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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 22 July 2013

Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:13:32 -0400

The Anti-Virus Age is Over — for every analyst that an AV company hires, the bad guys can hire 10 developers.
3D Printing’s 2014 Renaissance (Quartz) — patents
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O'Reilly Radar: Where Innovation Lives

Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:32:48 -0400

O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 19 July 2013

Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:06:26 -0400

Operative Design — A catalogue of spatial verbs.
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O'Reilly Radar: The Stories I Enjoyed Most in Last Week’s Sunday New York Times

Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:16:09 -0400

I used to read two print newspapers every morning. Now, I get most of my news online, but I still treasure my Sunday New York Times in print. This week, due to travel, I didn’t get a chance to catch up with it till a plane flight on Friday. The news was dated, and I’d seen some of it online, but there was still so much of interest that I would otherwise have missed.

O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 18 July 2013

Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:45:30 -0400

Ten Rules of the Internet (Anil Dash) — they’re all candidates for becoming “Dash’s Law”.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 17 July 2013

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:47:26 -0400

Hideout — augmented reality books.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 16 July 2013

Tue, 16 Jul 2013 00:25:15 -0400

Pete Warden on Sensors — We’re all carrying little networked laboratories in our pockets. You see a photo. I see millions of light-sensor readings at an exact coordinate on the earth’s surface with a time resolution down to the millisecond.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 15 July 2013

Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:26:26 -0400

Product Strategy Means Saying No — a resource for strength in saying ‘no’ to unplanned features and direction changes. My favourite illustration is for “but my cousin’s neighbour said”.
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O'Reilly Radar: Podcast: George Church on genomics

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:51:50 -0400

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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Sorry, but the Internet doesn’t change who you really are — it reveals who you really are

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:33:01 -0400

The more connected we get, the more we seem to hunger for disconnection. The more devices and services we use, the more we dream about how much better our lives could be — if only we could give up all of our devices and return to a simpler, less connected time.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 12 July 2013

Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:45:37 -0400

How Well Does Name Analysis Work? (Pete Warden) — explanation of how those “turn a name into gender/ethnicity/etc” routines work, and how accurate they are. Age has the weakest correlation with names.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 11 July 2013

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:16:49 -0400

Sifted — 7 minute animation set in a point cloud world, using photogrammetry in film-making. My brilliant cousin Ben wrote the software behind it.
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: The Manning trial grapples with the question of whether WikiLeaks is a media entity

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:17:40 -0400

Defence arguments in the trial of former Army private Bradley Manning — who stands accused of a number of crimes for handing over classified documents to WikiLeaks, including a charge of “aiding the enemy” — finished Wednesday with testimony from Harvard law professor Y
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM

Wed, 10 Jul 2013 13:27:12 -0400

After much back-and-forth, a verdict came down on Wednesday in the Apple ebooks case: a judge found the company guilty colluding with five of the big six major book publishers in a scheme designed to inflate prices.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 10 July 2013

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 19:17:39 -0400

6 Technical Things I Learned About Bitcoin (Rusty Russell) — Anonymity is hard, but I was surprised to see blockchain.info’s page about my donation to Unfilter correctly geolocated to my home town!
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: A tip for Uber: Sometimes the best PR strategy is to do something that isn’t rational

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:34:16 -0400

What the car-hailing service Uber likes to call “surge pricing” makes a lot of sense as a way of managing the supply of cars: during periods of high demand, the company boosts the price of a ride booked through its app, as a way of encouraging more drivers to respond.
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Snowden maintains the NSA has direct access to company servers, which means someone is lying

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:15:40 -0400

Ever since The Guardian and the Washington Post first revealed the existence of a top-secret NSA surveillance program known as PRISM in June, there has been a glaring question mark at the center of the documents leaked by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden: namely, how much access the spy agenc
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 9 July 2013

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:45:45 -0400

Autonomous Intersection Management Project — a scalable, safe, and efficient multiagent framework for managing autonomous vehicles at intersections. (via How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities)

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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 5 July 2013

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:58:39 -0400

Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph (PDF) — We analyzed all these large transactions by following in detail the way these sums were accumulated and the way they were dispersed, and realized that almost all these large transactions were descendants of a single transaction which was carried out in November 20
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 8 July 2013

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 01:03:08 -0400

QCL: A Language for Quantum Computing — QCL is a high level, architecture independent programming language for quantum computers, with a syntax derived from classical procedural languages like C or Pascal.
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Doug Engelbart and the vision thing: Is Silicon Valley suffering from a failure of imagination?

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:29:08 -0400

The word “visionary” gets thrown around a lot, but Douglas Engelbart — who passed away earlier this week — arguably deserved that title more than most.
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O'Reilly Radar: Context Aware Programming

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:25:17 -0400

I’m increasingly realizing that many of my gripes about applications these days are triggered by their failure to understand my context in the way that they can and should. For example:
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Research shows Twitter could be a tool for aid workers during events like the Boston bombings

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:17:00 -0400

Twitter came under fire for its lack of credibility as a real-time news source during the bombings in Boston earlier this year, thanks to a variety of hoaxes and erroneous reports that were spread about those who were allegedly responsible for the attacks.
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Marissa Mayer has been on a shopping spree at Yahoo, but is there any sign of a strategy?

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:07:01 -0400

Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer has been snapping up companies so quickly that it’s almost hard to keep track of them all: in just the past week alone, deals have been announced for three companies — Qwiki, something called BigNoggin and Xobni — with a total cost estimated at more than $100 m
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 4 July 2013

Thu, 04 Jul 2013 01:19:09 -0400

ansible — Model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment/orchestration, and remote task execution system. Uses SSH by default, so no special software has to be installed on the nodes you manage.
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Doug Engelbart, American inventor and computing legend, has passed away

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:10:52 -0400

Douglas “Doug” Engelbart, a legendary American inventor and computing icon who invented the computer mouse and helped develop much of the modern PC user interface, passed away last night, according to family sources. News of his passing was shared on Professor David Farber’s email list, where Engelbart’s daught
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Giga.com [Matthew Ingram]: Google Reader’s shutdown, the rise of walled gardens and the future of the open web

Wed, 03 Jul 2013 12:17:03 -0400

Oceans of digital ink have been spilled already about the demise of Google’s Reader service, with most of the coverage devoted to moaning about the loss of the tech blogosphere’s favorite RSS reader or talking about the pros and cons of various alternatives.
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 3 July 2013

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:12:15 -0400

Mobile Email Numbers (Luke Wroblewski) — 79% use their smartphone for reading email, a higher percentage than those who used it for making calls and in Feb ’12, mobile email overtook webmail client use.

ProperSSL — a series of best practices for establishing SSL co
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 2 July 2013

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:39:32 -0400

How to Make Help Microvideos For Your Site (Alex Holovaty) — Instead of one monolithic video, we decided to make dozens of tiny, five-second videos separately demonstrating features.

How Google is Killing Organic Search —
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O'Reilly Radar: Four short links: 1 July 2013

Mon, 01 Jul 2013 02:07:45 -0400

Web Traffic Visualization — Dots enter when transactions start and exit when completed. Their speed is proportional to client’s response time while their size reflects the server’s contribution to total time.
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