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What is Mathematics?

admin — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:39:36 +0000

What is Mathematics? For more than two thousand years, mathematics has been a part of the human search for understanding. Mathematical discoveries have come both from the attempt to describe the natural world and from the desire to arrive at a form of inescapable truth from careful reasoning. These remain fruitful and important motivations for [...]

Feast Your Ears On Fresh Jams From Musicians You Love At Hipset Via YC’s Tracks.by

Josh Constine — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:26:37 +0000

Hipset is a music discovery site launching today from Y Combinator's Tracks.by that makes sure you never miss the hot new songs, videos, and other content from the artists you Like on Facebook -- updates which the social network might not show in your feed. If launched on its own, Hipset would just be a fun site for listeners. But while disarmingly simple, it's the culmination of Tracks.by's year-long master plan to shake up the music marketing industry. Here's how Hipset is going to rock you.

Prevent Google Chrome from Hijacking RSS Feeds

Amit — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:55:56 +0000

When you click an XML feed in Google Chrome, it forces you to subscribe to that feed in a Chrome app. Here are ways to easily bypass the feed hijacking.

How Instacart Hacked YC

Apoorva Mehta — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:00:04 +0000

Editor’s note: Apoorva Mehta is the founder of YC-backed Instacart, a startup that's taking on 1-hour grocery delivery. He previously worked on supply chain infrastructure at Amazon.com. Getting into Y-Combinator is hard enough; but getting in two months late and as a single founder is almost impossible. This is how I hacked my way in. It was June, and I decided to apply to Y-Combinator. I always wanted to go through the intense program, and I knew that getting in would dramatically improve the chances that Instacart would succeed. But there was a problem: I missed the application deadline. By over two months.

Configure Timers With Enhanced Functionality Using Mutely [Android 2.0.1+]

Danny Stieben — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:30:15 +0000

Why limit ourselves to something that beeps after a countdown? Instead, your device should behave in a certain way when a timer is active, and those settings should be configurable for each timer. Sound like something you'd want in a timer app? Mutely is an Android app which specializes specifically with timers. The real advantage to using Mutely is that you can configure your device's behavior for whenever that timer is active.

Lean VC: Why small is beautiful in venture capital

Manu Rekhi and Rafiq Dossani — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:00:20 +0000

Guest Post Fully two-thirds of compensation for VC general partners comes from fees, not performance, according to a recent report from the Kaufmann Foundation.

Browsing With Bing On Windows 8 Could Be A Richer Visual Experience [Updates]

Saikat Basu — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:30:53 +0000

Bing could make smashing comeback of sorts, as it has been completely re-imagined for Windows 8. The video discussion on the Bing blog shows Microsoft’s Stefan Weitz giving a preview using a Microsoft Windows 8 tablet of what the ‘new’ Bing could offer. A richer and more ‘immersive’ search experience is definitely on the cards.

Decide the outcome of Apple v. Samsung with this handy flow chart

Dylan Tweney — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:18:07 +0000

Can't make up your own mind about the Apple v. Samsung patent trial? Use this entertainingly useful Verdict-o-matic from the Joy of Tech.

Three female engineers build toys to inspire young girls to love science

Christina Farr — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:04:44 +0000

When Alice Brooks was a little girl, she asked her father for a Barbie doll. He gave her a saw, which she used to hack a dollhouse.

Three Stanford students launch Maykah to inspire the next generation of girls to love math and science.

Gillmor Gang: Please Stand By

Steve Gillmor — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 17:00:00 +0000

The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — huffed and puffed but could not blow Twitter's house down. The social startup is betting we'll still keep tweeting no matter how gated the community becomes, and with Facebook only worth some 40 billion, Jack and Dick may be right. Besides, push notifications make the clients irrelevant anyway. Three weeks in, @scobleizer has given away his Nexus 7, with @kteare the only holdout. I can't believe how much time I've switched over to the pocket tablet, but soon enough we'll learn Apple's response with iPhone the next. With our director on vacation I'll have to watch the show to catch the rest of the conversation, as I found it impossible to talk and switch at the same time. And thanks, NBC, for pushing The Who out of prime time. Meet the new boss...