“Open­StreetMap is a wiki-​​style map of the world that any­one can edit. You can get the raw data for roads around the world, set up a server, design a new map style, and have your own per­sonal online inter­ac­tive maps. In the past, this has been dif­fi­cult owing to the large vol­ume of data required and the has­sles of sys­tem admin­is­tra­tion. Tile Drawer is designed to make this process easy with a custom-​​configured Ama­zon EC2 machine image (AMI) that gets you up and run­ning with just two pieces of infor­ma­tion: a cus­tom stylesheet that you choose, and the geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion of a part of the world you’d like rendered.”

“By AHIP’s own admis­sion, they have to be stopped or they’ll kill again. The report is a taunt, a thug-​​level threat, ter­ror­ism, if you will. With no gov­ern­ment alter­na­tive to cor­po­rate health insur­ance, it’s like ask­ing cap­tured bank rob­bers if they’d mind not rob­bing banks any­more. When they say, “Yes, we mind,” you ask if they’d stop shoot­ing hostages. And when they say, “We’ll think about it,” you thank them for accept­ing their pun­ish­ment so grace­fully and release them.”

“Use rvm . Easy instal­la­tion and switch­ing between avail­able Ruby ver­sions and run­times, with­out mess­ing up your cur­rent Ruby install! rvm also allows you to use mul­ti­ple ver­sions of ruby in sep­a­rate ter­mi­nals concurrently!”

“Every tech­nol­ogy fits, in its own unique way, into a far-​​flung net­work of dif­fer­ent sites of social prac­tice. Some tech­nolo­gies are employed in a spe­cific site, and in those cases we often feel that we can war­rant clear cause-​​and-​​effect sto­ries about the trans­for­ma­tions that have accom­pa­nied them, either in that site or oth­ers. Other tech­nolo­gies are so ubiq­ui­tous — found con­tribut­ing to the evo­lu­tion of the activ­i­ties and rela­tion­ships of so many dis­tinct sites of prac­tice — that we have no idea how to begin reck­on­ing their effects upon soci­ety, assum­ing that such a global notion of “effects” even makes sense.”

“Efficient-​​market the­ory ought, with any method­olog­i­cal jus­tice, to be rel­e­gated to the Museum of Nice Tries. But there is no uni­fied replace­ment the­ory, and devel­op­ing one will be ardu­ous, involv­ing empir­i­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal work on all scales, from the exper­i­men­tal psy­chol­ogy of indi­vid­ual investors, through the insti­tu­tional con­straints under which money man­agers work, to solv­ing for the aggre­gated effects of mar­ket par­tic­i­pants’ inter­ac­tions. In the mean­time, efficient-​​market the­ory pro­vides a ready basis for pre­cise cal­cu­la­tions, and one that is more­over now built into the aca­d­e­mic field of finance and into the prac­tice and even infra­struc­ture of the markets.”

“Made pos­si­ble by an $8 mil­lion gift from the entre­pre­neurs for whom the pro­gram is named, the Rajen­dra and Neera Singh Pro­gram in Mar­ket and Social Sys­tems Engi­neer­ing, MKSE, will be the first course of study to fully inte­grate the dis­ci­plines needed in this emerg­ing sci­ence. The intel­lec­tual core of the pro­gram will encom­pass net­work sci­ence, algo­rith­mic game the­ory and other dis­ci­plines rel­e­vant to engi­neers and sci­en­tists as they con­sider human incen­tives and behav­ior in devel­op­ing mod­ern tech­no­log­i­cal systems.”

“Even eBay, with the most well-​​known exam­ple of pub­lic neg­a­tive karma, doesn’t rep­re­sent how untrust­wor­thy an actual seller might be-​​it only gives buy­ers rea­sons to take spe­cific actions to pro­tect them­selves. In gen­eral, avoid neg­a­tive pub­lic karma. If you really want to know who the bad guys are, keep the score sep­a­rate and restrict it to inter­nal use by mod­er­a­tion staff.”

“Yes­ter­day we ana­lyzed some of the appli­ca­tions being built with Pachube, an open source plat­form enabling devel­op­ers to con­nect sen­sor data to the Web. We at Read­WriteWeb think that Pachube is an excel­lent exam­ple of one of our Top 5 Trends of 2009: Inter­net of Things. So we’re explor­ing Pachube in-​​depth in a 3-​​part series.…”