How to install Facebook Home on your current Android smartphone

There's a little more to it than simply downloading a new application - we'll walk you through it

Facebook has released its "Facebook Home" application for current Android devices, helping to bring your friends and family even closer to you. It's a separate app, so you'll have it alongside the traditional Facebook and or Facebook Messenger applications.

Installing it couldn't be simpler, but you'll need to see if Facebook Home supports your phone.

Then, hit the link at the top of this post, if you haven't downloaded Facebook Home yet. Once it installs, you're just a couple clicks away from using Facebook Home.

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YC-Backed Backlift Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers

Backlift, a Y Combinator-backed startup that’s launching today, describes itself as a back-end service for front-end developers. The service takes all of the work of setting up a server environment out of the equation and just lets front-end developers focus on their work. All a user needs is a Dropbox account – Backlift uses Dropbox as a file syncing service – and a text editor. With Backlift, a developer doesn’t need to know how to set up Rails, Django or node.js to get started. As Backlift founder Cole Krumbholz told me last week, the idea behind the service is to allow developers to jump right into working on their front-end code. For many people, he said, front-end tools can be a bit daunting and he wants Backlift to be a great learning tool, but he also aims to make it a platform for prototyping and, soon, a platform for hosting applications. To get started, users simply sign in with their Dropbox account, create a new app based on a number of templates, including numerous backbone.js sample apps, a Google Maps API-based site, and basic Bootstrap-based sites. You can also use other popular technologies like AngularJS, CoffeeScript and Handlebars. Backlift then creates a new folder in your Dropbox account (and hence on your desktop, too) and you can start editing it with your favorite text editor. Every time you save an edit, Dropbox will sync with Backlift and you can immediately see the changes on your site (syncing starts less than a second after your changes are uploaded to Dropbox). Given that most applications need to work with at least some data, Backlift also offers a basic API for working with data, as well as an admin dashboard for adding users and browsing, importing and exporting the data in your database. One of the companies that has been using Backlift extensively during the beta phase is Automatic.com – the YC-backed company that recently launched its hardware for turning any car into a connected car. “We have our own Amazon S3 servers, however Backlift is a much easier, faster, and secure way of working on the site as we got it ready for launch and showed investors,” Automatic.com’s visual and interactive designer Gabriel Valdivia told me. The service, Krumbholz told me, will evolve constantly and the team plans to launch quite a few new features in the near future – though he

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Gunman holding firemen hostage killed

SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) ? Authorities say a gunman holding four firefighters in suburban Atlanta has been shot dead by SWAT members and that all the hostages are slightly injured but should be OK.

Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said Wednesday evening that a SWAT officer has been shot in the hand.

Minutes before the police announcement, one big explosion followed by several smaller ones or gunshots were heard in the Suwanee neighborhood about 35 miles northeast of Atlanta.

Police and fire officials say five firefighters responded to what seemed like a routine medical call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house. They say one was let go to move the fire truck.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

Four firefighters who responded to what seemed like a routine medical call were being held hostage Wednesday by a gunman who has barricaded himself in a home in suburban Atlanta, authorities said.

Five firefighters responded to the call in Suwanee and were eventually taken hostage by an unidentified suspect inside the house, Gwinnett County Police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said. The gunman released one of the firefighters to move a fire truck.

Authorities were not releasing information on what happened inside the home, but did say it doesn't appear any of the firefighters has been hurt.

The gunman's motive was unclear to police and fire officials, and a SWAT team and negotiator have made contact with the suspect.

Fire department Capt. Tommy Rutledge said the medical call seemed routine and firefighters did not believe there was any danger. One engine and one ambulance responded.

"Right now we just want our firefighters to be released. We want them to be able to go home safe to their families," Rutledge told WSB-TV.

Television helicopter footage showed police and fire trucks surrounding the neighborhood of mostly two-story homes and well-kept lawns about 35 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. Residents were not being allowed in to their neighborhood. About 50 bystanders gathered outside the subdivision while police and SWAT officials surrounded the house. According to public records, the home is in foreclosure and has been bank-owned since mid-November.

The firefighters are cross-trained as emergency medical technicians, said Rutledge, who would not speculate on whether there was a real emergency at the home.

"Our firefighters responded to a call they respond to hundreds of times, and that's a medical emergency," he said.

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Lucas reported from Atlanta.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-holding-firemen-hostage-killed-hostages-ok-235424953.html

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Tech Job Hunting: Accept the First Offer, Negotiate or Walk Away?

According to a recent survey, more than half of technology professionals, when accepting a job offer, agree to whatever compensation is offered without making any attempt to negotiate for a higher starting salary or hourly rate. The survey indicated that money is being left on the table, because chances are the employer would have been prepared to offer more if the prospective employee had asked for it.

The survey, conducted by IT career services provider Dice.com, found that the salary difference between negotiating and not negotiating is about 5 percent. So given that the average salary of a technology professional in the United States is about $85,600, that?s an average of nearly $4,300 left on the table in the first year alone. Dice.com Senior Vice President Tom Silver points out that since raises and bonuses are typically calculated as a percentage of salary, the compounded loss over time is substantial. So negotiating for the best starting salary you can get is well worthwhile.

All of that makes perfect sense, and I certainly don?t disagree with the notion that negotiation is a natural part of business, and that starting salary matters?a lot. I do, however, disagree with Silver?s contention that ?The only explanation for the lack of haggling is fear.? That might well be the explanation in certain situations, but it?s clearly not the only explanation. What about cases in which the offer meets or even exceeds the prospective employee?s expectations? Should he still feel compelled to negotiate for a higher number? If he feels that he?s being treated with fairness and respect, shouldn?t he demonstrate the same fairness and respect by accepting the offer without making an attempt to see how much more he might be able to squeeze out of his prospective employer?

To the extent that fear is an explanation for a prospective employee?s failure to negotiate for a higher starting salary, I would argue that it?s seldom a fear that the job offer will somehow be jeopardized. It?s much more likely to be a fear of being perceived as being in it only for the money. And that?s a very legitimate fear.

I can tell you that at those times in my career that I have been a hiring manager, if a candidate struck me as being more interested in the money than in the work itself and in being part of the team, that candidate didn?t get very far. If I choose you over all of the other candidates I?ve interviewed, I make you an offer, and your comeback is that you?ll accept the offer if I throw in more money, I?m definitely going to have second thoughts about whether you?re really the one I want in this job. No, wait. That?s not entirely true. I?m going to tell you, as graciously as I can, to hit the road. But that?s just me. And according to the Dice.com survey, I?m in the minority.

Asked how frequently they raise their offers if a technology candidate doesn?t accept the initial salary or hourly rate being offered, a full one-third of hiring managers and recruiters said they ?frequently? or ?very frequently? raise the offer, and another 49 percent said they at least ?occasionally? raise the offer. So it appears your odds are pretty good if you hold out for more money.

But those could be some dangerous waters to tread in. If you feel compelled to haggle for more money after a potential employer makes you an offer, it follows that you don?t think he?s making you a fair offer. That means he?s trying to low-ball you. And if you think a potential employer is low-balling you, your best bet is to walk away, not feel like you need to play some negotiation game. If he?s trying to take advantage of you with the initial offer, what makes you think he won?t try to take advantage of you down the road?

And make no mistake, there are plenty of employers who will try to take advantage of you. In late 2009, when the recession was decimating the careers of countless IT professionals, I wrote a post in which I compared what a lot of out-of work IT professionals were doing to ?slave labor.? Things are better now, but what I wrote about then still happens: Here?s an excerpt:

What's happening is that potential employers are taking advantage of the desperation of many jobless professionals by making unfair and overzealous demands on them as part of the recruitment process. A particularly troubling tack taken by some companies, especially in dealing with unemployed CIOs and other senior executives, is to demand that the job candidate analyze the employer's operations and prepare a strategic plan (or some other intellectual property that's created and surrendered) to improve those operations. ? I would love to know how many millions of dollars in consulting fees companies are saving by simply tapping the expertise of job candidates as part of the candidate assessment process.

If a prospective employer makes that kind of demand without compensating you for it, just walk away. And if a prospective employer makes you a salary offer that you think is unfair, you might want to consider just walking away from that, too. I?m not saying there?s no place for negotiation. But if you think the offer?s unfair, understand that for the red flag that it is.

Source: http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/from-under-the-rug/tech-job-hunting-accept-the-first-offer-negotiate-or-walk-away.html

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Friendships cut short on social media as people get ruder: survey

By Belinda Goldsmith

LONDON (Reuters) - Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.

As social media usage surges, the survey found so has incivility with 78 percent of 2,698 people reporting an increase in rudeness online with people having no qualms about being less polite virtually than in person.

One in five people have reduced their face-to-face contact with someone they know in real life after an online run-in.

Joseph Grenny, co-chairman of corporate training firm VitalSmarts that conducted the survey, said online rows now often spill into real life with 19 percent of people blocking, unsubscribing or "unfriending" someone over a virtual argument.

"The world has changed and a significant proportion of relationships happen online but manners haven't caught up with technology," Grenny told Reuters on the release of the online survey conducted over three weeks in February.

"What really is surprising is that so many people disapprove of this behavior but people are still doing it. Why would you name call online but never to that person's face?"

Figures from the Pew Research Center show that 67 percent of online adults in the United States now use social networking sites with Facebook the most popular while the latest figures show over half of the British population has Facebook accounts.

The survey follows a spate of highly publicized run-ins between people who came to virtual blows online.

British football player Joey Barton, who plays for Olympique de Marseille, was summoned by the French soccer federation's ethics committee after calling Paris St Germain's defender Thiago Silva an "overweight ladyboy" on Twitter.

Boxer Curtis Woodhouse was widely praised after he tracked down a tweeter who branded him a "complete disgrace" and "joke" after a loss, going to his tormenter's house for an apology.

Grenny said survey respondents had their own stories such as a family not talking for two years after an online row when one man posted an embarrassing photo of his sister and refused to remove it, instead blasting it to all his contacts.

Workplace tensions are also often tracked back to conversations in chat forums when workers talked negatively about another colleague.

"People seem aware that these kinds of crucial conversations should not take place on social media yet there seems to be a compulsion to resolve emotions right now and via the convenience of these channels," said Grenny.

Grenny suggested peer-to-peer pressure was needed to enforce appropriate behavior online with people told if out of line.

He said three rules that could improve conversations online were to avoid monologues, replace lazy, judgmental words, and cut personal attacks particularly when emotions were high.

"When reading a response to your post and you feel the conversation is getting too emotional for an online exchange, you're right! Stop. Take it offline. Or better yet, face-to-face," he said.

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith, editing by Paul Casciato)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/friendships-cut-short-social-media-people-ruder-survey-163549124--sector.html

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Series begins with brain health | Health and Fitness News ...

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Rebel Wilson Will Teach Us How To 'Catfish' At The 2013 MTV Movie Awards Pre-show

The first season of "Catfish" shined a light on a dark corner of internet relationships where people misrepresent themselves to the people who have fallen in love with them. A big part of what was so shocking about "Catfish" was that the people Nev and Max found seems so normal, just like you and me. [...]

Source: http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2013/04/09/rebel-wilson-catfish-mtv-movie-awards/

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