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Ehh, I thought I was negative about Italy, but seeing what everyone else is saying, I'm probably the most positive person here.

The pros:

- There are some absolutely excellent open source developers who can be hired much more cheaply than the US.

- Life is excellent. Italy is a really beautiful country.

- Lots of incredibly low hanging fruits. Italy has a lot of great companies that makes excellent products the entire world wants, but have absolutely pathetic IT departments. This is also true in the public sector - several regions of Italy have amazing touristic attractions with pathetic marketing/web presence. This is probably the best reason.

The cons:

- As a corollary to the last pro (about low hanging fruits). Public sector contracts are given to people who are completely incompetent but well connected, who then sub contract it out. The technocratic/political class, especially at the local level, is almost always old, and has gotten their positions because of connections.

- Moreso than outright corruption (unless you live in the South), red tape can be a massive issue.

- This does not affect start ups, but once you grow to more than 15 employees, staff hired full time is basically impossible to fire. This is very slowly getting changed.

I don't think it makes sense to move to Italy if you want to work on the next chat/social media application, but if you have a great idea on how to use web to improve tourism/market high end goods, or you have excellent SaaS software for medium-large sized companies, you could probably do very well, and live very well too.

Basically, this is sort of an interesting (but old) summary of an interesting case study: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121969807244970447 - there were lots of resources, lots of low hanging fruits, and yet due to political squabbling, total ignorance of technology and nepotism the project was a huge waste. Given how low the bar is, it's very possible to do much better.

Small edit:
There is a huge generational gap between the 50+ year olds that run the country, and the kids graduating now from University, in terms of attitude towards technology, meritocracy, and entrepreneurship.
At the school my partner went to, LA Trade Tech, it seemed like most students got financial aid. There were multiple offices involved in doing all the paperwork involved (in a multi-story building, too). The school was located in an area where the household income was around $25k per year, and many people worked at the minimum wage. It seemed absurd to me that they had to jump through so many hoops to get a few hundred dollars of aid.
AFAIK there are several new advancements for both ASR and Translation front. DBN and Special RNN called LSTM based systems surpassed classical approaches. A recent Translation mechanism based on LSTM from Google: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learni...
Switching from vim to emacs should be pretty easy if you use evil mode. This article is from 2008 though. Evil mode is pretty recent. The initial commit was in 2011
Nice try Italian government. But hey dude, don't do it. We are a sinking ship.
For me it was the first puzzle. The mechanics weren't clear and I had several glitches. The rest of the game was alright, but quite overhyped. I liked The Floor is Jelly a lot more, but it didn't get as much attention. Sometimes it pays to be a drama queen.
I don't recall the specific, but could be the fact that basically there are taxes even if you don't make a profit, which for newly founded companies would be a relatively bigger issue than for established ones.

(I think there is a dispensation for that as of a couple years ago if the founders are below 35 years)
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I would argue that most countries just make really half assed attempts at creating an international startup environment and this is one of them.

Mostly there are very few investors locally, visas are difficult to obtain, the laws aren't really business friendly at all and not suitable for investors etc.
It is expected they'd do, people collectively seem to believe they'd do, but concretely there hasn't been any large public case. (keyword: public)
Curious to see some of the roots of GoFundMe? Check out Fanbox, previously known as the startup SMS.ac. That's where the founders of GFM worked before they moved on to their current, highly successful venture. I imagine that's where the startup bug bit them and they learned the value of being the middleman for transactions while leveraging social networks. SMS.ac was a middleman for SMS billing and a social network, generating text messages that were sent to users and receiving a share of the text charge from the cellular carriers. I worked with them there, crazy but good times.
Why are you even letting your SmartTV connect to the internet at all? Those things are horribly insecure and just spy on you anyway.
At LATTC everyone knew about financial aid. It was the default situation. I haven't been there, but I've been to CC in a low income community, and the assumption was that you'd get financial aid. Being middle class, middle aged, and not qualifying, I had to quietly explain that my personal income was past the limit, etc. I didn't want to stick out.

The problem these schools have is related to people lying to get financial aid, and then dropping out, never to be heard from again. If you get rid of the price, and school is free, all this fraud would end. (The fraud would happen elsewhere in the system.)
With regards to the militarization of the Unites States executive branch I blame the Department of State. State has been an utter failure in their core competency of nation building for the past 30 years. Ethiopia and the Baltics in the '90s, Iraq and Afghanistan in the '00s are examples of State basically abdicating their role to the DoD.

The DoD has been the only major department with the budget, the expert personnel, the logistics, and the organizational will to tackle what should be civilian nation building exercises. It's a poor plan to put a 21 year old marine in charge of securing and rebuilding a village. An armies job is to "go places, kill people, and break their stuff." But for the last few decades the choice for the US has been to send our DoD personnel, or noone.

Because we've increasingly leaned on the DoD for these actions that's bled over to other organizations. A prime example there is the transfer of absurd materials to LEO under the LESO and Excess Property Programs. See also the budget of DHS/ICE/CBP which simply exploded in the last decade by following the militarization path.

If we want to stop the militarization of our society we need to fix our civilian agencies and stop relying on the martial.
I do? I don't remember saying that.

I don't really want to get into this debate, but I've been running Balsamiq from Italy since 2008, and it's been just fine. Then again, YMMV...we're just a little mom-and-pop software shop, not a "startup" in the paulg sense of the word.
You're referring to the IRAP tax that used to have this weird effect in some cases, but that's mostly fixed since FY15 with the new laws. There have been an outstanding number of changes in labor and fiscal laws in 2014; they don't fully fix 50 years of anti-entrepreneur culture of course, but they are good steps in the right directions.
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> Public sector contracts are given to people who are completely incompetent but well connected

to be fair, I believe this to be the case about everywhere. I.e. the Oregon healthcare site fiasco[0] seems straight out of italian newspapers.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2014/03/oracle-oregon/
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I pretty much explain all that in the article[1], but here is the gist of it:

* I implemented smalloc and sfree to respectively allocate and deallocate a memory block with prepended metadata

* I use a GNU variable attribute called cleanup to run sfree when the variable goes out of scope

* I made some macros to have some syntactic sugar on top of that

[1] - http://snaipe.me/c/c-smart-pointers/
LOL, so true. I'm starting to get the same feeling about Georgists. They're in a bubble of their own making, in denial about their own reality, and prone to making up new definitions for common words, making it difficult to communicate. It makes me a little sad, because I'm sympathetic to their cause, and read a bunch of articles from their writers around fifteen years ago.
This allows you to travel to Switzerland. Working there is an entirely different thing.
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I guess it's not my kind of humour, but at least I understand it better now. Thank you for taking the time to explain.
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And I totally respect that. I have nothing against well crafted timepieces, or even valuable things, maybe inherently.

I'm just saying, of the two ideas his "incubator" has done so far, that stood out as being particularly out of touch.

I think he's capable of more. I suspect he thinks so, I'm not saying he's limited to this sort of idea.

Maybe he's leaving Google to focus on coming up with better ideas than a fancy watch thing. ;)
productivity is people + machines(computers included). most productivity is created by getting a machines to do something people manually did before. you create wealth by creating a machine that is more productive than anyone else at the time.
Maybe, but you'll still be paying more taxes than you would if you were based in almost any other country. Too many useless state expenses here, and they turned into too much debt and taxes. Check how many Italians with the skill set to open a startup moved to London and Berlin in the last few years.
There is surely a correlation, which I would think was what (s)he was implying.
That's exactly what I was trying to get across, if I did so poorly, I apologize.

This is _precisely_ the discussion I want to have.

Transit is not the same as interconnect, we should have some private competition, but if an entire city is all AT&T and Comcast, I'd rather just have it be municipal fiber.

I have no problem with AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, etc.. running their businesses over a combination of private and municipal networks.

I feel that's ideal.
Leaving aside the technical statements about SPDY, the reality of HTTP pipelining is that no-one uses it. According to Wikipedia, Opera is the only major browser that ships with pipelining enabled. Most intermediaries don't support pipelining either.

Pipelining was a well-intentioned feature which didn't solve the core problem: namely, that a big or slow request can block you from doing anything else for a really long time unless you open another TCP connection.
> Printing money causes inflation under all cases unless money is literally destroyed at the same rate it is printed.

Absolutely not! Deflation occurs naturally in any growing economy--even when your currency is indestructible--as the same quantity of money-units is chasing a greater quantity of goods and labor.

Consider the case of a crew stranded on a deserted island, who choose to found a new civilization. They decide to use the 100 "buttons" they recovered from the ship as their currency since they cannot be forged on the island.

On day 30, a 1 button is worth a coconut.

On day 3000, the island is dotted with dwellings, fences keep in herds of domesticated animals, and a scattering of boats fishes offshore... A "button" is going to be worth a heck of a lot more than a coconut.
It doesn't have to be set up that way. Where I used to live, the municipal broadband network was run by the municipally-owned power company, who were required to balance their budget, so it was fully funded by fees.
Yes, and a poor diet can cause diseases that will make your life miserable, e.g. autoimmune.
Hi!

This caught my interest, and I sent of an e-mail to you on Sunday. I understand that people may be busy catching up on e-mails from the holidays and everything, but it's now Thursday and I would have expected at least an acknowledgement of receiving my e-mail by now. :)

Maybe the mail has gotten lost somewhere?
I think the answer is "sell the house and move somewhere cheaper."
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Daily hard exercise - the panting, heart-pounding, drenched in sweat kind of exercise - increases your metabolism. You can eat whatever you want, as much as you want, and you won't gain fat.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics has little if anything to do with calorie counting.
Those are called "price controls."
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not sure whats up with the 50 pack, but I see that on image as well. I'm pretty sure its just one. Didn't take a video - wish i had.
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It's more than that - recently I had to send an application for services to my prospective provider - they wanted me to fill out some pdf form but also send the front/back of an ID card.

In a pre-iPhone era, I would have been required to visit my office and use the print/scanner there. This time, I took pics on my iPhone, then attached using the mail app, saved my draft, then attached the completed pdf form using my laptop mail app and sent it.

This is really about laptops, phones and tablets all having equal status as consumers of cloud sites and APIs while having different UX and capabilities.
Totes respect and thank you for your poignant correction.

[EDIT: this has to be the randomest rant in response to a grammar correction of all time, but I was surprised to find no ideological responses at all, and I wanted to pontificate ;d]

I read at college level in elementary, but I think it's easy to see how that might also lead to having some softened edges, because education was rarely available to me when it was relevant.

I assume this to be true of most people, I think there is one thing people resent about tech that is kind of a revenge of the nerds thing, and part of that to me is like, look, even colleges didn't have room for a lot of the nerds.

Where the hell do you go if you are a poor, chronic nerd who can't get into college?

Obviously, I assume my experience with this to be acute compared to a similarly talented person who is not white.

There are a lot of smart people in the USA. I know it is important for us to be a place where some smart people who would be oppressed to migrate, as we are a nation of immigrants.

I adamantly think we should look to the children of immigrants who pick food, clean homes, offload ships, plumb toilets, fix elevators, etc.. before we look to foreign adults.

I strongly feel the USA economy will be the most healthy in a world where people in other parts of the world have a healthy local economy and a proportionate ability to ours to participate in the global economy.

I think global information economy makes more sense than global economy which tranfers things like food between continents, while creating harmful pollution.

If there is American Exceptionalism, I think it should make what is supposed to be right about the west present everywhere, without military force, but instead by empowering the working class to become knowledge workers.

And we should stop absorbing into western culture what is inherent to fascism.
Easier to sell, maybe, but "you can't outrun your fork." is also a false statement, whereas the OP's isn't (so much - at least it's open for interpreation). You can outrun your fork.

run an hour on a treadmill and wipe it out with a single donut.

That's going to be have a pretty huge donut then :P (or I'd have to be running at a rather slow pace)
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I'm not sure I see the link between it being a character device and the fact that memory pages are W^X. But you are correct that I was wrong when saying you can't have it; I also said it was more complex since you have to be careful when switch a page from W to X.
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GitHub pages and Pelican are what I use for hosting my blog. Now all I need is a tool to write articles for me...
That's a good point for a good discussion of exactly this issue there's an interesting TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_barnett_draws_a_new_map_for_...
"Exercise more" in reference to weight loss is also often promoted by fast or processed food companies, in an effort to divert blame for either not displaying nutritional information or making it misleading.
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I imagine they would leave it alone as much as possible, because they aren't sure what's bringing in all the traffic. Wouldn't want to be another Digg.
(1) Couldn't you offer services to Swiss companies?

(2) Couldn't you get an Italian passport? (As an EU-citizen, you can work in Switzerland without hassle).
we did end up finding a 3rd. not much of a bragger but certainly love nerdy hacks :)
High grades create assents. Put up a new 11c and nobody will take notice, it won't get much traffic as any new route today is probably out of the way. But claim a new 5.14 or 5.15 and the elites will appear, if perhaps only to prove you wrong about the rating.
If you want to tap into the pool of talented italian engineers you could also open up a shop at the border to Italy in Switzerland and employ	cross-border commuter from northern Italy. You would have to pay them more than if you would open up your shop in Italy, but you would avoid these kafkaeske system called Italy and enjoy all the advanteges of Switzerland.
You need hardware and drivers which support WebGL. With Chrome, open "chrome://gpu/" to get some rudimentary status report. Also, try updating your drivers. The one you're currently using might be blacklisted.
That theory isn't widely accepted (like you'd see if you looked it up on wikipedia). mises.org is a libertarian organization advocating the austrian school of economics, which is often quite divorced from reality.
What about a browser extension and a website that tracked Turn's advertising clients? The website and extension are there to help users boycott Turn's customers.

Can anyone think of a way to automate the collection of those ads and linked clients? Crowd-sourcing maybe?
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No, it's that people who exercise more tend to eat more, even when their primary reason for exercising is to lose weight. They either don't think about it or overestimate the calories burned by their exercise and allow themselves to eat a bit more, mistakenly believing that the net result is still negative calories.

Moderate exercise is good for you whether or not you want to lose weight, but if weight control is one objective, you need to be more careful than most people realize to avoid eating more when you exercise more.
On the GitHub page it says: "node-webkit is renamed NW.js" https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js
It's like they are trying to push HTTPS everywhere. It better happen soon.
Living in the uk all my life and having switched adsl providers pretty much every 12 months for the past 10 years I can honestly say the above is utter nonsense. Yesterday bt wholesale can be a pain sometimes (the company that manages the lines and exchanges) but then they are bt; they've always been awful at this sort of thing. Ever since ISPs have been taking advantage of llu though things are much better, especially if you use a provider who has their gear in the local exchange already.

I still find it strange that the U.S., which is such a bastion of the free market is so anti-free market In regard to internet ISPs.
"NW.js appears to be some sort of "break" from node-webkit, and the copy on the main site seems to suggest that it is an entirely new project"

It's seems that it's the same project. The GitHub page says: "node-webkit is renamed NW.js" https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js
I'm italian and one of the founders of an italian startup. Saying that it's hard to work here would be the understatement of the century. The fiscal pressure is insane, the laws are batshit crazy, and there is no startup culture nor respect for the IT in general. Don't get me wrong, I love my country, but founding a startup here is just madness.
Do we know the Word Lens (Quest Visual) acquisition price in the end ?
> Artificial colors, preservatives etc... There's no good reason to eat these ingredients and many of them ate questioned for health effects.

This sort of ignorant attitude is why we have a obesity epidemic.

What do people use instead of harmless 'Artificial' colors, preservatives and sweetners because of 'superstition', they add sugar and fat. Because it's a real world, with real people not theoretical.

Even drinking water is a dangerous topic, people start to believe coke is better than nothing. Dehydration is not a scary thing, like being hungry it's normal and ok as long as it doesn't go on to long.

No problem with safety equipment.
> Are you really stupid?

Personal attacks are not allowed here. Please follow the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why not have an integrated editor (which most term emulators have to some extent). Or extend (via a plugin?) the terminal to support the needed operations.

Or use a completely different style of terminal, that is more akin to an emacs buffer.
It's a good idea for licensing but there's nothing special about a digital original because it's not aesthetically different from the reproductions. You have a Picasso, you can put your nose up to it and stare at the brushstrokes, take it off the wall and look at the back of the canvas, stick your elbow through it and so on. You take an original Shakespeare folio, you can look at the curve of his handwriting and the food stains on the corners and so on. a blockchain-certified document is qualitatively different, but the experience of examining it is not; it's texture-less and cannot even offer a sense of intimacy-by-proxy.
Psst, it's "ascent", not "assent"...
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But from a distribution perspective it's terrible compared to the web where you just need to type in the url into your browser. There is no central installer, that means you either have to ship NW.js(about 100MB) for every application or you have to trust your users to put it into the PATH.
> Doom-like movement and shooting mechanics

Doom controls a lot better. I played some Brutal Doom just an hour ago. In Doom, there is some inertia. You accelerate and there is some friction. In this game, movement is a binary on/off thing. The bobbing is also very jarring.
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Then why not just stay fully in Switzerland?
I dont use Piazza but has it been successful with its mission "to level the playing field for men and women in academic environments"?
You'll want to check out:

Dutch American Friendship Treaty (if you can self-employ and are from the US this could be your best option)

Blue Card (If you can get a job in Germany)

Irish Startup Visa (http://www.pond-crosser.com/uk-and-ireland/republic-ireland/...)

Disclaimer - I put up pond-crosser a while ago to keep track of some of these things.

Switzerland is lovely but their population recently voted to restrict free movement of workers with the EU so maybe not ideal.
At first I was skeptical until I tried it. Cool site. Keep it up!
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Why would a growing company want to attract as many new customers as possible? This seems to be a fast lane to default. Growing company wants as many profitable customers which can be served as possible. Or should growing companies try to offer everything for all?