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> Don't forget that should you succeed you'd be regarded with jalousy and hatred.

While the rest of your article may have some exaggerations, that's true and that's what is shaping my decision. I can live with some insecurity, I can live with deadbeat companies trying to avoid paying their bills and laws preventing me from hiring - I'll just go solo and focus on foreign clients.

But if on top of that I'm hated and discriminated against (that's common when your name doesn't sound french) sorry but that's just too much.

BTW for the people who do not know France let me precise what the "military" mentioned by this poster is : there are squads or 3 to 5 soldiers, in full uniform with machine guns in their hand patrolling in some places. I don't know if it's supposed to make me feel safe or not. And you can be asked "your papers" by policemen for no reason that not looking exactly like what they expect. (I once took the train to work every day - when they did that for the 4th time straight, I just said I had forgotten them (I had!) and suggested they arrest me. they ducked out. That's just plain intimidation)

And BTW to those who say it's anecdotal evidence, just go live there! Try it for yourself. Vote with your feet. When it is in the media and your family is attacked and you see people being attacked too, all the while being hated for being successful maybe you'll sing a different tune.

I'm happy to be on the right side of the atlantic, in the FWI where making money is well regarded, people start business, and you generally feel safe. The population is quite diverse in the Caribbean, and - for now it's working just fine! There's not so much hate!

We certainly have unemployment and some stupid french laws to deal with, but with different tax brackets, and overall it's IHMHO not a bad choice.

PS: to those who downvote my original article, I tried to be factual and fully honest. You can hate the truth, but it remains the truth.
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These guys used to let you run your own images through their filter. It was great for spotting even really good shoops. http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com/
Good for you. I wish you both the best as an ethical company.
Hey, we have been looking to integrate a solution like this in our product, I got a couple of suggestions.

First, using data attribute is too intrusive, a json object would have been much better, we just cannot add these attributes everywhere in our app.

Using a json object would also make it possible for anyone to create a UI tool for creating guides.

Also a "scenario" concept would be nice, having the ability to have multiple scenarios in a page is essential for a support team.

Last thing, the UX is fantastic, it's clean and simple :)
Yes, just take a look at Australia's capital gains taxation to see where their priorities are.

In fact, there is no capital gains tax. It's all taxed as income. There is no incentive to sweat it out for years building equity because once you exit, you will give an enormous chunk to the government because you are suddenly in a $1M+ tax bracket for that year only.

Their bankruptcy laws also don't reward risk taking as well as the US either.
Ownership does not have to be "transferred in full" for something to be a purchase. They key difference with rentals is the lack of time limit or reserved right to revoke the license. The fact that the purchased rights may be fragile does not make it a rental.

I can sell you an easement on my land. It's a purchase, not a rental. But it can be a very limited right nonetheless (e.g. Just the right to cut across the grass to the road). I can sell you a car on the condition you don't repaint it. I can sell you a piece of land on condition that you only use it for a certain purpose. These are all purchases within the common use of the term, even though they effect a partial transfer of rights.
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Most new-ish Android phones have a barometer. It assists in determining a rough altitude to make GPS lock faster.

Hence the ability to use apps like this to track barometric pressure across smartphones and track trends: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
Sorry, you are right :).
Thanks for the plugin by the way!
Seems like a nice app.
I really dislike the video though. Comes acros as unprofessional.
I dislike:
- The voice (nothing personal, I never like it when the developers themselves do the audio part of their video)
- The amateurish mspaint mascot.
- The pacing: Too long, too slow.
- The awfull keyboard sound & mouse icon.
I got it, I got it. Good idea, I think you submitted an issue on Github also, right?
Thanks for the awesome suggestion, in the next versions we will have that also.
Ask HN: what's up with HackerFollow?
In the last days there weren't any updates. Is it working for you guys?
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"While this approach may not sound appealing to every startup out there, the design team is clearly a selling point for Google’s VC arm, making it more attractive to promising early-stage startups."

Sure sounds appealing to me. :) This is a big differentiator for GV.

BTW great to see a feature on Ordr.in, I love that startup.
The Fourth Amendment *used* to protect us
The barometer gives you better resolution on the Z pos. So it's useful for measuring changes in altitude and the like, provided the weather conditions don't change (resulting in a change in atmospheric pressure). Though without some kind of calibration, you can't determine your altitude from the barometer alone. It can also be useful to calibrate when enough GPS satellites are visible, then continue providing the altitude, even when there aren't enough satellites in view.
Here's where you can go to find your actual address:

https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction_input

There are, occasionally, errors in the database. I'm trying to get one corrected now. If you find one, go to your local Post Office, find a supervisor, and ask him or her to notify "Address Management".
Agreed. Look at just early this week when ComiXology went down and users lost access to their comics for an extended period of time.

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2013/03/the-lesson-of-t...
Agreed, it has proven its worth to me enough to easily justify a subscription service.
Why do you think that would happen? Given the complexes of incentives attached to the judiciary and the legislature, respectively, it seems more likely that new statutes rather than case law would attempt to legitimize this practice, which probably already runs afoul of existing case law.

And if it was likely to happen, wouldn't it happen anyway, even if there were new legislation involved?
Honestly my 1st choice : Canada : close to the US, business friendly especially in provinces like AB.

Then in fact in my 2nd choice : South America.

Chile +++ but I've never been there. I considered spending some time to check for myself if for some reason I don't follow my 1st choice. I considered Uruguay too. Both seem like good place to start a business, at least just as good as Europe in my line of work. I'm just concerned about the "distance" to fly to North America and Europe (clients, family, etc) and the added costs. [I'm considering India too in this 2nd choices]

Brazil +, more violent crime than in France, but more opportunities.

Argentina : unknown. Seems to go down in flames, just like France (sorry for any argentinian, I'm just casting an opinion based on gut feeling without much proofs)
Brilliant and almost perfect. I will incorporate it into my project, next week. Thank you so much.

Most people here are asking for more features. Please be careful with that; it would be a pity to see such a pearl to swell into bloatware. You have very good taste, let it be your guide.
GV has been an amazing partner to ordr.in - this design sprint is the most visible aspect of that amazingness. I totally agree that it is a huge differentiator! (thanks for the love :)
LightArrow Adds Dropbox Sync and Themes Support to LifeTopix App
It is very trivial to port, as theres not all that much to it right now .. just some code to do HTTP PUT and GET to transfer RAM snapshot blobs back and forth with the server. Opening it up (if desired) to indie and homebrew games, other emus, other target platforms and host platforms, adding new features.. lots we can do, and hopefully part of the game, but a lot to do before we get there :)

Or perhaps theres already an open source or standardized protocol for doing achivements and high scoring and so forth; an open source 'game centre' etc would be nice..
MSE for windows XP had no associated patch or service pack, was using the same api as every other AV out there, and was about a thousand time better.

One could argue Microsoft doesn't need to turn a profit so they can afford to be less intrusive, but the truth is that I would pay for MSE. I wouldn't pay for any of the others.
Turkish lira or watermelons aren't relevant to technology professionals.
I'm interested in what the accuracy, stability and precision of this barometer are. For the use case that they were put into that phone (and the price point it implies), I am unsure whether data reported from these phones will be useful for PressureNet.

Longer explanation: in the parlance used for pressure measurement, a barometer is a low-pressure absolute gauge (although what they pack in the phone is a sensor or transducer rather than a full gauge for obvious reasons). In order to measure absolute pressure, it needs to pack a good source of vacuum to be used as one of the differential inputs. And it needs to do it real small and real cheap. I suspect they're using a piezoresistive or capacitative sensor for this pressure range, which both have a significant tempco, and they almost certainly can't do a valid temp-comp on the part for cost reasons (you can sort of bullshit it by characterizing the lead unit and applying that to everything based on a curve fit, but the results are not great).

Sensors in this form factor and for this price point might be accurate to within +- 2.5%, which is not terribly useful for a barometer for weather purposes.
Interesting idea, but I think an awful lot of BTC will be hanging around going unclaimed because of random twitter users who have no idea what's going on.

I wonder if the tipper can get unclaimed money back.
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It's completely built in the DOM using HTML5, give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

https://satoshibet.com

Thanks!
so this is a colored version of gdb's `bt` command? am I missing something?
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Not at all, I just find it odd. Having a fancy URL is great, but the restrictions in place on certain domains are there for a reason and should be respected.
Here is some feedback: A demo to play around with, before signup would be nice. I would even say having it on the homepage would be even better. The video is cool.
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Not very useful at all. To accurately measure temperature you really need a Stevenson screen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen). But furthermore, this needs to be located in a good location with attributes such as good air circulation, lack of buildings, concrete, trees, etc. It's often impossible to meet all these conditions in an urban area, which means you're really measuring a micro climate. While there are some sites that crowd-source data from personal weather stations, there's really no guarantee that people have followed good guide lines with the placement and installation of their weather station. It's sometimes obvious when this is occurring because you see some pretty large variations in temperature in more or less the same neighbourhood.
Sure are a suspicious number of very new commenters here making their first comment ever.
Yup, I'd expect to pay for such a thing, no problem with that, just don't see any even for pay. Rolling my own is the other alternative, will probably end up doing that.
Hey guys, you're low on memory on your php app. Now I can't check out your cloud gaming solution, maybe you should have hosted it in a cloud ;) (with more ram..)
Use it buddy :) I spent all of my weekend time to built it and I just published it open-sourced.
So instead finding something you would like to do, we must commit to exercises, motivation(discipline), regulations, restrictions in hope that reward will outweigh something we really do not want commit to.
I was like this many years ago and managed to fix it.

I am strongly considering developing an online course about this and to get some more hands on experience I am happy to help few people for free. If you would like my help please email me your Skype details. You can find my email in my profile.
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Whats wrong with steroids? Dianabol is the breakfast of champions according to Arnold.
So what happens when someone patents your company's established trade secrets and then wants to charge your company to use its own internally developed technology?
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> few French don't realize how awesome health care is in France

And even fewer don't realize how good it can be in other countries too. Social security pays a percentage, the rest is up to you - you have a commercial insurance or a mutuelle. But some costs still are for your to pay.

I work in healthcare. There are countries where in fact you don't have to pay at all. They have delay issues (try Quebec!) but if you are arguing on just a cost basis that's better.

> we're a very long way from curfews and martial law

No, not very long. There are already riots every 3 to 4 years, large scale ones.

You have the left that's ignoring the economic situation, the right that's discredited and the far-right that's banking on the situation, saying things that may make sense to the common voter, but if they get in power won't be so good for the country (and for that I would accept a Godwin point)

We badly miss a libertarian party in France. There's no hope in sight. Between the socialist and the fascist, the poster has good reasons to be worried, even if there are some exaggerations. Just look at what happened to Chile, Spain etc.

If there was a way to make a profit on my bet, I'd bet on civil war in mainland france within 15 years - and edge my bet with a smaller one, curfew and martial law within 10 years.
Hope they'd not break http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Library and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_%28C%2B%2B_libraries%29 based applications
Chicken scheme had been around for 12 years... How did this make the front page?
I'm originally from Vienna (now living in SF) and I wouldn't really recommend to live there. The Viennese people all praise how well there city works, but if you've lived in another place for a while you quickly notice all the things going terribly wrong there.

To bring a few counter-points to the praises listed on the web site:

You want to work at a startup? Great! But don't go to Vienna then. There are a few startups, but most of them finance themselves via part-time consulting work, as the chances of getting "real" investments are quite low. And almost all of the successful ones that I know move to places like London or Berlin as soon as possible.

Salaries are low. And I mean low. If you're used to salaries at places like SF you're probably paying more for your apartment in those places than what you're net income in Vienna would be. And forget about stock options, even at the so called "startups" there they are quite rare.

It feels like almost everyone smokes in Vienna. If you're ever going to a restaurant or a bar, even if it's only a brief visit, be prepared to wash all of your clothing afterwards. There are practically no laws protecting non-smokers, although those are nowadays standard in most other modern cities.

It rains almost all the time. There are something like 2 months of summer and 2 months of winter. The remainder of the time is cloudy rainy weather. So yes, there would be a few nice places where you could do stuff outside, but only during the short summer time. And don't expect any clean parks where you just can lie down and enjoy the sun (like in SF). Most of the city parks are dirty. And most people don't clean up after their dogs, so you wouldn't want to lie down in those parks anyway.
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Ya I don't get that either. It's a race to the bottom. I mean I love finding diamonds in the rough that don't know what they're worth. I have a guy who does Rails jobs for me, used to work for Microsoft, went to a top Indian technical college, speaks perfect english and is really, really good - and he charges me $25 an hour. He could easily be charging $100+/hr if he just marketed himself to different clients (i.e. not on elance).

I guess it's the opposite of what's going on in San Francisco where anybody with a CS degree or equivalent experience expects six figures. There they all expect very little and are happy to get a bit more than the guys hustling hard for $10/hour.
not entirely true : if you are a french resident Dual Taxes Treaty apply ... If you work from France or do business with French companies you'll end up paying some taxes to France.

if anyone got more details on this topic I'm interested, please pm.
Thanks! I won't be using http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ as much now.
I've never seen an interesting discussion on any piece by Gruber, since most articles are flamebait-ish populist articles that bring out the fanboyism in people, with discussions degenerating into dick measuring contests of who's favourite is better. Nothing good can come out of it.
> Pop music is frequently spoken down upon, that it's 'talent-less' or 'garbage', but it really is like any other expert discipline - if it were so easy, there wouldn't be such a saturation of experts dominating the field.

Pop music and folk songs use common chord progressions with variations for the simple reason that such songs are easy to pick up and play. To that end, pop music is the opposite of an expert discipline, it is a form that is accessible to people who want to play music. That doesn't mean that a pop song can't be complicated or have lots of technical finesse, but that wouldn't be the typical kind of pop song people play.
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Ok, good. I think I should add a config function to prevent some features, red circles for example.
gcc 4.2, although at this stage I'm so used to reading the error messages that I just gloss over most of the verbiage
So.. it's just a publicity stunt? If it's not actually using the graphics hardware on-chip then there's nothing special about it that's relevant to the raspberry pi. Apparently there exists software that can give you virtual gpu's, that's cool enough news for me, a bit weird that they market it through the pi.
You should benchmark things that happen on most web sites.

Such as, connect to mongodb using the best drivers for each language and then...

- Return 1kb of json from the db

- Return 50kb of json from the db

- Return a 5kb template from the db

- Return a 50kb template from the db

Most web work involves strings. Go is really fast when it comes to dealing with large strings but once you factor in db calls then it doesn't matter one bit because the I/O call to the db out weighs any benefit.

If you want to really compare them then bring in Express and build yourself a mini-Express framework in Go then compare the 2 with equal features.
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That can become a PITA if you want to preserve events and CSS in the focused element.
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Played with it, helps with some template issues involving STL, but doesn't seem to interpret CRTP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiously_recurring_template_p...) issues correctly. Nonetheless, very cool.
Supply and demand determine our wages. We compete in an international market. You can choose to refuse to take the job. But somebody somewhere may be prepared to accept a lower price, and you cannot control this.

If you want to get your panties in a wad, then go right ahead. But that won't help your cause.

If you want to keep your wages up, then find a market where there is a supply shortage, or increase your own quality so that you can command a higher price in the market that you're in.
You will move world if you want to.

Or when you are in fear from something, if you believe in fear.

Fear from not being successful :D. Fear from not reaching someone's else expectations. Fear from doing right/wrong things.

Motivation ultimately is carrot-stick mechanism. You should never be motivated to do something you like. Because it is natural.

And all I can tell you, you have not found what you would like, because you too have placed values in very very unbelievable(for you) place.
Sorry, this is nothing new at all. Here is a list of smartphones which have a build-in barometer sensor to measure atmospheric pressure to improve the location services: Google Nexus 4, Samsung Ativ S i8750, Samsung Galaxy Nexus i9250, Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300, Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE i9305, Samsung Galaxy Note (N7000), Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (N7100), Simvalley Mobile XT-710 Apogee, Takwak tw700.
prior art is still a defense, just like it was before.
We decided to rewrite the API. This was an easy decision, clearly our Ruby on Rails API wasn't going to scale well and coming from many years of Java development and having written a bunch of things that handled tons of load with way less resources than what this Ruby on Rails setup could handle, I knew we could do a lot better
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Exactly. Browser compatibility is an important factor and is definitely useful; it would just be nice if a quick glance could tell me whether a particular framework was "more" or "less" compatible.
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Good job. In past I wrote something like this but it was just to save the day, therefore I didn't have a chance to publish.
"Pirates pirate to avoid money"

...or because the officially endorsed copied will not play on their OS of choice (due to reliance on some proprietary technology), or because there is no legal copy available in their region, etc. Even without DRM-induced reasons, there are non-monetary reasons people might download unauthorized copies.
I believe the receiver needs to approve a transaction before the transfer happens. Atleast that's how reddittip works.
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I feel like this happens much less often for lawyers. I never heard of someone say "let's hire a lawyer, it'll cost almost nothing". It's always the exact opposite. People assume a lawyer is going to be really expensive because they are.

Everyone seems to always know their uncle's friend's nephew's brother who makes web sites for $100 so they assume a 2 page static site of horribad quality will cost the same as anything else.
Its community is great.
Official blog post: http://blog.lore.com/post/45416094480
A squirrel is chewing on my internet.
How do we know you didn't create your account 900 odd days ago just to post this?
Did you read the article? It says so too. You are sorry that you just read the title?
Does this help running/cycling apps where folks want to measure altitude gains more efficiently?
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This is what DRM says :-

"You could have easily downloaded our product/music/movie for free. But you went out of your way to pay us for it. Thank you. In return, we'll punish you by putting restrictions on you that you wouldn't have had if you didn't bother to pay for our content."

A logic that sadly only makes sense to out-of-touch executives: "Hey, since we can't get people stealing our stuff, lets punish people paying for it instead".