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I live in France, I work in the IT sector. I can completely agree with what you say.

From my point of view here are the biggest problems entrepreneurs have to face here:

- French labor law gives much more power to the employee over the business owner. 35 hours weeks may not be applicable for IT employees, but there are high compensations. Where I work, a 50 hour week is considered "way too much". We get 35 days of paid vacation per year, my manager gets 50, I'm not even counting the myriad of public holidays. Everything from parenting leaves, to medical leaves can last weeks and cost a ton to the employwer. Did I mention that once the "trial" period (usually 3 months renewable once) is over, there are no cheap ways to fire an employee unless she screws up big time? This may all seem nice and righteous, but it's not very motivating to start your own company.

- Taxes are so high it's not even funny. For every euro I earn, my employer has to pay a euro in social charges, and this isn't counting the exhorbitant taxes you pay on top of it. It's true that startups do get a grace period of 3 years, but from experience (and talking to other entrepreneurs), this is barely enough. The sickest part is that there's a market developed here where expert accountants teach young entrepreneurs how to "game" the system to minimize "tax-damage". I was shocked when I first discovered this. Until I found out how high taxes are.

- Finally, and this one is the most powerful and less obvious one, there's a strong social taboo in France about being rich or even wanting to be. One thing that drives most startups I've encountered, is the drive to become insanely rich. In the US, or at least that's the impression I got there, there's no shame related to wealth. In France it is completely different. Having money, or desiring it, is bad. The rich are the "enemy" (look at recent taxation laws by our government) and the rest of us would be content with very little. Of course this is a bad generalization, but this point of view is prevalent. And this is why, I believe, the proper environment for startups is not a priority for most French people out there.
7) Get on with doing work and stop reading Hacker News and other people's tips on productivity!
Guy whines because high taxes on exit.
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Dropbox have recently implemented 2-factor authentication and you can use the Google Authenticator for that too.
>Did you actually read the first line of my comment?

The part where you claimed to have worked in france? I don't know you, so why should I take your word at face value when the rest of your comment seems to suggest that you actually haven't worked in france?
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I don't why, but I think there is no link to the startup's website he's talking to. Here's the site I think http://woisio.com/.
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It's beautiful but I can't stand the page transition animation. It's too slow to the point of annoying - I had to force my eyes to look away from the transition, away from the screen, as otherwise my eyes would try to focus on the blurry moving text which 1) hurts my brain to focus at, 2) disrupts my train of thought as it disturbs my focus (both mentally and physically).

How I wish that tablets provides a way to do the same thing that page up/page down does with just a tap. I found swiping up/down for jumping to the next/previous page distracting for exactly the reason I stated above that I put a bookmarklet on my tablet browser to do the page up/page down when I single tap on a non-html-linkified entity.
Second Stop Cafe in Williamsburg. The Ingrid sandwich is good. Everyone there has a laptop and sits and work there for hours. Don't go if you don't like hipsters though. http://www.yelp.no/biz/second-stop-cafe-brooklyn
I don't know how it works in France, but in Denmark, we have a capital gains tax of ~50%. However, that only applies if you pull the cash out directly. You can do all sorts of things, such as moving the money into another company, which you then use to make investments from or pull it into a pension fund, both of which gives you a huge tax benefit. So I don't think that part is as prohibitive as it is made out to, although it certainly has some impact. The bigger problems are probably with labour law and general cultural issues.
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Is there a way to dele them? I didn't know mine would be saved and viewed by my bosses who undoubtably have a google alert for their startup name.
I take it that you've never been to India.
Huh. I thought it was an update to reduce specifically "low-quality" EMDs rather than EMDs with "a lots of keywords in the domain name". Or are these two ways of saying the same thing?
The first is certainly true, but won't happen if they are bound to lose.

I'm not a lawyer, but I am a programmer. I would never swear that my software works so correctly that I will use the actions of the application as proof that a user did check a box. If he claims he didn't, well, he just may be right. I've seen enough weird things happen not to trust any software to behave correctly all the time.

Now my technical reasons may not be relevant for a judge, but I doubt judges are very trustworthy of technology (they should have heard plenty of cases where technology failed and they will be users of all kinds of awful consumer technology, that sometimes, suddenly fails for no clear reason) and won't think favorably about a company with these kinds of practices. Perhaps I'm naive, but those things combined will lead a judge to believe you over the company.

That one, single checkbox, and the fact that you have to
manually check it, is the legality upon which the entire
business hinges.

It can be entirely legal, while at the same time anyone that claims otherwise should immediately be refunded and let go. In fact, it would be smart to do that, as it prevents bad publicity. Any user that is dissatisfied should be compensated and should be free to leave, always. That saves money.
> You know what? I don't trust Google enough to allow them to lock me out of my own systems, and I'm surprised other obviously technologically inclined people do.

This is a common misconception of Authenticator. It is an open source implementation of OATH which works entirely offline once the initial secrets have been shared.

Using Google Authenticator for SSH accounts (via PAM) does not give Google the ability to lock you out of your systems.

Excluding severe bugs and overly paranoid scenarios, e.g. the entire Authenticator system being a convoluted plan for Google to take over your servers.
It definitely hasn't. They've been terribly critical over the years.

I think the issue is that they are not as biased against them as the rest of the industry who know how to get clicks for Microsoft bashing.
Except your lifetime worth of contributions is one policy shift away from becoming worthless. Unlike a superannuation scheme, paying into it now guarantees you nothing in the future.

Nobody making moderate capital gains would pay these charges voluntarily, in exchange for benefits it gives them. Thus it makes complete sense to lump it in with the other capital gains taxes when discussing incentives.

From Wikipedia:

"The mandatory state pension is an unfunded contributory penison based on redistribution of contributions from those working to those in retirement. The scheme aims to provide up to a maximum of 50% of the retirees highest earning years up to a limit of 35,000€ annually (in 2010)."
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I understand that, but how many of the people moving on from CDs to other storage and playback technologies are doing so for that reason? Media wear is only one reason a medium gets superseded, and not a major one. This new medium may have a role in long term archival applications, but comparing it to consumer technologies like tapes and CDs is misleading.
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You just described cartridges like in C64 or some video game consoles :)
In a language like Ruby or Python by using Fibers or Co-Routines(Greenlets), one can get benefit of non-blocking IO at the same time avoiding code spaghetti.

Gevent in python for example is pretty popular and similar is the case with Em-synchony in Ruby.

I have used callback objects but really that is not even close to what one can achieve with Fibers or Greenlets.
> This is pretty interesting stuff. For example, I wasn't aware of the "jurisdiction race" that happened when new patent were issued. It puts into context some of the changes at least.

There's still plenty of drama. For example, a few years back, there was quite a fuss over a simple change to the filing date of something on the docket in East Texas:

http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/09/troll-t...

That inventor behind all that mess was quite an interesting fellow, too:

http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/patent_troll_tr...
Currently (I'm in London UK) Minecraft has a huge folllowing among boys aged (roughly) 8-14. As long as that demographic remains obsessed there'll be a constant new market.
It also fulfills the 'bar of soap' design strategy, wherein, after time, users become less and less enamoured by their 'personal' device, because of the little knicks and dents and impersonal scratches and so on .. leading to 'upgrade desire' when the next model is released.

Its not designed obsolescence, but rather a triggering with our general Western inclination to eschew any flaws in what is usually an extremely personal, desired object: the bar of soap.

The more our gadgets progress towards 'soap' in terms of physical usability, the more this factor comes into the design. Slight dings in perfect surfaces beget more dings, until eventually the device requires replacement..
Have you noticed a pattern in BBC's malware reporting? When it's about windows malware, they deliberately avoid mentioning the name windows, instead calling it "PC malware" or "computer virus". But when it's about Android malware, they make darn sure to call it what it is, Android malware. In that case they don't do the dance of calling it, say, "mobile malware". I don't know about you, but to me this is a blatant form of bias.
Can electronics be designed in a way so that it has a very long life?

NASA seem to be pretty good at that. I guess it's a question of cost more than anything else.
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Piping into and out of the cloud with skypipe
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I daresay you seem to have wrong impression. Having Rails app for typical web stuff and Eventmachine (em-synchrony) + faye stuff for realtime things work pretty well in actual usage. I can wrap DB calls, memcache/redis, SMTP connections etc inside my event loop and can achieve near same performance as a Node app.

The alternative of using node.js for everything sounds good but I am not really sure, how good node and its web frameworks are for building typical CRUD applications. Rails really solves building database backed applications problem pretty well.
The "building it" for clothes currently involves cutting and sewing the material. I don't see how that would be very easy to do with a machine with anywhere close to as few degrees of freedom as a 3D printer.

I suppose you could try to make the thing extrude the cloth already weaved in a closed loop, like doing a sock by extruding concentric woven circles and tapering them off to the tip. Then if you could split the circle into two or three you could try to do shirts and pants.
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The game is still getting new features through official development and through addons. People who weren't interested in the pure survival or "3d drawing" modes might be more interested in the improvements in interactive storytelling, both creating them and running through maps by others.

The game has also gained a significant community on YouTube (and probably elsewhere), which ends up promoting the game. I watch Minecraft videos occasionally -- some of the interactive storytelling is quite good --, despite the fact that I've never actually played the game. And it's just an impulse buy away if I ever see a video which makes me thing I need to play this myself.
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You can implement the whole protocol in a few lines of python, or whatever is your weapon of choice. Secure key management aside it could do the same functionality. Google authenticator is just a confort option.
It may last up to 3 billion years... unless the glass gets scratched. Oopsie.
We don't need more help, we already have a lot of it. We're one of the most generous country of the OECD in terms of help for R&D.

If you add more help, companies will stay in France as long as they can benefit them an relocate the minute they expire.

I already know, that in order to grow our company, I will have to relocate it in the forthcoming years.

The problem is cultural.

Big Companies don't work with small companies. The labor laws are extremely rigid and employees care more about vacations than getting things done. Failure will doom you forever. Taking risks is "bad". Everybody looks up the government for help instead of getting things done, and this call for action is another example "Please give us more money!".

We don't need more money, we need a cultural shift.
What Does Your Code Smell Like? [video - Larry Wall - YAPC::Asia 2012]
Hmm like?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12067295
> equated Google+ to Android in terms of catch up
Stopped reading here
Neal Gafter, another influential Java stalwart, has been a fan of Scala for quite a while:

"Will Scala be the next great language? Only time will tell. Martin Odersky and his team certainly have the taste and skill for the job. One thing is sure: Scala sets a new standard against which future languages will be measured."
Wait, your rebuttal to "France is not a country where they really promote entrepreneurship" is that the French president gave a speech admitting that the country was risk averse and needed to become more entrepreneurial?

If that's the caliber of argument you're bringing to the table, I would soften your tone a bit.
In the agreements for some of those distribution channels there are stipulations against releasing specific sales data.
Holy crap! I just went inside a building then inside a shop. Does this show the same images from Google?
> Nobody making moderate capital gains would pay these charges voluntarily, in exchange for benefits it gives them.

Almost nobody who pays taxes would pay them voluntarily, especially the rich who get no benefits from paying them. Yet we force them to, it's the redistributive nature of taxes.
Your last point is really spot on .. and I gauge the answer, personally, with one question: do I have a desire to buy a new Apple product?

Well, I already upgraded to iPhone5. I'm really not terribly interested in upgrading my aging Macbook Pro, 17" model, however. It bereaves me to no end that they have EOL'ed the 17" form factor, and have no solution for those of us who really need Pro features, like ExpresscardPCI slots, and so on.

Would Steve have axed the 17"?
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Some think so.

http://www.slated.org/bbc_microsoft_bias_summary

But I think they're biased against everybody. At heart, journalists tend toward cynicism...
I qualified my support for riding on the pavement with speed differentials. There's little doubt in my mind that the lower overall risk in many junctions comes from riders+pedestrians than riders+vehicles, especially turning trucks.

And motorbike helmets are actually very similar to cycle helmets under the shell. Biggest differences are abrasion resistance from the shell and more coverage on average, but 1/2 helmets - brain buckets - are very very similar. Indeed I see a certain percentage of London cyclists wearing helmets that would be legal on motorbikes in US states with mandatory laws.
But if you certify and offer a shop for certified apps where the shop owner gets a cut this creates a huge incentive for the owner to do everything in its power to get more apps into the shop.
IMO, a search engine for hackers would be a 'Code Search' (which Google killed off a few months back) replica/clone.

It was great and awesome and I still miss it to this day.
Synopsis - Larry takes a program written in perl5 (from RossettaCode) and performs a live refactoring of it into perl6.

We all know that people make many decisions intuitively, not rationally, but if you look carefully at those intuitions, they are often based on deeply rational reasons. Over the 25 years of Perl's history, my tastes have changed in some ways but not in others. So this talk will be about how I now think about code smells when I'm coding, and design smells when I'm designing a programming language.

Larry Wall - http://yapcasia.org/2012/talk/show/40330888-db88-11e1-8417-0...
If it's actual visual dots on the glass, it sounds like you'd just need to figure out how to get a good enough photograph of the thing to see the dots in and spend an afternoon whipping up an image processing script in Python to convert the dots to binary code. This sounds a lot simpler than whatever would be involved in setting up the apparatus to read bits of volatile magnetic media where you'd have to interact more closely with the media, be more mindful of not accidentally destroying the stored data and rely on much less intuitive physics than looking at a thing through a microscope for the recovery process.
Ask HN: How come YouTube doesn't name their music branch "YouTune"?
Hi, I run a business for a couple of years in France now and you're factually wrong and mixing things up.

There's a difference between a lay off for economical reasons by a big company (which can afford it) and a small company trying to get rid of an inappropriate person (extremely hard).

Even getting rid of someone during probation can be cancelled in trial and become very expensive.

I'm not saying employment at will is the solution, but the system we have in France doesn't work.
And the estimated locations of dutch trains: http://kubus.mailspool.nl/spoorkaart/
These are terrible for ui/ux. not only do they not behave as you would expect, by actually sliding Them, but this pattern is inconsistent with mobile ui native to both IOS and especially android recently where they actually slide.
Let me put it a different way:

I receive some kind of request in a Rails controller. I need to send, as a consequence, a notification via the web socket. How does it get from point A to point B? In Erlang, it's all likely to be quite contained and fast, and not involve writing anything to external queueing software, and to boot, it's all going to happen in the same unix process, rather than having one process that's the Rails server, and another that's the eventmachine server.

I don't know Node.js and how you'd handle sending messages from point A to point B, but I'd be interested in hearing some opinions.
Thanks, i'm aware of that, there's a smart person from bittorrent who sent me a PR.
The data has all been recovered: There's a full implementation of the Domesday Book project on a large touch-surface table at the National Museum of Computing ( http://www.tnmoc.org/ ) at Bletchley Park, as well as a couple of the original readers.

Here's an article about the new hardware: http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/bbc-domesday-touchta...

I saw it in action on a work trip to TNMOC earlier this year: it's quite nifty.
I still remember the promises of the holographic versatile disc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc backed by Hitachi as well, and apparently the company went bankrupt in 2010 :(
The Google of Russia introduces the Google chrome of Russia.

Coming soon: Yandex+
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The more, the merrier.

Make sure to post the HTML5 score [1] once you install it.

[1] http://html5test.com/
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Indicates a migration of fiendish fluoridators to foil? I am now taking suggestions for a new disparaging appellation to apply to my fact based paranoia.
Tablets are fine for browsing the web, reading, etc. but serious work happens on desktops and isn't going to move away from them.
There will always be apps people need that don't fit in the store. e.g. 18+ games won't be available but lots of PC users want to play them. If Microsoft made it so only certified apps could be installed they would lose a lot of users to alternative platforms. People are looking at this like it is a slippery slope. It could be but it's highly unlikely as it would hurt consumers and the barriers to switching OS aren't that high for most people.
Yeah, my 13yo just latched onto it recently.
News flash: land lines still exist.
However, unlike land lines, you don't pay a monthly fee to keep your desktop, and the software powering it is growing less and less resource hungry.
I've seen that before. To be honest, most of it is crap. It's cherry picking. They're always splurging over Ubuntu and raspberry pi.

the only bias I see is pro war and pro current government And the occasional shoddy piece of journalism.
A quick look into the design of the demo 'Square' by Still
'someone not using javascript' == 'someone computer-savvy enough to figure out what that means' || crawler
They are not going to release it for Linux for now :(
Finally something that really 'disrupts' email.
> It's a fact that you can create functional abstractions in JavaScript.

This is basically just restating "Javascript has first-class functions."

While first-class functions are nice, it's only the barest tip of the iceberg when it comes to what's needed for true functional programming. When you add more and stronger assumptions to your functions and types - referential transparency, static typing, immutable data structures - you get more and more back in functional expressive power and the tools that make it possible: memoization, concurrency, tail recursion, lazy evaluation, pattern matching, and so on.

The less assumptions you allow in the language, the more these powerful functional techniques and abstractions simply won't be possible. You still stand to gain from a modular, functional style, but you will have to go back to working around the inherently imperative language in most cases.
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Only if you get the x86 version. Arm version only runs Explorer, IE and Office in desktop mode
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The "History of Haskell" paper, a fascinating read in and of itself, is replete with admissions of lack of foresight. The reason Haskell has fared better than Python is probably only that it has a much bigger emphasis on trying new ideas in the reference implementation. The biggest problems with "Python" (GIL, FFI, standard library) are mostly issues with the reference implementation.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
thnx for the info
It's printed from ABS plastic, the same plastic legos are made out of. It melts at 220C. The strength of the piece is both contingent on its shape, material, and its in-fill pattern. I've never done controlled experiments with the pieces, So I can't really give you a specific measure. However, with certain parts with certain shapes, I've been able to stand on it, or make wall hooks from it. I used the Makerbot replicator.
The World's Biggest Hedge Fund You Have Never Heard Of: Braeburn Capital.
I should have been more precise. I should have said smartphones with location-based services, as that was really what I was making the comparison to how people thought its use case was going to be one thing, but it was actually another.
In most cases I disapprove of flaunting academic credentials to strengthen an argument, since that is just appeal to authority. But in this case I feel it was relevant to your question.
Adding a keyboard to a tablet makes it a decent computer, able to do a lot of day-to-day tasks (email, documents, etc)