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Ask HN: How to reach Angel investors in bay area from Egypt?
I am working on my B2B startup.
It's been 9 months and I can't find any investors yet.

I am in Egypt, and it's almost impossible to get a U.S. visa, with 79% denial rate. Even they refused granting me a student visa to study at Stanford - the consul told me: study online.

I tried crunchbase pro but it is not helpful!
everyone is talking about being it high likely to get funded in the Bay area, but I am not there.
If I was able to get there, things would be something else!

I would deeply appreciate it providing me resources suitable to my situation being out of the U.S.!
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I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the scramble. There are a few near me, on mid-sized roads.

I have to cross a fairly wide, busy road to get to work. I wish it had a scramble with no-turn-on-red signage. That would make my commute massively safer.
My parents have been running Zorin OS lite for a couple years now, they have not had any problems with it. It's based on ubuntu and the lite version has xfce as the desktop. Runs great on their older computer, looks enough like windows that they jumped in without any issues, and it has a pretty basic interface.
> for example. People would simply figure out a way to work more in order to get ahead and compete with others. Seems to me that a more socialist form of government is a required backdrop for this to mean anything.

how many people work 2 or 3 jobs because they want to buy luxury items vs the people that are forced to work to keep their home and pay electricity,water,heat and other must have services. I personally tried once to work more then 8 hours and it was a terrible experience. as a programmer my energy depletes fast and most of the time the best ideas I have when away from the computer.
It's a defense-in-depth strategy: a written constitution with enunerated rights to avoid bad laws; divide power to isolate and extinguish bad laws; and allow citizens routes to evade enforcement in case we still end up with bad laws.

Systems always fail. Handle the failures with something better than SIGABRT.
This post is similar to the ideas of Hannah Arendt and her concept of "the banality of evil". In her own words:

"I was struck by the manifest shallowness in the doer [ie Eichmann] which made it impossible to trace the uncontestable evil of his deeds to any deeper level of roots or motives. The deeds were monstrous, but the doer – at least the very effective one now on trial – was quite ordinary, commonplace, and neither demonic nor monstrous."

She set out to research the origins of how high ranking nazis became so evil, only to find that in many cases the roots were innocuous. Her thesis is that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.

Explaining this phenomenon, Edward S. Herman has emphasized the importance of "normalizing the unthinkable." According to him, "doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization.' This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as 'the way things are done.'"
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Winning the H-1B Visa Lottery Boosts the Fortunes of Startups
The paper is at https://marriottschool.byu.edu/upload/event/event_643/_doc/D... .
Yep. You can see some more context here: http://scottmeyers.blogspot.com/2012/04/stdstring-sso-and-mo...

I don't know if there are any canonical writeups on the various string implementations and their performance implications wrt modern hardware.
Yeah I guess that must be it. The article is certainly misleading.
I put my mom on linux. You be surprise how many scammers will hang up as soon as they hear you run linux instead of windows/mac. I went through a phase talking to "windows support" because my evil sister used my moms phone number for something that ended up in there database. I ran through their script a few times typically stopping when they try and get me to install remote access software to see what their end goal was. When I started telling them I ran linux not windows they would hang up.
Yet another anecdote that toxic tech culture is really toxic finance culture.
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Chiplet designs means that you still have to route signals either onto an interposer or onto a PCB. If you have a silicon interposer you have the same issue of making a really large silicon die. If you route into the PCB, then you may need SerDes depending on what you do and bandwidth will be lower and latency will be higher due to signal integrity issues.

Maybe something like Intel's EMIB technology where they have small interposers along edges of chips rather than having a giant interposer might help here.

Yields are probably fairly good if they design for manufacturing by placing extra cores / wires to route around failures as I am sure they are.
As much hay is made of "just following orders" being no excuse, one sees it made so often because it does work, depending on the context.

(In a sense, it even worked in the Nuremberg trials---basically everyone tried was executed, but the entirety of the German army and the civilian populace who supported the Nazi party were not, even though they, too, were "just following orders").
Why does anybody come to HN, except to find articles to read?

How would you know something is easily googled if you've never heard the term before?
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> American Midwest, in part because of the no-tech/no-connectivity of large swaths

Wait, what? When is the last time you went to the midwest!?
Like the rest of the ducking modern web! I just spent an infuriating half an hour trying to locate somewhere to eat breakfast close by tomorrow. It will be faster and much better for my blood pressure to just walk around the neighbourhood until I see something that looks nice.

WTF happened? Seriously? It wasn’t long ago things like Google and google maps were actually helpful. And establishments had websites with menus and opening hours.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21937607. Normally we'd merge discussions in the other direction but the later post is on the front page and the article seems to have struck a chord.
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I would bet that vast, vast majority of production kafka deployments do not see 7 trillion events per day. I bet many/most do not even see 7 billion events per day.
The street cans in Philadelphia have solar-powered sensors which lock the bin when it is full, with a red LED to indicate it’s status.

Of course, Philadelphia has maybe 1:10 of the amount of street cans as NYC so there is still trash everywhere. But the bins are very nice!
There's a YouTube channel called "Kitboga" where a guy calls tech scammers and tries to waste as much of their time as possible: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw

The videos have a pretty broad appeal -- even if you don't always get the memes he references, it's still funny to watch him pretend to be an old lady over the phone -- and you'll learn a lot about the way these scams usually operate.
Looking Back at the Pale Blue Dot
Oh forgot one aspect about DR: for critical data, we can easily turn on geo-replication (with a single API call) and have that data now in another region purely for DR purposes (or for cross region use cases)
Is there some context or information missing here? He's a disciple because he quotes Graham once in a blog post in a fairly pedestrian way? Surely no reasonable person would describe that relationship as being a 'disciple' unless there is something more?

Searching the wider internet for "Dominic Cummings" "Paul Graham" doesn't seem to reveal any meaningful connections.

And who is the person who has editorialised this title quoting when they say 'heads' in quotes?
I really like the idea of web assembly but I haven't seen any examples of it being done well. Even this page I can't see the app running. Does anyone have any website that shows a useful web assembly running?

(I also like the idea of edge computing with web assembly but haven't seen anything good for that either)
Humans aren't able to correctly parse C++.

There are numerous examples, but a common one is that humans will usually parse `T x();` as constructing an object of type T with the default constructor, but it actually is a forward-declaration of a function returning T.
Nope, not visible. Good luck with that game of whack-a-mole.
Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) Haldane quote, on what nature revealed about the mind of God: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
Two other relevant HN discussions in the past week:

Chinese criminal gangs spreading African swine fever to force farmers to sell pigs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891495

China flight systems jammed by pig farm’s African swine fever defences
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21891968
Not only that - compare the sugar profiles of whole, 2% and skim - you may be a bit surprised (roughly equal if not the same). Also if your kids are drinking those single serve boxes... I’ve seen the sugar on those as high as 18-20g. Way higher than milk out of the carton... approaching “juice” levels. Which reminds me, those relatives with skim in their fridge? They didn’t also happen to also fall for the “heart healthy” fresh-squeezed OJ? Mine did.
In the 19th century anti-pornography activists claimed that perverts would throw pornographic prints over the walls of schoolyards because the perverts supposedly got off on "corrupting" upper-class children.

Sounds a bit implausible.

Perhaps these youtubers are trying to get around internet filters?
He worked with the YC co-founder?
I imagine it is quite close, the county of Milwaukee is essentially just the city. Even many of the suburbs are in surrounding counties
I would love to see different industries use different business hours.

I'd like a dentist to be able to go to the bank, a banker to visit the dentist, without automatically having to take time off of work to do so.
Where do you draw the line on technology? Are you hunting and foraging with your own hand made weapons? Is the tent you sleep in composed of furs? Technology is all around us, no matter how far you move or hide, and it seems arbitrary to draw the line at "cell phone bad", then argue that you need to get kids to go "back to the Earth". That's idealistic romanticism, and unless you're running around in leather skins with a wooden bow and hand woven string, it's all pretending that one can survive without the trappings of modern life.
It isn't that the creation of such a group is itself a crime. It's that such a group creates a formal paper trail that (whatever crime Google could be accused of) could come under discovery. And "We thought about this and came to the 'wrong' conclusions" is no defense, and the penalties for such a paper trail can be higher than the penalties for "we didn't think of this."
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yeah, but they're still working right?
The boards are a great reference point for developing a product with a given component. Any time I make something with an MCU I pick up a couple of dev boards just like this to learn from. It's basically a ``known good'' configuration and really handy for prototyping and debugging hardware issues.
Set them up with VoIP. Monitor the CDRs.

Not a primary solution, but definitely a secondary safeguard.
Their interview process and pay scale strongly indicates they’re optimizing for commodity new grads. I don’t see any appeal for experienced hires.
The Return of the Lithium-Metal Battery
I have used (and deployed) rabbitmq in the past and really love it for pub/sub, but for our needs, we keep needing retention, particularly long retention that we process with Flink for computing views. Having one system to do both is great for us.
Does Google use that power? I see a lot of negative press.
I'd argue that Matrix also chooses pragmatism over purity - the balance is more that we prioritise freedom as well as privacy.

Signal's whole mantra of "only implement features which are privacy preserving" is a great mentality. It's just a shame it comes at the expense of locking down the platform.
Typically, boards like this would only be used for prototyping. It's a dead simple system and there is basically nothing of value in the board itself for production use. Any design using the same microcontroller would just incorporate it directly rather than integrating an extra board. That differs from more complex boards like an RPi Compute Module or an RF module. On those, you might take advantage of the existing high-layer-count board attached to a simpler, low-layer-count board, avoid needing to redesign systems that have signal integrity or RF challenges, or utilize existing certifications around emissions.
I think it makes sense to work less for many reasons. But some politicians propose it like it would cost nothing, or that the costs would be eaten by the employers. To the voters it is proposed as "work less and get paid the same". I think that is dishonest.
I have very little confidence that human beings can actually create that sort of country — at most we can only aspire to it.
From the perspective of an outsider, I can't see how a company like this could survive. They claim on the one hand to have done something really amazing and are at the stage where they are looking for customers. Normally, you'd expect them to be touting performance figures to secure such investment. Instead, they've decided to keep the performance secret. And they've managed to find some "expert" who says this is normal.

Does anyone here have expertise in this area? Is this the model for a successful company in this area?
> Email is flawed and will become a one way protocol to receive spam, newsletters and invoices just like paper mail.

I don't recall the last time I've received spam in my email inbox among the tens of emails I've receive daily, and newsletters/invoices are messages that users intend to subscribe. You might argue that instant messaging scratches an itch that email doesn't, but that's a bit shortsighted and doesn't make a case on why email is flawed.
Or, read paper books - won't have a kindle to lose
The 2000's were a bad decade for investing. You had the dot com crash, followed by 9/11, and then the financial crisis. I "saved" a ton during that time, but the returns were mediocre. The 80's, 90's and most of the 2010's were much, much better for market performance, closer to the average of 10%.

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That's what John Carmack says. He's said that VR headgear needs to get down to swim-goggle size to become mainstream, and down to eyeglass size to become pervasive. He's probably right.
'studied' might be a more accurate word than 'applied', which is ambiguous.

I dunno if this is intentionally misleading or a language barrier.
Basic values come from the world around you, from your parents, from everyone around you that you interact with as you grow up. You aren't born a runner. Kids are formed into people. Most often they turn into people with similar basic values and in turn, political opinions. There are a lot of ways values can be applied. It's only for for the most part that people don't deviate in their application because they aren't thinking that hard, just imitating others and being a conduit for preformed ideas.
> because i don't care who can look at my front lawn

This is extremely selfish. What about your neighbors who walk/drive by your front lawn? You're doing your neighborhood a surveillance disservice.
I didn't say it's bad at all. Different cultures have different attitudes towards work. In the US, we work very intensely and I'm simply suggesting that instituting a 4-day week and 6 hour day will not result in people working only 4 days, not in the US at least. People will, voluntarily, fill up the other time with other money-making endeavors. And I'm not saying that's a problem. My point is simply that (maybe my assumption is wrong here), presumably, the goal of such proposals is to reduce the amount of time people spend working on an absolute basis and that this will not be the end-result in every country.
ok.. and if one weren't military personnel? The original comment seemed to be raising some kind of unspecified fear about this in general, not just for a small segment of the population who frankly should know better.
I’ve seen the kind of videos that FAANGs require their new employees to watch. Not good. Even scarily bad.

If you are at a FAANG, then the phish success rate against your company is probably in the mid single digit percentages.

If you’re at a Fortune 50 company, then the phish success rate against your company is most likely in the high single digit percentage range — if you’re lucky.

If you’re at a company not big enough to be in the Fortune 50, then the phish success rate at your company is most likely in the double digit percentage range. That’s right, over 10% of all phishing messages sent to people in your company will end up hooking their targets.

And the sad thing is that we techies are the ones that are supposed to be most aware of these things and most likely to be able to protect against them.
Is the current 40hw/8h socialist? Do you prefer employment law to not set age limits so 10 year olds can mine again?

Socialism is something else not to be confused with labor standards or water safety or building code rules or parking fines or mail delivery.
Going far afield now, but a skimmer isn't going to get my pin, right? This was a card-present, atm cash withdrawal that happened.

So POS systems store pins? I can't imagine them being certified if they do, or for what reason they might.

AFAIK, the POS hacks all ended up with cc numbers, no pins.
Once the comment is vouched for I don’t think it will go invisible again. I loaded it in incognito mode and it’s visible there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21938682
That's a super important point - being mostly checked out means you're still there, and you're not actually getting the rest and recuperation actually not being there provides. If anything you then get the guilt of not doing enough to stack on top of your inability to actually, really, relax.
Thanks, this confirms what I experienced. And the bad news is Germany is also affected now :-/ I remember reading in school that freedom of movement of goods and people was one of your founding principle, so I was very surprised.

Temporary? lol! that's what was said here for the patriot act too.

Looks like the EU is scraping Schengen. I think this cast a cloud of uncertainty on EU future.

List from the page you linked of countries with "temporary" controls that don't seem temporary at all to me:

Norway (12 November 2019 - 12 May 2020)
Terrorist threats, secondary movements; ports with ferry connections with Denmark, Germany and Sweden;

Sweden (12 November 2019 - 12 May 2020)
Terrorist threats, shortcomings at the external borders; to be determined but may concern all internal borders;

Denmark (12 November 2019 - 12 May 2020)
Terrorist threats, organized criminality from Sweden; land border with Germany and with Sweden, ferry connections to Germany and to Sweden;

Germany (12 November 2019 - 12 May 2020)
Secondary movements, situation at the external borders; land border with Austria;

Austria (12 November 2019 - 12 May 2020)
Secondary movements, risk related to terrorists and organized crime, situation at the external borders; land borders with Hungary and with Slovenia;

France (31 October 2019 - 30 April 2020)
Persistent terrorist threat, upcoming high profile political event in Paris, secondary movements; all internal borders.
> From the title, to the premise, to idea you have to go to Mongolia to get your kid to put down their phone and interact with you.

Exactly. I mean, go to a national or state park and you will likely be out of cell range.

Also - if that family had T-Mobile, likely they would have had free data coverage in Mongolia (perhaps not where they went).

https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/roaming?icid=WMM_TM_U_18IN...