprime lending - which would be directly contrary to the Government's other goal of more home ownership.

Meg Mcardle had a good discussion of possible regulation:

http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/hindsig...
Ah, my apologies then... Although you have to admit, in the context of the discussion, the title is kind of ambiguous.
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Ah, communism. You are aware of case against it made by 150 years of theoretical and empirical economics, right?
Yes, we hate politics here....except this is a fantastic summary that has nothing to do with technology aside from the author. Still, if he had included technology issues in the analysis, Obama "wins" hands down, especially in specifics:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/

http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/CBCD3A48-4B0E-486...
Stallman is to Open Source what Ralph Nader is to Liberals

What Ralph Nader is to "Liberals" is a pariah at this point.
I don't think anyone that is now arguing that some firms are too big to fail are also arguing that we would have been better off if those firms were run by the government in the intervening decades in which they did not fail.
The title screams idiot populism.
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LOL, very telling! :)
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People who give me the creeps are always intriguing. Could you elaborate?
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I know both Lisp and Haskell, and I'm pretty sure that Haskell for most people is much harder to learn.

The two biggest stumbling blocks people encounter when learning Haskell are monads and the (powerful but complex) type system.
The problem I have with Openmoko comparisons is that nobody seems to actually use one as their regular phone yet. I get that it's cool, but it sounds kind of like something you play with as hobby; not something you put in your pocket in case there's an emergency.
Agreed Prrometheus. More regulation is just going to push more of the business overseas. If Congress screws this one up they could create a situation where there will be no investment capital industry in the United States in the near future.
I studied Miranda in university. It is a beautiful functional language but it wasn't free as in beer. Then around that time I heard about this free language called Haskell that was similar to Miranda. I stopped using Miranda after my course was over. If it was free I wonder if it would be more popular today.
Government intervention is the corporation's way of unfairly messing with free markets and competition. It only costs $8 million per quarter (see AT&T) to hire a team of lobbyists and Senators to unfairly block your competition out of the game and take over an entire industry (see network neutrality).

I agree with you; government regulation is good, meddling is bad.
In my experience, learning OCaml is a good way to become accustomed to the type system Haskell uses without having to also learn how to do everything with functional purity at the same time. The type systems are very similar, though Haskell has type classes and OCaml has a much more elaborate module system.
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Just the URLs are pretty telling.
The problem with the goal of "more home ownership" is that it was a tagline from the GSE's for "increase our deal flow", as they had somewhat of a golden goose with throughput being the only limit. It was and still is political suicide to oppose it. Stroke of genius, if you ask me.

Even worse than non-enforcement has been the active encouragement by the legislature of lots of this stuff. Tightening up the lobbying and revolving doors might help cool off some of that, but I don't really know.

Some of the regulation concepts being floated (not my ideas) are to ban off-balance-sheet vehicles, tighten definitions of what can be put in Level III/model-priced assets, and require that CDSs and other derivatives/wraps be traded on real exchanges so that a market-maker acts as central counterparty).

I'm not a financial expert, just trying to learn about this stuff. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will chime in.
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i don't know for sure. i tried testing it out on closures and other random things and it doesn't seem to work on anything i can think of. perhaps its a typo?
Well, sure, if "all (believing) Christians are loony" isn't your premise, then there's no cognitive dissonance. These are the atheists tptacek was talking about, and I'm sure they exist. But there are also atheists who very much do hold that premise. For them, the easiest resolution is probably just to think that Obama isn't really a believer.

Is this so controversial or hard to follow? I'm surprised the point isn't obvious. (And I hope it's clear that I'm not arguing about the truth of these positions.)
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Not getting rid of the Glass-Steagall Act would have limited the scope of the crisis. The act was put in place in 1933 to prevent the "too big to fail" problem with banks that led to the Great Depression. In general, we've had a Republican congress for the last 8-10 years that has been slowly deregulating the financial services industry.

Staying on a gold standard would have prevented the crisis. The gold standard was eliminated by Nixon in the 70's. In general, there were many checks and balances in place that had to be removed for us to get to where we are now. All in the name of political expediency.
Does anyone have any tools or thoughts on how to turn live traffic (from log and/or tcpdump) into test load for a write-heavy site? (I've found this useful for regression testing and performance in the past on a mostly readonly site).

At the least, it would seem to require a storage snapshot (db+backend storage) timed with the beginning of the log capture, so to get correct responses.

The test could then consist of checking all HTTP responses are the same, and that the db+storage has changed in the same way in the test env as it did on live.

With our current setup (mysql+webdav storage) this seems challenging, particularly since both of these are very large.

Is anyone aware of any tools or work in this area?
He's a monumental figure, working for something extremely important, and surrounded by people who are very wrong. While Nader is much less respected than Stallman, the magnitude to which their respective fields are ungrateful for their respective contributions is about the same. Stallman's contributions I would argue are much bigger than Nader's. Come on he invented the OS that is now the basis of the majority of internet business. I think he deserves a little more respect for that contribution. If Nader had done something equally big in his work of keeping rogue corporations in check, we would have gone on a more Canada-like path than the Reagan-led path of decline that we did go down. Free Software has become a major force that continues to grow and improve our lives. Nader's contributions were not lasting, and have mostly been reversed by decades of corporate think tank astroturfing and lobbying that has whittled away the rights and protections of individuals.
Note that the tested system isn't state-of-the-art as mentioned in the comments sections of the article.
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edit: If you want to use C/C++ go and so some other mobile device platform and see how "excellent" they are.

>There are some things C or C++ are just better at, like operating in a low-memory environment when you want to squeeze as much as possible out of the system.

No, that depends on the developer. A lot of developers don't want to worry about memory management and memory leaks.

The thing is that they need a VM-based language so they can port the VM over to all sorts of hardware instead of forcing developers to mess around with portability issues. Port of Squeak Smalltalk to the iPhone: http://isqueak.org/HomePage
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I saw Debra Bowen speak at USENIX Security this year and it struck me how completely intimate she was with all associated technology. She understood PKI, various encryption methods and their caveats, open source, operating systems, issues of intellectual properties and her drive to get it right the first time was eye-opening.

The stereotype of politicians being technology-inept and low-bidder-first type people was totally shattered with her. Not only did she truly care about the voting process (and dedicates a huge portion of her time to it), she actually took the time to understand the backing technology and made contacts with mostly everyone who matter in e-voting.
I should clarify what I left unspecified.

By nationalize I mean the government would take over, and then slowly but steadily shut down operations.

This would allow smaller competitor to take up the slack.

It would also encourage companies to break up rather then be nationalized, it wouldn't be much of a choice.
This is definitely some sound advice, its important for small companies to stay pragmatic at times like this.
In one sense, the current situation is a product of too little government enforcement of antitrust laws. The whole point of keeping the marketplace free of monopolies is so that one or tow companies can fail catastrophically in any given sector without collapsing the sector as a whole.
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I don't agree with this woman. She's talking about Web 3.0 as It were equal to Web 2.0 plus a bunch of technology. Actually I'm sharing the point of view of O'Reilly and I don't think logging in facebook on a microwave oven is Web 3.0. I don't know how it will be Web 3.0 but I suppose it won't happen without a change in the economic system.
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I must say Richard lost my respect due to his extreme black&white opinions. What I don't get is his irrational fear of proprietary software. For example, I work for a very large (proprietary) software product for healthcare industry. The amount of work is huge, due to technical challenges as well as FDA regulations we must comply with. So what, are we evil now since the software is not open source are our company charges for it?

I am a fan of open source software, but his fighting against other alternatives is at least strange and not good for our industry, IMHO.
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Java's "write once, run everywhere" is a sham. Even within just the mobile targets.
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"I can't believe everyone is taking this comment seriously."

They didn't. My comment wasn't an argument, it just stated my position. Someone else replied with a different position, and I explained further. In an ideal world, I would've fully explained my position in the first place, but it wasn't worth the time if no one disagreed.

I do call things "silly" too much.