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Well, I suppose one way to look at it is that, bearing in mind that taxes and bureaucracy are intensely difficult to change in the right direction in France, they should try and make things easier for start-ups in other ways. Subsidised office space, and easier collaboration are both good ideas, and are all the more necessary given France's problems in other areas. It should be noted that France turns out some really good engineers (my opinion, as an Australian in France), and it's just dumb not to benefit more from that.

The government has made some good changes in the red tape department too. For example, you can now kick off a one-person start-up by using the status of "entrepreneur" to start with, allowing you to start making money whilst holding down a steady job - once you've stabilized income at ramen profitability, you can then go and fight the red tape to become a proper business. Obviously this is not a model that works for all start-ups, but at least some are going to be able to get off the ground using this ramp.
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Its rather a case of each engineering profession is a regulated industry with an accreditation body, that certifies you as an engineer. Mechanical, electrical, electronic, chemical, industrial, civil, all have standards organisations, usually different ones in each country.

See IEEE for instance...

Also the engineer term is a protected designation in many countries, just as doctor and laywer is...
Let me clarify something first: I am not an entrepreneur myself. I don't deal with said paperwork, the people I currently work for or have worked for in the past do. I've had the same feedback from a lot of them, in small and bigger companies.

Basically the complaints are always the same: it's not necessarily the amount of paperwork, it's the fact that when interfacing with the various agencies (regarding legal, financial, bank-related, employment or health issues) you usually have to provide the same documents OVER and OVER (and interfacing with people who are not always accountable to someone given the number of layers in the French administration, creating a system where some people have a job for life, don't understand that the "state" is all of us and don't give their all).

It sometimes feels that it never ends and doesn't make sense. Since the system in France is very centralized and since all the different agencies ALL depend from the state, this should be centralized to a given location and then dispatched to the agencies upon request.

The bigger problem anyway (if you call that a problem) is that your social contract in France is that of a mutual network of citizens taking care of each other through taxation. This is great when it comes to a lot of topics (health, education, social services), but it naturally has a cost when you're competing against the likes of the USA who have made a clear choice that the private sector tends to come first. I've yet to think of a good way to have my lunch and eat it but this more often than not puts our SME/SMI in a difficult spot.
According to http://caniuse.com/flexbox Firefox on Android still needs a prefix.

Testing in Chrome 29 - pinch to zoom is disabled but are you sure that's not a deliberate choice in this specific case rather than a flaw with flexbox?
dont need ask for something happen
I can't remember the detail, just the arguments really. I recall things like misrepresenting themselves to people on craigslist and violating things like 'don't send me promotional material' settings.
3 years... this is definitely French. By the time, a dozen of bigger projects can show up in the world.
I think it's the optics that have NGOs concerned. A full-sized RC fighter jet is worrisome to anyone who already has concerns about where we're headed in this killer drone era.

Looks like an escalation, irrespective of whether it actually is technologically speaking.
I use the same spam filter as in the book "Programming collective intelligence"
Google is not paying anything for the development of Android Studio. Instead, they've put their own development team to work on the Android features in Android Studio, which we then integrate into our distribution of IntelliJ IDEA.
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Obviously the amount a bitcoin is worth is exactly the amount of money the average person spent to generate it, so you can't profit from it.
I don't think 'be forced' means what you think it means.

If a site defaults its links to "same tab" then I can easily override that behaviour and open them in new tabs if I choose (just by using a different mouse button or holding down a key when I click)

If a site defaults links to "new tab", can you tell me the simplest way I can override that behaviour?
In this startup incubator there will be a counter with administrative people to help us with all this paperwork. So less pain with all this formalities, we will just have to pay more as we are in France.

By the way, one more time, thanks Xavier Niel, he's the only one in France who invests so much money on things like this and taking so many initiatives to make things change.

He gave us the cheapest contract for mobile phone in the world, he offered us the 42 school (free school for computer sciences with an innovative learning method), he offers us the most efficient dedicated servers for a decent price (http://www.online.net/fr/serveur-dedie/comparatif-serveur-de...), and so much more.

Thanks Xavier Niel.
Most evidence seems to point to large companies being the holdout - users have already largely abandoned IE on XP.

Check the weekend/weekday variation in IE8 usage. It plummets at weekends to a negligible amount.
Updating Chrome just now caused my Cookie Clicker tab to wonk out, leading me to believe the update had broken it.

It was almost the worst day of my life.
It will not happen/work while Hollande is president
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Great list! Mostly works for projects in general, too! Agree that there needs to be a blog post of its own for that.
All of it...The issue in France is politicians that create harsh constraints for entrepreneurs then architect "usines à gaz" for there friends to pretend they are helping entrepreneurs.
Something like hammock (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hammock/) would probably be more appropriate there.
And thus MS snatches defeat from the jaws of victory once more.

Locking browser upgrades to OS upgrades without huge a technical justification. With XP maybe there was a case that it was too hard to support all the changes needed but Vista to Windows 7/8? This was a business decision not a technical one.

At least Vista uptake was relatively small.
GNOME and logind+systemd thoughts
> "You put far too much stock in your own experience and comfort exploring a tablet UI, and yet you seem to hold yourself as more representative as a "real user" than the author"

Nope. We're both totally unrepresentative, the moment we start analysing.

My complaint is: I don't believe that all the points the author made came from him genuinely finding things confusing and then working out which design inconsistencies caused his confusion. I think his ability to make those judgements are clouded by his endeavouring to analyse and critique a design (as would be mine). That's why we have user testing.
Is it deflationary because of the 21 million limit? That limit won't hit until 2140.
Or is it deflationary because the projected velocity will go up faster than the mining output?
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My co-founder and I have a combined 20+ years of experience in the airline software industry. When we set out to start our own business, it was clear that we were not going to sell to airlines. Too many legacy systems, too much historically grown cruft, needless complexity, too many individual requirements but no money to pay for it. Plus they're distributed all over the world so selling to them is very costly. It's a shame because we would have had a big head start in terms of domain knowledge.
Just tried Professional one on OSX, CPU goes above 100%.

Anyone having same issue?
Yes, i'm from France and I can tell you IT IS NOT GOOD, at all.
So true. Before leaving to focus on more interesting things I've spent a chunk of my career working developing software services for some big insurers. This tale from 1995 could easily be a story of the challenges we faced in 2012/13.

Data managed in spreadsheets, layer upon layer of disconnected management, no engagement with users, very little willingness to understand software development. More spreadsheets...
Yes, then all they'd have to do is hire a bunch of people to write documentation, like AMD's done for their open source driver. To the extent that they have documentation currently, it's likely wrong, incomplete (because the driver guys can just ask the hardware guys what's up), and it's got various trade secrets and future device plans in it.
Nice! I wonder if they deliberately made it close enough to FF Meta that the Firefox wordmark is recognisable?
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Really interesting, but a building != an incubator. Access to capital/investors is key and its unclear from the article if this is something they've got a plan to address.
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Two things:

1) No sound for me at all (Chrome 29.0.1547.76 on Linux/x86_64).

2) Does it really sniff the logged in Facebook user? (looking at the developer console, I can see my facebook userid scrolling down right there)
Why would iOS7 calendar app loop indefinitely at year 4716 BC?
I am trying to understand the kind of programming error that would have caused this.
Is that really true? This article [1] lists a top 10% petrochemical engineer's salary as $146,000. A fairly skilled senior software engineer at, say, Google can easily pull in $250-300K in total comp, and a programmer on Wall Street or independent consultant with good domain knowledge in wealthy industries like banking can pull in $300-500K/year. That's not even counting talent acquisitions, which can go for $1M/engineer/year.

[1] http://work.chron.com/salary-petrochemical-engineer-4334.htm...
Indeed. There's no place for humour on HN.
A font isn't a standard, it's an identity. "Oh, they're using a non-primary colour? I'll stick to RBY, thanks."
Yes, they were, but except for a small crowd of nerds, the way they were produced was not part of the magic.
We wanted the SVG to be responsive, but altering the size of the svg itself didn't work well in all browsers. So we put it in a div and resized that and told the svg to fill the div. We have had to set the height on the div otherwise it defaults to the native height of the svg in some browsers, rather than the resized height. The svg did maintain it's proportions however.

Also, we wanted to dome some simple onclick and onhover events on certain elements within the svg, and to do this we had to keep the <script></script> stuff outside the SVG because of safari. Interestingly having the javascript within the SVG worked well with the other browsers...
There are many things to fix in France to encourage start-ups, indeed. And containing bureaucracy will be harder than tax issues IMO.

However, what's very important in this endeavor this that it's 90% financed by Xavier Niel, a single private entrepreneur who's specialized in blowing up bureaucratic / oligopolistic businesses. He's pioneered minitel services (including sexual content, which got him some flak), then commoditized high-speed ADSL (we've had tens of Mbps for €30 for nearly a decade), more recently cellular phone (no contract, no subsidized phone, unlimited calls, 3GBytes of data for €20), has started messing with education (http://www.42.fr), and now incubation.

I'd have been _very_ skeptical of this without Niel's control over it. With him, I tend to be hopeful.
I fail to see the "innovation" in this. Purpose built keyboards have been around for as long as i can remember, I am especially thinking about the TV production computers with special keys, colours etc...
When i saw this i had my hopes high to see a touch surface with an electronically customisable layout, so that the app can essentially draw its own controls.

With e-Ink this is not difficult to do.
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Joe Watkins introduced the PECL extension "https://github.com/krakjoe/pthreads" half a year ago (thanks Joe, great job), opening the way for appserver.io, the first thread base solution in PHP that will provide real application server functionality like JBoss in the Java ecosystem.

appserver.io is an open source project with the goal of creating a stable, scalable and high performance platform to provide PHP developers services that are needed in virtually all major projects. At this point of time it is possible to use the Servlet Engine (Webserver), the Persistence Container (Doctrine) and the MessageQueue. As the development is still in a very early stage, we do not recommend the usage on a live system. All Components are entirely developed with PHP and can be downloaded together with some example Applications (e. g. Magento CE) "". The components are also available as Composer bundle. Altogether this means that a developer can easily access the components, expand and adjust them if needed.

For easy start up, we provide you with a package for Mac OS X 10.8.x as well as a Debian-Wheezy-package, available at ."http://www.appserver.io", however please keep in mind, PHP must be compiled thread-safe.

The latest version can be installed and tested conveniently using the Debian Repository deb.appserver.io. The bundle includes a system independent PHP Stack and an application demo. Install the Application first before opening http://localhost:8586/demo in a browser.
The existing documentation is still very rudimentary but will be updated and improved over the next weeks to provide a simple and easy entry for the basics. Stay tuned and make sure to read the article that will come out with the next PHP magazine. The article will help the interested developers to find an starting point for developing with PHP and threads.
The Landauer limit [1] is relevant here. Even if you could theoretically make a processor that does it, it would take about 30 gigawatts of power for 1 year [2] to just do 2^128 bit flips (this is obviously a lower bound since it disregards the additional energy required to actually do the calculation). This is more than 1/100th of the world's current energy production. So it's not something that is going to be a concern for most people, and certainly not in the near future!

If the world had access to that kind of energy, I'm sure it'd be used for far more interesting things than finding a single hash collision.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer_limit
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack#Theoretical_...

Edit: and while we're on the subject of inappropriately extrapolating Moore's law, if current performance-per-watt continues to double every 18 months I'd be interested in how long it'd take to even reach the Landauer limit. I can't seem to find out how much energy it takes to do a single bit flip in a modern processor online, so I can't do the calculation.
I remember first hearing that there were rules to war as a kid. I literally couldn't believe it.

You can make the argument that there are some very inhumane/barbaric ways to kill people, and as a "civilized" world, we shouldn't engage in them. But, that line of reasoning always takes you back to, "wait, how about we just not kill people at all?"
Too many words. Very few points.
So there is 30.000m² of space, but it seems that most of it can't be used for actual work. It'd have been more beneficial if they used the money to build a building and have subsided apartments for start-ups. I think at a starting stage, I'm more in need for work space than an auditorium or another restaurant.

But this doesn't solve the problem for France. I'm (geographically) quite close to France but will incorporate my next start-up in Hong Kong. No Visa, much easier paper work, and easier to get a bank account; and also cheaper.
I don't know if it's a flaw with flexbox, but with the way sites are adopting it. The recommended layout from A list apart and Solved by flexbox both exhibit these problems, as well as multiple mainstream news sites.
I would love to hear the feedback about the appserver
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Interesting, but I'm always a bit skeptical about projects that seem so architecture-ey. I like architecture, but it usually can't create communities or industries. It's like when cities decide to build artist quarters. It works when there are already artists n the area.

The website & press release are all about the building. Who are these startups 1000 startups & why are they going to choose to be there over other places?
Interesting idea, if I understand it correctly: a syllabus, with recommended resources from diverse sources for learning and assessment, but no actual instructor... only tools and encouragement for students to collaborate.

(The name 'mechanical MOOC' seems a bit off, though. It made me think of either a MOOC on mechanical topics, or something with very rigorously-specified interactive software.)
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BBC Future (international version)

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK ...

Anyone care to provide a summary?
@Nostrademons

Ok clearly I am out of touch then. But seriously, how many SE really gets paid 250k+, even at Google?
Quants is in my mind the same as the petrochemical industry tough, rediculous salaries so that one I can believe.
very neat idea. Very similar to developing your jvm based application in groovy and slowly moving over to java.
Wish they would, I started using AIV to get new shows without downloading. Partly since usenet indexing was sketchy for a while, but it's also convenient and cheap, and since I'm in the states now I can actually get content.

Very glad these are finally out. Not sure I can justify to myself getting the 8.9 (have a nexus), but maybe a 7". I really do love the screen on the 8.9 though.
Is it really fine to work without speaking French in Paris?
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I started out at a non-technical startup that was pushing a technical tool as its main product. Out of a team of three developers, I became the Lead Developer, despite having barely a year of experience, simply because I was the better programmer and was willing to call management out when they tried to make technical decisions. I was offered a choice of "Senior Developer" and "Lead Developer" and went with the lead role because I didn't feel very senior.

In reality, I was barely a junior dev, and being in charge of a site that's getting millions of views was absolutely terrifying. In some ways, it was one of the best training exercises I could have. It forced me to learn things, and to learn them well. It was also total bullshit. My pay wasn't that great, and although I was working in a startup that was slowly becoming technical, had absolute control over technical decisions, and was able to turn a company that struggled with FTPing to a server into one with automated builds, regular code reviews using a new source control system (Git), and much more, it still highlighted more than anything that I really didn't have the slightest clue what I was doing.

It really couldn't have gone better for me. The company was acquired, and I landed a job at a great agency, and was able to work on enough projects to actually know what I was doing, and to see what good code looks like. I'm a mid-level developer now, with much better pay, but instead of looking back over old code and laughing, I tend to look back over the time where I led the technical side of a startup and laugh.
I'm actually quite impressed that it goes back that far...
It's not an "editor", it's an IDE. I presume that considering you don't know/understand the difference that such features aren't much use to you anyway so carry on with the deluded paranoia...
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A good idea, but needs to be more polished. For example, since this tab will mostly be hidden away somewhere for me, I don't see why it needs to download a video. I know that there is an option to disable video, but I don't see the point of videos here in the first place.
http://www.calm.com/ does something similar to this.

They also have a timer feature which is useful when you need to pace yourself
Test-Driven Sudoku? :)
Is there any point in owning a license for IntelliJ and RubyMine/PyCharm? I thought that IntelliJ Ultimate had all the features of RubyMine and PyCharm but I haven't used them so I could be mistaken.
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>Only difference is that the pilot is on the ground instead of in the air.

Seems that removing humans from harm's way on one side of the conflict would have pretty big implications wrt high level decision-making.

>I highly doubt anybody would seriously consider these for warfare applications.

Are you saying that Iarger fighters no longer have utility as opposed to purpose-built UAVs?
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I will help you, despite your snarkiness :)

Just use greasemonkey or tampermonkey and a script like this:

var a = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (i=0;i<a.length;i++) {
if (a[i].target="_blank") {
a[i].target="_self"
}
}

It should work for the majority of cases. You should be able to tweak it to handle any exceptions.
I think you're right :|
For linux there's Kupfer [0] which is really awesome and easily scriptable in python.

[0] http://engla.github.io/kupfer/
Yes, that would be nice. Those dual screen laptops are a nice idea, but not with double screens; no battery life/too heavy and such. With e-ink and especially mixed with something like Tactus[1] you could have a winner.

I would've actually expected something like that to appear in one of the big vendors' machines as an attempt to be the 'new iPhone/iPad wow moment'. Fail or not, someone has to try.

[1] http://www.tactustechnology.com/technology.html
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