| 1. | | You Are Naturally Short Housing (thezikomoletter.com) |
| 307 points by soundsop on Dec 11, 2012 | 202 comments |
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| 2. | | 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers (23andme.com) |
| 305 points by joecackler on Dec 11, 2012 | 236 comments |
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| 3. | | Lorem Pixel (lorempixel.com) |
| 282 points by marshray on Dec 11, 2012 | 51 comments |
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| 4. | | Welcome to a New Gist (github.com/blog) |
| 287 points by kenneth on Dec 11, 2012 | 90 comments |
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| 5. | | ITunes 11 and Colors (panic.com) |
| 266 points by thisisblurry on Dec 11, 2012 | 113 comments |
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| 6. | | Linux 3.7 released (kernelnewbies.org) |
| 254 points by moonboots on Dec 11, 2012 | 114 comments |
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| 7. | | 8-Bit Generation Documentary (textfiles.com) |
| 237 points by cleverjake on Dec 11, 2012 | 27 comments |
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| 8. | | Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon (randomshopper.tumblr.com) |
| 219 points by dmarinoc on Dec 11, 2012 | 95 comments |
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| 9. | | I'm 85 and I Learned To Code. You Should Too. (codehs.com) |
| 195 points by zachgalant on Dec 11, 2012 | 40 comments |
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| 10. | | Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue (microsoft-news.com) |
| 178 points by recoiledsnake on Dec 11, 2012 | 165 comments |
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| 11. | | Checklist for Creating a Landing Page (unbounce.com) |
| 175 points by matt1 on Dec 11, 2012 | 50 comments |
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| 12. | | How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes (code.google.com) |
| 176 points by jpdus on Dec 11, 2012 | 83 comments |
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| 13. | | Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM (fullstackoptimization.com) |
| 167 points by franze on Dec 11, 2012 | 39 comments |
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| 14. | | Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style (techdirt.com) |
| 155 points by mtgx on Dec 11, 2012 | 100 comments |
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| 15. | | Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America" (arstechnica.com) |
| 152 points by Libertatea on Dec 11, 2012 | 51 comments |
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| 16. | | Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa (techcrunch.com) |
| 143 points by mtgx on Dec 11, 2012 | 79 comments |
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| 17. | | Samba 4.0 released (samba.org) |
| 135 points by zdw on Dec 11, 2012 | 72 comments |
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| 18. | | It will take a 'baby elephant' to knock over this bike [video] (bbc.co.uk) |
| 132 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 11, 2012 | 101 comments |
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| 21. | | Programmer behind YouPorn empire arrested in Belgium (translate.google.com) |
| 122 points by car on Dec 11, 2012 | 83 comments |
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| 22. | | Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript (github.com/sjkaliski) |
| 123 points by sjkaliski on Dec 11, 2012 | 48 comments |
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| 23. | | Uses For A Message Queue (iron.io) |
| 117 points by paddyforan on Dec 11, 2012 | 20 comments |
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| 24. | | The Making Of OpenERP (openerp.com) |
| 113 points by nghopenerp on Dec 11, 2012 | 100 comments |
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| 25. | | Unix Text Processing (1987) (oreilly.com) |
| 108 points by rhollos on Dec 11, 2012 | 63 comments |
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| 26. | | Challenging Programming Exercises Published Weekly (programmingpraxis.com) |
| 109 points by krat0sprakhar on Dec 11, 2012 | 19 comments |
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| 27. | | Surprises When Designing An iPhone App (jackg.org) |
| 103 points by troubleden on Dec 11, 2012 | 53 comments |
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| 28. | | Marketing hacks to boost your startup (slideshare.net) |
| 105 points by benjlang on Dec 11, 2012 | 56 comments |
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| 29. | | ZenPayroll raises seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs (pandodaily.com) |
| 99 points by edawerd on Dec 11, 2012 | 64 comments |
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| 30. | | FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes (stevepulec.com) |
| 88 points by spulec on Dec 11, 2012 | 16 comments |
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For example, having a few bananas in your fruit bowl does not give you a position in the banana market. Owning thousands of bananas you intend to resell, or shorting a banana company, gives you a position in that market.
Likewise with housing. Owning enough housing to live in (at whatever standard of living you intend) is a market-neutral position, so you should not be particularly excited by price changes in the market. If you own too little housing, you're "short" and price raises are a negative, and if you own excess housing (extra properties, or a larger-than-desired property) you're "long" and price raises are a positive.