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How did you finish the list? I'm still processing the last two items.
I live in Austria, founded (and sold) a company years ago and have invested in 2 startups (6 figure each) - and I believe this is a misleading PR article. Austria has lackluster, under-funded universities, unattractive tax rules for companies and higher-paid employees and the country is dropping in most competitiveness, growth rankings that matter for startups. Infrastructure is good, but hiring good developers e.g. is very difficult because salaries are both low and burdened with high taxation, so they look elsewhere.

Personally, I wouldn't found another company in Austria. There are many better places in the EU, Ireland is probably the best option right now.
Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics"

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

At the end of Foundation and Earth he added a "zero" option:

0. A robot may not injure humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
And I that the conflict with nationalism and globalism is a red herring.

The Net has enabled bi-directional communication for many to many for the first time in history. These feedback loops will produce effects familiar and unfamiliar. Of course we pick up first what we see, our bias is toward what we already understand. In truth it is weirder than than we may think and old-new forms of conflict are likely to emerge.

For example; ISIS is based on an older interpretation of Islam, but could it exist without the Net? I'd say not.

The implication of that could be that old conflicts thought to be irrelevant will rear their heads once more. You see something beginning here with feminism being abandoned, that was not in the script of the progressives. On the other side you have 'international meetings of anti-internationalists' and other such interesting paradoxes. There is something fractal-like going on with the evolution of ideas because of the Net.
> Look at Netflix's support matrix

Looks terrible, there is no mention of Linux at all.
It failed because they used an anesthetic and it will certainly kill you if you can't control the dose. In this case they had 1 target who they were carefully monitoring. Once it reached its effectiveness they could cut it off.
Agreed. Though the article seems to be conflating bad business practices (like fake and/or paid reviews) with bad products. Counterfeit Birkenstocks are likely (though not automatically) inferior to the real deal; but the "Chinese kitchen goods shipped from Kentucky" are often the same products you could buy at your local big-box store.
One of the possibilities of decentralized prediction markets is for completing markets and bypassing current markets. In this case, it's not even about avoid regulation, it's that you simply can't find anyone with Theranos stock who will lend it to you for shorting, and if you could, the pseudo-price would be so unreliable and pumped up that you wouldn't want to (all the VCs agree that Theranos is great and their shares are not down from the previous round - right up until Theranos goes down in flames). If you can short a stock normally, great, no need to bother with Ethereum or Bitcoin; but you can't buy or short Theranos on the normal markets... though you can set up a prediction market on a Theranos-related question like whether it will IPO or whether Fortune will continue to rank Holmes as a billionaire etc.
well, i guess if the click triggers a page reload, the onclick-async event won't fire (or at least complete).
London has a high cost of living only really around rent, and if you are willing to flat share, or live in a non-central location you don't pay that much.
Sure it's not the 300 EUR a month you can get in some other major EU cities but it also doesn't have to be 3000 GBP a month for a 2 bedroom either (and it can go much higher than 3000 for a 2 bed/NYC size studio if you were wondering).
And conversely, the right abstraction is preferrable over duplication.

There's almost always chance to stop a little, think/research hard and create something novel, maybe leveraging specific features your language/framework offers.
Sometimes a store will hold proxy tournaments for certain formats, but not for the standard format, and they can't be officially sanctioned events.

There was a big deal about it recently with relation to counterfeiting.
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/proxies-po...
We don't enable it by default either. It's not mature at this time and still suffers some issues. But just like anything Apple introduced and then required (e.g. v7s, 64bit etc.) this will probably become a requirement.

E.g. they announced 64 bit and gave relatively little time to make it a requirement for all new projects. Apple officially supports: C/C++, Objective-C, Swift & JavaScript. If you skip a stage (like going directly to LLVM) they will not make your lives easier.
Fuck those people. Sales that are that pathological are all kinds of broken.
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Yes yes yes, make your descriptors fuzzy enough and you can compare anything with anything else.

Here's a list of actual cult characteristics [1]. The comparison is an idiotic one to make.

[1]: http://www.anandainfo.com/cult_checklist.html
Yeah! This.

'Perspective' ...

Mini perspective: step away from the desk, do something literally creative. I play my guitar.

Major perspective: get the hell out of the city, actually do something on a weekend. Come back - all of a sudden you have fresh eyes and see things more clearly.

I actually think that soft devs should take more vacation.

You know that professional concert musicians only practice a few hours a day - any more is pointless. You just can't concentrate that long.

A really gutsy move would be for Google to give a bunch of 'long weekends' where nobody can work, or even more vacation. And see what the results are.
Oh really? And, tell me, do you agree to speak with your foot standing for 90 seconds? What about, I don't know, with someone pinching you or kicking your arse? Would that further reduce the time?
Seriously - if I need to talk, I do, for as long as I think it's necessary. If I don't need to talk, and I don't need to hear other people's updates, this is just, how can I put it? Humiliating.
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> Austria has lackluster, under-funded universities, unattractive tax rules for companies and higher-paid employees and the country is dropping in most competitiveness, growth rankings that matter for startups.

Correct. However I think the hope of many here is that it's going to change now.
It often goes under "culture fit", allowing subjective biases to dominate.
I think everyone is confused because they don't understand Symantec's business model.

They're primarily a rent-collecting entity that leverages the requirements of regulating industries like PCI as a way to tax businesses.

That why all these simple logical steps to make their product better aren't (and won't be) implemented.
I've been running a successful startup in Germany for 5 years and I feel the impact of bureaucracy is negligible in the scheme of things.

One exception may be employment law, but that's not made by the EU and generally, once you figure it out for your first employee, it becomes much easier for any 1+n.
I don't know why people are downvoting you - there certainly is a danger from far right politicians. Personally I don't see it actually happening (especially given the negative example from Brexit), but it's a possibility.

I think people only read the first sentence of most posts, and your first sentence is wrong -- everything about this referendum was dumb.

It was dumb to have the referendum in the first place. Cameron had it in order to try to resolve an internal Tory party dispute.

It was dumb to have a 50:50 threshold. A massive constitutional change should require a supermajority.

The arguments (on all sides) were largely lies.

And the outcome won't even be what anyone wants. The leavers won't get what they voted for. Almost everyone will be shafted.
This can be solved by requiring higher-risk merchants to put money in escrow for a while (maybe an initial amount plus some fraction of revenue). If they turn out to be selling counterfeits, amazon could use the money to set things right. Otherwise the merchant gets the money.
> Wasn't there an article on HN saying that Barcelona couldnt find enough tech workers? The evidence pointed to compensation

Because there's no shortage at all. That's the yearly "we need to keep wages low, so push people to study It by promising jobs" article sponsored by the big companies.

There's a shortage of entrepreneurs, VC money and in general management talent that learned to manage a company after the 80s.
Unfortunately, people are already leaving at an alarming rate, mostly young people who see no future in the country.

The government already did a test, blocking our border with Colombia, with the excuse that products from Venezuela were being smuggled to Colombia. That does happen of course, but they also blocked the movement of people. And most international airlines are leaving the country because the government won't pay for them to repatriate their earnings in the country.

I'm trying to get my papers in order and see where I might be able to go. No one really wants to permanently leave their country, but unfortunately I don't see a future here. I don't want to be stuck here till I'm old hoping things will get better soon.
Yes, I believe so

Adding your own certs to the system store in /system will make it fully trusted.

Sites that use pinning won't work anyway.
> "Hiring in the UK tech sector has largely stopped."

You're basing this on what exactly? I got a new job this week and there was plenty of people hiring tech talent (I had interviews lined up with 5 different companies within 2 weeks of starting to look).
> "haven't learned wage-slave mentality yet"

> In the ensuing outrage, a PowerPoint presentation written by St. John surfaced which included a slide in which he referred to engineers with Asperger syndrome as being "the holy grail" of hires. "They work like machines," he wrote, "don’t engage in politics, don’t develop attitudes and never change jobs."

Someone needs to send all these people patio11's guides to salary negotiation, and maybe some drug to make them more aggressive and disagreeable. (Modafinil?)
Doesn't seem that strange, with great power comes great responsibility
Like a super-injunction and hyper-injunction?
Well gates and Allen wrote the original basic interpreter together.
Chrome didn't support the proper method for ad blockers at launch (it could hide content but not stop the requests, if I remember it well), and they purposely added those in months after launch, clearly for the benefit of adblocking extensions writers who where complaining.

So, I don't think so.
I wouldn't say that an active shooter should be kept alive at all costs, it just seems that if robots exist that can deliver an explosive device to the shooter, a robot could also deliver a tranquilizer dart to the shooter.

In addition to ethical implications, keeping your suspect alive also has practical advantages for information-gathering purposes. As it stands now, we'll have to settle for interviews with friends/family, social media autopsy, etc.

As I said in my original comment, I just don't understand how the situation got to the point of "we have no choice but to blow him up with our robot." I certainly realize that there are circumstances in which that would be the best option--news accounts that I've read so far just don't seem to justify it.
I don't contest that at all, I'm very much in the "let's have post-quantum redundancies here yesterday" camp. I just found it hard to believe (though I was quite entertained by the conjecture) that the people I know in QI are either NSA impostors or stupid enough to fall for NSA impostors of their colleagues.
Another excellent iOS client is Pushpin (Lionheart Software) : https://appsto.re/us/U5PQG.i

I have Pinner too, but I prefer Pushpin's UX, just feels smoother and more responsive.
> If they had, or if hey had bothered to read a book or something

Agile is simple, but it isn't easy at all. Without management buy-in to sit through the bikeshedding to find the technology gems among their technical talent's ideas (that they did a good job of recruiting and compensating, right?), Agile is going to turn into a swamp where mediocrities fool each other into thinking they are doing something.

Doing this while engaging low-bid outsourced implementation resources is 10X harder. Unless you pay through the nose for True Believers like ThoughtWorks, you're going to get fake Agile.
To me this is a major problem with agile. No one actually agrees on what it actually is. Any criticism is met with "your not doing it right".
Indeed. Although eventually nerds learn boundaries in most cases that protect them. Apple and Microsoft worked out pretty well for Woz/Allen without them having to do any sales themselves. So it can be win-win. My Dad, fiance and brother all have psychiatrist-verified Aspergers (pre DSM5). So the nerd and nerd-exploter dynamic plays out in day-to-day lives too. I am a very strong verbal communicator, as is my Mom for my Dad. I think they appreciate our ability to be explicit, direct and do what we say we will. Because people who have opaque motives are too anxiety-provoking for people who cannot see through it.
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Ironically, it's Jobs that has all of the typical Aspy traits, not Woz—right down to deciding on one set of clothes and sticking to it.

If you actually read an S. Jobs bio and are familiar with Aspy traits, he's a textbook case.

What confuses people (if they are confused) is that most people with Aspergers are not artistic, don't like speaking in front of crowds, or running teams.

However, it makes a ton of sense if you understand what the underlying brain differences are. People with Aspergers can be superior at artistic and group endeavors because they can easily ignore human quirks and are able to instead focus on the archetypal aspects. Certainly Jobs did.

A handful of extremely successful film writer/directors are also on the spectrum, and I suspect, for similar reasons. All, like Jobs, are considered to be "assholes" by some, and absolutely loved by others.
Previous submission (did not receive many upvotes though): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12052618
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I think you misunderstood.

There's this urban myth that opening the fridge door is a problem because it let's the cold air out. The author of this article falls for that one as well.

When you open the fridge door a small amount of cold air is replaced by a small amount of room air. Yet, even if it was open long enough for all of the cold air to be replaced (use a fan to push room air into it) it would have zero effect.

In a nicely filled fridge the mass of items cooled to the set temperature has, by means of it's heat capacity and the mechanism involved in heat transfer from solid to gas, a thermal inertia that results in negligible effects from occasional door openings.

For example, I'd be surprised if opening the door to a well-stocked fridge and leaving it open for five minutes caused a 1 gallon jug of milk to drop in temperature even as much as 0.1 degrees at the core.
This means that we must have a standup, everyday. we must have a retro, we must have planning.

Every single one of those ritutuals has value.

Just because you're happy coding quietly, alone, in a darkened room with the door shut, doesn't mean everyone is.

I have yet to see an agile shop that doesn't benefit from stand-up to keep the team coordinated and on track. And retros are the forum for self-management and process refinement/iteration.

Moreover, some of those rituals (like sprint planning) are also needed by stakeholders other than the developers themselves in order to get their jobs done. Because, believe it or not, coders are not in fact the center of the universe.

almost half a day a week is lost to pointless meetings. I just want to get on with my job.

Woah, wait, wut? 90% of your time is apparently spent coding and that's a problem for you? You know, at some point this starts to sound a lot like an excessive sense of entitlement...
> The EU has no fintech/startups center beside the UK and thats not going to change (Berlin doesn't have the money)

Other cities like Dublin are getting investment. And yes, most were in the UK until now. They might go to Amsterdam and Frankfurt as well

> EU is killing, not fostering startups.

This is laughable. Number26? Spotify? Delivery Hero?

In fact, they are ahead of Canada in the startup world. The business friendly, less regulation Canada.
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The main reason Leave won is because there was strong popular demand for "control of immigration", which implies leaving the Single Market. That doesn't mean the government won't quietly disregard that, but it does mean it's considerably less likely we take a Norway-like approach than it would have been if the public was instead obsessed with minutae like the Common Fisheries Policy or European Court of Justice.

Immigration restrictions are the least of worries for UK-based startups not focusing on the domestic market though, especially in fintech which has traditionally been London's strength. If you need company registrations, offices, contract and potentially even servers and compliance staff to be based in the EU to comply with certain regulations, it suddenly makes a lot less sense to spend all the extra overheads of having your [main] office in London, especially if other startups on the scene are starting to migrate and you don't want multiple offices. And whilst EU negotiators might want to avoid tariffs regardless of whether the UK stays in the Single Market or not, they have very little reason to secure trade agreements with the UK that grant UK firms passporting rights.
How do you know that the abstraction is wrong (and how) if you don't create it?

It seems to me like the article is saying - don't ever make mistakes, they are costly.
I'm a dev manager. We use agile, it works for us, and people are happy.

All you have to do is make a giant list of all the things to do, make sure people are working enough, and on the right things, and use the appropriate level of design -- sometimes a little, sometimes more.

I think the hardest thing is getting business stakeholders to get out of the "fixed project" mindset, though: here's what we want, here's how much money we have, how long will it take/how much will it cost? When the real question ought to be, what should we do first, given the budget that we have, that will most help the business?

Also, devs should be treated as adults. No "planning poker", forced daily stand-ups, or any of that nonsense. Just keep your stories updated in the issue-tracking system, deliver iteratively, and keep on shipping.

So much of what gets blamed on agile feels like bad org politics/poor stakeholder management.
Note: stuff like patching binaries in memory doesn't count... I mean something that's reasonably simple for users to do, like editing a config file or something

If you write an app for it, that'll make it simple for users. (And then no doubt you'll get a bunch of "security" people complaining that your app is malware...)
Alright, here's my Agile rant. It's bigger than my last one because I hadn't experienced it to its full potential.

In my current team, it's followed religiously. Stand-ups are daily and people use it as a time to fraternize between talking about actual work, I just want to get back to work. There's no camaraderie, every retro is this one guy bitching about how things aren't done the way they were in his previous job (and usually they aren't because it wouldn't make sense). The time between demo and sprint planning is a full day's of wasted time per developer, because there's nothing to do. Every developer writes hacks and things that shouldn't pass code review get passed because there's not enough time in the sprint to implement the known-good solution.

I've caught flak from going beyond the story requirements because I know what the final solution actually looks like. I also catch flak regularly because I run out of work and I take more tickets that are not in the sprint. I've never not finished a task when I did that. Every other meeting I get to hear a spiel from the project manager about how great Agile is.

I'm sure there's cases where Agile is the perfect solution. But it's not every time, and the rigidity that people want to apply was never meant to be there. I wish it would go away, but it's the perfect tool for management to be able to submit reports and say "look how consistent we are!"
Deadly force is only allowed when it is the only reasonable way to prevent grave danger to others, and a contained lunatic is not such a threat. And the idea that police could or should execute people for obstructing downtown is bizarre.

EDIT: Even in the wake of the Columbine shooting, when police departments who had trained conservatively for hostage situations realized they needed to be more aggressive when dealing with active shooters (e.g., terrorists and suicidal killers), the Police Executive Research Forum emphasizes this isn't an excuse to go killing contained threats:

> Many [police department] policies note that Active Shooter protocols
should not be used as a response to “barricaded
gunman” situations. And some policies note that
active shooter incidents are dynamic, and that an
incident may go in and out of active shooter status
in ways that could alter the police response. For
example, a situation may begin as an active shooter
incident, but if the shooter barricades himself in a
room where he no longer has access to potential
victims, and the police can secure that room and
contain the shooter, the police response should shift
accordingly.

http://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Serie...
Labeling the referendum as dumb is IMHO accurate, not because of the outcome, but because of the way it was done. It takes an extremely complex matter and puts it into an simple yes no questions without discussing the consequences. What does it even mean to leave the EU? A lot of leave voters seemed to take it as stopping immigration, which will not happen (since a lot of immigration is coming from outside the EU and freedom of movement with EU states will likely not be removed).

In comparision, the Scotish referendum was more detailed and got a lot more debate. The blog article "Brexit was a con" explains that in the first part: https://medium.com/@kirstymhall/brexit-was-a-con-67532113a7c...
The mouseover text of that last one is very relevant to the discussion.
Wow, the numbers (headcount / users / allocated time) speak alone!

Thanks for sharing.
No, the definition of a stand-up meeting is literally a quick meeting that you stand up for because it's so fast.

A 45 minute meeting is by definition not a stand-up... physically it just makes no sense.
Wouldn't the first apply to moving to the UK too?

Language I can see, but then the German Abitur has a requirement of 2 foreign languages, with potentially 3 (English/French, French/Latin, last one depending on what the school offers, usually Spanish/Italian/I think Russian in NE/sometimes Chinese). Some of these languages are substantially similar, which further widens the field, e.g., a French speaker might transition to Italian easily.

A fair number of Europeans are ridiculously multilingual.
Is there an opensource pinboard alternative? I am kind of surprised with all this love on HN give it's love for opensource... (maybe because he is a popular and funny commenter).