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Copyright & IP 101 for eBook Self-Publishers: What You Need to Know
Good copyright & intellectual property read for ebook selfpublishers.
Bootsrap is a good option but I think its overly used!
When I was 7 years old, the Big Scary Thing In The Future was cursive writing. Once you hit 2nd grade, teachers were going to start tearing up your homework unless it was written in cursive.

The next year, it was "3rd grade" when teachers would start tearing up non-cursive papers, then 4th, 5th, 6th and "definitely in junior high". But it never happened in reality.

In my 20s, the Big Scary Thing In The Future was ageism in tech. Once you hit 30, you'd never find work again in this industry.

Then it was 35. Then 40.

I've given up listening. Every year, in addition to getting better at what I do, I find that more people want to pay me more money to come program computers for them.

Now it's certainly possible that the real number is 45, and you'll find me living in a cardboard box and begging for nickels at the off-ramp in a few years. But at this point I'm not overly worried about this particular myth.
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Series 40 was one of the best operating systems built by Nokia. Unlike the Series 60/Symbian series, these Nokia phones are snappy and do not slow down with time.

These feature phones were quite capable for basic phone features, but never evolved to the Facebook era. This effectively led to the mass adoption of touch screen based phone. If Nokia has solved the social app problem with this phone, I think they have a winner.
“Does that mean that basic security should not be in a company's mind”

I wasn’t suggesting it shouldn’t be. My point is that the article’s headline is overly dramatic: Mailbox.app is not a complete security failure because of one hack that requires physical access. Given that Mailbox only supports GMail, I’d be more worried to put my email in Google’s hands than worrying over someone grabbing my phone out of mine.

“Mailbox is BIG. We are not talking of an average app here!”

Mailbox.app is a free app that has been downloaded a couple of million times, I wouldn’t call it “BIG” yet. It’s very new, it’s still on version 1, so it’s not expected to be perfect.
Having said the above, one can copy all the contacts and emails of someone in few seconds. This is different than just browsing an email on UI (one would need time for that). What if someone has got an access to an iDevice just for few seconds. Ohh sir, you dropped your phone. Here you go but thanks to iExplorer I have all your documents and contacts now! Is this an issue? Depends what you use your email for!
It's been done, repeatedly. And the answer is there's no difference between McDonald patties and homeade patties.

Any small cooked ground beef patty is unlikely to mold; it dries out too fast. Larger burger patties will mold, as will smaller ones if kept in the right conditions.
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You're right, it doesn't. But it's great for pageviews, and that's the important thing.
If gopher is actually left out I won't be "upgrading" my pages to HTML5. Some of us still use these technologies even if they may not be the latest and greatest.
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Very nice! Feels very atmospheric and relaxing.

It makes me think of a bit of a Matrioshka Brain structure (for example from the Alistair Reynolds story Troika), with a star and surrounding shells that capture ever more of the light.

Technically, it takes a similar approach to "real time" raytracing as the cycles render engine in Blender, increasing the number of samples (thus decreasing the noise) over time.
I remember speculation that "Satoshi" was someone also named Mike. Coincidence?
you have a template and you personalised it based on some external data (like a POST request)
So therefore, your article could have been titled "{Mailbox|GMail|iMail|all_other_mail_clients_ever} is a Security Fail!"?

Because as far as I am aware, few mail clients either support or (if they do) actively encourage an extra password layer, and your users do not want it. Given an average un-password-protected phone, you will be able to read their email even if they were using the iOS encrypted files framework, just by opening the app.

I apologize, but it appears that your headline is deliberate sensationalism. If you want to have a discussion about how we need to secure email apps in general, I'm interested. If you want to just pick the latest 'big thing' and take pot shots at it, nah.
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That's possible too. But eventually, even the universe will succumb to entropy. I guess it's just a question of whether we die out in the solar system, or in some other star system.
Prenda Law's escapades in the past:

1. Sloppy detective work to look for people torrenting porn

2. Fish for quick settlements from these people

Several of the accused have decided to fight back. In doing so, there have been revelations that Prenda has many problems.

1. It's not clear that Prenda has the right to sue on behalf of the copyright holders.The holding company it claims to represent seems to be founded on forged documents, and temps acting as corporate officers.

2. Prenda's not willing pay for a bond for one case, and wants to terminate many cases and absolve itself of any sort of expense associated with them. The judges involved aren't going to set Prenda walk away so easily.

Edit: Thought this was using markdown, derp
Toolkitchen is a library for the web, built on top of Web Components
>We were talking about swimming against the stream or not. In those two languages the author's preferred programming style would be considered going with the stream.

Yes, but then you have to swim against other streams, like the languages not being mainstream, needing a translation layer ton run in the browser, etc etc.
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While not exactly a tl;dr, Wikipedia seems to provide
/some/ context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenda_Law
Email is not secure. Email has never been secure. Nothing you send over email is secure. There's little authentication and no signing.

All this stuff can be kludged onto email, but the attitude should be "unless I've taken measures to add security this thing is not secure".
Yes, the Wikipedia lists a couple of technologically feasible options of leaving our solar system [1], some of which date back to the fifties. Using for example nuclear pulse propulsion we could reach Alpha Centauri in about 150 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Proposed_m...
”When we started working on a Flash deployment add-on some 18 months ago we had high hopes for the future of Flash as a gaming platform.”

That made me wonder whether they were paying attention. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time.

Luckily, they have anticipated this and built a WebPlayer that does not require Flash and works on all major browsers – it even supports Native Client. http://unity3d.com/unity/multiplatform/web
That seems likely. If you can't add StartSSL to your chain of trust, the same page can be accessed over HTTP instead of HTTPS.
As suggested above, this is probably because your browser doesn't trust StartSSL. If you don't want to add them to your trusted certs, the same page is available over HTTP as well as HTTPS.
Goodbye, feedback button
Well, the positions of developers seem to shift with age.

I am 27 and work as a GUI-dev. My co GUI-devs are 26 and 32 years old.

But the back-end developers are 38, 43 and 56 years old.

The management in here consists of engineers, too. They are all >40 years old.

Most tech-people I know either got in to back-end development or management when they got older.
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I totally agree. A lot comes down to the individuals ability to adapt and remain relevant, regardless of age.
No, this is unrelated, and false (did you read the link?).
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Well, they did get between 25 and 50,000 signups, so goal achieved.
Energy is possibly the biggest barrier towards future space colonization. It is entirely possible that we discover some new source of energy that allows us to:

1. Send a sustainable human population out of the solar system;

2. Travel to an inhabitable planet which may be millions of light-years away;

3. Geo-engineer that planet to the extent that it can self-sustain a moderate human population.

None of these steps is trivial. The pessimistic side of me thinks that we may actually never overcome any of these challenges.
Noted - thanks.
They aren't protected if you go into the app and look at the files (probably turning data off first).

If you can unlock the phone, you've almost certainly already lost here.
So not really "bank regulation" as much as "legally-enforced risk aversion", then?

And what unintended consequences would that have?

Maybe a better idea is for those who actually need to be risk-averse to carefully consider the full chain of risks associated with their investments, and not merely put their full faith in abstract systems - especially regulatory systems, which fail quite often.

The financial crisis wasn't the result of banks conning the public; it was the result of essentially everyone at every level buying into too-good-to-be-true presumptions about the real estate market.
Unlimited SMS is something that's not available in most third world countries.

Also, the functionality of WhatsApp far exceed SMS's.
So, basically, if they had made a better phone with an extra button.
Oh dear. Why am I holding this knife? What the hell is that dead thing in the corner?
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Perhaps other "non-first first-world" (Russia?, Spain?) HN readers can help me, but it seems to me that Nokia has got the pulse of markets like India, Africa, et al very well mapped. I can definitely see phones like these gracing people's pockets soon in places like India. Plus value for money is a big thing, in such markets over features or other riff-raffs. While colour preference is a highly personal thing, those colours are definitely going to be popular in India or Africa...
Before we discuss more regulation of either banks or universities, perhaps we should first consider the extent to which we need more regulation of regulation.
@tmpajk How does it make Mailbox more secure. Let's talk about the scenario where you have access to an iPhone for few minutes. In one case, you can go through some contents, in another case you can copy all emails and contacts. My whole point is files or attachments on information on every app that has sensitive information should be protected. There are various ways to do it on iOS! One can use keychain to store some secret key and protect these files using that secret key.
If you get physical access you can also read all the mails in Apple's Mail.app, or any other app on the device. Maybe not using a tool, but you can easily read them in the app, forward them, and send fake e-mails using the account of the user.

(edited to make my point more clear :)
The "Tylenol case" was a "sniper-fire crsis" - aka, a crisis caused by an outside force, like a psychotic killer. In this case no one's going to root for the serial killer regardless of how much the company may be at fault. Also, J&J has a long history of manufacturing popular products and has a good reputation with the general populace. These are the major factors that allowed J&J to handle the situation in the way that it did.

Conversely, if a client is in tabacco, genetics or weapons manufacturing then the tactics adopted by J&J will be completely useless to them. Saying that the "Tylenol case" is a golden standard is missing the big picture.

For anyone out there interested in crisis PR I highly recommend "Damage Control": http://www.amazon.com/Damage-Control-Revised-Updated-Managem...
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The problem with Futurama's character-building was that they never had a precise plan on when to end the show, nor a precise plan on when to progress the characters. So the Leela-Fry pairing always has to remain on-again, off-again. Amy always has to remain a ditz and never end her internship (though I'm glad they finally let her have her PhD). The Professor is never going to actually die. Fry is never going to mature to the "Lars stage" of adulthood we saw that once.

You could call it Simpson's Syndrome: a comedy show without planned story-lines or definite end-dates will have a distinctly hard time developing its characters.
Unity drops Flash support
I tried to install WhatsApp many times on my Android phone. Every single time, I've been put off by its gargantuan list of required permissions.
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it's still the best western world animation there is (considering South Park decline).

Maybe it's just the geek in me talking, but what about Adventure Time, and the two Avatar series? Very well done from a technical standpoint, fun to watch, decent writing too.

Though I do think Adventure Time is too far into stoner humor. I watch the show and just want to turn it off and go play Legend of Zelda.
The risk is that people assume their email is secure because the email storage on the iPhone is secure.
Are you sure about that? I would think that Mail.app used apprioriate file protection settings, in which case the file contents is encrypted with a key derived from the user's PIN/passcode
>>but it turns out that the laws of physics means there's no practical way to leave our solar system.

Note that at one point of time, laws of physics said lighter than air flying machines were impossible.

Yet here we are, we have the airplane.

The problem is we don't know physics completely to say if something is impossible.
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Spring Security with Maven
In the examples you provided, I believe you meant to say `top != this` instead of `top != self` as you had it. minor edit
Question about the navigation mesh.

I'm assuming that represents an entire open area (otherwise the path optimization makes no sense) and the dark stuff are the obstacles. In that case I'm wondering how the arrive at the actual grids and arrows (slide 12)
Maybe they shouldn't break functionality for the majority to cater to a small minority.
The great-grandparent of your reply details such a solution.
Oliver, to me the post reads as "we've launched with lots of PR but failed to get the traction we were hoping for, so don't bother with PR". It borders on blaming the press for lack of market fit.

I'm not saying the world doesn't need a social network for families or a social network for pets or whatever. I'm just saying I wouldn't use one, and the people I know wouldn't use one, but I'm sure you've done your research and there very well may be people that will. I sincerely wish you best of luck with it. But if I were you I'd be listening to negative feedback just as much as to positive feedback.

Frankly I'm just trying to help. I think EveryMe is a really nicely done app, and I love the fact that you had the balls to do a big launch and get everyone hyped up about the product. Launches are supposed to be big bets with high risk and potentially high reward. I wouldn't want that to disappear. Just because a product didn't resonate with consumers as much as you hoped it would, it doesn't mean the idea of a big launch is bad. I wouldn't want Apple to just release products without "launching" them. Facebook is a counter example, but I think they would have succeeded if they had a big launch as well, their product just didn't need it.

Personally I prefer the idea of EveryMe over Origami, so a bit sad to see you change direction because the launch didn't go as planned. I think there are a lot of iterative things you could still try with EveryMe (eg automatic location based groups). Will be interesting to see what you can do in Origami that you can't already do in EveryMe.
Is it possible that you (and people you have spoken to) have more disposable income to buy entertainment than they have time to consume that entertainment? People above that line are happy to spend more money to save even small amounts of time.

People below that line often want to pirate, to allow them to spend their money on other things.
I'm rendering font-textures using canvas, and using GL POINT sprites with x+y+texture offsets (the ascii) in the vertexbuffers to store text.
This is another in a seemingly endless stream of "old people can't cut it in the coding world" articles. My intent isn't to trash the author or the piece, it's just that we've been over this ground and I am going to be brief.

The truth, as always, is nuanced. As the author says, it's up or out. If you're 50 and expect to do be doing the same type of work you did when you're 25, you're mistaken. As programmers we have to constantly be adapting.

The problem here is getting into any kind of attitude that says that you can coast. There is no coasting. Not in this business. If you're not constantly reading and trying out new things, your salary is headed down.
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Looks amazing for $72, there's a huge market for this, even in US. I see dirt broke people paying $200/month for iPhones and data plans when this would do them just fine.

On another note: You can love /hate them for Android vs Windows Phone or patent lawsuits, but Nokia is legendary. Their phones never freaking die. Nokia would be my first choice for a phone that just works. (I don't "live on the cloud" and can do just fine by checking FB once or so a day so maybe I'm different)
In this case, it’s the influence AP has on markets. If I had published a similar tweet on my personal account, no one would’ve cared, least of all Wall Street.

That’s not to say Twitter as a whole isn’t changing the way traders get their information. A Twitter feed with select authors is being integrated with Bloomberg terminals[1], we learned a couple of weeks a go.

As for high frequency trading, that is certainly a part of the problem, just as online security and sloppy reporting. I’m very much in favor of a financial transaction tax added to every trade to discourage high frequency trading[2].

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/04/wall-street-meet-twitter-n...

[2] http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-th...
Investing in youth is not much different than in professional sporting. You want (as an investor and employer) a young guy/gal who has major potential and years to produce.

One difference is that athletes tend to compete well physically only when young (depending on the sport obviously) whereas in tech you can still peck that keyboard when you're past your physical prime.
The more that jump of the whole Flash/Flex nightmare the better off we will all be as a wake up call to Adobe to either sort out the bugs that are quite evident or to just accept that it should be put to rest.
Ask HN: Shared company or personal blog?
We're a small group of devs sweating in a start up. While none of us have blogs most of us expressed interest in writing them.

We plan to set up a company blog with articles directly related to the company and its products but obviously some of us want to write stuff that isn't. These would be professional blog entries (not vacation descriptions and such) but wouldn't talk about our production.

Should we allow everyone to write their articles at the company blog or should we just keep a listing of personal blogs?
> Looks amazing for $72, there's a huge market for this, even in US. I see dirt broke people paying $200/month for iPhones and data plans when this would do them just fine.

I feel this statement shows a fundamental misunderstanding of people. iPhones and other premium-yet-achievable consumer devices fulfil more than immediate usage needs. These people may do fine in this Nokia handset, but they won't want to do fine on the Nokia handset. It's cheap, they don't want to be cheap. Things are generally sold by people looking "up" instead of people looking "down".
In India, Nokia is still a juggernaut, but it is struggling to catch up with Android. Cheap android phones are flooding the markets, and they are eating into Nokia's S40's shares. The slightly better Symbian Bella, while still being sold on market, is not under active development anymore, and since no one is buying the Lumia, Nokia is still facing issues.

If Nokia could just build an android phone, that would be the end of my dreams.
Where is the key kept then? One possibility, the user has to know it, at which point we're back to the fact that users dont seem to want a password for their email app (again, happy to see an interesting post on the generalities of email app security). The other approach is to store it somewhere on the phone, at which point connecting the phone to a computer as you describe is still an attack vector; you just need to find the key.

Of course, I am not highly versed in security, so if there's another option I'm interested to hear it.
"The young understand new technologies better than the old do"

No they don't. The young, smart developers who already have strong backgrounds adopt new technologies, the old, smart developers do the same.

"The young can easily pull all-nighters."

Sure they can, and companies should be moving away from that as the code quality does drop off past hour 12 unless they're a super talented developer. In which case they're probably smart enough to know not to work an all nighter.

If you're not willing to pay $150k for a great developer that's going to get shit done, you're fucked already.
This is a really weird one. It has happened to me once, when I traveled to Thailand, but not when I've traveled to Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, China, Belgium, or anywhere else in the last couple of years. In all of those instances, I had other devices (tablet, Chromebook, laptop) at home that were still logged into sessions with the same account. It would be handy to know how they decide when to flag accounts. Facebook, too, for that matter, and Paypal, who seem to be the most draconian.
>>Nokia has got the pulse of markets like India, Africa

You are right, they have. Mainly because people in these regions do not buy a phone just because everybody else is buying it even though many features either shall not be any use of them or will not be available for lack of infrastructure. Another big reason(maybe biggest) is that they don't have that kind of money.

>>Plus value for money is a big thing

I doubt it's not a big thing everywhere. It is and it's good. It just depends on person to person.

>>those colours are definitely going to be popular in India or Africa

These colours are what? Just colours and shall be good to go anywhere and as you rightly said "is a highly personal thing". Then, could you care to state why they are going to be particularly popular in India or Africa, if not everywhere or anywhere else - considering you bothered to made this point?
So you are saying using a plugin is better than another one ?
Doesnt make sense. How many users have the unity player deployed ? zip. And a plugin is still a plugin , wether it is flash or not.
Ever tried doing it in "a few seconds"? It takes several minutes in fact.
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I always wished that I could tell the bot teammates "stick together", "fan out" or "help me" via the chat. That would give them an actual sense of social intelligence, and bring them closer to real players (to be 100% realistic they would then have to ask "where r u??" :)).
except Unity works with its own web player that is very far from being bug free and secure.
I’d rather not use any plugins, but not all plugins are created equal. Flash Player is a turd, from security to performance and power conservation. We deserve better.

Even if Unity’s WebPlayer were every bit as miserable as Flash, it would still make web browsing better than having Flash installed, as few websites will call the Unity WebPlayer.