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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Being a Mentor?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What template / theme does the A16Z future blog use?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Visa Required on Work at a Startup?

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fs.blog 7y ago

The Munger Operating System: How to Live a Life That Really Works

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Amazon is selling facial recognition to law enforcement

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www.arxiv-sanity.com 10y ago

Arxiv Sanity Preserver

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blog.uber.com 11y ago

Making a Bayesian Model to Infer Uber Rider Destinations

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www.washingtonpost.com 11y ago

The FAA is letting Hollywood use drones – and more exemptions are on the way

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

Field propulsion

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medium.com 12y ago

The hidden danger when developing for Android

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www.facebook.com 12y ago

Introducing Paper

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www.wamda.com 12y ago

Online education platform Coursera blocks students in Syria and Iran

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money.cnn.com 12y ago

The shared genius of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs

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aeon.co 12y ago

What deep thoughts do you have during a run?

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www.tehelka.com 12y ago

My Husband My Rapist

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www.pitt.edu 12y ago

A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook

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www.businessweek.com 12y ago

The Unbearable Narcissism of Edward Snowden

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www.nationaljournal.com 12y ago

Why We Can Give the Deaf Sound, but Not Music

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www.abs-cbnnews.com 12y ago

Pinay traumatized by horror trip to US

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medium.com 12y ago

Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance

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www.thehindu.com 12y ago

Let’s aim for a post-theistic society

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www.spiegel.de 12y ago

NSA Spies on International Payments

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gigaom.com 12y ago

With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the Internet of things

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www.fastcompany.com 12y ago

Condoms, iPads, and Toilet Paper: A Day In The Life Of An eBay Now Deliveryman

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www.theatlanticcities.com 12y ago

Why We Should Build a National Internet System Under the National Highway System

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medium.com 12y ago

10,000 Hours is Not Enough

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politicalblindspot.com 12y ago

Jamie Oliver Proves McDonald’s Burgers “Unfit for human consumption”

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markmanson.net 13y ago

Why Some Dreams Should Not Be Pursued

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online.wsj.com 13y ago

How the NSA Could Get So Smart So Fast

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mashable.com 13y ago

Study: Amazon's Ad Business Is Bigger Than Twitter's

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oh man, i'm in my 30s and this is exactly how my daily life is. I grew up in a culture that didn't have much of an inclination of understanding what ADHD is and stuff, so I never bothered. I really need to get myself checked.

Felt 4 years ago

definitely agree to this. And one segment that they could (should) definitely get customers are those who use ArcGIS. As someone who previously worked in oil & gas, the tax that these companies pay to Arc for all their mapping data is just crazy. I've always wondered why there isn't a solid tech company that could build a product that could take over Arc's business. Looking forward to Felt!

Having grown up in the United Arab Emirates in the 90s, I've personally seen the growth of NMC / UAE Exchange along with other firms (GEMS Education Group, the Lulu Group, Danube etc.) that are giant corporate entities. This story arc isn't going to be the last of what we see from firms that saw such growth. One of the biggest hurdles with such firms listing in public stock markets internationally is the lack of corporate accountability / governance in their home markets. As much as I'd hate to say it, building and growing companies in tax havens such as Dubai helps them only to develop corporate cultures to brush off problems under the rug that come to bite them later. Because they don't have to pay taxes, there isn't a government entity they need to be held accountable to. One of the few reasons where having an income / corporate tax system might just help public shareholders. As always, this is all anecdotal.

hah! but this is a very interesting area. You're right on the auto-summarizing issue becoming a problem these days with the usage of larger datasets. Data versioning also is starting to become a larger problem and I saw that you guys already have addressed it in your enterprise product. Hoping to see some sort of API-like version for comparison of data troves from different timelines in the future.

IANAL, but once your new firm applies for the new H1B petition (the H1B transfer is technically not a transfer, but a new H1B petition itself that is not subject to the cap), and you receive the receipt of your notice (usually take 2-3 weeks), you can start working for your new firm. There's no requirement to wait until it gets approved.

I'm a bit confused here. Does one have to be in the US and start a company to be provided with a parole status as per this rule? Or all of the requirements that are listed here need to be done while being outside the United States after which a parole will be granted if the requirements are met.

By that extension, lack of democracy in Saudi Arabia, and Egypt was the root cause of all Islamic terrorism. Saudi's actively promote a version of Islam that promotes religious discord in Muslim populations across the world.

I disagree with this statement. Saudi Arabia (& Egypt for that matter) can't be held directly responsible as one of the root causes of the current Islamic terror situation. Their idea to spread Islam by funding Islamic madrassas (schools that are usually near an Islamic mosque that typically teach the Quran in Classical Arabic) in places such as Afghanistan and Indonesia with their petro-dollars in the 70's up to the 90's was just a bit too idealistic. Of course, the fact that these schools (especially once Bin Laden was kicked out of Saudi Arabia and fled to Afghanistan) became ground zero for recruiting and training simple village kids into today's suicide bombers was something I doubt they could envision.