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yosoyzenitramon Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers

In Spain this is happening the reverse way: the first Spanish social network (Tuenti), which was the most popular amongst teenagers, is dying and being buried due to the loss of users to the more feature-grown Facebook.

Tuenti was bought by Telefónica and basically I think they're going to end up pivoting to be only the only thing that is still profitable for them (a MVNO called Tuenti Móvil).

yosoyzenitramon Non-US Cards Used At Target Fetch Premium

Yes, you can - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

When I buy something online using my CC, and if the payment processor supports that (mostly local/european shops), I get redirected to a page on my bank for verification. Some banks require the PIN to be entered, some others to enter your login credentials, some coordinates from your code card or even verify with a SMS code.

Not exactly using the chip, but it involves the PIN surely.

yosoyzenitramon Wireless HDMI for Everyone

Actually, the dongle (according to the pic) has an Allwinner A10 processor, which is the one that came on the first Android TV dongles that popped up more than a year ago.

Even though a bit old and single-core, it's more than enough to stream some H.264, and back then it was a quite awesome processor for 7$/ea approx. Now they will be even cheaper.

yosoyzenitramon Student Hackers: DO NOT Intern...BUILD.

+1, a part-time internship doesn't mean you can't keep working on your side projects!

And there are a lot of cool offers and places where you can learn a lot on Madrid (I myself started last week at Vizzuality), yet too many uninterested students that end up selling their souls to Indra/Everis/Accenture :(

yosoyzenitramon YC W13 Applicants

Why did this get tweeted as "List of YC W13 companies"? You made me jump out of my chair for a bit :(

yosoyzenitramon Raspberry Pi Colocation

I've had one of the cheapest Kemsirve's (Kimsufi spanish brand) for a few months. The only issues with them is the lack of CPU, only two cores and not really powerful, and the not-redundant SATA drive.

But if all you need is a ton of bandwidth and space (1tb!), it's a nice deal. They have great connectivity (located in France), and only went down for one evening (when all of OVH network went down simultaneously worldwide).

For more power and CPU usage, you're better off with an VPS. They usually also have RAID underlying drives so at least you have some more warranties against data loss.

yosoyzenitramon Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket

Even better: if you sign up with a .edu email address (hell, even my university email account works and it's a .es), they upgrade your account to unlimited everything, automatically.

GitHub also does a Educational plan, but it requires manual requests and IIRC they give you a Micro account. So Bitbucket is the default choice for all my shared class projects.