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Ask HN: How does an international guy start a startup in USA?
I am currently working on L1 visa, but have an idea and want to take it forward. What are my options? I cannot afford Eb5 visa. Even for my startup, I'm planning to build a prototype, scale it up a bit and go to a seed funding round.
Well, for most definitions of 'think,' sure. But they can get excited - at least for some definitions of excitement.
If you took half a dozen normal-sized detached American houses and their yards, put all the houses right next to each other and all the land in a contiguous polygon, you'd have a way better place for all the children to play, just as much interior space, and a dramatically better place to be. Detached single-family homes fragment the open space and alienate people, which are not good things for growing children.
This. This describes my entire undergrad experience.
You know I would think so, but I had a roommate who compplained when I cooked with red bell peppers. I would make Italian food with garlic and onions and he would leave the apartment. Some people--and Midwesterners stereotypically--truly have a flat palate.
My sense is that leap from emotional response to logical response is the lynchpin to so much potential we can unlock in millions, if not billions more of us.

Lots of us can't make that leap, and it costs us.
HIDL is the basis of Android IPC between processes, known as Binder.

"Binderized HALs. HALs expressed in HAL interface definition language (HIDL). These HALs replace both conventional and legacy HALs used in earlier versions of Android. In a Binderized HAL, the Android framework and HALs communicate with each other using binder inter-process communication (IPC) calls. All devices launching with Android 8.0 or later must support binderized HALs only.

Passthrough HALs. A HIDL-wrapped conventional or legacy HAL. These HALs wrap existing HALs and can serve the HAL in binderized and same-process (passthrough) modes. Devices upgrading to Android 8.0 can use passthrough HALs.
"

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal-types

Here are the user space driver APIs for i2c/spi access on Android Things.

https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/t...
Do you mean to say sugar-free option? Or high fructose corn syrup? Tangentially, I would argue that fructose isn't the primary cause of obesity but the excess of sugar (fructose, glucose, sucrose) consumption.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/6d6886ace0152a84b36d3c7c47c1c4d4...
I've been meaning to set one up, but haven't gotten around to it yet (I'm not using actual blogging software, everything is just a hacked together series of AsciiDoctor files[0]).

I just need to find a free weekend to add a step into the build process where I spit out the XML.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/danShumway/site
RSS: The Persistent Protocol
I've used Leo extensively for one large project, several smaller ones and all the DD work for 8 years until 1/1/2017.

It's a very good and well thought out program, it's a bit like a cross between emacs org mode and python programming environment (rather than lisp) geared towards literate programming but very useful for other kinds of applications.

I'd love to see a 'Google docs' style multi-user version of it, that would be an awesome tool, especially if it would be self hosted.
I run an event every year. I wrote my own booking system having found that every system I'd ever used was, to put it bluntly, confusing, obnoxious, vile, and made me want to take a shower. I'm being somewhat unfair, I know, but I just hate using existing ticketing systems. If you're building one that I'd be happy using then I hope you take over the world.

But I can't tell you specifically what I hate so much about other systems, because it's all very nebulous. And I am most definitely not a usual customer for using a ticketing site. There are several roles in this space that you will need to identify, isolate, characterise, and then decide how much you want to please them. Would you mind if your system becomes the system of choice for event organisers, but that event goers curse you at every stage of the process?

So you're welcome to email me, but I strongly advise the following:

* Don't ask too many questions all at once;

* Make your questions short, sharp, simple, and easy to snap off an answer to;

* Think hard about what two questions really matter to you;

* Don't think of my as a typical anything -- evaluate what I say. I won't lie, but I might not be creating a truthful view of your market.
They use Android IPC, which is a kind of RPC between processes.

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hal-types
I rarely remember to take a break but when I'm walking around I try to move fast; if there are stairs I'll run up them; if I'm outside I'll jump on top of random stuff and hang there falling for a second like someone in a Disney musical from the 50s.
He seems to have been on a mild downward spiral for the past year or so, presumably under the pressure of the Model 3's stumbling launch. He's gotten more impulsive.
http://archive.is/4pDPD
Sounds like a problem with your employer. None of mine have ever had a problem with me taking off early to make up for days I've worked longer hours.

Have you talked to them about it?
well that is very cool. Unfortunately the original HN posts title failed to mention that was meant for embedded control systems which is probablly why I missed reading it! The HN post can be found here :-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14951116

and the literate source code is here ...

https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret/blob/master/ferret.org
Even so, the parts that the bullet missed still underwent enormous stress - note all the mention of brain injury just from concussive force, rather than a direct hit - and still survived.
Thanks I will proceed soon!
Ask HN: Where can I get civil discussion on issues spanning politics and tech?
I understand and respect HN's desire to steer clear of politics in this forum even when it mixes with technology in some manner. I would like to know if there is a place like HN that already exists where I can have those kinds of discussions, or if I should consider making my own subreddit or website.
While true, there are cryptographically secure PRNG's that are incredibly difficult (Theoretically impossible) to predict.

In any case, unless you're using Markov chains to generate data that needs to be kept secure (Like generating a password that could be pronounced), the predictability of random numbers isn't really relevant.
I am with the on acid while tweeting, Azelia Banks flown out for a possible threesome with Grimes story on this one. I think if he just explains that to the SEC he will be OK.

Drunk/fucked up tweeting excuse has always worked for my friends since twitter was founded.
Ha ha, good point :) Yes, hing is a very strong spice. But it can be a light spice, if you use little enough. Normally just a tiny pinch of it is used. Also, in India, the packaged variety you get from shops is usually mixed with some filler material which makes it less strong. Not sure what, need to check. In a similar manner, for example, some mustard powder out here is mixed with some whole wheat flour (atta) and turmeric, for the same reason. E.g. Weifield's Mustard Powder, a common brand.
Hot take: public figures and business leaders should find a way to communicate to the public without embarrassing themselves or endangering their own interests.

I have a novel idea. How about they hire people really good at tweeting and communications, so that they don't let their ego get in the way of their own company?

They could call these people "People Really Good At Tweeting" (PRGT). Or maybe just shorten the acronym to "PR."

PR people should do the Tweeting and the egomaniacs should stay out of it.
nested "paragraphs"
This looks awesome, the issue I have with magnet is how far I have to swipe. This looks much faster
Musk has used social media to good effect, but he has also scored some terrible own goals (the bankruptcy joke and this one). I really don't understand why he can't curb his tendency to shoot from the hip like this, we're talking billions of investment and that requires a slightly more mature attitude.
Seems like you have a pretty good product but I am sorry the presentation is not very welcoming. Have maybe a demo or some better screenshots, the only ones I've seen are in the docs that do not look particularly inviting. I feel like the competition in this field is pretty fierce and a strong personality and good presentation are essential.
I wouldn't choose it either, but it depends what your outside options are. At least it gets you thinking about people and processing verbally.
One more nail in the coffin.

What can we do?
Which ones are good? I did like Karate Kid and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon but I feel like I missed out on a whole genre.
http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~weiwang/paper/SSDBM07_2.pdf is the paper its mostly based on
Figure 1. Actually describes how big the datastructure can get. It keeps getting bigger the more data you feed it.
Aren't all observations subjective, hence not universal?
A bunch of us Westerner looking types went to a Thai restaurant in Mountain View. This was many years ago and I don't recall the restaurant. We ordered some shared dish and were asked how spicy we wanted it, 1-10. We said 10. The whole "are you sure?" thing a few times. They brought the dish out. We said "this really isn't 10 spicy." The server said, "next time say you want it 10 on the Thai scale". Sigh.

I live in NC now. There's an ice cream place here that has you sign a release form before they'll let you try their "Cold Sweat"[0] made with habanaro, ghost pepper oil, etc, ice cream. I tried it. It was pretty amazingly hot, but while eating it I noticed they had a flavor called "Exit Wound." I asked what it was. "Oh, that's even hotter." Didn't try it... the Cold Sweat was really hot.

There's something wrong with an America where the spiciest food I can get is ice cream. :-)

[0] Cheesy food network video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8oy_zYRTZ0
>> charlatan

No, he isn't. This word is far too strong. He might not be a good CEO but he's definitely not someone who "falsely claims to have a special skill."
We use Azure and we have multiple sites we're getting that visitor count (or more, for PPC campaigns) for way less than $7/mo using Cloudflare/Azure Edge/Web Apps. This might not work for a single site, but multiple sites on a service plan we can handle way more visits per site (especially if it were static) for $2-$3/site/mo and we could auto scale if needed though that would raise that number, it would not exceed your number. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how $7 isn't viewed as rather expensive for that visitor count.
That’s mandatory, not voluntary.
Graphics drivers run on the kernel.
>Besides the SEC, which is a criminal investigation

I thought SEC only has civil powers. SEC could force Musk out of Tesla but couldn't levy any criminal charges. Only the DOJ can bring criminal indictments.

edit:grammar
[Meta] A light, hard to read shade of gray. (Never understood why would anyone want to do that to the reader.)
I think there's a certain understanding of process with any version control system that's kind of hard to teach without one. Collaboration by "sneaker-net" often results in one person doing all of the computer work, or hideous passing of flash drives or emailing of documents. It's very manual and while it can work, it's a chore and prone to errors.

Working with version control, suddenly you're aware that other students in your group will see your changes via the logs (adding accountability), and if you have a good professor, you're also writing descriptive commit messages for anything you do. Over time, a student becomes cognizant of the why inherent in their work, in a way that might be hard to appreciate otherwise. It's not enough just to get the solution to work, you must also explain your approach to your classmates, and sometimes just the act of explaining your method enlightens you to a flaw in its approach. You must also become aware of their group members work, because every time you pull or merge, conflicts must be taken care of, bugs introduced must be solved, and some degree of collaboration is therefore forced. It's really a lovely tool, and it adds structure and teachable moments in ways that are hard to replicate otherwise.
> It doesn't natively support sine and cosine, but these can be computed from the tangent.

I'd not ever looked into it, but that neatly explains the existence of the sincos instruction.
I think basically anything else will do. I tend to do quite a bit of diy in my spare time. But I have to say. After a long programming session I turn into the most egotistical angry creature I have ever known. Thankfully the productivity of such a session is usually so big people still go to their knees to thank me. And I happen to be a real sucker for compliments so once in a while when it's really necessary I still do them.
I have. It's a long and interesting story, full of intrigue, backstabbing, hacking, and corporate espionage. But in summary:

Owners started tech business using trust-fund money. They were extremely non-technical, scared of computers to be honest. They hired people that were like them (also non-technical), and didn't have the ability to properly vet candidates. Tech staff was hired basically off of Craig's List with very little interviewing. Tech was built and company got large enough to get a couple contracts (heavily influenced by owners' existing personal connections).

As you'd expect, tech stack started creaking under the load. At first tech staff thought they had everything under control (strong Dunning-Kruger effect, bolstered by early successes). Eventually tech staff realized how badly things were going and started lying to management to cover for their own incompetence.

Decent tech management was hired (I think by accident) and the tech staff saw the writing on the wall. The entire tech staff just didn't show up to work one day. Left without any notice or warning (the more intriguing stuff tangents off here). New, more capable tech staff was hired (including me). At this point the system was hemorrhaging data and users. We triaged, stemmed the bleeding, and built out a decent infrastructure with a decent tech stack.

Unfortunately for them that was too late. The contracts had fairly stiff penalties for non-compliance, and the company was in non-compliance for a looooooong time. The owners had made some false statements about the assets of the company, and settlements offered were based on those statement, far too high for the company to pay. Other companies were pissed about that and took it to court. Owners ended up getting taken to the cleaners and lost pretty much everything, including a bunch of assets that they had owned before but transferred to the company (including real estate) in some fairly shady tax dodge scheme.

Ultimately the world is a better place now that this company doesn't exist. It operated in an extremely sketchy manner, and I left when I found out the gist of what was going on. I learned the earlier and later parts of the story from personal connections.

Does that count? I mean, ultimately I think if you have poor engineering talent then it's management's fault. But you can make that argument for any corporate issue: it's management's fault for not recognizing the problem and addressing it soon enough.
I'm sorry, this is contrary to every experience I've had. 'Spiciness' refers to heat, not to combination of spices.
Ironically, it was this link of the two that was so heavy with Javascript and downloads that I gave up on viewing it on my phone.
There are definitely stories that are sadly under-reported, but I do think that this story is an interesting feature that would’ve been done even if the patient were not a young white woman.
> and they're still subject to the court system

That's assuming someone is willing/able to prosecute them. That is not always the case. Here's a recent example of that: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/ajit-pai-must-an...
But it isn't linear. Price is falling exponentially (15% every year). And adoption will be more rapid as solar suddenly becomes economically viable.

For a benchmark, look at China's adoption. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China . Not at how many years they too from 20gw to 175 gw, but how much solar became viable for them last year.
On the game side of things, also check out Spelunky.

A lot of effort has gone into making interactions consistent and universal, so really interesting stuff can happen and it's not difficult to figure out why it happened.[0]

Spelunky was a big motivator for me to think more about building what I think of as these kind of "honest" systems, for lack of a better word.

[0]: https://www.pentadact.com/2012-07-13-shopstorm-a-spelunky-st...
One of the previous discussions on this topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433945
Warning customers that your food is spicy is one thing. Refusing to accept that your culture isn't the only one on the planet that enjoys spicy food is something else entirely.

There are white people who don't like spicy food, and there are Indians who don't like spicy food. There are probably more white people who don't like spicy food than Indians who don't (percentage wise).

But if you use this heuristic instead of listening to your customers, you'll be wrong more often than you're right.

>my mother, for example, is constantly enamored of the idea of spicy food, orders it "medium" or even "spicy," and then struggles to eat it

There's really nothing you can do about this unless you plan on just flat out refusing to listen to your customer's stated preferences.
Tildes is the best place I've found, a mix between HN's high bar for moderation and Reddit's openness to more than just technical topics:

https://blog.tildes.net/announcing-tildes

Currently in closed alpha, though.
Taking over pet tracking-activity collar startup
friend/client is looking for a new home for a pet tracking and activity collar company. otherwise it will likely have to shutdown. new owners would need several hundred K of capital for a new production run. if you have any interest, email me at michael@exitplace.com
Microsoft has 124,000 employees. You're telling me one in three are on Blind? Yea right.
I think monkeynotes was more talking about a high quality mask. After this article, I'm thinking I would feel the same way. I'm not sure I could handle going through this process, especially all the unending maintenance required afterward.

I hope Katie and her family are continually keeping in mind how they are helping push medical science forward and benefiting future patients. That's a big part of the value of these efforts, in my mind.
When I played poker for a living I would sit for like 12-16hrs at a table glued in thinking in fractions and ratios. I couldn't even count the chips when I went to the cage after, it wasn't in ratios. I would meet friends at a bar/club and couldn't talk to anyone for at least an hour.

They should add:

- Weed
- Drinking
- Porn

There is no way I could play video games.
Here's the link: https://www.leoeditor.com/preface.html

And for those on small screens:

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Leo is:

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* A fully-featured IDE, with many features inspired by Emacs.

* An outliner. Everything in Leo is an outline.

* A data manager, data manager and personal information manager.

* A powerful scripting environment.

* A tool for organizing and studying computer code.

* Extensible via a simple plugin architecture.

* A tool that plays well with IPython, Vim and Emacs.

* Written in 100% pure Python

--

Leo’s unique features

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Leo completely integrates Python scripting and outlines. Simulating the following features in Vim, Emacs or Eclipse is possible, just as it is possible to simulate Python in assembly language…

* All commands and scripts have easy access to outline structure via a simple Python API.

For example, p.b is the body text of the selected outline node.

Scripts have full access to all of Leo’s sources.

* Clones create multiple views of an outline.

Leo’s underlying data is a Directed Acyclic Graphs.

As a result, Leo organizes data in completely new ways.

* Scripts and programs can be composed from outlines using outline-oriented directives.

* Importers convert flat text into outlines.

* @test and @suite scripts create unit tests automatically.

* @button scripts apply scripts to outline data.
what does H3 gain over S2 in exchange for cells at different levels no longer matching up? do you think their use case justifies that change?
I can't sleep (unless I'm extremely deprived, at which point I'm really just passing out) until after I've done the unwind things mentioned in the article and have been away from work for ~3 hours. It doesn't matter when I stop working, I cannot sleep until 3 hours has passed. I've tried, I lay in bed for 3 hours minus commute time.
Your Name Is All Over the Internet. It Doesn’t Need to Be
Radar view (or some kind of value-add sensing view) gets consumers to start trusting autonomous systems. And I trust your judgement on the weather API - more generally, windshield wipers should be able to operate themselves :)
An 11-year-old hacked a replica of Florida’s voting system in 10 minutes
glad to see SEC acting in some form on this. While I hope Tesla succeeds, I rational communication from Wall Street companies.
> It's such an extremely simple litmus test: if it breaks the back button of the browser, it's the wrong design.

What if state should be destroyed when you press the back button? What if I open an image in a photo app, click a button to delete it, and go to a 'deletion successful' page.

Should clicking the back button return me to a page containing the image? A page containing 'this image has been deleted'? The website I was on before I was on the photo app?

Which actions defines a history-worthy state change? Should clicking around a menu generate 10 history events? What about toggling a checkbox? What about an action that changes most of the information on a page? Should that generate a history event? What if that action is bringing an in-app tab to the forefront?

What if there is an obvious history event that should be generated, but there is no good reason for why a user would want to go back to that state?

It doesn't even matter how you answer all of the above questions - other people will have different answers for them, and have different expectations for how the back button should work, on the same app.
Not true, a lot of mathematical problems behave better (but other semiclassical approaches also exist).

As for the epicycles comparison, it's actually apt. They could have given complex plane and Fourier analysis for free if they had a chance (not to mention Copernicus actually used more of them than Ptolemy)(which incidentally is also the case with Many-World-necessiated landscapes and parameter spaces - just as much additional layer but with additional problems that are, in contrast, untractable by current math).
Yes, I did learn that. I threw in “authentic or not” to avoid attempting to define what is “actually” Indian food.
Sure, but then there's the whole overhead of maintaining a server.
I __prefer__ rational ...
The investigation is about potential violation of federal securities law, which would be a criminal offense. If there is sufficient evidence of such criminal violation, the SEC will hand it over to the appropriate enforcement agency to prosecute it as a criminal case:

> As an adjunct to the SEC's civil enforcement authority, the Division works closely with law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and around the world to bring criminal cases when appropriate.

https://www.sec.gov/enforce/how-investigations-work.html
What’s Another $7B When You’re Exploring the Universe?