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That's what people mean when they say "the market sets the price".

I know that that's what people mean. What I'm saying is that people are making a mistake by not looking at the mechanism of how "the market" works.

Let us compare two worlds. World A is our world, where Uber sets the price for its drivers and passengers. World B is a world in which drivers and passengers place bids directly. Let's say that drivers' bids contain a basis price + per-km price as well as the range within which they are willing to travel, while passengers' bids contain start and end point and maximum price (perhaps with the possibility of saying "market price"). Uber then matches those bids when they cross in a manner similar to an exchange order book.

What I understand from your comment is that you believe that the price for a ride in world A will be equal to the price for a ride in world B. That seems like a rather bold claim that requires an extraordinary argument to back it up.

And no, the "if Uber sets prices too high/low in world A, passengers/drivers would move to competitors" argument is not sufficient, because nobody really knows what the "correct" price is exactly (what does it even mean for a price to be objectively correct? [0]). So there is a range of prices in which the loss of passengers or drivers would happen rather slowly or not at all.

Where does the choice of the exact price within that range come from, and why should it be the same in both worlds? Why shouldn't Uber be able to exploit this uncertainty to increase their revenue by a few percent? Mind you, I don't know whether this would benefit drivers or passengers relative to a different world. The key point is the question of whether the worlds are the same or not - and if they're not, then it's problematic to claim that "the market" sets the price.

[0] Yes, yes, it's the price where supply and demand are balanced. But how are supply and demand formed in the first place? Conceptually, people ought to have beliefs such as "a ride from A to B is worth X to me". But even if people have such beliefs, those beliefs are necessarily based on what the previously observed prices are. So at best, you get a feedback loop that goes like: observed prices -> people's beliefs about what prices should be -> supply and demand -> observed prices. They who control the mechanism that outputs the observed price are in a rather special situation to (attempt to) manipulate this feedback loop in their own interest.
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> I want to open up a co-working space in London, or possibly elsewhere in the UK. Idea is pretty fully-formed but I'm missing a few pieces to the puzzle. Anybody experienced in this?

I helped (very slightly) get a co-working and business hub going in my area: http://sierracommons.org/. It's going to be celebrating its 5th anniversary in a few months, and I can possibly put you in touch with the guy who's done all of the real work in keeping it running, if your scope matches his.

It might help him out if your conversation with him gives him some ideas on presenting talks on starting co-working spaces, since that's the sort of thing he's into these days.

Send me an email (address is in profile) if you'd like to get in touch with him.
Serious question -- why do you need SQL in the web browser? It seems like for the amount of data a person is likely to store locally, it's not worth it. But I'm open to being proven otherwise.
Right because we all chose this.
It is a classic case of an economically failing superpower trying to stay afloat with skyrocketing debt, shifting attention from it's internal problems and feeding on wars in other countries.
US keep supporting terrorists in Syria and did so in all other uprisings they fueled. None of them ended well for any of the countries involved so far - Libya, Iraq, Syria.
But - at least to my understanding - this means that it doesn't work at all like an exchange, because at an exchange, the price at which market orders execute ultimately comes from the limit orders in the same market. If there are no limit orders, then where does the price come from?
Was it though? The NSA's job is to spy on behalf of the country. While keeping the bug a secret put people at risk, there is an argument to be made that it was a useful tool. Law enforcement regularly makes the decision to allow low level criminals to continue to commit crimes in order to catch their leaders even though doing so puts people at risk. There are always tradeoffs.
True and good advice. The more familiar you are with tolerences of the area, the more you can comfortably do.

But except in the case of specific speed traps where they're pulling over multiple people, "don't be the fastest car on the road" typically protects you from this. If there are no other cars on the road or if you are the fastest, then proceed with caution.

Addendum: tolerances tend to be lower if you're from out of state, so that's something else to be aware of.

Addendum 2: Some states really don't mess around so always know the rules. In Virginia for example, going over 80 , or 20+ over the limit (whichever is lesser) can actually land you in jail and at minimum mandates a court appearance.
Eventually, the bad guys will find all of these bugs. And do massive amounts of damage (in this case, potentially billions of people who should change their password, and hundreds of thousands of administrators having to swap certificates).

And all the time, the NSA had the capability and knowledge to prevent this damage. What a great service they did to their country, indeed.
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This limit is now higher(somewhere in the range of 100), and will eventually go away. Once this limit is gone, best practices will almost surely be one command per run.
This looks really close to something that I've been thinking of building. I think the market would be web developers who want to have a custom content site but don't want to wrangle with all of wordpress, because it's slow and there's too much boilerplate to write. A templating system that's easy to use, but also extensible when you need it.

I signed up for the beta, I look forward to testing it.
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All of the servers have either been restarted or weren't vulnerable and the cert has now been replaced.
That makes sense, I guess. I'm not American so I don't know much about the inner workings of these institutions.

Is it unlikely for FBI to ask NSA's help?
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I do all these and they seem to work. I have gotten pulled over in the last 10 years but only gotten warnings.

As an addendum, if you do get pulled over:

1) Remove your hat if you're wearing one.

2) Get your wallet out and put it on the dash as soon as you come to a stop.

3) Roll all windows down, turn on your interior lights, and shut your engine off.

4) Put your hands on the steering wheel until you need to reach for your registration.

5) Admit and deny nothing, which seems tough, but is actually easy, a grimace or a shrug is all the response you need to give to "I had you going 85hph".
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I don't understand why reporters/investigators in articles like these bother asking such loaded questions to officials as, "Do officers give leniency to license frame bearers?"

I feel like, if you're in that person's shoes, even if you know damned well they do, saying "yes" would be equivalent to answering "yes" to, "Would you like to lose your job or at least be put on leave within the next week?"
How hard would it be to reskin the game as soccer/rugby/American football/hockey/etc. management? Expand your potential customer pool.
It's going to be pretty hard to say you're playing "defense" with a straight face after this one.
Ah yeah! very good one - particularly if you'r elooking as far ahead as you should be (particularly when driving fast, but all the time really) supposed to, this will often give you visible sign of an officer before you see them.
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If you know anyone at Wacom (the awesome tablet manufacturer), please help me get in touch with the said person. I've created a software that I'd like Wacom to bundle with their osx drivers. I think the software would help a lot of Wacom users.

Here's a screen-grab of the app : http://d.pr/i/4yG6

Thanks!
> It's NSA's charter to stockpile these things, and, yeah, to use them against foreign adversaries.

I don't see how leaving American companies vulnerable fulfills the NSA's charter.
>Corporations don't make decisions; they don't do anything at all. The people who control them do.

The people that take those decisions are many and have various roles. The aggregate of them, we call a "corporation".

Think of it like an emergent entity. It's not just a person (e.g the CEO) making a decision all by himself. It's the whole leadership, the Board of directors, shareholders, the financial and market condition of the company, it's history etc.

In your logic, people don't take decisions and don't do anything either. Their brain does.
Maybe because their plan all along was to shut Lavabit down?
Thanks -- understood that the platform is national.
I have hundreds of feeds. If I don't keep up reading several times a day, scrolling down becomes impossible due to the exponentially increasing slowness on both latest Chrome and Firefox, so, I can't really catch up with updates. Never ever had such issues on Google Reader!
"Net, Silicon Valley venture capital just absolutely, positively, flatly doesn't have even as much as a weak little hollow hint of a tiny clue about how to do or evaluate original, exceptional, powerful, valuable information technology projects. Sorry 'bout that."

- Your use of hyperbole is amazing. The original point of venture capital was to "aid in the development of new or existing businesses into companies of stature and importance". Venture capital arose after world war 2 when banks wouldn't bankroll some of the businesses and new ideas that were coming out. Since then it could be argued that VCs direction has changed to investing the 3rd party pooled money into businesses that are employing some novel technology or processes. VCs typically have employees who are familiar with industries, business, and / or technologies to help identify candidate investments as well as to help said investments to flourish. Finally to brush the successes of venture capital over the years in IT projects is just disingenuous. VCs had quite a bit to do with DEC, Fairchild, the whole damned semi conductor business, and the expansion of the computer industry. Was a lot of it on the backs of other projects and companies? Of course. DARPA, Xerox, etc. played HUGE roles in the advancement of technology.
Thanks for someone pointing this out. There are a lot of places in the code that could use some cleaning up. The overall frontend code structure is a little lacking:

* There's a "main.js", and a bunch of empty .coffee files that were presumably generated via a generator. Choose one frontend language and use it.

* Vendor libs should go in vendor/assets/javascripts. This codebase has assets/javascripts/vendor, and then random vendor libs that aren't even in that folder, they're just in "javascripts".

* The frontend code is going to quickly become jquery soup. There's no structure, all code executes on all pages.

* Very minor, but OS specific files should be omitted from git (like .DS_Store)

* Test coverage seems pretty low

* The secret token is public in the git repo (Why not use secrets.yml and keep it out of SCM to be safe?)

There are a myriad of other minor issues as well. It's a good idea for a project, and would help a lot of entrepreneurs out of done properly, but there are some glaring code quality issues here that worry me about the project as it grows.
One of the only things that should make you feel optimistic is that there are a bunch of intelligence/law-enforcement agencies and they all hate each other and hate the idea of working together or sharing information with each other.
That was bad and sensationalistic wording from my side. I should have said more clearly that I meant this in the context of modeling common business domains, not for specialized tasks that don't fit a relation model efficiently.
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This statement is so fucking debatable.

You do not know that with even 10% certainty. People like you should properly fuck off with your blanket statements.
> I am currently learning embedded development (maybe we could help each other?).

I would love to!

And thanks for the links, I will try/read them.
I'm wondering if any State Attorney Generals are tech savvy, don't like the current administration, and want some publicity[1] enough to start an investigation? I would imagine a subpoena asking for the financial records of the OpenSSL contributors would be a first step (to find Gov payments). I can see a very scary witch hunt.

1) that part might be a little rhetorical, every AG likes good publicity.
American companies are vulnerable to literally hundreds of vulnerabilities NSA knows about; that's something that was widely known (public, in fact) almost a decade before Snowden.

I agree that this bug is different, but that might have been a subtle case to make inside the organization.
Where do we draw the line? When millions die and billions of dollars in irrecoverable damage is done?

Who gets to decide whether the risk is acceptable? To whom do we turn to when it's found that their risk assessment was flawed, and we require compensation for their recklessness and negligence?
Please send me an invite!

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I do a quite a bit of night driving. I'm always in the right hand lane on three lane roads. Night traffic is very light, so I won't change two lanes just to go around people that insist on driving in the middle lane when the right lane is empty.

I think that's what he meant.
I'm trying to follow this reasoning. I guess the idea is that if a system has a smaller market share, then it's less likely to be used by your competitors, and can therefore offer a competitive advantage. Is that right?

That doesn't make sense to me because it only really applies when there is a high likelihood of competitors using one product but not the other. Although postgres is doing great, in most markets it's still far more likely that your competitors are using oracle or sql server. So any advantage postgres has -- and I believe there are many -- offers a potential competitive advantage.

For instance, you could argue that data systems are a critical selling point of Heroku, and they use postgres.

I think your point ultimately boils down to: "postgres is not quite at the forefront of certain analytic use cases", which I agree with. It is at the forefront of many other use cases though.
I hesitate to believe that in 2 years time, the agency hasn't found another backdoor to the web. OpenSSL might be patched, but what else is still vulnerable?
Presumably, any State Attorney General will have gone to law school, and will thus know that the Federal Government is immune to suits from the states.
>> The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at least two years about a flaw in the way that many websites send sensitive information, now dubbed the Heartbleed bug, and regularly used it to gather critical intelligence, two people familiar with the matter said.

(emphasis mine)

It's pretty weak IMHO but I don't really doubt it.
With a $20, too, right?
So rust & ATS & ADA & higher level languages can modify memory space? That I am aware of most higher level languages stray from being able to modify memory space on purpose as it's dangerous but, someone has to do it for the operating system is all I am saying about low level now that we are completely off topic here.
Remind me, those photos of Guardian destroying Snowden files all over the news sites are clearly because Russians forced them to? Or was it UK government?
This is very valuable feedback! Thank you so much. I will remove protected attributes. I have thought about deletion and dependents and so forth I just wasn't sure how to address it yet. I must admit, I have completely ignored tests, thinking that I would write them later, but perhaps this is the wrong approach. As for indentations, they show properly on my end in Sublime, I will have to see why they appear differently in the repo. Again, really great feedback, I may take you up on a further discussion.
Wait on step 2. Hard to tell if somebody is pulling out their wallet or a weapon from outside the car.
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Exactly, I don't mind them having the capability for this kind of thing. What bothers me is the lack of due process and rule of law!
Bloomberg really puts its bias on display:

> The Heartbleed flaw, introduced in early 2012 in a minor adjustment to the OpenSSL protocol, highlights one of the failings of open source software development.

And its discovery and resolution highlights one of the advantages of open-source software development.
It certainly seems believable, but do we have anything more concrete to go on than "two people familiar with the matter?" Is that even two people with top-secret clearance at the NSA?
I don't think average people (so to speak) really care about their email.
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I'm with you, it's really sad to see my wife getting depressed for not being able to work (she is a very qualified software engineer). She is going to college now, but she still worries that when she graduates she won't be able to find work because of 1) years away from the market and 2) H-1B caps being reached every year - she already missed an opportunity because she wasn't selected in last year's lottery.
It is probably illegal for FBI to ask for NSA's help in gaining evidence for a US criminal case, although pointing that out is sure to start a raucous subthread about "parallel construction".
Yep, check out the other comments.
We've all been waiting for that argument for a while. When are you going to finally reveal it to us?
That is actually false from the frame of the traveler. Using constant acceleration, the traveler will observe constant energy usage. Then length contraction will guarantee that you can reach speeds arbitrarily close to speed of light( and also any location in the universe ) in about ~50 years with 1G acceleration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_acc...
And yet it was worth 10k to google.
The trick with the other guy's thing is that he gets a reason to mention a cop friend. It's a conversation trick.

Situation 1: Cop walks up. You mention your cop friend. Trouble will ensue because you're obviously trying to say "I'm friends with policemen."

Situation 2: Cop walks up. Asks why you're doing obviously bizarre thing. Say it's because your cop friend asked you to so that police can know you're empty handed. You've now responded to a question and managed to mention that you're a friend with the police. He can't hold that against you because he's the one that asked.
Would you know how hard it is to obtain permanent residency in those countries?
No doubt the data geeks at Amazon love sifting though their Kindle analytics; nice to see an open initiative.

Perhaps some effort should be put into reverse-engineering Kindle data similar to how the Apple device databases were reverse engineered? http://www.crypticbit.com/zen/products/iphoneanalyzer
The real crazy bit about Heartbleed was that it was worse than a man-in-the-middle attack. It's a "give an unrelated third party on the side your plaintext" attack, rendering your SSL connection less secure than an encrypted connection.
Right, because putting THE ENTIRE NATION AND IT'S CITIZENS at risk EVERY SINGLE DAY is comparable to allowing low level criminals to operate....

Why do we let awful people like this be in charge of our well being? Is power too entrenched that no matter what happens, we can't do anything about it?
I agree about the weather. However, after a quick google search... there are papers that say shitty weather = more productivity. Were you at CMU? Did you participate in CIE?
Amazon already designing 8th generation of delivery drones
Yep, all excellent to do when actually pulled. Well almost - I disagree about number 2.

Instead I suggest: wait until they arrive then explain what you're going to do, and do it slowly. You can also - if you're charismatic - use that time to talk a bit. Not to make excuses, but just to talk.
> highlights one of the failings of open source software development.

Sorry? Paid programmers writing closed code with probably less review and auditing have been shown to create less bugs? What are they trying to say?
Wow, this article is kind of clueless.

First, the VC money isn't going to cost-cutting - it's going to growth. In theory, virtualizing the business processes should lead to higher efficiency and naturally lower costs. This model has been proven out in other fields - it's the Big Box model of retail that created giants like Wal-Mart (although a better comparison would be specialist big box retail like Guitar Center). So the VC money is going to building out the business model infrastructure, not selling a sandwich cheaper than the local shops.

Second, these businesses on the edge don't have enough market share to make a massive dent in the local market - and it's ludicrous to think that they could do so by losing money on transactions at scale. By the time they pose a real threat to local business, they will be profitable. They must be, because the markets are too large to be subsidized by VC forever.

Third, a lot of the businesses that are threatened are not "mom and pop" at all. Taxis? That's a local oligarchy protected by politics. Food delivery? Ever heard of Domino's Pizza or Jimmy John's?

Fourth, these can create new opportunities for local business. I can now get food delivered to my door by one of these startups, but the food comes from excellent local restaurants (the mom and pop ideal) that otherwise could not possibly get a delivery service working profitably. They've outsourced the business model, not the food prep.

And then there's the handwringing about how the long-term professional institutional investors who run pension funds and the like might go broke on venture capital, not realizing what a tiny sliver of that market VC is - it's a diversification strategy, not a core. The biggest concern would be if a VC collapse led to a broader stock market collapse, a la the dotcom era. Not likely.

Yeah, dumb article.
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"Naming a length variable ‘payload’ is borderline sociopathic"
hiring drivers means hiring managers and administering 401k plans and meetings and dress codes and did you get the goddamn memo or not

financing contractors means lots of minds making their own value judgements, risking their own resources and gaining more of the rewards for themselves.
There is little evidence in that piece, only the mention of a couple of people "familiar with the matter".

Strangely what I find most troubling with that article is the idiotic dig about opensource, it's like dismissing peer-review, which makes me even more skeptical about this whole article.
They are not actually immune, states sue the federal government (or at least departments) all the time. Look at the ACA cases for an example. They can also go after the individual people involved as long as they are not serving in the government.