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Sadly, as a French entrepreneur, I would love to contradict you.
But basically, you're right. It is much more difficult to create a startup in France rather than in the US for instance.

Read PG's http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html in perspective and it still stands 7 years later, especially when considering US vs. France.
As you note, the concept of free speech in Europe is somewhat different than in the U.S., but this includes your first sentence not applying in Europe to the same extent. In at least some European countries, the conception of free speech is more of a positive right to speak, subject as you note to limitations (such as an exclusion of racial incitement from the ambit of protected speech). But that may mean that non-governmental entities are also prohibited from interfering with or retaliating for the speech, in at least some circumstances. The most common is that employers are sometimes limited in whether they can fire people for protected speech. Another case is public accommodations, e.g. using political affiliation to refuse service in a hotel or restaurant. I don't know much about transportation law, but it's not inconceivable that there would be some common-carrier rules there.

(The above written with "some" and "may" qualifiers because European laws differ considerably between countries, and sometimes within countries.)
This tax doesn't even exist, it has been rejected by the constitutional council (the French supreme court)
This site is unreadable for me.
What about the perfect location for startup employees? New York has an astronomically high cost of living, but it's not like people are somehow tricked into paying it. It also has world-class transportation, social scene, arts, etc. etc.

If you want a "low cost of living", you're going to pay the price for it in another way. Your "educated, creative" workforce might not be all that inclined to stay.
Could you list a few more? I'm a big fan of this genre (ever since the King's Quest days)
Domestic flights in the UK aren't critical infrastructure, they're luxury. We have trains.
What's stopping Grannies from adopting Linux is the fact that legislators still seem to believe that it's not an abuse of monopolistic power by Microsoft to force laptop manufacturers into forcing the consumer to pay for an OS he doesn't need.

The EU's commission whose job it is to ensure healthy competition has been sleeping on this since a few decades now. They should get some of that coffee. It's really beyond me how MS is still allowed to operate like this. Why have companies like Redhat, Canonical, etc. not filed a complaint with the EU yet?
Except easyjet really isn't that cheap any more.
That could be a reason. You could also agree on clear goals with the employee and fire him if goals are not met. No problem. Just take the time to agree on clear, written, and official goals with him. You can fire him if you're in a difficult situation financialy speaking. But you have to prove this.

Not being an overachiever is by no mean a reason to be fired, not in France.

Things are changing slowly though, new types of contracts are being voted. They should bring "Flexibility". Give France a few years and you will be able to fire someone just because he's wearing a yellow shirt.

Given the mindset of french workers and unions, this new type of contract should actualy lower the overall productivity.
I fail to see how having the screen of your device turned on while you use it is "a compromise".
Haswell iMacs
Apple have refreshed their range of iMacs with 4th gen Intels, Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and PCIe storage
ChromeOS is a better choice for today's grannies on today's hardware.

Linux can be made that granny-proof. And that's what ChromeOS is. Hell, it's so granny-proof that it doesn't ship with gcc, or even header files!
What's fishy about it?

I've only used it connected to the wall so far, my co-worker had his running for 3.5 hours and the forum thread linked in the bottom of the article has lots of people running it for 3.5 to 4 hours. I just haven't had a change to test the battery that well yet.

Also, "I was imagining myself taking 10 hour+ flights" was a joke as I figured I wouldn't need that much battery so I let go of that requirement.
Ask HN: Go vs Bash for devops
Share you experience in writing all you devops stuff (just) in Go which one would have rather written in bash/shell scripts which heavily makes use of tools such as grep, sed, awk and other tools.
I've been looking into getting eye correction done using a newer method than LASIK/LASEK. The company that performs it in Sweden calls it "NoCut" but it seems to have a few other trade names in different countries (seems to be performed mainly in Sweden, Australia and the Netherlands).

It works similar to PRK/LASEK in that instead of cutting and reattaching a flap of the cornea (which can heal in place incorrectly, or even come loose if you rub your eyes) they remove a thin layer which then heals back cleanly. It's better than PRK in that instead of removing the layer with alcohol and manually marking an area, all that is dealt with a computer-controlled laser, which supposedly increases the precision, minimizing the affected area and makes healing much quicker and less painful. The biggest downside compared to LASIK is you have to sit in a dark room for 3 days listening t audio books while your eyes slowly and painfully heal, and then wear sunglasses outdoors when there's bright sunlight for a couple months.

After spending a week reading in detail about all the different methods, the possible side-effects or failure modes, etc. I think I'll stick to contacts for now...
This was my experience (had LASIK in '06): On the day of the surgery, it is enough to make you crawl into a closed room and shun all light. On the couple of days after, it's uncomfortable to look at a computer monitor. On the first few weeks you'll never forget your sunglasses at home. After six months, I'd say it is nearly normal.

It is difficult to say. I used to never ever need to wear sunglasses, even in the Portuguese summer. Now, I find them comfortable on very bright days -- not that I can't do without, it's just comfortable. Might be psychological, might indeed be somewhat increased sensitivity to sunlight.

I was on the fence for four or five years, until I decided to go at it. Best 3000€ I ever spent.
I realise what is meant, but not only is the term "granny" both sexist and ageist, it is also unnecessary. There is no useful distinction between a "granny" and a "user" in this person's hierarchy. MOST people view computers as tools to get things done and aren't interested in "exploring beyond that" -- or are we going to distinguish between "car drivers" and "granny car drivers" as well, when talking about simplifying the interface?
Quantize trades to 1 second intervals. Perhaps also allow any trade to be voided by either party in the following 1 second interval. Wait one second for assurance.

I have trouble seeing how implementing something like this would negatively impact upon any trading necessary to support the economy.
Your concerns are correct. I've been wearing lenses ever since I was 11 y/old. My eyes started to become irritated after 20 years or so. I got ARTIFLEX implant contacts a few years ago. An eye-opener! (And removeable, instead of Laser-treatment).
What maz-dev does not tell is that even if an employee steals the coffee machine, you will have a very hard time firing him. I will cost you a lot upfront and the employee will most probably win in court so you will have to pay him even more.

This is by far France's biggest problem. I had the "privilege" to tell that to our president Hollande, and he just confirmed he does not even understand what's wrong with that.
a) This is not in the US, so the US concept of free speech does not apply (the law is much more complex in common-law based jurisdictions)

b) I doubt anyone would claim EasyJet can't do this - just that it is a STUPID idea, and is almost guaranteed to backfire.
Their dependencies are based on their feature set and their wish to get rid of some code. It's only reasonable.
It reveals the degree to which Apple feels threatened by Android. On the consoles it's taken for granted that both consoles have large numbers of paying customers and that the porting costs are negligible compared with the potential gain of developing and releasing on both. That doesn't seem to be the prevailing wisdom when it comes to Apple vs Android.

It's also interesting that not even a "truckload" of cash could stop them releasing in China.
To anyone who is nearsighted and considering corrective surgery: do it. If you look at the stats, the vast majority of patients are glad they got the surgery.

I started wearing glasses when I was 9. I got contacts at 16. It was a great improvement, and I was quite happy with contacts. Two years ago, I got wavefront-guided epi-LASEK. It is without a doubt the best money I've spent.

Glasses have obvious problems, but even contacts come with significant disadvantages. They can dislodge unexpectedly. Doing anything in the water risks losing them. They can trap particles or chemicals against the cornea, causing irritation.

Corrective lenses also tax your mind with more logistics. An overnight trip requires saline solution, extra lenses (and/or backup glasses), a storage case, and some way to clean your hands. This sucks some of the fun out of camping and other activities.

Meanwhile, people who've had corrective surgery wake up and see. It's miraculous. Their eyes just work.
Elance pairs hunt for temp work with cloud computing
The contract you agree to when you buy an airline ticket normally contains a clause allowing the airline to deny boarding for any reason or no reason at all, with the only compensation to you being a refund of the ticket price. They usually don't exercise these clauses, but they are certainly free to do so at will. Had they denied him boarding, perhaps it would have been a bad business/PR decision, but there almost certainly wouldn't have been any legal liability for the airline.
Assuming you refunded the money I imagine it might hold up.
Granted. I'd be fine with a "you-are-just-allowed-to-fly-overseas" policy, if that solved a pain point for the airline :)
Nowadays yes, but most POS systems I have seen almost look like they have inserts in them and are a covered in buttons every color of the rainbow. The trend is defiantly to move to touch but its not free and that industry moves very slow.
> But that may mean that non-governmental entities are also prohibited from interfering with or retaliating for the speech, in at least some circumstances.

Especially for public accommodations, which an airline servicing a public airport might well be.

AFAIK, even the US put restrictions on what businesses can and can not do when they qualify as public accommodations (CRA, ADA, state-level anti-discrimination laws and state-level breastfeeding protection laws for instance).
Why you should not Marry a Web Designer
Thing A requires some things to do X. Thing B doesn't require these things to do X. One is a superset of the other, therefore one is clearly better, no matter what the semantics.
Look I may have been snide but I totally reject the entire premise that a "Granny proof" OS is a terminal locked down to three main apps. Heck the whole article goes through pains to say "Granny isn't stupid" but they only need a browser. I mean at this point why give them skype and email when they can use webmail and Skype via a browser? (requires Outlook.com so your mail is there to)

Granny proof to me is an OS where my granny can easily install their damn solitaire or scrabble games without too much hassle. They can get around to their downloaded images, create a gallery and maybe edit a Word Doc or excel spreadsheet. Its not some mythical strawman dummy user who really just needs an iPad. Right now an iPad is more powerful and usable device for a less tech savvy user then this stripped down - non-existant Linux distro.
As much as I like working in Python, and I tend to use it whenever I'm not forced to use something else these days, I would still rather move on to a nice, async, designed for the era of HTML5/JavaScript apps on client, Golang-based framework. I hope it won't take too long. Golang seems to a lot of us to be in the sweet spot of productivity close enough to Python and performance close enough to C++.
If a ten hour battery life was a requirement, why choose not test it? Why go to the trouble of plugging the cable into the wall?
3. Because you can fold this up with the device, lock it magnetically, and walk away holding it in one hand.
The article claims a high cost of mirrors and steam turbines as the big negative. Without seeing the cost-breakdown of the entire project, it is hard to ascertain if materials are indeed the largest factor or if it is something else like labor/salary or technology/licensing. If it costs $200m to build the tower and buy turbines, $2B/200,000 mirrors = $10,000/mirror. I find it hard to believe that cannot be lowered drastically once the research phase is over.

While I feel Solar Thermal (more appropriately CSP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_Solar_Power ) is very promising, for some reason many don't. Google invested in this company ( http://www.google.org/rec.html ) but has stopped investing more into CSP, preferring photovoltaics ( http://www.evwind.es/2011/11/24/google-cans-concentrated-sol... ).
"Apple Made EA Delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android" is a bad HN headline, for the following reason.

Nowhere in the article does it say that Apple MADE EA delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android. There are no claims there of threats or promises of consequences, explicit or implied, if EA didn't delay it.

The article quotes somebody as saying that Apple PAID EA to delay Plants vs. Zombies 2 on Android. I don't follow the Gaming Industry, but my understanding from reading around is that it is not unusual for platform owners to pay (or offer to pay) companies for limited-time exclusives. If the claim is true, and anybody feels aggrieved at this, they should feel aggrieved at EA for accepting the deal, not at Apple for offering it.

Furthermore, an update says that Apple denies the substance of the quote. It would be more helpful to know the exact wording of the denial.
> UPDATE: Apple is denying the substance of the comments made by Gibeau.

> A company spokesperson described Giant Bomb's story as "not true" and said no money was exchanged.

I'm curious about the revenue from android and ios ecosystems. It's very well possible that EA decided that there wasn't enough money in the android base to justify engineering resources (especially since it's free to play on ios: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plants-vs.-zombies-2/id59798...)
The biggest problem isn't ease of use as such, it's consistency.

If you set granny up with Windows and she has a problem, you know she can probably find another grandson or nephew who at least knows how to google for the solution, failing that it's probably easy to hire a cheap tech support person to go to her house and fix it for her.

Once you set her up with a Linux distro , you're probably on the hook for that thing for it's entire lifetime. Granted it's probably easier to find Linux nerds now than it used to be but they're more likely to say "oh, this is Ubuntu.. I only use Arch".
Will the title ever be available in my country through any service, media or format? No. Then, Pirate Bay.

Will it come to theaters someday and coincide with my wife's good mood? Yes. Ok, it's worth the wait.

For any other scenario, Netflix.
You can try mine http://emmanuelcaradec.com/qatapult which is more of a replacement for Quicksilver than for Alfred.

It's a bit on hold for the moment but you can extend it in javascript and build new skins as well.

It's definitively not as polished as Alfred and there are a few things that are broken like catalogs.

Before that I used FARR which I like better than Launchy and is more like Alfred ihmo, it has a ton of options and can trigger some plugins on regex matchs.
That sounds like a lat-lon of 0-0
Rob 'n' Ron
> 1) everyone else does it

I am from Slovenia, our entire GDP is lower than what CIA and NSA get.

I am pretty sure that our government spying doesn't come even remotely close to what USA (and others in 5 eyes) does.

Maybe Russia and China have similar ambitions, nobody else comes close (France is probably envious, but their capabilities are limited).

So out of nearly 200 countries maybe half a dozen have similar programs. I would't call that everybody.

(Most other countries limit their spying to relevant local threats.)

PS: That doesn't mean that various spies in other countries don't have wet dreams about having similar capability to US, but that's all they have dreams.
I was trying to word that logistics part in the post too, but you put it great. It's one less item to forget to bring on a trip of taking up space in your luggage and home.

Getting eye surgery has by no means made my life twice as good, but it was a slight improvement worth the money.
Trains tend to be more expensive than equivalent domestic flights, so perhaps it's the trains that are the luxury.
Elop denies Nokia pleas to accept smaller bonus due to divorce settlement
Of course it is, because I opted in when it asked if I wanted to be tracked. Google also sends me an email once a month to remind me I chose to be tracked.
Any serious entrepreneur in France can double the company income or raided funds with the help of national and local R&D grants, funds and tax credits (Crédit Impot Recherche). Add to that two years of salary for the founders paid by the agency the help unemployed people. It's super easy to get ramen profitable in France, and you don't really need to get angel funding. This is huge and often undervalued.
That sounds correct, though there definitely has to be a location which is somewhere in between the two polar opposites. I find it hard to believe that Silicon Valley was always as expensive as it is now...
I have had horrible eye sight my entire life, about 20/2000 to be precise. To give you an idea how bad that is, without my contacts, I could see my hand clearly when it was 1 inch from my nose...basically I was blind without them. I went from massively heavy glasses that put red spots on my nose from the pressure to contact lenses about twenty years ago. That was a huge improvement but you always had to worry about not falling asleep with them in. About 5 years ago I got LASIK surgery where Tiger Woods got his. The halo'ing was unfortunately a price I paid but I expected this because my cornea was so thin in my left eye that the surgeon needed to think about it before even saying if they could do the operation. This is all about risks and rewards. My problem was so significant that I will deal with the halo'ing even though Green Lights at traffic intersections are a t-shaped mess and dry eyes is another byproduct. This current situation is by far more pleasurable than the misery of being dependent glasses or contact lenses.
Testing that scenario with systemd - the child processes are spawned in a separate cgroup to the main sshd

(I'm trying out systemd for monitoring and automatically restarting my custom daemons, and finding it much nicer to use and more reliable than the alternatives - while at work we're using sysvinit, and I spent a whole day banging my head against couchdb's init script which tries to do auto-restart-on-crash at the shell level, with all sorts of terrible side-effects...)
Or you know... Disable location history?
I wore glasses from age 16 to 25. I've never once worn contacts - couldn't deal with touching my eyeballs every morning.

Got LASIK at 25 (i'm now 36). BEST DECISION EVER. I had it done in Manhattan - cost was about 4500 but I paid it via an FSA which reduced the costs further.

I did have the "Halo" effect for about 6-8 months - especially on traffic lights at night, but it eventually went away.

The only downside is that my eyes can feel dry from time to time - not sure if that is due to LASIK or just from being tired [I have 5 year old twins;)].

I am curious/nervous that the effects will wear off - but even if they do and I need to go back to glasses the last 10 years have been more than worth it.
I thought the actual conclusion made was:

If information can travel FTL then causality would be mutable.

That doesn't carry the implied premise that causality is immutable. I don't think that has yet been proven. In fact, if causality _is_ mutable, it might be possible to prove that it isn't even though it is.

Can of worms...
That sort of thing is the reason I switched from Fedora to ScientificLinux (i.e. RHEL). That switch happened years ago and I have yet to see anything critical break (in fact, I cannot think of anything beyond very obscure, configuration-specific breakage that is beyond what you would see for end user setups).

Why give your grandparents a toy someone else owns and controls when you could give them the real thing?
It would be so much easier if people could get the content in whatever way they see fit and pay the content creator directly.
I think the GP's issue is with the headline, which childishly states that Apple 'made' EA deny Android gamers PvZ. Let's talk like grown-ups: they made a deal.
Until you get that Ubuntu update that breaks the wireless driver.

For example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+b...
I'm sure after all armies are automatized somebody will eventually realize both sides can save billions and get same effect by just simulating the whole thing on computer.
Solr: The Most Important Open Source Project You’ve Never Heard Of
How can it be more expensive to produce a mirror than a solar panel? This doesn't need astromony grade mirrors... Are steam turbines so expensive compared to inverters?
I wonder if there are any projects named Dahomey. Or British Bechuanaland. Or perhaps French Guinea?

PS: I'm originally from Sri Lanka, which used to be Ceylon under British rule. I'm sure it's a wonderful project, but a bit silly (not to mention exploitive since they even use an elephant in the logo) to name it after a colonial name a lot of people struggled to get rid of.

Edit - On the footer :

Ceylon is a trademark of Red Hat, Inc

How does that work exactly? Can any company just trademark the former colonial name of a now sovereign nation?
> if you want fancy features like a sandboxing solution that leverages the proper way to do it (kernel cgroups, if I understood that correctly)

I'm really liking systemd too, in particular because it integrates so well with cgroups -- IMO we should really be adding equivalent sandboxing APIs to other kernels rather than crippling the init system to remain compatible with the lowest common denominator
Contacts aren't totally risk-free either. Not exactly sure what the issue was (this was pre-wikipedia), but my doctor had me stop using contacts since he was concerned my vision was getting worse due to them.

I looked into PRK and was on the fence about it, was unconvinced that there is a big difference besides the psychological benefit of "no cutting". Lasik had no pain either during the surgery, so I think considering the slower recovery PRK would have just been more painful total.
If you read the rest of the article, they've already developed an Android port for the Chinese market, so I doubt it'd take substantially more in the way of engineering resources to bring that to other countries.
I'd recommend playing it on a tablet actually, or even a PC. I think for these kinda reasons it might be a good idea to have an iPad besides an Android smartphone, that way you get the best out of both worlds.
It was a requirement from the start, but then I decided to not care about battery life at all as it opened up for lots of more alternatives like this one, Alienware, etc.

But you are right, I should test that before I actually rely on it having lots of battery. Will do tomorrow and update the article with my results. Thanks for reading