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A local museum in Salem had a Joseph Cornell exhibit a few years back.

http://www.pem.org/sites/cornell/

I really liked his work.

My taste in art ranges all over the place. I like a fair amount of modern stuff. I like a fair bit of expressionist and surrealist art, although some of it gets a bit too silly. I also tend to like 17th century Dutch and Flemish art (Reubens, Hals, Rembrant, and of course Vermeer). Which is not to say I can't spend hours staring at impressionist paintings, or medieval art, or Caravaggios, or over-the-top Neoclassical blockbusters from Jacques-Louis David. (From what I can see, the typical David is like a Cecil B. Demille film condensed into one enormous frame.)

My favorite art moment so far was in a specific room in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, where I was able to spend pretty much an entire hour at a time when the museum was really quiet. I would stare at Vermeer's View of Delft until I got tired of it, then turn around to stare at Girl With A Pearl Earring, which despite having been turned into the basis of some kind of slick international blockbuster is still an awesome painting.

View of Delft is an astonishing work. I found it difficult to believe how great it was. You can't really tell from the postcard-sized reproductions. It was on that trip that I began to understand that paint is a very, very special substance in the hands of a master.
You can use a fingerprint which consist of geolocation and Useragent. If you use javascript you can enhance the fingerprint with further data like screen resolution etc. It's not perfect, since some computers might generate the same fingerprint, e.g. corporate networks where everyone uses the same system, but then again, they are also using the same IP.

The fingerprint does not eliminate every attempt of cheating, but the method does not rely on cookies and just changing your ip-adress by reconnecting is also not helping, because you use the geolocation and not the IP. TOR, or just changing Proxies would still work, as well as using different browsers.

Another method I can think of are flash cookies. Most users don't know about them. Let users vote as often as they like, but only count them once. In order to make sure they believe their votes count you can display the result personally for them and include their additional votes, so they won't go looking, how they are recognized.

And if a user does not know about flashcookies it's pretty much impossible to cheat the system - and the flashcookie remains the same regardless of the browser you use.
After I wrote that I recognised the ambiguity and I was going to go back and edit it to say something like "actively enforced patents to generate licence fees", but I thought it was obvious enough as it was, given the context.
okay now I get it, I am bumping up against the rate limiting api.
Leaked docs confirm Droid Eris details: November 6 for $99
That was a hell of a lot more informative than anything else I've read/watched in the last week.
If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can either write us at the address shown above...

I wonder whether anybody actually does this...
The article claims that Google is using some form of "volume licensing" with Android. But how can volume licensing be enforceable when the project is Apache/GPL? Is this an error or is there something I'm not aware of?
I've noticed that sometimes interesting answers get downvoted, and irrelevant/badly thought-out answers get upvoted. So I don't take downvotes so seriously now.
However, there's a backlash: if I get a bunch of upvotes, I'll now think that it's probably just a bunch of those idiot voters. Which in a way is a good thing, because it means I have to fall back on my own judgment, instead of being guided by karma.
(I do listen to intelligent rebuttals and counter view-points, as they have actual content, unlike a downvote).

For a long time, I didn't down-vote anyone. Now I'll sometimes downvote, to put comments in the order of insightfulness; and very occasionally for irrelevance/childishness. For really obnoxious comments, I'll downvote to grey them, and also flag them.
But my usual response is to reply "please elaborate" (for a content-free comment), which offers the human behind the comment an opportunity to grow into the community; or an impartial recital of the facts (for a mistaken, inappropriate or irrelevant comment).
That's essentially what up voting is for. It is a one way distillation that would also avoid any possible majority silencing of unpopular views.

We don't punish people for being dumb, we reward people who are smart.

Jail time is physical intimidation, but it is just one example of intimidation. My point is that such physical intimidation is no different from social intimidation upheld by the majority view in society. And such social intimidation is no different from down voting. Just as you were probably taught by someone at some point in your life to respect other's viewpoints, we should foster that here too. Down voting because of differences in viewpoint is not a sign of respect.

And you can fully respect someone while still getting your share of the "better" comments because there is still an up vote mechanism. Without down vote simply means you can't disrespect comments that while are not overly additive to the conversation, are also not overly disruptive either.
Their website is functional and actually has quite a bit of content on it - including many years worth of letters from Buffett to Berkshire shareholders.

I'm sure the site would be fancier if Warren Buffett actually used a computer - but as far as I know he doesn't even have one in his office.
Pikk is a slightly offensive word in Norwegian: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&h...
I think the funniest thing is that they have a Geico affiliate link on their front page
And Murdoch wants to start charging for their basically non-existant "coverage" of stuff like this...
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Dieter Rams.
For the good of future mathematics we need generalists and strategians who can see the big picture.

Older mathematicians probably already see the big picture -- well enough anyway.

Younger mathematicians need to worry about tenure and can't waste their time on big picture things that are not likely to pay off.
Are you sure you don't have the two sites confused? Moderators play a lot larger role on HN than they do on Digg, which is one of the reasons this site is better (though it also creates the potential for it to be a lot worse).
Wandering the web stacks, or, fighting intellectual atrophy on the internet
Quite. In Amsterdam, people mostly ride boring-looking, old-fashioned but very durable bikes, rather than being particular objects of desire. On the other hand, no public program is immune from vandals or the disaffected - some of whom are truly desperate but many of whom are just trolls.
Raphael G. Lullis
Av. Prof. Ana Maria Silvestre Adade
985, Apt 14
Campinas, Brazil

Congratulations on your fortune to come from Campinas. As you say, it enjoys relatively pleasant climate, which I have enjoyed. Too bad you didn't learn manners from your father. Perhaps when you return from Boston, you'll learn to be more civil.
Upvoted for Friedrich. I find his commentary on civilization and religion strangely beautiful. You lost me with the Beyonce reference though...
Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor (a journal for rejected papers)
They own Geico.
there's this funny bit in The Snowball, where Buffett suggests to his wife that they let their daughter sleep in an old dresser drawer versus buying a new crib.
Bryan Larsen: http://www.cordair.com/larsen/
I didn't know this, but "GEICO is an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc." As are a surprising number of others:

http://www.geico.com/about/corporate/corporate-ownership/
Doron Zeilberger is a pretty clever mathematician, so at the very least, any of his opinions are certainly worth thinking about. I think as a comment about the state of modern research culture, he also recently had one of his paper's published in Rejecta Mathematica
Great article, and awesome fonts.

But for the record, OS X now ships with a new default monospace font called Menlo which is quite nice... but it's really just Deja Vu Sans Mono with modified punctuation (most importantly though is the slash through the zero).

View it here: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2009/06/snow-leopards-new-m...
There is nothing that surpasses SGIscreen at 10 or 11px. As a bonus, it requires some leetness to find and use.
but what about when these junior faculty etc become senior faculty? as time goes on, if you're not habitually trying to be broadly knowledgeable, how will you ever be?

I think the point of the article is to point out this issue and provoke thought, because it certainly doesn't provide a solution.
What, no love for Lucida Console? For shame, Mr Benjamin, for shame. [/typeface melodrama]
There's still a lot of good stuff today. I really doubt we'll see any painters that revolutionize the form as much, at least not without significantly changing the tools of the medium. He turned painting into a pure creation of content, where what mattered was the canvas rather than the depiction. When you see his work in person it's incredibly powerful.
Yes, unless there are some hard (and reasonable) limits to the extent of free service defined.
This needs to be voted up to the top. Possibly the best industrial designer that's ever been. Definitely top three in my book, along with Fukasawa and Ive.
It should be relatively easy to prove... Poll the results for ~1 hour for all (or front page only) stories. Generate proper statistics for the speed of change for each entry (stddev per article per each phase - raise, sustain, fall). If all ads jump as much as this sample, it would be quite easy to show the difference.

Even a side-by-side graph of votes for articles and for ads should show a if anything strange is going on. But showing a sample of size == 1 is more or less pointless.
Mozart's got a real sense of fun to his pieces. My reaction to him is the opposite of mine to Bach: I've never heard a Mozart piece that didn't sweep me away. His work is so rich and so full.

I just had Chopin recommended to me as far as Romanticism goes. Beethoven's never quite done it for me (he's terrific, but not in the same way that Mozart is IMHO), so I'm hoping Chopin really sparks a love.
I like how the (c) is from 1978!
Doc Searls: Toward post-journalism journalism
Yeah, the author put a lot of work into this.
I gave my grandfather Chrome and renamed it to Internet Explorer. It worked.

As an aside, the Firefox 3.6 beta came out recently and it might be the first Firefox on the Mac that doesn't suck. I was very pleasantly surprised.
"asked 50 people on the street [...] Less than 8% of people surveyed did."

Wait, less than exactly 4 people? So 3 people? So exactly 6%?
If the rest of the web was like this, my web browser wouldn't need 600M of RAM or weekly security updates.
Does pikmin mean anything?
<meta name="Template" content="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\html.dot">
Engadget reviews the Motorola Droid
This all brings to mind Churchill's quote (paraphrased):

"Democracy is the worst form of government, with the exception of all other forms of government."
So why hasn't the news contacted this guy and borrowed him for their reporting, or is journalism dead? Or was I just being sarcastic (about journalism being dead that is)?

Furthermore, I hate our lawsuit happy society, but someone needs to be held accountable.
And yet, my only comments that actually get upvoted are garbage one-liner humor comments.

EDIT: I believe this is what we call irony: http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss323/araneae/hn.png
Yes exactly. It's a product of its time. Many people consider Asimov or Heinlein equally impenetrable. Hell, many people consider Joyce and Proust tedious. And I wouldn't be at all surprised in a few years if Atlas Shrugged is attacked for glorifying smoking and pollution too...
Also the letter from Warren Buffet says I can save money if I switch to Geico.
How much of a dork/nerd am I that I actually LOL'd?
I downvote people who downvoted me before I could downvote. Karma's a bitch.
The utility of an agree/disagree button would be to prevent the up/down vote arrows to be used for that purpose, which a few in this thread claim is what is happening.

(I doubt that would work though, but am curious to know if that has been implemented anywhere)
> I'm sure there's much more.

There is, and most of it has nothing to do with the types of government regulation you talked about. Most is to do with positional externalities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good ).
Try following the link to "Charlie Munger's Letters to Wesco Shareholders."
Rand's ideas are about maximizing personal freedom, with money only a means to that end. Most of the characters in Atlas Shrugged give up fortunes that they've either earned or inherited when they realize that holding onto them limits their personal freedom. So there is actually no contradiction at all.
Peter Paul Rubens. He showed with paintings how things are supposed to be done. His painting are an avalanche of skill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens
BTW on just the beginning of your comment: This might explain why I sometimes get "correct" replies that totally miss the point: they've seen it in the newcomments page.

It's really baked my noodle a few times, that a seemingly intelligent person could be so self-confidently blind. Now it seems likely that it simply was because they were blind.
I live in the Financial District in Manhattan.

We have this free bicycle rental service: Bike Around Downtown https://www.bikearounddowntown.com/Default.aspx
I don't think it's all about costs. One great benefit of PayPal is that it's a known and (somewhat?) trustworthy brand. (Yes, I know, it's far from perfect...)
It matters if they would like users from Norway.
It seems what the 'Kingdom of Mathematics' really needs, is a good toastmasters club!
Just to be clear, I was already a qwerty touch typist before, so I just moved for the layout efficiency.

I don't dislike the r and l placement on the right hand. I do sometimes feel p should belong on the right hand tho.
Looks like it got high-jacked. If you google Wesco Financial, its the first result and its redirected too. I bet no one renewed the domain...
Ares booster damaged on return
At this rate everything will be made free and supported by advertising, at which point there will be nothing left to advertise.
Especially cool is the shock wave as the rocket goes transsonic:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46628000/jpg/_46628214...
Snowball was great, there will ever be another Buffett.
My father-in-law does photography of New Orleans, and he's got a gallery on Royal Street, so I surprisingly know a lot about contemporary art, due to the discounts I get in NoLa.

I am a big fan of Ricker, Erte, and Deyber. Most especially Deyber, it's smartass art, see it here: http://martinlawrence.com/deyber.html -- I own Party Animal, it's a giraffe with a lampshade.

I also own a Brennan, they're small paintings, quite simple but devastatingly intricate: http://martinlawrence.com/brennan.html

We've also been collecting rinards: http://www.galleryrinard.com/

I don't own him, but I'm a huge fan of Todd White: artofwhite.com

As a shameless plug for my inlaw's site: http://www.joedunnarts.com and the pw is gr8noart

Oh, and warhol sucks. hard. it's like being a fan of mozart to sound sophisticated.
I'd assume that Buffet's thought process - correct in my opinion - is that having a fancy website won't get him anything, and will only cost him money to create and maintain.

Unlike most companies, Warren Buffet doesn't care if you buy his stock. The last close of BRK.A is at $99,000 and has an average volume of about 800 - meaning that if you hold that stock, you're almost certainly an institutional investor who's in it for the long run, and who know perfectly well what the company is like. For similar reasons, he doesn't need to project any images of modernity or customer-friendliness, if for no other reason than BRK has no real customers.

Most companies make fancy web pages to appeal to customers and inform them, to project a positive image for investors, or to provide a service. All Berkshire's web page is there for is to distribute some documents, most of which are updated annually or so. Hence no need for something fancy.

While you're there, have a read of the Owner's Manual and one of the annual reports, which are written as if you're friends with Warren Buffet and he's having a casual conversation with you about how business is going. He tells stories, he talks about individuals who have done well this year - but by the end you have a very good idea about how the company is doing, and you've probably learned something about finance (I don't have any shares in the company and I always read them). Also funny is the descriptions of the BRK annual meetings - known as _Woodstock for Capitalists_ - and the associated sales events from all the Berkshire companies.
The interesting thing about the boring-looking, old-fashioned, durable Dutch model of bike is it's becoming a luxury brand abroad. I've certainly seen it as having a certain cachet in the UK and US.
Well, 640K ought to be enough for anybody really.
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Call it stealing if you want, but here is a little tutorial on how to get the non-free Consolas font without buying anything from Microsoft. The font is included in a free to download dmg file from microsoft. http://www.wezm.net/2009/03/install-consolas-mac-osx/
This is essentially a critique of specialization, applied to the field of mathematics. I think that this trend might be inevitable, not just in the field of mathematics. The total amount of knowledge that humanity has accumulated continues to grow. If the amount of science that a single person can understand is finite, then individual scientists will understand an ever smaller percentage of it. In some ways that makes me sad.
My coworker bought some BRK.B shares a few months ago, he was making hundreds of dollars a day for a few weeks... I think he had 8 shares :)
Edward Hopper - seeing his paintings in person at the MFA (including, of course, Nighthawks) was quite an experience.
Sure right about his thought process and his disinterest of allocating capital to a snazzy website.
BRK.B is a little more accessible at 1/30th the price of A shares, $3283 now. In his book Snowball, he talks about the waste of money to do share splits.
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I save my bottles and just reuse them with the next batch of beer I make :)
People keep saying that, and people keep linking to pg saying that's part of the intended use. Shall we avoid the pointlessness of this argument?
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Those actually have subtly different titles (except for no. 1 and no. 3, which both have the same number of diggs). Looks to me like they just have multiple ad units for any given advertiser.
Typography Needs To Be Felt
While upvoting better comments is a really good thing, I don't think it's enough. Let's say that instead of trying to give a counter example for your idea, I simply write something like:

"No - that's lame and you should be downvoted, because you're wrong right now."

If that was the last response - everything's fine - the thread gets lost. But if someone tries to explain that I'm not correct, we get a standard war that doesn't really prove anything. If people wanted to upvote "better" comments, then anything after my post could be considered "better" and I can keep the thread afloat by just contradicting everyone (if I don't simply abuse them). I'm still at ~1 vote with every post, but with others being upvoted, we would just grab attention and pull more people into the "conversation"... and that's what I think happens in forums that simply move the updated threads up.

The only way to break that cycle would be to start upvoting most of the other threads... But then what to do if some of them are actually worth upvoting and some aren't?

Now the question is: did I, or did I not try to start a noisy attention grabbing thread just now by saying you're wrong but not in a trollish way (and was it really not a troll post or did I just try to assure you it wasn't by my definition (how meta! ;) ))
I actually like the simple site design, but I hate the fact that they expect you to have IE if you want to order from their online store. I've tried ordering a Berkshire Hathaway shirt as a gift multiple times, and have been denied each time because I use Firefox and Safari. I will use the phone or snail mail (or even carrier pigeon) before I install IE.
Nobody is his own target group.

Well, almost. Eat own dog food ... etc.

But sticking to this approach limits severely size of target population.

Throwing mud at the wall and finding what sticks. It has one major
disadvantage. It costs in time and money.

Any solutions?

Maybe Customer Development and Agile. Maybe something else.

The question is still open.
I remember reading about someone who wrote letters and mailed them to companies (sorry I have no link to offer). He found a better response from the snail-mail variety and figured it the volume of written mail in a corporation was so low that it reached decision-makers more often then email.
are there anyone who cares about digg these days?
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He uses a computer to play bridge...but that's about it.
Your're correct that it could be gamed with multiple email addresses as well. It would just take a little longer. Going to click a confirmation link, a captcha, etc.
My general understanding is that the last person to be well-versed in basically all of mathematics was Euler. When he got through with it, the field was too broad for any mortal to obtain a working knowledge of most of it. It seems that now, given the above, hardly anybody tries to broaden their horizons after a certain point in their career. (It feels like every course I take these days, I end up making a connection between a topic and another branch of math or computer science, but my instructor doesn't know enough about the other field to appreciate what I bring up.)

While I don't think the problem is quite as severe as Zeilberger claims, I do feel like conference talks should strive to be more accessible to specialists of other fields and to students. Particularly for a conference like the Joint Mathematics Meetings, it would be cool if speakers prepared their talks to be more like TED talks: just technical enough to make sure that the audience can understand the really interesting aspect of the research.
As soon as I saw "haunts me" I knew what paintings you were talking about.

I love his work and thank you for reuniting me with it.
It's possible that "50 people" was an approximation, and he actually asked "somewhat more than 50"...
Fukasawa! I've seen his stuff, never caught the name; thanks. Now to waste time searching "Fukasawa" on Flickr.
It wasn't mentioned, but Pragmata is gorgeous. A bit pricey though.
Nine million dollars wouldn't pay for the post-it notes at the largest "cyber security center" already operating in the government.
I did a survey on this for which to use with clients and came up with http://www.phplist.com/ which I've used a few times and found to be the best of breed OSS solution in this space. YMMV.

It was a while back, http://alicious.com/2008/best-online-mailing-list-management... , and I never really finished the public write up but put it online anyway ... isn't this the space that Google Wave is supposed to be filling now.
I downvoted your comment because I am arbitrary and fickle.