The most advanced API tool for Mac Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native OS X interface to compose requests, inspect server responses and generate client code out-of-the-box. Discover Paw for Teams Sync your API projects across…

Our aesthetic tastes are as unique as our DNA. Or are they? Sure, you may adore a Cézanne still-life while your friend absolutely hates it. But research has shown that many people share certain aesthetic preferences, such as landscape paintings and the color blue. Human biology may help explain why.…

( Poets&Quants ) — When Rick Levin left Yale University two years ago as one of the Ivy League’s most successful presidents in history, he imagined taking a year-long sabbatical, writing on economics and higher education, and perhaps getting back into the classroom to teach. After a 20-year run as…

Our literary tastes reveal much about who we value.Photograph: UpperCut Images / Alamy/Alamy Director and screenwriter John Waters once said: “If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!” Wise words, but I’d add: Especially if they don’t have books by women. When you…

Harriet Williamson | Contributing Writer | Tuesday, 19 May 2015 The Debrief: The most recent rape wasn't in the book, and it was completely unnecessary. Anyone else?! I’m going to start this piece with a disclaimer: if you haven’t seen the latest episode of Game Of Thrones , then there are spoilers…

Teaching students how to make apps has turned out to be the easy part, Desai said. His challenge is filling in for everything else college does. “How can we socially prepare people for the real world?” he said. “How do we teach the soft skills — networking, pitching, speaking?” Nutrition and…

Hours after the Conservatives were re-elected, the government looked at cutting access to work schemes for the disabled. You'd think they'd at least have the decency to bring some flowers before shafting the vulnerable, but no. Not these guys. Not today. Today is not yesterday. Today, David Cameron…

We have a problem. The music industry has been celebrating a surge of interest in one of its most beloved artifacts: the vinyl record. Major labels are returning to their old business model and are quickly saturating clothes stores, online shops, electronics outlets and international vinyl-themed…

Remind Me remind me to read a book new reminder Walk dog due tomorrow at 1:30 PM Creates a new reminder. View 26.9k Uninstall Update Weather weather bristol,us how's the weather in Bristol,US? Updated weather plugin with both days and hour-by-hour forcast. View 99.4k Uninstall Update Wikipedia (EN)…

I frequently use pbcopy in the shell to get output to the OS X clipboard. I’m constantly using [command] | pbcopy , and figured it would be worth making a little easier, so I wrote this little function this morning. It works in a few ways, attempting to intelligently figure out what it’s supposed to…

Im Jahr 2060 ist Europa nach dem Zusammenbruch der EU politisch, wirtschaftlich und kulturell zersplitterter denn je. Die Science Fiction-Doku geht der Frage nach, wie es dazu kam, dass die große Idee Europa spektakulär scheiterte. Am Beginn des Zerfalles steht Großbritannien, das 2017 aus der EU…

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of…

The Dark Matter of Screens Part 1 Everywhere we are, every spare minute, we feel it. The bent neck. A lull in the conversation, and in silence our eyes wander down to our phones lying face up on the table. An orphan buzz, and our investigative — hopeful? — hands shove themselves into our pockets. A…

Why the Golden Ratio matters In defense of using visual harmonies in Design “Those who believe the golden ratio is the hidden math behind beauty are falling for a 150-year-old scam.” I came across this quote last week, during my post-lunch ritual of catching up with Internet goings-on. It comes from…

I work for SustainAbility, a think tank and advisory firm that helps brands improve transparency and accountability, including by making things like coffee more traceable. Determining the actual cost of growing single-origin coffee beans in countries like Brazil, Kenya, and Rwanda is much more…

The most essential paragraph you'll read tonight. From @tanehisicoates Whole article @: http://t.co/En3kQHJRj3 http://t.co/1KHnZ1qLrt

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here . PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s…

by Michal “MJ” Jones I have always been the mumbling, awkward, hide behind mama’s leg, lock myself in my room type of shy guy. Part of this typecast was and is depression, and the other parts are just classic introversion. In Philadelphia, I witnessed mental illness and social phobia in the form of…

Every morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework in Lapu-Lapu City. The building towers above the slums surrounding it—houses made of scrap wood with muddy goat pens in place of…

GQ Longform The Great Paper Caper ‣ Years of running drugs and boosting cars left FRANK BOURASSA thinking: There's got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That's when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in…

While Jay Z’s streaming service gets headlines, music’s majors have quietly coopted the multibillion-dollar digital revolution. Photo by Stephen Webster. Story by Zack O'Malley Greenburg and Nick Messitte. Last October SoundCloud–a free music-streaming service with a massive 175 million monthly…

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This is for everyone who's been bothering me to publish some Science Fiction for years. It's a love story. Enjoy. http://t.co/CR9S5lzbCk?

@gak_pdx Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. At one time, this statement had to be caged and qualified with modifiers such as "consumer goods" or "electronic goods," but last quarter, Apple shipped a Boeing 787's weight worth of iPhones every 24 hours . When we add the rest of the…

[Andrew: There’s a real shortage of information about push notifications, CTRs, response rates, etc. Partly this is due to the immaturity of mobile as a marketing platform, but it’s also because of the opacity of the iOS platform. I recently ran into Kahuna , a Sequoia-backed startup led by Adam…

I’m in a band. Actually, I’m in four, but that’s a whole other story about my own neurosis and obsessions. But no matter how many projects you're a part of, it’s nearly impossible to make money as an independent musician by selling music. Being played on the radio and streaming services can result…

/ Offworld / 4:42 am Thu Apr 9, 2015 From the Boing Boing Shop Popular Posts Follow Us Gita Jackson and Maxwell Neely-Cohen apply a traditional video game reviewer's eye to recent years' hottest downloadable sensation. report this ad Before 2013, it would have been hard to imagine a game that could…

For months, federal law enforcement agencies and industry have been deadlocked on a highly contentious issue: Should tech companies be obliged to guarantee government access to encrypted data on smartphones and other digital devices, and is that even possible without compromising the security of…

Grouping Data Grouping data is an important capability to have when doing data analysis. Often times, you will want to break apart the data by a categorical variable and look at statistics or details for each group. D3 includes the powerful d3.nest functionality to produce these groupings with a…

Our ambitious fourth issue featuring Grammy-nominated musician, Leon Bridges, and many more artists, makers, and risk-takers is available now in our shop  Editor’s note : This is a print-only feature, originally published in The Great Discontent, Issue Two . To read the interview in its entirety,…

Our ambitious fourth issue featuring Grammy-nominated musician, Leon Bridges, and many more artists, makers, and risk-takers is available now in our shop  Editor’s note : This is a print-only feature, originally published in The Great Discontent, Issue Three . To read the interview in its entirety,…

Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015: a 2012 interview with @PennyRed on sex, death and nature http://t.co/QTsLvWLGGe http://t.co/tuL71Df6Hr

J ane Goodall was already on a London dock in March 1957 when she realized that her passport was missing. In just a few hours, she was due to depart on her first trip to Africa. A school friend had moved to a farm outside Nairobi and, knowing Goodall’s childhood dream was to live among the African…