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Even if Britain leaves the EU, is it really likely that they will leave the EEC?

The French entrepreneur cares about free trade, not much else. And I can't see Britain or Europe shutting down trade, regardless of whether Britain sticks around or leaves.
Does Microsoft offer a convenient migration path from Google Apps for Business to Office 365?

I have not found anything on such a migration path so far, only more or less desperate forum posts …

Google Apps also have the advantage that you can mix free and paid accounts. We have for example some employees who share their business calendars (paid accounts) with their family members (free accounts).
I think he's referring to the "companies use DRM to punish pirates" point. Which is by itself a reasonable idea. But as it turns out most companies somehow screw it up and end up punishing the customer instead of the pirate.
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I don't think that Google showing a propensity to give services the axe, rather than simply deprecating them and giving them little or no support is a case of "not satisfying demands." That, mixed with their history of spotty support for the things which they DO officially support gives them the appearance of being a shifting platform. This lead me, at least, to depend on them as little as I have to.
While its indeed not an zero-sum game where we have a clear good guy and a clear bad guy, there are some clear good outcomes. Lets call them mini-victories.

The patent fight is one of them. Rounded corners, button less interface, menu areas outside the screen. All those are of practical purpose and should never have been allowed to be design patented. Same goes for basic iconic figures for applications, a table view interface, slide to unlock and any "natural" gestures. Then there are FRAND patents, where a clear model for deciding prices would help in making the market more predictable for new ventures.

If we look at DRM, lockdown and DMCA, we also have a mini-victory that we need to fight over. Here we have a moral argument that the device owner should be in control and not Apple, Google or Samsung. Consumers need to get a win here.

I could mention that some actors in all this are behaving worse than others, and if one had to pick one evil over the others then I know where I would lean. But that is just a secondary issue in all this. Primarily, consumers and new actors on the phone market need to win. Those are the true "good guys" in the fight.
I don't know really; I started my company 8 years ago and it didn't appear to be that much of a hassle to be honest. I could find 3 banks willing to take us onboard in an afternoon.

And I only pay 140€/mo for the whole family health-care extension :P
there is no moral burden on you for not using you available wealth to help the poor. selfishness is a natural state of things. i respect and admirer people who go Wismar
against their natural state to give allergically altrustically, but i will never judge someone for not wanting to donate.
The conversation seems to happen in real time, then flips over to email for a written record. Without a defined expiry it's not clear what happens if the investor says "yes" two months later after the startup receives some fantastic press.
If one week at most of bureaucracy is enough to stop your success, then you're not very likely to meet success anyway, since much bigger challenges await down the road :-)
My understanding is that the EEC merged into the EC which then became the EU - so I don't think the UK has the option to stay part of the EEC and leave the EU.

Certainly EEC isn't a term that you here very often these days.

NB Perhaps you mean EFTA rather than the EEC?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association
I can relate to what he wrote since initially I was at the CIC, which historically was good for entrepreneurs, but jumped the shark at some point, starting to sell me Virgin mobile phones etc instead of focusing on their core job.

Switching was easy and totally worth it!
Can anyone comment on what it's like to run a startup or a smaller high-tech outlet in France? Taxes, social insurance / humangous vacations, bureaucracy matters - the boring day to day stuff. I'm sure I'm not the only one playing with an idea of moving to Europe, so a first hand account would be much appreciated.
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The Galaxy S4 has a Barometer
I don't know why this was downvoted. Windows 8 comes with Microsoft Security Essentials (rebranded back to "Windows Defender"), Windows Firewall, and Windows Smart-screen Filter all set up by default. Additionally, every browser (including IE10) now does its own phishing/malware site flagging protection.

Together, that's about the sum of what AV packages provide you--so I don't really see the need for one any more, as long as you leave all the defaults on.
Obvious to some of us, perhaps, but fanboy wars continue to rage in tech news comments, so there are still many who aren't getting the message.
Correction - Why the cloud is such a fucking stupid idea
I've written at length about this before. All DRM providers will go away at some point, or decide keeping the server running isn't profitable anymore. This is why I convert any digital good I buy, and if I can't, then I don't buy.
It's not a cult about staying, it's the money. With the right connections you can be a bumbling idiot and still make well over $100k a year.
Have you ever maintained some else's poorly written Perl code? I have. Rational or not, I hate Perl.

And yes you can write crappy code in any language, but Perl is just asking for a bad programmer to write bad code.
I am very proud to say that my associate was very happy to build a highly ethical company with me.

We make apps for children, and don't put ads, IAP, or content that might cause bad behavior, for example one of the apps I took out a character holding candy before lunch.

Too bad this gave no competitive advantage, but lots of disadvantages, thus I must be happy that the money people in the company let this strong ethical opinion.
Hi Ian, I'm based in London and am looking for someone to work with me on my startup, either on a contract basis or potentially as a co-founder. Please email me (see profile) or tell me how I can get in touch.
Also: this is a must-read for anyone willing to start a company in France:

http://www.rsi.fr//change-user/pied-de-page/espace-telecharg...

It compares the various kind of company structures, how taxes will work for each case etc, with simulations.
"read books instead of use e-readers."

How necessary is that? Does it depend on the eReader? I use a Sony 300 series (which I personally think is about the high point of the eReader evolution, with the exception of the 350 for more screen space in an almost identical sized casing) which is as thankfully dumb and disconnected as eReaders get. It plugs in like an external hard drive and I simply copy epub files onto it.

You couldn't pay me to have a kindle (well, you could, but you'd have to pay me a lot and I'd just sell it and get another Sony).
Yes, the EEC/EC was officially abolished with the Lisbon treaty in 2009 (though it was mostly merged into the EU even before then). However, it's still possible for non-EU members to be part of the EU's common market via the EEA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area).

EEA membership is pretty close to de-facto EU membership, though, including legislative harmonization on almost everything except agriculture/fisheries (which is what suits Norway about it), and a "voluntary" contribution that de-facto replaces EU dues. Would that satisfy UK politicians' reasons for pulling out of the EU, if they still had to pay dues and harmonize most of their legislation anyway, only without getting a vote in return? It's not clear to me they would join the EEA under those terms. And in the other direction, there's a lot of uncertainty over what they'd even have the option to join, since there's a real possibility some EU members would veto an agreement to give them an intermediate status.
> Steam's DRM is reasonable.

This has yet to be seen. For a while, Steam was seen as a way to keep other DRM at bay. Bioshock changed that (I'm not aware of 3rd party DRM on steam titles prior; open to correction here). Now Steam is a distribution platform which also incorporates DRM which may, or may not, result in customers getting screwed, while games distributed through Steam may choose to incorporate additional DRM. The sad truth is that we simply don't know if Steam's DRM will ultimately screw over their customers. That will be seen at some point in the future, when maintaining servers is no longer financially viable.
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> This degrades quality btw

How?
Sure. Low (or even no) taxes on yearly income if you locate your startup well (e.g. put it in an area that gets subventions or tax cuts, checkout so-called ZFU aka Zone Franche Urbaine). If you're innovating (which is, really, an administrative term, that you can put anything under), you'll get tax rebate on the salary mass that you dedicate to R&D. Even further, your startup can be labeled as a 'young innovating company' (JEI, aka Jeune Entreprise Innovante) and you get even more benefits.

I (with others) operate a startup with entities both in France and in the US. It is cheaper for us to leave R&D in France because of the subventions mentioned above.

Sure, you'll still get plenty of taxes and the euro is strong, which may be good or bad depending on your activities.

PM me if you need more details.
what is your business model?
Indeed. Either that or consider it a rental--because that's all it really is.
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No damn it. This is exactly why Google is closing down Reader. Most people who have stuck with Reader do not want anything to do with mixing RSS and social crap.
> If you're walking into a situation with your eyes open, then go for it. I pay money to Spotify on a monthly basis because I view it the same way I view cable TV - I'm paying for access, I'm not purchasing something. But if you want to keep something long term, and have it work the way you want it to, then don't buy it unless it's DRM free.

This seems like reasonable advice but I'm not sure it really follows from the heading. DRM in Spotify is reasonable because if they shut down you lose nothing and can move easily to another service (rdio or whatever).

Paying for something that you have no control over is reasonable only if you don't care whether you get to keep it long term (I'd personally put books on Kindle in this category as I'm only ever going to read them once). If you care about access to something long term, then either subscribe to a service that provides it (i.e. you explicitly own nothing (like Netflix and Spotify)), or get it DRM free.

In a roundabout way such concepts also apply to things like Google Reader, which is fairly trivial to migrate to another service vs Email, which (unless you own the domain) isn't.
That's true. They're using the Finnish exchanger (Bittiraha) which also provides payment services for world's first Bitcoin-accepting dental clinic (MeidänKlinikka) as well as Finland's first Bitcoin-accepting restaurant (Vegemesta).
Great; what criteria do you wish to search for? What commitment level do you expect? What are you offering people in return - 50% equity? 5% and £200 pd? Some other combination?
Have you completed your BMC?
Has feedback from potential customers been sought?

Which of these questions should be incorporated in a cofounder finder site?
I have the same question just for Holland.
I've set up a business in Australia, average 2 days, and in Austria where the average is 25 days (and it went way over that for me) and I am not sure I'd do it again in Europe besides perhaps the UK. It's not so much the time and frustration, which is indeed wasted going to I think it was 4 different locations in 7 or 8 trips, but the shocking hostility of the process and people. It made me feel very unwelcome.

There is also a dearth of funding and a much smaller culture of philanthropy. Although those two are not really relevant to my project, jkl.io, as I am not taking funding and looking for philanthropy from places other than Austria.
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I guess it would have been way more useful if you pointed out how you decoded it. anyways, great post :)
Correction. There is nothing wrong with the 'cloud'.

SaaS etc... however is, which I assume you mean? (sorry for trying to be a smartypants!!!)
> The greater problem is how the employer manages to get a hold of larger amounts of BTC needed.

If I were the employer, I'd be wringing my hands; for all I know they could've gotten a small fortune in BTC when they were still cheap to generate / purchase, and since then the value of BTC has sixtupled (or more). So, pay their employees without having to spend real money. I'm probably not understanding BTC though.
Ask HN: Why do people create incomprehensible spam?
I run a blog with comments and spam's a bit of a problem. I get that in some cases people try to put links on their for various reasons. However, we also get a lot that doesn't seem to serve any purpose. for example, on from today:

"chanel 化粧品tf szn bttt fy mlfpy urdirp cfyss

pletcherdrw - March 15, 2013 @ 8:08am

ku gcfd hsff pvs tqmu hntu qyo xdij gb fb rxi sjrp jszl hww hwdj kigk zav vkbx sc"

They've had to beat a captcha to post that. I know that's not the most difficult thing in the world, but it does require some effort. What advantage does this create for anyone?

According to Google translate, the Chinese characters mean 'cosmetic.'
I like the idea of this, would be good to wean a few people off the github client onto the command line.

I can understand that this wants to create a real repository on my github, but it is asking permission to read/write to private repos, so I stopped at that point.
> Nokia (with Microsoft) make beautiful hardware and Windows Phone is lush, but for some reason is not getting the market love its quality deserves.

Two points here:

First, it pains me to see MS lumped with Nokia. I'll be clinging to my N9 for a very long time yet (and probably only move on when Ubuntu or Firefox phones are compelling). I miss Maemo/MeeGo.

Second, the reason which MS doesn't get the love which its quality deserves (let's accept that it deserves a lot of love for the sake of this argument) is that Microsoft owns Skype. Telcos aren't huge fans of Skype, as a rule--it doesn't quite jive with their values. For Windows Phone, which integrates Skype by default, to really take off in the marketplace, we need to see the founding of a telco which doesn't do anything BUT data as their subscription model. With no voice fees to compete with Skype's inclusion on the phone, there will be no reason for telcos to marginalize the platform.
Lossy DRM version -> burned to disk -> Re-encode using lossy algorithm.

Same as re-saving a jpeg file as a jpeg.
>Nobody has ever convinced me humans are intelligent. Every specific example of human intelligence put forward, it eventually ends up that machines do it better.

First of all that is completely wrong even for simple things like image recognition (try building a face recognizer which works under all possible conditions).

But more starkly consider the following question:

Is Geoff Hinton a machine?
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> DRM isn't a stupid idea

Let's add DRM to our product. It will stop the pirates and our customers will love it. - Said no one ever.
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I should have mentioned that I downgraded to Windows 7 after having graphics drivers issue with 8. Apparently, AMD never built drivers for 44xx series of cards, so I couldn't play games properly.

But Windows Defender is available on Win 7 too, right?
Taking the Leap
Those are all great questions, but I wouldn't necessarily expect to see all of them on a cofounder finding site. I'd rather ask these questions in person. I'm looking for people who can build stuff, so a meetup of programmers looking for co-founders would be more useful.

Besides, my comment was directed at you personally in terms of working with me, not as a general comment on co-founder finding sites. Sorry, I assumed you were looking for a co-founder, but maybe you're not?
why would you focus on what's happening to the bottom tier students?

what do you think is happening to the distinction and high distinction students?

all the interesting from uni (unsw) i know either have good jobs or are doing really interesting research.

and software engineering is plenty well respected - people usually know it means you build apps and generally assume you're pretty smart. cheer up mate.
I would just like to point out that the example is not doing calculus, it is not taking a function x^3 and returning a function 3x^2 it is using a repetitive process to narrow in an approximation of the result. It is a generally applicable method for any value that narrows in on something. The same thing can be done in C with function pointers, whilst a great algorithm it is not call to functional programming. I love functional programming and wish people would stop being entranced by maths examples.
I love the design and transition effects.
Thanks for suggestions. I will try these. I am using Windows 7 and Avast really irritates me out sometimes.

Regarding Windows Firewall, is it good enough?

P.S. I did not downvote, in fact just upvoted you.
they implicitly gave you permission by accepting you http request. what you do with the result of the request in private IVs
is not anyone's business.
Thanks for this. The equation, for posterity:

> Motivation = (Expectancy x Value) / (Impulsiveness x Delay)

> Increase the size of a task's reward (including both the pleasantness of doing the task and the value of its after-effects), and your motivation goes up. Increase the perceived odds of getting the reward, and your motivation also goes up.

> The denominator covers the effect of time on our motivation to do a task. The longer the delay before we reap a task's reward, the less motivated we are to do it. And the negative effect of this delay on our motivation is amplified by our level of impulsiveness. For highly impulsive people, delays do even greater damage to their motivation.

The rest of the article is worth reading. (It's short; 2/3 of the page is footnotes and comments.) Firstly for the examples that root the equation in reality. Secondly for suggestions on increasing the numerator and decreasing the denominator.
"A players are banished to spend the rest of their lives in specialized communities like Silicon Valley?"

This sounds to me more like "tribal overrating" bias (I invented this bias myself :) ). You just define that SV only has these "A players" (a purposely loose definition btw), so you go ahead and also imagine there are no A players outside these "specialized communities".

And I hate the way you formulated your question, opposing "average people" and "A players" so, so determinative, creating a "we" vs "them" situation.
I want build Email service Website Like Gmail / Hotmail / Yahoo (for $500-$1000)
SaaS or any other cloud based service model. Storing your data somewhere else where it gets held hostage in a proprietary format is a lot of pain waiting to happen.

Dropbox and Gmail are examples of how it should be done, I have a copy, I can make more copies, they make sure its accessible from everywhere I want. If Dropbox or Gmail suddenly stops I will still have my files.
I simply replaced the eval line at the end of the decode script with console.log.

I hadn't seen this obfuscation technique yet, learned something new :)
That page on the EEA seems to imply that members have to stick to EU laws - particularly around freedom of movement, which is one of the main reasons some UK politicians are keen on leaving the EU.

Personally, I think that any move to leave the EU would probably contribute to a break up of the UK.
In itself, there isn't that much direct value to an employer unless your work in a Masters degree is directly relevant to their product/service.

However, the most valuable part of an advanced degree is building your own knowledge and experiencing new things that you won't necessarily get to experience in a job. You may meet some new friends, you may discover a love for a certain subject and want to position your career towards that field or you might be able to boost your own understanding of the theoretical side of CS to a point where it aids your understanding of programming. That is worth far more than anything an employer can offer you.
I recommend everyone read the book, "How to Conquer Your Frustrations" by Dr. William J. Knaus
It covers procrastination extensively and I found the way the author explains the structure of behaviours very insightful.
In the interim, do your best to manage your procrastination by ordering your activities that you can do one to avoid another. For example, read this book to avoid cleaning your home. Study to avoid going to the gym.
Good luck!
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Nice but lacks automatic scrolling to guarantee visibility of highlighted part and comment.
Further reading on this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/15/protecting-you...
Can anyone explain European rubber stamp-fetishism? Has there ever been a study done showing that rubber stamping practically everything (20 euro purchase at an electronics store) is effective in preventing forging of documents? To an outsider visiting continental Europe the practice looks redundant and almost comical.
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mawk is fast like nobody's business. I mainly use awk for speedy filetype conversions for large data sets. I am not sure if I would reap any benefits from switching my awk interpreter into a JIT language, but this is a really cool project nonetheless.
After having saved it to bitmap beforehand, to ensure the software can't apply lossless jpeg transformations.
Running CUDA on Raspberry Pi
World's first CUDA application running on Raspberry Pi (or any other ARMv6/7 boards) through transparent virtual GPU emulation
They do indeed pay in bitcoins. The payment transactions during the fork weren't lost, however-- they were confirmed on both branches of the chain. The only transactions that disappeared were the block reward transactions on 0.8.

If pools paid miners using bitcoins from their own mined blocks, this problem would go away-- that's not a bad idea!

edit: I asked -- some pool operators apparently already do this. The ones that lost out are the ones that don't.
[[When the family were driven from the doctor at Kintore 27km to the smaller community of Kwiwikurra, the nomads ritually beat members of their extended families with sticks for not bringing them in from the desert earlier.]] Nomad brought to modern society in 1984.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/lost-tribe-happy-i...

[[None of the nomads regrets coming in from the desert.

"I like this life," Yardi said. "I much prefer it to the old ways."

Warlinipirri said: "I wouldn't go back."

Melbourne art dealer Kit Ballan, who was in the Alice buying paintings when I met Warlinipirri, said: "We see the nomadic life in the desert as utopian.

"But, in reality, it would have been hard beyond our imagining.

"Every day would have been dominated by the search for food and water."]]

It doesn't look like a nomadic people have that much recreational time - they are constantly searching for food, water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pintupi_Nine
It'd be nice if the title were changed from "Taking the Leap" to "Taking the leap"; as well as being the true title of the article, it would remove any potential confusion with the Leap Motion devices. (I know I was initially uncertain which it would be talking about, though I considered the correct one more probable.)
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentia...