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Для всех, кому тоже: http://yadi.sk/d/EY11HfN6BuR3H • #музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

Всё с тобой понятно, френдфидик. А Стенли офигенный. - × × ×

"Do you sometimes lie awake worrying that you aren't succeeding fast enough? Are you tortured by younger peers who have global businesses, penned acclaimed books and a string of iron-man medals? Do you count down the years until you can no longer make the 30 under 30 list? Take a deep breath. My 92 year old grandpa has some advice for you." • #long_now - × × ×

The HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item... has some nice comments. - 9000

«Наиславнейший!» — пишет нам герой в дневнике, — «А ты сам меня выбрал или тебя наказали за что?» Очень хорошие они. - × × ×

“Our Mission — To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the 'next-generation' of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the worlds first end-to-end encrypted 'Email 3.0' throughout the world's email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.” • #электропочта - #крипта - × × ×

“Russian hosts of the Group of 20 summit near St. Petersburg in September sent world leaders home with gifts designed to keep on giving: memory sticks and recharging cables programmed to spy on their communications, two Italian newspapers reported Tuesday. ¶ A Kremlin spokesman denied the allegations reported by Il Corriere della Sera and La Stampa, both of which attributed their stories to findings of technical investigations ordered by the president of the European Council and carried out by German intelligence.” - × × ×

"As a corrections officer at a Westchester County, N.Y., prison in the 1990s, Gary Klivans was a one-man gang unit. Members of The Latin Kings and the Bloods made up a sizable part of the prison population. Klivans learned quickly that to handle them, he needed to understand them, and that meant understanding the code they used to communicate. Klivans taught himself to decipher their messages. He became one of the most sought-after code-breakers in the country. (Also see the related Facts So Romantic post, “View From the Inside: How Gang Members Use Secret Codes.”) Even in retirement, his skills are in demand: Klivans sifts through encoded messages sent to him by law enforcement offers from around the country. “I have a knack for this. I see the patterns,” he told me. “Even as I’m printing the paper out, the words are jumping off the page at me.…A lot of people can’t see what I see.”" - × × ×

“They called it the “Great Mancession.” As the post-2008 economic decline put more men out of work than women in the US, marketers began to notice a trend: Men in opposite-sex couples were taking over what had traditionally been women’s roles. In focus group after focus group, Julie Murphy, an account planner at Midan Marketing, heard from under- and unemployed men who were buying and preparing most of the food in their households. Robbed of their economic potency, men were transforming themselves from chest-waxing metrosexuals into helpmates.” • #мужчинам_мужская_смерть (via @metavoid) - × × ×

Отличная подпись под картинкой: “Marketers were surprised to the point of neologism by the discovery that men shop for their families.” - × × ×

"Gifpop is a tool to make custom cards from animated gifs, using the magic of lenticular printing." - × × ×

Они реализовали шутку про распечатку animated gif! - 9000

"In his book, "Thinking, Fast and Slow," Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman mentions an experiment in which subjects were shown three words and were given two seconds to guess if they were linked. "Putting the participants in a good mood ... more than doubled accuracy," Kahneman writes. Unhappy subjects, on the other hand, made guesses that were no better than random. This is not to dismiss everything else we use to fill our brains. The Internet is a tool for thinking. So are meetings, mystery novels, video games and quiz shows, for that matter. And sometimes thinking has to be done on the fly. Impending deadlines, to paraphrase Samuel Johnson's line about the prospects of being hanged, can focus the mind wonderfully. But perhaps the best tool is time alone, feet up on the desk, staring at the ceiling." - × × ×

"Turning AC into the direct current required to power transistors (the heart of all electronic equipment) is a nuisance. The usual way is through a mains adaptor. These ubiquitous little black boxes are now cheap and light. But they are often inefficient, turning power into heat. And they are dumb: they run night and day, regardless of whether the price of electricity is high or low. It would be better to have a DC network, of the kind Mr Daniel has rigged up, for all electronic devices in a home or office. ¶ This is where USB cables come in. They carry direct current and also data. That means they can help set priorities between devices that are providing power and those that are consuming it: for example, a laptop that is charging a mobile phone. “The computer can say ‘I need to start the hard disk now, so no charging for the next ten seconds’,” says Mr Bhatt. The new standard, with variable voltage and greater power, enlarges the possibilities. So does another new feature: that power can flow in any direction." - × × ×

“This chimes with another advantage. A low-voltage DC network works well with solar panels. These produce DC power at variable times and in variable amounts. They are increasingly cheap, and can fit in windows or on roofs. Though solar power is tricky to feed into the AC mains grid, it is ideally suited to a low-voltage local DC network. When the sun is shining, it can help charge all your laptops, phones and other battery-powered devices.” - × × ×

Для большей эффективности иногда приучаешься _специально_ не заканчивать фразу, оборвав её запятой или на полуслове, чтобы было видно, что ты в процессе набора текста. • #паттерны - × × ×

Ветераны вспомнят, что так работали терминальные чаты и ICQ в те времена (1997), когда чат состоял из двух окон, в котором каждый писал свою часть непрерывной простынёй и свою половину диалога, без таймстампов и без перемешивания реплик. - × × ×

Было, было такое. У меня стоял там Comic Sans :-/ - anatoliy

"100-50-1 is a new photo exhibition, bringing together fifty of the world’s most talented mobile photographers to showcase portraits they’ve captured using their smartphones." • #профото - × × ×

"[В] соответствии с указом Минкомсвязи с 1 июля 2014 года все интернет-провайдеры страны будут обязаны установить на свои сети оборудование для записи и хранения информации об интернет-трафике. Записи будут содержать, в частности, такие данные, как телефонные номера, IP-адреса, имена учетных записей и адреса электронной почты пользователей социальных сетей. Сведения должны храниться не менее 12 часов и будут передаваться спецслужбам." • #крипта - × × ×

“Speaking to a variety of teenaged boys and girls across the country, Nancy Jo Sales uncovers a world where boys are taught they have the right to expect everything from social submission to outright sex from their female peers. What is this doing to America’s young women?” • #стайность - #порно_два_ноль - #женщины_и_люди - × × ×

“Sex is everywhere. Everything is sexualized. They’re all reading Fifty Shades of Grey.” - glukki

Секс был до этих ваших инстаграмматонов. - социальный груффало

“As the captain of a Mandate starship, you lead a crew through the galaxy where they will adapt and grow as they fight alongside you.” - × × ×

"Ms Ripley credits Poland’s swift turnaround to Miroslaw Handke, the former minister of education. When he entered the post in 1997, Poland’s economy was growing but Poles seemed destined for the low-skilled jobs that other Europeans did not want. So he launched an epic programme of school reforms, with a new core curriculum and standardised tests. Yet his most effective change was also his wooliest: he expected the best work from all of his pupils. He decided to keep all Polish children in the same schools until they were 16, delaying the moment when some would have entered vocational tracks. Poland’s swift rise in PISA rankings is largely the result of the high scores of these supposedly non-academic children." • #grind_is_good - × × ×

“Their findings build on last year's discovery of the brain's own network of plumbing pipes - known as the glymphatic system - which carry waste material out of the brain. Scientists, who imaged the brains of mice, showed that the glymphatic system became 10-times more active when the mice were asleep. Cells in the brain, probably the glial cells which keep nerve cells alive, shrink during sleep. This increases the size of the interstitial space, the gaps between brain tissue, allowing more fluid to be pumped in and wash the toxins away.” • #схватил_за_мозг - × × ×

чото он как-то про немецкий не вспомнил, например - кот от котов

Если здесь чего иногда теперь и не хватает, так это регулярных... всплесков, назовём это так, из фаунда, вот что. - × × ×

«Активисты «арабской весны» договаривались о встречах и координировали свои действия через мобильные Facebook и Twitter. Участники волнений в Англии в августе 2011 года использовали для связи BlackBerry Messenger. Демонстранты из «Захвати Уолл-стрит» пишут собственные программы для обмена информацией. «Лента.ру» предлагает обзор мобильных приложений, участвовавших в уличных акциях протеста.» • #крипта - × × ×

“It’s not about passion. Passion is something that we tend to overemphasize, that we certainly place too much importance on. Passion ebbs and flows. To me, it’s about desire. If you have constant, unwavering desire to be a cook, then you’ll be a great cook. If it’s only about passion, sometimes you’ll be good and sometimes you won’t. You’ve got to come in every day with a strong desire. With passion, if you see the first asparagus of the springtime and you become passionate about it, so much the better, but three weeks later, when you’ve seen that asparagus every day now, passions have subsided. What’s going to make you treat the asparagus the same? It’s the desire.” • #grind_is_good - × × ×

(Коттке ставит эту цитату рядом с цитатой Адамса — http://friendfeed.com/urbansh..., но они, по-моему, про разное.) - × × ×

"At Sotheby’s New York this November, the world will get a unique tutorial from two masters of design. Collaborating for the first time, Apple’s Jonathan Ive and his chum, the equally acclaimed Marc Newson, have selected or made more than 40 objects for an auction to benefit Bono’s Product (Red) anti-H.I.V. campaign. Meeting with Ive and Newson, Paul Goldberger explores the shared obsession and philosophy behind everything from iPhones to jumbo-jet interiors." - × × ×

“Ahrendts, 53, has been CEO of Burberry since July 2006. From 1998 to 2006, she was an executive VP at Liz Claiborne, and also served at Henri Bendel and Donna Karan International.” - × × ×

Очень интересно, что из этого получится. - × × ×

“Wow. The photo got bigger! — The new photo experience now gives you the largest possible image, while not deprecating the story around a photo. With the new photo experience the image is about 25% bigger than on the previous photo page. You’ll see more pixels, get a cleaner view without any elements on the top or the bottom of the screen, so that photos can really be the center point. ¶ The story is next to the photo — A photo is more than just pixels: It’s the story that you and other people have build around it. A photos story is being written not only in a photo’s title, but also in comments, tags and in photo-specific information such as what camera has been used. Our goal was to present you with a big image, but also to not to require you to scroll to see what the image is about. In the new sidebar you’ll find all important actions, but also all the important and valuable information. We also started to add recommendations to the sidebar, so that if you enjoy the photo that you are seeing, you’ll likely to find more photos like that.” • #редизайн - × × ×

Ух. Нью-Йорк Таймс о путешествии из Петербурга в Москву. - × × ×

“So why is this highway so antiquated? A new toll road, the M11, will not be fully open until 2018, at which point Mr. Putin will have been in charge for 18 years. ¶ Asked about the M10 during an interview last year, Mr. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, answered by tracing, in order of urgency, the challenges that Mr. Putin faced in his first and second presidential terms. ¶ He brought Russia’s oligarchs to heel. He reclaimed authority over the security services. He eliminated the popular election of governors. He wrested television back from private hands. He raised pensions and paid off Russia’s foreign debt. By the time Mr. Peskov mentioned the staggering decline of Brezhnev-era infrastructure, his explanation had gone on for 28 sentences. ¶ “Certainly,” he concluded, “in these circumstances it was impossible to think about a road between Moscow and St. Petersburg.” - × × ×

...причём особенно интересна форма подачи. - 9000

«В России с 31 октября по 3 ноября пройдет фестиваль открытого финансового образования, приуроченный ко всемирному дню сбережений. Как говорится в пресс-релизе организаторов фестиваля, начинание поддерживают более 30 российских городов.» - × × ×

На всякий случай бамп. Послезавтра уже 31. - × × ×

"Afterward, I listened to her voice mail from the previous week. It was almost unintelligible through her sobs. She was having a bottom-of-the-well moment, utterly distraught by the Big Picture of her life, not one thing in particular but the sort of malaise that strikes from every direction and gobbles you whole. She simply needed me to keep her company on the phone while she freaked out. To tell her everything would be O.K." - × × ×

Никто не верит, что это на что-то повлияет, но выключить на всякий случай полезно. ) - × × ×

Кстати, endorsements от знакомых в play store мне скорее нравятся. - 9000

В Play Store отзывы довольно осознанные. А ковровый подход, стоящий за этой галочкой, вытащит много непроизвольных реакций людей, о возможности публичного появления которых они не думали или забыли. - × × ×

"But the stereotypical extrovert is just one of the personalities that make up a successful team. A lot of people who excel at and are passionate about design — specifically UX design — are actually introverts. This means that, in fostering cultures that celebrate the extrovert, design teams could be losing out on the brainpower of folks who contribute at their highest level when they have quiet and privacy to focus. So, how can we better balance our teams and elevate extroverts and introverts alike?" - × × ×

"In late 2011 Hezbollah rolled up a CIA spy ring in Lebanon. This provides an interesting lesson in CIA tradecraft and real world counterintelligence. Close examination of the techniques used to track down the agents will reveal some serious problems with many systems designed to provide security for anti-government groups. ¶ This post is partially in a response to Matt Green’s post about encryption apps. The secrecy provided by encryption applications, primarily privacy of communication content, is not sufficient to protect against even minimal monitoring. Any anti-government activity in a modern environment, e.g. one involving mobile phones and the internet, needs to include anonymity first and foremost." • #radical_transparency - #крипта - × × ×

В этот раз негодование вылилось в прекрасную картину, где зритель управляет своим пингвином в люмозити, пингвин ловко проходит все опасные повороты, не уходя в занос. Потом добегает до рыбы, хватает её, но не обнимает победно, а удивляет нас тем, что несётся к сопернику на его половину айсберга, и начинает лупить того по его пингвиньим мордасам, по харе ему, по харе, чтобы знал, чьё тут добро, скотина черно-белая. • #lumosity - × × ×

"We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It’s my home shelf, my homeland, my home planet, my essential genre. Without science fiction, without the influence these books have had on me over the years, I'm not sure I would care much about reading or writing today. If a great work of literary fiction is Kafka's "ice-axe to break the frozen sea within us," then a great work of science fiction is the boat. A great work of science fiction answers the question, why are we sailing through this godforsaken ice in the first place? Where are we going? Here are five favorites from my home shelf." • #прокниги - #списки - × × ×

“In an interesting work-around, Levison complied the next day by turning over the private SSL keys as an 11 page printout in 4-point type. The government, not unreasonably, called the printout “illegible.” ¶ “To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2,560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data,” prosecutors wrote. ¶ The court ordered Levison to provide a more useful electronic copy. By August 5, Lavabit was still resisting the order, and the judge ordered that Levison would be fined $5,000 a day beginning August 6 until he handed over electronic copies of the keys.” • #крипта - × × ×

«Я думаю, это, мягко говоря, контрпродуктивно, это очень плохо, — продложил Лукашенко, — и вообще, меня Обама поражает. Еще совсем недавно чернокожие люди в Америке рабами были, а сегодня уже об исключительности какой-то заявляют. Я никогда не думал, что человек, вышедший из этих бедных слоев, сможет вообще риторику такую в мире проводить. Это недопустимо, это крайне опасно». • #the_daily_wtf - × × ×

WTF O_o - vampire vegetable

молодец режет правду-матку, давно пора указать зарвавшимся /подставить слово по вкусу/ их место. - insecure Bangalore

"Publicly, Mr. Lazaridis and Mr. Balsillie belittled the iPhone and its shortcomings, including its short battery life, weaker security and initial lack of e-mail. […] Internally, he had a very different message. “If that thing catches on, we’re competing with a Mac, not a Nokia,” he recalled telling his staff.” (From “How BlackBerry blew it: The inside story”) - × × ×

“Disruption is not a process that merely rewards breaking convention. Any fool can rebel against the status quo. To change it requires a process that rewards asymmetric competition. Finding a way to be seen as irrelevant and yet conquering at the same time. Being disruptive is, above all, being imperceptibly valuable. ¶ For iPhone the core asymmetry was that it was a computing product and not a telecommunications product. Every decision thereafter flowed from the calculus of computing and not the compliance with telco convention. The ecosystem, the rapid rate of improvement, the rich user experience, the tie into other product lines.” - × × ×

Дедье снова крут. - × × ×

"Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books. ¶ The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an online subscription service that gives you unlimited access to a large library of digital books for a flat monthly fee, including titles from big-name publishing house HarperCollins. This isn’t a place where you purchase your very own digital copy of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. It’s a place where you can browse and skim and read whatever strikes your fancy, which might end up as a few paragraphs of the Christie classic sandwiched in between a chapter of Elmore Leonard crime fiction and a cover-to-cover romp through your favorite Neil Gaiman novel." • #прокниги - #будущее_мидий - × × ×

Удивителен и прекрасен этот мир. http://untitled.urbansheep.com/tagged... - × × ×

не первьюшке показалось что это лама и придумалась подпись owned by Perl. но нет овца - insecure Bangalore

Первьюшка — это верное определение! - × × ×