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You could lobby the EU for a productivity report. I'm an Aussie, not an EU citizen, but we have a group called the "Productivity Commission". They basically write reports on how the government can improve business conditions, by reducing red tape, reforming tax, and lowering barriers to entry.

The important thing is to get the write part of the EU to act. If the wrong agency (or whatever the name is for EU appendages) gets involved, you'll have a bunch of soul-sapping incubators run by eurocrats, which will only sponsor 40-year-old guys with detailed business plans, and good PowerPoint decks. The right agency will give ammunition to the legislators who want to reduce paperwork, not jobs to people who want to write business plans.

You can't lobby the EU with a specific plan, though. You tell them there's a problem, and they tell you the solution. They are politicians, or answerable to politicians, so they want to be seen to be do the right thing, not doing the right thing. You can try to frame it in a way that the right agency gets the ball, though.
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the other advantage is the lack of software and process patents in Europe meaning less of chance of being sued out of existence. I think this will become more obvious over the next 10 years.
It was discussed on the AskReddit subreddit a few days ago, can't find the exact link right now.
Regarding payment gateways: The EU is already on it, see the SEPA project: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/sepa/html/index.en.html

However like anything in the EU it moves very slow, I believe the target is to phase the first national systems out in 2013/2014, but delays are not unlikely...
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United States - NYC and SF area 1473 points

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UK 590 points

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Australia/Oceania 271 points

South America 181 points

(Rest of) Asia/Pacific 247 points

Africa 76 points

(Rest of the) United States 2220 points

China 71 points

India 294 points
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Also, many underlying components are tested using QuickCheck. QuickCheck allows you to verify that the properties of functions hold under random input.

Of course, since such checking is used when the number of possible inputs is too large to check (or infinite), it is not watertight. But it helps tremendously in uncovering bugs.
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Sounds like that might run afoul of data protection acts. You should read up on your data protection laws and start quoting them to the recruiters who call, and possibly make complaints.
Lobby for the abolishing of software patents and copyright policies that allow internet services to operate without fear of getting taken down by rights holders. Those are bigger hurdles in starting web businesses than tax or payment gateways.

On a more general note, if you want to lobby for something on the EU level, lobby for more democracy and transparency, the current system is only catering to large lobby organizations and not held accountable for its actions.
I always thought the purpose of library was to provide a study space, where study materials are easily accessible, as well as plenty of equipment.

In fact, that's the definition of my local library. Lots of tables, chairs and computers. Students go there to have group study sessions. People with no access to internet (tourists, elderly, the poor) go to library to use the internet. Now that house prices are growing (as it is here in Australia), living spaces per person will begin to decline, and people may begin to rely more on public spaces. (my thinking)

After reading the article, one could argue this is what a traditional CEO would do with a library if it was a company - reduce the number of declining businesses, increase the number of growing businesses. Books & collections are no longer as needed - only keep the ones not easily accessible on the internet (e.g. historical local newspapers dating back a hundred years). Free up space for others to come and study.

I guess that's not really the way to go, but since my local library was recently rebuilt in a brand new building, in the middle of a brand new public square, it has absolutely nothing to worry about[1].

[1] Neither do frogs placed into a pot of water, placed onto a stove a mere second ago.
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Terrible payment gateways: AFAIK, based on many comments by the newest providers in the US, the biggest problem is exactly that of different regulations for different EU countries. Creating better options requires different solutions for each country, so it is very expensive. With a harmonized system, you would be able to create a solution for 500 million potential users - it would be worth the effort.

Unfriendly legislation: The EU parliament can force national legislations to become friendlier, and especially to make it easier for a startup to operate in the whole EU.

Tax legislation: I'm not thinking about revenues taxation, but registration fees and mechanism and controls and the likes. There could be interventions from the EU Parliament to harmonize them, I think, and if that's impossible now - we could at least start to lobby to make it possible.
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Or more generally, inner truth. This is why I am not a rationalist or an objectivist. Human experience itself is subjective, and even if through supreme rationality we are able to pry apart our psyches and lay it bare as a pile of neurons then what? Do we feel good about that?

I choose to believe in a higher consciousness because it makes my life richer, not because I am hiding from rational, physical, objective truth.
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I can't believe someone is being told to read 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' because they called someone out about being sexist.

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You can tell them what the problem is, but you can also tell what a good solution would look like, so that if they implement a bad solution you can tell so. Otherwise, they can say "ok we solved it" and it would be difficult to say it isn't true.
More than anything else, you're suffering from a lack of self-confidence.

Try to be really good at what you do, and use that knowledge to build your confidence and assertiveness. This is the subject of countless books, and several past threads on HN.

On a more interesting note, it's surprising/shocking to realize how far one can get with controlled arrogance. An archetypal character to study is the protagonist of the TV series 'House'. (But I'm not at all suggesting that you should behave like him!)
Very interesting, thank you! But still, lobbying could make it faster, or make it more difficult for possible lobbies that could be against it to stop it/slow it down...
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You could lobby for _less_ legislation. I think what the OP had in mind was creating a better business environment, which usually means less legislation and less regulation.
>> 4-People can not unblock features of cheap cards to make the same things expensive cards does(it is very common to make only one chip to get mass production cost and then to use some cheap hardware or software switch to deactivate features on cheap cards).

This is also sometimes done with slightly defective chips. E.g. AMD has sold some quad-cores as three-core cpu's when one of the cores has failed some quality control check. Sometimes they can be enabled and they work fine but there may be a risk involved.

I know this is sometimes also done because of marketing reasons. Some years ago, IBM was selling additional Java or DB "accelerator" chips to high-end servers. They were in fact the same kind of processor that the server shipped with but they were crippled with microcode so they could only run the JVM or a DB2 server or something. I very much dislike this practice, talk about wasted engineering effort.
C'mon, it doesn't matter if there is fanfare or not. The material is there to read, you can ignore the foreword if you wish. Let's concentrate on what matters and not some details which might or might not be good idea but doesn't matter in grand scheme of things.
I feel the same as you - I consider CyanogenMod a useful escape hatch.
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On a more general note, if you want to lobby for something on the EU level, lobby for more democracy and transparency, the current system is only catering to large lobby organizations and not held accountable for its actions.

More democracy and transparency are certainly good, but interest groups are everywhere and aren't going away anyway. So, why not organizing an interest group for (web) startups?
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"If the main thread exits, the process dies."

This is true on Unix/Linux. I believe this is not true on Windows. (I'm not a Windows dev, so feel free to enlighten me if I am wrong.)

Everything else in the article seemed pretty OS-independent.
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I've met my fair share of founder jerks. Whether or not you and I are jerks is immaterial to the fact that when haggling over money, each side is in an antagonistic relationship. Each is rewarded for extracting virtually as much as they can from the other. (Personally, I think it's an absurd system.)

And I don't know about you, but I do know a gal who CAN "program her way out of a for loop" — I've seen her do it, such females actually exist — and if you're a decent listener, they may do you the favor of telling you about the extra crap they face due to men's kooky gender ideologies.

Anyway that said, I agree you can hack somewhat better pay out of a manager by handling them properly. Much of their professional world is social, so they are extra-sensitive to social cues. And software developers at this moment have far stronger bargaining positions than many other workers.

Among the advice that helped me (but YMMV):

* Reading _Getting to Yes_. There are alternatives to domination and passivity.

* Asking more than their highest range — if they negotiate me down, I did something right.

* Building my bargaining position by: increasing my relevant knowledge/ability, being a good presenter and listener/talker, overkilling the technical puzzles which you can do at home, and being able to walk away from a given deal.

AI prof Patrick Winston has helpful tips on giving presentations: (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F536001A3C605FC)

* Note that the initial hiring decision is when the market transaction is made. If you get it right, having brought your forces to bear on it, it's out of the way. (David Graber's _Debt: The First 5000 Years_ has some interesting words on this phenomenon.)

Of course, the goal depends on whether you're negotiating with a wealthy firm, a cash-strapped startup, or a social justice organization.
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You don't get it do you?

As an engineer I couldn't care less about their small post. I already knew about cyanogen.

As a run of the mill consumer though this post couldn't be more poignant. Raising awareness of an alternative firmware? That is huge. This is how Linux got started.

Blame marketing all you want but the more people who know about Cyanogen the better.
Yes, when I think about harmonization, that would often mean less national regulations. The EU already often intervenes against national regulations that are anticompetitive, so this wouldn't be a first time.
Can't agree more with "The ability to have root from the factory on a device you own should be a consumer's right in the states, just like getting your carrier unlock code." but please remove "in the states".

When buying a computer, desktop or laptop, I would be extremely disappointed if I discover that I don't have the full ownership represented by "root access".

When buying a car, don't we get the keys of the doors and a way to open the front cover where the engine lies?

I don't understand why our expectations with mobile phones should be any different. People are letting go this ownership too easily. It worries me. I suspect there is some PR or FUD work behind the curtain.

We are told that full ownership is dangerous and unnecessary. Like any power given to the owners, it may be dangerous, yes: I can fill my car's gas tank with sugar and break the engine if I wish to do so. But I think this Carriergate shows well enough that full ownership of devices that are so deeply rooted in our private lives is of the utmost necessity.
And then you find that someone similar to a secret agent (Verfassungsschutz - German "Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ") has infiltrated the local university's left circles posing as one of them, and making him a friend of people you know and talk to on a regular basis. It only came out because this person was particularly incompetent. And it's not like any of the targets actually did anything of importance (afaik).

Coming from a point of view where the government isn't spying on people personally and especially not you, your friends or anyone around, it was certainly a bit shocking to see this happen.

But, as others mentioned, that's not even the point with this whole issue.
No link to the study?

And isn't it a no-brainer that people might prefer working with people who don't make demands?

I suspect if you were to run an experiment with people being offered jobs, you'd find that more people got the job who didn't negotiate than who did negotiate. After all, a fraction of the ones who negotiate might have made unreasonable demands.

And sorry, but stuff like the "men don't let me speak in a discussion" just annoy me, because men actually face the same problem. There are simply people whose tactic in discussion rounds is to not let the other participants speak. I doubt that is a man thing.
Saw this post on "new", thought "welcome to 10 years ago".

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Oh a downvote because I touched the holy project managers! Ah well.
I'm not at all convinced the EU would be the best target for this kind of lobbying. Startup company supports vary widely by member country, and even by region within those countries. Certainly in my case (Ireland) lobbying agencies like Enterprise Ireland or the local county enterprise board gives much more return in much smaller periods of time. These agencies effectively navigate the EU thicket of regulations for you. But I can see how that would vary widely, depending where you're from.

The payment gateway issue is a real one but separate to startup supports. Big business would love to see this resolved too, surely?
Thanks for the link, it's good to hear progress is being made, even if slowly.
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I'm confused. Yes this is cool but it kinda looks like where Macromedia Flash started out. Don't tell me we are so far ahead we are now going backwards.
Perhaps Vala would also be a viable language for this sort of thing.

I've been pondering writing a GC in Vala to learn more about them, and see how suitable Vala is to low-level work.
Providing research tools & a study place is one of the two functions of libraries.

The other is archiving and referencing, and it is this that is the larger part of the librarian's professional skill. This function helps ensure that published knowledge survives in a usable form in the long term.

The move of such knowledge to the information greatly increases the risk of destruction of such information.

On the plus side, it is easier to censor libraries than the internet.
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>> 2) Fullscreen almost any OpenGL app/game and it will span across both monitors, which just looks weird.

This is because the games often use a library like SDL to do the windowing. Their idea of opening a window is called "SetVideoMode", so no wonder it goes wrong.

If a software uses X11 windowing in a way that most apps these days do, using extended window manager hints for fullscreen, etc, this problem would not exist. Btw. I use my window manager's full screen feature to do this. It works a whole lot better for games which allow resizing windows (this often excludes SDL-based games because you explicitly have to tell SDL you want a resizable window) than letting the game set full screen mode (usually via some horrible deprecated X11 legacy api).

The nVidia display driver is not perfect either, it doesn't support Xrandr yet, so expect problems with multiple displays (and rotation) until the situation is corrected.
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People who create the websites frequently get it wrong. (See also "JUST USE BCRYPT".)

If clever people with access to research and articles and advice and existing best current practice crypto libraries can get it wrong how do we expect the regular person on the street to get it right?

If banks - who are a real target with money to lose - can get their advice to customers wrong how can the customers be expected to learn?

Password security is a real mess. Someone could make a name for themselves if they did research and created a workable system that regular people could understand and use. Design some protocols and standards, release these as open standards and allow them to be tested and changable. And then hope that software creators and website designers build them in.
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Sorry about that confusion. I misworded that email.

That's not at _all_ what I meant, and I didn't mean to game the system at all. I apologize about the confusion.

For various reasons, I'm not really active on this community any more. So, I asked H&F members if they would be kind enough to do if for me.

I asked H&F members to submit and upvote, tweet, like and Google Plus to give Rand some press.

Rand flew down to SV on his own dime to talk to our H&F members for free. He didn't ask us to promote SEOMoz, and never required anything out of us. He was truly one of the most delightful, genuine and kind speakers that we've had at H&F. I'm more than happy to do whatever I can to help him and his company out.

BizSpark sponsored the event by buying everyone pizza and beer. H&F doesn't get a dime out of this. Hackers & Founders is completely boot strapped ourselves, and do a lot of this for love of the game. And, we're pursuing becoming a for benefit corporation.

When Rand and I first started talking, about speaking to our people a few months ago. I arranged for SEOMoz to give H&F members two free months of SEOMoz for free. I emailed that offer to our people last month, but no one signed up. I figured that after Rand spoke, people would be a bit more interested in trying the SEOMoz service out.

I emailed the link to the free trial out with the link to the video to our Meetup, because I'd received about 20 emails asking for both the video as well as the free trial in the past 24 hours.

The free trial is also publicly available as a sponsor link on our meetup page at http://www.hackersandfounders.com.

I apologize if people thought that I was trying to game the system. I'm not. I'm trying to give a friend, and a great entrepreneur a boost. He helped out community out a great deal. His writing has helped me out a great deal in the past.

And, for what it's worth, SEOMOz has an affiliate program. If people sign up for a one month trial, the referrers get $25. It's not really worth that effort for me, and that's not what H&F does. So, we chose to waive the affiliate fee and SEOMoz chipped in the extra month to help everybody out.
Is this video worth watching? Why?

This comments thread contains several comments from people who seem to have got something valuable from this video, but I have not been able to gather what that something is. There also seems to be a lot of SEO fluff here, which should be downvoted.
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As an entrepreneur from India, the only issue is a lot of these payment gateways, and licenses of different kinds are easier to get from US.
If those become more global I personally would prefer starting and running from India.
It's running on Rails, and using Heroku - it looks like it's holding up fine (although if you have any issues or notice any errors or downtime, let me know)
you may also want to give a look at the EBN network (european business network) which via BICs (business innovation centre) pursue the following:

> All funds available to the Association will be devoted to the pursuit of the Association’s aims and objects. Its main object is to promote the growth of Business and Innovation Centres both within and outside the European Union (EU), the aim of which is to set up new small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and/or new activities within existing SMEs based on new ideas with growth potential. It will mobilize any system, service or activity, which may directly or indirectly assist its members in achieving their objectives with optimum professionalism and efficiency.

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That modularity is nice in theory, but Dojo gives me 170kb of compressed javascript simply for selecting the fileuploader widget. I saw the same for Google Closure Library by the way - not saying I could write an all purpose js library which would score better.
Lobbying won't make a difference at all. The situation is FUBAR by design. Big companies hate competition and the EU rules (they pay for) make sure competition is limited.

Wish to change this? DISRUPT with a great startup and don't sell it to (old school) companies if you're successful.
This is actually the wrong way round.

Blood has a low cost to the donor, so the "feel good" intrinsic reward is high enough to keep the supply going. Adding a price will just make it more expensive for poor people who need transfusions.

Because kidneys are so expensive to donate, you can't rely on people's goodwill, so both poor people and rich people miss out. Of course, you would have to ensure that they wouldn't be sold to clear debts.
I guess you can either have two bullet points and elaborate them quite a bit (because not everything is obvious to everyone) or just make more bullet points like the original. :)
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"the EU is taking away liberties of people and countries in name of a 'common good' and a 'better europe'"

I'm struggling to think of what individual liberties I've lost to the EU.

On the other hand the fact that people from anywhere in the EU can come here to live and work here in the UK is great and the fact I can work, live and travel where I want within the EU looks like a huge increase in liberty to me.
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