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GIGTANK [http://www.thegigcity.com/gigtank/]

Chattanooga, TN

GIGTANK is accepting applications from entrepreneur teams and students/ specialists for the world's only accelerator on a living fiber network enabling next generation businesses to go to market today.

Why GIGTANK in Chattanooga compared to another accelerator with a more prominent name?

There are a lot of great accelerators out there! But GIGTANK is the only one on a living fiber network. We are looking for innovators interested in applications, devices and platforms that can leverage massive amounts of connectivity. We’ll also put you in front of decision makers from companies like Alcatel Lucent, Cisco, IBM, and many more! You’ll be one of the few teams in the world with access to a $300,000,000 fiber optic grid and potential customers already using it.

Who is an ideal candidate for the GIGTANK?

Developers, engineers, hackers, designers, and dreamers. We’re looking for people who have big ideas and the skills to help build them. The more experience you have and the more projects you’ve worked on the better. Remember that we want at least two team members for startups. If you don’t have a team, see below info about applying as a specialist.

Entrepreneur Application:
http://www.thegigcity.com/gigtank-startup/

Specialist/Student Application:
http://www.thegigcity.com/gigtank-specialist/

Deadline: March 22, '13
TechStars Chicago Applications Are Now Open - Feld Thoughts
I don't understand why, even in the face of justifications, it's wrong for Apple to admit they made a competitive mistake...and correct it.

It would be madness not to correct it.
Berlin, Germany: Adspert (Bidmanagement GmbH) http://www.adspert.de/

We're hiring:

* Python developers for both web application as well as backend services development.

* Python developers who also like Javascript!

We're a small (~7 devs) but pretty competent team working on interesting problems. We got a complex system of several applications and services, which share their data mainly through Postgresql (totalling ~2TB data at the moment, growing every day by a few GB).

If you're looking for a nice place to work in the center of Berlin, friendly colleagues and a fun environment, without overtime or weekend work, write to jobs@adspert.de.

PS: We already hired someone from the November "Who is hiring" (hi Florian! :-) and you can be next!
Do you know any comprehensive guides on the business side of a startup?
I'm looking for a book/guide that explains all (or most) the business stuff you should know when starting a company.
I say screw the existing journals and encourage publishing academic work on new, free journals.

There's nothing that says "existing journals must change or we have no other option"
That was last year though. And it was 27 million SEK not USD.

edit: Just wanted to make it clear what the article said, it was not meant to sound negative. It is truly an awesome and very kind gesture from Markus!
It means it is a little earlier than recently
> Third, MIT should instruct its deans and other officials to no longer look favorably upon the mere fact of publication in a “prestigious” journal when making hiring and tenure decisions. Instead, promotions should be based on the quality of a person’s work, wherever it’s been published. (This sounds obvious, but most people in academia will tell you that where you publish is just as important as what you publish.)

I wish I liked this article, but it seems that Manjoo has failed to appreciate why this problem is difficult, and therefore, why it has not been solved already.
Could you give me an example of anything other than a game that is actually "taking advantage of the underlying hardware and OS" in some way that the browser can not? Looking at all the apps people use, games are literally the only things I've seen that aren't just poorly re-implemented websites.
I can't wait for the new SimCity! However, my biggest complaint is that you have to have online access to be able to play. There is no offline gameplay single player mode, which I simply do not understand why they made that decision. That just seems ridiculous to me.
Pile of poo http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/128169
I'm not a fan of linking major cultural or ideological issues to specific tragedies in this way. If open access is a good idea on the merits, then the merits are where the battle will be won or lost.

The article points out one reason to not provide open access: the difficulty of financing peer-reviewed publishing if subscriptions are free. If there is not a good solution for that problem, the emotional appeal of "do it for Aaron" will not be enough to win--especially because the people who feel the greatest emotional attachment to Aaron are the people who already agreed with him.

The rallying cry "do it for [person]" is usually only effective at rallying the troops who are already on your side, not convincing the other side.
SimCity has a place in my heart. The original DOS version is a great game even by today's standards.

> You can swoop in and see it all play out if you like - look carefully and you can even catch a burglar breaking into another sim's house.

Maxis always put a good dose of humor on their games, we can expect a lot of LULZ.
This is a blatant advertisement masquerading as an article. The new incarnation of SimCity might turn out to be a great game but this is nothing but an EA press release.
Exactly, this is why priors for latin alpha characters are not set that high - you have them on your keyboard already.
Ha, so true. It's always a challenge to sell to multiple audiences. That's why the main call to action on that page is to get a free guide on increasing conversion rates.
No but it was the MACs lock on the "creative" industrys that helped generate halo effect on the mac brand.

And high end mac users have been worried that apple is throwing them under the buss for the consumer market for years now.

If I where MS id set up a workstation division just for this market and produced built to the hilt machines for the high end users
Well he did sneak into a closet and cause JSTOR to threaten to cut MIT's access. After things settled down, MIT dropped all charges. I think that was pretty reasonable.
[parent poster continues...] in case anyone is interested in facts, rather than opinion, this document http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/l_to_o/obtaining_evidence_and_in... is a readable summary of some of the legal issues from a uk perspective.

[edit: argument removed; Nursie is correct, in that it only allows indirect access. sorry.]
The next supermodel : Be a Viking
The awesome thing is that it is written in Java. All the Java haters (I'm looking at you Ruby developers) wish it weren't so.
The nature of reality considers no man's ego.
> JS is a wonderful and modern language

Could you explain what you consider to be wonderful and modern about it? My view is it's Just Another scripting language with a weird OO model. I'm specifically interested in the features you think it offers that other scripting languages like Ruby, Perl and Python don't have, which make it modern and wonderful.

> more innovative than most other language out there

Could you give an example of this?

> most are just overwhelmed with functional programming and event loops/call backs/asynchrony because they were just used to something different.

Javascript allows you to have a simple form of anonymous function. Is this what you mean by "functional programming"? Do you feel Javascript's implementation of this is superior to how other languages do it?

It's kind of sounding a bit like you think NodeJS invented event-driven programming...

> You can create and maintain very large code bases in JS without any Coffee or other layers of abstraction

You can do this in any language, and there are enough examples out there. That doesn't mean that it's necessarily what the language encourages. I've found Javascript considerably more difficult to organize code in than Haskell or Erlang or Perl or Objective C ... actually, harder than most things.

> Most people are just not used anymore to think theirself about structuring code since there was always somebody who did the job for them (Rails, Django, etc.).

You ... how long have you been programming for?

> it's already a very high level language allowing you to do ANYTHING and structuring you code exactly as want. Nothing will stand in your way.

I think this is definitely the first time I've understood the relationship between Javascript and ZOMBOCOM.

> And Javascript is so fast, you get C class performance with a dynamically typed language.

And it's about now that this start to sound like satire...
The problem with Backbone in my opinion is that it's just too freeform. It's great for developers who like ultimate flexibility and have a good idea how they want to structure thing, but it's terrible for developers who get paralyzed by choice (like myself).
I was working on this last weekend - sorry I didn't know someone would post this is again to ycombinator ;)
More to the point: what happens to that mound of sensitive data? Does it sit in a filing cabinet? If it's digital, does my underwriter forward it to her Gmail account so she can do the review on her couch?
Boston or REMOTE - full-time

Senior Front-End Developer

Job Description

The Woven team at litl is looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our Copley Square-based team. You will be responsible for all things HTML at litl, including:

- develop full HTML5 applications, for the web, mobile or smart-TV platforms

- take over maintainership of our existing HTML-based projects, such as our companion app for Samsung TVs, our shared photo site, our internal Operations Dashboard etc...

- maintain the company websites

- work in close cooperation with our design team to develop user experience prototypes

While our headquarters are in Boston, we have developers from various parts of the world. Working remotely is a common practice at litl.

Skills & Requirements

Proven record as an excellent HTML5 developer, ideally on a broad range of browser and platforms:

- Expert knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.

- Experience structuring large HTML applications and writing maintainable client-side code.

- Significant experience with popular web development frameworks (such as jQuery, backbone.js...).

- Experience in responsive designs for desktop and mobile browsers.

- Strong emphasis on code quality and maintainability. We will ask you for code samples.

- Experience working in a small team of developers strongly desired. For example, involvement with an open source project is greatly appreciated.

- Experience with git strongly desired.

- Experience with other platforms appreciated.

- Good sense for design and aesthetics appreciated.

About litl LLC

We’re the company that brought you the litl webbook, an Internet computer for the home that’s been hailed as a “design miracle” by Fast Company, “truly new” by John Gruber, and “bold” and “refreshing” by Walt Mossberg.

With the launch of Woven, our photo viewing app, we’re increasingly focused on helping people enjoy their treasured photo collections through smart and simple mobile apps, desktop software, and supporting services. More information about Woven is available at its website, woventheapp.com.

Email: jobs@litl.com
Abramovich invests £70M in Truphone
Not really. What you are describing is commonly referred to as 'liquid'. See here for the difference between the terms responsive/liquid/adaptive (http://liquidapsive.com/).

There is a lot of misinformation/misunderstanding surrounding responsive web design, coupled with a decent amount of middlebrow dismissal. It is not simply just shrinking the page down.

And the use of media queries, or 'stupid grid nonsense' as you call it, is just one piece of the puzzle.
SEEKING WORK:

iOS and OS X engineering. I'm in Amsterdam, so remote work is ideal.

Last iOS apps: http://le.mu.rs, http://areyouinterested.com

Development blog: http://samuelgoodwin.tumblr.com
> Firstly, to clarify the process. You can actually prepare the docs and apply anytime, its just that there is a quota of 65,000 (+ 20000 extra if you have a Masters degree), and its done on a first-come first-serve basis. For the past few years, the visas haven't run out until after October, so you can really apply anytime.

Minor nitpicks: 1) The 20,000 extra is if you have a U.S. Masters degree which OP may or may not have. 2) In 2012, the visas cap was reached, I think in june of 2012.

> 3) There is a lot of lore around this, with people saying that you have 10 days, or a month, or whatever to get out of the country. The thing you want to avoid is being "out of status". If you are out of status for 180 days, you might be kicked out of the country. Other than that, there are no hard-and-fast rules, and everybody knows it takes time to get a job. FWIW, I misunderstood some rules when starting CircleCi, and had to get a job quickly: I was able to get one in 5 days. If you're an engineer, there's a massive need for you in SF/SV, so you won't have any problem finding a job on a short schedule like that.

To offer a counterpoint: A bunch of people from my company got laid off recently. From what I understand from those that are also on an H1B, yes, finding any arbitrary job isn't hard but finding a good job takes time and effort. Now, the 180 days rule is a hard limit, another number which is usually tossed around is time between latest paycheck received from previous company and potential appearance of the next paycheck. The reasoning being that you would need a "latest paystub" whilst applying for the next H1B. Also, I believe people's paranoia is mainly because of issues that being out of status for a period of time might pose during the green card process. Now, rationally speaking, people would know it takes time to find a new job but then the details are the devil and a visa officer can screw you over if they want to.
I'm sure the social aspect is what hooks a number of people, myself included. I run a small whitelisted server for friends and family. It's fun to survive, create and build things by your own and orders of magnitude more fun with friends. I'm regularly on with at least one other person. We always on mumble while playing so we can chat. Go out and explore together ,etc.

Another thing that got me hooked is mods, specifically Minecraft Forge and the mods that are built on top of it. It's added so many new dimensions of gameplay.

Edit: To add there are also whole mini-games being build within vanilla Minecraft. SethBling is one map making genius. You can play his Super Smash Bros. style PvP map. Or try Vech's series of Complete the Monument style adventure/puzzle maps.

The many Let's Play Minecraft series on YouTube that should also be mentioned: Etho, BdoubleO100, Generikb, Direwolf20, KurtjMac, Guude and many more. Some of these have been YouTube partners for a while, Working at it full-time and producing ~30 minutes of content every day.
Hey, this is Yancey from Kickstarter here. We think projects like this are great, which is part of the reason we open-sourced the Amazon FPS code that we use at Kickstarter, which was then used in Selfstarter and Crowdhoster. It's on Github here: https://github.com/kickstarter/amazon_flex_pay

For us, Kickstarter is a big experiment and we're constantly learning what works, what doesn't, and making changes as we go. We want to provide the best possible space for creators to share their projects and for people to connect with them. We think we're doing a pretty good at that, but of course there's always more to learn.

If you're curious, we have many of our stats available (live) here: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats
The Routine of Standups
73M2901CE Caller ID Support - Application Note - Maxim
Don't dismiss a method because some people use it for questionable things.

The goal is to build trust over time before asking for a sale. So putting out low quality content, followed by emails that aren't worth reading, doesn't build trust.

Use this method to deliver value and the sales will follow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

It was not exactly something you could compile and run yourself. On the other hand, if you have time, you can go ahead and implement any of the systems Chaum proposed (you'll probably want to scroll down to the 80s and 90s):

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/pers/hd/c/Chaum:Davi...

Really though, Chaum's digital cash ideas involved building infrastructure around existing currency to protect privacy and prevent certain kinds of fraud (e.g. double spending, identity theft). Chaum was not trying to bring down the world's economic system with digital cash, he was just trying to give people a more secure way to pay for things electronically. The failure of his system in the real world was likely linked to the strong pushback by the US government against the use of good cryptography by "commoners."
>and I trust them to honor them.

Except that with renting property you have specific rights clearly defined, and there are people with guns and handcuffs and jails to uphold them. You have no rights at all with your phone, and nobody to keep your "landlord" honest. Nevermind the obvious fact that you are not renting your phone, you purchased the device, it is your sole property.
A Fuzzy Border: Malvertising
I was in your boat, adult Legos is what it amounted to me. There have been some very impressive worlds created by communities with hundreds and hundreds of man hours, but still it just wasn't "my thing"

This however is a blast: http://www.aceofspades.com/

Perhaps I'm just evil, but I take more joy in destroying my opponents and their castles :)
Ok, so I'm not the first person to think of this :) Although I have not seen these kiosks yet I havent been in the states in a few years so it makes sense.

Im interested to know what is their target market though. I understand that people want entrainment while in the airport but I'm thinking about items that can be used during the course of a stay in a country:
- Macbooks/Ipads(with 3g data access)
- Bulky items like tents/sleeping bags.
- Perhaps niche items like Binoculars,cameras etc..

I would like to know if there are items that people would be willing to pay to rent if they had a convenient method to do so... but perhaps there is not.

Thanks for your response by the way
At its core, it has an intensely addicting game loop where you mine for minerals and always feel like you are one block away from finding diamonds.

Beyond that, the world is very immersive and lets you create elaborate homes and environments (think HGTV for gamers). Now with more multiplayer features and it's fast becoming the "Counterstrike server" that all groups of gamer friends have.

We just set up a minecraft server for our startup, and it's awesome.
I've used one.
Canada's Marijuana Laws may be struck down
What's your definition of a non-small jQuery selection? That sample test loops over 272 elements with no discernible performance effect.
Do you happen to have a link to some writing on those proposed changes in legislation? Thanks!
But I can't play it offline :(

Something like this would be great for me if I'm away, killing hours whereever I find myself.

However reliable internet just isn't there.

Their desire to kill piracy has cost them a customer. I don't mind having online only in say NS2. But SimCity?! Pfft.
In France, there is some freedom but the civil officers who register name can refuse if they deem it offensive or harmful for the kid. It is also insanely hard to change your name (years long, costly procedures and the name change is only granted in extreme cases, where you can prove it damages you severely).
There was a famous case of couple, family name Renault, who wanted to call their baby girl Mégane (a common girl name). Problem is... Mégane is car model by french manufacturer Renault.
Building spaceships, now there's a real job! I'd LOVE to get into something like this.
I am not universally interested in all memes, but I liked this particular one. Also, it isn't content-free, it exists for a reason.
I've made many a farm town in the past. But you're right, it's either farm town, or mega city.
It’s On. Uber Will Soon Launch A Ride-Sharing Service Of Its Own
Stealing data (it is not stealing I know) is much easier when the document is digital and this is exactly the kind of abuse that HIPPA is trying to address and is why you still have to use paper.
Chinese man keeps himself alive for 13 years with HOMEMADE dialysis machine
"There is no risk of being rounded up and sent to a labour camp for re-education because you jailbroke your iPhone."

:|

ISP/Youtube (etc) copyright school, anti-circumvention laws, three/six strikes, the CFAA, etc... Prison often involves "public service"/forced labour. To people agreeing with those articulations it even seems "just": surely criminals deserve what they get (people even seem OK with rape, as long as it happens to a murderer). To people who don't agree with the current imaginary property laws, there's no practical difference between the threat of prison and the threat of a prison "camp." Suicide might even feel like a viable alternative. I know memory is short, but that was basically the front page for about a week, and only as long ago.

"I think it's sort of offensive to imply that because someone isn't aware of the implications of the app store, they aren't a 'thinking person'."

That wasn't my meaning nor was I trying to be offensive, only blunt. None the less, an uninformed person who bases his opinion on an average of the public's opinion, going no further, is abdicating thought, and can be accurately called "unthinking." (Obligatory Socrates reference... "I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.")

"I'm not really sure where you're going with the possession thing[...]"

Simply but strongly: that it's not worth spending money on something you don't ultimately control (be it stocks, socks, tablets, or smartphones; don't buy shares in dictatorships either, even if they are going up: you're only betting that they will win). Everyone has that choice, and it is as important as ever. Save your money for freedom.

Wikipedia: "Possession is nine-tenths of the law is an expression meaning that ownership is easier to maintain if one has possession of something, and much more difficult to enforce if one does not." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_is_nine-tenths_of_t... )

Now is the most effective time to hang onto that presumption of control, since it's harder to get back when it's gone.

"he doesn't just fall back on the dystopian slippery-slope argument."

It's an oldie, but a goodie. While I wish it weren't applicable, I do foresee a dystopian future, at least compared to the present, where we have sold the "right-of-way" to the devices and data that augment and define us for brushed metal and an Apple logo (not to single out any one company). At least give me a bit of credit though: I didn't once mention Hitler. :)

Edit: I'm not trying to be combative. As you said, we mostly agree.
Iran May Have Faked Its 'Successful' Space Monkey Trip
Apple have had years of notice and thus plenty of time to make any modifications, but chose not to. The EU law did not appear overnight: UL 60950-1 was first published March 27, 2007 and then revised December 19, 2011.

The Mac Pro's demise is fast becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. IT departments shouldn't have to plan their purchasing based on some vague statement from Tim Cook.
There is a prior probability in the results - but it's hard to balance it so that latin characters don't dominate the results if you search something else. That is why I opted for the way it is now - this is a tool to find unicode characters, you have latin characters on your keyboard. It's not really meant for OCR