I've been holding off because the desktop size limits functionality, but manufacturers seem to be moving beyond toys. I think we're right on the cusp of seeing some industrial strength printers geared towards hackers/makers/hobbiests. This one on KickStarter seems to be pushing the conventional size boundaries, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/re3d/gigabot-3d-printing....

This is brilliant, but now it's only a matter of time until it's in actual use. Sort of like how evercookie was a clever hack meant to call attention to privacy concerns, then was put into actual production sites.

Do you have any examples of sites/companies that put the techniques into use as a direct result of Evercookie exposing them?

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted for this question? I am seriously interested, so that I can avoid contact with them.

I'm not sure if you can say that it's a direct result of Evercookie, but a number of high profile sites use this kind of tech - for example KissMetrics.com is used by a number of big companies, and they use ETAG cookies, Flash cookies - the lot.

And KissMetrics and their customers caught heat from it: http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom...

The press release, http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bloomberg-open-pr.pdf, clarifies this. There's a footnote at the end.

"Bloomberg is offering its programming interface (BLPAPI) under a free-use agreement. This does not apply to any content."

What am I supposed to do with a free programming interface if I have no access to the data? Maybe they want to "force" other market data providers to define a common standard for this kind of API? Or maybe they hope it will bring more third-party partners interfacing with their systems? I dont understand if they have also "test feed" that you can use to develop without an expensive agreement (afaik a bloomberg machine+service costs around 20k$/year)

EDIT: from one of their docs: "Bloomberg customers, non-Bloomberg users, vendors and third-party application developers can now adopt the interface for their own use." and "Furthermore, Bloomberg is evolving its interfaces into candidates for an open standard. Under this initiative, an independent committee would be formed to manage the future development of BLPAPI, while ensuring its stability and openness" http://open.bloomberg.com/pdf/bbg-eps-open-market-data.pdf

sorry for not reading it before

Ok this example probably clarifies the rationale:

"A programming interface that is proprietary severely limits the options for firms that use them. Typically, a proprietary interface is contractually tied to the associated product. If the client decides to stop using the product, any references to the interface must be removed from the client’s applications. Further, the proprietary interface may not be copied and used for any other purpose, even if the firm remains a customer of that vendor for other uses. Together, these restrictions prevent the creation of adapters that could mitigate the costs and risks of migration"

As a follow-up, first real-world example I've seen so far of this release benefiting the community:

http://www.opengamma.com/blog/2012/02/02/bloomberg-market-da...

Lots of these are misleading. It doesn't do any good to compare annual sales to market cap.

That was my thought when I saw the sales/tax comparisons. Comparing Apples with Oranges, if you'll pardon the pun :).

Wow, this is literally the exact application of the Stanford Machine Learning class up to this point.

I was thinking the exact same thing. It was really neat to read about a real world use of what I'm learning in the class.

It makes me wonder if the data set is available as well.

the professor did say people make careers off of what we already know with linear and logistic regression.

I loved how giddy he was in the class videos when he stated that.

wtf * 2. This has not been a good week for HP. even worse if this is for real.

More info on the official node.js blog http://joyeur.com/2011/06/23/joyent-partners-with-ms-to-port... And from Joyent http://joyeur.com/2011/06/23/joyent-partners-with-ms-to-port...