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Four short links: 19 May 2013

2013-05-19T04:05:12Z

waterfall design, Buddhist Monk, public interest advocacy, SANJOSE MERCURY NEW

Mind the Gap | The Layout -- The danger with the waterfall design process is that it might create a disconnection between design and engineering teams due to the focus on deliverables and specs instead of the much-needed fluid communication between the teams. If designers dont engage with engineers, the product will likely stick with broken and/or unintended design.

The Three Kinds of Laziness - garry's subposthaven -- The antidote to the second kind of laziness feeling too discouraged to commit ourselves to spiritual practiceis to reflect on the benefits that such inner transformation will bring.

Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Performance | TechCrunch -- While our networks are improving, were retaining low prices for entry-level broadband plans first noticed by the Berkman Centers Next Generation Connectivity report: the U.S. is currently second in the price of broadband for entry-level users. a figure that quadrupled in three years. To facilitate private investment in networks, Europe has developed a Ten Step Plan for a single, cross-border market for broadband that mimics our interstate, facilities-based broadband market.

Family Tech Web Services for Parents and Kids | TheLedger.com -- Rachelle Doorley, center, arts educator and writer at TinkerLab, and Samantha Barnes, founder and culinary coach at Kitchen Kid, talk during the MamaBear family tech conference at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif., recently. Several of the hundreds of entrepreneurs gathered at the Microsoft Conference Center said that the busy and buzzy MamaBear Family Tech Conference validates the rising strength of the family tech market. Several of the hundreds of entrepreneurs gathered at the Microsoft Conference Center said that the busy and buzzy MamaBear Family Tech Conference validates the rising strength of the family tech market.
Like many entrepreneurs there, Brooke Chaffin, 42, left a tech job to pursue a project inspired by her kids. After becoming a dad, co-founder Garth Humbert watched barely worn children's clothes and toys pile up in his garage.
Women say they have taken the lead in family tech because they know how to design products that mothers, want technology that is simple, helps them juggle their many responsibilities and supports their priorities namely, their families.
Business leaders say they've barely touched the potential for family technology.

Women are "the superusers of technology," Chaffin said.

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Hot Arxiv Papers for May 19, 2013

2013-05-19T00:08:24Z

[1305.3644] Sound and light from fractures in scintillators in mechanical stress, acoustic emission, member institutions inorganic scintillators subject to mechanical stress. For {${Bi}_4{Ge}_{3}{O}_{12}$}, we set a lower bound

[1305.3674] The toroidal Hausdorff dimension of 2d Euclidean quantum gravity in endorsers, torus, member institutions Abstract: The lengths of shortest non-contractible loops are studied numerically in 2d

[1305.3654] CMS Measurements of the Higgs-like Boson In the Two Photon Decay Channel in signal strength, endorsers, member institutions Abstract: CMS reports on the recently updated, preliminary results with the full

[1301.2100] Electric sail, photonic sail and deorbiting applications of the freely guided photonic blade in wind sail, tethers, solar wind Electric sail, photonic sail and deorbiting applications of the freely guided photonic blade

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Marketplace Music: Saturday May 18 2013

2013-05-18T06:33:25Z

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Four short links: 18 May 2013

2013-05-18T04:06:07Z

grade point averages, Moscone Center, compiler infrastructure, gspro

The Most Innovative Employees at Google Aren't Stanford/MIT grads with Perfect S ... -- Rather, based on extensive surveys of its work force and performance data, Google discovered that its most innovative workers are those who have a strong sense of mission about their work and who also feel that they have much personal autonomy.

Welcome to Google Island | Gadget Lab | Wired.com -- I awoke aboard a boat, just before daybreak, which was weird. The last thing I remembered was being in San Franciscos Moscone Center, wrapping up a four-hour Google I/O keynote liveblogging session . My last recollection was of Google CEO Larry Page taking questions from the audience and promoting a vision of a utopia where society could be free to innovate and experiment, unencumbered by government regulations or social norms. They told us where they lived and where they wanted to go so that we could deliver a more immersive map that better anticipated what they wanted to doit let us very literally tell people what they should do today. As people began to see how very useful Google Now was, they began to give us even more information. Sure, Google Now could tell you what to do. Keep in mind that for now at least, Google Being is just a developer product.

Google Introduces Portable Native Client, Makes It Easier For Developers To Add ... -- Native Client a technology that allows developers to run native compiled C and C++ code as part of their web apps has long been a part of Google Chrome. Thats not quite what Native Client can achieve, but the advantage of Mozillas approach is that the JavaScript code that the system generates will run in any browser just slower than on Firefox.

cheats - How do GameShark codes work? - Arqade -- With Conditionals, the CodeHander reads the value at the code's address and compares it to the value in the code. Since these ROM chips contain the game, sometimes we use the terms "game program" and "ROM" interchangeably. (Literally - this is why they attach to the cartridge in the way they do.) In most cases, when the console asks the ROM what to do next, the cheat device simply passes that request on to the ROM, the ROM answers, and the game plays normally.

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Hot Arxiv Papers for May 18, 2013

2013-05-18T00:08:14Z

[1305.2897] Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem in odd integer, arcs, computations Abstract: The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, asserts that every

[1208.6350] SSW Library: An SIMD Smith-Waterman C/C++ Library for Use in Genomic Applications in protein database, member institutions, alignment tool We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions

[1305.3615] What is the shape of the initial state? in essay competition, structure probe, initial state Abstract: We argue that a plausible operational definition for an initial state of the

[1203.5132] An experimental measurement of the coexistence curve and critical temperature, density and pressure of bulk nuclear matter in critical pressure, member institutions, finite size effects An experimental measurement of the coexistence curve and critical temperature, density and pressure of bulk nuclear matter

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Four short links: 17 May 2013

2013-05-17T04:05:09Z

Lincoln Town Car, Charles River Ventures, dorsey co, Joseph Conrad

FlightCar (YC W13) launches in Boston, bringing free airport parking and low cos ... -- If someone rents a car, the owner gets a cut of the earnings $10 per day for newer cars as well as a free car wash and ride to the airport in a Lincoln Town Car.

Pebble (YC W11) raises $15M from Charles River Ventures for the future of smart ... -- But before those started making waves, there was the Pebble, a Kickstarter project begun last April in order to build a durable sports watch that could also receive text messages and calls and play music.

http://jellyhq.com/post/50579107451/business-is-blooming -- We chose angels like Al Gore, a Partner at KPCB and Chairman and Co-founder of Generation Investment Management, Greg Yaitanes, a Hollywood director, and Roya Mahboob, an entrepreneur doing amazing work for women in Afghanistan partly because they work in divergent fields.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think wha ... -- Its not that I dont believe in contemporary literature, he added, but I dont want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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Hot Arxiv Papers for May 17, 2013

2013-05-17T00:08:11Z

[1205.0057] Marathon pacing and elevation change in energy cost, hilly course, target We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions

[1305.2897] Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem in odd integer, arcs, computations Abstract: The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, asserts that every

[1305.3608] Multi-color detection of gravitational arcs: method and new candidates in statistical properties, background cosmology, member institutions We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions

[1305.3395] Moebius invariant BFKL equation for the adjoint representation in N=4 SUSY in gauge group, member institutions, approximation Moebius invariant BFKL equation for the adjoint representation in N=4 SUSY

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Marketplace Music: Thursday May 16 2013

2013-05-16T19:33:06Z

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Four short links: 16 May 2013

2013-05-16T04:05:12Z

Gmail inbox, Google Search results, Northern White Rhinos, wing airplanes

Google Wallet -- This means you can securely send money to friends and family in the U.S. - without leaving your Gmail inbox.

Schemas in Gmail Google Developers -- Increase user engagement with interactions in emails, Google Search, and Google Now, by adding markup to emails.

Airware Raises $10.7M From Andreessen Horowitz To Build Brains For Unmanned Dron ... -- To be clear, Airware doesnt make drones they make the brains for drones. If you were to order something from Airware, youd get a logic board (which handles things like auto-pilot, wireless communication, etc.) and all of the actuators and sensors youd probably want to put in a drone. Theyre probably pretty good to go on their own.)

Airware: An operating system for drones - Chris Dixon -- Im excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz, along with Google Ventures, is investing $10.7M in Airware , a startup that makes operating systems for flying robots, popularly known as drones. But as component prices drop and software becomes more sophisticated, drones are starting to be used in non-military applications. Other companies make the actual drone body (the airframe), which can come in many forms such as helicopters, quadcopters, and fixed-wing airplanes. He then built drones at Boeing, but left when he realized he could make low-cost drones on his own. Why should I not be able to use the not-at-all-small set of software I can work withalready to build drone control applications?

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Hot Arxiv Papers for May 16, 2013

2013-05-16T00:08:13Z

[1205.0057] Marathon pacing and elevation change in energy cost, hilly course, target, marathon pacing, member institutions, elevation change, marathon course, empirical observation, finish time, elevation changes We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions

[1203.5132] An experimental measurement of the coexistence curve and critical temperature, density and pressure of bulk nuclear matter in critical pressure, member institutions, finite size effects, nuclear collisions, nuclear matter, protons and neutrons, critical density An experimental measurement of the coexistence curve and critical temperature, density and pressure of bulk nuclear matter

[1204.1387] New Wrinkles on an Old Model: Correlation Between Liquid Drop Parameters and Curvature Term in liquid drop, surface energy, member institutions, curvature, nuclear masses, generalization, endorsers, coefficients [1204.1387] New Wrinkles on an Old Model: Correlation Between Liquid Drop Parameters

[1305.2897] Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem in odd integer, arcs, computations, exponential sums, member institutions, ternary, primes, sieve, endorsers Abstract: The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, asserts that every

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