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Can anyone recommend other interesting biographies of mathematicians? I personally enjoyed this biography of Alfred Tarski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski):

http://www.amazon.com/Alfred-Tarski-Cambridge-Concise-Histor...
It seems I can't answer your question without ranting. Sorry about that.

I was referring to what Lehrer said about Bob Dylan and "Like a Rolling Stone". His narrative about Dylan's biography and his creative process was totally off – not consistent with what even a casual fan like myself has picked up over the years. It wasn't just a little odd here and there, it was screamingly wrong. The idea that Dylan got stuck between "Bringing it all back home" (March 1965) and "Highway 61 Revisited" (Aug 1965) is laughable – that was the middle of the greatest creative rampage of his career, his annus mirabilis. Everybody knows that that manic phase peaked in "Blonde on Blonde" (1966) and the crash happened afterward. Lehrer's fairy tale about how Dylan was going to quit music (!) but it turned out he just needed to take a little rest and then, boom, a creative outpouring and out came "Like a Rolling Stone", was silly. Dylan had been pouring out material in that way for years. Lehrer's thing about how there had been only two kinds of pop song and Dylan finally put them together in "Like a Rolling Stone" is cringeworthy, the kind of thing you would tolerate in a precocious adolescent until you could take him off to one side and tell him to knock it off and learn something. Then there were howlers like claiming that while writing the song Dylan coined the term "juiced" to mean "drunk". That was as ignorant as Gladwell's "igon values" but worse, since it indicates a readiness to make shit up to fit your narrative.

My point is that these things weren't just wrong, they were obvious concoctions. And someone who would bullshit that much about one thing would clearly bullshit about anything. If he hadn't fabricated quotes and plagiarized, that would still be the case. And it's not like people didn't call him on it, even before he got caught on the no-nos [1].

What bugs me, and I'm almost done, is that Lehrer's editors and patrons were quite happy for him to propagate this kind of thing. Not in a "sure it's crap but we need material" way, but in a "take a look at this! he's a wunderkind!" way. Had he not gotten grandiosely sloppy, he'd not only still be doing it, he'd still be widely praised for doing it. He'd be in that elite group of repeat guests on Fresh Air, maybe even the super-elite who are allowed to say "thank you" when Terry says "Welcome back to Fresh Air". So to me this was a little like a criminal who eventually got busted on a technicality.

[1] http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/103912/bo.... To say something positive: yay to Isaac Chotiner for being the one who nailed this stuff on its essential crappiness rather than its accidental transgressions. Plus he wrote a good piece about P.G. Wodehouse: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-esca..., so I'm going to watch for him in the future. Perhaps the New Yorker could hire him :)
This is interesting, though it's probably more relevant for Facebook posting than for Twitter, as Twitter doesn't display the app name anymore (and it's a shame!).
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And even then, I could spend the rest of my life on digging holes and refilling them.

I might have invested countless hours in such effort, but that does not grant it any inherent value.
This seems very cool, but I'd really love to see a better comparison with gradient meshes.

Because gradient meshes seem far more "intuitive" and exact, exactly matching the artist's "intentions".

Whereas diffusion curves look very cool, but produce great complexity of gradients based on very simple curves -- almost too complex/unpredictable, I'd be worried, if I were an artist.

Of course, this seems easier to deal with than gradient meshes, at least how they exist today. I'd love to hear from artists who have tried both. I also wonder what other languages/concepts might be developed in the future towards this same end!
False. For this metaphor to work the richest guy would have to have been fed everyone's meal (by them) and then left varied numbered of fortune cookies for each of the others. The rentier society at work.

Remember in the real economy the top players get paid to hold on to the lower players money, or to lend one persons money to another person. They also benefit from a disproportionate amount of the tax dollars in the form of breaks, subsidies and even more importantly civil structures such as educated workers.
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It won't be Facebook-sized - if I recall correctly, thefacebook page with my profile and relationship status didn't look "Facebook-sized" when they first released either.
It's cool to also see the name of the signal that caused exit status > 128. Sadly this only fits in a tweet if it can assume the possible signal names are listed contiguously, which isn't so on 64-bit Linux these days.

S=(`trap -l`);e(){ for N in ${PIPESTATUS[@]};do ((N>128))&&echo ${S[$((2*N-257))]}||echo $N;done;};trap $'echo "\e[41m Exit "`e`" \e[m"' ERR
Hey Guys,

Congrats for launching.

Feedback:
I personally don't find the "via x" text something that affects the brand of the company, I guess big companies might, but if that is the case - what is the point of launching a SaaS product?

Nice design.
20 years ago notebooks had 640x400 or 640x480 screens...

If you include the 15" retina MBP then that's 17x more pixels in 20 years. And that includes greyscale to 8bit color to 16 bit color to 24/32 bit color, passive-matrix to active-matrix, and dozens of other panel technology improvements not directly related to resolution.
This makes for a decent developer analogy for the arguments designers have about services that devalue their time and efforts too. I don't know where the middle ground would be for us, though.
How much you spend to invent something is irrelevant. The criteria revolve around usefulness and non obviousness.
I think this is great, outside of plastering Buffer's name all over the thing. Seems kinda shitty to do. Open source tweet scheduler? Awesome. Slapping Buffer all over the thing to shimmy into their Google juice (or whatever) to promote it? Not as awesome.
There's no lesson here... people already work hard to stay alive, and serious tenacity is a well-known component to getting a business off the ground.
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Trust will make or break cloud ID management services
This is the exact reason why I built this app.

It's completely private and it will stay that way. I really want us to be completely honest with ourselves when it comes to writing an entry. Because you are your only audience, I hope this will encourage us to just pour our hearts into it without the fear of others reading it.
"Don't let society tell you how to live."
[21:30, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umLkfADe17s]
Isn't that good marketing? And won't most engineers use the code regardless of what its named? Seems like an interesting strategy to me :)
Cool article,

I think as a first step the approach makes sense. I'd propose security is broader than secrets--I think one frame is Authentication, Authorization and Audit (sometimes called the "Gold Standard", because of the repeated "AU" prefixes. Haha, CS meets chemistry humor.).

Anyway... In my mind, Authentication is about secrets, but that can fail. So you use Authorization, so when bad people get access you limit what's compromised. When those two fail, you at least have Audit to either catch the bad actor when they start making trouble, or at worst you can figure out how to stop breaches in future.

And these can mix and match. My two cents.

Thoughts?
In most programming languages the [] operator allows one to access elements in a container.

In this case, we are accessing the position "two colons minus one". I refuse to believe this makes any sort of sense for someone that has no deep knowledge of Python.
>You can shirk your responsibility and accept your helping of shame.

I will. I don't lose sleep at night based on your subjective opinions, fortunately.
Theyll just license it for an undisclosed amount and empower the troll to go after someone else.
The compilation itself is great, but I think we (in the tech community) suffer too much from tunnel vision and this headline seems to be an example of that. These may be the world's best tech entrepreneurs, but there are much more successful people out there building businesses, risking capital and creating wealth outside of the vacuum of silicon valley. People that are building actual business and selling products that people use -- not a bunch of VC's rolling the dice with other people's money.
Thanks for the feedback folks. Did one more rev and clean it up. Thanks for the suggestion.
Thanks - Cooper and team really built a legion of passionate users, and it's been great working with them. It's a virtuous cycle when you work on a product that people care about enough to encourage you to keep building and refining.
Citation needed on the "broad base of knowledge being useful" tidbit.
why don't you cut the clip using ReelSurfer and we can add it to the mashup?
"The Man Who Knew Infinity" by Robert Kanigel on Ramanujan is good.

"Georg Cantor" by Joseph Dauben is dense but interesting; it is closer to a mathematical treatment of Cantor's works than a biographical one. Some experience with the basics of analysis would be beneficial, but a surprising amount is developed throughout the book.
Is it too late for me to bang my Go drum?

http://play.golang.org/p/53jSv32wSF

(You can't access the filesystem on the playground, so it doesn't run.)

* Look at that error handling. Mmmmhmmm, clear and explicit. If something goes wrong, I'll know about it.

* Apart from, of course, errors that I ignore, such as when converting the year from 4 chars to an int (line 54). I don't care if I can't parse that.

* Note the difference (lines 54, 56) between parsing the track (which is a byte), and the year, written as 4 digits. The byte can just be cast to an int, the string needs to be parsed by the strconv package.

* I have a little bit of defensive programming in the form of a panic(), which would tell me if something that I thought was impossible has happened.

* defer on line 19 makes sure the file closes if we managed to open it, regardless of when we return.

* type casts are explicit, even from int to int64 (line 20)

* I don't specify which interfaces a type implements, the compiler handles that all for me.

* Parse() returns map[string]interface{}, which allows me to store anything (in this case just ints and strings) in a key-value store.

* A type-safe printf! "%v" (line 67) uses reflection to look at the type of the argument and deduce the natural format. So I can pass it an int or a string and it works :)

* On line 86 I pass this weird new type to a printf function and it goes ahead and uses the String() method that we defined. If we hadn't defined that we'd get a printout of the type, which in this case would be the 128 bytes we read.
I never had any issues with my OWC kit either. Seems odd that there'd be issues.
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re: Cooper - couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I was going to recommend Zareason, but it looks like they dropped their netbook line :(
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Perhaps I have abnormally large pockets, but the nexus 7 fits easily in my front pocket of my jeans. I don't buy any particular brand (usually whatever is cheap/on sale at Walmart that they have in my size) and this is the case for shorts as well.

I find I use the nexus 7 far more than any other tablet I have (though admittedly, I don't have an iPad, and even the iPad mini is slightly priced out of my "purchase without thinking twice" range. The only time it isn't ideal for me is when I'm trying to read schematics. At that point I tend to grab one of the 10" tablets I have.
Yes. It's essentially the same as real estate property in that the petitioner asks the government to state that a given more-or-less well defined area is granted to their exclusive use. In those circumstances, why wouldn't it be subject to taxes by the same government that is giving them the privilege of that sole use?

I'm not asserting that IP owners currently owe property taxes. I am asserting that if they've asked the government to declare that the property is theirs, and they're asking the government to help defend their granted rights, then they should have to pay for the operation of that government.

In short, if you want to have it both ways and receive the patent without paying taxes, fine. Just don't expect to use my taxpayer-supported court system to help you enforce your rights on it.
Good advice. I might send you a pm soon :)
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I think that the fact that "text-heavy banners get high click-throughs" is pretty counter-intuitive.

Also, have you tried using CPM rather CPC?
I am quite surprised that this "glitch" ever happened. I am usually no friend of conspiracy theories, but I find the following coincidence a bit tasty:

* Microsoft is known for its obsession with rigorous testing.

* They had to pay around a billion for anticompetitive behaviour _and_ implement the "browser ballot". Failure to comply would cost them up to 10% of the annual turnover.

* There was a "glitch" that deactivated the ballot for 15 (!) months for a full service pack.
After crashing his third rocket in a row, there was this exchange with a writer at Wired:

Wired.com: At the end of the day you’re still zero for three; you have so far failed to put a rocket into orbit.

Musk: We haven’t gotten into orbit, true, but we’ve made considerable progress. If it’s an all-or-nothing proposition then we’ve failed. But it’s not all or nothing. We must get to orbit eventually, and we will. It might take us one, two or three more tries, but we will. We will make it work.

Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we’re going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on making it work.
I know what you mean, he's built a following just by being nice, listening well, and happily giving advice. I've really enjoyed working with him personally.
I would be willing to bet that cash-strapped legislatures might be interested in the idea. In fact, I plan to test idea by suggesting it to as many legislators as will listen.
Some pains - sure.

But I would have been drawing the parallel anyways, and in fact was well before the article twisted that way.
Hence "can't".

If you do want to obey the rules there's probably nothing in the rules about not using an account created by a parent, indeed acting as agent for that same parent when creating the account is probably within the rules too.
Linux desktop readiness checklist (and flame).
not new!
Speculation: Perhaps Fusion Drive also is filesystem aware, that way it keeps important system folders, such /Applications and /System and /Users/*/Library, always on the SSD. That way, your OS and apps seem fast, and bulk files such as MOVs and MP3s are on the hard disk.

I used to do this manually when large sized SSDs were past the expense of mere mortals.
"The owner of this video has disabled clipping. Try a different video."
Bad luck aside, ReelSurfer is a nice tool.
0.02$: Find a workaround to this: it will damage UX of your first users.
Sure :)

It's the three key features that DayOne doesn't have: Search, Notebooks (organization), and Data.

Search - I really enjoy writing. My thoughts are always racing which means I'm constantly writing into Blobly. As the number of entries continues to grow they become a lot harder to find. So I built a search functionality into the app to make it easy to find old memories.

Notebooks - Blobly provides away for you to organize your memories through Notebooks. You can have a memory notebook for home improvement projects, memories about your kids growing up, or simply a list of movies you've watched in the past.

Data - Last but not least data. The data gets automatically synced with our servers. I plan on building the app on multiple platforms with the SAME user experience and design. So your data will always be with you no matter what.
Wired.com: How do you maintain your optimism?

Musk: Do I sound optimistic?

Wired.com: Yeah, you always do.

Musk: Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

It comes from this this interview: http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/08/musk_qa.

EDIT: adastra beat me. Ha.
Definitely counter-intuitive. And again, it may just be in our network -- who knows?

What do you mean by the latter question?
It uses the DPI setting from X, and you can then adjust the font size to your preference with the gsettings option 'org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor'.
I believe the idea is to set the DPI's in X to the physical DPI of your monitor, and then use this setting to adjust the scaling of elements to your personal preference. That this setting is not exposed in the default config dialogs is a drawback, and an unfortunate result of Gnome's current philosophy. I think you can access it via gnome-tweak-tool though.
Yeah, I clicked on this expecting a piece about the medium-term future of startups (the next 1,000 startups, say). A title indicating it was a promotion targeted at startups would've been more informative...
I think you're already somewhat saying this, but to clarify, there's a big difference between where the money comes from with selling an iPad vs. a Nexus 7.

1) Google doesn't make money on the selling of the hardware, but with customers using their services and getting locked in their platform. They not only have more "billboards" for ads, but more ways to extract more data, and more meaningful data about its users. More data, more targetted ads, more money. (Google Play may also make some money selling digital goods, a la Kindle Fire)

2) This lessens their reliance on other platforms/browsers to use Google as their default search engine. On a non-Google browser, they would have to pay to be the default search engine (Firefox/Safari), or even worse, not be the default search engine at all (IE).

3) A last, small advantage is that with browser/device marketshare they can push for particular web technologies that are beneficial for Google.

So it's not entirely accurate to say that it's $0 per year for Google; someone has definitely made the calculations for #1 and #2 before pricing the Nexus 7.
Thanks for the feedback eytan :)

I can see where you're coming from, but certainly to some brands, brand consistency is paramount and I suppose I would suggest that this attitude would be found in companies who have, or are seeking, a big impact or large following, and todays web based business models has brought both to smaller and smaller companies, with fewer resources (lean!).

We hope this is useful to any business using social media but know it will be particularly poignant for those who are seriously brand orientated.
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If you fix prices, goods tend to be allocated to the people who value their time the least. If you let prices float, goods tend to be allocated to the people who value their time the most. Neither is an optimal allocation.
I think it's true. Well, two blades. Business wise, you need a real business man. Technologically you must employ the right technical lead. Then you and your employees (in particular fresh graduates) will learn quicker and better.
It's got language support - big button near the top (says "English") :)
At this point if the video has its embed functionality disabled there is no way to clip it. Trying to figure out workarounds now
> Read the profiles. Know who you’re contacting

This is the most annoying part. I have been contacted several times for various technology lead positions because of the buzzword-hits approach that lazy recruiters use.
I get your point. It was actually more of a "nod of the head" to them, but I can see why it would look unelegant. I've actually started pitching it as open source tweet scheduler, actually.
Wow, that's cool. As a Wishery early believer and advisor, I am glad this product has found a new home!
I like the breakdown between the three. The first two make sense from an API standpoint, hence why we have policies that can specify the range of what a bad actor has access to. We do auditing on our side to keep tabs on anything that seems out of place
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I'm observing quite a few serious regressions in another Microsoft product - Visual Studio 2012, so IMHO this is not completely unlikely to be an accident. On the other side - Steve Ballmer ...
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Absolutely agreed: to me, Python is a local maximum rather early on the readability vs. complexity graph. I think as complexity increases, an explicitly-typed language becomes much more understandable because local type annotations require less context switching to reason about when compared to an implicit language.
True, but it's still in the meta and many 3rd party apps and services still display it, it's even shown in tweetdeck for example (I tried to swap the twitter picture for a tweetdeck screen shot but tweetdeck just keeps crashing (maybe not that many people see it after all ;)).
Meh, I can do the same thing and undercut you on price, or offer a "better" freemium model. If being unique is your competitive advantage, enjoy your very brief time in the lime light.
There are also some very important facets to Information security that you are missing. You describe security as being "based on knowing, doing, or owning something that no one else can". But this is not quite right. You are speaking to only one aspect of security - confidentiality. There is also integrity and availability. Additionally, you are only speaking to the authentication aspect of confidentiality. Your "knowing, doing, or owning" could be more succinctly described as authorization based off of "something you know, something you have, or something you are" which are the 3 main ways that someone could be identified as you they claim to be. Your signature example would generally fall under something you are - but an argument could be made for it being something you know as well.

EDIT:

You also described Public key cryptography as having "2 different keys. One allows for encryption and the other for decryption. In this case, the decryption key is public so everyone can decrypt." This misses the mark a little bit. The public key could be used to encrypt as well, so that only the holder of the private key can read the information. Using the private key to encrypt is generally used in digital signatures so that the recipient can verify that the sender is who they claim to be. This scenario doesn't attempt to keep the data secret, because anyone with access to the public key can decrypt the data.
Thanks! With this complementing the git status function I already had, my prompt is now 20% cooler.
In general that's true, but specifically referring to public-key encryption only the holder of the private key will be able to create an encrypted message, so it serves as authentication