skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a cheeky cop-out. The original criticism is still valid, and we don't know how many companies outside of Heroku (if any) are getting the patch ahead of time. We don't all have the resources to a) Pay Oracle grade prices for support or b) the man power to comb through millions of lines of code to fix it ourselves.

If these are the best excuses for lack of full transparency one could could come up with, then why would anyone choose a Linux distro? Or any of the *BSDs for that matter? Transparency and an expectation of due diligence is why a lot of companies (in IT and elsewhere) still stay in business while choosing Open Source software.

Besides, Postgres isn't some run-of-the-mill startup with a dropped letter domain name. It's a venerable software foundation with almost 20 years of work and experience behind it. Which makes this a questionable course of action on their part despite the need for discretionary release.
I'm not clear how you can steal something that is over the air.
In the Django community, as in Sparta, everyone is held accountable for the words of his voice.

The main difference is that in Sparta they throw you in a gigantic pit; we have a strong preference for talking it out and encouraging people to be nice to each other.
Bitcoin value surpasses $100 — is this another bubble?
Eventually, those suppliers of unwanted goods will stop supplying, and prices will start to rise as demand drops, reversing the deflation.
Bubble or not, Bitcoins are here to stay!
Amazon pays that to first time co-ops. I've seen salaries reach $8,500.

Apple pays even more if you're willing to pull a lot of overtime.
As far as I know, postgres has not had a history of "You only get up-to-date patches if you pay us." I've not even seen that you can pay for early access. If they want to use delayed patches as a source of revenue, they should be up front about it so that people can be ready for cases like this.
I am amazed these laws have survived as long as they have. I met a gal on an airplane once whose "job" was being the taxpayer representative an outdated agricultural committee for the US DoA. She was making 6 figures, for attending four meetings a year (transportation costs included). I was stunned at the waste of it all, but as waste go it was minor.
The other way, 99.999999% or more of human population disagree with him.
I believe if/when it does crash there will be an immediate resurgence in the price per BTC, driven by the people who wanted to invest but thought the price was too high. This is why i'm not all that scared investing rather large sums of money into the Bitcoin economy.
My favorite is Craigslist's new mobile site: http://Chicago.craigslist.org
SRED is the R&D tax credit: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/
I'm always frustrated by suggestions to take a 20-30 minute nap during the afternoon. I just can't do that. Even when I'm fairly tired and I go to bed for the night, it can take me 45-60 minutes to fall asleep. There's no way I'm going to fall into even a light sleep in 20-30 minutes in the afternoon when I'm only vaguely (if at all) fatigued.

Then again, my "sleep hygiene" is fairly bad overall: I regularly go to bed ~4am, I can rarely sleep for more than 5 hours without waking up (and I don't feel fully rested after that), and I usually spend 45-60 minutes snoozing my alarm before I get up (10-11am). Hopefully I'm not typical. I should probably get a sleep study done.
Bloc (http://www.bloc.io)

* We're looking for generalist developers (we're a Rails shop, but if you're willing to learn we're willing to teach)
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At Bloc, we're building a vertically integrated education platform. If you're interested in bringing an Apple-esque obsession to building products in the education space, you should give me a ping! roshan [at] bloc.io
> That is exactly what is happening in this case: the broadcasters and media conglomerates are trying to impose enough restrictions on Aereo's technology that it becomes impractical.

What restrictions are they trying to impose exactly, other than "do whatever the hell you want just with your own damn content?" You're completely ignoring that crucial distinction between this situation and red flag laws. Cars were not taking advantage of horse driven carriages in any way. Aero exists only to distribute the content of the big media networks. Nobody would subscribe to their service without that content. Nobody is suing to restrict the technology--they're suing to force Aero to not free-ride on their content.

> A promising, decentralized technology that allowed anyone to broadcast entertainment on a global scale was destroyed and companies like Youtube took its place.

Nobody "killed" P2P. Last I checked, I could still torrent Ubuntu ISO's all day long.

You keep bringing up stuff like "allowed anyone to broadcast entertainment on a global scale" then ignore the fact that nobody has shut down the technology that allows people to do this. You can put together your 18th century murder mystery home movie and distribute it over Bittorrent and it's 100% legal. It's just that nobody wants the random crap filmed by some guy in their basement. They want $100 million Hollywood blockbusters.

What's happening is that content companies are fighting to protect companies like Napster, Youtube, etc, from free-riding on content they didn't create. And I don't think technology changes anything in this regard. Just because technology makes it easier to profit from other peoples' creations doesn't mean that it's "holding back innovation" to keep people from doing so.
I don't see how the intention of copyright holders in this case is pertinent to what is legal. This line of thinking seems pretty similar to the arguments made in first sale doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine) intending to close grey markets.

If one can legally bridge a "free" over the air broadcast over TCPIP one mile (or whatever the size of a broadcast area is), why not one hundred miles or even across the country?
It separates (theoretically, as it can't be measured) the price change due to faith-in-currency from price change due to market forces on the products.

That is, the price of good may fluctuate as function of how much current labor you need to buy it, or as a function of how much of your past savings it will cost.
The diference between those measurements is due to money supply (in part, for there are other complicating factors)
"Woman" is the technical term for the female of the species. ;-)
Guys, InstantCab founder here. We did really get a cease and desist from the SFO airport. In the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, we re-imagined how the letter would look if they wrote it as it would befit public officials in the most innovative place on earth. And (of course) we put up the actual C&D on rapgenius: http://rapgenius.com/The-bureaucrats-cease-and-desist-instan...
Bitcoins are worth more than ever, almost $100 per coin
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Free is a red herring, plenty of paid services lasted less than Google Reader.

The key is making sure all the layers in your stack are either commodities or can be self-hosted.

For example, proprietary SaaS/PaaS services - bad. Generic and interchangeable Linux systems - good. You can build on top of the latter knowing that you can switch if the service is killed.

Then, for non-standard components (e.g., the application), you must either host it yourself or make sure you have everything you need (code and data). If you don't have the skills, you can pay someone else to set it up, as long as you don't become hostage to them.

It's not unlike cars - if you want something reliable and durable, you're better off choosing the less comfortable model for which parts are easily sourced.
Gal is the analog of guy, nothing demeaning in that.
On a macro scale, hoarding money stops the economy, as people no longer produce and consume.

If you thing sitting in an empty room counting bit coins is better than buying caviar or plane travel or curing malaria or whatever, then hoarding is good.
Still a poor analogy. With feudalism, people had no choice. Now people have a choice but due to social pressure make terrible choices. No system can save people from their own short-sightedness, the best case is a system where those who want to choose an alternative can do so, and the Internet provides that.

And there is always the option of creating a puppet account on facebook and keeping any sensitive information anonymous.
I think you answered the question yourself in the last three paragraphs.

1. Are you given enough stock options such that the difference between the strike price and the "actual stock price" (how did you even determine the "value of stock"?) is equal to the cash you would receive otherwise?
Why would you want to repay the debts in the first place?
Also interesting and related to pacman: patterns to get a rather easy victory http://www.math.montana.edu/~hyde/pacman/ and also the hidden spot in pacman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFGoiQAzG-I
If you have a familiarity with data science, there are many companies looking for people with experience in this field to build out their teams. I went to a meeting of data science professionals recently and they outlined some of what they're looking for, and I made a board on it if you'd like to look at it. http://www.verious.com/board/AKumar/the-hive-a-b-testing-inf...
Apple and the Mysterious Case of the Missing Moonshot
typo correction: "know what git or github is."

Addendum: Think of "selling yourself" as selling yourself to some clueless non-technical BigCorp business guy. They might know a tiny tiny bit about the buzzwords of various languages (there are these things called Java, Python, C++), they might know some technology buzzwords (iPhone app, Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS) but probably won't know others (node.js, Django, UIKit, etc.). So it's easier to explain in terms of "Accepted into App Store," or "Featured in TechCrunch," X number of users, X revenue, etc.
Please tell me this is an April Fools article. Please.
I read that blog and the impression I got was that she was railroaded by the "audience member".

An audience member who specifically asks if there's any "rape" discussion in the talk, then, when discussion of date rape drugs occurs, the organizer says that "the member mentioned that if you describe how to use date rape drugs..."

How does random audience member know that a talk will cover such drugs? That's a very specific comment to make to complain. "Oh, if they talk about rape, it's a trigger for me", "and if they explain how to use date rape drugs, that's the same as rape".

Pseudo-edit: I read further down the article that indeed her talk was targeted.

That being said, I have little sympathy for Violet Blue - she's been known to have a litigious past based on changing her name and then invoking domain squatting and trademark law against others who were around before her.
> The broadcasters want to prevent the Internet from becoming a distribution system for entertainment, because once that happens there will be no profit in broadcasting.

The internet is already a distribution system for entertainment. I don't see the MPAA/RIAA suing Youtube because people are posting funny videos of their cat on there. They're suing to keep the internet from being a distribution system for the entertainment they create.

> Aereo's technology is not standalone. They are using the Internet to do exactly what the Internet is supposed to be used for, which is the sharing of computing resources.

Aereo didn't get sued for its technology. If they had been broadcasting their own content nobody would've cared.

Look at it another way: where is all the wonderful Kickstarter-funded, Creative Commons-licensed, torrent-seeded content that everyone is just dying to watch? There are zero legal hurdles to replacing the existing content industry if you can come up with a product people actually want.
Let me rephrase then:

s/value of stock/price of stock as determined by management/
Yeah, there is nothing stopping "bytecoins" if early bitcoin holders hoard too much. Same as with dollars and bankers. As long as the system produces more value than the barons seize, people will get value from the system.
Didn't courts already find a distinction between deduplication and storing identical copies of files in the semi-recent remote DVR case?
I also read it, and I think you summarize it well. I'd like to add that the author's main aim seems to be in revealing a strong technocratic tendency underlying O'Reilly's thought. The technocracy is shown for example in the naive assumption that political decisions can be calculated algorithmically with enough data and intelligent algorithms. According to the author, O'Reilly hides the political claim that small government is good behind technological newspeak about governments providing only the essential APIs for the private sector to build on. In coining new terms for old ideas he is ignoring the vast literature of political and philosophical thought discussing these matters and gaining the support of hackers for a political agenda. And, most importantly, dismissing tough ethical and political decisions by claiming that government is some kind of an optimization problem.

I'm not sure if he convinced me regarding O'Reilly specifically (haven't read O'Reilly enough), and I agree with others about the repetition and bad style ("crazy talk"?). But some actual thoughts were hidden in there.
So might makes right? I don't get to maintain exclusive ownership of my car if I don't keep it locked in a vault?
Idea: a browser extension that automatically scrapes and archives your data as you browse a site. Power-users can submit scrapers for new/modified sites.

Normally scrapers can be detected and blocked, but if it's passively running in the background on a user's machine, opportunistically grabbing data the user is already viewing, it should be impossible to detect.
How so? Whats wrong with a small change for the day, or some goofy humor?

Sometimes its an acknowledgement of your audience. Sometimes it drums up some good publicity for a company.
Perhaps some day we will get past this sort of pedantic nonsense and actually read intent rather than injecting irrelevant not-quite-humorous commentary into otherwise useful discussions. But apparently that day is not today.
Property rights obviously extend to non-physical and abstract things, that's what "intellectual property" means.

The problem, which pg explains in the essay that I linked, is that technology has made it no longer practical to treat information (aka a particular stream of bytes) as a piece of private property that you can sell copies of, because copying and distributing it is now almost free. "The record labels and movie studios used to distribute what they made like air shipped through tubes on a moon base. But with the arrival of networks, it's as if we've moved to a planet with a breathable atmosphere. Data moves like smells now."

But in order to protect their profits, "The RIAA and MPAA would make us breathe through tubes if they could." At this point, viewing content through cable is becoming the equivalent of "breathing through tubes." Aereo's workaround is basically a way to say "Look, we are breathing through tubes, the tubes are just invisible!" Very clever.
>If a private company has the duty to maximise profits, shouldn't a sovereign state have the duty to maximise the benefits to its citizens while fulfilling its minimum international treaty obligations.

They absolutely do. But that just shifts the argument to "what policy is the right one to maximize benefits to our citizens?"

>The cost of gleevec/year is $36,000. The average per capita income is $1219[1]. If patented about 99% of people who need this drug can not afford it. Why should any state keep 99% of its people away from a life saving drug, if it doesn't have a legal obligation to do so.

You could make the same argument in any country, including the US. And yet the system is the way it is for a reason.

>Property rights are a means to an end. Even if all of Asia and Africa refused to recognize Novartis patents, they would still have enough incentive to continue developing cancer drugs.

Would they? I wonder. It's possible eventually the grey market importation of unlicensed generics would make profits too small to justify the risk, and Novartis might decide yet another pecker perker would be a better investment than a cancer drug.
Don't worry, from what I've heard Coinbase are quite capable of freezing accounts for dubious reasons, along with causing purchases to fail by delaying outgoing payments for days and other similar fun activities.
any travel in the job? I think I just want to be Andrew Harper...
Smartisan OS unveiled in China, takes a fresh approach on Android UI design
The ghost AI from pacman is a masterpiece in itself
I thought the point of the delay was so that people could not reverse engineer the patch through the source or binaries? I suppose with Heroku being a service it might be the case that people don't have access to the new patched binaries. If that's the case, then there is no issue.
Wouldn't the clouds still interfere with the averages though? That is areas that have lots of clouds would seem whiter than they really are? It seems to look alright though.
Because the money supply of BTC is fixed, BTC are effectively proxies for the value of the entire economy that they're a part of. When the economy grows by 5%, so does the value of your BTC. It's at the absolute optimimum point of the risk/reward curve: you could hypothetically invest in a way that performs better than the average, but when factoring in the risk, your expected value is slightly worse than if you'd simply held on to your money.

With USD, you know the value of your currency will drop due to inflation. In order to keep up with inflation, you have to put your money in an investment vehicle that stands in as a proxy for the overall economy. Hypothetically, you could buy a perfectly proportional amount of every single listed stock, every bond, piece of real estate, and so on (this is what index funds attempt to approximate).

In the latter example, you also have managed to convert your currency into an ideal proxy for the entire economy. Any attempt to pick winners or losers will, statistically, give you slightly worse results on average than had you simply tracked the market as a whole.

Both examples are similar, except in the latter example, you've actually put your money back into the economy: a company issued the stock in order to raise the capital to expand and grow. In the former, your money is essentially removed from the overall money supply. It is available to no-one, and causes further deflation. The more money you hoard, the less money available for financial transactions. The less money available for transactions, the more valuable each unit of currency becomes.
You can't prevent double spending without being able to track where individual coins go. So we can know that X BTC went from wallet A to wallet B. Bitcoin is anonymous in the sense of linking owners to wallets. Even if someone asks to send Y bitcoins to wallet C as payment for something, you can't know from the wallet address where the wallet is stored or even if it isn't the wallet of a third party to whom that someone owes bitcoins.
The way I recall it (and I wonder if you'll agree - you are certain to know much more about it than I do) Applied was sort of a cryptography Bible in the 90ies. It filled a huge void when it appeared, and deserved the fame it acquired. It aged badly, but any book of its kind would; I don't think it or its author deserve the blame for people cluelessly continuing to rely on it in 2010s.

To me, Applied places Schneider into a very separate category from ESR, whose open-source contributions actually were _very_ modest and not at all significant.
In the current draft, exactly 81.7%. No kidding.
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I had never really been a fan of PacMan before, but for last month's 1GAM [0] I decided to build a clone. Once I started reading into it, I was pretty fascinated by the amount of depth the game has. As said in the article, pretty amazing for something running on a 3 MHz Z80.

[0] http://www.onegameamonth.com/
Many of them weren't challenged until recently, because the farmers who'd have standing to challenge them generally supported them. As the article notes, they're in effect a price-support mechanism for certain commodities, which would be an anti-trust violation if done via private-sector cartel, but not when authorized by Congress.
> Whether or not this is the case, I don't know, but it kinda feels like running your app on a shared-hosting account...

Remember that you are running your app on a shared hosting account with Heroku.

Now, it has somewhat more isolation than a typical shared hosting account, but less isolation than using physically separate hardware.

Heroku is built on top of AWS, so your machine is running on the same physical hardware, though a different virtual machine, as other AWS customers. Furthermore, Heroku uses LXC to isolate its dynos; so you are running on the same VM as another Heroku customers, albeit separated by a container barrier. And finally, if you're using Postgres, then you're running on a shared database service, which is pretty much exactly like what you'd get with shared hosting.
No. You average (or at least the plurality demographic) million-dollar-house owner in Palo Alto is a middle-to-late-aged married couple that probably does not care about entrepreneurship.
I agree, I don't think this reflects well on the postgres community( in so far that Heroku is a member of that community ).

Heroku has certainly done a lot to demonstrate how effective postgres can be practice, in addition to other contributions ).

All that being said, we don't actually know what the fix looks like, or indeed what their code looks like either right? For all we know this could be being pushed upstream? It could in some other way be unsuitable for general consumption/adoption at this time. It is possible that the fact that Heroku is going to burn it in will end up uncovering an issue or some other fact that will benefit the project, or they may be uniquely "extra" vulnerable because of deviations.

The PostgreSQL license cuts(so to speak) both ways in this case:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/

Heroku has things like:
https://postgres.heroku.com/fork

they are a database as a service, not a distributor of software.
Yeah, me too. Chalk that up as an advantage Ruby on Rails has over Django.
I can't speak for the specifics of Postgresql or Heroku. But in my experience the expectation is that you're supposed to control access to the information. If you produce binaries you're not supposed to make them accessible prior to the embargo date. If you can upgrade without revealing the binaries I don't really see a problem with doing so.
Funniest part was saying it took 6 years to develop the technology
Unfortunately it is not. New Deal era laws such as this one existed to help prevent a flood of excess food ruin the market for farmers during the Great Depression in the United States. Unfortunately, nobody is keen to revisit any laws from the New Deal, no matter how outdated, because of the kind of scrutiny it might bring on programs like Social Security.
That is backwards. Inflation helps debtors, punished capital holders, and is irrelevant to hand-to-mouth wage earners.

Price inflation only hurts wage earners when it is coupled with flat nominal wages-- but that is merely a (too powerful) psychological trick that people don't notice.