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Hi Peter, thanks for doing this!

My company currently employs a brilliant, in my opinion, Argentine scientist. We'd love to bring him to the US periodically, but he can't get a visa as he owns no property in Argentina, isn't married, etc. Short of meeting in a more neutral country do we have any options?
Here's Peter's previous AMA, for reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10719080
> Especially not with companies like Valve doing the complete opposite giving money to third party devs with no exclusivity deals whatsoever.

Valve forces devs that take their money to have their game on Steam until they have paid back the loan. That's not exclusivity but it's also not no-strings. Valve has an agenda just like Oculus.
Sorry I thought of one more thing that would be huge. Let me log into a site and track the status of my project. Basically, use a CRM tool that a software company would use, like Zendesk or JIRA. Perhaps let me query the status of my project with an SMS. As someone also coming from a software background, you would zoom to the top of the list if you offered this.
I've got a question about the chip cards. I have one and I use it when possible. I often hear that the reason to use them is that they are harder and more expensive to copy than cards with just a magnetic strip. This seems like a pretty weak deterrent. If everyone starts using chips wouldn't the price of creating cloned cards with chips go down? Wouldn't it eventually become worthwhile to criminals? Or do the chips provide another layer of security that I'm unaware of?
A minor clarification: Rousseau was not Swiss. He was born in Geneva, but Geneva didn't join the Swiss Confederation until 1815 (many years after his death).
I wrote it in a rush a phrased it poorly / overly strongly. I meant it in the spirit of it being definitively harder to do than it is now.
Thanks for taking the time. For Canadians or Europeans with PhDs and a sufficient track record to make EB1 feasible, is it better to work at a research institution while one gets a green card, or is it better to just plow ahead with a startup and then do the EB1? Can you discuss pros and cons? I've seen many colleagues delay their startup aspirations while they wait for immigration reasons .. I want to understand if this is being prudent or a folly. I've heard the green card that you get as a researcher is nominally approved for that job title. Are there issues people face when they eventually attempt to become naturalized?
Another interesting resource for you to compare MOOC is class-central (not affiliated in any way).
I'm so glad that Nintendo's misguided IP stance leading to gameplay video takedowns hasn't affected the Dolphin project. I don't think Nintendo management realizes that more gameplay videos and more fan creations of any kind mean free advertisement.
>>Just because it did not work

There was no remotest chance in hell it could have worked without fixing tax evasion problems.
Hi! Thank you so much for doing this. My questions:

- Is it allowed for an F-1 visa student to start a company?

- If yes, can that company make money? Under what conditions?

Thank you!
There's really no connection between the two because although the criteria are similar, the standard for an EB1A GC is much higher so there are many people who qualify for O-1 who won't qualify for an EB1A GC.
Not that it's specific to Bay-to-Breakers. Just about any race I run these days uses some form of chip. I prefer the type in this post because the chip, along with the race number, are disposable and I just have to pin the number on like I would normally. The older tech was a tag that zip-tied to your shoe, and had to be turned back in at the end. Not a huge deal, but attaching a tag to my shoe so that it doesn't flop around, and doesn't cause a numb spot on my foot, is just one more thing to do pre-race.
Was just in Israel and was shocked to learn it's still using magnetic stripe. Fortunately, my American issued chip-and-signature cards still have a magnetic stripe as well.
There's essentially no such thing as pure democracy at a national level. Even in cases of public referenda and ballot initiatives there's still a small group of (usually) professional bureaucrats of one variety or another that controls what questions are asked, how they are asked, and to whom.

Asking "the people to have their voice heard" on international organizations and trade agreements is particularly ill advised because those are "how" questions instead of "what" questions, and to a first approximation nobody actually cares about how. People care about whether their job is secure, or their groceries are affordable, or their culture is preserved.

Leaving the EU may or may not be a good idea for Britan, but crucially very few people really know whether it would or not. The level of specialized training necessary to reasonably predict the effects of leaving on any of the core interests that people do actually care about is prohibitively high. Directly asking whether to leave the EU is a bad idea because it doesn't capture what "the people" really want and it forces a specific course of action even when there may be safer and more effective methods for achieving the same ends.
Hi Peter,

What options does a person without a bachelor's degree (or similar) have to immigrate?
It says on the page that the assets are custom for the project and have a liberal license, but it doesn't say what the license is in the spot I was reading--I assume MIT.
Sorry, but if your country's economy is not producing anything worth exporting and, you know, selling to others in exchange for money and jobs being created by that growth, then there's nothing the EU or any other union can do for you - or is, for that matter, taking anything away.
> One way of thinking about it - how would we communicate with an alien civilization? In a way that's how 2 machines that never interacted before could negotiate common meaning.

Interesting. Actual attempts to solve this, such as the Arecibo message, always reference "universal" constants like prime numbers, atomic structure, the speed of light, etc, to establish a common language.

I'm not sure I understand what the analog would be for two computers?
There is already talk about a second referendum and a ton of support is behind it.
Exactly. I don't want to melt a triple-creme on my nachos, or use American slices in my fondue.
Is money ever no-strings? It seems perfectly reasonable how Valve does it.
As a brit, it's strange to see how it's being spun here.

The majority of people voted to leave the EU and to regain independence. There will be a little volatility until some facts about how that divorce happens, emerge.

Long term, we now have control of our future.

In terms of startups though, the EU is there to serve big businesses and powerful establishment. It's there to hinder startups and small businesses. If you're pro-small business, then you should be excited about the opportunities we have now.

And can anyone on here really stand up for the idiotic cookie law? Can you stand up for the "html link tax"? That's just the tip of the iceberg with the meddling from the EU.
Hey Robert,
My question is what all are the different ways for a student under F-1 visa to be co-founder for a start up and will I be able to do it as an OPT and apply for a H-1B visa at the same time.
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> I had to be made an example of as a warning to all IT people who were intending to work in similar companies.

That's scary. I'm supposed to police my employers actions? To some extent I can understand, but that puts a lot of IT people in awkward positions. Do Dropbox employees need to worry that infringing content is being taken down fast enough, lest the face prosecution?

I didn't follow Megaupload too closely, so I hope I'm blowing this out of proportion...
The problem with RC as algorithm is that it increases locking on shared data structures, thus cache contention, and you still have "stop the world" when destroying a complex data structure causes a cascade of deletions.

There was a Swift talk exactly about struct vs reference types and making use of COW data structures to reduce ARC impact.
I'm going to graduate with a B.S next year and already have a startup. We're raising a significant round late this year and i have a cofounder who is US citizen. Is it possible for me to have a majority stake in this company, work on it under OPT and file for an H1B or does someone need to have the ability to fire me?
Ah, only to pass on some knowledge. It's because their drinks are so sweet that with lighter roasts the sugar and syrup cover up the coffee. Most really good baristas will tell you the lighter the roast the more "flavorful" the coffee will be. Starbucks "intense flavor" is just folks confusing burned/overcooked beans for coffee flavor.

Granted, I'm really lucky to live in PDX because we have such good access to great coffee it's made more noticeable. In my youth, I was actually of the same mindset until drinking a lot of different coffee and discovering my "misguided" way ;-)
Hey Robert,
My question is what all are the different ways for a student under F-1 visa to be co-founder for a start up and will I be able to do it as an OPT and apply for a H-1B visa at the same time.
Thank you
I must second you here. Many times the stock options that you get at Google, or Facebook even today outperform all other forms of investment.
Related question, would Donald Trump actually be able to do away with the H1B as he suggested he would a couple of months ago?
Hey, I have done BS CS and six years of industry experience outside of US. Can you refer some existing documents/link that can help me understanding and starting this whole process. Thanks for your time.
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The whole `if err != nil` thing is a different problem as well!

Example of one of them: https://play.golang.org/p/pku8VJteH1

That stupid issue means that packages like os return 'error' even if it will always be of type '*PathError' so you have to be careful to note if the package you're using screwed up in returning err structs or not when doing `if err != nil` or else you'll check a nil interface vs a nil struct... not what you want.
This hinders the ability to make richer error types somewhat.
In addition, it means you have to always read the docs because the type system cannot represent the possible errors you can get there safely.

Second, this is bad because of places in the language (like io.Reader.Read) where it returns two values (numRead, err) where both are useful.

Due to the lack of sum types, you can't actually tell in multiple-returns of errors whether the results are mutually exclusive or not. What's more, without sum types, there's no way to express to the type system correctly that you indeed are in a non-nil branch of a value or so on.

Finally, there's no macros or other ways in the language to have more expressive error checking than the brain-dead "if err != nil". Sure, what go has is better than java's terrible implementation of exceptions, but it's so much worse than what you get in rust or ocaml or so on.
That was a good article. The only other cause of caffeine variation I'm aware of is altitude. Caffeine is produced as a defense against pests, and since there are fewer pests at higher altitudes less caffeine is generated in that scenario. Coincidently, altitude is usually associated with higher quality coffee. The difference is negligible, so I guess my point is if high caffeine consumption is a goal just drink more coffee.
This issue is only with pasting copied urls into Outlook. The title should be changed.
I've seen recipes for 1:6/1:7 (2 tablespoons to 6 oz) ratio of coffee to water. I've used 3/4 a cup of coffee to 4 cups of water in a french press.
Ya, ISP's are definitely the best argument on the other side. But Google Fiber is slowly expanding. So, I think their monopoly will ultimately be eroded.
I can't reach the site. Anyone have a link I can use?
Okay I got the terms wrong but I think the core point stands: a gene is typically defined with respect to some research objective and area of interest, and is highly variable depending on what you're looking at. It doesn't (yet, at least) have a natural boundary. People looking at one phenomenon might see one boundary for a a gene, while others see another.

In fact, I think that term is great for comparison: "phenomenon". Asking for the "minimum genes for viable life" seems like asking for the "minimum number of natural phenomena to put a man on the moon". Are those two phenomena really just different manifestations of "gravity" or are they two things in their own right? "It depends."
Hey Peter, thanks for this.

Have you heard about SimpleCitizen? (https://simplecitizen.com/)

My wife and I were recently married and are currently considering this for getting her green card.

Any thoughts?
But we as a country think that it is perfectly okay to send 19 year olds in Iraq or Syria and die fighting for someone else's mistakes.
They haven't fixed the problem. They just removed one particular bit of DRM because it was immediately thwarted and then led to piracy of their content. It's still the case that the Oculus store is completely closed off to all non-Oculus hardware without using third-party hacks.

Ultimately, though, it's about trust more than punishment. Oculus lost mine. And now they'll have to actively work to regain it. This one rather tiny move is not sufficient.
Any thoughts or experience with the EB5 route, and founding a startup on arrival? (assuming you have the required 500k or 1m, and you are investing in something unrelated to the startup).

Is it a good choice for canadians?

What is the best way to find a qualifying and legitimate investment?
There's some talk that immigration from the Commonwealth will be facilitated. I don't buy it.

It's already difficult to find talent from the block, and several people come to Europe with a visa

Yeah, I think the UK shot themselves in the foot with this
Youtube has a similar bug, it's called DCMA.
This is a complete and utter non-issue. If you're filling out paperwork for the US government to "vet" you for something (admission, duration of stay, whatever) then you might want to provide places where they can learn more about you. That might be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like where your past history of advocating violent overthrow of governments may be relevant, or it may be on other "social" sites like the StackExchange family where your past history of hundreds of accepted answers on $Programming_Language may give credibility to your request for a visa to enter for a conference.

Seriously, this is adding some lines to a form and doing it in the most bureaucratic way possible because that's how governments do things.
Which JVM, there are plenty to choose from.

Some of them have quite good escape analysis algorithms, which are somehow similar to this.
Nice work and great find. Really surprising this design flaw existed, I don't think I would have even bothered trying it. But Facebook ships a lot of code and features, so it just takes perseverance to find these types of issues.
Because rift is not a freaking console. It is just a new way to display a game that is running on a PC.
Hi .. I am curious about how the final-part of the green card process works for a married couple living in different countries: say a dependent spouse is outside the country while the sponsoring spouse (say someone who applied via EB-1 or Eb-2) is inside the US. Is it possible for one (the dependent) to use consular processing and the other to do a change of status while inside the country? Thanks so much!
Hi, Peter! as a Mexican, could I get an E2 visa investing $50k of my own money into my startup? Or what's the lowest investment needed for an E2 visa? In order to reach that threshold, could my investment be complemented with VC or angel's money?

Thanks!
With Java 9 or 10 (doesn't remember) it gets a new Pausless GC, too. Not like the Azul one that works even with low Memory. But for high memory stuff.
Social pressure is common but when I look at Asian communities they seem to have very good understanding of which colleges work and which don't. I dont see why average american kid can not get the same information.
Many people have batted many eyes about that. Those people typically are big fans of PC gaming, which happens to be the audience that Oculus is targeting. So Oculus is targeting the demographic amongst gamers which is the most opposed to exclusives.

By the way, Valve is supplying quite a bit of funding to VR developers as well but is somehow managing to do it without requiring exclusivity. At the very least, Oculus could require store exclusivity but not hardware exclusivity.

Finally, just because one demographic has gotten used to it (console gamers) doesn't mean it's right. Many folks understand the dangers of exclusives, and they want to prevent that from creeping into PC gaming.
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Interesting question but it really varies. There are advantages from a green card perspective to starting your own company because the successes of the company can be attributed to you. That being said, the esteem of getting a PhD or doing a post-doc at a prestigious institution also helps. My general feeling about all this is not to let immigration drive these decisions because immigration usually takes care of itself if one does what one loves and wants to do. This is a general statement but I rarely see a positive outcome when one defers making a decision, whether to start a company or change jobs, because of immigration considerations.
I suspect that this is put forward so that they can claim that nobody is actually filling it out -- so they can subsequently require entrants to sign in to a DHS Facebook app that extracts all your information.
Wow, thanks. Don't be sorry, I probably deserved it, I was also super grumpy. I need to stop Commenting While Grumpy.
Also the Go advantage regarding AOT compilation to native code only exists, if one ignores that the majority of commercial third party JVMs do have it as a feature.
I assume you're meaning the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), rather than DCMA.
Thanx a lot!!:

How hard is it for Africans who have never stepped in the US to relocated to san Francisco as Founders/Engineers for startups?
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Don't forget that ESTA is the enormous form that everyone traveling to the USA from countries not required to obtain visa has to complete and have approved before leaving. And it asks for wonderful stuff like: "Have you been a member of a terrorist organization?" with helpful footnote: "Answering yes to any of these questions (there are a few more such gems there) is not a ground for automatic entry refusal." (paraphrased from memory). These questions are pretty much the same that are/used to be on the visa application forms too.

Submitting the form isn't free neither - you have to pay a processing fee.

What is worse, you can be denied entry with no explanation even if you are not a terrorist and have done all the paperwork, no prosecution needed. Either because your ESTA form submission was rejected for some unknown reason (then good luck obtaining a visa - pretty much denied by default) or on arrival, even though you had everything approved.

What a wonderful system that really makes everyone safe and secure :(
Is there any reasonable explanation for not being "allowed" to leave the US, after filing for adjustment of status? Without advance parole, that is. Especially when a different class of visa (say an O1, while applying for EB1A) would still allow reentry? That can be rather annoying both for professional and personal reasons.
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I have been a green-card holder for 9 years and coming up on my expiration date in exactly 10 months. Will I face any trouble if I want to get the ball rolling on becoming a US Citizen?
It is possible but the spouse outside needs to wait until the principal spouse in the U.S. is a permanent resident before proceeding although preliminary steps can be taken.
People aren't fungible and there's no special set of people who have been specially blessed to decide what's important all-up. Each area of Unicode is handled by a different set of people who are experts in different areas.

If a number of people who use language "a" know that Unicode isn't handling their language, some of them need to step up and provide a solution. Part of that stepping up might be as easy as complaining about the problems they are running into :-), but eventually for a solution to emerge, some set of people need to step forward and handle the Unicode research and paperwork.
> which is why Starbucks coffees are insanely acidic.

That's more about the low grade beans, robusta beans and a very dark roast. Dark roasts are much harder to identify as "stale" because they have basically only got a burnt flavour.
As a general comment (not directed at parent) if you get the chance to buy some green beans, have a go at roasting them and taste the difference between different roasts. You don't need anything flash to roast them, I use a heat gun. It's cheap, easy and the coffee is never stale.
People have gotten used to it in the console market, but to PC gamers the idea of being locked out of games based on your hardware is new.

This just goes to show why it's important to take a stand now, before we internalise this new, worse state of affairs and stop being outraged.
Can you give some examples of such central planning, and your objections to it? FAFAIK the only "planning" the EU does is to regulate exploitation of the commons (like fisheries). Other than that, the EU mostly concerns itself with setting minimally accepted baselines for all member states to follow (i.e. harmonizing existing policies).
I'm sorry but I haven't heard about this.
I can't tell if this serious or not, but central banks printing money is terrible and the root of the problem.
"and a legacy of British exceptionalism that dates back to the British Empire -- contributed to the vote's outcome. "The idea that they were just another European country was a blow to their pride," he said. "They couldn't take that.""
https://web.archive.org/web/20160623205331/http://www.pranav...
See all this would make sense if the vote to leave was a vote against the Westminster hegemony. But it was the exact opposite. It was a vote to concentrate power in Westminster. It may have the effect of giving more power to Scotland and NI but not to Wales or the bulk of England
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How much harder is getting an extraordinary ability visa without a degree?
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SurveyMonkey has a very good setup - pretty much anything you can do with their web app, you can also do via the API. https://developer.surveymonkey.com
Oculus leadership have been adamantly vocal since the Kickstarter days that they would never inhibit interoperability with competing HMDs.
I for one would never trust a Google tor client.
The article you posted is from 2004 and refers to data from "recent years", meaning probably around since the year 2000 or earlier, a timeframe in which Mexican immigration was at or near its peak. Stats from 2009 have nothing to do with it.

Also, try to be civil in responses, attitude is not needed, especially when I am struggling to see how my post had any preconceived notions. I asked a question and made a guess as to what the answer was, and you're acting as I was somehow stating my guess as a fact or that it was somehow inappropriately biased.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html