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This is a great comment. This is what a Java "Engineer" or "Architect" is supposed to understand. It is complex, but seems too abstracted from programming reality that it makes programming simple things more complicated then they have to be.
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Sorry, I should have explained why I do all of that.

I combine all of that data to try and come up with interesting routes to cycle - OpenStreetMap is great for detailed cycle path data, Streetview allows me to judge whether I want to cycle along a road (I prefer offroad) and Geograph is the closest you can get to an offroad Street View. And if I am going anywhere serious (well out of town) then I replace OpenStreetMap with OS maps from Bing.
Or (c) you actually don't know as much about Apple as you think. Apple has routinely released 1.0 products that contained major flaws in one way or another.

It's just that Apple polishes those flaws so they aren't as glaring. And they've been doing this since the very beginning of Steve Jobs' second reign i.e. OSX.
The singularity, it comes.
Not sure how citing that spreads have been tightened since the advent of algotrading is "prejudice" or "opinon."
In the US the lower frequencies being used for LTE are 700/800 MHz which corresponds to a wavelength of between 37 and 43 cm.

A dipole would be at 1/2 wavelength or 21 cm at the lowest frequency. At 1/4 wavelength you'd be looking at 10 cm long.

The iPhone 4S is 11.5 cm long so I think that a 4G/LTE antenna would fit inside just fine.
You're meth example is not the same thing. The meth user's meth usage does not effect the person he tells not to use meth. Well, maybe there's something to be said about the societal issues.

In the room example it is stated the bad thing affects everyone in the room to some detriment. Even though the visionary got everyone to stop, the eventual outcome is the detrimental one since the visionary keeps doing the bad thing. Therefore, in the end it doesn't matter if one of them or all of them does the bad thing. So, the fact that the visionary was a hypocrite has doomed them all. Only when the visionary is not a hypocrite can they all be saved. I believe the bad thing in a room is not a good example of the point to be made. This is more about the potential stupidity of groups of people following leaders (visionary and commentator both) without thinking for themselves. The best thing for the self-interest of the people involved was to individually decide to leave the room.
That was hilarious! Never seen that clip before.
If the point is to make sure that the backers do not make decisions uninformed, why not take time to add a curated risk score. This way, the projects will be responsible in providing proper evidence about how far they are in production, and you can help us figure out if they are really on track. For instance, a project which can provide a list of parts, is probably further in the process than one which only has CAD sketches; but that doesn't mean that people wouldn't be interested in backing the project in its infancy. It shouldn't be too hard for you to come up with an acceptable process of evaluation, and hire experts to do it. Heck, we pay a cut to KS anyway, why not throw in a better service in return.
"By removing the complexity of backend development, Deployd lets you focus on the part of your app that really matters: the front-end"

/sigh.
Um, that's what Apple is already doing. So far, it isn't working.

Google started doing more than that quite some time ago. They even stopped using TomTom / Tele Atlas (one of Apple's bigger third-party data suppliers) in 2009. Does basing a lot of your map data on a source that Google rejected years ago sound like a way to stay competitive?

Moreover, one of the things I've seen mapping experts say today is that integrating a variety of data providers can make the maps problem harder instead of easier.
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I don's see how it could be hypocritical, but anyway..
1)Google Maps is not part of the OS, but is a proprietary closed source application.
2)Nobody is stopping you from building a better system, or improving OpenStreetMap
3)Cartographers obviously have ownership of the maps they build, more so, they introduce errors to recognize unauthorized copies.
How is that hypocritical?
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So, if I got it right, if Google uses OpenStreetMap, they will have to make their data available under ODBL?

Good luck with that.
One thing this article doesn't seem to address is that some things take some work before you can appreciate them. Most runners don't remember how hard it was when they were first starting out - how much it hurt and how little encouragement there was, and no runner's high. Same thing goes for writing: I doubt anyone reading this can remember how hard it was to learn how to even read. Some things are an "acquired" taste and take more than simply trying them out once before making a decision one way or the other.
A small hack to know how long it's been
Recently, an increasing amount of Google's POI data is coming from companies they own (e.g. Frommer's and Zagat). Somehow I think Apple will have trouble working out licensing deals with those providers.
Thank you (x3) for the explanation on how this works and what went wrong. Your comment alone is more insightful on any of these articles that've been submitted on this problem. You win my Internets, mitchellh.
How about a straight "we will fix it"? Maybe it is Marketing 101, but I found it noteworthy how consequently Apple executes it.
My best answer is...Youtube blew up. The market for it went through the roof, anyone's posting videos all over the internet, and obviously the trolls weren't using their patent to make money themselves, they were using it to ride on the backs of the real developers.
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> You cannot read about the errors in Apple Maps without realizing that these maps were being visually examined and used for the first time by Apple’s customers and not by Apple’s QC teams.

Wasn't iOS6 in public beta for a few months?
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Apple's Maps. It doesn't excuse the pain it will cause users in the short term but I don't see anything that is going to be a long term problem for Apple. It's now just a process of fixing errors, stocking more POI information, and working with their partners/sources to continue improving the platform. There was never going to be a point where they could make this switch gracefully.
Liquidity is the reason you can click a button on E-Trade and get your trades almost instantly, for between zero and a few more pennies than what traders would pay, plus a $9.99 commission. This was absolutely not the case before computer trading and electronic markets.

The "good old days" of human traders where when you'd pay fifty bucks plus one percent to a broker who would almost certainly front-run your trades, and the best spreads were at least 1/8. Nowdays the worst that could happen is an HFT might, perfectly legally, place an order a split second faster and extract fractions of a penny as they narrow the spread for everyone. Please forgive me if I don't consider this a disaster for investors, hedgers, mutual funds, and other consumers of markets that they can quickly execute orders close to the market price.
.. no.
I would guess that most fonts will lack emoji characters, and always will, just like most fonts won't have all umpteen-thousand hanzi/kanji. I'm no expert on HTML fonts, but I thought it was the browser's job to find and use a font which contains the character on the page. I can write Japanese text, and specify it should be "Comic Sans", and every web browser I've ever tried will pick a reasonable font to display them, rather than leaving a Comic Sans-sized blank area on the page.

OS X comes with at least one font with these characters, yet apart from Safari, none of my web browsers can seem to use it. To me, that means it doesn't work.
Does the position data provide any information beyond "phone was within a meter or two"?

I can see how that would help reveal issues, but I don't see how it would help much in fixing them.
If the US fails, the world economy is basically toast anyways.
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There are early examples, of course, like Philip K Dick. His books had a very strong focus on the experiences of the protagonist, and society itself. It's probably part of the reason over ten of his stories have been turned into films (even if some were just short stories).
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I hope you never click 'save password' in Pidgin, or about a thousand different local apps. There's a 'vector' there too!
A high frequency trader wants to jump in front of your trade and then sell that stock to you.

Can he explain exactly how this is supposed to happen? Let's think it through. You see a stock priced at B, and you decide you want to buy it. Cuban is saying that a high frequency trader will see that you want to buy the stock, and he'll buy it for B and then sell it back to you at B+X, making X in the process (any you pay more for the stock). To do that, he'd have to know that you were about to submit an order. But he only finds out about your order after you've submitted the order to the exchange, and the exchange has relayed it to him. He doesn't get the opportunity to "jump in front of you", and I have no idea why Cuban thinks he does.

In actuality, what happens is this. The high frequency trader sees that the stock is priced at B if you want to buy it, and S if you want to tell it (with B > S). He then expresses his willingness to sell you the stock at B-X (by sending a limit order to the exchange). When you come along to buy it, you get it at B-X instead of B, which saves you money. The trader gets a rebate from the exchange for supplying liqudity (which he did, since you got the stock for less than you would have otherwise) and hopefully he is able to buy it back for some price around S (with another limit order), thereby making the difference between B-X and S.

There are dangers with high frequency trading [1] but they are not of the kind that Cuban is describing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_capital#2012_stock_tradi...
Public beta is apple's customers, not a QA team.
gifsockets is just a niche implementation of long polling. They work the same way.
In my experience, it's very easy to get irritated at bug reports for style issues or tone, when you are really upset with yourself for the bug and want to blame someone else for something, anything.
Nice polished UI. Good to see some integration in the finance space. A couple of years ago I was working on something similar idea.

One of the things we did was backtest a couple of strategies for hold with entry points of "Jim Cramer" recommended this stock on this day.

What are your backgrounds.

Ping me if you want to talk more.
In bigger-picture terms, Apple doing their own maps is surely a good thing because of the competition it creates.

Surely it's going to end up pushing improvements in maps technology.
> Please note that you _explicitly_ declared the content as cacheable.

You also declared that it instantly becomes stale, so the browser must revalidate the entry before returning it. Safari returning a resource with Cache-Control: max-age=0 without contacting the server beforehand is an incorrect behavior, goes against the spec and is not defensible.

> But one cannot complain about the fact that a browser cached a response that has explicitly been said by its producer to be cacheable.

Yes one can, and the problem is not that it was cached but that it was returned. A stale cached response returned without validation is an incorrect behavior unless the response also included staleness specifications (which I can't remember ever seeing in the wild). Revalidating is not optional: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13... http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13...
Not really the case when you are outside the US; you are just presented with an apology.
What a stupid article. Looking pretty is far less important than being functional. And his site is the perfect example of that; it looked pretty, but the content only took up a 50% column of the total viewable space (and that's without having my browser window set to full screen). His site would be terrible for productivity driven sites like PHP's manual.

Also I reject his premiss that language sites need to be pretty to attract developers. You pick a language based on it's suitability for a project, not whether it has lashes of CSS3 and bespoke type-faces. To even suggest otherwise is painfully superficial.

There's an old adage: less is more. And I think that's very true when discussing sites that are designed to serve content rather than sell content.
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This looks like it could be pretty good for prototyping, or maybe a small, low-risk project. It gives the user JS event handlers for server-side events, and there's a simple API for behavior ("protect('model_attr')", "error('the message')"). Not bad.
Great explanation, thank you Mitchell.
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the easier answer is to leverage SSL authentication. There's no reason we should have to use passwords every time we login to a site. All sites have to do is generate a single device asymetric key pair and provide the one part to the client's browser (we'll call this private) and associate the other part ("public") to whatever account you care about.

Now, you still need some other element to authenticate the user when they visit a website from a new device/browser, but this would mean that you don't have long term cookies that serve the same role and are therefore more extractable over the wire (as we've seen in the past) and would negate these type of attacks.

Also, the tech exists in browsers today already, many SSL registrars already do it.
> Liquidity is the reason you can click a button on E-Trade and get your trades almost instantly

I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor - someone who wants to become a company owner, as I explained above, and not yet another hacker who couldn't care less about the long-term health of the company I'm buying.

My point is that if folks care about liquidity on the order of seconds/sub-seconds, they are themselves falling into the short-term trading BS (and consequently continuously distorting company prices).

Please stop perpetuating this insanity. Here's a timely article by Mark Cuban fresh out of the oven to help clarify my point:

http://blogmaverick.com/2012/09/21/what-business-is-wall-str...
That's obvious it cannot get any worst than it is now.

This new map app was such a lame move that I cannot understand how did apple shipped the iOS6 with it, if you have a nice person you can call it an early Beta.
It's interesting that you would quote Warren Buffett who is only one of the largest derivative traders on the PLANET.
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I think under certain circumstances they'd only need to make the data that they used and/or improved available but to be honest the whole thing confuses me. Like the line between what's GPL'd linux and what's Android or proprietary Tivo code this is partly convention, partly case law, partly a gray area. Maybe, like with GPL'd linux on servers or APL'd Android on phones it'll fit neatly into Google's business plan, maybe they can firewall certain bits off with a bit of effort, or perhaps it'll never work, I don't really know for sure.
Yeah, I didn't intend "epic" in the sense of Homeric greatness ... I just meant like a giant tome.
This comment does nothing but make you look ridiculous. Either discuss the article or don't.
> or changing the capital gains tax structure so that there is no capital gains tax on any shares of stock (private or public company) held for 1 year or more, and no tax on dividends paid to shareholders who have held stock in the company for more than 5 years.

A complex tax structure ignores the bottom (who pay very little tax on income) and only harms the middle. The top earners in any system with a complex tax structure have the capital and the assets to make it worthwhile to design vehicles that shield them by exploiting these complex tax rules.
Your comment just made my day :-)
If you really want quant stuff, then use R, Octave||Matlab or even Excel. MA, RSI test are available on Internet and works with all browser.
By the way - it does work well with my Chrome and you should move a message about supported browsers on the first page or before I fill registration form, not after.
Good point, forgot about that.
>Management is pressured to take extraordinary actions just to mitigate the market situation (stock splits/reverse-splits, stock buy-backs, accounting tricks, etc), employees freak out and quit, long-term investors get nervous, potentially fruitful M&As fail to happen, etc.

Oh please, if anything accounting tricks are more likely to be prevalent in a fundamentally traded market. When your company is traded solely upon earnings, you don't think you'd have more motivation to toy with those earnings numbers?

>As for the societal cost, technical trading educates and perpetuates the myth that the stock market is a big gambling house, and not a means to become an owner of a company. To paraphrase Warren Buffett, every time you think about buying stock you should think of it the same way as if you were buying a mom-and-pop shop, like a pizza place. Is the price you're paying roughly equivalent to - or better than - how much you'd expect to make by pocketing the profits of the shop over the lifetime of the business?

What is this? Some kind of argument from the moral high ground? The people who treat the stock market as a gambling opportunity will quickly be liquidated, and I can't imagine why one should feel sorry for them.
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A friend and I have joked about doing this with bread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3719213
Yup. Joined in the mid-1980's, shortly after it formed. Learned the old style of email addressing, which, IIRC, included the full route from the sending host to the receiving hosts. (Those were the days! Up hill, both ways! :)

I've dropped out of touch with the Well since the early 90s, but in my time it was a fabulous community for discussion. A bonus, for those of us who lived in the Bay Area, was the occasional meetup. Nowadays, it happens all the time, but back then, the experience of meeting people for the first time face to face when you already had a very good idea of how they spoke and thought was both fun and a little eerie.

It was all done via command line in their special conferencing system, written by Marcus Watts.

Sweeper, an MS-DOS frontend, came in the late '80s, and was a great breakthrough. It dialed in and harvested new threads behind the scenes, then presented them on the PC in a windowed interface.

One cause for me drifting away was the web interface, which I've never liked.
I mean mass transit isn't an issue because we don't really have it. There's a few million people living here and although we have a bus system, no one I know uses it. When I mentioned trying to get from my densely housed, grid street area to the airport with mass transit people considered that about the most bizarre thing they'd ever heard. (Google says about two hours on mass transit for the 15 minute drive.)
I fit into each one of these points...sadly. At the very least, I feel a bit better knowing that there are other people that have the same thoughts as me.

I will also add one to the pile:

5) Fear of failure. The worry that starting something is just going to end in disaster and be costly (money or time).
They used to make stoptogo versions back in 2001 but discontinued them because it loose or gain 20s a day.

The real ones get a pulse over the power line from a master clock every minute setting the time. The rotation of the seconds is just a motor using the electric grid's 50 Hz.
The analogy between hackers and traders is interesting, but the argument would have been even better if the author hadn't assumed that hackers have to be criminals:

"A hacker wants to jump in front of your shopping cart and grab your credit card and then sell it."

On the other hand, looks like we've already lost this fight.
> The discussion is then really about whether max-age 0 means "for 1 second" or "never".

max-age 0 means "cacheable resource fresh for 0 seconds". It means neither "don't cache" nor "cache for n seconds". The resource is cacheable and always stale, and must be revalidated before returning it to a client.

> I don't see why it would be necessary for it to mean "never"

It doesn't, but returning the resource without checking its validity against the source is forbidden by the spec. So Safari is buggy on that, and buggy when there's no Cache-Control as well.
I don't think street view is what made google that much better than maps. It's the search that works, and detailed maps, which were around from before street view. But I do think you're partially right on the apple front, but they do stuff that pisses people off all the time, the difference is that it's usually taking out a feature (like Ethernet) that is only beginning to be phased out by the other tech companies. The big difference is that the maps change doesn't just bother geeks, but gets at their main user base, which they're usually pretty careful about.
Most of the complaints I've seen had nothing to do with turn by turn navigation. It is more about where points of interest are on the maps, airports in the wrong place etc.
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Trading stocks is fantastically easier, sure. That is obvious. And he says so at the end: "There is value to trading automation. It is here to stay." He never says _trading_ is difficult.

Your comment would be more interesting if it confronted his main point: "There is absolutely NO VALUE to High Frequency Trading. None. We need to bring our markets back to their original goals of creating capital for business. "
Sorry, I meant you can use "Ctrl-o" and "Ctrl-i" that way.
Even though the features lag behind some of the more 'flexible, newer' languages, its exciting to see some of these come down the pipe. After using libraries like Google's Guava, I'm anxious to see some more functional-esque styles get integrated into java.
Is this usable in Android?
Look, I'm talking about $50 and 1/8 spreads in 70s and 80s dollars. A low income investor from that time period might only have 3 or 4 digits to sock away in the market per year, Wall Street taking a huge bite every time. Then there are index funds and ETFs which need to get their costs as low as possible to benefit lay investors.

If you think big commissions and spreads are inconsequential, you are factually incorrect. If you think trading doesn't narrow spreads or lower costs, you are also incorrect. Finally, if you think trading qua trading distorts prices, there's almost no data that supports this and huge bodies of economic literature to the contrary. This isn't a matter of opinion.
Maybe they don't want to? They seem to like their knitted scarves, art-house films and interpretative dance about marine life quite a lot. Going for high-profile store-like projects doesn't actually guarantee success (they may get whacked by litigation, or people may become disillusioned) and puts their primary goal at risk.
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