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If you think cooking isn't creative, you probably can't cook beyond "don't put spoons in the science oven" and don't eat very well. Cooking as creativity can run the gamut from simple games for toddlers to fine art that rivals any other art form.

I find cooking to be the kind of artistic challenge that pits imagination and experience against a physical reality totally unforgiving of ignorance and mistakes - much like writing software or playing music. It's like sculpture and chemistry that you can eat!
If you're past calculus, I'd say start with Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right (it has the most immediate applications, and linear algebra is essential for almost all higher mathematics).
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IT Generalist wanted.
Rethinking digital mourning with QR codes.
> Bitcoins security relies solely on it being one of few significant coins of its kind.

So there's no technical security at all then, just the hope that hash power won't switch away to a new currency (which they have incentive to do - get in on the ground floor and cash out, as another poster said) It's all 'trust'. And a guaranteed cartel structure - the rich / powerful control 50% of the hashing power anyway.

Pump and dump dreams indeed.
For whatever it's worth, I use Zite pretty much everyday. It's like my morning paper. I don't use Flipboard at all. It's a nice app for sure, but for some reason, Zite always seemed to give me more interesting things to read.
The instructions they're following are ones they just drew up themselves in crayon.
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This is less about the device and more about the content. Yes, they could wipe the device and start over without issue, but they would lose access to the mother's purchased content in iTunes. Some people have the income to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on content for their Apple device. In that case it would be a substantial loss to lose access.
Zite has been my app of choice when I'm catching up on the news over breakfast. It sounds like Flipboard is going to integrate Zite's personalization algorithms into Flipboard, but I'm skeptical. Hoping for the best.
As a former "IT Specialist" in the federal government I can tell you that every single IT position is called this, from programmers to sysadmins. The difference is only the little part in parenthesis. For example I was a IT Specialist (Database). INET just means it works with something vaguely associated with web programming.
Straw man. The phrase "all bugs are shallow" doesn't mean all bugs will be found. It means that, once a bug is found, the correct fix will be obvious to someone.
As a non american, what is the "Selective Service"?
For the record, I'm saying two things:

1. I hear about lots of people trying to do every exercise.
2. I think this is bad if it causes them to quit out of frustration.
3. I provide some tips on how to deal with frustration, and to know that you're in good company.
Projection-Based Olfactory Display
Also once upon a time people knew what they were talking about before launching into a nonsensical speech filled with privacy cliches.

They are mapping public WiFi APs, public data, it's well within their right and that of other to do so. Offering an opt-out is just going over and beyond to appease the stubbornly misinformed.
So "let's keep the source code closed so nobody can see how awful we are and just show off our wonderful working program"
Excellent point though it is worth nothing that glyphosate does indeed chelate metals whereas it's difficult to see US electricity consumption having quite that effect in vivo or even in vitro.
Facebook or Twitter for Businesses?
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I've often thought that F2P games should be strictly regulated like gambling is. No one questions the 18+ law on fruit machines in the UK, but we allow a roulette style IAP for a F2P game with no regulation?

The worst part is, if you sent kids into a casino, there's at least a chance they'd make their money back!

We regulate gambling because its effects are insidious and the addiction devastating. It can destroy lives. How is "coercive monetisation" in F2P games any different, other than the fact that it's a relatively new phenomenon?
I'm curious when we'll start seeing people dressing like this:

http://ahprojects.com/projects/stealth-wear
Essentials for software developer or any computer job
Vygotsky: Children as Apprentices
Your thoughts on customer service
Hey all,

Whilst every company offers service on one level or another, I believe what separates better companies is better service. If you're likeminded, I would appreciate if you could share your story with welikeservice.com.

The goal with the site is to spread the word about customer service and the companies that really make an effort with this. Hopefully, this will benefit consumers and the companies themselves.

Especially looking for startup stories where you need to be a bit more creative!
Bitcoin firm CEO found dead in suspected suicide
They need to sign up for the selective service. It's a requirement for federal jobs.
> if you're not a professional, the less you trade, the better

I once found some numbers that relate frequency of trading to earnings for individuals, & was initially shocked by just how strong the inverse correlation is.

Though on further reflection, I'm not sure it's really counter-intuitive. The more money you spend on broker commissions, the more you have to profit just to break even.
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Hey, at this point I think Sentinel is considered Stable by the Redis community. It is relatively new code, but the second incarnation uses better algorithms and was applied in a number of production environments.

What we recommend currently is just to test it in your specific environment, and to understand the way it works. The weak thing currently, to be honest, is the documentation, but I'm working at it.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one wondering the same thing.

[clicks on "flag"]
A service to draft males for the US Military.
Thinking of a more consumer-application-world of "can't type, hands busy": Joggers and cyclists.

Also, the Glass API could easily be reused in a car - keep the software, but use a windshield-mounted GPS-style screen/camera instead of the hardware.
Correct! 95% of job postings in gov tech are called "technical specialist," no matter what you actually do. To see the actual site stack: https://github.com/GSA/data.gov
Valve gives devs control of their game sales
And cryptocoin proponents stumble upon the rationale underlying yet another feature of fiat currency.
I didn't call them overpriced, she did. I was about to defend her by noting the massively increased price of LEGO sets over the past few decades versus the (I would assume) relatively static economics of manufacturing plastic bricks - but then I googled it and it's all a lie[1]. Guess I'll file that one next to "there were more thunderstorms when I was a kid".

[1] http://flowingdata.com/2013/02/07/analysis-of-lego-brick-pri...
It means you've registered with the military (required at age 18). If we go to war and there are not enough volunteers, you may be "drafted" to join the military. This has not happened since the Vietnam war however.
No. It shouldn't be expected that a $410b market cap company is out mapping this data and selling it to advertisers. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Not a trustworthy company.
I'm not sure I understand what your point is. I explained why Legos are not overpriced, and made some probably unnecessary judgement statements about why people would call it overpriced. I didn't say Legos are not overpriced because they are not overpriced, I said they're not overpriced because their products are selling. Where is the tautology?
I think we need a thin client on your Google Glass that feeds your personal interactions continuously to an AI engine in the cloud.

Having established that you were the recipient of a well-merited compliment that significantly pleased you, the identity of the complimenter, and the fact that your benefactor is HappyCoin(tm)-enabled, the engine would automatically calculate the exact monetary value of your happiness and create a microtransaction as payment, which you would then hopefully approve while still uplifted.
https://www.sss.gov/what.htm

Basically, if you are under 26, you can be drafted. Think "Vietnam War"
The same reason that the US Dollar (a piece of paper) is worth over 10x more than a South African ZAR (also a piece of paper)
It's pretty much unenforced conscription and a way to track the current body of what constitutes a US "militia".

Registration is mandatory and failure to do so is punishable by jail time and/ or fines. If we had another draft in the US, this would be the list used.
I don't think "en masse" is a fair way to describe a handful of stray packets per AP as the car drove by.
Looks like I triple E is taking a play out of the Upworthy Headline Writing Playbook.
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Selective Service means registering with the US government. Giving them your name and contact information so if there was ever the need to draft people into the armed forces in times of war, they have your info.
The new Date & Time API deserves more attention. Working with and persisting dates has always been one of the bigger pain points when working with the JDK. Just last week we encountered some strange bug in Grails where it won't persist null values if using custom UserTypes under certain conditions (which we need to persist Joda date types).
If it was an issue, they would have brought it up in the naturalization process. You're probably fine to apply.
See Feynman's rant on textbooks - http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm which is still valid.

Maybe not the corruption angle so much; but special interests. Now every book is designed to not offend the politically correct Californians, or the religious right in Texas, and to convince people that they are keeping up with the latest fads - http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-machine
Don't you hate it when people conflate money with credit. That's why all the bitcoin fans can never win; even if bitcoin was the world reserve currency (similar to how gold still is today - held by central banks), it would mean jack shit because everyone would use fractional reserve lending and credit, like we've done for ages, with the booms and busts and skimming that go with it. So IMHO nothing will ever change.
It's just a software engineering job to work on their CKAN+Drupal stack (Python and PHP, respectively). Basically there's nothing political about it.

Source: I work in a similar team on data.gov.uk.
I installed Flipboard while looking for a replacement for the old Google Currents widget on my Nexus 7. Fb might be better for content, or not, but I still really miss the other widget. Swiping through headlines in Currents was almost fun, and I could preselect for content sources that would be available to read offline.

Ultimately, most of the content that's available is unremarkable, so I tend to be very critical of the overall experience of consuming it. Conversely, a source that makes even modest improvements in efficiency or presentation can instantly become part of my daily routine. The old Currents was far from perfect, but at least it felt like progress.
7 Reasons Why Atlanta Needs Google Fiber
No, they are. Sorry. The population of wifi users that overlaps with HAMs is pretty minimal. This shit is fucking evil.
Did you ask the satellite owner's permission before you read the signals that were being openly broadcast?
How Money Is Made Today
Heh, after "Do Not Track" we now have "Do Not Map".

This hack does not resolve the ethical conundrum of indexing a huge amount of publicly available data for private use. We already have technical solutions if we want to make hidden access point, not having to rely on the good faith of an outsider.

What's next, if I don't want google street view to photograph my house I paint "Do Not Photograph" on the wall?

I don't even understand why google took steps to implement that. It means that they acknowledge there's a potential privacy issue but at the same time offer a solution they must know won't satisfy anybody who's concerned about this issue.
How do we really make decisions
I assume you are referring to web crawling? When you put up a web page, your intention to make it public is pretty clear, barring a mistake. Your intention to have it crawled and indexed is a lot less clear, but you usually don't get a lot of say in how people consume things you make public. So I think opt-out makes sense for that.

When you put up a wireless network in your apartment, your intention to make it public is a lot less clear. You are putting it in public, so the argument for opt-out is at least coherent. But I don't buy it because it's clearly not most peoples' intention.
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Over two decades ago, Ruby’s creator had a vision of forming a language that brought together the best features of both functional (declarative) and imperative (procedural) programming.
This is called premining and it's a common accusation towards new altcoins.
Weren't modern license plates made the way they are to aid automatic (or human) detection? For instance, traffic cameras, automated scanning from traffic police to make sure your car is insured or even your elderly neighbour writing down a license plate late at night after seeing a car speed away from a possible hit-and-run.
Canary raises $10 million for app-enabled home security
Maybe too snarky, but they could have simply called Apple support and gotten them to reset the password. If a hacker can impersonate a person, hopefully this guy would know enough about his mom to do so too.

I'm hoping they already tried the security question route and were unsuccessful.
Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication
Is OpenStack Ready for the Enterprise? Maybe.
I don't know. SnapSVG.io was there first with their marketing slogan: "Modern features for modern browsers". That kind of discredits Iconic's "first and only" section of their slogan.

Regardless of poking holes in silly marketing language, Iconic is very impressive and I'll likely pay the $99.
That sounds like fun!

In the meantime, the actual linked-to article says "yes":

This new approach allows such a vehicle to remain in flight despite the loss of one, two, or even three propellers. Having lost one (or more) propellers, the vehicle enters a continuous rotation — we then control the direction of this axis of rotation, and the total thrust that the vehicle produces, allowing us to control the vehicle’s acceleration and thus position.
Genetic Algorithms on a grid of web browsers
Earbuds, no.
But wearing glass is much more visible -- more of an asserted statement. It's currently more like wearing over-ear headphones in public. Which is done by only a vanishing minority.

As glass becomes smaller, I'd imagine the pushback will abate. But until it seamlessly disappears into frames, people are going to react poorly to what is being perceived as a clearly-worn borderline-spy-camera. [1]

[1] Spy camera in the sense that there isn't much of a physical cue that someone's taking a picture or not. The light is hardly as visible as holding a camera or phone up to your face.
> Now we find out that bitcoin definitely isn't secure

If Bitcoin is not secure because an exchange got hacked, then bank accounts are not secure because phishing exists. Or cash is not secure because it can be stolen.
I'd just note the money effect doesn't have to be fraudulent

You're pretty much precisely inverting Galbraith's insight.

First: the whole point of the bezzle is that it is fraudulent. It's that during the period before you realize this, everything looks hunky-dory. It's Wile E. Coyote running off the edge of the cliff, before looking down and realizing he's suspended in the air.

The other is that an expansion in the money supply, in the short run, leads to consequences generally seen as favorable: those whose apparent financial wealth is increased suddenly have the ability to make claims on (purchase) resources they wouldn't have been able to previously. There's a model of money as exchange particles, and the concept of virtual particles which can be created under certain circumstances, which I'm finding increasingly compelling. The problem is when the wavefront collapses -- that's when misery sets in.

As for '29 and '07: yes, individual institutions were allowed to fail (mostly) during the Great Crash. Again, Galbraith goes into detail on this, I recommend his book. Where addressing the situation failed was in not creating liquidity elsewhere in the system to make up for this resulting in tremendous deadweight losses as the economy simply tanked.

In 2007, an institution was allowed to fail (Lehmann Brothers), but the consequences were so severe that politicians stepped in to staunch the collapse. The manner in which they did this was both useful (the liquidity was absolutely needed) and utterly flawed (the very individuals and institutions which had, in large part, assisted in creating the problem were greatly enriched by the intervention). And yes, getting into a business in which profits are privatized and losses socialized is very much the modern mantra.
sigh If you buy an iPad for your dying mum, ask her for her password. Before she dies.

Problem solved.

I know all of my wife's passwords, and if my folks were alive, I'm sure I'd know all of them, as well.
I'm sure you have multiple studies with mountains of data which clearly demonstrate that the economy is at its most prosperous at a marginal tax rate of 100%. Oh, man, you guys are so cute. :)
So the true issue is less to do with the restrictions on the account and more on the absolutely absurd DRM placed on the content. I can leave my collection of CDs to whomever I would like (along with the digital library I keep on my hard drive). Apple has done a huge disservice in convincing people that vendor specific draconian DRM was an acceptable thing.
I wasn't aiming to criticise the particular set or scope of topics taught at each stage, more so the fact there's no provision to ensure students are aware of what branches of mathematics even exist. There's no formal introduction or grounding or broad strokes.

It's like teaching science where there's no innate notion of biology, chemistry and physics as three separate disciplines... or teaching history without putting everything in its place on a timeline and your students end up not knowing whether Tudor times ended before or after the Ottoman empire fell.

It's the big picture exposure that I think maths lacks, and I personally never bothered to step back and actually look for that big picture until I was already in my 20s. The way maths is taught makes you feel like it's suddenly going to open up, but all that actually happens is you follow one branch.
This headline makes me think of a weird future where they are advertising to sentient quadrotors through Upworthy style headlines. Bizarre.
You might be interested in Bhutan's use of "gross national happiness" as a metric[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_national_happiness
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Not unless it's abused. I've capped the maximum amount of accounts one is able to follow at 1000 a day. Same story for favoriting tweets.
Non-citizen males between 18 and 25 years of age in the United States, who are permanent residents, seasonal agricultural workers not holding an H-2A Visa, refugees, parolees, asylees, and illegal immigrants, are required to register with the Selective Service System.

If you unlawfully failed to register with the Selective Service system, then you would be excluded from employment with the federal government (and be subject to other penalties and exclusions).
As for Apple, they have no obligation to do anything.

I don't know whether that's true legally here, but if it is, I don't think it should be.

If they provided devices with a factory reset that let someone unlock them, even if it meant locking out any older data, then maybe.

If they sold them with prominent warnings about how they could be rendered permanently useless in this sort of situation, maybe.

But they don't do those things. They deliberately lock the device to an authentication mechanism over which they have exclusive control under these conditions. If you're going to do that, and you're not going to warn people about it so they can make an informed decision about whether they want to buy a product with that limitation in the first place, then I think you do bear some responsibility for ensuring that the recovery mechanism operates reasonably.
Why are you slandering anyone who thinks google is a shitty company and doesn't want them profiting on their data?
Thank you, I wanted to say this but you put it much better.
Twitter Error Asks Users To Change Passwords
Possibly true, but at the same time, if apple had, this would probably have never been a news article at all.
I really dislike the new standard of making location tracking opt-out, not opt-in.

There's a startup that tracks the location of customers across stores using the MAC addresses of their cell phones, without their knowledge. In order to opt-out, you have to register your MAC address with them: http://nomi.com/privacy/

The key to both Nomi and (to a lesser extent) Google is that users don't even know when they are being tracked. Opt-out only makes sense when there is a reasonable expectation that the user knows that the tracking exists.
Even worse, Wikipedia says << Steve Featherstone wrote in Popular Science that by the summer of 2012 Rossi's "outlandish claims" for the E-Cat seemed "thoroughly debunked" and that Rossi "looked like a con man clinging to his story to the bitter end." >> which is months before the date of this article.
I know. Please read the reply to hatu I left 15 minutes before your comment. In case it's still not clear: "this is the voice" means the author is letting us hear this voice, not that he personally is one of them
Maybe. I'm no aeroE, but I know parachutes need a reasonable bit of space to deploy. I'm not sure the quadcopter would be flying at a high enough altitude to be able to deploy the parachute, have it unfurl properly, and then contribute enough drag to slow the craft.

Also, it'd mean either parachute or this failsafe rotation technique. Spinning freakishly like the video shows would only get the quad entangled with a parachute.
Lego is what made me into a programmer, the idea of using my imagination to create things followed me into adulthood. I still remember old WWDC lunches where Apple supplied each table with a random collection of lego to create something and then displayed all of them (I think it was a contest). A room full of programmers hacking on lego using not just the pieces but anything handy including uneaten food and implements was pretty amazing.
I could be totally wrong but I think she dislikes herself more than LEGO. She too easily gives in to simple marketing to do things she feels she should not be doing, she buys things she shouldn't be buying, and doesn't the spend the kind of time with her kids she feels would be best. LEGO is a scapegoat for her own perceived failings with her kids.

I bet her kids would disagree. After all, they are just kids playing with kid toys.

I saw the LEGO movie, I thought it was really good. It's a good story about being yourself, being creative, and standing up for what you feel is right. I saw the movie with my children and none of us felt the need to suddenly go buy LEGOs afterwards. We didn't see the movie as a big infomercial, it's just a movie for gosh sakes. An enjoyable one at that.

Every movie that resulted in retail items selling big was not necessarily intended to be an infomercial. And the movies that were? So what?

As for her complaint about the girl sets not having fire fighters, why not buy the sets that have fire fighters? If she only buys the sets supposedly made only for girls then who is at fault with that?