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Every programmer I know I'd call a hacker or a prankster, and a tinkerer. The kind of person laughing at the WAT video from recent past, or the kind of someone who would program his talking bathroom scale to read your weight in a foreign language. Hackers make things, and are still changing the world, and having a great time doing it too.

So, just on the off chance Mark Zuckerberg ever has any doubts about writing that letter, or takes any ribbings for it: yeah, it was the right thing to do.
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Are you willing to let stores discriminate against young black men because they have disproportionately higher chance of committing crime?

Grouping all Asians under one category makes the same mistake of the grouping all young black men together. In the midst of all this debate, the smallest and the weakest minority who are unfairly discriminated against are individuals.
But there's absolutely no question that it involves working in America, and would require a business visa. I'm not sure how one could a) be smart enough to get into YC, and b) not realize that coming to SF for 3 months to work presumably as a C-level director for an American business requires a work visa.

EDIT: And neither B1 nor B2 is the right visa, so CBP was right to send him home. The OP needed a working visa.
I'm a US Citizen. I recently went through the process of setting up a Canadian subsidiary of my US company, and obtaining a work permit to oversee Canadian operations temporarily.

The process was ridiculously stressful and daunting. My company is not exactly a huge economic driver in Canada (right now I'm bringing about $500k per year in local economic investment to BC), but it's amazingly time-consuming to get all the paperwork right and get a work permit.

After going through this process to enter Canada, I am considerably more sympathetic and tuned-in to the discussion of immigration reform in the USA. Zak may have technically been in the wrong here (and the border officers may have been correct in turning him away according to the law) but I think the law is profoundly sub-optimal, and it saddens me to see that my native country is this economically backward.
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There was a curious culture clash in the '60s when Muhammad Ali was in Australia doing a meet'n'greet and a local TV personality was doing a light-hearted interview with him, and threw in the phrase 'I like the boy', referring to Ali.

The phrase was a slogan for a product that the local celebrity had been involved with, and didn't have the connotations here that it did in Ali's home country... the interview went sour fast.
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I agree with it being a gamble. I got lost in the US once, and used an absolutely tiny border crossing to get back from the US to Canada. Worst crossing experience of my life - car search, shouting, "I can make your life hell", the whole bit. I only cross at big bridges since then.
What a great interview. Thanks for sharing. He comes across extremely well. I would trust him with my company's cash-flow.
You're saying you have a different definition of "garbage collection", that's fine. Reference counting is listed as one of the three classical garbage collection algorithms on page 19 of "Garbage Collection" by Richard Jones and Rafael Lins. In the preface they define garbage collection as "the automatic reclamation of heap-allocated storage after its last use by a program."

It is irrelevant to cite situations under which an algorithm will fail to reclaim storage as evidence that an algorithm is "not garbage collection", since it is provable that situations exist for every possible algorithm. I can write a program that creates an infinite linked list but only ever uses the head, most GCs would fail to reclaim the tail of the list even though it is garbage.

This is not a theoretical concern, space leaks are possible under any automatic storage reclamation scheme.

Since in practice you can write applications for Android and iOS with languages and runtimes of your choice...
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Darn. It would be nice if there was a way to do it. I'd be happy to take a one-time spot payment and then never bug them about it again.

With open-source, I could go in and make the change myself, but if the owning entity will benefit from it, it only seems fair to me that they should share that benefit. Even if it's just once as a way of saying thank you.
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In the interview he explains that they did not go through a proper YC batch because "the timing didn't really work out". They had been through the process before and he had got to know pg well. Hope that helps!
Indeed, I thought Canadian customs has always been referred to as the CBSA.
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thanks. TIL.

they don't mention this on the huge banners they have at the post office that teaches you about not sending batteries and TNT.
Not only is the article from Jan 2011, he was able to successfully enter the US in March, and seems to be able to go there often now. So really not a problem for him long term.

http://zakhomuth.com/guess-who-made-it-into-the-us
I'm glad I asked, then. I'm confident someone with direct knowledge will come in and provide more information. :)
I found his argument a bit of a wash. It boiled down to usual critique of macros, operator overloading, and inheritance: "You don't know what's going to happen".

Meh, most of the time it's not a problem, when it is, it's for a good reason, and if it's for a bad reason, you probably should choose a different software package that is written better.
Honestly, the same is true for Canada.

I was in Toronto for a week for work in December, and part of entering the country was presenting a letter signed by our Canadian office verifying that I really would be leaving on the set date, that my accommodations and travel out of Canada were already booked and paid for, etc.
Just design a mockup of it in Photoshop (or code it, depending on whatever it is) and post it up your blog. At least then you'll get credit for it.
I mention this in the article, but I want to re-emphasize how the approval time is a huge factor. We've had Android developers submit fixes the same day they've discovered a bug on our platform, while iOS devs wait in the queue. You could argue this allows buggier apps to be submitted in the first place, but this sample is taken from devs who use our service and obviously care about producing high quality apps.

(To be fair the iOS approval process has sped up considerably, even with the number of submissions growing)
> " the situation will only improve if there are consequences for their actions"

You're under the impression that complaints filed with DHS will lead to consequences. I'm not quite so certain this is the case.

TSA is annoying, but for the most part just see like miserable people grudgingly following policy. CBP on the other hand, consistently seems like it attracts only the most power-trippy of individuals known to this country.
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I'm always worried in these situations that not using the word "sir" would impact on my experience and their reaction. It seems to be a common thing to say in the US, but I can't remember ever using it outside of a joke in my life.
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It's always seemed to me that "hacker" is the only term that geeks can get defensive about without the anti-prescriptivist police coming in to ruin the party.
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Does that mean that if I have 2 workers that I can be certain that they are on different logical machines in the event of a machine failure? Or may my 2 workers actually be on the same machine?
Theoretically, the constitution applies to all people in the united states jurisdiction, not just citizens. certain rights, like voting, are given only to citizens, but the Bill of Rights (which gives the right to a lawyer) applies to any person inside the US.

Practically, there are a few exceptions to this, eg 4th amendment rights are suspended from everyone at the border and within 100 miles of the border.
IMO dateutil provides this in a more transparent way by providing tzinfo subclasses:

py> from dateutil.tz import gettz
py> from datetime import datetime

py> new_york = gettz('America/New York')
py> los_angeles = gettz('America/Los Angeles')
py> minsk = gettz('Europe/Minsk')

py> fmt = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M%z"
py> datetime.now(new_york).strftime(fmt)
'2012-02-03 01:51-0500'
py> datetime.now(los_angeles).strftime(fmt)
'2012-02-02 22:51-0800'
py> datetime.now(los_angeles).astimezone(minsk).strftime(fmt)
'2012-02-03 09:51+0300'

For me, the most annoying thing about Python is that out of the box, AFAICT, you cannot get a TZ-aware datetime. In fact, while tzinfo is part of the standard library, I don't know of any included solution for making TZ-aware datetime, short of writing your own subclasses for each timezone.

EDIT: datetime.utcnow() is TZ-aware, I meant any other timezone.
"I like the boy" really just refers to a young male the way its said here, in Australia anyway. However, having watched enough American films, people are exposed to the "something something, boy." usage and aware of its connotations. These days you might say "guy" instead of "boy" but for no particular reason except that languages change.

In older English films, you often hear "my boy", which also doesn't have the same connotations.

Across cultural boundaries, the same words can mean different things.

Nonetheless, I'd be offended if someone referred to me as "boy" when directly addressing me because of the connotations that come from a culture separate to my own.
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I don't think "2012-02-03 09:30:00+0100" is valid ISO 8601 because of the space; it should be a "T" to be a proper "combined date and time" representation.

The date and time representations may appear in proximity to each other, often separated by a space or sometimes by other characters. In these cases they occupy two separate fields in a data system, rather than a single combined representation. This is usually done for human readability. Unlike the previous examples, "2007-04-05 14:30" is considered two separate, but acceptable, representations—one for date and the other for time. It is then left to the reader to interpret the two separate representations as meaning a single time point based on the context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

That said, I prefer the "separated date and time" representation myself.
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Thats right ladies and gentlemen, if I told him the truth he would fight for me, but agreeing to his truth is in conflict with my originally story, and thus I have committed fraud - I believe that is called a catch-22.

This reminds me of the difference between Australia and the US in regards to the right to withhold comment. With similar legal backgrounds, there are similar rights about being questioned, but there are subtle differences.

In the US there's the good old 5th amendment that everyone knows (from TV if nowhere else). You don't have to comment, and your unwillingness to comment cannot be used against you in court. However the police can quite freely and happily lie to you to get what they want.

There are subtle differences here in Australia. You can reserve the right not to comment. You don't have to speak, but depending on circumstance, withholding comment can be used against you in court (I guess for things like "I refuse to say where I was on the night of my wife's murder" kind of stuff, I don't know for sure).

But on the other hand, when questioned by police, they have to tell you what they're questioning you about at the start of the interview. If they're questioning you about a robbery down the street and you let slip that you have illegal drugs in the house, it's not connected to their reason for interview and technically they can't use it. There are exceptions for very serious crimes like murder, of course.

It means that authorities do not have the right to go on 'fishing expeditions', though I don't know whether it applies to border control.

disclaimer: I don't follow law in much detail, just read the above from an Australian law site when I was wondering what our version of "the 5th" was...
How is a system informed by an input that 'carries information'? -> It processes the input to determine what actions to take next.

So what qualifies as an input? What qualifies as an action? How do you tell if some physical system, e.g. some biological system, contains 'inputs' and 'actions'?

What's happening there is just a physical interaction of the 'inputs' interacting with the system.
So?

See my last point.

How is that information related to the meaning of the information - how does that work? If the brain is just computation, how does the "semantic information" in the brain work? -> What is "meaning of the information"? What is "semantic information"?

Information informs about certain details, a system can take the information and understand its meaning. 'semantic information' - sometimes people use this notion to distinguish between 'data' and 'information' that is more meaningful, like the sort of information that humans can process.
Were you applying for a TN via YYZ? That's one of the most notoriously difficult TN gateways, I'm surprised your lawyers let you fly through there.

I've seen people go YVR-YOW-ORD-... just to avoid going through either YVR or YYZ.
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I imagine being referred to as 'boy' while your passport is airborne is offensive everywhere :)

here's the video (can't confirm audio on this machine)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKyDGGptA4

corrections to my story:

- late '70s

- misunderstanding was acknowledged and forgiven
Wow, looks promising, this would have made team/design projects much more manageable if I knew about it in college.

I wonder though, does Upverter currently support low-level logic/CMOS circuit simulation? I know that's asking a lot out of a web app, but using Cadence for simulation is often overkill for most hobby projects, and I have yet to see a modern web app/startup that serves this niche.
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Thanks! We're glad we were able to roll out an elegant solution and all the feedback on Hacker News was definitely a huge help...
Mark Shuttleworth had trouble landing in the US in a private plane -- despite doing it all the time.
Reinforces the 'get the paperwork right' advice.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/43
FWIW, they didn't cancel it due to poor ridership - VX decided to concentrate on other routes while their fleet was still small. AFAIK there are still plans to restore the YYZ route once the fleet size is up to par.
Pardon me, but why are there so many stories on Upverter / related to them today?
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This sort of graph drives me nuts. It's all fancy and interactive, then the data is foolishly selected to be the absolute raw numbers, so the big cities have big circles and everything else doesn't, and the data is useless as all it does is tell me where the big cities are.

Circle size needs to be percentage of population or something weighted towards that to be meaningful, and also throw in a ratio of incoming to outgoing as well to show who is depopulating and who is repopulating.
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Thanks a lot for your comment, disagreement males you question your assumptions and strengthens your understanding of the issue.

Is there a body of research that supports your counter-claims? I'd love to read anything you can point me to.
Hacktivism is still a fairly big part of "the hacker way", and so it should be. I think the concept of wreaking havoc on fortune 500 companies is actually a fair representation of the hacker spirit, whether it is done by damaging their websites, or creating small startups to compete against them. I prefer the latter, but it is perfectly ok to associate the former as part of the same hacker ideal.
>applies to any person inside the US.

When detained at a border, a person is not considered inside the US.

>Theoretically, the constitution applies to all people in the united states jurisdiction

That is absolutely not correct. When I enter the USA on the visa waiver program, it very, very clearly says I have no rights while in the USA. No right to a lawyer, no right to appeal, no right to anything. I must sign that to be allowed in.
The TMRC might want to have a word with you. The usage by them dates back to the 50s at least.
You forgot to mention that the precursor to 99designs - Sitepoint Marketplace - was initiated by designers themselves. It only happened because designers wanted it. If 99designs didn't formalise it, someone else would've. It's called emergence; it's one of the most fundamental processes in society and indeed nature.
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So we complain when schools only use SAT scores for admissions, but we also complain when schools admissions don't exactly follow SAT scores. Ok...

BTW, I am in favor of lottery admissions above some SAT cutoff (a fairly low one).
> Maybe there's a system to the dickery, but probably
> not. I think border guards are generally hit or miss,
> regardless of their country.

I generally find that I've had fewer bad experiences by avoiding the Ambassador Bridge (Detroit), the Peace Bridge (Buffalo), and the Lewiston-Kingston Bridge (north of Niagara Falls).

The only bad experience I had with Canadian Border Officers was at the Lewiston-Kingston Bridge.

To me, this seems to make sense. These crossings are higher traffic than the other crossings (Rainbow Bridge, Detroit-Windsor Tunnel) in those areas. There may be more pressure on the guards at those crossings to be extra cautious, or they just might find people trying to pull stupid stuff more often (which re-enforces the idea that anyone is a potential 'evil-doer').

The other pattern that I've noticed is that most of the officers with chips on their shoulders reek of ex-military, whereas the more reasonable people don't give off that vibe.
hmm, maybe you're giving off unconscious vibes that create those situations because they know they can get away with it.