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https://github.com/Aaronius/Stupid-Table-Plugin/commit/fbf3d... people.

The details are here:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...

The "What we are doing" section seems pretty weak. The only substantive thing they say is "we have produced new tools which enable us to more expediently relocate database services from a failed availability zone."

How exactly are they planning to deal with the larger Cedar difficulties? Are they going to eliminate their dependence on ELBs? Go multi-region? Developers need to know this to decide whether to continue with Heroku or build their own platform.

The real solution is not to use broken NTP: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html

Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price:

1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google)

1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon)

Amazon is still much cheaper if you use reserved instances or spot pricing, though. And for these sorts of compute jobs, I'm not sure why you wouldn't use spot pricing.

Shorter johnw: I heart Ayn Rand.

In particular, I'm pretty sure Stallman (like most Americans) is in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, so trying to persuade him that free software is a bad idea because it's like that seems pretty clueless.

This is a pretty crummy article. If you read it carefully, you see:

- a woman owns a shady company

- she tries to get her friends to write five star reviews of her on Yelp

- Yelp intentionally tries to filter out these reviews so the site isn't filled with spam opinions

- the woman is upset

The real question is why there's a news story taking her side in this.

Presumably because fish hasn't been updated since 2009 and they expect their fork to become the new standard version.

http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html

"Welcome to our fork of the fish shell, a command line shell like bash. Its working name is fishfish, but I hope eventually it will just be fish!"

Actually, Polanski was arrested and released in Switzerland, not Sweden.

"Swedish law requires a person to be physically present before charges can be laid, so this can only happen once Mr Assange is on Swedish territory."

http://www.fairtrials.net/documents/Sweden_QA.pdf

Did they also hack this to autopost to Facebook?

And where are they supposed to get all the towers? That's a multi-year construction project and, if they try it, they'll alienate their existing carrier partners.

Now maybe Apple thinks they can afford to do that, but it seems risky.

This is much more likely to be about the VPPA, a law which Netflix believes makes it illegal to provide social features in the US:

http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-testify-tue...

Is there any reason to believe this h-index method of ranking is a good idea? Why not use PageRank?

Google offices are apparently marked with surprisingly-unpixelated propellerheads. There's also some custom art for SF landmarks.

Can we see this in real dollars? Hard to understand the actual trends the industry is facing in nominal dollars.

The dishonesty of this statement is stunning. IE is designed to only accept the cookie if Google promises not to use it for tracking. Google wants to use the cookie for tracking so they provide a dishonesty promise and then explain they're lying because IE didn't have them in mind -- when this is exactly what IE had in mind.

And Rand has promised this before. But we need 41 to actually prevent a vote, since the Senate has already filed to override the filibuster.

The actual audio piece doesn't mention SOPA/PIPA or pirates, best I could tell. It was about a cybersecurity data sharing bill and even gave the Tor Project the last word.

Is anyone making a list of these?

http://www.quora.com/What-other-easter-eggs-does-Google-sear...

I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.

I just discovered recently that Richard Hamming also has a book on this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/D/dp/B000P2XFPA%3FSubscriptionId%3D14G...

This is moronic. Cryptography is very hard and one tiny mistake can ruin everything. In that kind of situation, do you want to do something clever and new that you just thought up or do you want to go with what's been tried and tested by many?

Anyone can invent a cryptosystem that they themselves can't break. That's why you need a community, over a long period of time, searching for flaws. Going with the herd is exactly the right thing to do here.

The original (one-page) version of this is here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079799

No, you can't -- the Supreme Court in 1991 ruled that even wholesale copying of a telephone book was legal, because you can't copyright facts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural

One interesting possibility: Google planned to only use the patents defensively but the joint bid would have required them participating in offensive action, which they refuse to do.

"I suppose some part of me assumed that by 2020+ machines would be making most of what I use, but when I look at the scale of jobless people as a result of it, it really makes me scratch my head to figure out where we fit in the future."

This is a common economic misconception. If, by some lucky twist of fate, machines can make everything we may ever want, it'd be great! We can just all lie around and enjoy utopia.

That story originally carried a title like "AirBnB scandal makes front page of the Financial Times". I thought it was interesting from the perspective of "How does bad press about a startup spread and what are the effects of various ways of responding?" rather than "Let's keep piling on AirBnB." This is the first big YC crisis management story I can recall; it's not surprising other founders would want to learn from it.

Anyone know what the slides were?

The reason Branson keeps deferring is that he isn't the CEO; he "founded" the company but he hasn't really been involved with it for decades.