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Not necessarily. A lot of sites don't put the article title in the html title unfortunately. Most do, but enough don't that you have to have that feature there.

Also, lots of them put extraneous crap after it, like the website's name and some descriptive text.

I feel like flag is the nuclear option, when what's called for here is a surgical strike. I probably think too much about this stuff though.
There are a lot of exciting opportunities to restructure things that have sucked for a long time. This is a good thing.

However, your logic doesn't make any sense. A bank can be totally solvent, but be wiped out by a bank run due to forces outside of their control. Similarly plenty of otherwise profitable businesses can be wiped out when the entire economy heads south. This is called throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

What I am expecting in governance that doesn't dig us into a deeper hole.

By the way, the worse the US economy gets, the worse the world economy gets. Do you really want a nuclear pakistan/india go off the deep end?
The benefits you're talking about are those that were promised as pension and healthcare obligations to already-retired workers. The difference between UAW and non-UAW wages and benefits for current workers isn't that large.
It still takes a huge amount of capital to build a competitive assembly line.
This is exactly what you should do. I've got quite a few friends in the swinger crowds, and if you're going to find a good, mature, financially responsible investor for a really good adult-oriented idea, your best bet is in the upscale swinger community.

I'll confirm that they're a mostly very open and very nice crowd, and there's a higher proportion of wealthy and intelligent people among them who would love to invest in a good adult-oriented startup - especially if it's a fresh idea.
What I don't get is why should we expect the government to do a better job at managing banks than the banks themselves? If "trader's options" are bad, why can't the banks figure it out for themselves?
What kind of technical information are you looking for? There are tutorials and documentation for learning how to use Objective-J and Cappuccino on the site.

If you're looking for details on how we built it, there best available information is the source code :). I don't believe we've published a lot of in depth material on specific technical developments, though if I had the time I think it would be a great thing to do.
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There are some interesting stories in this write-up.

I lived in the former Bell Labs headquarters in Manhattan (Greenwich Village) that the author referenced for about a year and a half (until early '08). Since about 1970 the building has been used as subsidized housing (work/live loft space) for "artists." The residents rarely move out because they pay mere hundreds of dollars per month for huge loft spaces that would otherwise rent for many thousands. Since they were picky about who they selected to live there initially, (they chose "artists" with established careers, most of whom were 30+ in 1970) today it has the vibe of a really eccentric retirement community. I'm not sure what the people (private philanthropists and NEA bureaucrats working together) thought would become of the community they funded/founded, but I doubt its present state is what they envisioned. I'm grateful for the ultra-cheap sublet opportunity I had nonetheless.
When the entire economy tanks, sure, it's going to take some businesses with it. There's a difference, though, when your business is so reliant on the poor choices that got us into this mess that it goes out of business practically over night when everyone finally realizes, "Wait, this isn't working anymore." The auto companies aren't much better off; the best was, what, 6 months to survive without a bailout?

There will be collateral damage. That's just part of the deal. As I mentioned, this is a global event so yes, I realize the worse the US economy gets the worse the World economy gets, at least relatively speaking. I would prefer that one of the nuclear countries not go off the deep end and trigger a nuclear war, but I have no reasonable belief that they will either.
Ise Shrine which Clay Shirky mentions:

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

It is rebuilt every 20 years and is on iteration 61.
haha. Well, I think its mean-spirited to celebrate the demise of an industry that employs 3 million people, with no mention of the human toll involved in these transitions.

And I think its disingenuous to claim that I said others are "happy" about job losses, when I said no such thing.

My two points were 1) this is bad for the economy short term, potentially leading to further trickle down effects, and 2) the response of "meh, its just optimization" to the human suffering is not indicative of a society I am proud to live in.
I am getting ~90 percent neutral for several searches, which makes this service ~90 percent useless.
I agree. I very much doubt flash will ever come to the iPhone, I'd put my money on HTML5 <video> etc getting there first, in which case flash will be obsolete.
Hm, must have missed that. So they train on a letter "A" and then they can recognise a "B"?
Ok, how do they do that? Parse every word and pick the few that get the most search hits individually? Or Mechanical Turk?
I agree that efficiency depends on time frame, but I believe that the market will always be more efficient as the time-frame grows. A market is not zero sum. Investors with long-term horizons don't have to beat the market to make money, because wealth is created.

"Since short-term traders contribute more heavily to efficient markets than long-term value investors, it's plausible that long-run investors can make expectancy in excess of the market average."

Why do you think short-term investors create more efficiency than long-term investors?
Is it possible that the expected gain is not the proper measurement for the value of the shares? For example, the expected value of the national lottery is negative (-50% in Germany), but I can understand people who play nevertheless: if you lose, you only lose 1€, but if you win, you can win a million €.

Similar for the experiment, maybe the chance on the 90cents yield was enough to warrant higher prices? It is simply gambling?

Phrased differently (using example from other comment): if you had to choose between 10$ and a 50% chance to get 0$ or 20$, which would you chose? Depending on your circumstances, either option might be more valuable to you? If you are about to starve in the next minute, you'd probably take the 10$ (50% chance of dieing is too much), but if you already have enough money, why not take a 50% shot at earning 10$? What if the choice is between getting 1 million $ and a 50% chance between 0 and 2 million $? I definitely don't think the two options have the same value, even though the expected outcome is the same.

Spontaneously I would take the 1 million, otoh I have read somewhere that in TV game shows, participants routinely gamble away such sums (the kind of game show where you can either quit and take the money you already won, or put it all at stake for the next question, with a chance to double it).

I wonder, in the experiment of the article, if prices rose even above the maximum possible value of the shares?
Because trader's options are good for bankers, but not good for the public. These options create incentives for bankers to take large risks to maximize short term profits, and hence year end bonuses. But if risky trades blow up, a banker merely loses his job - not exactly nontrivial, but certainly mitigated by getting to keep bonuses from past years. And if enough risky trades blow up within a firm, sending it into insolvency, it can always get government bailouts because of the systemic risk its failure would produce. Essentially, gains are privatized and losses are socialized. This is why the government needs to restructure bank pay incentives, with a key probably being making banks privately held again, as well as reducing leverage and regulating the system better (or at all).

Granted, some firms, like Morgan Stanley and UBS, are beginning to experiment with clawback provisions, that have longer 3 year horizons for bonuses. But until we reform the system, this won't be in banks', or bankers', interests, except from a PR angle, which clearly matters. And government pressure can help us get there faster.
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You missed the point, which was that your site could be up, and google would be down, which would cause big problems with javascript errors.

OTOH if your site is down, it's fully down - no partial content, and javascript errors.
You can't artificially prevent "human suffering" through economic ignorance. I appreciate the point, but don't see the bailout and human suffering as the only two choices.

One other possible option is for the government to spend a fraction of this money to help people suffering by the collapse of the US auto industry as a buffer until (likely foreign) competition moves in and takes its place.

If you see this as simply the acceleration of the inevitable (as I do) the argument you are making for a bailout is akin to saying we should support any industry that is no longer economically viable just to keep the people from having to suffer job loss. This is not a sustainable long term strategy. At some point people must move on. If this means acquisition of new skills in order to most efficiently re-integrate into the economy than society should help people who unfortunately lost their jobs in attaining these skills, but it is the wrong decision to prop up failing companies in order to help their employees, because at some point this ceases to work. There are more efficient uses for capital that help more people in the long term.
I think it's safe to assume that more than 5% of tweets about Blagojevich have been negative. fail.
I've actually experienced it from both sides; mostly as an employee though.

If you're a little on the shady side of unethical it's equally easy to game the system from either direction. For every goldbricker like the OP there is someone running a 'design competition' where the top prize is having your entry fleshed out by vietnamese contractors working at 1/10th the going rate of any of the contest entrants.

There are multiple problems with the social construction of what work is and it's place in our lives, for one thing our society is constructed so that much of what passes for work is in fact random noise, this is more pronounced at large companies where the wastage of time, attention and psychological energy are well worn clichés; but it exists at small companies, and solo acts as well. For another, we are not for the most part able to work effectively; somebody who can pull a reliable twenty minutes of productive flow out of a day can be a miracle worker, especially in a shop where the standards are already low.
While I know Toyota is staffed mostly by robotic ninjas, presumably they need health care once and a while, too. Japan enjoys a standard of healthcare right up there with the US.

Toyota also manages to pay American worker's healthcare expenses and still profit handsomely.

Find another scapegoat?
It's not necessarily the same loss of jobs. The issue here isn't just the Big 3, but all of the secondary industries and suppliers that depend on the Big 3 as clients. If the Big 3 go bankrupt now, there is a not insignificant chance that this could cascade through the supply chains, and actually hurt the Japanese companies with American plants as well. The issue here isn't whether the Big 3 should fail - they have and they should - but whether they should fail right now.

Even accepting the hard argument that this bailout would merely forestall restructuring and eventual job loss, if that restructuring can be pushed to a time when the economy isn't in such dire straits, then the bailout could easily be worth it. The timing is clearly the most important factor. Consider Lehman. Lehman (and all of Wall St for that matter) was in a very similar position to the one the hedge fund LTCM was in 1998 - i.e., highly levered and insolvent, thus constituting a systemic risk. In 1998 because the rest of Wall St was healthy, the Fed was able to organize a private bailout of LTCM that prevented a, in hindsight, minor credit crisis from escalating. In 2008, since all of Wall St is essentially insolvent, the Treasury was unable to broker a bailout/merger and unwilling to bail out Lehman with public funds, leading to a catastrophic bankruptcy. The cost of being wrong about Lehman far outweighed what bailing it out would have cost, just as the cost of being wrong about letting the Big 3 fail at this moment could far outweight the proposed $14 billion (admittedly just a first offering).
Looks slick but the algorithm is about as accurate as bad-word filter: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001176.html
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Good for bankers, yes, but not good for banks, or are they? And banks employ bankers.

Remembering Joel's writings on performance measurements, I am simply skeptic that there can be any remedy, short of people watching out for themselves. I suspect even with longer windows for bonuses, there will be ways to game the system.
Memory usage is amazing in chrome. I've recently been comparing footprint on exactly the same tasks with my own web app. Chrome < 30mb, IE 7 fully patched XP > 160mb, FF ~80mb. I'm still using FF as my default but may be switching soon ;)

I'm jealous of the next generation of web developers who will (hopefully) work in a web environment with lots of competition and not so much of a browser monopoly!
Most are not celebrating the demise of the industry, except maybe Toyota shareholders. They're celebrating the non-passage of a bill that wouldn't do anything but slightly delay the demise of the industry, while costing a lot of money. They're not dancing on the grave of an industry, they're dancing on the grave of a bill. It's two very different things. I guess maybe you're not mean-spirited and are just not understanding the difference.
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Wasn't this a targeted attack against a security blogger?
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I don't know why you are speaking for other people. The OP I was responding to was clearly talking about the industry, and presumably those upvoting agree with the sentiment.

The sentiment was "thank god the industry is finally allowed to die", not "thank god we are not wasting money", which suggests more of an emotional dislike of the auto industry rather than a dislike of this piece of legislation.
An inevitability of stock markets?
Has it crossed your mind that maybe the hot married pieces of ass should be left alone?
Actually, from what I have heard/read (i.e. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/11/congress.auto.bailout...) about the proposed bailout, was that it was meant to keep the companies afloat until March-ish. Without, the outlook is a lot grimmer than 6 months, given March is more like 3-4 months away.
Good for bankers and bad for banks. Bankers who took more conservative, longer term views during the bubble would have been more likely to lose their jobs, because their short term profits would not have been as large as their peers' who engaged in groupthink/stupidity. So this pay structure effectively weeded out bankers who actually looked out for the long term health of their banks.

Simply making banks privately held companies, so the bankers have their own capital on the line in their trades, eliminates this moral hazard. Banks do not have some natural right to be publicly traded companies.
This is off-topic, but does anyone else think Clay Shirky looks like Tom Hanks in this video?
Chinese translation: http://www.ruanyifeng.com/blog/2008/12/why_to_start_a_startu...
The OP said he was glad the bill failed because he feels the market can work out a better solution. You brought up the whole dancing on the grave of people's jobs thing.

He wasn't saying he was happy about the loss of jobs. The loss of jobs is coming one way or another (or so the economists I've read seem to think). Chapter 11 gives them a chance to at least end up viable in the end, creating more jobs in the long term.

He is happy that we aren't throwing money down a well. Or that's how I read it.
I never understand this argument about the suppliers either. Lets say Americans would have bought 1 million American cars per year. But all of the manufacturers vanish in a puff of smoke. Now what do they do? They buy 1 million Japanese cars (made right here in America) per year.

Those cars are built with parts from the same suppliers, or other suppliers still largely based in America. Profits may shift from one supplier to another, but they don't decrease.
I'm thinking it might start with their algorithm for finding improbable phrases. They serve as a kind of a word-based fingerprint for a book and probably make searching on over-specific queries like this one a lot easier.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search-inside/sipshelp.html
The solution is pretty evident: help out those who need it with some money from the government, health care, retraining and so on. I.e. "save people", not "save jobs".
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The difference is our financial industry may be salvageable, and not trying is disastrous. Whether or not that bailout is a good idea is certainly debatable.

But it has nothing to do with a different bailout that, without some serious provisions to ensure long term viability, has no chance of working.

FWIW, most economists seem to be for the financial bailout and against the auto one.

Also the financial one is not a give away, it's an investment. They're taking equity stakes in bailed out companies and enforcing rules to ensure long term viability. The Senate wants the same exact thing with the auto one.
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That was the major "why" I saw.
Maybe I am going to burn a few karma points now, but my advice would be - don't do it at all. If you put a leg into porn industry, it will leave a stigma that you will not be able to get rid of for the rest of your life..it will forever be attached to your resume.

>> Mixing money and sex has always been a recipe for disaster.

Well said. ;-) You can obviously make money with sex, but you will pay the price after all. No loss, no gain.
>I just want to make a bankroll and get out.

Life is hard, man. It's easy to find a way to waste your time and get by. But there is no easy way to make a bankroll and get out. To make enough to live off of for the rest of your life, you need to provide as much value to the marketplace in a short period of time as an average man does over the course of his whole life. You think that's easy?
"At every workplace (big to small, profit and non-, startup to hegemony), I'm enthusiastic the first couple weeks but inevitably slide to keeping up appearances with 2-6 hours of actual work per week."

Does the person you described sound like the submitter?
"best available information is the source code"

That's what I was afraid of :-)

I'm not building a big serious web app, so I have no real reason to learn Cappuccino that deeply. I also have no end of curiosity, so I am explicitly avoiding downloading the source code for fear of the time sink that would cause.

I was hoping for a blog post or two detailing some of the techniques and machinery involved with creating the compile-free Objective-J constructs. It would also be really interesting to hear what sort of effort was required in porting Cocoa. I'm not looking for "talk to me like I'm a 3 year old". I'm looking for "here's the gist of it", hacker to hacker. From where I am sitting now Objective-J is a pretty freaking impressive magic trick. I'd just like a peek behind the curtain, but I don't really want to see the schematics.

I'm sure you guys are even busier than I am, but if you do get a spare moment, I'd really appreciate it if you shared. I think it would probably also drive adoption. If it seems like an impressive magic trick to me, it probably seems like evil black magic and sorcery to others.
Check the front page of the NYT right now. Suppliers are near bankruptcy as well. Just like the Big 3, or anyone else for that matter, these suppliers can't get credit now. They need business (and payment for past business) from the Big 3 to remain solvent.

Your mistake is assuming that demand, in this case for cars, remains constant even if the Big 3 go bankrupt. If the Big 3 disappear, it's an enormous downward force on demand. Japanese companies can't immediately start producing more cars to make up for the slack from a Big 3 failure, so the suppliers would likely disappear. So we're talking about potentially millions of lost jobs. And that's a lot of people no longer in the market for cars, or really any other goods or services.

We're potentially facing a deflationary spiral, where the credit markets freezing up leads to companies failing/laying people off, which lowers demand, which causes businesses and investors to cut back on development and lay even more people off, and so forth. And as drop in aggregate demand creates deflation, individual's debt burdens increase. So we can expect continued foreclosures and increasing defaults on credit card debt and student loans, etc., leading to even more writedowns for banks, and even less credit available for business or consumers. It's a vicious feedback loop. We need the government to stop this downward spiral.
An easy way do it would be to extract the term vectors from the query and then find related documents computing the cosine similarity measure.
I think that looks quite cool, particularly the timeline view. While I'm not sure I would present my CV in such a way to a prospective employer, I might include a link. It would be interesting if there were a way to take that data and use it to generate custom CVs for each job; i.e. where you pick and choose the relevant data and it generates an outline CV for you.

If you get a 404, try looking at the CV he's created here:
http://www.coderscv.com/timeline/Ben-Northrop.htm
In the long term, this has great potential for improving communication - imagine being able to visualize something and show it to other people instantly, rather than having to try to draw it or put it into words.

For example, it could greatly speed up teaching if both the student and teacher were equipped with an advanced version of this device, since the teacher could immediately see and easily correct any mistaken visualizations the student had.

It could be the human-to-human equivalent of going from 56k to broadband.
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Spending more time at the office is a fairly reliable way of upping your odds when you're not at the office.

American cultural assumption? Because I don't want women to be attracted to my money. Better ways to get women: learn to perform music, take up physical exercise, practice your confidence game.
Now that's a great idea.