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i think you're general point is either right but banal, or interesting but wrong.

however, having said that, i thought you might appreciate this - http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/27/jets-fuel-gee...
I get bad vibes when an industry starts to convince itself that the growth will continue.
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Right on, Zaid. Andrew over at TechStars was setting up a more startup-focused, discussion-focused social news site under TS. Not sure what's going on with that lately, though. (btw, not to sidetrack, did you know that the article profiling me that was on the Boston Globe front page opened with you?)
I am the opposite - I am more interested in algorithms, techniques and innovative approaches to problems. Though I do read some startup material - to see if the problems I have ran into are pointed out and how to avoid them.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis has all the info you need. Specifically the Green Card section.
I wonder if PG could filter spam-tagged items out of the new page.

EDIT: wow, the new page also needs |flag| on the listing page. so much spam.
my original comment (about unified address space) was poorly thought out (it's not clear how much fermi will help, and how much is down to opencl being "cross-platform"). but the ideas isn't that you no longer need to care about the memory hierarchy; only that pointers can be expected to work correctly. currently (particularly in opencl) there are various restrictions on pointers that make some code more complex than it needs to be. for example, you can only allocate 1/4 of the memory in a single chunk, and pointers are local to chunks, so patching together chunks of memory to get one large array is messy.
Good idea. It makes sense in many cases. I will try that too.

BTW I am not a designer myself. I am a programmer.
You have to have around $500k in the bank. Otherwise you have to have a job to go to. Finally, and I suspect this might be a problem for the OP, for most visas you have to have a university degree.
I think you can already do that by setting showdead to no.

But the rate of spam has gone up so as something's tagged spam, another untagged spam gets posted.
First of all, what does "physical impossibility of the future" mean? I find this an absurd title, not that I expect anything better from TC.

My favourite quote (about wifi):

Sure, it’s destroyed lunch conversation and pub trivia but,
in common with anyone who hit their 20s or 30s in the 2000s,
I’d happily swap either of those for the ability to book a
flight from the back of a cab, or to consult Wikipedia from
the toilet.

I'm gonna go back to ignoring links to TC, however an option to filter certain sites from HN would be most welcome.
I prefer self-posts - the karma goes to the author.
You have 3 options:

1) As an Italian citizen you can go to the US and stay there for up to 3 months at a time using the tourist visa waiver program. You are not allowed to work, but you are allowed to interview for a potential job.

2) If you get a job, it is now easy for a company to sponsor you for an H-1B working visa. It will last for 2 years, after which it can be renewed.

3) Other options, such as a Green Card, the EB-1 (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), and an Investor Visa (if you have more than $1 million to invest) exist, but don't apply to most people.

I'd urge you to consider such a move carefully. It is a commonly exhibited bias to think everything will be better if you move to a new country, but there is hardly a correlation. For what you will gain by moving you will lose a lot of what you have in Italy.
In early 1990s, Putin was pillaging his part of Russian economy in those years, being in charge of metal utilization (huge para-criminal business in Russia until 2000s) under St. Petersburg oligarch and mayor Sobtchak. Somehow this part of his career is always overlooked by his proponents.

This of course is just as irrelevant to what has happened with the laywer as your attack on Browder.
Actually MIT's OCW is pretty popular and many people know about it, but I am sure there are other sites as well which have quality tech education type material, some of the links I use below, What other links do HNers have?Please pass along here and everybody could gain from that

1) MIT -> http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

2) National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning ->http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd

3) Google Tech Talks -> http://www.youtube.com/user/googletechtalks
A better choice would be Canada. For an educated professional with command of English or (even better if it's "and") French, it's very easy to become a permanent resident in Canada. 3 years later you'd be eligible for citizenship and ability to work and live in the United States (on a visa, but with very few restrictions).

Otherwise, not having family in the States, you don't have many options, although not needing to work makes a few things easier.

The easiest one is to enroll in an academic program. Another is to marry a US citizen. I believe Italians are still eligible for green card lottery, but you may want to double-check that. If you have 500K-1M lying around, you may invest them into a company and get a green card that way. Unless you're an Arab or a Jehova witness, you probably won't qualify for refugee status. Maybe being gay in Italy can help, but I don't have much info on that. Finally, you can get a job on an H1-B and apply for employment-based green card with your employer's cooperation.
I didn't use bitmaps in the site design, only in the article. All the fonts (unless I missed a few) have sizes defined as a percentage so that the device can choose a base font size and I can modify it from there.
It is true that terrorists rarely attack planes in Israel. There they blow up coffee shops and restaurants and buses. A successful TSA just means that the threat will be targeted somewhere else.
I wrote a quickie AWK script to demonstrate what I'm talking about. The first link below is my blog post about it. The second link is a very spartan list of HN links that I've saved in a text file.

http://jimlawless.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/preserving-my-fav...

http://www.mailsend-online.com/hnfaves.htm
http://AcademicEarth.com is also great
I wonder if we do that. We have officer exchange programs with UK, Pakistan, probably Israel and many others, for military cross-pollination. Seems crazy if we don't do that for TSA.
It looks like http://travel.state.gov/visa/visa_1750.html is step 1.

Step 2 might be to visit the nearest US embassy or office.

Step 3 is probably determined by steps 1 and 2.

Step N might involve one or two visits to a specialist lawyer in your country or the US, for advice.
I don't have those money and I don't have a degree. However my mom was born in Canada although she doesn't have the citizenship, maybe that could help.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
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> EDIT: wow, the new page also needs |flag| on the listing page. so much spam.

I've asked for that many times, but since it seems that both my flags and votes are being ignored again I won't bother any longer.
Thanks everyone for your input! Those comments are very interesting and we have a lot to think about now. :)
Is it not possible that the stock of quality items has been 'depleted'? When a site such as HN starts out there is a back log of posts people want to see.
You are assuming that your votes are actually counted, this is definitely not always the case.
also, you can extend (1) to 6 months with a tourist visa.

and i can confirm the last paragraph. it varies from person to person, obviously, but i have lived in a "foreign" country for around 10 years now, and it's still hard at times.
If I recall correctly, as in many other Lisps, it's a derivative of MP facility dating back to Lisp machines, and it runs over native threads.
> it's not as though people wouldn't know where to find them.

Yes, but I'd rather not visit those sites and only read the best articles (the ones that get linked from here). HN as an aggregator works very well in that sense. I think the problem (if there is any) is just the number of users, nothing more.
If you're going for reasons of finding employment or becoming an entrepreneur definitely do not go to Canada.

Been there, done that, have the T-shirt.

More red tape than you need to tie up an aircraft carrier.
Another interesting point, jacques. Either I'm brown-nosing or you're especially insightful today :)

As I understand the algorithm, a vote on a story that has been posted for an hour and is on the way down is not the same as a vote for a story that's only five minutes old and on the way up.

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong in this
This is pure arse-covering. The problem in this case is that Homeland Security received a tip-off from the terrorist's father telling them he was planning to blow up their plane, which they decided to ignore. Their solution is to treat the traveling public like a kindergarten class, no standing, no getting something from your bag, etc. What's next, banning people from talking to each other incase they're collaborating?
Hi, I'm in a similar situation. I live in Europe and plan to move to the bay area after earning my bachelor degree here in Brussels.

I know some of the implications of moving to America, but I am wondering if the following situation could make things easier for me.

I have co-founded a non-profit organization (incorporated in NY) with my partner (who's living on a student visa himself at the moment). We also got our own web development & consultancy company (though not officially registered as a company yet), and I would like to work independently with my partner when I move to the bay area.

Do you think the companies we have founded could provide us with a work visa?
I wished it was as simple as that.

As a rule I now refresh the page after voting, if the vote does not 'stick' I don't bother voting for 24 hours or so.

Since there is no clear indicator of which votes are 'real' and which ones are 'dummies' and I refuse to be treated like a six year old pressing buttons that have no effect other than 'for me' (pacifier votes ?) there may come a point where I will simply completely stop voting.

Edit: hey there downmodder, whoever you are. PG is on the record about this, I don't know where you get your information but it doesn't get much better than that.
Oh come on, is it really THAT bad? :)

As much as I like pontificate on the doom and gloom of our current economy, there are PLENTY of opportunities left in the US for an educated worker.
I see it as news for hackers, not news about hacking. You know, news related to things that likely interest hackers.
sorry, beats me. Your profile provides no clues either, like your real name or an email address or a web page.

I had like to hear you explain.
Those machines (they were made by GE) have been completely removed from all airports. I believe they worked fairly well, but they didn't scale effectively and people were too freaked out by them.
Seems to me that this line was meant to convey that Russia isn't as cleaned up as people might think. It would be similar to a line such as "companies are still doing what Enron did and getting away with it." I think its important to keep in mind that the author was probably not attempting hyperbole (even if that is what happened).

From that point of view, I think the author felt this was his clearest method of communicating his point. Not that I think it needed to be communicated (how many FP readers really think Russia is not corrupt...?) but that is seperate from your point.

From that point of view, I feel that what was written is sensible... though I freely admit that I'm not able to take into account how hurtful this might to some people.
PhD -> not nervous -> do startup

I'd say that qualifies as motivation.
The legal risk is too high there.

Sorry, but your post sounds a bit too sensationalist. Millions of people from overseas come in to the US to do business, attend meetings, etc. You're taking the 1 case out of 1,000,000 as your data point?

Every country has risks and liabilities associated with traveling to it.
We were lucky this week. If the only thing that prevented the plane from blowing up is early detection by other passengers, flying has become extremely insecure: terrorists just have to detonate their bombs in the lavatories.
I'm on the edge, still participate but a lot less since this voting madness started and lots of inane stuff started making it to the front page.

Just two examples:

facebook in latin ?

Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending?

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The interesting thing is that over the holidays the quality actually increased from 'normal' weekdays.
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I found this to be one of the most compelling marketing campaigns that I have personally witnessed through facebook. Maybe because of my demographics I've missed some others? Would love to see others share what they thought were good ones. The only other one I liked more was the IKEA tag for ownership one.
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Ok, I see what you're getting at now.

That would definitely be a good thing.

I've spent in total about 2 months now (spread out over the last year) understanding how this whole GPGPU thing fits in with the rest of computing, it is much like a specialty tool. It is harder to master, more work to get it right once you have mastered it, subject to change on shorter notice than most other solutions (because of the close tie to the hardware) but if you need it, you need it bad and the pay-off is tremendous.
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Thank you, I voted up your answer but the voting system is broken again, so hence this reply.
This was linked to from a loper-os post, and I found it interesting enough for a separate post.
Lisp isn't popular because it's harder to read. Even if it's more terse and far more elegant, the mental tax of trying to understand another person's code is far higher than C

I am deeply suspicious of explanations that boil down to, Lisp isn't popular because the average programmer isn't smart enough. Let me tell you, anyone smart enough to use C++ in anger is smart enough to use any language.

The real world is highly competitive, and organizations that think they can win by using niche languages, do. There's APL at Morgan Stanley, Ocaml at Jane Street Capital, K at Lehman's (OK, maybe that's not so good an example), F#, Haskell, blah blah. Lisp isn't even on the radar, anywhere. What does that tell you?
The number of users rised a lot... Now HN is becoming like the next Reddit.com (and may be Digg.com), some users use it to promote their content or just increase their points.

My resolution was to search for another community. Joel Community is also good, but there is few members. Still better, the day it gets a lot; quality will drop.
For me it's the mix that does it, a bit more of the one or the other is fine.
http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

"What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be."
I find the other video about finding 'great stories' from Ira is equally interesting.

It resonates well with me after running my own startup for few months. Finding 'great startup ideas' seems require the same approach as finding great stories.

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmtwa1yZRM
Personally, I think the point of view is that hacker-friendly jobs are hard to find, and thus founding a startup is almost a necessary evil for a good deal of hackers. I mean, let's face it: starting your own company so you can do whatever you want is the ultimate hack.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying that I agree with this point of view. But the point of this kind of social news site is that the readers get to choose what is and isn't relevant to them.

That said, I personally would like to see more hacker-oriented type stuff. My advice: submit more hacker-related content and vote it up when someone else submits it. Remember that it usually just takes one vote to move things to the front page if you catch it early enough. So your one vote can make all the difference.
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I emphatically disagree. I think that HN has done a great job of making sure it doesn't get reduced to the lowest common denominator.
Well, there are several points in the article including: 1) failure of the rule of law in Russia, as evidenced by legal issues encountered by the author and his attorney; 2) politically motivated killing of author's attorney.

In my comment I wasn't addressing point #1. With respect to point #2, I think there is a better analogy than Enron: imagine that NYT publishes an article about a cop tasering a Jewish man to death. If the article started with a line about "Holocaust by police force is alive and well", it would be entirely fair to call out NYT for false moral equivalence and bad judgment in publishing the article.

Why shouldn't we keep Foreign Policy to the same standard?
The same thread from a long long time ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198935
Ok, I'll bite. How is there a qualitative difference between killing a man and killing a race? I'll grant you that the Holocaust was about 12 million times worse than killing Sergei Magnitsky. But how is that more than a quantitative (not qualitative) difference?
It seems easy to hit some implementation wart that makes performance abysmal - it's hard to believe that a JVM targeted language would be 20x times slower. Case in point - I tried the benchmark with a bigger input - the performance ratio between the 'fast' implementations remained the same. Incredibly, though, the CL implementation took nearly 2 minutes to construct the input string, something that is essentially instant in the Clojure version.

time sbcl --noinform --load palindromes.lisp --eval "(progn (big-test) (quit))"

30000 X ' amanaplanacanalpanama '

fast :
Evaluation took:
0.197 seconds of real time
0.191206 seconds of total run time (0.186952 user, 0.004254 system)
[ Run times consist of 0.006 seconds GC time, and 0.186 seconds non-GC time. ]
96.95% CPU
471,342,768 processor cycles
13,802,832 bytes consed

real	1m55.551s
user	1m51.954s
sys	0m0.778s
The TSA is just a couple hundred suits, anyway. Their representatives at airports are just subcontractor rentacops...
True, there are many opportunities but in my experience the trend is pointing to fewer opportunities, more competition and less money to be made even by the most talented. Here's an interesting post by Kent Beck who is finding that it is more difficult to make a living from his craft: http://www.threeriversinstitute.org/blog/?p=231
Yes, the article sounded like it was presenting a false choice: why, exactly, could we only have national wireless and broadband infrastructure if we stopped building bridges? (The only reason I could see was if we had some sort of budget limit, which it seems we don't really have, given that we're spending borrowed money anyway.)

Roads and bridges won't help move information, at least not directly; and moving information is more important to our economy now than it was in the 1930s. But information is far from the <em>only</em> thing we move, thankfully. As long as we've got the workforce and the will, let's work on both kinds of infrastructure.
It comes in cycles. Sometimes, there are just slow news days--or weeks. And then one of these meta threads comes up and people discuss it.

And then someone comes in and points to the guidelines and how it's a newbie mistake to feel like the whole board is going to hell.

Then edwin519 comes and tells us, flag and submit more what you find interesting and vote up things that you want.

So far, this community seems to be self-correcting, as long as we're self aware that we're not learning from the front page like we use to. We can all get our yuks and giggles from elsewhere.
I'm from the uk and believe me, we do much the same thig as the TSA. Indeed sometimes we just do exactly the same thing just a few months after :-)
I don't see it.
And here I thought that was talking about perl...
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It's funny that the discussion on the article kicked off a whole other topic. I was really just trying leave a comment that provided a link to the discussion of the original post. But it's nice hear everyone's thoughts on this. It just goes to show the higher overall maturity level of HN compared to other communities.
If all you have are 2 data points for argument #1, then I'll take my chances with the government picking, what, Wifi technology? How hard can that be, and more importantly, how bad could the consequences of picking a 'non-winner' be?
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My apologies then - I didn't know that KMVY was so busy, and that it is a popular destination for people at your school.
I've definitely seen evidence of 'upmod' brigades, if you refresh the 'new' page with a relatively high frequency (say once every two minutes) every now and then you pick up a new article that is complete nonsense but that already has 3 or 4 upvotes in less than the minute that it is alive.

Bury brigades are less common, but there are definitely people that have a 'fanclub' that will downmod whatever they write no matter how on topic or good the contribution is.

Usually this corrects itself after a while though.
Yeah your right, I did wonder that it was not mentioned before.

Cool to read about other ways of learning. Thanks for sharing
Was it Startup News before this? Wow, that name would have been great!