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The problem with venturing into healthcare is dealing with highly regulated industry and wrong incentives for most of the players.

"Large networks of engaged users" do exist, but the ones who control real money (doctors, hospitals, insurers and pharmas / device makers) are highly suspicious of outsiders. Every one of them has the incentive to not share their data with the competition, even though they will all publicly pay lip service to doing this in the name of "improving patient care".

If you look at patients / consumers, you can roughly divide them into the healthy and the sick. The healthy ones generally speaking do not want to invest time and effort into their health, unless it overlaps with lifestyle / food / entertainment - well covered by ventures we do not normally put into "healthcare" category. If you look at the sick ones, they tend to skew to the older demographic with lower online literacy. Even when you pick out the ones active online who care enough about their conditions what you get at best is small niche communities like PatientsLikeMe.com that are at best able to function as support networks and clinical trial recruiting sites.

Did I forget to mention that pharmas and device makers are mortally scared of participating in social media because of FDA? They are in business where even acknowledging any adverse event could make them liable for billions. This is a great example of why for most of the healthcare industry social media is all downside and very little upside.
One issue in terms of data that I struggle with on researching this issue is that we're discussing a big empty space and wondering why it is empty. Immigrants in the US aren't allowed to build companies and create jobs unless they are very lucky/connected or they wait a long period of time to get their green card, since no visa currently exists for founders.

We can't do A/B testing to see if our suspicions that we'd have more startups and more jobs for US citizens if we allowed more founders—not more blanket immigration, mind you—into the country. The people who do find a way in tend to be the best and the brightest of the pool, so our anecdata looks favorable. There seem to be indications that immigrants and first-generation citizens tend to be 'hungrier' than more established populations, though that doesn't say anything about success/failure rates.

From a physics perspective, it's like hunting dark matter. We suspect that job growth would result from passing Startup Visa or STEM Green Cards, but economics theories are nowhere close to the rigor of physics theories. VCs still only invest in solid, market-driven ideas. I'd rather trust to them and to the market as a whole as to who sees success than have the government throw up artificial barriers to block non-Americans from American networks of capital and talent, especially when it means the failure to launch of startups that might make my life better.

Kauffman does indicate that young companies produce the most net job growth in America: http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/kauffman-foundation-analysi... , though as Steve Blank says, 'startups' are lumped together when there's a large differentiation that needs to be taken into account: http://steveblank.com/2011/09/01/why-governments-don%E2%80%9...

The best bit of public policy analysis I've seen on Startup Visa and implications for job growth is from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), but they studied the 2010 Startup Visa, which is much more limited than even the 2011 Startup Visa. The 2011 version of the bill doesn't address STEM Green Cards and is strictly limited in an attempt to pass a conservative House of Representatives, whose majority has a strong anti-immigration faction.

So we're left with all of the arguments that you state. However, note that a thoughtful person like yourself isn't the target audience of something on CNN. The NFAP analysis is probably more 'chewy' for someone who wants to dive into the issue.

EDIT: Forgot the NFAP link: http://www.nfap.com/pdf/092910NFAPPolicyBriefImmigrantEntrep...
"AFAIU, Grover's algorithm is not really an algorithm of search of unstructured data, like phone book, but rather a quantum algorithm for inverting a function."

Grover's search algorithm works both for inverting a function and for database search. But if you want to use it for database search, then your database needs to be accessible in coherent superposition, i.e., in some sort of "quantum RAM." For many problems, this probably does not make sense.
Simply put: this is the most ambitious space mission since the Apollo program. I hope it succeeds.
Do other business travelers experience this extreme hostility at US ports of entry? I don't do nearly as much international travel as I used to, so I'm really interested in hearing others' experiences.
"Editor"? That's not how HN works.
The person caught lying most is probably the person who is the worst at allaying suspicion. PolitiFact's fatal flaw is that they only fact-check a subset of statements: those which sound suspicious.

Further, it's important to distinguish lying from being factually incorrect. A lie implies deceit, being incorrect does not.
moms and dads (who aren't engineers) with high-end DSLRs when they should be carrying around point and shoots.

DSLRs have near-instantaneous start-up time. Focus speed, exposure calculation, and flash charge can be dramatically faster than a point and shoot.

For these reasons alone, if I were photographing children (i.e. unpredictable, moving things), I would absolutely use my DSLR over my P&S. And that's not even getting into the vastly superior lens quality of all but the cheapest DSLR kit lenses, or the much larger sensors, capable of gathering more light.
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But since we don't have a visa that allows for entrepreneurial founders to immigrate here, how can we have examples to highlight their potential contributions? The closest thing we can do is point to similar people.

Personally, I think that Vinod Khosla and Manu Kumar are better examples. I'm of the understanding that Khosla didn't have a valid visa when Sun was founded, but an exemption was made because of the sheer success of the company from nearly day 1.

The other thing I want to look at is people like Robin Li of Baidu, American educated, employed by American companies, but when it came time to create a company, he went home. Possibly, even likely, that was because a company serving Chinese should be based in China, but it's certain that since he didn't have a green card, he wouldn't be able to get a visa as a founder to stay here. America loses when people who could stay here to found companies return to their country to create jobs and foreign competition there.
Your statement is false on its face. The Euro has not triggered a common European economic policy but instead has made the impact of dissimilar economic policies worse.

What is the route from point A to point B here? An economic crisis that forces tighter Eurozone policies? Military enforcement of economic policies?
"My understanding is that most people doing theoretical research in quantum computing don't need to have intuitive explanations for their results, since the calculations work themselves out."

I don't believe this. Maybe your classical intuition is wrong, but that doesn't mean you can't develop a quantum intuition. Quantum theory is just a natural generalization of probability theory (with "list of probabilities adding to one" replaced by "list of amplitudes whose squares add to one"), so particularly for anyone who thinks much about randomized algorithms the intuition is very similar.
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A startup is not a industry. It's a way of doing things (mostly business) and looking at things differently and trying to improve/optimize them... a 'Culture' if you will.
At a startup you can create a company that will belong in a specific industry. Let's say gaming, security, banking, etc.
Where would you transfer your domains to? I have several domains under international TLDs.
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You're right. But the problem is bigger than this. It's that the data centre eliminates a far greater number of jobs than it creates. Somewhere else in the US, there's a CD pressing factory which has just closed its doors with 150 jobs lost. And 10 retailers who sold those CDs. And the company that printed Road Atlases. It's an inevitability, but one that is overlooked by saying, "Well it's progress, we're creating skilled jobs in the businesses that are doing the displacing. Let's retool our workforce."
The troubles are caused by overspending + bad policies. The Euro however makes the problem slightly worse, because they cant artificially devalue their currencies.

If you look at the rankings in "World Bank Ease of Doing Business" and "Heritage Economic Freedom" the picture is very clear:

"AAA Euro Countries": (Ranking WorldBank - Heritage)
Finland: 11 // 17
Germany: 19 // 23
Netherlands 31 // 15
Austria 32 // 21
Luxembourg 50 // 13

Portugal: 30 // 69
Spain: 44 // 31
Italy: 87 // 87
Greece: 100 // 88
This.

Every time I see articles like this -- pointing out how large full-time admin and operations teams are now replaced with smaller teams and easy-to-manage infrastructure -- I wonder if something similar will happen to software engineering.

In fact, I am sure that something like this must eventually happen to engineering. The cost involved in designing and developing new services will be reduced to only that which is essential. I just dont know what form it will take.

Will newer, easy-to-use libraries reduce the work of five engineers to one? Will basic application development knowledge become so ubiquitous that engineers are only needed for the harder, more obscure challenges? Will all of engineering be reduced to only the most creative work, with all the logic and plumbing provided automagically by intelligent programming environments?

Probably all of the above. What's a dev to do?
Yes, but only potentially. The wikipedia article highlights that none have been sufficiently examined to be that old because of the lack of adequate dating systems and the propensity to "predation or disease" in the plankton stage.
"Goggles" "sniff"? Do people even pay attention to their own metaphors anymore?
Good article - more people should be aware of Coase's work. However, I would surmise that PG was talking about "you" in the sense of "a hacker someone like myself", not about people in general, many of whom should not go try and create companies.
Yes, i am french (from France), been living in Montreal for 5years know, speaks perfect english (no silly french accent), but anytime i have to go to the US i get treated like shit by immigration agent when they see my passport. And it's been consistent across the 20+ times i've had to cross the border.

Sometimes they even go into what i believe to be none of their business, last christmas i was coming back from France, going through Washington (just a 6h stop), and despise the fact i had my ticket saying i was going to Montreal, my canadian working visa, the U.S. agent bombarded me with question on what i was gonna do in canada, where i was staying, on a not so friendly tone as if i was lying.

This is why i now refuse whenever possible to go through the U.S..

As for the Visa situation, it is really a pain, i had numerous companies contacting me -thinking i was Canadian as i list my town as Montreal- from SF or Seattle, then after successful interviews, getting refused by they H.R. department because i'm French and VISA paperwork is either too much or just not even possible for them.
I don't disagree with you at all on the immigration issues and I fully support fast track immigration & citizenship for high-value immigrants, I just think it is intellectually dishonest to use 3 founders who all immigrated before they were teenagers as examples for a point the author was trying to make when they don't really fit the narrative. That the author didn't even mention the age that these men immigrated makes it feel like she was trying to pull a fast one on the reader who has heard the names but isn't really familiar with their stories (which will be most readers).

As far as Baidu goes, I don't think it could exist as a non-Chinese company, and more because of China's government policies than the USA's.
There are a bunch of slightly off-center use cases that Unity doesn't handle well at all (or at least not yet). For me it's multi-screen setups, which it didn't cope with well for me as of 11.04 ...
do you have numbers showing that peripheral countries borrowed more after they entered the euro?

AFAIK Italy's deficit has been more or less stable for the last twenty years while debt has gone down for the first few years of the euro presence and has only risen again after 2008.

As far as i can tell italy's problem has been and continue to be a de facto stagnation with growth rate around 1%, which surely is not the case for others e.g. spain.
Create your own job, instead of relying on someone else. Isn't that the idea of a startup?
This is true, but it is not sovereigns that determine whether they are in default or not; "credit events" are determined by third parties. When they're triggered, CDSes and other forms of insurance may become payable.

This is also why splitting up isn't necessarily going to fix much. Lots of banks are only solvent so long as they can hold many of these bonds on par on their books. Start having credit events, and crystallizing losses, and you get one bank after another falling over.

It's the fear of bank failure dominoes that is keeping credit out of the market; ironically, this fear of insolvency is destroying liquidity, which in turn is increasing insolvency risks - as long as banks are liquid, they can live indefinitely on the money they skim off the rate difference between their assets and liabilities. The ECB is in fact surreptitiously keeping the system afloat by purchasing bonds, but not liking it at all.

There's no simple solution to the whole mess; no matter what happens, I think it's going to be painful.
Great idea, but doesn't Stypi already implement this?

Granted, as a disclaimer, I didn't sign up. I'm making an analysis from what the homepage says.

Question - in Stypi, live typing can be overwritten by anyone else who is in the same room. Does this work the same way? Because that is a huge flaw - but then, I don't think there should be live typing at all.
What does "go on" mean in this case? Quit current job, invest money, .... ?
This is very much in agreement with my observations about technological unemployment in the US.

http://sluggish.homelinux.net/wiki/Employment_and_Productivi...

Jobs in software related industries have been stagnant or in decline in the US for the last decade, and traditional narratives about the ability of workers from older industries to upgrade their skills and become "knowledge workers" seem to no longer be true.
As a total nerd and a bit of an extrovert, I also generally like live typing, however, I don't like it enough to consider it a feature when for several members of my team it was a complete blocker. One person actually yelled across the room "Don't watch me while I type!". If there was an option to turn off the live typing, I think we may have actually used wave seriously.
Very nice! Though academic papers have had tl;drs for a long time now, they're called the abstract. (I wish technical blog posts would use them more.)
Not for me.

I'd consider the Canadian and Australian dollars, but they're both way over valued right now because of their political and economic stability. They have no where to go but down I think.
I would add that you also need to have a strong understanding of the Java Language Specification (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/j3TOC....). Recently, aomeone tried to tell me that a non-synchronized static method was not re-entrant. These type of of fundamentals are covered by the JLS.
The media's political analysis absolutely is worthless. If that's all that keeps democracy functioning, we might as well flip coins.
Yes, and you'd think that the people lending money would have also responded to incentives, and refused to lend so cheaply (both privately and publicly - each of the PIIGS has its own distinct malaise) to countries with a poor credit history.

A lot of planks of economics have failed lately, and it's not all government fault.
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Wow, it's amazing to me that this got upvoted:

The second are what I call "lifestyle artists". These are people who aren't really artists but are simply attracted to the lifestyle. They socialize with other "artists", are often "hangers on" to true artists and write blog posts like these. They're the kids in the playground who pick on the unpopular kids just to affirm their social status among the "popular" kids.

Apparently you've taken a single blog post of mine about photography, extrapolated an entire (fictional) life history from it, and then extracted an ad hominem from that.

Do you understand how senseless and insecure that comes off as?

Just to clue you in a bit on how backwards this whole assesment is...

I'm a rubyist who thinks python is quite nice, and really enjoyed picking up Java this year (though its verbosity does get tiresome) and Flex (though the flash runtime is a joke, but we all know that). Also, I can afford nice cameras, just got an X100 earlier this year, so I'm certainly not jealous of your income. Lastly, I wasn't picking on you in school, I was one of the kids being picked on myself and befriending the other kids in the same boat. Yes, that was me with the other kids in Anime club who played Magic, and no, there was no hipster irony to it at that time.
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The fit the narrative of 'immigrants are statistically hungrier for startup success,' specifically referencing this line in the article: "According to statistics from Partnership for a New American Economy, 40% of Fortune 500 companies were created by immigrants or their children."

From there, the author goes on to say that if the immigrants and their children are more likely to start companies, why are we preventing young adults from coming here to start companies, especially if they are validated by making something people want as demonstrated by either VC validation or pure revenue numbers? The third path of Startup Visa 2011 is for people valued enough to receive a US education or H1-B visa, as currently they are not valued enough to be allowed to start a company, with no visa existing for them to do so.

I find it a bit of a stretch, but not intellectually dishonest, though I do see why it's reasonable to think so.

I take the point on Baidu, but that's the sort of company I'm looking to promote as a counterpoint when we pitch our next follow-ups to ABC and NBC after Amit's story.
In Canada, international students are given work permit up to 3 years after graduation and after 1 year of full-time employment they can apply for permanent residency. I think the US could benefit from a similar policy.
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In both this and the parent comment, is parsimonious really the adjective you were looking for? In what way is either of these a parsimonious explanation?

Simple, perhaps. Reductionist or nominal, certainly. But the cheaper, stingy explanation? I'm not so sure that was correct.
yes I mean focus on this project, so I will work part time only, and go ahead for 1 year working on it, and enhancing it.
Not to put words in greenName's mouth, but I believe the assumption is that a New Yorker and a Californian both would expect appropriate compensation for their work. Regardless of whether a citizen of the United States studied here or abroad, he would still expect a salary commiserate with his qualifications. Someone who is effectively an indentured servant on an H1-B visa will take whatever is offered to him because he knows that to do otherwise is to lose his shot at permanent residency or citizenship.
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"Pass the Startup Visa Act"
The UK's printing presses have also been running overtime lately.

To a first order approximation, every country is printing money in a beggar-thy-neighbour approach to increasing competitiveness. But when the malaise is global, that doesn't exactly work well.
I don't think more small risk pools are a good solution, due to adverse selection. The very sick or old often need more treatment than they can possibly afford (because what we develop isn't limited to the value of the typical patient's labor, which is a good thing!) so our choices are to let them die through triage, or to subsidize their treatment by preventing the well and young from gravitating into cheaper risk pools which find ways to exclude the sick or old. Tax-funded Medicare and Medicaid are effectively additional risk pools you're paying for even when they aren't covering you, and yet they aren't really acting as insurers of last resort (except for certain people who meet the criteria).
So how do you propose we function as a democracy if any media source that covers political issues is so full of shit that there is no point in even considering it?

From my perspective, for democracy, it's very important to have independent, non-profit media that provide raw stream of information - e.g. A/V stream from congress, major events etc. - that while being boring would provide unbiased stream of facts. For news - transcripts, photos, videos, documents, all without commentary. That would allow to compare "revelations" served by other media, with facts.

If only someone could try to create additional information layers to help you navigate a medium that is potentially riddled with dubious claims. Maybe that person could call the project "Truth Goggles" or something.

It would be great, if I could trust it - its sources (evidence) should be explicit.
In Australia we have a temporary employer sponsored skilled visa (the 457 visa). Median processing times for this visa are 21 days. It is valid for 4 years, you can be sponsored for a permanent visa after 2 years.
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That's his point. Some people don't want to grow and create, they want to relate, to transmit. I have absolutely no desire to make high-contrast lighting photos because they're "edgy," nor do I want to take "mysterious" photos of models intended to impress the viewer with its ambiguity.

When I see something I think is interesting, I want to be able to preserve it , for myself and for my friends. That's the difference between an artist and a hobbyist.