Four short links: 21 May 2013
David Karp, creative canvas, David Karp, auto focus camera Marissa Mayer's Tumblr Im delighted to announce that weve reached an... --
In terms of working together, Tumblr can deploy Yahoo!s personalization technology and search infrastructure to help its users discover creators, bloggers, and content theyll love. In turn, Tumblr brings 50 billion blog posts (and 75 million more arriving each day) to Yahoo!s media network and search experiences.Tumblr Staff - News! --
Follow us for the latest development updates, features, events, tips, tutorials, hacks, meetups, antics, philosophy, and trade secrets. And our mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve certainly isnt changing.The One-Person Product Marco.org --
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea hed had for a while. But David has a lot of Steve Jobs-like qualities, and like many people who worked for Steve, I look back on Tumblrs crunch times with mixed feelings: I dont want to return to that stress level, but David pushed me to do amazing work that I didnt think was possible. (Believe me, there are many parallels.)Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone, With Customisable Shells, $513 ... --
Jolla is holding an event in Helsinki today dubbed the Jolla LoveDay to promote the handset and encourage fans to pre-order the device, having kept the design tightly under wraps up to now. In addition to its R&D sites in Helsinki and Tampere, Jolla has offices in Hong Kong and is establishing R&D operations in China mainland in order to lead the Sailfish alliance development and ecosystem.
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[1205.0057] Marathon pacing and elevation change
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We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions[1305.2897] Major arcs for Goldbach's theorem
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Abstract: The ternary Goldbach conjecture, or three-primes problem, asserts that every[1305.4466] Fluctuations and the role of collision duration in reaction-diffusion
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diffusion system, state statistics, densities
Abstract: In a reaction-diffusion system, fluctuations in both diffusion and reaction[1305.4458] Studying $\kappa$ meson with a MILC fine lattice
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Four short links: 20 May 2013
National Automobile Dealers, personal conversations, venture capital investments, classic Star Trek Tesla Rides High, But Faces Formidable Foe: Car Dealers : NPR --
And though the nature of the nation's economy has changed dramatically (why can't consumers buy cars online like everything else, Tesla asks), the dealers are holding tight to a structure as American as apple pie and essential to the health of communities. Tesla's effort to change a state statute that prohibits manufacturers of new motor vehicles from operating a dealership, he says, is just the latest.The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks | TechCrun ... --
Google announced at its I/O event that Hangouts was to be launched as a separate app from Google Plus, taking personal conversations out from the G+ app and putting them into their own space. Figures released this week imply more than 41 billion messages a day are now being delivered via various Over the Top (OTT) messaging apps. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a users needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network. This is a little like the era of Windows before Outlook when apps tended to do only one thing and users used many apps. And there is plenty of time for the mobile messaging apps to respond by offering a broader range of social features.What Nikola Tesla vs. VCs video says about the state of Silicon Valley Tech N ... --
Think of it this way: Had Vinod Khosla not backed Pradeep Sindhu to work on Juniper, we would all be living in Ciscos vision of the internet future and using its hardware, which it would have made and sold at its own pace and at its own prices. I dont necessarily think that this kind of rational thinking is bad for the investors, but when it comes to fundamental innovation, it points to a a real challenge ahead. And forget what Wall Street thinks, isnt venture capital really risk capital? And it is thinking about more than just us. I know all those quiet funders, people who do fund great companies.The Myth of Nazi Efficiency | Coffee Cup History --
The planning for the Four-Year Plan also reveals another hindrance to German recovery. In order to give this new organisation teeth, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, ordered the integration of the municipal police forces the Kriminalpolizei, the Ordnungspolizei, and the Sicherheitspolizei into the SD. This also put the SD and SS in competition with both the infamous Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, or Secret State Police), whose brief it was to also operate as a domestic security police force with a purview over criminal intelligence, and the Abwehr, or German military intelligence, which resented the encroachment on the Partys paramilitary wing on its turf. Party paraphernalia became de facto symbols of the German state itself; The German state had already possessed institutions the foreign ministry, the treasury, and so on but upon seizing power, Hitler clearly felt that the state had become irrelevant. Of those who were well-educated and well placed to enter the state bureaucracy, the fact that competing bureaucracies were being set up within the Party better paid positions with significantly more prestige lured them away from working for ministries in favour of Nazi divisions and departments. there had been a not inconsiderable number of Jewish German civil servants when Hitler came to power, but they were quickly removed. At the same time, however, the Party manoeuvred to create its own apparatus that could supersede the states role in statecraft, meaning that, for much of the 1930s, Germany became heavily and confusingly bureaucratised, with an unclear sense of direction and a near-complete lack of efficiency that alienated the very people who were needed to make the National Socialist socioeconomic policies a success. The National Socialist German Workers Party did not come to power in 1933 as just another legitimate political movement. Its success at the polls for it did, indeed, become a party with a reasonable measure of public support was conditional, based largely on divisive rhetoric, and this rhetoric became the driving force behind the attempts to modernise the economy. Indeed, Hitlers immediate economic measures approving an increase of rearmament spending to some ten percent of Germanys total gross domestic product (GDP), proportionately three times higher than the armament spending levels of any of the western democracies demonstrate the belligerent nature of German recovery. This would never be agreed to by those powers, and so could only be achieved through force of arms hence the massive programme of German rearmament. The cornerstones of his economic recovery policies revolved almost totally around preparing Germany for war, either in terms of providing for itself, or in order to smash its opponents. The once-powerful German civil service was treated as a bastard child of the Party administration, though the Party could not afford to totally dissolve it. Both the German and Soviet armed forces were dependent on horses until the end of the war;
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Hot Arxiv Papers for May 20, 2013
[1305.3912] The entropy concept for non-equilibrium states
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derivation, relevant physical properties, two states
We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions[1205.0057] Marathon pacing and elevation change
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energy cost, hilly course, target
We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions[1305.3913] Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
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energy densities, chemical source, conservative assumptions
We gratefully acknowledge support fromthe Simons Foundation and member institutions[1305.3655v1] Fighting against uncertainty: An essential issue in bioinformatics
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sequence alignment, estimations, prediction methods
Abstract: Many bioinformatics problems, such as sequence alignment, gene prediction,This post was autogenerated ...
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Four short links: 19 May 2013
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
[1305.3644] Sound and light from fractures in scintillators
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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
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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
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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
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wind sail, tethers, solar wind
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Marketplace Music: Saturday May 18 2013
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