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I am a Russian citizen living in EU. I generally avoid trips to US.
BTW, me and some of my colleagues, postdocs or PhD students, had to go through the infamous TAL (technology alert list) checks. What it practically means:
1) you are a citizen of some US "enemy" country, like xUSSR, China, Brazil or, God forbid, Iran
2) you have a PhD in any engineering discipline (true for architects, computer scientists, chemists, physicists, etc) or you work towards your PhD
3) you are going to a conference in US
Then they will do a mock background check for long enough to grant you a visa one day after the conference ends.
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I have flash-heavy sites, but for the same reason I hate javascript-heavy sites:

* Silly animations are a bad idea in Powerpoint, a bad idea in Word, and a bad idea in web documents. Word seems to be the only place where most people avoid them though.

* Running a program in a web page breaks statelessness.

* Support for disabled readers will get lost.

I understand that gopher - just text and a list of links - is a little too minimalist. But the other extreme (setting up a GUI just to show a document) is worse.
Very interesting point here.

Maybe Adobe's next ad campaign will feature this idea: Flash is better because you can turn it off. In fact, if you turn it off, you remove 99% of all truly annoying ads on the web.

Thinking ahead, maybe we need a ClickToJS...
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That's going to be a problem because of https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:No_...

As an alternative I recommend you check out: http://www.wikinews.org/
No, medical insurance isn't a waste, because the cost of not having it can be extremely high, not just in dollar terms.

Happiness (100% x losing $1000 + 1% x having a free necessary operation) > Happiness (1% x not being able to afford a necessary operation).
The Housing First initiative in the US has seen some success: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
What's most unrealistic to me is that Batman doesn't use lethal weapons. Good luck fighting armed criminals unless you have a kick ass body armor.
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Usually separate lanes for EU-citizens. In some countries, if those are empty, officers from those lanes may call you over even if you are not an EU citizen. If it's a passport they are familiair with and no visa is required, you basically get treated the same way as everybody else: a quick glance and off you go.
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And even then it may be hard. There has been mixing up even back then.
How do you know that? If he was already famous at the time, why bother list his abilities? He would need not more than say "Leonardo Da Vinci, at your service my Lord".
Makes perfect sense. I guess I'm left wondering why smaller, remote islands don't have to do this. Places like Hawai'i, New Guinea, the Philippines, Iceland, or Japan. I'm no biologist, but my guess is that those places aren't known for large-scale agriculture.
I refuse to travel to the US because of how much hassle is involved. I don't starting my trips off on a sour note. The UK is headed this way as well, mind you.
Both of these principles are directly responsible for IE6 still being a supported browser.
There is also a really interesting (scarifying-wise) discussion about apathy, existentialism and generally missing purpose in America's daily life, in the later comments to check out (scroll down 1/3, i.e. a mile).
Hawaii does do plant quarantine.
HTML5 still can't interact with a webcam...
I'm not sure that's so unrealistic. Batman utilises "shock" tactics (i.e. appearing in the middle of a group before they can react). He also promotes a fear factor; where he is viewed as being generally invulnerable - which means criminals psychophysically expect him to be able to avoid/take/survive gunfire.

Then on the practical aspect he works at night or in the dark and has technological advantages (as well as ranged non-lethal weapons) over his enemies.

Speculating you could imagine he is pretty good at reading people and their reactions, and so has a rudimentary ability to avoid (not quite dodge) gunfire.

Sure, I think it is unrealistic that in, say, the films he avoids all the gunfire period. But it seems reasonable that he can avoid most of it with these advantages.

Such things are all possible in real life, but I expect you are right - you would end up shot.
Are you really that confused? I'm not talking about javascript, browser-based applications here, but rather the various apps that run on Apple's proprietary hardware. I think I made that clear, and I thought it was pretty clear that Apple is trying very hard to kill flash and replace it with its own platform that depends upon its own hardware.

This seems really, really simple to understand, but let me know if it's still confusing.
It takes one phone call to speak to someone at your Congresscritter's office about this. They really do listen and, occasionally, even act on things which generate heat from constituents (ask any Republican who flipped on immigration circa 2007-2008). If you feel strongly about it, make the freaking call. (Or, better, write an honest-to-God on-dead-tree letter.)
I wanted to add a comment to that answer but kept getting run around in circles. Not the first time I'm been perplexed by the Quora UI.
That's just not true. As you can see from their independently audited annual report most of the money they raise is spend on giving housing advice to people in trouble:

http://england.shelter.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/29...

Money out £45.9 million; Housing and legal services: £27,809,000.
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I don't know about this guys. Seems simple to me —If the product ain't ready, you don't release.
Agreed. My point was not that states are just like EU countries. It was that lauding the ease of travel from EU country to EU country as an EU citizen is meaningless in the context of this discussion.
I have to say, my first reaction on reading this was "Quora? You see that thing you're jumping over? I hate to break it to you, but that's the shark."
I wonder if this will have applications to synthetic modeling of the neuron.
Looking at the current Scotland page it would appear that I finally won the argument :)
Account created 10 hours ago, no other comments or submissions.

So far, that makes two completely new accounts (Leopeptards, Halos04) commenting here to say how good this resume is, plus one instance of someone "else" answering for KleinmanB (shakeshake, see elsewhere in the discussion) ... and the somebody-else in question, with whom KleinmanB "occasionally shares" a laptop, just happens to have submitted a link to the same resume with the title "The Most Creative Resume I Have Seen In A Long Time".

If anyone with HN superpowers is reading this, they might want to take appropriate action. Unfortunately, all that's in my power is to flag it and express my hope that anyone reading KleinmanB's resume stumbles across this discussion and considers carefully whether they should trust someone who engages in such sockpuppetry.
Wow. I found this account of her: http://www.audiojournal.com/zora.html

She sounds amazing; having achieved an amazing amount (academically a PHD by age 21!). The rest of "The List" is mad.. weapons, vehicle training, politics, history, herbology, various extreme sports.
Sounds like the start of Rambo I movie ;)
The Byzantine Generals Problem - explained, and with code.
Except that it's not just reflexes. Watson has to compute the answer before the humans. That's no small task. This video is a great technical explanation of how it works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2H3DZ8rNc&feature=youtu...
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem

It might be worth reading that first to get into the right frame of mind.

For reference, I've had to code solutions for both of these problems for real in safety-critical situations. Interesting challenge.

ADDED IN EDIT:

The paper with the original solution:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/357176/p382-lamport.p...

ADDED IN EDIT (2)

Amazon's S3 service suffered a failure of this type:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
Insuring against small losses is a waste of money.

You've got to factor in the margin of the insurance company, but also the time and expense of claiming, keeping records, reading insurance terms, the potential for the claim not to be honoured etc. Better to self-insure - put that money aside into a fund and use that fund to cover your loses for small amounts.

For large losses that you may not have the capacity to cover, it is usually sensible. Where to draw the line depends on how deep your pockets are.
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Oops, that's a typo about the bits. I just realized that. Its actually a 32 byte secret key = 256 bit secret key. Thanks for catching that.

Also, thanks. This is really good feedback.
Wikipedia is increasingly becoming a primary source.

That's not what Wikipedia claims to be, for any ordinary definition of "primary source."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT
I don't have a TV, but I do have facebook. Am I too old fashioned ?
The main thrust seems to be social media / marketing / business development, so Facebook does seem to be very relevant.
I am Indian and not muslim but "unfortunate" to have been born in the middle east. Everytime I visit the US, I have an intensive check, basically running all my finger prints through an extensive check. I have to swear what I saw is true (which I find awkward, raising my palm and repeating what they say). The officers take my wallet, go through all my credit cards, docs, etc. I have to wait for about 2 hours. I once missed my connection flight because of the long wait.

And what is crazier is that the same procedure repeats when I leave the US.
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That's a really good idea.

I can probably add this pretty easily. Though I don't have the time for it right now, but definitely soon.
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I know I'm giving away my secrets, but:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/startup+idea?sort=by_date
This is an excellent way to get cut by the type of company that uses an external application tracking system that only accepts .docs and .txts.
Or PDX, where Immigrations was so hostile that demand dropped to zero on direct flights from Asia and the airlines had to pull the routes.

Evidently it was better to simply book your flight to SEA, wait for those 3 lanes, then catch a separate flight south to avoid the pain and suffering at the hands of the PDX border guards.
If it makes you feel any better, I get more questions from US border control than any other country I've visited, and I'm an American, so it's not just foreigners they treat like crap.
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Well-paid lawyers rather than well-paid consultants, same difference.
everyone is utterly paranoid

Everyone?

I have bit my tongue for a long time about this great community's slipping quality, but honestly, how does shit like this make it to the top of Hacker News. Flagged.

Any suggestions for how to get back to having hacker news on Hacker News? (And please spare us the lame "situational logic" response of how <anyShit> is hacker news.)
Can't you see the difference between answering the question "What Do You Think Of My Resume?" and bragging about not having a Facebook account? I didn't see much of the latter in these comments.
Except they weren't singled out. Visa waiver program requires each member be at certain economic and political levels. Countries like Singapore met the requirement and are included, countries like Brazil, China, and India don't. This isn't elementary school anymore, you expect diplomats to act diplomats and get policies enacted, not come up with some stupid scheme even a 10 year old could see through.

What the politicians should be doing is saying, "we want to be part of Vfw too, what can we do to get there?" and not, "the US gov't don't like us, so we won't like them!" Instead of trying to work closer together, this policy only makes the divide bigger. I was ready to go to Brazil for a vacation, but chose South Africa instead because of this silliness.

To an American, not going to Brazil has very little impact on them. They'll take their money and go elsewhere.
but hey, you can build ugly banners with html5 / canvas too ... and the performance will be the same. should be banish html5 too?
I'v had border guards in FSRs point guns at me but hey, those guys are just doing their jobs.

No one should ever, EVER, point a gun at someone unless they are prepared to shoot.
I am running the 13" mbp and have not noticed anything out of the ordinary though now I am going to start using firefox for a few weeks and see how I feel.
Because Australia doesn't have many of the diseases and pests that the rest of the world has. For example, Australia is one of the few places on the world where bee colonies are free from the mite that has devastated hives the world over. Australian beekeepers are now exporting to the USA, and it's these imported bees that are keeping the industry alive.

One english settler decided, in the 1830s or so, to release a small hutch of rabbits so they could scamper around his property and he'd be able to take potshots at them for fun. The rabbits went on to systematically destroy most of the arable land in the country.

It's not only the agricultural industries. Many of the unique Australian wildlife has never been subjected to common animals from the rest of the world. The fox decimates native mammal populations.

I could go on and on. There was a fire ant quarantine breach a few years back and they literally hunted down every nest and colony that had occured and (I think) have re-declared fire ant free.

So, if you're travelling to Australia, don't treat it as some sort of TSA impost. Be thankful that people are there protecting the borders so you have some unique animals, and fantastic food quality to come and see.

Fun fact : I have a friend who is a dog handler in an Australian airport. The worst offenders are little old ladies of either asian or middle eastern origin. They're always carrying some noxious weed as part of an old family recipe to cook for their descendents who have settled in Australia. So if you see someone with a dog bailing up an old lady in an Airport, you know why.

On the plus side - they will clean your boots for you, free of charge - they do a fine job of it as well. Unless you're trying to hide your muddy boots, then you'll get fined a couple of hundred bucks for being sneaky. Best to declare your boots and get them cleaned for you.
Yes, the problem with the ratings is that it necessitates a bitcard account, alas. Would it be more open, there could be many more ratings.
I actually HAVE written to my senators about this issue, unfortunately I didn't even get the courtesy of a form letter in response - and they're both Democrats. I didn't bother writing to my rep since he's a Republican.
The EU is a dream compared to the US/UK.

My girlfriend is English and I'm American. For the first 3 years we were together, it was impossible for me to live in England or for her to live in the US. Instead we rented an apartment in Spain and lived there with never a word from EU immigrations about my coming or going.

Granted, getting a visa to live there legally as an American is next to impossible. But at least in Spain, they just plain never check.
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Oh, Christ. Not again.

This idea circulates every now and then, often as a result of a VC post somewhere. Look: VCs sit on the other side of the table from the founders. It is their job to convince the founders that their ideas have little value and that the value lies in what they bring to the table. Your are a fool if you believe them. One rather notable startup invester has gone so far as to state that if you tell him your idea it is perfectly acceptable for him to give your idea to another group of founders to execute. It's not stealing, because the idea is of no value.

See how that works?

He has apparently executed on this threat, too.

But if you start negotiating for serious money (valuations of tens of millions or more), you need a strong barrier to entry for the competition. Often, very often, that is a patentable (or patented) idea or technology.

On the flip side, maybe you can think of products whose initial execution wasn't so great but whose idea was so compelling that the product was a success anyway. I won't list what comes to my mind because I don't want to start a fanboi flamewar here, but you may be able to think of a few.

Believe the "execution is everything" myth at your own risk. Ideas are very important. Ideas are what change the direction of how we think about ourselves and how we live in the world. In fact, I would say that some ideas compel their execution. So, in my view, the moral is: if you have a good idea you better be able to execute it, because if you can't somebody else will.
Not really. The uses that make IE6 stick around don't even degrade gracefully on IE6. They only work there.
Nobody has idle cash. When you put your cash in the bank, it's invested by the bank.
The basic answer is: too little, too late. By the time they realised what was going on, the problems had already been caused. Hawaii has been devastated by imported plants and animals. Thousands of bird species have been lost, and huge parts of the islands are overrun with noxious weeds. They're fighting it as best they can, but it's a case of preserving what is left.

As for the phillipines - they've been trading with other nations for a long time, as have Japan. I'm guessing that the transfer of pests and diseases happened a few centuries back.

Australia is unique in that basically no trade of any kind happened until 200 years ago. There's been a lot of mistakes, but that's no reason to give up.
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Do you truly need a business visa just to enter the US in order to speak at a conference, for a visit likely lasting no more than a few days?
I run flash on ubuntu/chrome. Not that you have to, but the option is there.
did u try on ie9?
I'm a permanent resident of the U.S., but even with the green card the hassles at the border are just nasty regardless of where I've been or for how long. The attitude is atrocious and I usually feel more like a criminal they've reluctantly had to let back in rather than welcomed back home. Green card holders also get fingerprinted and in some cases retina-scanned at re-entry. The nudie scans have only managed to create a small additional inconvenience for me…
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Basically that's the problem. It's estimated that there are somewhere between 3-7 million non-military Americans living overseas, but that's less than 3% of the population. If the US had senators and representatives dedicated to those people, we would have some clout, but because we still have to have "residency" in a specific state, we aren't really large enough to have much political clout.

Unfortunately most of the people who live in the US really don't understand the bullshit treatment that people get when entering the country. --It's not as bad for US citizens, but I still get questioned more coming into the US than any other country I've visited.
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I find that people outside Asia are extremely ignorant about Japan. This kind of pop journalism fills the void, but doesn't actually shed any light. Visiting Japan is like visiting the home of someone who keeps everything in its place – not exactly a comfortable place, until you understand the system behind it.

Try visiting the countryside in Japan: you will not see a single stone out of place. No litter. No discarded auto bodies. No trash piles. Literally everything has a place, and is kept there.
By having a mental gauge of what's too subjective and not posting those, as well as not voting on, commenting on, etc?

Maybe there is some sort of algorithm that can be established to determine the level of subjectivity of an article or post with a 95% confidence interval?
Given that the US is largely considered the most entrepreneurial country in the world, I think this is relevant. A lot of people from other countries want to do business here, and this very well might be of concern to them.

This thread has sparked a large discussion and I think this is in line with the submission guidelines as being intellectually gratifying.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Or one of the most. I am not too sure about, say, Hong Kong.
He already is on it: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/02/17/howToMapADomainToAnS...
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I've stayed in $30/night hostels in New York City. I don't see many places they could've cut costs and still provided a safe, sanitary place to sleep, and there are still homeless people in New York City.
Walmart works the exact same way. But instead of pulling this "squeeze play" on a few components they do it on most things they sell.
Those schemes (and similar) are also known as basic income.

You have to make sure that the effective marginal tax rates stay low, even on small incomes. That's something lots of welfare payments get wrong.
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Your are picking on the one time he goes hyperbolic. Overall, there are good points in the post, even if he does make that one statement that is obviously false. Just read it as "many" and move on.
Most Americans aren't seeing this stuff.

You mean most foreign-travelling Americans, who are a minority in comparison to the Americans that don't have a passport, as only 37% hold one [1]. Domestic flights are way less of a pain than international, if only because you don't have to go through Customs.

[1]: http://www.theexpeditioner.com/2010/02/17/how-many-americans...

EDIT: My American wife (I'm British) was the same way. I'm in the process of applying for a Green Card, which means we'll have to go to an INS office and both of us get our fingerprints taken. "Why the hell do they need my fingerprints? There's no way I'm giving them my fingerprints!" "Honey, they take my prints every time I come to the US."