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Jamendo launches new Creative Commons music API with a $2500 contest
One need to handle security differently for mobile devices and for laptops. When it comes to the example I gave above in one case a person can read the contents of the files, in another case the same person can copy your entire content. Now if that's not something to worry about, what is!
Some background, for the interested: Emmeloord is the central town of the 'Noordoostpolder', an area reclaimed from the sea in the early 20th century in the Netherlands. This land was created in order to increase the amount of farm land available, so that the country could increase its food production and better sustain itself.

All towns in this area are 'planned cities'. 1 larger one (Emmeloord) in the middle, and a bunch of smaller towns at equal distances around it. The goal for these towns was never prestige or some 'national symbol'; the goal was food, for which you need farmers. Farmers need towns for groceries, schools, and so on, so towns would come.

Emmeloord itself was designed as a 'modern town' with straight roads and whatnot. The other towns were designed as if they had organically grown (church in the middle, expand from there). The town names were made up by linguists to sound like they could've been 'real' historically-evolved place names. All of it was intended to be practical and feel familiar.

In my personal opinion, much of it turned out quite well. Emmeloord itself would've been better of without the 'modern' city plan IMO, but there's many other cities (or large suburbs) much like it because of the urbanization wave in the 60s.

The area is not especiallly known or celebrated by the Dutch. It is what it is: a dull rural area with a dull central town. Which was exactly the idea.
In VC-istan and on Wall Street, you see age discrimination sooner. Then again, that may have to do with extreme costs of living and mediocre quality of life pushing a lot of people out as they get into their family-building years. But my observation has been that age discrimination starts in the late 20s, although it doesn't become a show-stopper (only an annoyance) till much later.

It's not about absolute age. It's about harsh age grading. If you're 37 and VP/Eng, you're fine. If you haven't held a management position by that age, it starts to raise questions (even if you have no desire to manage). Hell, even at 26 you're out of the running for analyst-level positions in banking; you better have something that shows you're associate-level (a graduate degree or strong technical accomplishments).

I'm 29 and already experiencing age discrimination. I'm losing callbacks because I have "too many jobs" (which is basically a legal, back-door age discrimination although it's about the cynicism and "disruptive" expertise that come with "job hopping", not chronological years). Now, any place that has that attitude is a shitty place to work, but sometimes shitty jobs are useful and it's a loss (not a major one, but it affects leverage and financial planning) not to have them as options.
Interesting. But Apple provides protection API for Core Data as well as a part of their SDK.
FedEx (alledgedly) was otherwise bankrupt; Cooper Union was just fine. It's administrators and board members were just having a severe case of building envy. Go on any university campus in the US and you will find them building something. I've never heard of a building educating anyone.
Amazon To Introduce Kindle Paperwhite In China This Week
Legal enforcement of how much gambling bank can do with the money, people with accounts there entrusted them.

Noone considers full chain of risks. Most people feel they are immortal, feel that they are forever winners as soon as they won 3 times in a row. Besides there really no risk taken by decission makers. They often don't even loose their jobs.

The only thing we can do is set up barriers to curb the risky behavior. Some risks are worth to be taken but by hedgefund not a bank.

As for the financial crisis no catastrophy can be traced to a single cause but it often turns out that not failing at single point could have averted the catastrophy.
nouns and verbs, so much fun. Thanks.
Principles of Persuasive Web Design
No. Sorry but encryption doesn't really solve the problem. If you lose the device with valuable info on it, the info will be recovered even if it's encrypted.
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Articles like this terrify me. I'm in my late 30s and I'm only now realizing that what I want to do is code.

I'm a wet biologist by training and have been doing research and associated work for a decade. I have little opportunity to code at my current job. What I'm hoping to do is to formalize and hone my programming skills through some additional university courses.

Am I wasting my time? Am I forever going to be kicked to the bottom of the pile of applicants for junior positions because I've already had a career?

If you've been in a similar situation, I'd love to hear how it worked out for you.
Yeah if somebody digs up his comments I'll be REALLY interested to read them :)
Browser-based design: 500 invites for test-accounts available
It's a pretty damned complex story at this point. Basically there was this porn trolling outfit who would buy low budget porno and go hunting for infringers. Mostly, they would get people to settle for $X,000, but when people fought back, things got weird.

When defense lawyers investigated the people behind this, we started seeing crazy allegations about how the forensic evidence was handled by one of the guy's brothers. And how there were a bunch of corporations that owned each other, but which all seemed to be run by the same small group of people. And headquartered, for the most part, in a tax haven with weird laws relating to trusts. I'm not sure how many places allow trusts for the benefit of the children of a man who has no children, for example. There were also allegations that certain defendants settled by agreeing to have a lawyer chosen by the plaintiff lose their case for them. And there were serious questions about the copyright transfers, not to mention a man who claims to have had his identity stolen so that he could be listed as the owner of one of the shell companies.

All this crazy has prompted several judges to look into it. It has also prompted the porn trolls to start pleading the 5th. And dismissing cases, including one where they had already won a default judgment. In this particular case, however, it was too late for them to dismiss it without the judge's approval. This judge wants some answers first.

I have no idea what their answer will be, but with things as crazy as they are, it's bound to be interesting.
You can bash my grammar all you want , a proprietary plugin is always buggy and a security hole.
OP has one job in 17 years and thinks he is an expert at salary negotiations.
By the way, that 90% number means exactly nothing because it is completely dependent on the phrasing of the question. Click on your link and see that this response is conditional on irreversible brain damage. Under these conditions, the doctors also declined surgical interventions 80% of the time.

Look, CPR is a last ditch effort and there are reasons people get DNRs. But please don't go around spreading fear and confusion because of some radiolab factoid you heard.
Eric Schmidt discusses Bitcoin on CNBC [video]
http://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
"What does BitTorrent Sync do that rsync cannot?"

It seems to overcome NAT and dynamic addressing very well. All you need is to distribute the small shared secret once (for example, offline via USB, paper, or via the first letter of every headline in consecutive college newspaper publications), and you have the ability to transfer files (and do anything that can be boiled down to that; ex: chat, perform backups, publish videos of cats among your friends, distribute mostly static data between front-facing servers, etc...) without further coordination (for example, constantly renewing a DNS record, overcoming NAT, and keeping SSH or FTP permissions in order). Sure it may not be the best experience for all use-cases from a UX standpoint, but it is very general and, being serverless, it is better from other perspectives. I'm not boxing with you, only responding to your "?" and advocating for more such software.
Napoleon had won the war!
in france, you cant

fuck my life
Without being [too] snarky, I thought it was interesting that, after meditating on your reply for a minute, I could accurately edit your response, without really distorting your observations:

"Flash on my Galaxy Nexus drains the battery."

If you read http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/, you'll see that point #4, was all about battery, and battery life is indeed, an element of a "performant" device.
Modelling reveals where H7N9 avian flu will go next
With the latest hike in British tuition fees (to around £9000/year from around £3000), studying in the US probably costs around the same as studying in the UK, so I'm not surprised that many more kids are suddenly considering going abroad.

Previously, studying in the UK was far cheaper, so it was ridiculous for a British citizen to voluntarily pay much more to study abroad for a similar quality of education.
"Satisficing" has been in Wikipedia since 2002:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

and it's in /usr/share/dict/words & the wordnet dictionary.

The OED dates the earliest use in the sense you use to 1957:

"1956 H. Simon in Psychol. Rev. LXIII. 129/2 Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to ‘satisfice’; they do not, in general, ‘optimize’."

So it is a word :)
To clarify: most stock options evaporate if you leave the company. Usually you have 30 or 90 days to exercise them or lose them after you quit or are fired. Companies like this aspect. Stock is yours forever.

The other reason to exercise early is also taxes. When you exercise the option, buy stock at $0.01, and sell it at $10 milliseconds later, that is a short term capital gain. If you exercise them years before selling them, you have long term capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate. You increase your after-tax payout by (say) 10%, with the risk that your payout will be $0. Or less than the cost to exercise your shares. Or the opportunity cost (you can't use money tied up in illiquid startup stock to buy houses or APPL at $10) is too high.
The wannabe start-up mafia
True. I'm much less willing to be paid partly in startup monopoly money now...

Agreed. Especially when someone else controls the board (pun intended) and your chances of landing on someone else's 4-hotel Park Place are high. (Wait, weren't there only 12 hotels in the game? Why does every property, even fucking Water Works, have 3 or 4 of them?)

Then there's cliffing. Community Chest => "Fired on day 364. No equity. No severance. No-name company. Fucked reputation. Here's a Revolver. Wait, wrong game. That's Clue, which you don't have. Do not collect $200." Employees can get cliffed, but if a founder tried to "cliff" an investor he'd Go To Jail for fraud.
What do you mean? Would Ghostery have blocked this post, or the article it links to?
Something is likely wrong with your DNS.
I'm referring to the GoG games - they provide ridiculously good tech support for $6-$10 games, and I would be more than happy to pay $30-$40 to get wrappers for the games I really love, like AoE - but, as it turns out, sometimes it's cheaper (all things considered) to just buy a Circa 2000 Windows XP system, with 2000 era video cards, and drivers, than to try and get some of the GoG games working on a Circa 2010 non-mainstream system.

I'm a huge GoG fan.
Have a look at https://www.cubby.com/. It syncs existing folders you want to, and per synced folder you can decide to use their cloud or sync directly.
waiting for an introvert non islamist nerd to go all out adolf hitler on the US in 3, 2, 1...
No way that have ever happened and will ever happen!
Many of the back-end devs in here tell me, back-end is easier, because they can measure everything.

Slow = bad

Fast = good

They probably think a good GUI is a question of taste and can't be measured and they don't want depend on "luck"
My wife and I were talking about this a couple weeks ago. We're both developers, and have both been working for 12 years at a variety of companies, large and small, yet neither of us has ever had a colleague who retired.

This article confirms what I suspected, older programmers don't retire, they just never get rehired after the latest round of layoffs.
I launched my blog 96 weeks ago and average about 50 visitors/day so I'd say you're doing pretty well :). On a more serious note, you might be able to get the kind of data you are looking for on http://www.flippa.com since people who wish to sell their website usually publish their traffic/user stats.
Most people can't go to university without loans from the government, which you won't get if you study in the US.
Oh man that would be so cool. I suppose if text based adventure games can "understand" meaning within text, there's no reason it couldn't be remodelled into a chat setting.
I know this may not be practical depending on the amount of space required, but you could probably run a very cheap EC2 image with a huge EBS volume attached for a year for cheaper than the bigger Dropbox offerings.

For example, a micro instance, with 500GB of EBS storage, with allowance for 1% data growth per daily snapshot (S3 backed), and 50GB of transfer per month will apparently cost $175.68.

The 500GB plan from Dropbox will cost you $499 .

I'm thinking, with enough data, Bittorrent Sync wins the pricing war, and I've been doing some testing on the client and it seems really resilient to data changing while syncing etc.
> call 999

--- put the victim in a solid surface, NOT over a mat, out of the bed, you need either the hard floor, or a table.

> push the cardiac victim hard ...
The author seems to be recommending that you present as a doormat. You're exposing your jugular as a sign of trust, similar to the practice of shaking our right (weapon) hands as a greeting. If the other party is going to try to take advantage of you in this situation, walk away. You've now seen how they'll behave when they think you're in a weak position.
I really don't understand why Skylon isn't getting more coverage.
In light of the recent post on intelligence being analogous to the maximization of entropy available for future choices, I think things will get a lot more interesting in the future. Skynet may not be far off... (Even if computers can't feel, they might be able to put up a good fight.) That said, I don't know how I would feel about game characters stalking me on Twitter for a few days before showing up unannounced at my in-game job... Sometimes it's nice to know it's a game. (To say nothing of the autonomous military applications.)
Apple Earnings Smackdown: Clearer rules, fewer wild misses
Good, entertaining read. I get the impression it was sanitized a great deal, because I was sorely disappointed with the lack of technical meat-n-potatoes.

For instance, the author totally glossed over how they recovered the data from his encrypted storage at the end. Was the PC left on and the screen not locked? Cold boot attack? Brute force? Hell, they didn't even specify exactly which crypto software was used.
Awesome thanks, I'll check that out. It seems like the hardest thing in the world to get people to come to your site. I keep reading about people who have 1000s upon 1000s who are coming to their site and I just don't get how they've done it! Perseverance and a little luck I guess.
Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam NFC contactless accelerator program
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I see Dropbox mostly as a tool to send large files between computers that aren't both on at the same time:

http://xkcd.com/949/

It'd be nice to do that without an escrow, but I'm not sure that's really possible (without steep obligations on members as to hosting capacity and uptime).
Doesn't this break the XHTML serialization?

IIRC, the HTML 5 `<elem attr>foo</elem>` is equivalent to its XHTML representation `<elem attr="attr">foo</elem>`. The implicit value of the attribute is duplicated in the attribute value.

In this case this would lead to `download="download"` as if the suggested filename is "download", not "use the filename found in the URL".
But what I find worrying is exactly that, AP's influence on markets. I find it troubling that a single news organization could wield so much soft power.

With regards to Bloomberg terminals, I am aware of their Twitter integration but again I question their decision. Twitter is not a reliable source of information, particularly for financial markets.

If they go ahead with this, organized criminals and crackers can stage such attacks to make huge profits in minutes - buy low, sell high.
WebDev are sunsetting flash ! [2 years ago]
Were the Boston Bombings Entirely Staged?
I saw this picture: http://imgur.com/a/Nx8EU what does it mean?
Asha phone might work for you. Google maps not included but it has Nokia maps that are quite good - still no option for offline, it downloads map when you need it, as well navigation option is very poor in Asha.

I don't see why not simply buy cheap Android phone (e.g. Prestigio). Experience will be better and price the same. While I'm not sure about charging: I guess cheap Android will need to be charged daily and Asha might last from 3 to 7 days.
Looks like a senior citizen phone.
The first sage alone won't take your payload to LEO - you'd still need a second stage. However, orbital tugs with electric engines could take your payload from LEO to other orbits with less reaction mass than a chemical rocket could.

You'd still have to refuel their reaction mass, unless we are talking solar or magnetic sails.
Thanks, I edited my comment. I am more in the field of general AI ( and the rest of pure definition of AI ). So normally what I saw is the intelligence of a programmer put into very clever algorithms. I don't see any learning effect , or persistence effect. In fact, once you shut down the game, it starts all over. I'd love a game that learns from the player ( like how to climb over an obstacle ). Or can anyone point me to such a game?
I hack reality
hack your psychology, for instant personality changes.
I'm pretty sure many people have had this fixed without writing blog posts or having friends in google.

Just like many people have had their hotmail, paypal, facebook, itunes developer account etc. suspended for automatic detection of breach of TOS, and they've appealed and had their access returned.

This is not so much a google problem, as a reliance on 3rd parties to store your important documents, when everyone is warned (in tiny print) as to what may happen when they sign up.

I'm not excusing google's behavior, it's as bad as the rest of them, but they are playing by the rules we all agree to when we use their services.
I much prefer Wikipedia, Linux, Google, Github, Twitter, smartphones and other modern wonders to flying cars. Flying cars would be annoying and noisy and dangerous. Whereas having most of the worlds knowledge and people instantly accessible in the palm of my hand is really rather useful.
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Sounds like a truism: it's easy to get a job at google... if you're the sort of person google wants to hire.
That is a really good and a fundamental point.
Cambridge: Punch Tape to RPi
If you're Bill Gates you're not going to care much. But if you're an unemployed software developer you'd have to wonder if the places you send your resume to are doing a goggle search and getting that mug shot. Don't pretend like this isn't an issue. It is unless you're so rich that basically nothing could be an issue.

And don't pretend this is about free speech. You have no right to be in possession of these photos or at least you shouldn't have.
I would still consider it performant, even if it does drain the battery. It drains it just as much as watching a video on the YouTube app will drain the battery.

Although I do agree with your comment, I think that Apple's reasons for ditching Flash went beyond their public words.
Well, we can at least not make the situation worse. We already have NPAPI, let's not add another proprietary plugin API.
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Not to mention bad for the environment ... unless they are hovering and not flying.
No, because everything is part of nature, including not being racist. When you start to draw a line through human behavior and label one expression of it natural and the other not, you're creating a norm rather than observing one.

In other words, in labeling some human behavior natural (for example heterosexuality), or unnatural (for example flying in a plane), you are immediately discounting large swaths of reality in favor of dressed up idiosyncratic personal prejudices.
"I explained that my goal is to live a debt-free life, and therefore I wanted to give value before receiving compensation."

Why? If someone is hiring you to do something, they're taking the risk of you not delivering enough value, but they're also entitled to whatever rewards they can get from your work, which can be several times what they're paying you. Basically the author wants to take all the risk, and if he doesn't have a substantial bonus, very little of the rewards.

Well, of course anyone can live to make other people profit more, but it's a bit strange to tell everyone to live like that.
tl;dr employers will like you if you tie all your compensation with performance.
For some positions this is a good thing when you have control over the outcome and you're confident you're upto par.
Sales and trading for example are good areas as the performance is easy to quantify. Creative professions... not so much.
I couldn't disagree with this more. It really depends on the product and market!

IF you know people will want your product. OR are going after a mass market with a better X OR need to get up the App Store charts (hit based apps)? THEN aim for a huge hard-launch. A big product launch in this case is pretty much mandatory.

IF you are not sure people will want it OR are searching for product/market fit THEN defer launch.

Always launch! Depending on the product/market sometimes you go big other times you fly low with a soft-launch.
Show HN: Usability checklist – catch common problems before user testing
This is dumb. Of course when specific sources say something, people react. This is just as true now as it has ever been. Hell, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio_dr...
Well there is the whole fire thing going on too :P
Wow, already responding to the flying cars vs. 140 chars comment.

I especially liked the bit on his current expertise:

> Gates: We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging. Seriously, we have two communities that don’t intersect with each other.

For me, one of the things I didn't realize is how steep the side effects for anti-malarials can be, or how short a time frame you can take them without destroying organs. I sort of took it for granted that we had solutions that allowed us to travel the planet, that it was just a "well, poor people don't have access to our awesome first world drugs."

It's... not like that.

I sometimes wondered as a sci fi loving kid what would happen if we were on multiple planets, could diseases and adaptations evolve so quickly that travel between human communities would be basically fatal?

The harrowing reality? We're right on the edge of that very situation. We'll get that on this planet if we don't get our act together.
The article says that the OP 'developed an approach'. If I'm to believe that this is a technique, and not just a fortunate hiring for employee and employer, then there would need to be more examples of how this works, not just one.

From the content of the article alone it seems like finding a good employer might be a way of securing a good salary. No shit.