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Every country has their requirements, and to a greater extent they enforce them. However, some countries make it downright impossible for a foreigner to become a resident or a citizen, while others make it exceedingly easy.

For instance, if you wanted to become a permanent resident or a citizen to the Dominican Republic, all you would have to do is get there (via sea or air), go through the motions, submit the paperwork and pay the taxes.

You would start by buying a US$10 tourist card, as a permit to enter the country, which will be approved unless you are obviously wanted by Interpol.

This will give you 60 days, during which you can apply for your provisional resident visa. For the resident visa you will need to provide, aside from the usual forms and tax payments, proof of solvency, defined as about 13k dollars in assets (cash and property) at the current exchange rate, and a letter of sponsorship from any good-faith Dominican citizen with in-country legal residence.

Within the first two months after this visa you can apply for a provisional residency card. About four months after the application, you receive your provisional residency card, which lasts a year. At about the year mark, it does not matter much if it happens before or after, you can apply for your permanent residency card. That last one lasts 3 years and is indefinitely renewable (as long as you do not commit a horrible crime).

After two years of uninterrupted legal residency in the country (i.e. at least six months and one day per year) you can apply for naturalization.

All the while, you are free to engage in productive business from day one. You would be taxed differently, on account of not being a citizen, but you would be allowed to work for a profit. If you happen to aquire assets in-country, there is leeway to have the sponsorship requirements waived.

Legal translations, medical examinations and notary public fees carry the burden of the cost of the process. Taxes will run you up less than $100 in total. The entire process is fairly inexpensive and could probably be done with less than $1000 dollars.
Also, we should remind ourselves that we live on a planet with limited physical resources. So, assuming that we build something that could exponentially out-smart us, that thing would still need to have access to physical resources for which what is available on this planet might not just be enough. I see it 2 ways: the thing/it/whatever we want to call it either manages to expand from this planet/solar system before it auto-destroys itself, or it just dies off for lack of available resources.
Spam filtering is just one from a long list of features that Gmail has that I don't know of any other email service providing, though.
The New York Times ran a more detailed story a few years ago about a computer programmer somewhere in Southern California who had thousands of titles on Amazon written by a Perl script. As that article explained, certain large libraries buy just about any title published. It was effectively a scam to get these institutions to pony up a couple hundred dollars each for bound copies of Wikipedia copypasta.
I thought commercial GPS was disabled above 60,000 ft.
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I've actually found it's quite hard to get negative feedback from most people. I've literally heard one person shush another person who was trying to say something negative about what I was building - when that was the exact feedback I really wanted. I bet if I looked closely and in retrospect I could figure out what people didn't like after it fails, but that doesn't help me now, I wish people were more direct and honest.
Thanks for the informative reply and the excellent blog post!
ofcourse, good point. but there is a difference in the way a sincere man says 'challenge' and the way that a phony says it.
Running on a very complicated instruction set.
Ugh. Why don't they release the presos as opposed to having to deal with synchronous video?
I wish there was a library that has a fallback included. I really like the new CSS transitions but as noted, for many use cases there is not a big enough marketshare of supported browsers. But maintaining the CSS3, Jquery animation and the logic behind it, just seems nasty compared to plain jquery animations
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The Darwin source is still being released if you want it (following the periodic code dump model), it just doesn't get much attention. For most people, it doesn't really offer a compelling case over Linux or its *BSD cousins.
No. This isn't meant to be a your list or everyone's list, its Jacques' list. I'm going to assume his list is going to include people he's familiar with and those likely skew English speaking. Mine would too because that's what I know.
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Yeah I get that too, though it seems inconsistent at times.

Primarily I've been sharing docs and pdfs to clients, and I can see when they last viewed it, if ever. Haven't had a problem with that just yet.
A much more interesting story (that you can also buy on amazon) is The Policeman's beard is half constructed. A book of short form literature and poems written by AI in the 80s.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0446380512/
I don't understand. Wasn't this an iPad/Windows email client that went open source?

The OP is looking for a webmail, open source solution similar to Gmail.
That's great to hear. I know how you feel, I miss living overseas sometimes :)
Can't they confirm that the altitude met the contest minimum based on how much earth curvature there is in the photos?
Yes, but before that another country has been his home and he has ultimately left it for being slightly harassed during the totalitarian rule. Could you compare some harassment (which unfortunately has been something quite usual during those times) with the arrest of one's entire family and being treated like garbage that has to be taken out?
It took me a while to understand the full benefit of people's criticism. My team's initial idea was a to build a mobile product that essentially focused on everything and added a ton of features, thinking that we'd get users from being so ubiquitous and awesome. After hearing the same "you're not focused", "how can you get users" criticism from many in the industry (including multiple YC partners), I finally got it through my head that maybe I couldn't impose my naive vision on the world just because I believed it was powerful.

However, its just as important to never stop thinking about your world-domination vision. I'm sure every one of the most successful tech companies in the world has heard all of the same criticism from well-meaning advisers along the way. Start with a focused smart plan, execute it well, and don't lose sight of the ultimate destination (which may change along the way too as you learn more).
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It's using a really simple algorithm, but I will definitely update it in later releases!

I may update the examples but, I want to keep them as simple as possible, just enough to show some of the possibilities with List.js
The source code is used to produce the "resultant binaries" so unless you have a very strange definition of "quality" the OP has a very valid question.
The Contact List example is a table

http://listjs.com/examples.html
Really, they call this Hacker News and yet a headline with a blatant disregard for as simple a concept as relative error and significant figures makes it to #7 on the front page? What are we coming to?
Ya I was going to say the same thing... I'm sorry but why would I donate to this without more details? Maybe he did actually do something illegal and isn't articulated here in this article.
Actually, after a year you apply to have "conditional permanent residence" removed. Then after three years you can apply for citizenship. It may be less for members of the military though.
Exactly. Distributed computing grids still have trouble folding single peptides with reasonable accuracy.

We have the source code, but we don't have the compiler.
$200 to $300 depending on how much you scrounge from people. I spent more because I decided to do my radio ham qualification in parallel and buy some gear for that.

Most of the gear I used in the capsule was cheap (camera from eBay, Arduino, strip board, polystyrene box). Paid real money for the balloon, parachute and helium.

EDIT: As the parent comment was deleted: this was in reply to a question asking about the approximate cost of something like GAGA-1.
A js/jquery plugin/fallback is in the works.
List.js works on most stuff. Tables, ul, divs, ol, spans, etc.

Example 2 at http://listjs.com/examples.html uses tables e.g
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Using Arkli, you can schedule multiple Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter posts, measure the reach of these posts, and respond to any comments.

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Most 'cathedral' products are developed at least somewhat in the open, and often do take external contributions.
I prefer vanilla CSS, but if that's something you'd like to see, why not fork it and make your own?
It was a great point-and-shoot camera. It was nearly impossible to ruin a picture (and, mind you, those were the chemical film days).

And it looked something straight out of a sci-fi movie.
Pretty impressive, but that ain't space.
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Most definitely.

Localization is much more than a simple translation.
The title of this post should really read: "Launching my product in Japanese"

Good luck to the OP!
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The quality of the code in your average PHP project is... less than stellar. Low quality code typically results in exploitable bugs (XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, remote code execution, local filesystem access, etc.).
RACTER was a hoax. It was basically a fill-in-the-blanks program using templates that the author, William Chamberlain, fed it. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/RACTER
Anybody know of tutorials aimed at a similar audience (i.e. programmers with little design background) but for GUI/UI elements/widgets?
Well, it sucks. Better to fix something that sucks early on.
Agreed. It's in the stratosphere and might be called 'near space', but it's not above the Karman line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line
I always ask people "what's wrong?" and "tell me what sucks about it?" or "why won't you use it?". Positive feedback rarely spawns growth. Criticism and negative feedback is PURE GOLD.
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The one thing that always bugged me was the pitching for jobs at the end of a presentation. Lots of events I've been to have a half dozen or more presenters (the upper end was probably 50 in 3 hours) who all asked people to check out their job opportunities in one way or another. I've felt like there were more people hiring than there were people in the audience.

Maybe I am just the wrong audience?
It's a particular type of immigration Visa the K-1 is a "Fiancee Visa". Note that you are required to get married within 90 days. The point of it is to allow US Citizens to get married within the US to non-US Citizens.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2994.htm...
For a person without a single artistic bone in his body this pretty much amounts to magic no matter how simple it looks. I'm sticking to programming.
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This sounds simpler - if it works (can anyone confirm it?)

* We maintain a fair coin abstraction that contains an unfair coin.
* Along with the unfair coin, we also maintain a counter 'C'.
* 'C' starts from 0, counting up 1 every time the coin is flipped.
* If C % 2 == 0 then we report the value of the unfair coin's toss. Otherwise, we reverse the value of the unfair coin's toss and report it.
This is why Apple's iPhone 4S doesn't support 4G/LTE
I have many, many friends with obviously fake names on FB and nobody ever got into trouble. With terms & conditions usually being dozens of pages that nobody ever reads, I don't think you can blame people for not caring about FB's official position as long as it practically allows anonymity.
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The reason is simply that I wanted it to be as simple as possible, but if it seems to be a common request I could add support for data-attributes! (and yes, it "works" in IE, by using getAttribute())
No, but there are limits on how high commercial GPS receivers will work to prevent them from being used to guide ballistic missiles.
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In some agreement... According to an article on "color for developers" that was posted at some point on HN, one gets a better "pop" contrast if there is a smidgeon of color. As I read it, using white or black, regardless of the other color involved in the combo, is less effective. One should strive instead to add at least a little bit of color and contrast that color with the other. For example, if you toss a tiny bit of blue into your black, then you should toss a tiny bit of yellow/orange into your white. The contrast is not in symmetric values either; R, G, and B have different contributions to the brightness.

If I have the time to dig up the article I am thinking about, I will add it to this post.

(Here is the HN thread on the contrastrebellion site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807047)
I'm never sure. I've been literally dismissed by execs for a six-page reason written by multiple senior engineers why they shouldn't spend $20 million buying another company with "this is too long. Bring it back under a page and we'll read it."

shrug

That wasn't at Google, though.
Looks a lot like quicksand[1] without any of the fancy effects. Or am I missing something?

[1] http://razorjack.net/quicksand/
Something has to figure out that a product "IS" not open source AS LONG AS THE SOURCE IS NOT RELEASED.
So no, right now, ICS is NOT open-source.

It will be the day they release the source.

Being open-source is not a design attribute. It's a process.
Good point. I am going off of the original algo by von Neumann, which throws away both flips if you get HH or TT. There are many others, and I don't see any reason against your optimization, if the flips are truly independent.

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~libcs124/CS/coinflip3.pdf
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It says here[1] "All GPS receivers capable of functioning above 18 kilometres (11 mi) altitude and 515 metres per second (1,001 kn)[56] are classified as munitions (weapons) for which U.S. State Department export licenses are required. These limits attempt to prevent use of a receiver in a ballistic missile." News to me!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Restr...
Ouch, that site burns my eyes.

I think the practice of building sites on painfully short schedules is more common than anyone thinks, but nobody wants to brag about it because it just shows you're not enough ahead of the curve.

For instance, we spawned the idea for http://mostly365.com/ just 3 days before new years day. We got a design, promotion and all the code (including a twitter scanner, scraper for 15+ picture posting sites and basic CMS) done in time for the new year.

I'm absolutely convinced we're not the only ones doing stuff like this. We just want to pretend we had this all ready months in advance.
From a quick look I see two things: digital product delivery and twitter tools.

Both of these products already exist and I've seen some pretty refined ones in each industry. Why are you sticking them together? I am with ianpurton on twitter confusing the issue. By expanding past twitter, it looks like your focus is more on digital product delivery, what makes you any better than what's out there now?
Allen writes that "the Law of Accelerating Returns (LOAR). . . is not a physical law." I would point out that most scientific laws are not physical laws, but result from the emergent properties of a large number of events at a finer level. A classical example is the laws of thermodynamics (LOT). If you look at the mathematics underlying the LOT, they model each particle as following a random walk.

Oh that's a terrible point! Thermodynamics laws are nothing like predictions about the future. I would have thought linguistic slight of hand like this is beneath Kurzweil.

Allen's statement that every structure and neural circuit is unique is simply impossible. That would mean that the design of the brain would require hundreds of trillions of bytes of information. Yet the design of the brain (like the rest of the body) is contained in the genome.

The design of the human brain is not entirely contained in the genome!

As soon as we mapped the human genome we were faced with a paradox. How come the complexity difference between us and mice for example, is NOT proportional to the difference in our genomes?

Here's an article form 2002 "Just 2.5% of DNA turns mice into men": http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2352-just-25-of-dna-tu...

In other words, if you look at just how the genomes are different then humans and mice ought be a lot more similar than we are.

We have since come to find out just what a huge role the feedback-interactions of DNA and its products, like proteins and all kinds of RNA, play in the development of life.

This staggeringly complex feedback mechanism is why despite the mapping of the human genome, medical progress still remains excruciatingly slow. Much, much faster the before! But not nearly as fast as we had hopped when the human genome was first mapped.

Note that epigenetic information (such as the peptides controlling gene expression) do not appreciably add to the amount of information in the genome.

This is true in that they don't add much to the genome. But it is profoundly wrong in that they do add hugely to the actual resulting phenotype.

Kurzweil continues in this same vane for a while. I don't know if he has just never bothered to look into the latest research or if his understandably strong desire to not die has resulted in a huge confirmation bias.

When Kurzweil talks about the general trend of scientific progress I tend to agree with him. But neither Paul Allen nor anyone else disagrees with the notion that we will reach the singularity at some point in the future.

The argument is about the timing. And timing the future, is like timing the stock market, something I don't care to try to do.

But when Kurzweil attempts to convince the reader that the singularity is near, by using specific examples, that's when I start do disagree with him. Because once he starts being specific, it becomes easy for me to see where he is wrong, factually, objectively wrong.
121,000 feet = 36.88 km

From Wikipedia:
The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 kilometres (62 mi) above the Earth's sea level, and is commonly used to define the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.

That's not space. Though it's an amazing feat nonetheless.
I'm sure that was the reason why Appcelerator went out to the Valley....it was a pretty stupid idea.

http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/whats-wrong-with-the-atlanta-start...
Yes this is a couple of years old, but sadly not a lot has changed.

If you have a product that is low risk and already earning revenue you will get funding in Atlanta.....with terms requiring you to give up a lot more of your company, a lot of extra overhead with financials etc..

I would like to see this change, but this is the state of things today and if it is going to get fixed people need to be honest about how bad the problem is. The first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem.
But the rules is that the gps devices needs to record a measurement greater than 100k feet. If that's higher than what GPS satellites can see then no one can win.
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Good points. I'd add: There is a good chance that HN users that read your post are not your demographic; it is made of of a mix of tech entrepreneurs (people that don't have a company but wish they did, or 1-2 person company CEO/CTO) and other IT professionals/developers. This may be a place to get helpful critical feedback from a technical and small tech business sense, but is not a good indicator of what others outside that realm think.
Yes, I'm highly skeptical that they are selling the 16GB model with only a $3 (1.5%) profit margin...
I agree that they were happy claiming the kudos and moral high ground that comes with OSS without really delivering on it but the reality is that the versions you list are running on an estimated 4 million devices (tablet sales to date) of the 550,000 being activated every day. Somewhere in the region of 98% of Android devices (all the phones currently available) are running an OSS OS.

And if you don't mean to accuse someone of making shit up the easiest thing to do is to not use the phrase "making shit up".
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I've felt like there were more people hiring than there were people in the audience.

That's pretty much spot on. The job market for decent developers is incredibly competitive as there are more jobs than there are good candidates.

Generally companies who present at these events are expanding hence the need for more people.

The only way a company is going to find the right people is being vocal about it so I'm afraid you probably won't see the trend change for quite a while.
It's not advertising. It's the same product. He makes the product, then you can choose to give him money if you want to. "Piracy" doesn't hurt his business model.
Exactly. This is a good step-by-step on how to do a nice-looking under-sea background.

But to know that these few simple things are enough to make a nice-looking under-sea background -- well, that takes artistic skill.
A few reasons:

I had free healthcare, even though I only used it for one or two checkups.

I was enjoying making art and the art scene in Barcelona, at least for the first few years I was here.

The first job was potentially better than what I could get in the U.S. It was my first programming job and I am not a cs major, I have a liberal arts degree which doesn't get you many jobs in the U.S. So it was a professional opportunity for me. I just wanted to live in Spain, and never had issues any serious issues being illegal that really impacted my life. I was very fortunate in that I had a well paid part time job. The biggest inconvenience I suffered was not being able to sign contracts for mobile phones or apartments. Trivial compared to what most illegal immigrants go through.

Now, as I get a bit older (I am 34), and have substantial programming experience, the jobs and opportunities available in the U.S. are looking very attractive. At the moment I stay in Barcelona for personal reasons and a desire to finish the current contract I have with the research group. I do have my eye on moving back to the U.S. next year.
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"That's why we didn't fire him"?

Classy.
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