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Oliver Samwers new €150M Global Venture Fund: “We invest in all rounds”
I see more and more mobile shops iterating on Android first because there are just fewer hassles.

Hmm, more like different hassles, I'd have thought: having to support thousands of screen size/hardware/OS combinations must be a huge pain, and less of the UI is given to you for free. Though I speak as someone who's done very little Android dev, and rather more iOS.

It's true that the Mac model (App Store PLUS third-party apps) is preferable for me. But then again, I do like the idea that my parents' machines won't run any unsigned code. I'm thinking of Windows virus support nightmares past.
A) What did you give up for $650K?

B) $650K seems such a low amount of money, it's barely enough to hire 2-3 senior level developers for a year, and rent an office space. I have no idea how you guys launch startups with such small amounts of money.
Wow €150M must buy a heap of photocopiers!
Meteor.sh - simply deploy meteor apps to your own server
I pushed a small python script to allow you to export your read items as JSON here https://github.com/motdiem/GRARchiver - this can help
Spacemetric is hiring a software engineer with focus on video processing
Spacemetric is a company with offices in Sweden, UK and The Netherlands. We develop solutions for handling, processing, distribution and visualization of images and video from satellites and aircraft. Spacemetric is an innovative company, working in the technology forefront to create state of the art products. We work with customers that have requirements to produce high quality images, and to make them rapidly available in GIS environments. Our customers include system integrators, mapping agencies, military intelligence units and satellite owners.

Spacemetric is now looking for a developer who wants to take part in the development of our next generation video management systems. You will be part of a small team, working with technical breadth and excellence. Your duties will range from design, implementation, test and deployment to support.

We offer great opportunities for technical and personal development. You will work in national and international projects. The growth of the company provides excellent career opportunities, both in technical direction as well as in project management. Our employment package includes:
•	Competitive salary
•	Favorable pension scheme
•	30 days leave

We are looking for a engineer, having a Master of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent. You are self-propelled, like challenges and are a fast learner to master new technologies. We like to see you having at least 2 years programming experience, being familiar with agile software development methods. You will work with customers, with English as the main working language. Experience in working with images, video and geographic information is recommended. Occasional international travelling is inherent to the job.

For questions, contact Bob Moll at +31 6 10732984 or bm@spacemetric.com. Send your application and CV to jobs@spacemetric.com.

Admission: immediately
Duration: full time
Location: Zwolle, The Netherlands
www.spacemetric.com
FWIW, TRESOR is bypassable: http://seclab.ccs.neu.edu/publications/acsac2012dma.pdf
I like their review process. And I say this as a developer who has a had many rejections, and many extremely frustrating waiting periods (one involved the threat of legal action unless we updated our app, and Apple sat on the update for over a month!)

The rejections I have had have almost universally been for reasons that would benefit the end user. For example, one app we submitted used background GPS to track your running route. Apple told us we had to very clearly warn the user that it could impact their battery life. Another was a game that still had some placeholder art being used for achievements, Apple told us to resubmit with final art assets.

Their system is far from perfect, but after lots of rejections I can see its value.
I would like to know why this was down voted.
> garbage collection pauses

AFAIK, mark-and-sweep GC was removed from the JVM years ago (except on Android, where Dalvik used it until 2.something). I can't help with the rest of your post though.
Reading comments here and on stackexchange I'm surprised that no mention is made of the Data Protection API (DPAPI) on Windows, which is designed specifically for this purpose.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx

I've been using it for years, and while nothing is infallible, any sensitive plain text in my apps isn't there for more than it takes to encrypt and then destroy.

I can't comment on Linux or OSX but would be surprised if the OS didn't offer a similar API tied to the principal to protect in-memory data.
I was in the docks, arriving by boat from another island. Like everyone in that boat, we were held up for many hours waiting to get our passport stamped and a bunch of young locals started harassing our girlfriends (we were 6). We were the last to leave the passport check because officers didn't know what to do with people from my country (apparently we were the first ones there, so the passports were held). When we got out, these guys were waiting for us in a pickup truck outside and I walked up to them to have a chat before things got out of control, and while we were still next to the customs office. It's an open world we're living in. I realize many tourists can be unpleasant and disrespectful, but hating tourists is just as stupid as hating immigrants. If you don't like their actions, put rules in place to avoid them.
From the comments: "This question is becoming quite the rep factory." That pretty much sums it up!
private conversations are private.

If she was feeling that they were being inappropriate, there are other ways to handle it. I'm not a fan of naming and shaming without trying to handle it privately first.

Such as me saying I find the use of "chick" in that way to be unnecessarily derogative, but she really was out of line in my opinion.
I see, thank you very much.
An interesting essay from 1910 about making the best use of one's time on earth. Taking from it a single self-referential idea:

"I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

Unless you give at least forty-five minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your ninety minutes of a night are chiefly wasted. This means that your pace will be slow."
Fair comment. I apologise for that.

The point still stands that I don't understand what he was asking :)
There's also LA-CONF (http://2013.la-conf.org/) in May. It's also in Paris.
It's used a delimiter for splitting lines.
10 simple ways to act and think like a millionaire
Simple way to verify rough correctness of 24k mile circumference of earth:

Most people know ca is ~3000 miles from ny. Most also know that the time difference is 3 hours. So 1 time zone is approx 1000 miles. Circumference = 1000 mi x number of time zones.
Virtually all. Some were just hand prints. But does it matter if it's 100% or 90%?

Wikipedia says this:

'The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called finger flutings. The species found most often were suitable for hunting by humans, but were not necessarily the actual typical prey found in associated deposits of bones; for example the painters of Lascaux have mainly left reindeer bones, but this species does not appear at all in the cave paintings, where equine species are the most common. Drawings of humans were rare and are usually schematic rather than the more detailed and naturalistic images of animal subjects. One explanation for this may be that realistically painting the human form was "forbidden by a powerful religious taboo."'

...

'Henri Breuil interpreted the paintings as being hunting magic, meant to increase the number of animals.

'An alternative theory, developed by David Lewis-Williams and broadly based on ethnographic studies of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, is that the paintings were made by paleolithic shamans.[15] The shaman would retreat into the darkness of the caves, enter into a trance state and then paint images of their visions, perhaps with some notion of drawing power out of the cave walls themselves.

'R. Dale Guthrie, who has studied both highly artistic and publicized paintings and a variety of lower quality art and figurines, identifies a wide range of skill and ages among the artists. He hypothesizes that the main themes in the paintings and other artifacts (powerful beasts, risky hunting scenes and the representation of women in the Venus figurines) are the fantasies of adolescent males, who constituted a large part of the human population at the time.[16][verification needed] However, in analysing hand prints and stencils in French and Spanish caves, Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University has proposed that a proportion of them, including those around the spotted horses in Pech Merle, were of female hands.'
Do not worry - I started to programming in Java also after long pause (more than 10 years) in my early 30s, now I am 6 years in Java development and I greatly increase my value on the market and it is fun. Java is simple comparing to C++ so do not worry and start with something. More or less nowadays is more about knowing libraries/frameworks and combine them together. It is doable if you have basics from C++. At the end it is just about taking data from point A and transfer them to point B with some transformations on the way (if I take mainstream programming nowadays)
I'd be interested in what you security guys think of ZAP, the OWASP/Mozilla attack proxy. It's probably not up to the level of Burp yet, but I've found it works pretty well at least for basic stuff.
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Proje...
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The tree colors at the top just looks like Pocket: Read me later

Otherwise, good job. Like other said, interactivity is lacking though
They are completely orthogonal. Javascript, Lua, Scheme and others implement

* first class functions,

* anonymous functions, and

* closures (via lexical scope),

but some languages only implement some of these features (Python, for example has limited support for anonymous functions, and Emacs Lisp used to have the first two, but not the last one).

So, in Javascript:

function outer() {
var closed_over_local = "Hey ya!"; // The variable must be a local in the parent scope.

function inner() {
alert(closed_over_local);
}

return inner;
}

foo = outer();
foo(); // Alerts "Hey ya".

Here you can see a named function that is a closure, since it closes over a local of the parent scope.

On the other hand, you can have an anonymous function that's either pure, no outer references:

[1,2,3].map(function(i) { return i*2; });

... or an anonymous function that only references globals. AFAIK, these are not closures (they don't close over variables of the parent scope).
It's not quite how you make it sound.

Apple is the ultimate arbiter of software that is sold through their store. They do not control what you build and run on your device through Xcode. You just can't distribute the end result. It's still a computing platform, and you can still write and run code. You can make your iOS device compute things.

There is value in being able to sell and distribute the end result — but that's not what computing is, that's marketing.

Edit: Why not make your same complaint about Sony's PlayStation 3? Do you not use that because it is a closed environment, one where you can not run your own software?
I meant primitive societies. All (again, to the best of my knowledge) vegetarian societies are neolithic. These practices emerged after the invention of writing and the adoption of "organized" religions, i.e. after humans began to ponder the morality of killing animals (which, as I've said, is an issue worth pondering). This is not surprising because vegetarianism depends on farming (which in itself kills lots of animals). Humans can't survive on foraging alone (not unless they happen to live in a particular region where enough nutrition is to be found in naturally growing plants; I don't know if such a place even exists). This simply goes to show that this particular moral question is of a special nature because human evolution is so intricately tied with meat.
Been a while since I've done java, but I'd assume it simply pins it?
Interesting perspective, "users are incompetent" versus "search technology is incapable (or badly implemented)".
Pre-Startup Contract
Some have commented that the linked article may not always contain best practices. The following links always seem to get fantastic praise - they're permanently in my JS bookmarks. Having an understanding of the core language rather than using frameworks is a great start; these articles will certainly help.

Eloquent JavaScript: http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html

Learning JavaScript Design Patterns: http://addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/bo...

JS The Right Way: http://jstherightway.com/

Learning Advanced JavaScript: http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

Ask HN: JavaScript Dev Tools: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3550998

MVC Architecture for JS: http://michaux.ca/articles/mvc-architecture-for-javascript-a...

Large-Scale JS Application Architecture: http://addyosmani.com/largescalejavascript/

Mozilla Developer Network - Intro to OO JS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Introduc...
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That's an interesting point, animal welfare seems to be a relatively boolean issue. People who care about it go vegetarian/vegan whereas others will mostly go for cheap meat.

I imagine there are not that many people who want to eat meat but are happy to pay much of a premium for better conditions.

So pretty much all the demand for meat is demand for cheap meat rather than "ethical" meat. Maybe if vegetarians started eating meat but did so by creating market demand for meat produced under better conditions this would actually be a net benefit for animal welfare as some high density farming would be converted to lower density?
I help run a leadership conference where there is a significant portion of the time devoted to small group reflection. I find personal reflection greatly rewarding and practice it weekly now, this has made me consider a daily practice. There is something to be said for a led reflection with someone you trust. They will ask the questions that you know you should ask yourself and it really kickstarts the process.
Meeting 75 investors is a great indication of much entrepreneurs (here Aihui) believe in what they are doing and ready to go to what extent.
Rejections can get on to you and worst is when they start making you doubt the very purpose of what you are doing. It becomes difficult to fuel yourself with passion all the time.

Some of the meetings even get you great feedback (along with VC boilerplates). But alls well that ends well.

Congrats to Aihui.
I was confused, the header says "Release Date: August, 2000" but it definitely sounded like 1910 English (also, seemed weird to talk about people living on 1£ a day). Thanks for clearing that up.
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This is important to me. It is the reason that most of the jobs I am interested in require a PhD. Outside of the start-up and web space, there are actually a lot of industrial research jobs that will not even give your resume the time of day without a PhD because you are expected to produce technical literature and patents. I thought it was kind of funny in the article how they still mentioned the "I want to be a professor" reason. No interest in that rat race.
That's not far from the truth for locations like SF bay area.
I have this book on my bookshelf! It's a small volume with very large margins. Seeing it laid out on a single web page made me check if the Gutenberg version really is the whole thing. It is.

IIRC, it's pretty good.
> The fact that gold is so useless is what makes it so perfect as a sink for deferred wealth. Savers do not infringe on anyone else. If savers decided to hoard farm land...then farm produce would go up.

True, this is also why the Chinese continue to lend to us at basically a negative interest rate. Turns out gold doesn't really work that well for sovereigns (though China is #1 or #2 in gold mining).

> What the savers currently do is hoard currency.

Or they buy treasury notes, which is a bit better on returns (but not much).

> which leads to cheap credit which leads to malinvestment.

Definitely that's what we've seen so far. In that case, we are only arguing about the validity of gold as a store of value vs. other investments (including straight currency holds). There is nothing particularly special about gold, the only difference is that mining companies can decide the rate of inflation vs. governments (but Australia...).

BitCoin is much more fair in this case as the rate of mining is basically fixed by complexity. There is not much difference between accepting someone's bitcoin vs. their gold, in either case its about trust that you can exchange the currency down the line for something else.
I've been working on a reporting interface and was planning to take a look at possible charting solutions. This has been a great timing!

Looks great btw.
Indeed. I was looking at this hoping to find a way to label pie charts or even have the inner circle of the doughnut chart display the part of the chart I'm hovering over.

A great start! Definitely room to grow.
March Madness Productivity Drop - a good myth?
> The solutions to the most defective countries are all pretty straightforward and widely known.

Maybe you really do know the best solutions to every country's problems. Or maybe you know enough "rules of thumb" to get each of these countries to start moving in the right direction. That is not my point.

However, one "meta" problem is that most people are convinced that they know the solutions to the world's problems, and if everybody else would let them execute their solution, the world would be fixed.
> Reading comments here and on stackexchange I'm surprised
> that no mention is made of the Data Protection API (DPAPI)
> on Windows, which is designed specifically for this purpose.

It was mentioned and quickly dismissed as not being effective:

1) if it can be decrypted by the API, then it can be cracked by any process given enough time and resources.

2) further to point #1, the Data Protection API was reversed engineered in 2010.

3) security is only as strong as your weakest link, and that API doesn't address the "weakest link" of running malware locally. eg it's much easier to keylog passwords to begin with than to scan the RAM.

I'm inclined to agree with those comments. While that API is a nice idea, I think it's a little ineffective in practice.
You only talk about the effect of the aborted. For 2, it's worth mentioning that people who raise children at young ages often stop attending school/university/whatever, meaning that sometimes not having an abortion will "abort" your modern Einstein.

Talking about the universe is odd, considering that the issues around abortion mostly affect society, and at a push humanity. On the universe scale, there is no more information destroyed/created by having an abortion than by raising the child. The universe does not know the difference between a human's life and the absence of a human's life.

1C) assumes that the abortee will have more children overall if the child is not aborted than if they are not. This is hardly something that can be assumed, given how people's lives can be massively affected by a child. It also takes a very micro scale view of evolution; I do not think many people believe that adopting a policy of encouraging very large families is something that is good for the planet, and unfortunately for us, what is bad for the planet is usually bad for us (in the long run). However, when you make an argument that appeals to evolution, the long run is the only run that matters.

2's point on historical greatness coming from unexpected circumstances is most likely the product of massive selection bias. I would be very interested to see a study showing significant difference between the distribution of the backgrounds of "great people" and "normal people".

2A equates the destruction in abortion to the destruction in the Second World War.

2B references a society with no Hitlerbabies, which doesn't seem to really be what anyone is discussing here. I think it's fair to assume that there is a near to uniform distribution of potential across aborted children, meaning that there isn't a clear reason why there should suddenly be no Hitlerbabies/no entrepreneurs.

But seriously, how do you write a comment about the affects of abortion on society without talking about the woman who is having the abortion.
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Send a note to vossjens1@gmail.com for further details and/or to discuss the startup and the position.

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