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> ie, we are looking at our existing house infrastructure, the idea of an IoT and saying "but the Internet Of Things is not going to give me a faster horse, so why would I want it?".

I think again you're missing the point with this. An LED light show is a trifle, it's not something that will really affect you in any way and it's already possible with current technology. A cell-phone controlled LED light show is the faster horse. What the parent (and now, by extension, I) was saying was that I'm looking at the way an inter-connected house would look and I'm not seeing anything fundamentally new, just marginal and possibly dubious improvements on our existing technologies.

With Nest it's obvious that the appeal is that you'd have the ability to remotely change your thermostat settings, which is neat, but how often does that really come up? If I were to program my thermostat with my work schedule generally, how often would I really need the internet-connectivity? Once a month maybe? Is that really worth it? It's an improvement, but it doesn't seem like it's a whole new platform like you and other people are suggesting. Not yet, anyway.

>Internet Of Things I have always understood to mean "Things that we can talk to and control using our devices, possibly over the internet" but in terms of the internet as it is widely understood, not much really. I am not sure I understand the question?

I was mostly referring to the LEDs-wall, thing, which isn't inherently a networking problem any more than addressing each pixel in a television is a networking problem. If you're building a wall of LEDs for "light shows", chances are you'll just connect them all to a single controller anyway which can individually address each LED "pixel", and then that controller will be either plugged into your "internet of things" or it will be controlled by some physical panel.

The two big advantages of device connectivity are going to be that you don't have to be in the same room as your device to mess with it (not having to get up basically doesn't count, because we already have remote controls for almost everything), and that your interface with a device can be much, much more robust (you can essentially use your tablet or phone to give a full touch-screen UX to a small, cheap device like a coffee maker or a lightbulb). The first advantage seems to be getting a lot of hype because people can mess with things at home from when they are out, but that's a benefit that I find marginal at best (how often do I really need to interact with physical things in my home when I'm not even there). The second benefit is much more valuable, but again it is likely to be marginal, because chances are your major devices are ones where you don't actually need to change the settings (or replace parts, etc) very often, so it's a convenience maybe 2 or 3 times a year, not a revolution in the way we interact with our homes and devices.
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. If you look at Apple's big push into new markets (Healthkit) and the mobile market direction (possibly towards wearables) which have a huge upside when paired with a high quality health data collection market. So Apple is moving to a good position in the front end of the coming health care aware wearables market but that's not nearly as valuable as having one of the hugest backend healthcare services providers as a close partner. IBM is a huge health care cloud provider, I'm pretty sure they are the largest in fact. So imagine an end to end health care data solution, Apple controlling the actual devices and health kit based software clients and IBM gathering and storage/analysis services in the cloud. It's a huge market in the US alone and a fantastic way for Apple to gain a large chunk of the wearables market, with a better integrated end to end solution.

I have no inside info but I can't imagine that Apple isn't thinking of this as a move going forward.
This is just personal preference, but when I saw "98% Ruby" on the Github repository, I CTRL+W'd in the quickest of manners.
Yes, but so are most programmers that do open source work or side projects in their spare time.
I basically agree with what you're saying, but I think there's another point to make - market making is simply not as profitable as it once was.

I've seen estimates that the entire high frequency trading industry made $1 billion profit in 2013, down from $5 billion in 2009. [0]

In contrast, JPMorgan made $6 billion profit in the last quarter, and that was reported as "not particularly impressive"! [1]

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/06/us-dark-markets-an...

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/jpmorgan-earnings-dec...
Another Silent Spring
More for his mental health....
A typographer typically works within a small set of languages. It would be unfeasible for a single type foundry to cover every possible glyph with the same consistency.
Direct upload made easy, from browser or mobile app to the cloud
This article explains how you can upload images to the cloud directly from the browser using a jQuery plugin or directly from iOS or Android mobile apps. Cloudinary's new direct uploading to the cloud completely bypasses your application servers and removes the need to pre-generate upload authentication signature. Sample code included for jQuery, Android (Java), iOS (Objective-C) and Ruby.
I see no reason to distrust the whole of the EU just because they don't reject Karel De Gucht. After all, if Belgium stands behind him, the EU can't do much. If that isn't satisfying for you, I recommend distrusting the EU Commission. That's what I do.

Our best hope is to shoot this thing down when it has to be ratified by the EU parliament. During the last legislative period, the parliament has shown that it can and will use its powers to protect the citizens. (I'm thinking about its recent work on net neutrality and privacy.)

We can expect nothing from the Commision and we should expect to be betrayed by the council (that's the national leaders), but the EU Parliament is firmly on our side.
Endeavor internally to drive your employer towards open sourcing pieces of the codebase (incidentally ones you've worked on) that are also irrelevant to your core business. This helps keep code more modular while also building up a public record of the employees' doings.

If nothing else the experience itself will probably turn out to be quite healthy for your team.
Why does the article say that clocks "appear" to be running differently? Are they running differently? Or they only appear to do so?

If so, what happens when the two participants get closer? Do clocks start "getting in sync"?

If we had an atomic clock with a mechanism to self-destruct when not running at the original "right" time, does the atomic clock self-destruct? Can it "tell" it is running slower?

In more biological settings (say, a human being) what are the effects of "aging faster"? Is it possible that the body would "not work correctly" under certain gravitational forces because of the effects of time? (i.e. maybe the blood flows faster, just a terrible example, I hope you get the idea).
Getsub – A better way to find your subtitles
So... having to serve huge 5x larger PNGs due to transparency is not measurably better?

Also our empiric measurments have shown, that WebP degrades more gracefully as you lower quality (compression artifacts aren't as visible) which allowed us to save about 30% of bandwith total by serving WebP to Androids and Chrome clients.
>STANDARDS: The "message bus" needs to have essentially an HTTP protocol standard, that both producers and receivers on both ends can understand.

I think a better analogy to what we need should be an HTTPS protocol standard. HTTP was designed in an era of slow computers when security and privacy were not particularly high on the list of developer priorities, and now we're seeing an agonizingly slow move towards universal HTTPS adoption. It'd be nice to actually start out with security-aware protocols for once.
I would only do that with written permission from the employer. Even if the system didn't have any major technical secrets, you could inadvertently reveal subscriber statistics or some other information that was considered private. And even if you feel that you didn't reveal anything, the employer might still consider it as theft of trade secrets.

If the company has public demo or instructional videos, on the other hand, you could use those.
How to assess the eCommerce value of any SEO keyword
Very cool! Sent it to the design folks at my workplace.
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For things related to security, risky.biz is very good and the production quality is very high.
This proposal has interesting aspects regarding percentage of representation in the US Senate. Over time, as the US population grew, each persons representation percentage has fallen. California had 1.4 million people in 1900, and 38 million people in 2012.

In 1900, each person had 0.000148 of a Senator. In 2012 that is 0.00000526 of a Senator. With the new states, that goes up approximately six-fold to 0.0000316

The Constitution says there are 2 Senators per state. So, splitting California up means 10 additional seats in the senate for the people living there, so that each person's proportional representation goes up - i.e. it's easier to get the ear of your senator because you are competing with fewer people for his attention.

Not sure what would happen in the US House -- I think the number of Representatives is set at a fixed number (435) by law. So the results of the next census would be .. interesting.
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Because everything written in Ruby is junk? This project can be used by any system that uses a cron-like syntax for scheduling jobs, regardless of the languages and frameworks that system is built with.
OK, but talk is cheap. You offer 100Mb service* for $115/month. Google is offering 1Gb for less than that. My local ISPs that operate on just over $10,000,000 annually are offering double that for less than half the price to people that live in areas with population densities that'd rival the most desolate parts of Siberia.

Talk is cheap. Start actually doing something. Either offer copper at prices that can compete or better yet, put your money where your mouth is. If Comcast is worried that Title II is going to decentatvie infrastructure spending, prove me wrong and actually build out a fiber infrastructure while Title II isn't a thing. Use some of that 7 billion[1] a year you see in the black and start building some real infrastructure instead of just sitting on copper for as long as you possibly can.

*When it's convenient. God only knows how oversold Comcast's service is.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast
I'm loving the suggestions.

I compiled a list of the podcasts I listen to in a series of posts here: http://tech.theswamp.in/blog/categories/podcast/

For people who don't want to click through, or just want the list:

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1. NEWS & ANALYSIS

a. BBC Analysis

b. BBC Any Questions & Any Answers

c. Freakonomics Radio

d. KCRW's Left, Right & Center

e. NPR Series Weekends on All Things Considered

f. BBC A Point Of View (Started listening to this since after I wrote the post)

g. NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour (Started listening to this since after I wrote the post)

2. QUIZZES

a. Do The Right Thing

b. BBC Friday Night Comedy - The News Quiz

c. International Waters

d. NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

e. NPR’s Ask Me Another

3. GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT

a. BBC 7 Day Sunday#

b. Answer Me This!

c. BBC Friday Night Comedy - The Now Show

d. Ian Collins Wants A Word

e. BBC Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo’s Film Reviews

f. BBC Newsjack

g. BBC Confessions

h. The Bugle

4. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

a. BBC Let’s Talk About Tech

b. BBC The Infinite Monkey Cage

c. Radiolab

-----

This may seem like a lot, but not all of them run throughout the year, and some of them only do a few shows a year. I hope you find this useful!

Tangentially, I've noticed that the highest quality podcasts come from publicly funded outlets like the BBC and NPR.
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A few portfolios I like to refer back to as good examples of different approaches:

- mason.js-style grid of experiments and projects, filterable: http://hakim.se/ – direct links to demos

- short-description + screenshots: http://www.robbiemanson.com/

- a full blog post per project: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/
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> A smart cookie could vote in such a manner as that when the information is entered into the system, it crashes it?

"Informal" votes -- ballots where the voter does not correctly fill out the ballot paper -- are rejected from the tally by the counters under supervision from scrutineers.

If you use hexadecimal, it will be rejected. If you use a very large number, it will be rejected. If you use weird unicode characters, it will be rejected. If it's anything other than a) a single [1] "above the line" or a fully filled-out ballot "below the line" comprised of numbers from 1-n where n is the number of candidates-1, it will be rejected.

If it's crashing on properly filled-out votes, there's a bigger problem.
The other side of this is that I, as a candidate, use open source as a litmus test for the employer. If the company contributes heavily to open-source, the culture is more likely to be compatible with me, AND it's legal for me to show my work to future employers. A lot of open-source work is done with corporate backing, so if one doesn't want to contribute outside of work, I'd suggest looking for an employer that will let them work on open-source projects, at least part-time.
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> Comcast has increased speeds

This is sort of a half truth. Comcast has increased some speeds a little bit. But most of those speed increases are lies.

For instance, Comcast claims it's moving to deliver 500mbps service ("half-gigabit") in this letter. You might assume this is meant to be comparable with Google Fiber and other local Fiber initiatives. It's not.

Google Fiber is $70/month. Most local gigabit providers are $50-$100/month. Comcast's "half fiber" is $400/month. (see http://www.comcast.com/505). Half the speed at 400+% higher cost.

This isn't competition, this is Comcast lying about availability. It lets them claim that they deliver fast service, but that "the market doesn't want it".
Combating fragmentation in automotive Linux
played with this for a bit and it filled my browser history (chrome) with a zillion urls of it.
Omega Tau -- "Science and Engineering in your headphones" -- technically oriented interviews with scientists (often physicists), engineers and technical workers by a German software engineer, in both English and German. Often leans towards aerospace due to host also being an amateur glider pilot.

http://omegataupodcast.net/
Since this article is still on the front page of HN, let me paste the response: “We are working on a Noto Nastaliq as well. So stay tuned.”
That's unfortunate -- I find browser based debugging to be clunky. The beauty of the classic devmode was ability to work in my IDE.
Nice approach. It's often forgotten that the design process does not stop in Photoshop / "the PNG world".

Usersnap offers a similar chrome + firefox extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/usersnap/khehmhbaa...

You can even annotate right in the browser, without leaving the current page (other than the invision extension).
I think you can speak in terms of the technology you used, what you liked about it, what you disliked about it, the business objectives and how you helped achieve them and still do fine without showing an actual code repository.

Most interviewers come in with a list of questions they want to ask, so if you can talk about your work in terms of the answers you know they want, you're probably better off than a candidate who can demo a project that the interviewer may or may not care to see.

For keeping a log of what you've done, I don't think there's too much you can do about this. Part of your agreement when being hired is that you are being paid to build something that belongs to your employer. The only way around this I could see is if you were able to extract some abstract tool that could have wider use and get permission to distribute it or at least keep a copy for yourself (a lot of employers won't agree to this, however).
That's not what IEX does. IEX is, to fit within your example merely exchange A. It can't control whether you delay your order to B or C or not.

What A does do is delay the output. When it receives an order it doesn't immediately broadcast that information back out, it waits some small (but relevant) period of time.
Ask HN: What did work for your post-launch marketing?
Hello everyone,

My name is Alexander Temerev. For about 10 years, I worked as a financial software engineer; I always wanted to make it big, so about a month ago I launched my own online currency trading platform, EntryForex.com. It is the simplest way to start trading currencies to date: all you need is a Facebook account and $10.

EntryForex was launched at June 2nd, and I have made around $200 in earnings so far, which I spent on various online marketing strategies.

Here is a short recap on what worked and what didn't:

— Announce in my personal blog and social network accounts: worked! In fact, this is the only channel that brought me live customers so far.

— A few articles in ForexMagnates.com, one of the leading industry new sources. Didn't work: I had high hopes, but no clients arrived from there yet.

— Facebook ads: didn't work at all! No users appeared from there. Even no traffic.

— AdWords: didn't work. I got some traffic, but no new live accounts.

— Forum posts: I hired a few contractors on Elance to post announcements in around 50 forums and Facebook groups. Didn't work: got some traffic, but no new live accounts.

What is your experience in marketing your own startup? Could you take a look at EntryForex.com and see what could be improved there? And, if you are into currency trading, feel free to open a live account: you won't lose more than you put there (and you can start with as low as $10), and you can get a feeling what real-time trading looks like and whether you can earn something there.
It seems to me that the Wikipedia page is fairly documented and referenced, for an article about a "secret" agreement.
It wasn't so "voluntary" when you are doing it to get FCC/ Justice Department approval for a 6 billion dollar merger.
I have a simple test on my laptop using `ab`, larus is faster than gunicorn(rps: 4000+ vs 2000+), I'll add that in README
Or trolls are scaling their demands appropriately and thus still ensuring they make out like the bandits they are.
“Economists estimate that the introduction of the fifth version of Apple’s iPhone delivered a GDP increase up to eight times higher than the projected effect of the TTIP/TAFTA.”

http://mondediplo.com/2013/12/02tafta
I agree and I wonder if the right thing to do might be completely abandoning the concept of privacy. I think it might happen regardless of what we do, so maybe instead of trying to fight to the last drop of blood, we should just run full-speed in the other direction. Just embrace, as a society, that everyone can know everything about everybody, and learn to live honestly.

It's just a thought that has been floating around my head recently.
Oh, I forgot: You can add the Usersnap widget even to your live website, so your customers can leave feedback without installing a chrome extension :-)
Google partners with Coinbase to add Bitcoin conversion to Search
Maybe he's thinking of a Huxleyan dystopia. Very few of us would call the setting of Brave New World a utopia, but very few of the inhabitants of that world would call it anything else. Our joyful new information-dense world has brought with it compromises that the culture hasn't really assimilated yet, often isn't even aware of yet.
Nobody of the public in Belgium stands behind him, if you understand dutch go to the reactions page of an(y) article about him of a popular Belgian newspaper: http://goo.gl/duj8ml (can't do it with Google Translate (the comments use Ajax), i haven't seen 1 positive reaction ! )

The citizens in a lot of EU countries have massively protested, that's why it got rejected, in Belgium, none of the protests even came in the Belgian media (tv, newspaper, ..) - http://goo.gl/Esg8Bs .

In the letter in my previous post, Karel De Gucht tried to influence the commission, so that they would't reject the proposal solely on the fact that a massive ammount of people emailed/contacted politicians about ACTA (it's cleary mentioned in the letter of Karel De Gucht, asking for the politicians not being influenced by the massive protests http://goo.gl/8AOmSX )

But i distrust the EU commission (not the entire EU), you corrected me on that one

PS. The popular newspaper linked was HLN (het laatste nieuws), but feel free to search any Belgian alternative newspaper :)

PS2. I haven't met anyone in person that thinks Karel De Gucht does a good job. If there is someone who disagrees with me, i'm sorry. But you are probably not from Belgium :)
This looks great, particularly the way the website breaks down the main functionality with plain explanations and code samples. I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.
Where has this retroactive approach worked? Maybe the W3C should try using it for defining web standards.
Can you elaborate on other possible plans?
Why All the Snowden Docs Should Be Public: An Interview with Cryptome
Some more discussion about this :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_deficit_in_the_Europ...

And yes it passes the parliament, however

1) treaties can be adopted without a parliamentary "yes" (has happened many times in the past, because it didn't even used to be asked at all)

2) parliament can say yes or no, but cannot change anything.

3) looking at the contents of previous treaties, it is blatantly obvious that the rules introduced using this instrument would never have passed parliament using other means.

An example of this would be, well, and example of this would be TTIP itself, if the contents are what they're rumored to be, which seems like. Other examples include, for example, the copyright directive [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive
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The fact is that there are two ways to go about this: Allow fast lanes or do not allow fast lanes. If you do not want to allow fast lanes then there are two routes to go about this: section 706 of telecom act or title ii of telecom act.

The route via 706 was just struck down in court. Hence the next routes available are a) allow fast lanes or b) do not allow fast lanes via title II.
1. Document what you do extensively, including explanative screenshots if it involves UI components.

2. Give the documention to your employer ( it will be greatly appreciated )

3. Ask your direct superior if you can keep a copy just for personal reference

4. Unless your superior is a jerk, this will likely be given the ok.

5. Do so ( strictly speaking this is often illegal; but if superior approves... )

6. Use said documentation to write -new- documentation based off it off work hours ( clean room rewrite of docs essentially ) ( note that depending on what you signed, even these conceptual documentation rewrites may be illegal to share; you'll need to read what you sign )

7. Give rewritten un-infringing documentation to whoever you wish
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Here's the chief executive of Vanguard (one of the largest investment management companies in the world) discussing how HFT has dramatically lowered their trading costs:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ff8c6486-cb37-11e3-ba95-00144...

Spreads used to be a quarter, and now they're a penny! That's a huge deal!
We're using CSS Wizardry Grids in a new project at Precision Nutrition. It's been pretty great so far, though the use of comments is quite something to wrap your head around with respect to grid items.