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"Директор «Левада-центра» Лев Гудков поставил под вопрос существование социологической службы в связи с тем, что прокуратура признала ее иностранным агентом. Об этом говорится в заявлении Гудкова, опубликованном на сайте организации." - × × ×

Меня давно удивляло, как терпят Левада-центр. Неужели, думал я, приручили, как Жириновского какого? Но нет, "к счастью", просто руки не доходили. - 9000

«В руководстве компании рассказали, что вместе со Степановым уходят арт-директор «Афиши-Rambler» Ирина Волошина и директор по разработке Виктор Ламбурт — они также перейдут на работу в «Яндекс». - × × ×

В этот момент всё становится ясно с Афишей и Супом. - × × ×

«Эта команда будет заниматься сервисами «Яндекса», предназначенными для пользователей, которые не знают, что именно им нужно (например, развитой системой выбора и рекомендаций).» - × × ×

"Sociologist, philosopher, computer industry pioneer and inventor of the term “hypertext” Ted Nelson is claiming that he knows the identity of Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto”. In a rambling – and, let's face it, odd – 12-minute post on YouTube, Nelson spins out the suspense, throws in a dialogue with himself as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, and finally ends with the statement that the mystery developer of the cryptocurrency is Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, research professor of mathematics at Kyoto University." - × × ×

“Australian writer Stilgherrian told The Register that while it'd be easy to dismiss the claims, in spite of his eccentricities, Nelson "has the annoying habit of being right.” - × × ×

“Table of Contents: 1. Games for a communicating core concepts. 2. Games for ideation. 3. Games for a different perspective. 4. Games for making a decision. 5. Other games. 6. Games from Google I/O” • #игротехника - × × ×

"How, in Adobe’s whole suite of tools, is there no notion of a fluid canvas — one that could adapt to different devices and screen sizes?” I asked this question often in my first few months at Adobe. What ultimately inspired me to work for Adobe was the opportunity to build tools that didn’t exist yet. During this same time, responsive design had just been coined by Ethan Marcotte. Soon after, I’d converted my portfolio to be a simple responsive, fluid layout. It was painful. I couldn’t imagine having to do this while managing the overhead of working at a magazine publisher, or having to do this for websites in an agency setting. I felt the pain of having to mock up all the layout variations with InDesign or Photoshop, having to build something in HTML and CSS just to be able to mock it up. These problems became an itch I needed to scratch — an itch shared by potentially millions of like-minded creatives." - × × ×

"In the future, our data will flow more freely between different services, because that will entice us to contribute even more. If my every tag, comment or “like” improves my user experience across other apps and services, I think I will contribute more actively in the apps that I love. But when our scattered data becomes available we’ll need technologies to deal with the information that originated from different systems. The evolution of an API ecosystem — that allows developers to bring different data flows together — could provide new tools to process and unite scattered personal data." - × × ×

“This feature will be rolling out to Gmail users ages 18+ in the U.S. over the next few months. Look for the $ icon in your attachment options. You can also get earlier access if your friends have the feature and send money to you.” - × × ×

Shall we expect interoperability with PayPal? :) - 9000

“Using open data, MapBox is taking on the big players in online maps. Now they want to fix satellite view. In February 2013, imagery specialist Charlie Loyd was looking for a job. He’d been working on a method to make beautiful satellite imagery and needed better resources to complete the project. So he made a comparison image of the northern tip of Greenland and posted it to Twitter. Three minutes later, MapBox replied. Soon after, Loyd was hired. The first fruits of that collaboration went live today, with a massive overhaul to MapBox’s satellite layer. MapBox is a mapping startup that offers users a platform for making custom maps based on OpenStreetMap and other open data. To understand why it was so eager to scoop up Loyd, we need to do a little demonstration.” - × × ×

"Aaron Swartz was not yet a legend when, almost two years ago, I asked him to build an open-source, anonymous inbox. His achievements were real and varied, but the events that would come to define him to the public were still in his future: his federal criminal indictment; his leadership organizing against the censorious Stop Online Piracy Act; his suicide in a Brooklyn apartment. I knew him as a programmer and an activist, a member of a fairly small tribe with the skills to turn ideas into code—another word for action—and the sensibility to understand instantly what I was looking for: a slightly safer way for journalists and their anonymous sources to communicate." - × × ×

"Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. To help protect your anonymity, Strongbox is only accessible using the Tor network (https://www.torproject.org). When using Strongbox, The New Yorker will not record your I.P. address or information about your browser, computer, or operating system, nor will we embed third-party content or deliver cookies to your browser." - × × ×

Powered by DeadDrop — “DeadDrop is a server application intended to let news organizations and others set up an online drop box for sources. It's open source software written by Aaron Swartz in consultation with a volunteer team of security experts. In addition to Aaron's code, the project includes installation scripts and set-up instructions both for the software, and for a hardened Ubuntu environment on which to run it.” - × × ×

“Lift took an in-depth look at this question by asking 18,000 experienced meditators how they started. I'd summarize the results as "Start small." So for example, you could start with whatever method you happen to understand (for example, count breaths) and just do two minutes.” • #схватил_за_мозг - #медитация - × × ×

"No time for meditation? Bro, do you even commute?" (BTW, I tried. Not easy.) - 9000

"At Melon we are really interested in the idea of Understood Self, which we are trying to add to the movement of Quantified Self. We want people to have a great feedback system for the data we're capturing, so it can help with the activities users already do day-to-day, go beyond numbers and scores, and move towards insights and understanding." • #схватил_за_мозг • #aqsc - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The headband tracks EEG data, which can correlate to many things such as sleep, focus, meditation, and relaxation. Developers will have access to all of these different mental states and more in our SDK.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

(Март 2015) Получил на прошлой неделе обруч, теперь буду его тестировать. Пока напоминаю себе мартышку и айфон, но посмотрим. - urbansheep@gmail.com

“Sydney tunnel system has a last-minute water screen STOP sign for oversized vehicles” - × × ×

“Netflix has more than 36 million subscribers. They watch about 4 billion hours of programs every quarter on more than 1,000 different devices. To meet this demand, the company uses specialized video servers scattered around the world. When a subscriber clicks on a movie to stream, Netflix determines within a split second which server containing that movie is closest to the user, then picks from dozens of versions of the video file, depending on the device the viewer is using. At company headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., teams of mathematicians and designers study what people watch and build algorithms and interfaces to present them with the collection of videos that will keep them watching.” - × × ×

"You might never attend one, but keep this bit of information in your back pocket: A new trend today is the ‘algorave,’ in which people dance in a rave-like environment to music generated by algorithms. According to a central algorave website – I abstain from dubbing it ‘official – the goal is to take a common piece of software that allows someone to create music based on an algorithm, and then compose the tunes live as people dance. The focus is not on the musician, incidentally, but instead on how people react to what they create." • #музыкальная_шкатулка - × × ×

"We knew it was coming this month, but Amazon has finally made its new virtual currency available to customers in the US. Back in February, we reported that Amazon was gearing up to launch new ‘Coins’ virtual currency for Kindle Fire app purchases. This is all part of Amazon’s plans to help app developers monetize their Appstore submissions, enabling Kindle Fire owners to purchase apps, games and make in-app purchases on their tablet." - × × ×

"A group of students who saw that a backpack was attached to an avatar that they had created overestimated the heights of virtual hills, just as people in real life tend to overestimate heights and distances while carrying extra weight, according to Sangseok You, a doctoral student in the school of information, University of Michigan. "You exert more of your agency through an avatar when you design it yourself," said S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor of Communications and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, Penn State, who worked with You. "Your identity mixes in with the identity of that avatar and, as a result, your visual perception of the virtual environment is colored by the physical resources of your avatar."" - × × ×

"Back in November 2012, the New York Department of Transportation released a report called Measuring the Street: New Metrics for the 21st Century, which had some compelling figures on the way that local business benefits from bike-lanes, for the fairly obvious reason that cyclists find it easy to stop and shop, as compared to drivers, who are more likely to continue on to a mall with a big parking lot, or shop online." • #города_и_люди - × × ×

«Записывать деловую информацию в таблицы чрезвычайно удобно в сравнении с предыдущим методом, однако таблицы тоже не лишены недостатков. В частности, записанную в них информацию нельзя сортировать или отбирать. Ну как отсортируешь или отберешь данные, записанные порциями в строки регистрационной таблицы? Приходится составлять новую ведомость, в которую переписывать нужную информацию повторно. Утомляет, конечно… если только не записывать значащие информационные блоки на отдельные листы – карточки. Карточки не скреплены между собой, вследствие этого их можно складывать в стопку и тасовать как заблагорассудится. Исходя их таких соображений, насколько можно предположить, были изобретены карточки и картотеки.» • #карты_и_колоды - × × ×