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Yep, lots of founders have to deal with this problem. I'm not a lawyer, btw.

H1-B caps have indeed been reached, and neither Startup Visa nor the Startup Act, with its entrepreneur's visa, are expected to pass anytime soon, though I'm working on that. That's the primary route folks use for hiring foreign talent, so it'd probably be difficult for your cofounder to get a visa until April anyway.

You say bootstrapping, but if you can get $50k+ in capital and your cofounder is from one of the E-2 countries on this list, this could be a viable visa: http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_3726.html/

It sounds like the startup is either unincorporated or incorporated like usual in DE. If it's incorporated for a year abroad, your cofounder could qualify for an L-1.

I've had a few friends go the route of taking an adjunct professorship in an entrepreneurship program at a county college and using the F or J academic visa to build the startup with the tacit permission of the school, but that requires friends in the school's administration and may not be legal.

Your best bet is to probably try and raise funding between now and September and go for an EB-5 (requires $500k or $1M, depending on where you're located).

There are some other hacks that might be useful once you've decided on which visa to go for in increasing your chances of a successful application that I've written out for founders here: http://www.quora.com/Blueseed/Are-there-any-interim-solution...

If you're still tracking this thread, feel free to email me: craig (at) politihacks which is a dot com
So don't work for those companies?

I think you'll find a similar situation with companies using enterprise languages like .Net or Java, certainly here in Ireland where our universities heavily teach using those technologies.

Shitty graduates with no real interest in programming still end up in programming jobs. The shitty PHP developers I meet are invariably actually designers winging it as programmers.
No, not at all. We considered lots of things that could work: prop, map, author, def, store...

The more discussion and argument the better IMO.
Agreed. And then compete head-on with North Korea!

A small nitpick: Russia's spelling.
So basically all of this will not result in having that transporter I want so badly?
While I agree with your take on what the game will be, I'm firmly in the "yes that's exactly what I want" camp. Update it a little, give me new levels, and for God's sake don't ruin it like they did Bomberman.
Think "Porn Hangouts".
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It's not a fork, it's a separate project by 2 former Cake developers.
Well, it's that or have them on welfare. :)
Imagine testing 1000 potential cancer drugs. Only 100 of them actually work, but you don't know that; you have to do the trial. So you get out some petri dishes and start testing. You look for a 5% chance of false positive (p < 0.05), which is the statistical significance level usually used in medical trials.

Of the 100 real drugs, you detect all of them. Of the 900 fake drugs, 5% of them falsely appear to work. So you have 145 drugs you think work, only two thirds of which actually work. The chance of any individual drug having obtained its positive results by chance is 31%, not 5%.

I have a guide to this here, since it's so common:

http://www.refsmmat.com/statistics/#an-introduction-to-data-...

(Side note: the average medical trial would only detect 50 of the working drugs, not all 100, so the real situation is even worse.)
I really enjoyed this article! nice story! i didn't know the flash games had this complex market and the comics were really nice. really liked it.
Avoiding nonsensical peer reviews (never seen one that made any sense) is one of the reasons I went contracting.
You haven't proven that it can't be proven that 2 + 2 = 5. All you have proven is that if 2 + 2 = 5, then mathematics are inconsistent. Which they could be; you can't just assume math and logic are consistent.
Does having a co-ordinated view of changes across a system also require some kind of notion of time? (At the least, a tick whenever some kind of changes happen?).

Are there any insights to be gained over comparing this idealised view of time and physical time?

e.g. I don't really see that relativity comes into play but could it/should it?

There could be some kind of analogue for how changes spread around a distributed system, which is limited by the effective propogation speed of the system.

Do we run into some kind of underlying law of distributed systems about the inability to have a reliable, cross-system change-based "tick"? (e.g. could that be a consequence of the CAP theorem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem)
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Lets say you're on Wikipedia and . . . you want to know about the really crazy

I am a Wikipedian. I edit sporadically these days, after being really active when I first started editing. Before I began editing, I read whole books about the history of Wikipedia and its internal processes. Because of the anarchy of how Wikipedia started out, with the typical Wikipedian having NIL research and editing experience (not even the research and editing experience implied by getting an undergraduate degree at a research university), you can find plenty of crazy on Wikipedia already.

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

And of course blatantly false assertions about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have already stood on Wikipedia for a long time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/weekinreview/04seelye.html...

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-11-wikipedia-apolo...

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

The Deletionpedia experiment,

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page

which seems to have fizzled out, was an archive of pages deleted from Wikipedia, in an attempt to make volunteer Wikipedia editors ("Wikipedians") more accountable for deleting articles. The result of the Deletionpedia experiment was to show that most content that is deleted from Wikipedia well deserves to be deleted, and probably doesn't serve any reader in any useful way anywhere on the Internet.

The Internet is already flooded with counterpoints. It's bad enough that in important subjects (for example, medical research) most of the best published literature is not available on the Internet (it is still behind publisher paywalls), while a lot of scam artists flood the Internet with websites that exist only to sell something that cheats consumers.

I do look forward to seeing how Ward Cunningham's experiment develops. MeatballWiki introduced some thoughtful discussion of online communities to the broader online world,

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/OnlineCommunity

and that was enabled by the innovation of wiki sites, that any user could edit a webpage already posted on the site. There is a place for wikis, and some wikis are very helpful,

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/Main_Page

but the last thing the world needs is more content forks for crazy points of view that get edited off of Wikipedia.
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So, does that mean you are worse off providing genuine feedback if it is negative, if it is in your best interest to just flatter someone with false goodiness?
Scary number of Finnish names in that list.
Wow, this is neat! Hulu should hire you immediately.

This sort of thing gets shown at every Netflix hack day. It's technically very doable; my three-year-old out-of-date memories are that licensing constraints--in which N promised to never, ever allow anyone to "frame" their video or support any sort of live user commentary--prevent it from going into production.
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Part of the answer is a conscious decision on the EU level to 'become the best at science'. That sounds awfully vague and usually is an empty promise in politics, but in this case there was broad support for such an effort (plenty of money was available, the USA seemed to be slacking off, CERN had proven its worth etc etc).
Look at Sharepoint's history. It's a Frankenstein of a bunch of acquired products. None of the built in services were enterprise ready last I checked (e.g. an alarm that doesn't always fire, a file upload service that doesn't always upload, etc., etc.).
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I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I'm always looking for ways to improve the readability and "share"ability of my code, and the author has provided several tips that I'll be taking forward. The part on strict-ish typing is brilliant. Very good read.
That's not even funny nor appropriate for HN. This isn't reddit. Don't say anything unless you have something to contribute to the discussion.
I'm suggesting to each his own type of input. So the A players can work on the new iPhone, while the B and C players can do something less important.
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nice extension - the ban function is cool (now I can ban all that parse spam). Popover function is great. There is one popover chrome addon called ezlinkpreview that I use which is cool too(for bigger monitors) shows windows side by side.
Sales? I thought it was just a free add on?
The fact that people react so strongly to this means he's onto something. Also, there is no parallax scrolling here.

Besides, this is a very nice direction for web design to move toward. The product itself is simple, nice, well executed, with a clearly framed value proposition. Kudos. Keep working on this.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/04/hi...

This is a great comment:
"Think about it this way. Let’s say you’re at the target range, and the Lone Ranger is shooting at clay pidgins right nearby. Obviously you’ll want to know if he’s shooting silver bullets, right? But you can’t look at them while they’re still tied up in the gun. You can’t look at them after they’ve hit the pidgin. And they’re traveling too fast to study while they’re in flight. The only way you can see if they’re silver bullets is based on how the pidgin gets blown to pieces."

"The Higgs boson has a very short lifetime outside of other subatomic particles. The only way for us to study them is to smash those particles together and see the results of the decay. Based on how the Higgs decays (blows itself to pieces), we can infer its existence."
There's a case here in the Seattle area where a guy was put in a coma after complimenting another guys rims: damanlehman.com

Given the multitude of ways a compliment may be taken, I tend to only give them to people I know. And even then with great care.
Do you have an example of one of these serious bugs?
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I don't think he (or steve) is wrong at all: a large part of the 50x comes from the fact that a smart individual can avoid the need for team work.

Although writing software in a way such that others can use it is certainly important, the network effect is the prevalent mechanism at work here (3 programmers need 3 times as much communication as 2 programmers; 4 programmers need 6 times as much communication; etc)
Didn't I see something from Dave Winer doing similar thing for Twitter, personal stream?
I disagree. Stop working as a permanent employee for big companies. Then you'll get paid more money and not have to do these stupid performance reviews. If you consult for a company that tries to do performance reviews, run because you've hit the "bad company" full house.
Doesn't even mention coffescript
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I liked the bit about using new. As he says, some people go with capitalizing their constructors, but capitalization is not enforced by the compiler. 'new' is explicit, it can't be anything but a new object.
Azure is certainly a good start for example.

Seriously?

Azure is what - 4 years old? It's still yet to see significant adoption outside places that were already .NET/Windows shops.

Until that happens it's little more than another defensive play by Microsoft attempting to protect Windows revenue.

(Yes, I know it can run Linux VMs. Again - is anyone outside .NET shops using it?)
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If you are writing types in Javascript, you owe it to yourself to use webstorm, as it can do code completion in javascript (it can also do reasonable inference).
I'm building an app that is jurisdictionaly based and thus my first potential market will only be about 50 people within civil engineering in my region. I'm a little nervous about taking this advice since if I lose a few prospective customers because of an embarrassing release, I very well may lose them for good with no one to replace them.

Any thoughts?
> And yet the threads are always full of these apologists, claiming PHP is awesome because facebook uses it, or because every cheap shitty webhost has it installed. Never making any actual argument that PHP is good

That is the argument. PHP is good b/c it allows a lot of people to be productive. C is probably a better written language then Ruby, but it doesn't matter b/c if you're doing web development you're not going to be as productive in C as you will be in Ruby.
The math will happily pop out absurd numbers. Remember that all stats carry assumptions with them, such as "this is a Gaussian process from negative to positive infinity" and "everything is absolutely perfectly independent" and other things that break down if your push them hard enough. What that is telling you is just how hard you're pushing the math rather than the real odds. I'm not 1 in 10^19 sure of anything.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that we need to be more careful about rejecting theories that simply sound like that of the luminiferous aether on the surface.

FYI aethers can be explained mathematically nowadays.

See: http://www.quora.com/Physics/Besides-maturity-of-model-what-...
Ask HN: Share Your Pain
Great startup ideas spring from problems.

Plenty of people on HN have problems to solve.

Plenty of people on HN want to solve problems.

So, an experiment: share a pain point or problem you've had recently (even if it's more like a minor annoyance / not a tech-related problem) and maybe someone will think of a cool way of fixing it for you, prompting a slew of 'Show HN' posts to obliterate your problems.

If your life is completely pain free then more power to you, and soldier on, you lucky saint!
If you are in sales, yes.
Yeah, I expect so, but I think the real payoff for Valve will be facilitating monetization of the finished films.
I get suspicious when someone compliments me. I guess for me, sarcasm and irony are both the rule, rather than the exception when it comes to "compliments".
My bank has no check that you've sent money to the right account when you do a deposit (and I hate that). (Banco Itaú in Uruguay).

So it's no different in that.
I'm curious what you mean by "pretty much." Did the Standard Model predict 125 GeV?

I'm asking because I've seen a few casual descriptions of this Higgs as a "lightweight." I'm assuming that means it's not as heavy as expected?

EDIT: "If the mass of the Higgs boson is between 115 and 180 GeV, then the Standard Model can be valid at energy scales all the way up to the Planck scale (1016 TeV)."

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/H/Higgs_boson.html
I am debating starting up a bot which just scans for stuff like this and auto-posts a reply of "Yes, this article didn't mention your favorite buzzword, and you must be incredibly perceptive and intelligent to have noticed this and pointed it out."
I write an indexedDB library and have 25 unit tests that have multiple operations per test, let's say an average of only 2 per test. So about 50 operations, mostly just get or put. Chrome takes about 1 (when warm) to 1.5 (cold start) seconds to run all of the tests, Firefox takes 3.5 (warm) to 5 (cold). IE10 is phenomenally fast, less than a half a second even when cold.

This is some combination of slowness from pulling js from the cache, raw js speed, and indexedDB speed. I assumed it was mostly the latter but I could be wrong.
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It works

Unfortunately I was unable to listen in due to being on a mobile device....
I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that readable code is considered boring?
I used to love Litestep. You know if there was an OS that took the lead in making customization and skinning accessible, it would be quite a great step forward. Instead we have third party programs and customizations that don't quite cut it.
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You receive a text notification of the transaction when it goes through, which has the recipient's full names. In case the names are different from what you expected, you can call a customer care number and have the transaction reversed (as long as they haven't withdrawn the money yet). Interestingly, this facility leads to another type of confidence con: a stranger walks up to you and tells you that they need cash but cannot get an agent nearby. You have them send money to your phone and you give them your cash. After they walk away they call the operator and claim they sent the money to a wrong number, and the transaction is reversed.
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>That is the argument. PHP is good b/c it allows a lot of people to be productive

That isn't an argument, because every other scripting language also allows a lot of people to be productive. If A is equal to B in one respect, and far worse in dozens of other respects, pointing out the one way it is equal doesn't make an argument that A is good.
That seems to be how the EU works. They did exactly that when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty. Ignored the referendum results and basically told them to go back and vote again, until they came up with the right result.

Also De Gucht was appointed to office, not voted in. There is no democratic way to oust him.
One size does not fit all, and you probably have the right instinct in your case.

It depends in part on the investment required of a user to try and use your product, and the consequences to them of less than great results. Time spent on your product is opportunity cost for users, and if it's time that matters to them, you'd better not piss them off.

If it's just Facebook, they can apparently piss of the world without consequence. I imagine you're making something much more important than Facebook.
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> The chance of any individual drug having obtained its positive results by chance is 31%

And that's different from the chance that randomness could have produced the effect? How?
While Composer introduced a new package format, it can be used to retrieve PEAR packages, 'plain' zip files and even git, svn and hg repositories - and these can be integrated even if they don't contain a composer.json file, needing just a little extra configuration in your project. This is a huge step forward and very convenient.

http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md

I don't know how Bundler handles this and it probably isn't even needed, as gems are just the standard in Ruby but PHP didn't really have a standard besides PEAR and Composer brings everything together.
You can still have embarrassingly early releases to smaller audiences, as long as you go about the process of selecting a few of your target customers and explaining to them the purpose of these early releases.

Reach out to two or three of those 50 people who are your target market and bring them inside your product development process.

Show them early builds and solicit their feedback. Make them feel special about being part of an early product release. Listen to them.

You'd be surprised how eager people are to be part of something new, especially if they feel they have input into it, and how forgiving it makes them of a sloppy design or what have you.
No no no no. Absolutely not. Not, especially if its positive. Generally, only if its positive. I'm a slightly cynical person, so if I told people everything I thought, I'd probably be out of friends by now.
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I understand your cynicism. I was just like you. But trust me, it's not necessary that you have to have other motives, you can really be genuine and sincere about your compliment. I do not actively work on trying to compliment people. The only thing I have changed is that if I have something nice to say to someone, I don't held it back anymore.
I talked to some folks recently who oppose the requirement that one be bar-certified in order to represent someone in court...i.e., they believe you should be able to bring your friend, who watches a lot of Law and Order or something, to court with you as a representative. The more I think about it, the less crazy it sounds. You can already represent yourself in court; why shouldn't you be able to bring some help that doesn't cost $500/hour? And, it wasn't always that way in the US; the bar association pulled some strings and made it happen (conveniently, most politicians and judges are also lawyers, so they're possibly the most powerful special interest in the country).

I dunno if this is the only way to solve the problem...but, right now, our legal system strongly favors the wealthy (this can be seen in convictions and sentences of rich folks vs. poor folks). Some of the disparity is legislative (i.e. cocaine possession having a vastly shorter sentence than crack), but a lot of it is simply in the difference in quality of representation.

Not to mention that when it comes to lawsuits, only rich people have the money to play at those games. Which may be why the worst polluters always seem to end up in the backyards of poor people. Rich people would sue them out of existence. Poor people have no recourse, unless some ambulance chaser sees an opportunity for a class action suit (where he'll make millions and the people affected will get a few measly bucks). I dunno if removing the bar as an impediment to representing someone in court would solve this problem (probably wouldn't; there are lots of things stacked against poor people in our court system, not just the lack of affordable representation), but it might be a start.

Whew...I didn't know I had such strong feelings on this issue until I started ranting about it. I guess that's how a lot of folks are...never thinking about the bar (or the medical association), or what unintended consequences it might have.
I want to agree with you and with Steve.

But when Steve says things like this "if you go to New York City and get an average taxi cab driver versus the best taxi cab driver, you’ll probably get to your destination with the best taxi driver 30% faster. And an automobile; What’s the difference between the average car and the best? Maybe 20% ? The best CD player versus the average CD player? Maybe 20%"

I mean where is that coming from? The numbers are totally arbitrary. Where's the backup for that? That's not even the same as even saying "we had a trade show booth in the front at MacWorld and consistently did 30% better in leads then when our booth was in the back and anecdotally our friends reported the same rough advantage".

I'm not arguing that there aren't obviously programmers who blow the socks off of "average" programmers (or that this can't be proven). Or that an experience taxi driver will get you to where you are going faster. What I object to is the use of numbers as Steve did to prove his point when there is in fact no backup for those numbers. (Is there? If so I haven't seen it).