skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Tesla products are cars for people who don't particularly give a shit about cars. I'm not slagging this as a negative thing -- it's a much bigger market than "people who care about cars." I just don't think that establishing themselves as a luxury brand is going to do anything toward the ostensible goal of "winning" against internal combustion."

Have you driven one ?

Every "car guy" (and I mean, deep, deep car guys) that I have talked to that has driven one has walked away starry eyed...

Dramatically lower center or gravity, almost perfect weight distribution, space age shocks and struts that are way ahead of the rest of the auto industry ... there's more there than just a battery and some electric motors...
Ask HN: How do you focus if you work online?
I have to work on the internet all day because I do independent digital consulting. But the internet is also the most distracting device in history.

What are you strategies for staying focused beyond the usual suspects of browser-blocking plugins, Pomodoro, etc?
you could reduce some aerodynamic drive by putting the cars end to end. essentially your car knows its destination and moves to the appropriate lane, the further you need to travel the more likely you end up in a far lane where cars are kept at a higher pace and closer together.

think of it as a modern version of Chicago highways where the left lanes get sectioned off on occasion with less chances to exit all to keep people in lanes consistently to reduce accidents from moving lane to lane.

fully autonomous cars and lanes dedicated to them and similar buses will remove the need for rail with in city limits beyond what exist. with no need to transfer vehicles and dedicated lanes you don't need as much planning for changes in travel patterns. fixed rail is always trapped, worse you end up with periods where you have too much capacity or too little and the inflexibility of track means no one else can use it. dedicate roadways can use the same space and be entirely flexible with easier maintenance and lower overall costs
http://www.aeromobil.com/
+1 Additionally: i understand EU citizens can be in the US visa free for 3 months. What that exactly means? 3 months per year or 3 months per one visit? If the latter then how often? Lets assume one gets accepted and decides to utilize that visa free offer - what should be said at the border if one is asked.
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That's a tough question because USCIS really looks at the totality of the evidence but (not surprisingly) awards, press, and original contributions/patents are important (although not necessarily required).
MIT invents untraceable SMS text messaging system
if you haven't already, get a cast iron pan. get it nice and hot, throw a chicken leg and some vegetables or fruit (cauliflower, brussels sprouts, tomatoes, potatoes, whatever) in there, season and sear, and then throw it in the oven for 30 mins @ 350 and eat. make yourself an adult beverage, or not, while you wait.

prep and cleanup is literally 2 or 3 minutes. you don't even have to wash cast iron, you just wipe it off. ~500 calories even if you douse everything in olive oil, and filling.

i do this like 3 or 4 nights a week. it's SO much better than a sad sack of takeout.
Exactly, the solution for this problem is to be really determined to make recruiters and investors think you're more naturally talented than you are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprezzatura

John Carmack doesn't constantly tweet/complain about how many hours he puts in and how hard he's working, so people think it comes easily to him. When you're talking to a non-technical person, the most important thing is projecting a casual air of competence, not trying to impress them by how much you suffered for your craft.
Vou hackear o celular e o canal pq ele hackeou o meu então ele ta fudido vai se fuder ele Flw meu Hackers lindo
This isn't really an immigration question so much as an avoiding-having-to-immigrate question:

What are the challenges in having co-founders in other countries and being able to grant them meaningful chunks of equity. Say example someone with 10% in Hungary and another with 10% in the Netherlands.
I would say that it's university PR departments, but I suspect that often enough researchers are complicit as well.

The researchers hype up their research to university pr copywriters who don't understand it at all, then a journalist who may or may not understand it rewrites it into a story, and then some editor slaps a clickbaity headline on it. And who knows what bearing the actual study has on any of that.

And it's hard to disentangle the nonsense along the way. Like, I wrote "processes language in the brain" when it would have been more accurate to say "processes French pseudo-words".
I may be able to share some insight here. At 23 years old, I have gone through the O-1 process twice in the past 3.5 years, I have a couple of references in news publications like TechCrunch but that's about it in terms of public notoriety. Your prior achievements, recommendation letters and peer review are important. TLDR: Don't be intimidated by the absurd name of the visa. My e-mail is in my profile if you want some specifics
> We value them for their external appearance, and other frivolous things.

Like we value King Carl Gustaf for only being born in a royal family, and bow to him while accepting Nobel prizes.
Yes. You know the game whether or not you play our cards that's up to you.
"The only one I can think of is the Fisker Karma"

The Fisker Karma is not an electric car. Nor is the BMW i8.

Are you listening, incumbents who insist on doing things half-assed ? We're not impressed with the beautiful body and a tiny lawnmower engine hidden inside...
H-1B employment can be part-time but it needs to be professional in nature - that is, specialized and requiring a bachelor's degree in a specific field of study.
> A tribe could be described as a people of common genetic ancestry.

I'd agree that they share an ethnicity (depending on how that's defined!) but I think there is no genetic basis, and that studies have shown great genetic diversity within ethnicities.

There is no real rhyme or reason to how humans group themselves. It's not like they carefully review specifications and test solutions before they choose. It's on an emotional level.
If you rely on your shell history to the level that you need synchronization via a cloud-based service, it should be a signal that your automation needs work.
I'm not suggesting that I'm strongly considering the option; I'm merely suggesting that the option exists. I don't like the sound of it either!
This. My trojan horse has been that I have an IT company as well. Get in provide little IT services. You have the ear of the business owner and they are more than happy to let me know little itches they want scratched. A lot of these have resulted in very nice little niche applications.
We're shortly going to be opening an office in a European country and employing several local employees. Once the organization is established, what would the process be for inter-organizational transfers of employees between countries? For example, if someone were to relocate from primarily working in Europe to primarily working in the USA?
What is the best way to transition from a J1 visa (visiting researcher) to a visa allowing to work one's startup?
I am moving from a big company to startup and I have initiated my h1b visa transfer. I want to take a break between the two jobs. Is it OK to go outside US after leaving the current company and come back to start working for the startup ? Will carrying the approved h1b petition for the startup be enough to re-enter US ?
No, that's the beauty of dissolving these long term employment relationships. You don't need protections from your abusive employer because you can very easily find a better employer.
What are the odds of getting an O1 visa in a very small niche. I'm legitimately one of the top experts in the field of LSAT preparation. I've published several books, run a popular website, moderate a major forum, and have written guest articles for most major sites about the LSAT.

However, it's a small field, and not one that attracts much press coverage. How does this balance out?

I run my own business. All online, mostly US customers, soon will be a Canadian corporation.
Is it unusual to stage a merger like this with the explicit goal of splitting into three smaller companies in the near-ish future? If the company is planning on splitting, I would imagine the consequence of having two headquarters would be different.
My cofounders are from Finland and Pakistan respectively. We want them to be able to move them and their families temporarily to the us for a year or two. Is h1b the best option?
Many petitions get rejected - without recourse - because they're not submitted/prepared properly and it's much easier to deal with the lottery and resolve issues with premium processing.
Hi Peter,

I have a very specific question I think will apply to many people here. Me and a buddy who is from another country are building a product. We will soon be done with the product and we are thinking about registering the company here in the USA just because it is very easy to get funding here. The company will be a registered in both of our names, (even though he is a foreign national, I am flat-out assuming this is possible). Eventually, if the company does well we would want to stand up an office here. At that point, what are his options to get to USA ?
Cooperatives still need to pay rent, purchase raw materials and have access to the capital.

All of those factors are ways in which the wealth created by the cooperative's labor can be diverted to the 1%.

That said, ride sharing cooperatives would be vastly superior alternative to Uber. If cities mandated that ride sharing organizations had to be cooperatives, that would be one way in which they could stem the outflow of wealth and provide a decent middle class job to their citizens.
ADHD/ADD seems to be common in our industry, a side effect being 'hyperfocus' or what we (as an industry) refer to as 'flow'.

For me, amphetamines actually allow me to productively switch my focus. 8+ hours of hyperfocus, while making me seem like a ninja unicorn rockstar, is just not sustainable and burnout is a real problem.
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I think that you would really enjoy reading Warhammer 40k's lore. It is very, very huge and very complete. I never played the game at all, but spent countless hours reading the lore and it's amazing and deep.

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki

An interesting starting point would be the Horus Heresy:

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Horus_Heresy
And of course, 'anyone' covers around 5% of the world.
3-time O-1 recipient here. Denied for EB-1 once + on appeal.

The O-1, I feel, is pretty dependent on our personal situation, and which side of the bed the reviewer woke up on when they look at your application. But, it can be done. Good luck!
I'm curious what you use for analytics? Many of the adblockers on both desktop and mobile are blocking analytics tracking making good numbers hard to come by.
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> Why not?

Because "we're all equal in the eyes of the Creator" requires a Creator. Take that away and you end up with Hobbes: "nasty, brutish, and short". Anything beyond that requires a sustained miracle of human ingenuity, along with an extremely congenial environment which grows ever more obviously improbable as our knowledge of the universe advances, and which is almost as fragile and delicate as we are and could easily, by random coincidence of forces set in motion long before our first forebears came into existence, be upset entirely and spill everything we were, are, and could ever hope to be, by the wayside, without even noticing.

Mostly we choose to concentrate on the miracle, which is how it should be, not least because our believing in it is the only reason it exists. But there's value in someone seeing it clearly for what it is, if only because there's no other way for us to really understand how improbably amazing we are.
This is tough to answer because it's not so much tied to your title or even level within a company but your accomplishments.
> I haven't dismissed the conclusions, just said I disagree with many of them.

Earlier:
> If they uncover anything, it is the very interesting political foundations of a group of people

That sounds like a classic dismissal to me.

--

Anyway, not to get bogged down in a silly semantic argument. Who cares if it's real philosophy? I've tried reading Heidegger when I was young and naive. If that's real philosophy, I'll pass, thank you.

If you have substantial, rigorous arguments against the existential risks posed by AI-based tech, I'd love to hear those, otherwise what you're saying sounds a lot more like an emotional and political reaction (presumably from the left end of the political spectrum).
Questions regarding international companies being able to sponsor H1B visas in America.

1/ How long does the process take for a company to be eligible to sponsor H1b visas.
2/ How much does it cost ?
3/ Does the company need any minimum funding ?
4/ Does the company need to hire a certain number of American citizens/Green card holders before it can hire H1B visa holders ?
Hi Peter, thanks SO much for doing this

- Is it ok to form a side company while on H1B?

- Is it ok for me to develop free or paid apps through my own side company (just me doing everything, without hiring anyone else)? If not, what do I need to do to not violate my status?

- What are the minimum criteria for an O visa and is that a viable solution if the side company is going really well?
At 200+ mph it becomes hard to stay on the ground. :)
Surely an infinite universe that contained infinite horror would also contain infinite bliss...

There's a quote from a Martin Amis book that I'm hoping not going to butcher too badly in paraphrase: "The universe is thirty billion light years across and every inch of it would kill us if we went there. This is the position of the universe as regards human life."
I have a master's in computer science, worked in industry for a couple of decades, have been teaching high school computing for the past decade, and think of myself as a "real" computer science teacher.

At the high school level, I think it is better to teach computing as a broad-based life skill, not as a prerequisite to the AP exam, college major, or programming specialization.

Most students of history in high school won't be historians; most students of literature won't write great novels or screenplays; and so on. I think computing is like math and science generally, in this way.

I use Kernighan's "D is for Digital" book in some of my classes. He wrote it for an introductory college course for non-majors, and it works for high school students too.
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How hard is it to create an entity that is H1B cap-exempt and can this entity be related in any way to a for-profit company?
I'm not proberts, or an attorney, but, as an O-1 recipient: The requirement is being at the "top of one's field" and proved through publications etc. I'd say you have a better shot as a big fish in a small pond (expert of small niche) than you would as a small fish in a big pond.
You didn't. I was noting the gap between what you said and what johann28 said.
1. What is the best course for an E3 Visa holder to move to a Greencard? (or something similar).

2. If an E3 Holder would like to found a startup, how does one go about self sponsorship?
So trademark holders have to monitor and vigorously defend a trademark that is more limited than copyright. What's wrong with that, for an 80-year-old work?

Is this really a worse system than one in which a huge volume of literature and research from the 1930s to the 1960s is locked into an out-of-print limbo, not "valuable" enough to republish and yet virtually inaccessible outside of research libraries?
I think they see opt-in encryption as an important filtering signal they can use to determine who to target. The assumption they work under seems to be that law-abiding people won't need to use encryption. Either way, this is pretty disgusting.
What is the usual or best process followed by Canadian citizens who get into YC and then relocate from Canada to Silicon Valley?
I'm an atheist and this offends me.
The current situation where mobile users have to pay to download ads, and potentially pay much more than the ad displayer recieves, is a good target for consumer rights advocacy.

We've already persuaded the EU to clobber unfair roaming. The next step is to forbid mobile carriers from charging for ad downloads and permit them to block them instead (using their existing pornfilters).

(Mobile carriers are the one group that might be able to make micropayment-for-view work, but are too greedy to actually do it in a way beneficial for all parties)
If we ignore the long term, we can trust anyone!
No details of WHERE exactly in the world this works, I presume this a yet another US centric service
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This is an incredibly complicated and important question and will very much depend on the facts - that is, the stage and nature of the project - because of course it's fine to think creative ideas and even execute them but the line can be crossed when this evolves into a business or a commercial enterprise. That line can be fuzzy, however.
If a single engineer developed the engine, including the software, it would be quite likely that he or she came up and implemented the cheating solution alone.

But that's not how things work.

Imagine being in the team that develops an engine. Some prototypes are built, measurements are done, way too high emissions are noted. Who gets the results from the measurements? The project lead, of course. Then the lead calls in folks from different parts of the team (or even different teams involved), and they brainstorm what to do. This becomes a big topic, because it puts the whole project at a risk.

If at some point the problematic values simply disappear, any diligent project lead has to investigate where the improvement comes from, if only to make sure there's no regression.

How would the scenario look like so that the project lead never even noticed? The environmental testing reports directly to a software developer (but why would they?), who implements the cheating part. Without first asking the rest of the team if there are legit ways to accomplish lower emissions. All documents regarding the first test runs vanish (but why would they? it's not the tester's job to make sure the emission standards are being met), and the problematic emissions never become a topic.

Somehow that sounds not realistic at all.

So, I'm pretty sure the project lead knew about it. the project lead might have been an engineer by training, but his role was that of a manager.
It's partially marketing and partially support-based. React and Angular were released with a lot of fanfare by Facebook and Google respectively (and with a lot of documentation) after being used inhouse. This meant that there was already a decent number of developers familiar with the framework, already proven as "web-scale", and indicated that there would be good support for it going forward. This meant that it was an easy sell to CTOs. Mithril.js came out after React and was released by a lone developer. While it was well-documented it didn't have the amount of documentation as react and angular, was supported by one developer and didn't have a large install base of existing users. I'm starting to see it being used by more companies but it's certainly a harder sell than angular or react
Platooning has been demoed.[1] CALTRANS had a huge effort in the 1990s, resulting in a 1997 live demo on a San Diego freeway with dedicated lanes. Nothing came of it. Platooning works, but the long road trains that result are a headache for everything not part of the road train. It's a solution to the problem of long-distance travel over roads with few exits with very high vehicle density. But that's not where the congestion is.

(It's also a job that trains do better than trucks, which is why there are so many long trains loaded with double-stacked containers rolling through the midwestern US.)

Partial automation of driving may be a big mistake. At the point where the driver can take their hands off the wheel, the manufacturer must assume financial responsibility for accidents. Volvo's CEO accepts that, Google agrees, and other car companies are starting to come around. NHTSA Level 2 systems (smart cruise plus lane keeping) must require hands-on-wheel. Hands-off driving requires NHTSA Level 3 (where Google currently is.) Systems which allow hands off driving need to be at NHTSA level 3 or 4.

Cruise (YC W14) and Tesla's autopilot are Level 2 systems pretending to be Level 3. This is scary; I've called it the "deadly valley". It's pretend automatic driving, just good enough that drivers tune out but not good enough to use hands-off. Tesla is already removing some of their autopilot features.[2][3] This sort of thing [4][5] is why.

[1] http://www.path.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/documents/i...
[2] http://www.autoblog.com/2015/12/11/tesla-autopilot-feature-c...
[3] http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-beta-firwmare-7-1-adds-autopi...
[4] http://www.autoblog.com/2015/11/09/why-tesla-needs-update-au...
[5] http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3d5k7b
>With the exception of places like Clarendon, it's all tall buildings with enormous lawns surrounding them at every angle. It makes walking almost worthless, even in a huge metropolitan area.

When were you last in Arlington? I live in Arlington and I walk everywhere and bike to work. Arlington is actually used as a model in urban planning textbooks to show a transformation from a car centric area into a walkable one. The states are clear; traffic has fallen and it is almost at the point where a majority of people don't drive alone to work.

The Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Rosslyn (to a much lesser extent) areas have lots of work to be done, but N. Arlington along Wilson and Clarendon are very walkable from Rosslyn to Ballston.

I can't think of too many 'tall buildings surrounded by lawns' along Wilson or Clarendon Blvds. Look at it from the air. I know of one in Rosslyn that meets the description near the Safeway; it has a lawn. Other than that, there's not too much green space other than a small handful of parks.

Areas away from the Metro are mostly single family housing with a handful of places, like some spots on Columbia Pike, that have some slight walkability to them.

>Contrast with Manhattan: much taller, much denser, with a greater concentration of shops and services per area.

Of course, it's Manhattan. Anywhere in the greater DC metro area compares unfavorably given that nowhere in the area is nearly as dense, even in DC. Few, if any, places in the US could be compared favorably.

EDIT:

Here are some streetview links illustrating the built environment in Arlington for those outside of the area.

View on Clarendon Blvd. facing away from DC on western end of Rosslyn:

https://goo.gl/maps/X96A2w9spsJ2

Wilson Blvd. near the Rosslyn Metro station:

https://goo.gl/maps/owGGWu4ZyP32

Near the actual Courthouse

https://goo.gl/maps/8dRAzVzEHf92

Another view near the Court House Metro station:

https://goo.gl/maps/mz5Z7uE9JVs

One of the remnant suburban style buildings on the Court House / Claredon border:

https://goo.gl/maps/L295anQZ46H2

Clarendon:

https://goo.gl/maps/9XfPUP76k4r

Another view of Clarendon:

https://goo.gl/maps/gHSk93EBfcD2

Ballston:

https://goo.gl/maps/fo7hfint9qj

Another view from Wilson:

https://goo.gl/maps/m2Jtt42uMnM2

Virginia Square:

https://goo.gl/maps/yCQHcv21CGm
would be happy to - I talked about it a few years ago at a QS meetup in Austin when we were just starting
Congratulations, that's a tough one to get!