skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK and Germany, the two strongest EU startup countries, both already have founders visas

Please tell us more. That's one of the reasons I asked the question I did up above, to find out more about what other countries are doing as a guide to what policy would be beneficial for the United States.

I did some Google searching, and one person who was responding to HN discussion of this issue on a blog mentioned the United Kingdom highly skilled worker visa,

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/gener...

and from that page I found out about the United Kingdom entrepreneur visa

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/entre...

and the United Kingdom investor visa.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/inves...

But, what, exactly, is a United Kingdom founder visa?

I found a German government website about visas and browsed around, but what exactly is a German founder visa?

Please tell us more. I'd be delighted to hear from HNers who have actually made use of something just like the proposed founder visa for the United States to immigrate to some other country, if we have such people here.
Priority lists as a simpler and faster alternative to wireframes?
I think they have the "Feedback and Dialog" and "System Handles Details" in the wrong column. Those should be reversed. Macs love handling all the little "details" for me without letting me change them, for example the mouse acceleration curve.
I would make a distinction here. They are Elite, which is good. They are the top echelon of their profession. They are also Elitist, which is the real problem here.

tl;dr... in my personal experience, TED is snobby, and pretentious.

I share space with a few TED fellows on a daily basis. They seemed like nice guys but after a short period of time I got the message that they were an exclusive club and I wasn't allowed in.

I realize these people are ridiculously smart and sometimes that is correlated with being socially awkward, but a times they were simply rude.

I really wanted to like these people but they made it very hard. Eventually, I stopped trying to be nice and stopped acknowledging them all together. They seemed quite fine with that.

(They began to seem like divas to me.)
App controls should live in the dock icon. As Chrome, Word, and most modern Microsoft software has shown us, there's really no need for the standard "File, Edit, etc" menu bar today.
While not as 'language' based as we would like, I do think tremendous progress has been made in language-as-an-interface with the rise of google. It doesn't talk back to me, but I can type a lot of meaningful statements or questions into google and get a 'meaningful' response.
new startups have a hard time ranking for anything decent, since all their competitors that they are trying to overthrow have spent decades link building.

It's a rare company indeed that's been link building on the Web since 1991.
"Real artists ship"

Not trying to flame here, but Apple has a track record of shipping solid, complete devices, at a great price point, with a known track record of updates. They also have some seriously polished apps - software differentiation is becoming more and more apparent.

The competition, not so much. You have Android devices that may or may not get firmware updates, and "to be released" devices from HP and RIM.

I'd love to see some serious competition, but until the rest of the market can drive prices down on hardware at the wholesale level, it's going to be rough for everyone who isn't Apple.
Brokers are inherently lazy, too. That's the other missing piece of the puzzle. Meaning that no matter what you make for their industry, they're less likely to use it unless they can use it from bed (while still sleeping) and it costs them nothing (because the're broke).

So my advice is, take your revenue assumptions and divide by 100, then multiply your expenses by 5 and triple your timeline for adoption.
Just as google is the under-dog in the social market.
If you read Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman, makes the case that writing and copying were much more central to early Christianity than other religions of the time, including the Jewish tradition out of which it sprung. Certainly study and interpretation of the Talmud is a strong and significant aspect of Judaism, but Ehrman argues that there is a qualitative difference in the approach of Christianity to "The Word".
If we had 50 on here a week, it would not. And I think that is unacceptable.

I am sure you are right about that. But what I have found personally is that a) I didn't learn how to live until I spent a lot of time at death's door and b) most people who speak with me are invigorated by exposure to ..whatever I got out of that experience. They get to get some perspective on their own lives and problems and sometimes decided that the concerns they are obsessing over are just stupid and not that important. I have terrible financial problems, which are a real issue. I would likely have them had I pursued conventional treatments as well only I wouldn't be getting well. But my creditors aren't going to come cut out my lungs or the lungs of my 23 year old son (who has the same diagnosis I have), which is basically what I would be facing otherwise (lung transplants are really common with my condition). So I just can't find it in me to be as upset about my financial situation as other people sometimes seem to think I should be.

Technology went a long way towards saving my life, both literally and figuratively. It gave me a social life when I as unable to leave my house. It gave me access to research when I was too sick to go to a library. It gave me a means to occupy my time when having nothing to do but go crazy from constant unrelieved pain was a fate worse than death.

I don't really see the issue with the post on Reddit. I would agree with you if someone posted here that they have a new startup idea and plan to make a site specifically to have exactly this kind of post as its sole purpose. I thought the community was very supportive and kind and humane in its treatment of the situation, suprisingly so given how much trash gets talked about Reddit on HN.

But then I am some feverish twit just hanging out here tonight because I can't sleep and can't focus to do anything more than shoot the breeze with strangers...etc...what the hell do I know?

Edit: And it's really not intended as argument. It's intended as conversation. Since I spent some time at death's door and spent a lot of time online during that time, I have this silly idea that my thoughts on this topic might be of interest to your soul-searching...or whatever.
Maps in its present form is basically the fusion of an acquired startup (Where 2) and an internal project (Google Local, done by Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, later of FriendFeed and FaceBook fame).

As I understand it, the original Where 2 product was a desktop app, much like what became Google Earth, and not all that groundbreaking because satellite-imagery desktop mapping apps have been around since the mid-1990s. Google Local, meanwhile, was a search product, much like the current Local Universal search experience.

When Where2 was acquired, there was a flurry of interest in how to get that beautiful satellite imagery and user experience onto the Web, where the rest of Google's products were, and that's how Google Maps was born.
If you look back at trends in web design over the past 10-20 years, you'll notice the progression of different styles. Heck, go back to circa-2004 "Web 2.0" designs, work your way forward, and you'll see that web design trends change every year.

In another few years, noise will be out, and something else will be "in".
There are so many sites and nothing centralized has really taken off. Even when you boil it down to one city.

Wrong. There IS something centralized: it's called the Multiple Listing Service, and ONLY Brokers and Realtors have "access" to it. They are salespeople, and salespeople compete only with each other. That 6 percent commission is the unwavering aspect of their model -- they built it to ensure that it always gets dropped into their shark tank. Consumers do not benefit from this system, ever, and every single entity in the real estate industry wants to keep it that way.

Even the fact that brokers exist is a sign of market inefficiency. Why do I need an intermediary to find an apartment?

You don't. However, brokers are not the intermediaries; they are at the top of the pyramid scheme. After studying this industry from every possible angle, my conclusion is that purveyors of the current system are rotten to the core. Their lobbying group (the National Association of Realtors: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s) is about as rotten as a swimming pool of maggot-covered dead skunks that's been sitting in the sun for a week.

The pecking order is as such:

Broker Realtors + Mortgage Brokers
Agent Realtors + Mortgage Loan Agents (Bankers)
Leasing Agents (Realtors)
Property Management Companies AKA "Landlords"

And all of them, working together, have only one incentive, and that is insanely high rents (yes, rents). As long as rents are high, the rest of their system is safe, and home ownership remains an unattainable pipe dream for most people. Which it really is, unless you're one of them. Realtors with their glossy booklets and shiny websites sell the illusion of ownership, and it works! Poof, and all of a sudden, it becomes so "necessary" to have a Realtor to help people navigate the scary world of shopping for a home. (See also: the housing boom of 2006.)

Build an excel spreadsheet that shows how much interest vs principle people pay on a typical 30-year loan over time. Now figure out how long it'll take to pay off the commission that your Realtor earns for his 2.5 hours of "work" on your behalf. Oh, and don't forget to include every penny of your life savings you've already forked over as the "down payment." (Down payments don't go toward equity, they go to pay the salespeople!) Pity the people who have been hoodwinked into thinking that their house payments are actually going to equity, that that 30-year mortgage means that they're going to own their house some day. The banks are too smart to let people do that, that's why they invented refinancing!

As long as the greatest portion of income people earn goes to rent, neither savings nor long-term equity can be obtained. As long as people are unable to build equity, they are trapped in a system that essentially forces them into paying whatever rents are demanded of them. Most people who live in Silicon Valley know this: 1K for a 0 bedroom apartment? Really?

The solution for consumers is NOT going to come by making it easier for Brokers and Landlords / Agents to hook up and control prices, that's for sure. This is a recipe for disaster on a grand scale.
CIA translating world news (130 countries)
I don't get it either. Your demo link just leads to a page with some text boxes on it. I tried it in Firefox and Safari and can't see anything that looks "noisy". I tried changing some of the parameters but that just crashed Firefox.
Company founders can edit their profile now if they are signed in with Linked-in.

Editing company details coming soon.
It works like wire transferring money to the seller, you get the same rights and protections. In fact it is wire transferring money to the seller.

Charging back is not easy, but it is not a problem in the least. It's only a problem when you buy from people you don't trust (but then I wouldn't want to give them my credit card number at all!). This does happen on sites like ebay. The risk is moved from the seller to the buyer. For sites like ebay you need a middle man to be safe, only now you need it as a buyer instead of as a seller.
Thought I'd just say that that is one of the most cohesive website designs I've seen anywhere.
IPad Competitors, time for another reality check
Here is Paul Hudak's library for creating music in Haskell

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskore and here are some samples that you can listen to http://users.informatik.uni-halle.de/~thielema/Music/HAL2/mi...

He also discusses it in chapter 20 of his book. I was quite surprised to know that he is currently on medical leave due to a rare form of leukemia. Surprised, because leukemia has been on the radar on HN (as well as on personal front) lately.

I know it is selection bias, but it still feels weird when coincidences like that happen in clusters.
For me, the more interesting question is the natural response - Why?
Incorporation in the US is done on a state level, not by the federal government; he was comparing incorporating in the US to the Ltd model in the UK.
The work and the workload at the next job were more or less the same. I just needed time to regroup. I had lost all interest in computers.

In my case, I didn't realize I was burnt out at first... I got laid off as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attack ( short version... company lost phone and internet, was in the 'frozen' zone... etc ).

So I had unemployment, extra unemployment because of how I lost the job and I bet a lot of money on a couple super bowls and a world cup championship and made a bunch of extra money.

During those 2 years, I mostly just... hung out with friends, drank, practiced guitar, played in a couple bands, lifted weights and did some kung fu. After those 2 years, I was ready for programming again.
Often times, I think the best products have an objective feel to them. So in the case of Wave, I'd say that its creator didn't have a clear understanding of what they wanted, or they were "commissioned" by Google to make it, in which case Google was the maker and should have been very closely involved in its development.
That's awesome advice. We find it to be something like that too. My competitor actually did divide his price by 100 (almost, haha).
Guess: they will make it hide-able but on by default. It'll stop the complaining while still giving advertisers more hits than they might have before the dickbar. Win win
This is pretty much how the instructions on the packets of ramen noodles I've bought explain how to cook them. Put the noodles in a bowl, boil the kettle, pour the boiling water into the bowl.. it's totally doable.

If you can spring the 40-50€ for a cheap microwave, though, you'd expand your opportunities a lot. It's was a bit of a 70s/80s fad to do this but you can pretty much cook "anything" in a microwave (if you're willing to put up with the quality).
Yet another advantage is Apple’s wide net of its own global retail shops and online stores; for customers, this means they can avoid a markup from a third party like Best Buy.

This is only partially correct. Apple's retail stores are expensive to run, and that cost is Apple's.
Is there any evidence that samsung or motorola are trying to beat apple on price? The high end smartphones from both manufacturers seem to happily sit around the same price point as apple's phone.

Give it another six months or so and I'm sure you'll see some decidedly cheaper dual core 3.0 tablets from the 2nd tier oems like huwai as mentioned, archos, viewsonic, etc. Now, they want to compete on price. Whether tablets are commodity items or status symbols remains to be seen though. So far it seems mostly like the latter.
Since the article was written file search has become much more a part of both Mac and Windows operations. And on my Linux laptop I use dmenu to launch most programs that aren't running in a terminal or important enough to have a keyboard shortcut.
I saw it on Chromium/Mac and I just confirmed it (9.0.597.107). Also seeing it on Safari/Mac.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/092a1U1Z1i3G2D2x1Z19
Isn't this funny? Usually Apple products are ridiculously expensive. Have they ever held the but-it's-cheap card before?
The fact that is is only beginning, is the reason I want to go into Human Computer Interactions and it is the reason I am truly terrified I am going try and make this magical "anti-WIMP" and then the current paradigm will be too deeply ingrained to make room. This is what I hope the wearable computing niche will find symbiosis with.
The reason I don't use Google profiles is that I have no reason to. A public facing, Facebook like site? No thanks.

I wasn't interested in Facebook until a real life friend from another state invited me. That's Facebook's draw for me; interaction with real friends and family.
Gogii: One of Fastest Growing Social Mobile Games Companies
I'd like to call you out on something my gut tells me.

IMHO, you come across to me as someone who's bitter. You're bitter that it took you 11 years to get your green card, therefore all these other younger kids shouldn't have an easier time than you, because you paid your "dues" (from your perspective).

I disagree that immigration is worse now because of demand, I think it's largely to do with 9/11.

I think you're inherently misguided that a broken process should remain broken - just beause. I'm really disappointed with your sentiment, given that you yourself are an immigrant and you know how painful this process is. Wake up, and think of others - not just of yourself.

Good day.
Why are you using HTML5 range input for intensity and opacity but only a text input instead of numeric for the size?
The Groupon-for-India would've hired 250 employees here?? I think it's more likely those jobs would've been created in India, either by SnapDeal or Groupon's India business operations, since that's where the market for that service is.
>iPad's Rivals Can't Beat it on Price

The title of this article causes me anguish. It should read "IPad's Rivals Can't Beat it on Cost." Businesses compete on value and on cost. Value is the benefit to the customer (value proposition) and cost is the fixed and variable expenses to the firm for producing that value (cost structure). Value and cost are strategic, and price is a tactical choice that follows from your value-cost position and the competition. If a business offers more value at a given price, relative to a competitor, it will gain market share. If a business has a lower cost at a given price, relative to a competitor, it will have higher margins.

Confusing price and cost has caused the downfall of established companies. For instance, in 2003, Delta launched its Song subsidiary to compete with Southwest Airlines and Jet Blue. Delta conceptualized Song as a "low-price airline," while Southwest and Jet Blue are low-cost airlines. What happens when you compete with low-prices, but are burdened by the high-cost structure of a legacy airline, such as Delta? Song was disbanded in 2006, after considerable losses.
Ask HN: Advice for a technology startup launched by 17 Year Olds
Hi, I'm a high school senior who recently launched a Social News Reader called BuzzBlaze.com

We've launched with some success meaning we've acquired a strong userbase and impressed with our site stats, however we are not completely satisfied with our product as even we know there are some interface issues as well as more features that can be implemented.

I have made an exclusive invite for the HN community to test-drive my webapp:
http://buzzblaze.com//register?invite_code=HNEWS

I am looking for constructive feedback and advice. I am new to this game and hope to build more stuff in the future and hope I can learn a lot from you guys.

Thanks!
Ask HN: How do you handle UGC when deleting a user from a group?
Building a group photosharing service and trying to figure out how to deal with users being deleted from a group, and their content. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!
Defriend Alert
Agreed on auth/capture/settle - it's possible it could be different though, we just have an entrenched group of players that prefer the status quo.
Anyone used this?
I can see how it can be more convenient. But how is it more useful if only 2 people use it?
Do you mean dribbble uses noise subtly or that it's contributing to the overuse? Your point is a bit vague.

I would guess the former, because I think the noise really adds to their presentation. It almost feels like I can rub the lettering on the paper.
Buzz is one of the most mismanaged products I've ever seen.

In particular its presence on Android is laughable which is just ... inexplicable. Other than being afraid of a law suit of some kind (which would be bizarre given what else Google puts on Android) I just can't understand why they haven't put Buzz front and center there.

My pet conspiracy theory is that Google has done some kind of deal with Twitter whereby they have agreed not to compete in certain ways in order to get favorable treatment wrt search.
Nice find, just changed it to numeric.
The MicroInterns: Middle-Schoolers Visit TechStars, Get a Lesson in Startup Life
When would it not be ok to offer someone a job? Of course it's ok.
Hmm. So either you don't get the not-that-nuanced reference, or you just look for any opportunity to vote people down. I used to take downvotes more seriously -- but less and less so these days.
How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store
The question is, could this be considered an act of war? And if so, is it an illegal attack under international law?
Can I get a Defriend-defriend alert; I want to know when anyone from my friends list signs up for defriend alert!
way off-topic post for HN. halfway to pictures of kittens.
I'll admit you're right that ranting is easier. Hadn't thought of it that way. But:

>The real content of a text doesn't magically decrease just by adding some childish/insulting stuff to it.

It doesn't? From an information-theory standpoint, it does, because it makes the valuable parts harder to find, decreasing the overall value. From a human standpoint, it does, because it makes the valuable parts harder to find, and wastes more of our time due to reading through the worthless parts. And since time is at the very least valuable, adding worthless fluff adds to the cost to retrieve the value, decreasing its overall value.

If I had used up several pages to state all the above, would it be worth less to you than those four sentences? Would you be more likely to say "what a waste of time, they could've just said 'X'"? From a social standpoint, would it be more or less likely be voted down, or broadly ignored?