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- 1 (1/2-inch-thick) slice peeled fresh ginger
- 1/4 cup Asian sesame paste* or smooth peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons Asian sesame oil*
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon Asian chile paste with garlic*
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 lb Asian pear (1 large or 2 medium)
- 4 cups trimmed watercress sprigs (from 2 bunches; 10 oz)
- 1 carrot, finely shredded
- *Available at some Asian markets and by mail order from Ethnic Grocer (800-523-1961).
Make dressing:
Blend all dressing ingredients in a blender until smooth.
Prepare salad:
Peel pear and cut into 1/8- to 1/4-inch-thick julienne, then transfer to a bowl.
Combine watercress and pear in a bowl, then season with salt and pepper and toss gently. Divide among plates, then drizzle with some dressing and sprinkle with carrot.
Cooks' note: Dressing keeps, covered tightly and chilled, 1 week.
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recipe at a glance
type: Salad
main ingredients: Sesame, Watercress, Asian Pear, Ginger
cuisine: Asian
dietary considerations: Vegetarian
holiday/celebration: Fall


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Gluten-Free Girl's Irish Soda Breadby Healthy Eats in Gluten-Free, March 14, 2011
Shauna James Ahern, better known as Gluten-Free Girl, is sharing her favorite gluten-free recipes with us! This week, an Irish classic: Soda bread.
St. Patrick's Day is coming up. Everyone will be Irish for the day, dressed in green and hoping to not get pinched.
Most people think of corned beef and cabbage when they think of St. Patrick's Day foods. It's nice, no question. However, when I was in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day, 10 years ago, I was shocked to find that no one ate corned beef and cabbage on that celebration day. No one.
Brown soda bread? That's eaten all through the year and on St. Patrick's Day, too.
Soda bread takes only a few moments to make. It requires no yeast, so no worrying that your yeast is old or your kitchen too hot. You simply throw some flours in a bowl, add rolled oats, baking soda and salt and stir in some buttermilk. Slide it into a hot oven and you have bread in under an hour. Crusty, warm bread.
And gluten-free? The crust is just as crackly, the crumb just as soft, the slices just as firm, and the bread just as delicious as the gluten version.
Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread
Adapted from Colman Andrews' The Country Cooking of Ireland
Butter for greasing
Sweet rice flour for flouring
150 grams (2/3 cup) almond flour
150 grams (3/4 cup) sorghum flour
100 grams (1/2 cup) sweet rice flour
50 grams (1/3 cup) teff flour
50 grams (1/4 cup) potato flour
10 grams (2 tablespoons) flax seed meal
80 grams rolled oats
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 cup currants
2 to 4 cups buttermilk
1 large egg plus 1 tablespoon water, mixed
Preheat the oven to 375.
Grease a baking sheet with butter, then dust it with sweet rice flour.
Mix together the almond flour, sorghum flour, sweet rice flour, teff flour and potato flour. Whisk them together to aerate and incorporate them. Mix in the flaxseed, oats, baking soda and salt. Toss in the currants and mix them into the flours.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the buttermilk. Add buttermilk, mixing, until the dough is moist and soft but not wet, with no visible flour left. You will probably use about 3 cups, but feel free to use less or more, depending on your kitchen.
Turn the dough out onto the baking sheet. With lightly floured hands, shape the dough into a round about 3 inches thick. Cut a deep cross into the top of the loaf with a wet, serrated knife. Brush on the egg wash evenly.
Bake until the crust is dark brown and you hear a hollow thump on the bottom when you tap it, about 45 to 60 minutes.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Shauna James Ahern blogs about living the (gluten-free) sweet life at Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef. Her new cookbook, Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef, is available in bookstores now.
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Published: August 6, 2014
ARIES (March 21-April 19) Don't just be smart and articulate. Dare to be wildly wise and prone to unruly observations. Don't merely be kind and well behaved. Explore the mysteries of healing through benevolent mischief. Don't buy into the all-too-serious trances. Break up the monotony with your unpredictable play and funny curiosity. Don't simply go along with the stories everyone seems to believe in as if they were the Truth and the Way. Question every assumption; rebel against every foregone conclusion; propose amusing plot twists that send the narratives off on interesting tangents.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Breve orazione penetra is an old Italian idiom. Its literal translation is "short prayers pierce" or "concise prayers penetrate." You can extrapolate from that to come up with the meaning that "God listens best to brief prayers." In the coming week, I invite you to apply this idea whenever you ask for anything, whether you are seeking the favors of the Divine Wow or the help of human beings. Know exactly what you want, and express it with no-nonsense succinctness.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Every February, you go through a phase when it's easier to see the big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into the vastness. Every August, on the other hand, you are more likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like peering through a microscope. Here's a third variation: Around the full moons of both February and August, you may be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the view from a mountaintop. I think that's about to happen.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You wouldn't sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine glass or 10-year-old vinegar from a queen's goblet. I'm sure you will agree that you'd much rather drink a magical elixir from a paper cup, or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug, or tasty medicine out of a kids' plastic soup bowl you bought at the thrift store. Don't you dare lie to yourself about what's best for you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Every 12 years, the planet Jupiter spends about a year cruising through the sign of Leo. It's there with you now, and will be with you through early August 2015. What can you expect? EXPANSION! That's great, right? Yes and no. You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others, not so much. So I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like this: "I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my power to do what I love and my ability to draw on the resources and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things I don't really need and cut back on my involvement with things that don't inspire me. I don't want those to expand."
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Press release from TheNewswire.ca
Happy Creek Minerals drilling continues to expand Zone 2, Highland Valley, B.C.
Friday, June 04, 2010
Happy Creek Minerals drilling continues to expand Zone 2, Highland Valley, B.C. 01:00 EDT Friday, June 04, 2010(via Thenewswire.ca) June 4, 2010 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: HPY, the "Company") announces preliminary analytical results from its first drill hole and that the overall area of Zone 2 mineralization has been expanded significantly to the northeast and east. The Rateria property adjoins the property of Teck's Highland Valley copper mine, Canada's largest copper producer, located in south central British Columbia. The Highland Valley mine is currently mining material averaging approximately 0.30% copper. Results from the first hole (R10-1) includes 37.5 metres grading 0.20% copper, 15.0 metres grading 0.21% copper and 5.0 metres grading 0.35% copper. Positive rhenium values were also obtained including 5.0 metres containing 0.49% copper, 0.015% molybdenum, and 2.25 g/t (grams per tonne) rhenium. This hole was drilled towards the east at -55 degrees from the collar of R09-06 (-65 degrees to the west) that returned 18.5 metres grading 0.20% copper, 0.048% molybdenum and 3.53 g/t rhenium. Rhenium is a rare metal with prices ranging from approximately $5.0 to $10.0 per gram over the past few years. Drilling is continuing to expand mineralization in Zone 2, located approximately 6 kilometres trucking distance southeast of Teck's Highmont deposits that are currently in production. Hole R10-5, R10-9 and R10-7 are located approximately 300 and 450 metres north-northeast and 400 metres east of R10-1, respectively, and have intersected additional copper mineralization of interest. R10-2 and R10-3 that are located approximately 500 metres northwest and west respectively, of R10-1 contain important geological information. Analytical results for the remainder of drill holes from Zone 2, R10-4 to R10-9 are pending. In total approximately 2,000 metres of a planned 5,000 metre program were drilled around Zone 2. The drill is now being moved to Zone 1. David Blann, President of Happy Creek states "This phase of drilling in Zone 2 has expanded the overall mineralized system considerably. Zone 2 is now over 900 metres in length and potentially up to 400 metres in width and remains open in extent. We need to catch up on assays and review the geology and geophysics. Having a much larger mineralized system is a positive step, and it will require additional drilling". Mineralization in Zone 2 is comprised of dominantly bornite, chalcocite, and minor chalcopyrite (copper sulphides) associated with quartz, k-feldspar and moderate to intense chlorite and sericite alteration and occurs near the northeastern end of a "corridor" that is over 5 kilometres in length. Multiple and locally strongly mineralized structures have been traced by drilling for approximately 900 metres in a north-northeast trend and generally range from approximately 50 to over 150 metres wide. However mineralization of interest also occurs to a final depth of 291.0 metres in R10-7, a 400 metre step out to the east of R10-1, with no drilling in between. Previous drill results from Zone 2 include 177 metres grading 0.37% copper, and 103.3 metres grading 0.34% copper. Higher grade intervals include 27.0 metres grading 1.1% copper and 12.0 metres containing 1.38% copper, 2.85 g/t rhenium. Drilling of 5 or 6 holes in Zone 1, located southwest of Zone 2, will commence immediately and is designed to define and expand on previous results including 100.0 metres grading 0.29% copper, 37.0 metres grading 0.58% copper and 189.3 metres grading 0.22% copper. Higher grade intervals include 5.4 metres grading 2.5% copper. Several holes ended in mineralization or a porphyry dyke. This zone contains copper mineralization associated with strong sericite-muscovite alteration within the quartz rich, younger phases of the productive Guichon Batholith- similar to the giant Lornex and Valley deposits being mined to the north west. On behalf of the Board of Directors, "David E Blann" ____________________ David E Blann, P.Eng. President David Blann, P.Eng. is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the preparation and approval of the technical information disclosed in the news release. These preliminary analyses were performed by Agat Laboratories of Ontario using a geochemical aqua regia digest and ICP-MS finish. Aqua regia digest may be partial for molybdenum and rhenium. Results for copper, molybdenum, silver and rhenium are provided by Agat in PPM (parts per million or grams per tonne), with copper and molybdenum values converted to % by dividing by 10,000. Rhenium prices from Minor Metals.com. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: Corporate Office: Phone: 604.662.8310 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: www.happycreekminerals.com Investor Relations:James Berard and Aaron KonkinPhone: 604-687-2767Toll free: 1-877-459-5507 Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This News Release may contain statements that are forward looking and subject to risk and uncertainty more fully described in the Company's Prospectus, Financial Statements MD&A and Public Filings located on SEDAR. Copyright (c) 2010 Thenewswire.ca - All rights reserved.


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O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies http://radar.oreilly.com/feed/atom 2014-11-27T11:00:55Z Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies WordPress 38.393314-122.836667oreilly/radar/atomhttps://feedburner.google.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Nat Torkington http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/ http://radar.oreilly.com/?p=72278 2014-11-27T08:44:42Z 2014-11-27T11:00:55Z Stumbleupon's Big Data Architecture Using Open Source Software (PDF) — not just the list of tools but the functions they implement. Useful! Innovega — making a contact lens with a tiny bump that acts as a microscope for content shown …

Stumbleupon's Big Data Architecture Using Open Source Software (PDF) — not just the list of tools but the functions they implement. Useful!

Innovega — making a contact lens with a tiny bump that acts as a microscope for content shown in glasses. That description, and this link via MIT Technology Review)

How to Pick a Front-End Framework — not unreasonable opinions, largely useful.

[Silicon Valley] Bedevilled by Moral Issues (NYT, registerwall) — given that Silicon Valley tends to copy and paste the mantra, "we're making the world a better place," it seem reasonable to expect that tech companies would hold themselves to a higher ethical standard.

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Editor's note: you can subscribe to the O'Reilly Radar Podcast through iTunes, SoundCloud, or directly through our podcast's RSS feed.

In this podcast episode, I catch up with Dr. Gilad Rosner, a visiting researcher at the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute in England. Rosner focuses on privacy, digital identity, and public policy, and is launching an Internet of Things Privacy Forum. We talk about personal data privacy in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT), privacy as a social characteristic, an emerging design ethos for technologists, and whether or not we actually own our personal data. Rosner characterizes personal data privacy as a social construct and addresses the notion that privacy is dead:

"Firstly, it's important to recognize the idea that privacy is not a regime to control information. Privacy is a much larger concept than that. Regimes to control information are ways that we as a society preserve privacy, but privacy itself emerges from social needs and from individual human needs. The idea that privacy is dead comes from the vulnerability that people are feeling because they can see that it's very difficult to maintain walls between their informational spheres, but that doesn't mean that there aren't countercurrents to that, and it doesn't mean that there aren't ways, as we go forward, to improve privacy preservation in the electronic spaces that we continue to move into."

As we move more and more into these electronic spaces and the Internet of Things becomes democratized, our notions of privacy are shifting on a cultural level beyond anything we've experienced as a society before. Rosner notes the behavioral implications of our physical world becoming more digital:

"We're becoming electronic citizens. We're becoming digital citizens. We are creating an electronic society that runs through and in parallel with the physical society that we've always been part of. The way that we conceive of the world, and the way that we conceive of how society works, how culture works, is derived of thousands and thousands of years of interaction in our physical social space. It involves talking; it involves groups; it involves paper and writing. We've just added, in only these last 50 years, a new dimension to what it means to be part of the human society.

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"The issue of control is an overlay to all of that, because the information's coming, and the information's being generated, and the information's being recorded. This other issue of control happens orthogonally to that. It's determined in part by technology: What can the system do? What is the capacity of the system to actually control things? It's determined by law. It's determined by contract. It's determined by culture and behavior. All of those issues swirl around. We know how to behave and what kind of controls we have within our individual societies and groups, because we've had thousands of years to work on that. As far as what we've got in the electronic domain, that is all new."

As the volume of our documented personal data increases and the methods of delivery expand, "we're finding ourselves at sea," Rosner says, unable to control our information and its dissemination in the ways we're used to:

"The reason that privacy is on people's lips and it's such a popular topic is because this issue pervades society, because we are shedding data. We are swimming in information more and more and more. The exchange of that information, the technologies that underpin that, the sharing — that is what is moving faster and faster, and people are aware of it. It makes them a little uncomfortable, because information — how we talk about ourselves, how we share information about ourselves — has power and relates to our standing within society.

"There's the real, basic harms — "If this information gets out, I could lose my job" — but there's also just the very natural way that we divide up our informational lives. What you tell your parents may not be what you tell your kids. What you tell your friends is not what you tell your boss. What you tell one friend is not what you tell another friend. What you tell Google is not necessarily what you tell Facebook.

"As we experience those walls becoming more and more porous, which runs counter to the way that we live in society, where we have much more control over what we say to people, at least based on things like trust, and "Did I actually open my mouth and tell that person? Did I put it in an email or not?" Through the innocent uses of these technologies, we are finding ourselves at sea, not necessarily in command of the exchange of information the way that we have come to know."

Rosner also addresses the question of whether we actually own our personal data. "Any kind of personal data that resembles a fact," Rosner says, "is not ownable in a lot of different legal regimes"…and the idea that we own our data is harmful "because it fools people into thinking that they've got more control over their information."

Also in this podcast…

In the second segment of this episode, O'Reilly's director of online content Mac Slocum talks with Alasdair Allan, director of Babilim Light Industries about the broken nature of the Internet of Things, why data is a local problem, and why he's obsessed with Kickstarter.

You can listen to the podcast in the player embedded above or download it through SoundCloud or iTunes.

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Researcher and author Tim Swanson originally built bitcoin mining equipment in China a couple of years ago, but as he explained in a recent interview, he's moved beyond the trading aspects of bitcoin and now focuses on research and use cases. Swanson, who also works in business development at Melotic, a digital asset exchange, expressed some skepticism about the future of bitcoin as a currency and noted that the greatest potential in the technology lies in the blockchain:

"I'm fairly skeptical that what [bitcoin] can and will do is probably either overstated or overhyped. I think most of the actual use cases, especially with blockchains in general, will be very mundane and will be related to proof of existence, so things like notary services.

"If anyone's looking for a particular use case, I'd probably talk about one called CAT, Consolidated Audit Trail. It's related to the SEC requiring traders to put together a way to find out when trades take place. On any given day, there's about 48 billion trades that take place under their purview, and putting together a system for this, they want to make it centralized. Maybe you can use blockchains in some kind of decentralized fashion for this, but the idea — it's not a very sexy, headline-getting use case — but it's something that's particularly needed to ensure their transparency within the trading aspect of these different financial instruments globally."

Swanson will host a free webcast — The Continued Existence of Bitcoin, Altcoins, Appcoins, and Commodity Coins — on Tuesday, December 2, to talk about the various coins being created and the legal and technical challenges facing the developer community. Though, he noted in our interview that he'll cover topics appropriate for anyone interested in the technology:

"We're going to look into why these things [altcoins, appcoins, commodity coins] are being created, what's motivated and incentivized people to continue making these despite the fact that you do have bitcoin. Looking into the future a bit, I'll address the different protocols being developed; what's up with "bitcoin 2.0;" and a little bit about the history of the different coins and the trends — what didn't play out, why they broke, and maybe some potential fixes with the hope that they can provide real utility and use cases to the world at large."

You can register for the free webcast here, and you can listen to our interview in the SoundCloud player below.

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Editor's note: this is an excerpt from our recent book Lean Branding ; it is part of a free curated collection of chapters from the O'Reilly Design library. Download a free copy of the Experience Design ebook here.

Download your free ebook here.

Throughout this chapter, we will look at the six essential parts of a lean brand story: positioning, promise, personas, personality, product, and pricing.

I've never met someone who did not aspire to be something more. Even Homer Simpson, with his absolute lack of will and ultimate disregard for the future, at times aspired to be a better husband, a fitter couch potato, a less miserable son to his old man. I've heard 5-year-olds state with absolute certainty that they will be president. Someone is sweating his head off right now at some ridiculously expensive gym because he aspires to be fitter. As you read this, someone is pulling an all-nighter studying to earn class valedictorian status — or maybe even reading this book to up her brand game (in which case, I highly appreciate it!). I'm pretty sure someone is daydreaming to the sound of Bruno Mars's "Billionaire." Someone (perhaps you) aspires to build a successful product that customers open their wallets and hearts for. If that is indeed you, please hold on to this thought: aspirations.

Behind every great brand is a promise that fulfills its customers' aspirations. We are in the business of taking customers from A to B, where A is who they are today and B is who they want to be tomorrow. Consider the products you love — sports attire, note-taking apps, electronic devices, chocolate ice cream, this book — and how they've made you feel closer to whom you want to be.

When most people think about aspirations, they imagine long-term dreams or perpetual objectives. But in reality, aspirations come in all sizes, time lengths, and levels of difficulty. After all, an aspiration is nothing more than a pursuit, an urge that influences our daily decisions. Whether that aim is to become a more organized worker, a more inspired creative, or the president of the United States is irrelevant.

All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

Here are some sample aspirations to think about:

Be independent and perceived as such by others. Become an autonomous individual by purchasing products and services that empower you to do more and better on your own.

Be more relaxed. Live a less stressful lifestyle by purchasing products and services that help release different kinds of tension.

Be unique and perceived as such by others. Express yourself and your worldview by purchasing products and services that let others know who you are and reflect your identity to the world.

Enact a new role in life. Embody a "new persona" by purchasing products and services that help you attain a new professional or personal position.

Engage in better relationships. Improve the way you connect with other human beings by purchasing products and services that strengthen your social circle and increase your sense of belonging.

Be more stable. Avoid danger by purchasing products and services that increase your safety.

Be well-known. Become accomplished by purchasing products and services that help you become more recognized and reputable.

Be a genuinely better human being. Grow individually by purchasing products and services that boost your professional, spiritual, and emotional development.

Forget everything you've heard about brand stories

Our mission for this chapter is to understand whom we're selling to and learn the best way to show them who we are, what we offer, how we're different, and how we promise to help them. The good news is that there's no need to reinvent the wheel. Human beings have been learning via stories forever, and there's simply no better tool to send our brand message across.

For some reason, when they hear about "brand stories," some people imagine their company's CEO reading to a potential buyer sitting on his lap, in an altruist display of emotion and mutual love. Rewind. Yes, there might be some reading. And yes, we need the CEO on board. But, while emotion is a part of the whole thing, please remember this:

Your brand story's "happily ever after" involves open wallets.

Seth Godin has an interesting thought on the matter: "Stories and irrational impulses are what change behavior. Not facts or bullet points."

Some other people hear me say "brand story," and "storytelling" immediately comes to mind. I'd like to let you know that "telling" is not what we're doing here. We're aiming for "story-showing." Telling isn't enough. Brand communications are not about explain-time, justify-time, defend-time…blah-time. Please keep the idea of show-time close to heart. This is why Chapter 5 is all about "story-showing" — feel free to take a peek if you're curious at this point.

But before we deal with ways to show our brand story, we need to create one.

I know social media, digital channels, videos, websites, and many other tools are appealing at the moment. I know that you think they might help your product scale instantaneously (miraculously), that they're just what the doctor ordered. I also need you to understand that you'd better stay away from them unless you have a story to tell.

Otherwise, digital channels just have a way of, well, swallowing you. Remember this:

Digital channels are just tools to show (what should be) a meaningful brand story.

Having a brand story is not optional. If you don't start writing it, please worry because — mark my words — someone else will write it for you. In my experience, only extremely disgusted or extremely pleased customers will put any effort into contributing to your brand story, so imagine how that would turn out without your attention. Brand storytelling is your unique chance to be persuasive and make the case for your product.

To take full advantage of this opportunity, we will answer five simple questions for our customers — though, as you'll see, there's really one big, profitable, underlying question (Why should I buy from you?):

 Brand story part	 Customer asks	 Customer really thinks

 Positioning	 "How are you useful to me?"	 WHY should I buy from you?

 Promise	 "What do you promise to do for me?"	 Why SHOULD I buy from you

 Personas	 "What do I need/want from you?"	 Why should I buy from you?

 Personality	 "Who are you?"	 Why should I buy from YOU?

 Product	 "What will you offer, over time?"	 Why should I BUY from you?

 Pricing	 "How much is this going to cost me?"	 Why should I BUY from you?

You can download the remaining free chapters from Experience Design here; author Laura Busche's Lean Branding is available here.

This post is part of our ongoing investigation into Experience Design and Business.

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Metastable Failure State (Facebook) — very nice story about working together to discover the cause of one of those persistently weird problems.

Bandit — static security analysis of Python code.

Quantum OS — Linux desktop based on Google's Material Design. UI guidelines fascinate me: users love consistency, designers and brands hate that everything works the same.

Inside AWS — Every day, AWS installs enough server infrastructure to host the entire Amazon e-tailing business from back in 2004, when Amazon the retailer was one-tenth its current size at $7 billion in annual revenue. "What has changed in the last year," Hamilton asked rhetorically, and then quipped: "We have done it 365 more times." That is another way of saying that in the past year AWS has added enough capacity to support a $2.55 trillion online retailing operation, should one ever be allowed to exist.

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Editor's note: this is a forthcoming article for the March 2015 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM); it is published here with permission.

For more than 20 years, the prevailing view has been that application program interfaces (APIs) are unprotectable elements of copyrighted computer programs. Under this view, programmers are free to reimplement other firms' APIs in independently written code. Competition and innovation in the software industry has thrived amazingly well in part because of rulings upholding this understanding.

Challenging this view is the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) May 2014 decision in Oracle v. Google. The CAFC held that the "structure, sequence, and organization" (SSO) of Oracle's Java APIs that Google reimplemented in its Android software are protectable expression under copyright law. It reversed a lower court ruling that the Java APIs were not copyrightable.

Google has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the CAFC's ruling. Several amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs have been filed in support of this effort. Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, and Yahoo! (PDF) are among these amici (as am I and 77 computer scientists).

The Supreme Court may take the case because the CAFC's decision is in conflict with other appellate court rulings that exclude APIs from copyright protection.

This article will explain the Oracle and Google theories about the copyrightability of Java APIs and the precedents on which each relies. The stakes in this case could not be higher.

Oracle's claims

Developing Java APIs required considerable creativity. Sun's engineers had substantial freedom in the choices they made about how to structure the APIs. The Java APIs are thus easily original enough to qualify for copyright protection, says Oracle (which acquired the intellectual property (IP) rights in Java when it acquired Sun Microsystems).

Java has achieved considerable success, which is why Google wanted to use Java APIs in its software platform for mobile devices. Google entered into negotiations with Sun about licensing rights in Java, which shows that it knew that it needed a license.

When these negotiations failed, Google went ahead and copied 37 of the Java APIs anyway in the Android platform for mobile devices. Tens of thousands of Java programmers have written apps to run on that platform. These apps have contributed to the extraordinary success of Android devices.

Shortly after acquiring Sun and its assets, Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement. (There were originally some patent claims in the case as well, but a jury ruled against those claims.) Oracle relied on some judicial precedents that had held that the SSO of programs is protectable by copyright law as long as there are multiple ways to design that SSO.

Section 102(b)

At issue in the Oracle case is the proper interpretation of Section 102(b) of U.S. copyright law. It states that "[i]n no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is…embodied in such work."

Oracle asserts that this provision restates the classic distinction between expression (which copyright law protects) and ideas (which are beyond the scope of copyright protection). Because the Java APIs are much more detailed than ideas and may have original elements, they are not ideas alone, but rather expressions of ideas. The CAFC agreed, concluding that these Java APIs are copyrightable because of the creativity they embody and the existence of alternative ways in which Google could have developed its own APIs.

9th Circuit precedents

Google has pointed out that the plain language of Section 102(b) makes procedures, systems, and methods of operation unprotectable by copyright law. It asserts the Java APIs at issue are unprotectable under this provision.

Google has relied on several appellate court decisions to support its claims that the Java APIs are unprotectable by copyright law. Especially relevant is the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in Sega v. Accolade.

Sega sued Accolade because it made copies of Sega software in the course of reverse-engineering to get access to the interface procedures embedded in the Sega code. Accolade needed to know this information to make its video games compatible with the Sega platform.

The 9th Circuit held this reverse engineering was a non-infringing fair use because it was done for the legitimate purpose of getting access to interface procedures which were "the functional requirements for [achieving] compatibility" and consequently unprotectable under Section 102(b).

Google claims that the CAFC erred by ignoring this aspect of the Sega decision. (Ordinarily an appeal from a California federal court would have gone to the 9th Circuit, but because Oracle originally sued Google for patent as well as copyright infringement, Oracle's appeal from the copyright loss went to the CAFC instead. The CAFC was supposed to follow 9th Circuit precedents.)

The CAFC opined that Google's arguments about compatibility might be relevant to its fair use defense to Oracle's claim of infringement, but not to whether the Java APIs were protectable by copyright law.

Origins of Section 102(b) exclusions

Copyright's exclusion of systems and methods of operation from the scope of its protection traces back to the Supreme Court's 1880 ruling in Baker v. Selden. Selden sued Baker because he copied the bookkeeping forms Selden published to illustrate how to implement his new bookkeeping system. Selden won at the trial court level, and Baker appealed.

The Supreme Court perceived the question in Baker to be "whether the exclusive property in a system of bookkeeping can be claimed, under the law of copyright, by means of a book in which that system is explained[.]"

The Court ruled that Selden's copyright extended to his explanation of the bookkeeping system, but not to the system itself, the method of operation it prescribed, or the forms that implemented the system. Such a "useful art" might have been eligible for patent protection, but not for copyright.

The Court observed that "[t]o give to the author of the book an exclusive property in the [useful] art described therein, when no examination of its novelty has ever been officially made, would be a surprise and a fraud upon the public. That is the province of letters-patent, not of copyright."

Congress codified the Baker holding in Section 102(b). A legislative report said it did so "to make clear that the expression adopted by the programmer is the copyrightable element in a computer program, and that the actual processes or methods embodied in the program are not within the scope of the copyright law."

The 9th Circuit in Sega recognized that copyright law should not protect interface procedures because that would confer patent-like protection on the functional requirements for compatibility without Sega meeting the stricter standards required for patents.

The trial judge in Oracle expressed concern that Oracle's copyright claim might be seeking to obtain "an exclusive right to a functional system, process, or method of operation that belongs in the realm of patents, not copyrights." The court noted that "[b]oth Oracle and Sun have applied for and received patents that claim aspects of the Java API."

In overturning that decision, the CAFC seemed untroubled about possible overlaps of copyright and patent protection for APIs. In effect, it read the procedure, system, and method exclusions out of the statute.

Is SSO protectable by copyright?

The idea that program SSO is protectable expression as long as there is more than one way to accomplish a programming objective derives from a 1986 3rd Circuit ruling in Whelan Associates v. Jaslow Dental Lab. Oracle and the CAFC have embraced this theory.

The SSO concept was, however, substantially discredited in the 2nd Circuit's 1992 Computer Associates v. Altai decision. In the years since Altai, courts have largely moved away from conceiving of SSO as protectable expression in programs because it fails to provide a workable framework within which to distinguish protectable and unprotectable structural aspects of programs.

The 2nd Circuit in Altai emphasized that the "essentially utilitarian nature of computer programs" makes it difficult to separate protectable and unprotectable structural elements in programs.

Altai announced a new "abstraction, filtration, and comparison" test for software copyright infringement. Among the structural elements of programs that must be filtered out before assessing infringement are efficient design elements, elements constrained by external factors, and standard programming techniques.

The 2nd Circuit in Altai was quite explicit that elements of programs "dictated by external factors" such as "compatibility requirements of other programs with which a program is designed to operate in conjunction" lie outside the scope of protection that copyright provides to programs. Such structural similarities must be filtered out before courts can determine whether a defendant infringed copyright.

The 9th Circuit followed Altai's lead in holding that interface procedures necessary for achieving interoperability among programs were functional elements of programs that copyright did not protect under Section 102(b). In Sega, the court cited approvingly to Altai for the proposition that computer programs "contain many logical, structural, and visual display elements that are dictated by the function to be performed, by considerations of efficiency, or by external factors such as compatibility requirements and industry demands."

Lotus v. Borland

Another important appellate ruling that supports Google's theory is Lotus v. Borland. In 1995, the 1st Circuit ruled that Borland had not infringed by copying the SSO of the Lotus 1-2-3 command hierarchy for use in the emulation interface of Borland's Quattro Pro program. Borland had to use the same commands in the same order so that users who had constructed macros of frequently executed functions in the Lotus macro language could continue to use those macros in the Borland program.

The 1st Circuit in Borland did not find the SSO concept helpful in distinguishing protectable and unprotectable structural elements of computer programs. It held that the SSO at issue in Borland was an unprotectable method of operation under Section 102(b), akin to the command structure of VCR machines.

The trial judge in the Oracle case relied on the Borland decision, characterizing the Java APIs as a similar type of command structure. The CAFC chose not to follow Borland, and interpreted Altai as applicable only when initial designers of APIs are themselves constrained in their choices about structuring the interfaces.

Conclusion

Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court took Lotus' appeal from the 1st Circuit ruling. After oral argument, it split 4-4 on the proper interpretation of Section 102(b) as applied to computer programs. This left the 1st Circuit opinion intact, but did not make a nationwide precedent. The issues left undecided in that case are before the Court in the Oracle case.

Several amicus briefs filed in support of Google's appeal say that if the Supreme Court does not repudiate the CAFC's interpretation of copyright law, the result will likely be a new surge in litigation over the protectability of APIs, even though this issue had seemed to be resolved by appellate court rulings going back to 1992.

Oracle and its amici (if any) will have their say on the issues in briefs filed in December 2014. The Court will likely decide whether to hear the case in January or February of 2015. Because of the importance of the issue to the software industry, I predict the Court will decide to hear the case. How it will rule remains to be seen.

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Michael Ossman and the NSA Playset — the guy who read the leaked descriptions of the NSA's toolchest, built them, and open sourced the designs. One device, dubbed TWILIGHTVEGETABLE, is a knock off of an NSA-built GSM cell phone that's designed to sniff and monitor Internet traffic. The ANT catalog lists it for $15,000; the NSA Playset researchers built one using a USB flash drive, a cheap SDR, and an antenna, for about $50. The most expensive device, a drone that spies on WiFi traffic called PORCUPINEMASQUERADE, costs about $600 to assemble. At Defcon, a complete NSA Playset toolkit was auctioned by the EFF for $2,250.

Gates Foundation Announces World's Strongest Policy on Open Access Research (Nature) — Once made open, papers must be published under a license that legally allows unrestricted re-use — including for commercial purposes. This might include 'mining' the text with computer software to draw conclusions and mix it with other work, distributing translations of the text, or selling republished versions. CC-BY! We believe that published research resulting from our funding should be promptly and broadly disseminated.

Xenotix — an advanced Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability detection and exploitation framework. It provides Zero False Positive scan results with its unique Triple Browser Engine (Trident, WebKit, and Gecko) embedded scanner. It is claimed to have the world's 2nd largest XSS Payloads of about 4700+ distinctive XSS Payloads for effective XSS vulnerability detection and WAF Bypass. Xenotix Scripting Engine allows you to create custom test cases and addons over the Xenotix API. It is incorporated with a feature-rich Information Gathering module for target Reconnaissance. The Exploit Framework includes offensive XSS exploitation modules for Penetration Testing and Proof of Concept creation.

Firing Range — Google's open source set of web security test cases for scanners.

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Industrial designers and interaction designers are joining forces to create the best services for Internet of Things (IoT). I sat down with Martin Charlier, a design strategist with a unique distinction of having both interaction and industrial design experience to talk about how the IoT is changing the design landscape, including team dynamics, responsible design, and value-driven design. Charlier is the co-author of the forthcoming Designing Connected Products and a contributor to Designing for Emerging Technologies. For a free download of sample chapters from Designing Connected Products click here.

Team dynamics

Charlier discusses the key ingredients for teams working on a product together and how to achieve a unified vision:

"I think every field needs to know a little bit about others, just a basic understanding of the other side. In some of the most interesting projects I've seen, the team was made up of somebody with an industrial design background, somebody doing more technology and somebody doing more interaction and user experience.

"The key, though, to some of the projects I've seen was that they started to work together as one team before splitting up into their respective domain areas so that there was a joined vision. I think that's the most important thing: to come up with a joined vision. I think that's where interaction design and industrial design, for example, need to think of either sides of the coin."

Responsibility and design

Design considerations extend beyond the aesthetics, utility, and user experience; there's a bigger picture that must be considered as well. Charlier outlines the various responsibilities designer's juggle:

"Designing a physical object is less task-driven. The usability, the task aspect of it, is only one facet of the whole experience. You have to think about the aesthetics, the emotional qualities of a product, the materials, and manufacturing processes — and how this relates to an environmental responsibility. If you design a physical object, you have to think about where that device goes, when it's at the end of its life cycle. What kind of material do you use to make it, and where do those materials come from?

"The Fairphone project, for example, is interesting. One of the things they talk about is that they use only conflict-free materials. It's not just about the material being a renewable or sustainable material source; it's actually also about the social responsibility. Especially precious metals, for example — where do they come from? What are the labor conditions?"

On service

The Internet of Things is opening the door to reimagined products and services. Charlier explains some of his favorite examples of IoT services:

"One of my absolute favorite products is the Amazon Dash. I love the idea that I could use a grocery service without ever having to launch an app or go to a website. I think what's also interesting is that it's the best execution of the Internet fridge. The thing about it is the misconception that the Internet fridge has to be a fridge. If you think of it as just an idea, it doesn't have to be a fridge as a device. If you think of it as an idea, the Amazon Dash is actually a pretty good execution of an Internet fridge service."

"Another project I find incredibly interesting, even though there's very little public information about it at the moment, is Google's Physical Web project. Because it hits on something I've been thinking about for a while: this idea of turning apps into something temporary. This idea that maybe when I'm sitting on a bus, the bus has an app that becomes available on my phone while I'm on the bus and it disappears from my home screen when I step off the bus."

You can listen to our entire interview in the SoundCloud player above or download it from our SoundCloud stream.

This interview is part of our investigation into Experience Design and the Internet of Things.

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How Magic Leap is Secretly Creating a New Alternate Reality (Gizmodo) — amazing piece of investigative tech journalism.

Better All The Time (New Yorker) — What we're seeing is, in part, the mainstreaming of excellent habits. […] Everyone works hard. Everyone is really good.

Stop Trying to Save the World (New Republic) — What I want to talk shit on is the paradigm of the Big Idea—that once we identify the correct one, we can simply unfurl it on the entire developing world like a picnic blanket. (note: some pottymouth language in this article, and some analysis I wholeheartedly agree with.)

Christmas in Yiwu — We travelled by container ship across the East China Sea before following the electronics supply chain around China, visiting factories, distributors, wholesalers and refineries. Fascinating! 22km of corridors in the mall that dollar store buyers visit to fill their shelves. I had never seen so many variations of the same product. Dozens of Christmas stockings bearing slightly different Santas and snowmen. Small tweaks on each theme. An in-house designer creates these designs. It feels like a brute force approach to design, creating every single possibility and then letting the market decide which it wants to buy. If none of the existing designs appeal to a buyer they can get their own designs manufactured instead. When a custom design is successful, with the customer placing a large order, it is copied by the factory and offered in their range to future buyers. The factory sales agent indicated that designs weren't protected and could be copied freely, as long as trademarks were removed. Parallels with web design left as exercise to the reader. (via the ever-discerning Mr Webb)

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It's no secret that design is playing a more prominent role within many organizations. Designers are becoming fundamentally linked to the development and success of products and services versus their more historical role polishing the appearance of those products and services. I recently sat down with Tom Greever, UX Director at Bitovi, to talk about the evolution of UX design, challenges that design professionals face today, and some of the keys to the success of the modern UX designer. Greever describes the evolution:

"Traditionally, the only problem we were trying to solve was to make something look better. It was a problem of just aesthetics, but now our designs have to solve for things like ease of use, or conversion, or user engagement. We're solving business problems. We're helping businesses achieve their goals through design, and if we can't do that, then our designs aren't any good. We're not creating the right experience. They're not providing value."

Design communication is key to user experience

It's one thing to design a great user experience and another to see it through to fruition. UX designers are working with a wider variety of stakeholders, both within organizations and with clients. Greever stresses the importance of designers being able to work with management, finance, marketing, development, and others in a team-based environment where communication is key to success:

"Designers don't always think in rational or logical ways. We make a lot decisions just based on our intuition and our intuition can be really good at solving these problems, that's why we're good at design, but it's almost never enough to convince a stakeholder that you're right, especially when they disagree with you on the decision. So it's really critical that we learn to communicate and articulate our design decisions in a way that helps them understand what we're trying to do and hopefully see that we're right…There's really a lot at stake. Communicating about design to non-designers is absolutely critical to be sure that we're creating the best possible experience for our users, for our market."

Design's foundations are user-centric

And let's not forget the user. Greever says user-centered design and empathy are the foundations of a good design:

"This is really at the core of a user-centered design approach. What problem can we solve for people, right? Solving that problem requires that we set our own ambitions aside, that we learn to develop that empathy, so that we can see what actually needs to be done. We won't even know the problem if we don't have empathy, but when you do that, then you find that it actually makes good business sense, because people want to buy products that fulfill their needs in that way."

You can listen to the entire interview in the player above, or through our O'Reilly SoundCloud stream.

This interview is part of our ongoing investigation into Experience Design and Business.

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Wearable Power Assist Device Goes on Sale in Japan (WSJ, Paywall) — The Muscle Suit, which weighs 5.5 kilograms (12 pounds), can be worn knapsack-style and uses a mouthpiece as its control. Unlike other similar suits that rely on motors, it uses specially designed rubber tubes and compressed air as the source of its power. The Muscle Suit can help users pick up everyday loads with about a third of the usual effort. […] will sell for about ¥600,000 ($5,190), and is also available for rent at about ¥30,000 to ¥50,000 per month. Prof. Kobayashi said he expected the venture would ship 5,000 of them in 2015. (via Robot Economics)

Debunking Handbook — techniques for helping people to change their beliefs (hint: showing them data rarely does it). (via Tom Stafford)

Building a Complete Tweet Index (Twitter) — engineering behind the massive searchable Tweet collection: indexes roughly half a trillion documents and serves queries with an average latency of under 100ms.

History of the Poop Emoji (Fast Company) — In Japanese, emoji are more like characters than random animated emoticons.

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Experts from across the big data world came together for Strata + Hadoop World in Barcelona 2014. We've gathered insights from the event below.

#IoTH: The Internet of Things and Humans

"If we could start over with these capabilities we have now, how would we do it differently?" Tim O'Reilly continues to explore data and the Internet of Things through the lens of human empowerment and the ability to "use technology to give people superpowers."

How can we use our data powers for good?

"This is an opportunity to think carefully about how we want to manage data," says Cloudera chief architect Doug Cutting. Data tools and platforms have matured to the point where the decisions we make now will shape the data landscape for years to come.

Courage, brains, heart

Camille Fournier, head of engineering at Rent the Runway, uses characters from the Wizard of Oz to illustrate the relationship between data (The Lion), product (The Scarecrow), and technology (The Tin Man).

Data-driven design with a race car pedigree

Minimize the distance between idea, design, and feedback in the Formula 1 racing world and you gain a clear competitive advantage. Geoff McGrath, vice president at McLaren Applied Technologies, explains how a short innovation cycle — powered by data, predictive analytics, and a "human in the loop" — can transform other industries.

A toolset for predicting World Cup matches

Jordan Tigani, software engineer at Google, explains how he used the cloud and open source data tools to correctly predict 14 out of 16 World Cup games.

You can see more coverage in our Strata + Hadoop World in Barcelona 2014 playlist.

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Editor's note: you can subscribe to the O'Reilly Data Show Podcast through SoundCloud or through our RSS feed.

Many data scientists are comfortable working with structured operational data and unstructured text. Newer techniques like deep learning have opened up data types like images, video, and audio.

Other common data sources are garnering attention. With the rise of mobile phones equipped with GPS, I'm meeting many more data scientists at start-ups and large companies who specialize in spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Analyzing "moving dots" requires specialized tools and techniques. A few months ago, I sat down with Rajiv Maheswaran founder and CEO of Second Spectrum, a company that applies analytics to sports tracking data. Maheswaran talked about this new kind of data and the challenge of finding patterns:

"It's interesting because it's a new type of data problem. Everybody knows that big data machine learning has done a lot of stuff in structured data, in photos, in translation for language, but moving dots is a very new kind of data where you haven't figured out the right feature set to be able to find patterns from. There's no language of moving dots, at least not that computers understand. People understand it very well, but there's no computational language of moving dots that are interacting. We wanted to build that up, mostly because data about moving dots is very, very new. It's only in the last five years, between phones and GPS and new tracking technologies, that moving data has actually emerged."

Orders of magnitude higher than Moneyball box score data

In professional sports teams, Second Spectrum found an audience struggling to make sense of large amounts of "tracking data." Maheswaran explained:

"It turns out that sports is one of the areas where they have really, really great data. For example: in GPS, there's noise issues and in phones, there are sampling issues; in sports in the last year, there have been tracking technologies placed in all major sports where they're tracking all the players and the ball at a very, very high frame rate. You get all this really fantastic movement data, and then you have all these people like coaches and front offices and media who want to find patterns in this data. There's great data, there are people who really care about the problem, and it's a great place to build this science.

"…It's kind of like Moneyball, except three orders of magnitude higher because Moneyball was using box score data, which is hundreds of events a game, and now with tracking data, you have millions of events per game. Now there are positions of every sort of player and the ball, so the question is: if I have a big pile of numbers, somebody just dumped a million numbers about the game, how do I actually extract value from that? How do you extract patterns, meanings, stories, and semantics that people care about: that's the challenge."

Real-time data will change the game

In the near future, coaches will have access to this data and to analytic tools during live game situations. This would represent an interesting example of one of the trends were tracking — cognitive augmentation: the combination of big data, algorithms, and efficient user interfaces. Maheswaran said it's just a matter of time and increasing interest:

"I think that's going to happen very soon. It's not the case today, but I would at least hope that within three years, once we have all this data in real time, coaches will want to do it. It will change the game. It's going to go out to the fans anyway, so if the coaches don't get it, the fans are going to see all kinds of information in real time that the coaches won't have, so eventually the coaches will want that. I think that everybody in the sports leagues want to improve the game, and I think just having this data in real time is going to facilitate that."

Listen to the full podcast in the player above or through SoundCloud.

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Tim O'Reilly has said that Uber is an example of designing for how the world ought to be. Their app works well, their cars are clean, their drivers are pleasant, and they usually arrive quickly. But more goes into the experience of a company than just an app. Corporate behavior is also part of the company's design; perhaps not as noticeable as their Android or iPhone app, but a very real part. That's where Uber falls down. They have increasingly been a bad actor, on many counts:

Coercing their black car (Uber) drivers into driving for the low cost UberX service, which is much less profitable.

Being disingenuous about the economics of driving for them. Justin Singer does an excellent job of deconstructing their claims. $90,000/year for a 40-hour work week? Think $40K. For a 70-hour work week.

Badmouthing a competitor (Lyft) that is raising capital. As Fred Wilson says, this practice may be common, but it's unethical and unproductive.

Predatory ("surge") pricing during peak hours, as much as seven times normal prices.

Playing fast and loose with drivers' background checks.

And now one of their senior VPs has suggested researching and exposing the private lives of reporters who criticize them. He's apologized, and said he never meant anything of the sort. Right. It's not what you apologize for that counts; it's not doing stuff you need to apologize for in the first place.

I could go on (advertising hot female drivers, abuses of their privacy policy, and more), but I won't. You get the point. This is #GamerGate, but with a $17 billion valuation behind it.

Uber likes to hide behind the shield that they're a "technology company." They write an app, they maintain a database, but they're not in the transportation business. The drivers are independent business people, not employees, and the riders are the drivers' customers, not Uber's. That's all well and good on paper, but it creates a huge disconnect between the company, the people doing the hard work of driving cars, and the people buying the services. It isn't OK for Uber the company to be unaccountable to its drivers or its riders. That's a situation that's ripe for abuse — and abuse is what we're seeing.

I am not grousing about Uber's conflicts with regulators. I dislike attempts to use regulation to discourage new economic models and preserve entrenched business interests. I hate taxis, and Uber has provided a welcome alternative. Current taxi regulations (at least in the US — I don't know about Europe) have created conditions that are hardly different from debt slavery, and are bad for both the driver and the customer. I also know how hard it is to find a taxi when you really need one. Walk from 10th Avenue in Manhattan to 2nd in the rain? Done that, and I didn't see an empty cab the whole time. That walk convinced me that I needed to sign up for Uber.

But since that long walk, Uber's behavior has become unacceptable. If I thought boycotts were particularly effective, I'd suggest a boycott until Uber gets its act together. I hope, though, that Uber's investors will stop counting the dollars that might flow into their funds should Uber eventually make the big IPO, and think hard about the damage that Uber's management is doing to their investment. It's difficult to build a good name, and very easy to destroy it. If I had a few million dollars worth of skin in the game, that is very much what I'd be thinking about it. In many start-ups, no matter how profitable, a time comes when the investors need to step in and provide "adult supervision." This would be that time.

If this is Uber's vision of how the world ought to be, leave me out. Next time I need a ride, I'll certainly be thinking about Lyft.

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The Infinite Hows (John Allspaw) — when finding ways to improve systems to prevent errors, the process of diagnosis should be focused on the systems and less on the people. (aka "human error" is the result of a preceding systems error.) (aka "design for failure.")

Amazon Lambda — triggers in the cloud.

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They´re roofing our houses, cooking at restaurants, picking vegetables, etc. Might as well have a Mexican Armed Forces defending our freedom and shooting up our Army bases when they´re disgruntled. I like where this is going. Doing What Most Americans Are Unwilling To Do.Do we really want our military populated by illiterate, unassimilated illegal aliens? At first blush, this Republican amnesty move seems like a cynical way to buy Hispanic votes.
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#2 "At first blush, this Republican amnesty move seems like a cynical way to buy Hispanic votes." Gee, ya think?
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Idiots----it´s not only the Mexicans but look at all the other illegal aliens here. That includes those over-stayed visas, the felons who have escaped to the land of ´milk and honey´ and NO laws. Militarized police are out to rid U.S. citizens with shoot first, ask questions later.Deport all who are not here legally. Don´t arrest to have them released back into the general population.
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Right now the strength of the US military is being drawn down to where there is no need for the military to enlist illegal aliens. The only way that could happen is if the Obama crew instructs the military to give first preference to illegal alien enlistees over American and legal alien enlistees, a policy that would be bizarre but not out of the question for the Obama crew to do since this proposal is initially being pushed to give the Republicans some cover with Hispanic voters.Any illegal alien enlistees who would get in would be no doubt relegated to cannon fodder jobs in the infantry or jobs as cooks, bakers, and truck drivers as they would not be able to get security clearances needed to get most technical jobs. If it again comes to a shooting war as they are foreign citizens, their home countries could as Mexico did with Iraq as tell foreign enlistees not to fight and to return home. The Republicans are opening a can of worms here and will be handing the Democrats a lot of new foreign born voters by supporting such an amnesty that the Democrats will immediately expand.
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But # 5, this admin would want illegals in the military.Unlike citizens, they will have no problem opening fire on Americans.
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It looks like the latest Fort Hood shooter was a Mexican as reportedly he has been traveling there on multiple occasions. What that signifies we will just have to wait and see!
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Despite witnessing housing's boom and bust, millennials still see home ownership as a good investment.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A Central Texas man got a 30-day jail sentence for contempt of court after criticizing a judge in a Caldwell County Courthouse men's room.
State District Judge Jack Robison ordered 69-year-old Don Bandelman released after two days in jail after a state appeals court in Austin made inquiries into the matter.
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