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Welcome to Europe.

Comparison between Europe tech startup scene vs the Silicon Valley one is quite unfair. I am based in Switzerland, you cannot imagine how hard is for a tech (worser if service) company to raise money. The model is extremely broken because the mind of an average European investor is completely different respect to the average American investor. In US the normal startup funding process works around a working prototype and how fast you can ship, in Europe, mainly here in Switzerland is about the protection you can give to a product with trademarks, patents and other things. So when you ask for money the first question is: is it protected? Or, can we protect it? Are barriers good enough so we can skip short-term competitors?

The second huge problem is the exit. In US, the IPO is a kind of fallback alternative to the acquisition, that is the main goal in a reasonable amount of time, so this makes the IPO not the favorite exit-strategy at all. In Europe it's actually the same, but the acquisition model simply doesn't work. You don't have any big tech company here giving the real exit-strategy option to investors. So the only chance you have to get them, is to prove that you can literally make a certain amount of money even in the worst case. Nobody believes that Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook or whatever can acquire a Swiss startup company in the first 5 years of its life, so the result is that tech companies can barely raise money.

IMO, the Silicon Valley model is very risky, the motto "fail fast, fail often" is certainly attractive, but has a lot of downsides for funders and people involved, on the other hand the European scene is too slow, too hard and is always complaining about the fact that we are unable to compete against the Silicon Valley. I think the right balance is required, but it's just an opinion.
Anyone familiar with the matter?
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If ever there was proof that "someone out there has the same idea as you" is true, this is it; I've been conceiving an open to audit public, free CA for the past couple of weeks.

It looks like my dream is coming true!
In many countries public transport is now next to impossible with only cash. You need an NFC enabled device. Often, discounts or monthly subscriptions are impossible if you take an anonymous one. Recharging with cash is time consuming at best, and very hard if the machines do not accept bills. I tried, and eventually caved.

Please enjoy your anonymous public transport to the fullest for me. :(
Mechanical watches don't move continuously because movements of the hands are controlled by gears with a finite number of teeth. As for the "simulacrum" comment, don't forget that watches are just a mechanical simulation of a sundial.
Indeed, you can basically stop reading the article at that sentence.

Always get the round closed quickly and don't try anything fancy.
...where a 10-line cron script would have done the same job, in advance.
A pretty sizable amount of code that I wind up writing day-to-day for scripting various small actions ends up being done in Bourne shell. Say what you will about it, but it does get the job done. Also, if you exercise some discipline, it's maintainable.

Outside of that, we have a lot of C, C++, Java, Ruby, and Python.
I once lost a battle over whether a particular feature would go into a piece of software because while everyone agreed it would drive sales, another group within the company would have gotten the credit for them.
I think content in this link raises an interesting debate. On the one hand the righteous will argue that the Internet should remain a source of free information. On the other hand, it's ethically fair that people are remunerated for their work; furthermore, it's pragmatic to expect people to pay for digital content, so that we can continue to cover the running costs.
Our company treats support with great respect as well. They're essential to the running of our business.
NYC Mayor’s Office Pushes for Universal Broadband with Three New Initiatives
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Zuckerberg for sure, he "didn't matter", lol
By having an expiry, revoked certs can be forgotten about once the expiry has passed. We'd need to keep a forever growing list of revocations otherwise.
Don't even get me started about the Chief of Police of Malibu...
What exactly do you mean by the term "Unicorns"?

In my mind, rare and mythic creatures (and their human analogs) cannot be trained into existence. Sure you can take a group of people and show them how to do something, but the result would be closer to a squad of foot-soldiers than a herd of Unicorns.
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SaaS is a business model. It doesn't seem like the goal of a business course would be to teach new programming languages or frameworks. Why is it important that you restrict the tools used to build the project assignment?
That's a good point.

I did consider that one cannot always get on the Internet, but I didn't mention it in my writeup. The device could upload the recording whenever the Internet was available.

That would leave the problem that the cops know you've got such a gadget, so they prevent you from going to a wifi spot. For this we use the kind of mesh network as was used in the Hong Kong protests a few months ago. I think they didn't write that app themselves, it was already available from the App Store or Google Play.

Most phones have wifi, bluetooth and 4G. If any one of those can connect - somehow - to the Internet then we can upload.

The problem with battery life would be hard to solve on an actual phone but not hard at all to solve on dedicated hardware. A very, very large chunk of your power consumption goes into managing hardware security and virtual memory.

If you had no security at all, and no virtual memory, then you use quite a lot less power. That's quite common with embedded applications, such as TI DPSs running SYSBIOS (previous DSP/BIOS). I have some experience with DSP/BIOS it would not be hard at all to make a device the size of an iPhone that could run for a week or two between recharges.

The device would be a lot more acceptable to most people if it were not plainly visible. Suppose the camera lens could be clipped to your shirt, but the rest of the device is in your pants pocket or your purse, with a bluetooth connection between the two.

I fully understand there are many problems with this concept, but solving these kinds of problems is what engineers actually do to feed their hungry children. :-D
What we do know is that about 80% of iOS users are on iOS 8

If that number is accurate (percentage of users on latest iOS), it seems to have fallen quite a bit, compared to earlier years.

You might be on to something that people are not upgrading as much anymore, since things usually are "good enough" at this point.

If so I'm guessing iOS will then too have to deal with "fragmentation" like it so vehemently has accused Android of being. Interesting times ahead.
Can an Inn Save Newfoundland’s Fogo Island?
It sounds and looks very nice.
I have two questions:

1) Why did't they move to one of the Canary Islands? Part of Spain, Barcelona is a part of it.
Less hassle because you stay in Europe, same language, same culture as in Barcelona.
I rent a flat (70m2, furnished, 500m from the palmtree-beach, €500 /month), in the center of the capital on one of the islands,
the internet connection is reasonable. Sounds comparable to Thailand.

2) How long did they stay in Thailand, was it a 2 month project-move
or a multiple-year company move?
I love the supplement industry! This sort of stuff happens all the time, especially around weightlifting supplements. If you're not into picking things up and putting them down, there's 3 ways you can ingest things that aren't food to help you out:

- Nutritional supplements. This means things like protein powder, vitamins, fish oil, or creatine powder. All legal and mostly derived from food (or at least present in stuff you'd normally eat).

- Anabolic steroids. Highly effective, highly risky, highly illegal.

- Pre-worked supplements. This is where everybody walks the line. For some reason, these don't get much attention from the FDA or anybody else, so there's a lot of incentive to get creative with your ingredients. The idea here is that you take these to give you a bunch of energy before you lift, which can be especially important if you're trying to lose weight while lifting.

The basic formula for pre-workouts is sugar and caffeine, which is pretty effective. Unfortunately, that's also easy to replicate with a cup of a coffee and a banana. If you throw amphetamines (or similar) in there, they become much more effective. If you read places like bodybuilding.com or the body-building-oriented subreddits, you'll see people talk about the "old" versions of a bunch of supplements. The reason the "old" versions were banned is universally because they contained some sort of illegal substance that your mom would probably refer to incorrectly as "meth".
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You can find a lot by researching what other web frontend / basic backend dev bootcamps offer: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=programming+bootcamps
This is a lot of work. How long is the bootcamp?
Why are wildcard SSL certs so expensive? I want to use SSL certs on my personal subdomains, but they are usually priced at around $150/year at least. I hope let's encrypt will support multi or subdomains.
For a sec, I thought it read "Zynga founder Mark Pincus commits suicide".

Then I realized it says "... returns".

Then I figured the headline ought to have been: "Zynga commits suicide".

Facepalm
$225k? You don't need an angel, you need a bank loan.
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Yeah that's starting to happen around here too.

There's not a whole lot one can do to prevent it.

My take is to convince a whole lot of people to swap their cards with each other. That is, you and I would each purchase a $20 card. Say you and I worked at the same company - when we arrived at work, we'd trade cards.

When I got home, I'd trade my card with my neighbor.

That would enable The Man to cut down on his cash handling expenses, which really are quite significant when you handle quite a lot of coin and currency. But it would make a total rat's nest of any attempt to track transit riders by tracking our payment cards.
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> Treating users has a cost

"[In 2012] the annual average taxpayer cost in these states was $31,286 per inmate."

If you start treating people you need less law enforcement and you get less inmates. And then you haven't even considered the less obvious damage that drug related convictions cause, like not being able to find a job and relying on welfare. Children of convicted drug abusers growing up in a bad environment and being more vulnerable to addiction and crime.

Most arguments against decriminalization are extremely short sighted, just look at the positive effect it's having in Portugal. Drug use might not be severely affected, but the surrounding factors are slowly improving:
http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blog/drug-decriminalisation-portugal-...
Scale, rotate and drag for multi-touch devices written in JS
Looks cool. How was your experience with three.js? Did you check out the PlayCanvas engine: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine - it's a bit more geared towards games.
Dell has done some interesting work with ubuntu on developer edition laptops as far as I understand, focused on support and good drivers etc.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/01/dell-updates-linux-po...
Ask HN: Internships in Australia?
Many people from Europe use internships as a way of experience the American culture. Such internships are easy to find, as many big companies offer them: Facebook, Google, etc. Do you know any companies that would offer internships in Australia or South East Asia for European students (in my case recent graduate)?
> If customer support is a "cost center" for you, you're doing it wrong.

I think this can even be rephrased to "your engineering-team is doing something wrong".

Where I work we had a product which represented without any doubt the majority of our customer-service's tickets. Almost all of the tickets were related to deployment-issues.

This got communicated back to engineering. We fixed deployment, and now it's hardly in the support-stats any more.

If the organization just ignores feedback like this, customer support being costly should come as no surprise.
-- grouch mode on --

The alpha vs beta is not really the heart of the story now, is it? So why tar-n-feather a very valid story with the 'clickbait' brush?

It is a story worth reading. And asking hard questions of the FDA.

My theory is rooted in 'follow the money'. No, not in that way! Big pharma gets held to a rigorous standard because a bigger chunk of change is at stake, for multiple players. The herbal-shmurble con-artists are simply too small a fish to matter in the multi-billion dollar game that is drug approval.
Hey, I'm one of the co-founders who runs Mobile Jazz.

To answer your questions:

1) We actually wanted to experience a new culture and also have some kind of adventure. We're already doing things in Spain, so we just wanted to try out something new and see how it works :-)

2) This was only a 2 month experiment, but our whole company is set up for remote work. So some of us continuously travel and work from different places. Myself I've been living in a camper van for a year now (blog post pending ;-)), but this was the first experiment where we actually rented two houses offshore and moved a bunch of people there.

Since then we also had another experiment. We spent some time in the Austrian Alps for skiing. We'll write about it soon.

And the next thing we want to do is actually in Spain (in the mountains) and then we're planning to go to Mauritius for a month or so.
For what, following the law?

Most of the cash from overseas operations is overseas which is legal.
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Why so many tools?
... to repeat the success of hits like Farmville.

This article about coercive monetisation models shows why “repeating the success of hits like Farmville" is something we all could do without splendidly:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949...
Also certs get switched to ones with stronger algorithms and longer keylengths after expiry. You also would have to revoke old certs all the time when their crypto isn't safe anymore.
I can't say trying to monetise yet another forum not working doesn't surprise me.
A variation on this theme occurs in most major cities I've visited though, whether it's fake designer sunglasses, candy, demo CDs, or bootleg DVDs. I suspect this has less to do with decriminalization and more to do with earning some quick cash.
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Funny on reddit, but not here. Please stop, thank you
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IBM brings U.S. military logistics into the hybrid cloud
Three Days in the Absolutely Insane Tesla Model S P85D
I like threejs since I want to create stuff myself rather than having a full blown engine. I never tested playcanvas but I've seen some impressive demos made with it. But I guess threejs is much more lowlevel than playcanvas, even though threejs is high level compared to raw webgl :)
How long is the boot camp ?

Supposing is not very long I won't teach any framework, but I would let them discovered it.

After they manage the CSS I would make them build some simple page, and I will let them know that there are some CSS framework already done...

Similarly for the Js part, teach them how to inject html in a page first and finally let them know about framework...

Also I will cover react.js, not because is particularly cool or new or hot, but because is a completely different approach, actually closer to the CSS / front end way to code...

Also, I won't really teach them vim... Maybe sublime is a safer bet...
Want to try https://ruxit.com for monitoring your .NET ecommerce shop on Windows? It also monitors your host and real user interactions with your site.
I had a Swatch Beep (a watch featuring a numeric pager) in the late 90s which used the crown to navigate messages.
Agreed that this should be the solution. Let's not repeat another century of tobacco deaths. Yet here we are with companies advertising their their food contains marijuana or that smoking marijuana is "cool" (sound familiar?).
"Unicorn" is a term usually used by experienced developers who think specific job listings are asking for unreasonably broad skill sets. i.e. "I've been doing this job for 15 years and even I can't fill this Jr. Dev role."

EDIT: oh god, I just glimpsed a future where asshat recruiters on LinkedIn have co-opted the word "unicorn" and are starting to use it like "rockstar".
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This list is more than a 4-year CS program would hope to teach a dedicated student. It's not realistic to expect someone to go from learning how variables work to load balancing a server they wrote from scratch, in vim on a shell, in a bootcamp.
My understanding here is that Apple has pretty draconian policies about writing about it. A friend once told me they had to retract an offer from a candidate because the person tweeted they just got a job at Apple.
It's not that secret though. Sure, you only read first-hand accounts by people who have left, but it's not like Apple employees are out with their friends over beers refusing to talk about how many hours they work. Everyone in the valley probably knows someone who knows someone who works there. At some point, the constant background level of "yeah, it kind of sucks" is pretty convincing.
You're missing the deeper point. This isn't simply funny. This is a summarization of what I feel will be Zynga's last miss-step. Having done and sold a social gaming startup and seen the rise/fall of the industry circa 2009, I think my comment merits introspection beyond whatever superficial connotations you're attributing to it.

Thank you, too.
I am perplexed by the so-called postgraduate studies and their reward systems. I completed my PhD (in my last 20s) in a second world country about few years ago and continued working as a faculty at a neighbouring university in the same country. I pulled out (or technically resigned) as a senior lecturer, when I couldn't endure being bullied any longer by my senior academics, who had only earned their "DTech" in their 50+ yrs of age.

I am now working with a pretty new institution in a first world country and will be starting a Postdoc soon. Taking a look at the salary for the Postdoc, it's like I am back to the same rat race as a PhD student years ago. And I now have a family! The new job, though a permanent position, isn't a full-time; so, all employees are advised to look elsewhere. All effort to get into the industry proved abortive; and I saw that a number of my folks in the industry are earning 10-20k more than me (i.e. senior dev. vs senior faculty). Yet they don't have those fanciful postgraduate degrees.

The postdoc opportunity, as for now, seems to be an avenue to get into a top-tier or well-established institution in the first world country though. The long and the short of it is that academics don't get rewarded like their peers in the industry. In addition, postdoc offers are just another way of being a student - call it a professional student. But I will console myself be calling it a consultant. The postdoc offer isn't that bad compared to others that I had. It includes travelling to another first world country for a year or more to complete the other part of my research.
Maybe for a small backend project, you could use Ruby on Rails? RoR gives you easy JSON API capabilities, an app server, and an out-of-the-box sqlite3 db.

I figured I'd throw it out there because for a beginner, all of these things would be wrapped into one application and it might be easier for a beginner to maintain; however, you'd need to call out that not all frameworks have everything that RoR has.

And I'm not saying RoR is a 'best practice' backend approach, because I'd never use it as a real backend service, but it might fit in nicely with your bootcamp!
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StartSSL offers as many wildcard certs as you want for a low fixed yearly fee (50$)?
Why Vim?

Edit: downvotes, so .. it's the only thing I've not personally used in his list, I've been using nix environments for over 20 years and never got beyond <esc>:q! (or whatever it is). It seems the author considers it an important tool for being an accomplished web-designer - enough to have it as a prereq - so I'm interested in the OP's reasoning.
You can still do your own stuff in PlayCanvas (write your own shaders, procedurally create geometry, etc etc). But there's extra stuff you get: physically based renderer, powerful chunk based shader system, point light shadows, entity-component system, and lots more besides. Definitely worth checking out. :) Sounds like you're not interested in higher level tools, but the PlayCanvas Editor is really cool too (that's on https://playcanvas.com - and it's optional). It's essentially Unity in the browser.
I once read an article which reported a real police officer's take on Miami Vice.

In the TV show, the drug cop fires his gun at least once each episode. That would lead the show's fans to expect that most law enforcement officers use their service pistols at least once per week, if not every single day.

In reality, most cops fire their guns at most once during their entire lives. That is, fire them at a suspect and not at a practice target.

I expect they draw their guns a fair amount, but those who understand gun safety know very well that one never points a gun at another human being unless one fully intends to kill them.

Once, one of my father's enlisted men damn near shot his own foot off when he was verifying that his pistol really was unloaded. He followed the US Navy's documented procedure for unloading his gun, the very last step being to pull the trigger.

Oopsy-doodle!
they will not support wildcard domains. you can create a cert per domain though or one for multiple subdomains.
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Oh come on, you know you are kneejerking. That guy tries to built something valuable and is putting effort into teaching other people, and you are trying to argue some sort of mythology with him.

@OP: My suggestion would be to start with something you are really good with and start building a community from there. The "JavascriptIsSexy" blog/curriculum might be an example of an approach like that. What he does really good is combining existing tutorial/services (codecademy, books, etc), spot their weaknesses and offers guidance on how to overcome these towards a more rewarding learning experience. Another suggestion would be to take a look at the various (in-person) coding bootcamps and see what structure they are following.
http://au.gradconnection.com/
iOS 8.3 includes settings to download free apps without requiring a password
don't forget that watches are just a mechanical simulation of a sundial

I disagree. Sundials are rubbish for telling time and they look different throughout the year. A (decent) watch does not attempt to replicate the inadequacy of a sundial; it just tells you the time.
Since when does YT have ads?
But that is pretty much what any social media agency does or am I missing there something?
That's rude. Please stop. Thank you.
Not if you're using HSTS. Here's what the error looks like in current Chrome: https://certsimple.com/images/blog/hsts.png
I have one here in a clocks n' (stop) watches box that moves the second hand at a significantly higher rate than 60 per second, but I must admit I didn't know that was something special.
Thank you! I new about ActiveState, but didn't know about PyPm.
Not if your hardware is "too old"...

(My single core Mac Mini works fine as a media/file server, but cant upgrade past 10.6.something...)