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> This means that Overstock's accusation is now public. This says nothing about the veracity of the accusation.

The information about this comes from internal Goldman emails produced during discovery which admit to the practice. Emails that Goldman has fought in court to prevent the release of, only to have one of their own lawyers screw up by filing something not under seal.

EDIT: If you want to quote the actual emails, I've added most of the quotes from them below:

"Fuck the compliance area – procedures, schmecedures," chirps Peter Melz, former president of Merrill Lynch Professional Clearing Corp. (a.k.a. Merrill Pro), when a subordinate worries about the company failing to comply with the rules governing short sales.

"He should be someone we can work with, especially if he sees that cooperation results in resources, both data and funding," the lobbyist writes, "while resistance results in isolation."

“We are NOT borrowing negatives… I have made that clear from the beginning. Why would we want to borrow them? We want to fail them.”

“Two months ago 107% of the floating was short!”

“We have to be careful not to link locates to fails [because] we have told the regulators we can’t,” one executive is quoted as saying, in the document.
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While this may be off topic, i am actually a lot more interested how they executed the project management part of the whole program.

The project management techniques in use today seem like they have been largely developed in the US aeronautics industry.

The soviet space program was inteed a complex task requiring coordination with large teams in different areas of development. Is anybody aware how they organize that? is the methodology documented somewhere?
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I could do a conference in an Amsterdam coffeeshop.
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But doesn't there need to be a way to bet that something is overpriced?
great article! loved it.
in the 80's i coined me the sentence "never write software for cruise missiles!". that was harder than i imagined then. today it's the same with AI, ML and even data mining. ethically very though stuff for responsible software developers.
anyway, thnx for the article.
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If you're violating the laws of physics in your assumption ("on a perfectly efficient machine") you can't expect them to hold for your hypothesis.
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How healthy is the startup scene down under?
Great plugin collection! To be honest though, I first expected this to be a library that fixes JavaScript's prototypical OO.
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It sure fits nicely together, but I doubt this was the plan all along. Google general strategy seems to be to collect as much data as possible just in case it might become useful one day. Good decision to load up the StreetView cars not just with cameras for pictures, but with all kinds of sensors to collect a bunch of potentially useful metrics. That data is becoming handy for quite a few things now.
Apple is or at least under Jobs, was very clear about not adding function that would consequently disrupt form or usability. Many of the features listed as suggestions for the iOS are present in other OSs. It's these 'features' that motivated me to move back to the iPhone.

Here is an example: The current rumor is Apple will introduce a larger (~170 px taller) screen. With larger screens (or taller) when you are using one hand (which most seem to want to do), as you reach your thumb to the far side of the screen your thumb muscle makes contact with the touch surface, causing inadvertent input. One-handed operation with newer devices such as the GS2 are very difficult. Also the sheer size of some of these newer "handhelds" is a bit too big for my hand (which is average to large size) requiring me to use two hands. It's little details like this that the OP and iPhone competitors seem to miss. Does the screen need to be bigger, and at what cost? If the cost is usability or adding clutter to the UI, then it will likely not make it in to the iPhone 5.

Mobile devices are good for somethings but are not meant to replace full computers.
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Statistics and probability don't directly relate to anything in TADM from what I can recall. There's not much to the maths beyond high school stuff. Some discrete maths will help though. Graphs theory, trees and functions especially. Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics is decent.

Obviously Skiena's book is in C- so be somewhat familiar with it. Again no need to go crazy deep into C before you start. You can learn as you go.

I'd recommend just diving in and using other resources as references if you come across anything you don't know, rather than spending too much time working though "pre-requisites".
That's true. But I am somewhat skeptical about the fact that a smart person necessarily is the one with good networking skills or the one capable of forging sound relationships. There are times when a truly smart person, either due to his own eccentricity or the environment, doesn't get to have a chance of having a good co-founder unless he relocates himself which is hardly possible in many cases.
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http://www.isup.me/meteor.com says its down for others too.

I don't think its because of Telecom Dept.
this is a parody right?
IMO Great. Here are some reasons why:

1) It is remarkably easy to start a business in Australia. Three steps, IIRC, and can be done in a day.

2) There are significant tax breaks for people selling a company they started

3) The language is English, which is a big advantage for sales and marketing reasons, and many others

4) Australian-based businesses don't need to charge sales tat/VAT/GST to anyone except Australian customers. (In comparison, I'm currently based in Spain, so I have to charge various rates of VAT/sales tax to all European Union customers)

5) Relatively low bureaucratic hurdle (compared to UK, Germany, Spain, and Lebanon - the other countries where I've worked)

6) The infrastructure is excellent. (Internet infrastructure could be better though - it is not on par with western europe.)
I don't think that would matter. Googles driverless cars use 3D laser scanners which don't require any ambient light. Plus, computers can theoretically see a lot more of the spectrum and therefore see a lot more than we mere mortals. They could look at the road ahead an know exactly what temperature it is, and possibly even see black ice. They could see a ninja on a black horse, at night, in the rain and fog, from miles away using thermal imaging.

Daylight driving, to a machine, would probably be more difficult than night time driving simply because there's more stuff happening on the roads during the day.
Yes i got the meaning, but for some reason i detected a hint of sarcasm; hence asked for a clarification :-)
Too bad the site seems down. Anyone here with a copy of the article?
I don't understand what you are saying - the banks don't control how I charge my customers. I've charged in numerous currencies, either directly or via payment processors. Can you elaborate?
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Folks you still are not getting it..

Short selling is selling a stock you do not own in exchange with a promise to pay for it with either stock or cash.

Naked short selling is pump-dumping a stock price with FALSE TRADES.

any individual trader caught doing this would be doing 40 years in the nearest FED prison...its time for some GS execs to be facing jail time..no exceptions no get out of jail due to friends with Obama cards used
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What needs to be fixed with prototypical OO?
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I'm sure -- I clicked around randomly and my impression was that the articles were generic and auto-generated. Sadly, it might be able to compete with what passes for local news some places, but my local paper is much better.

The key to local news is local names and faces -- stock photography and localized generic news isn't going to cut it.
While the French are secular to the point they don't even need to be aggressive about it. :)
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"However the photo-recon interpreter guys are amazing."

Amazing in identifying what is actually on the picture or amazing in giving politicians what they want?
I see why they only want to supply the hardware for ASN's with 5Gbps traffic, however that's only going to be a small number of ISP's.

Akamai and Google (GGC) offer caches for free on networks with <1Gbps peak traffic.

If they cant support the cost of caches for networks under 5Gbps, may be they could allow the ISP to supply hardware and Netflix just support the software?
Does anyone know of anything interesting happening in New Zealand re startups?
If I squint my eyes and ignore all the facts that are already out there about Google's driverless cars, then I suppose this could be true.

I sometimes enjoy these sorts of articles. They're the fan-fiction of the tech world and it's no different to the sort of conjecture people like to come up with for Apple, which can be shameless fun to read.

But when there's already a ton of information out there about how Google's driverless cars work, it just seems cheap and hollow.

Also, I don't get the title.
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If you happen to be an Aussie who's stumbled upon this and you know a teacher or two, link them to this:

http://iterate.inspire.edu.au/

And if you know any high school students link them to:

http://challenge.ncss.edu.au/

There's some fantastic CS teaching programs going on in Australia and we should give them as much support as we can :)
I started reading Patrick Byrne's adventures in Naked Short Selling in the beginning but have since trailed off (this is like 10 years ago mind you). Perhaps his infamous "Miscreants Ball" diatribe kicked everything off which has been ridiculed since day one but begins to be prescient as more and more news of NSS surfaces. He now funds/participates in http://www.deepcapture.com/ which is fun reading from time to time. It's been quite a ride; I must give him kudos for his stamina but having read his speech from Pan-Mass http://www.pmc.org/articles.asp?ArticleID=110 regarding his life, one can't help but root for the guy.
I can only assume so.
Isn't it the case that there simply is too much money and at the end of the day, people seem to be desperate to invest it somewhere? I think that is a reason why most stock market crises don't seem to last very long.
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You are freaking right, youngsters waste everything, bandwidth, processor cycles, space... Having someone who's experienced the tough old days would help deliver apps that work with baseline devices.
it also feels that in some cases the data would simply be useless, e.g. data collected in rome and other historical cities by pedaling bikes in pedestrian areas.
From Australia?
My understanding was that this post from 2010 was still essentially the state of play for Australian accounts: http://www.22michaels.com/2010/04/online-retail-in-australia...

That essentially it's Paypal, Worldpay or NAB.
Using the AUR is of course preferable, but in his defense, the AUR package has been flagged as out of date and has the wrong dependencies (as per the comments).

Of course, this can be fixed by editing the PKGBUILD with your favorite AUR helper. For instance, yaourt (the one I've used for a while now) prompts you to edit the PKGBUILD on every package you try to install... and it displays the most recent comments on that package, so I'd notice that nodejs was a requirement.

But if you're not comfortable with PKGBUILDs and the like, I can see trying some alternate route when you notice that the AUR is out of date.
But having updates cryptographically signed and checked against a list of (presumably) trusted certificates is in my best interest.

The "bug" here was in key management, not in SW that's running in my computer.
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Perhaps tongue in cheek but it's normally easier to type sh install.sh
This piece sums up one of the problems perfectly - the teachers simply can't keep up with the technology involved. As far as I can tell, our high-school CS curriculum in Queensland hasn't changed much since the early 90s. It consists of:

- One and a half semesters of "conceptual schema design procedure", backed up by a mundane textbook written in 1989 by a "big wheel" type from a local university. What makes this particularly strange is the amount of conceptual work you do on relational database schema design without actually using a relational database.

- Two and a half semesters of Visual Basic 6. I asked my teacher why he was still teaching it and his response was more-or-less "...because it's the only language I know". CS4HS could be a real help here.

- A smattering of lessons on "social and ethical issues in IT", which are about as insightful as they sound.

Of course, the HS curriculum is just one of the issues. The mining boom has meant that newly minted EEs can get up to $120k straight out of university by joining the fly in/fly out workforce in central QLD and WA, so the mathematically inclined students tend to choose civil, electrical, mechanical or chemical engineering courses. Australia has a long way to go if it wants to become the world's "Silicon Beach".
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We'll see. Lots of people getting on the Startup bandwagon at the moment. Some of them are helped along by PushStart and StartMate (YC-style incubators). Others are finding their own way.

Some cool things are going on and other stuff has happened here: Atlassian, Google Maps, Freelancer, Campaign Monitor, 99 Designs are some big-ish names.

Australia tends to hate on itself and think that everything is horrible, when we actually have it much better than many other places. For "Tech Startups" it's obvious that Silicon Valley is _the_ place to be - but that doesn't mean that you have to be there to succeed. Especially if you are using technology to transform a market back home.
If you don't have graphics support for your current card or need the new profiling it's significant. The "target mode" is cool but it's not a significant use case.
I guess this means I should start looking at BSD as my primary desktop OS :)
I only tried to play HoN - the game did work and din't crash or had any performance issues - but there were many glitches and alt-tab not working made me give up. Most of the issues with stability I had were with Gnome 3 + closed source driver (Unity as well, but I haven't tried Ubuntu since 11.10 Alpha). I also tried to play some games with Wine and that didn't work so well (NvN, HOMM) - again random glitches and crashes.
As an Australian CS graduate, the best offer I got from an Australian company was less than half the worst BigCo offer in the states. Google might hem and haw about "Australia's future prosperity", but their motives should be clear. More graduates does not a Silicon Valley make.
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ExtremeJS and ExtremJS seem to be used interchangeably. Is that a typo, or do you mean to call it both?
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I believe he's referring to an acquisition by Facebook being an exit option, not an acquisition of Facebook.
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> all the facts that are already out there about Google's driverless cars

Are you referring here to fact that the driverless cars follow pre-determined paths rather than reading traffic signals? Or do you just mean that the proposed motivation doesn't really hold water? Because it seems pretty plausible to me that streetview data could be very useful to the drtiverless car, even if other data is more important and even if streetview is better motivated on its own.
Registers can be made by using a bunch of flip-flops, which are again made using NAND/NOR.
Which country are you looking for data from ?
I use a currency broker to kill two birds with one stone. http://currencyfair.com lets me accept deposits to local bank accounts in several countries, and then get a pretty decent rate converting the money to, e.g., GBP or PLN.

Thinking about it, I'm pretty amazed that the system works so flawlessly. Their customer service is pretty hot - I discussed whether all of this was possible with them in advance and got the go-ahead. Definitely get in touch with them!
Oracle has paid Google more in legal fees than it could win in damages
Not sure where you've been looking, I've heard of decent offers in Australia. If you've been applying for corporate IT jobs then no surprise, but you can do well over here.
Australian company here charging customers in USD for nearly 10 years now via PayPal.

"Having a Silicon Valley" is totally unrelated I think.
This is why computing has stagnated for 30 years http://programmers.stackexchange.com/q/58186/6219

Each new batch of programmers is so ignorant of the past that they spend all their time reinventing it (usually, badly) instead of making any real progress.
I used WorldPay: high annual fees and % fees. I can't believe the situation hasn't improved after 10 years.

There's a startup opportunity here - it doesn't need to be Google Checkout or Stripe - and, because it would benefit Australian business, it would make sense for the government to fund it (ha).
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Nah, anyone can get hold of Windows sources http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx

Microsoft licenses product source code to qualified customers, enterprises, governments, and partners for debugging and reference purposes

Drop 'em an email if you're curious.
I see.

Yet another good reason to outsource payment processing, and concentrate instead on what you do well.

I use FastSpring because they are good at the headaches of making it easy for people to pay whenever, however, in whatever currency they like.
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It makes sense to someone.

Microsoft shared source initiative

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx

In 2003 MS gave China access to their source

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2003/feb03/02-28gs...
In argentina there's almost not other way. BTW MG Sielge wrote about the FB IPO and said it was bad for short sight bankers but good for FB, is he wrong?
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CouchDB has a plugin based auth system, with in built support for http / cookie / oauth, so its a matter of only allowing access to a database against an authenticated client, it can all go over https of course.

Its possible / in the plans to use on top of sqllite (and thus mysql), but it wouldnt be possible to use in the way you invisage, PouchDB + CouchDB allow you to sync data due to its data model and api, you wont be able to sync data out of your current application written with rdbms in mind and have it 'just work'
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Interesting but Facebook was absurdly valued to begin with. At nearly 100 times earnings, it seems to me that Mr. Market actually responded appropriately for now.

Facebook has already been monetizing using traditional revenue streams (ads) and there doesn't appear to be much left to do there.

They may have another ace up their sleeve, but it's not Wall Streets job to guess that they may.
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Sounds fun. But why is it limited to js?
Any thoughts on whether this is:

* a long term program to mint more developers (and drive down salaries)
* to mint more developers to create more websites to display advertising on faster
* ???
or

* a genuine good will program
* ???

?
I'm not sure what you mean by "fixing" javascript's OO implementation, but I guess you could have a look at qxoo, qooxdoo's oo engine re-packaged as a standalone project.

https://github.com/fjakobs/qxoo/
Warren Buffet is a known anomaly.

His value investing and stock picking ability is pretty much unparalleled.

At the same time, he IS lucky to have done what he did, at the time he did.

Even if one single person like him existed before or at the same time as him, he would have had trouble finding deals to invest in.

EDIT: not to mention the things he did wouldn't have been possible at many other junctions in time. His skill set - value investing, would have been impossible if he wasn't born in the era he was.
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I'm only young and am just about to finish my first semester of university. I really dislike the Computer Science course and a couple of posts here have made me want to drop it completely. I've been working in IT for 3.5yrs (mostly part time) and coding for myself and freelance developing for just as long. I was just looking at some full time programming jobs and I fit some of the lower salary bracket ones nicely.

Has anyone else been at similar crossroads and regretted the decision they made?
How did you know you were ready to enter the industry?
What did your portfolio consist of? I have things that I've made, just not in a central location.

~Mitch

Posts that ave made me want to drop out basically say:
- CS is theory, not development
- CS is all about optimization, which isn't needed today
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As someone with no knowledge of military, I have no idea of the rookie mistakes made by hollywood. Care to give some examples?
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oh man, before that site how would you know what to do?
Why not using your email provider as a authentication system?
But does it refuse to install the malware if it arbitrarily decides that your Windows is not genuine?
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