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I won a NASA contest as a programmer and I'm interested on working in the USA (also as a programmer). Am I elegible for an O-Visa? My degree is on Industrial Engineering which I'll finish in January in Spain, my home country. I also have about 1 year of work experience in two startups as an internship.

PS, thank you so much for the help so far.
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1. The underlying nonimmigrant status - whether E-3 or H-1B or O-1 - has no bearing on green card options so it simply will depend on which green card option one qualifies for - irrespective of underlying status.

2. The short answer is that self-sponsorship isn't allowed in the E-3 context.
No, seriously, why is this even worth spending time on? WTF? This isn't even amusing. It's just random.
Sounds similar to Square's Cash, exploiting an ACH trick. Except setting up Cash for sending is magnitudes easier then setting up Wallet.
The hard part is getting started. Productivity is all about momentum. Blocking reddit or whatever is distracting you the most can help you from falling in the procrastination loop.

Start working on something small at first. Tweak a color or whatever to get started.
I wonder if anyone has just tried giving these people the $1,000 up front? Maybe with some resources on how they can invest that money?

I bet most would opt to move to a place with better opportunities, which isn't a bad idea.
What is the average cost you recommend for a new the H1-B petition? What about an h1-b transfer? (Legal fees not including filing)
What's best way to move to US and not work for anyone and not invest much money? O-2? I work in infosecurity
Sounds a bit like https://www.pingit.com/#!/ or http://www.paym.co.uk/
For those who aren't clicking without some context: DuPont has known since the 60s that C8, or PFOA[0], a chemical used in the production of Teflon, is harmful to humans even in tiny amounts. It has knowingly concealed and lied about the harm both to its employees and everybody else, and it has continuously released it into the environment while doing all that it can to avoid taking responsibility for the harms it has caused.

The linked article is the first in a series of three that take an in-depth look at the situation, the harms, and the lack of consequences for the company until now. I expect there to be more follow-up articles as there are some lawsuits now in progress with lawyers who are armed with internal documents showing that DuPont knew about the problems for decades.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorooctanoic_acid
It's hard to say without seeing your CV but USCIS places a lot of weight on such awards.
Great topic.. just out of curiosity.. Has YC directly sponsored any H1B visas (if not for founders but people who actually work for YC)? I tried the usual h1b websites and couldn't find anything...
Obviously; you cannot reset your password with that e-mail.
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Interestingly, the video referenced in [4] has been taken down due to "a copyright claim made by News Media"...
I don't really understand the "chip off shoulder" in this context. You seem to think people are objecting to inquiring about gender. I was pointing out that your kinda gross generalizations are as much or more objectionable (and even more so after having just inquired about gender).
Obviously not the OP, but the lottery is meant to be completely random, where the only thing that helps is being in the advanced degree bucket where you essentially get a chance in two lotteries.

Last year the success rate for those without advanced degrees was something like 33%.

I think you get one application per person, so you will hopefully get 1/3 of the visas you request, essentially 3Xing your costs.
Good, MTProto is a giant PITA anyway. Why they felt the need to roll their own crypto is beyond me, and I really wish people would stop doing so because inevitably it ends up broken.
I was married to a US citizen for some years and recently got divorced over infidelity/financial issues (have proof). I have since filed an appeal as "Abandoned Spouse" which has yet to be acknowledged by USCIS so I am yet to have a new case number at all. My current work permit has run out and I have received notice to appear for Removal proceedings in Sept 2017. Is there a way to get my work permit renewed in the interim? I am yet to receive acknowledgement of receipt from USCIS about my abandoned spouse appeal
That passage just refers to a well-known truck cheating incident (iirc a few US companies were caught doing this at one time too) -- it certainly does not imply that such cheating is an accepted practice at time of writing. It just makes a point that a better-designed test would be trickier to cheat in that way, in addition to being more representative of driving conditions.
Ah wow thanks for the blast from the past! Your posting of this commercial drilled a hole in my brain right to the year 2000.
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This title sounds like a children's fairytale.
I guess it should be "Congratulations Google"? Banks (at least BofA) were offering such feature for quite a while now. PayPal did it for even longer.
I currently hold a green card, but am temporarily abroad (2 times 6 months). How long can I stay abroad and retain the green card, if I periodically come back to the U.S.? And how frequently should I get back to the U.S. ?
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Because they did not want to. Because they were doing the same thing themselves, albeit to varying degrees. The same can be said about the 1990s baseball scandal. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there were dozens of players bulking up and hitting 60-70 home runs regularly. No one (except maybe Pete Rose) spoke up about this.
That's a very narrow way of looking at it. Mozilla is both a producer and consumer of OSS, these donations are them being a good citizen of OSS by helping the projects they utilize in the production, management and marketing of their own projects. You aren't skipping any middleman, especially one that isn't adding anything.
Curious what your thoughts on this are: http://globalslant.com/2015/06/black-box-trading-why-they-al...

TLDR: Essentially black box trading inevitably fails because they're all trying to do the same thing. At a certain point everyone tries to liquidate, or buy, or perform same trades at the same time which can lead to a blow up.

I wonder if getting around this assumes some sort of diversity in algorithms/ML approach, and if that diversity is a realistic assumption
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I live in the United Kingdom but I've always wanted to move to America. I don't know much about the process as I find it very hard to go through the volume of information online. Do I need to apply for a visa, then find a company in the U.S. to hire me? Is there a good website for finding green card jobs?

I'd be grateful for a pointer on doing this or even just an FAQ as a starting point.
> It might not be perfectly obvious to everybody working on implementation that something is illegal.

Now you're calling them dumb. That's probably even worse than malicious. This is one of the reasons why I am bothered with the VW explanation they actively picture themselves as incompetent because it looks better on your resume than 'criminal' and they are not at all worried about throwing VW as a brand under the bus.
Can always compare against server-side logs, or CDN logs in a pinch.
Or going very far backwards.
"Poldrack’s team found more connectivity in certain networks of the brain -- particularly between systems associated with movement and vision -- if he didn’t have breakfast and coffee. Poldrack says that’s surprising: “If anything we would have predicted that if you’re tired and caffeinated, connectivity would have gone down.” Figuring out why this effect occurred might be a fruitful avenue for research."

It is very intriguing and interesting that neural connectivity in systems of movement and vision is increased when one is fasting. My speculation is that those neural activities are handed down from our early ancestors. Perhaps when we were hungry, our brain is actively scanning our surrounding areas for ways of obtaining sustenance.
Can you complete an H-1B transfer (moving from one job to another) while outside the US (traveling for 2 weeks), so that upon your return you can join the next employer? Or do you have to physically be in the US while the request by the new employer is filed and accepted?
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Is it possible to start a company on a B1/B2 Visa? This would an extension of my startup in India. Is any investment required? We're bootstrapped and yet to launch our product.
I received counsel that I needed to transfer from an E-3 to a H-1B before I could apply for a green card. That is what I did, and I now have a green card.

I also found that E-3s are sufficiently rare, I got conflicting comments from border agents, consular officials etc. Most had never heard of it, or applied understanding they had from other similar visas. (Admittedly, I first obtained mine the first year that category was created.)
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Could the administration decide to lower the bar for some visas, like O-1, without the need for congress to approve it?

For instance, could the administration decide that anyone with a PhD, or even a master's degree, is eligible for a O-1 visa? If that's the case, why is the focus some much on statutory reform and not on the administration which could get results much more quickly?
Same thing for the Amazon Fire Stick... the Netflix app is extremely laggy and playback stutters, it feels like even they have very capable engineers, there's a lack of love at the very last mile.

Also, discovery of new films is awful, as they basically want to be helpful and guessing your taste all the way, but it's severely lacking filtering options for power users. Which I don't mind, because it's driving people to our site in droves recently :)

(shameless self-plug: https://www.justwatch.com )

The sheer amount of systems they are trying to cover with a performance and security (DRM) sensitive video player component isn't that easy to support on the other hand.
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A bit tangential, but develop an awareness of how ambient light affects your concentration on different tasks. Brightness positively kills my desire to focus on intellectual problems.
Is there a compiler for it yet?
Came to the same realisation - it's a vertex cycle cover, which can be found in polynomial time! (if one exists)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex_cycle_cover
It's not strange, Cruz is literally "pandering" to tech employees, who would not want to see their jobs being replaced via H1B's. Back in the 2000's, this is exactly what happened to Motorola. H1B's made peanuts and replaced their American counterparts. This is incidentally what Mark Zuckerberg champions as well.
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Disclaimer: I work for a competitor.

Bottom line: real world use should be tested, but this is expensive and neither side wants to pay for it.

Regarding compliance department complicity, the biggest factor in my mind is two-fold: You test for compliance with regulations and you have limited time. You ensure that the internal test parameters match the external regulatory test. You don't have funding to do real world tests. You don't have funding to do static code analysis. You believe the documents you are given, as they have been signed by responsible adults. You use the tools you are given, because they have been developed by professionals.

Regarding what competitors knew and when: I haven't seen a discussion of exactly how much better these engines were than competitors.

Regarding the scandal in general: The public has been demanding better and better automotive safety and quality represented by government regulations, voting with dollars, and lawsuits. It takes time for these lessons to be internalized, and different corporations and internal groups do this at different speeds. If you are the largest automaker in the world it is kind of natural to think that everything must be ok! (See also: GM, Toyota)
I'm sure the customer support is just ace.
Do you mean "static_if I Had a Hammer" [1]?

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-201...
The main reason I wrote Mithril was that we had a large Angular codebase at work and we had ongoing problems with performance and poor error reporting (swallowed errors, un-actionable errors, etc).
This will depend on a number of factors including the nationality of the company and your friend, and the amount and source of any investment, but the options that we typically look at (aside from country-specific options) are the E-1, E-2, L-1, and O-1.
It makes me wonder how much harder it would be to end up with the three companies planned, but without a bigger company between now and then. It would involve creative shuffling.
No, but it is a published document that likely figures as required reading in the offices of those that are tasked with ensuring that such tricks don't pass out the manufacturing door given the possible penalties. In other words: actively look for defeat devices in software (that's real work but it is doable) and get the engineers involved to state very explicitly that no such devices have been implemented.
We will see. My bet is that there will be a few spectacularly golden handshakes and the bulk will suffer. I'm rarely disappointed by being skeptical.
This was an obviously bad idea from the start.

One of the tenants of a reasonably modern mechanical engineering curriculum is at least passing coverage of 'product lifecycle', which basically means thinking about disposal/recycling during design. What did the CPG companies think was going to happen when they dumped a billion tiny little pieces of plastic directly down the drain?
Why not donate to both (if you can?) Usually these types of grants come with specific results that are good for both parties.
It's a good question. But I think the contents of their users' communications are less important for their revenues than the metadata.
Help me understand the comment. Are we to be ashamed that some aspect of our country is supposedly behind a third world country somewhere? Is it giving props to Kenya? Is it pointing out how an underdeveloped country can skip ahead in some situations? Is it associating Google with America while knowing that "pay by text" has been around for quite awhile in the US?
He missed the really good stuff though (fission, etc). It's one thing to say 'the end is nigh' another to actually have it come relatively close to happening.
How neat! Thanks for posting. I've been doing some long term EEG use, but can only dream of that kind of fMRI access. Trying to get a PhD thesis off my back, but when that's done I look forward to playing with your data!!
I'm curious about gambling while on a work visa. It seems obvious that spending your vacation in Vegas is acceptable, but what if I think I'm good enough to become a professional poker player and decide to pursue that part-time while working full-time. At what point (if at all) does it become an immigration issue?
It's a requirement. (IANAL)
There are programming techniques where you offload all the computation onto (via OpenGL!) onto the CPU. I did this for image processing where we needed to do histogram normalization. It was not fun.

But the GFlop numbers given are maybe an order or two of magnitude off from achieved performance for something like Lapack.
The fatal flaw of Trademark is in the line of business. Disney would be liable for anything new. That makes the millions of dollars to continue to flow to protect new items coming into public domain.

What if we could have the multi-million dollar Copyright license. It cost MILLIONS for them to keep things out of Public Domain for 25+ years, therefore things not valuable fall to public domain
Make computer science teaching something a computer programmer can do in his spare time!

I have TAed at Cornell and ran my own section for beginner Java and pretty sure I can do a great job of teaching students. However, why would I leave a programming job or a founder job to do a teaching one at a huge pay cut. Make the part time easy to do and I can drive to a school daily near lunch hours and teach an hour of class and grade homeworks after work.
> You, you are an arrogant, pompous idiot, too ignorant even to begin to imagine the extent of your own ignorance.

Now that you've said that, I realize you're right. In all seriousness, I am in fact fairly ignorant. (Aren't we all, really?) I do try not to be arrogant or pompous, but it does happen. Thank you for your honest feedback.

I would also like to thank you for the well-researched analysis. Everything you've brought up are important and serious considerations, and they are all in fact not just possible, but probable magnifying factors in the serious issue of increasing obesity.

A final thought. Since you're demonstrating to me possibilities that I might not have considered before my ignorant comment, please also consider the possibility that you may not have understood exactly what I meant, or evaluated all the possibilities behind the intent or tone of what I said originally before you chose to try to insult me.
Great takeaways from BEAST and CRIME.

For BEAST, my takeaway was to never introduce a dependency into a cryptosystem of any kind without thinking very carefully about the implications-- and if in doubt, don't do it. I also took away "don't be creative" -- boring crypto is best. Generating random IVs from a CSPRNG is boring. Reusing the last block is interesting, but there be dragons. Crypto should be boring, straightforward, and directly based upon the current state of the art best practices without introducing anything that hasn't been subjected to rigorous analysis. Complexity equals bugs, etc.

For CRIME the takeaway is the concise "never compress somethings secret together with something attacker-influenced." It means one must be careful in using compression together with encryption, and that if one is very highly paranoid it is probably best to leave compression out to err on the side of caution.
Could Craig Wright be both Satoshi AND a hoaxer? If he wanted to keep his identity secret, then discrediting himself in this way would be a very clever way of doing so.
What are the actual numbers? Like, how many resumes have you sent out, and how many return calls have you gotten? And that of your friends?

A big fact about the field is that a large number of companies aren't in a place where they can hire new graduates or junior programmers. I have a suspicion that most of the difference in number of responses is that your friends are simply hustling harder and sending out more applications than you are.
It's not hypocritical if you think Sulzberger intends to give up his permit after he gets the gun control he wants. Personally, I don't believe it for a second.

I don't blame him for wanting to be the only guy with a gun. I just don't think he should be allowed to arrange that through the government.
I'm guessing they thought of that possibility.
From when I was detained (those "random checks"), I overheard an official say that they need to be in the country for atleast once in 6 months, and the taxes need to be filed (this was for an old couple, not sure about their fate).
It's about time the powerful people in China starting to realize how the rest of the world sees China has direct impact to them, and use their newly acquired wealth to improve that.

For normal people, I see it being a positive change in the long run, using money to influence public opinion is much better than using guns. Once part of the ruling class acquire enough media-savvy to influence the public, they will start pushing for more democratic form of government, because that gives them more power.
I see. How does EB-1 relate to this?
Germany is not the US.

Yes, whistleblower is not an easy path but there are many ways in which this could have been done without direct danger to the people involved (too many people knew about it to figure out who sent that anonymous package to the top 10 German press outlets). There are also some pretty powerful unions that could have helped with this.
I think they downvoted you because the phrasing is ambiguous between "what evidence do you have that it's written in Matlab" vs. "why do you think the creators chose Matlab" and they interpreted it as the former.
This is so wrong. Google Wallet is riding on the credit card rails. In Kenya, where the card networks are virtually non existent, the telecom companies stepped in as the network. And last time I checked, in Kenya, you can only send money to those on the same network as you.
> ML has, perhaps, the
best gc around; it's so fast that for many real apps it's as fast as the C++ malloc/free, and maybe even a little faster in some cases. You don't have to wring your hands about using ML's gc, as you do with Java's, which is slow.

This is from 1998. I highly doubt this is true today. HotSpot now has an incredibly good generational, concurrent garbage collector.
No, the requirements are statutory. That being said, the weight that factors such as education are given is in the end subjective and discretionary, and the agency could take the position that certain factors, such as a PhD, should be given substantial weight.
Go outside and get some fresh air, if that isn't possible step away from your workstation until you are ready to work.

You'll come back to your desk feeling refreshed and ready to focus.

This practice becomes even better when just prior to returning to your desk you devise a plan of action for when you sit down. That way you won't be tempted to sit back down at your desk and check email or see what's new on YC.
One thing that strikes me about Cray's designs is that they look so extraordinarily cool, but the look of the machines is - according to Wikipedia - often the result of technical/engineering requirements/decisions. They were led by technical priorities almost exclusively, yet they came out not only the fastest computers on earth (at the time), they also looked ... awesome.
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This is a great post apart from that last line.
Hi Peter. I'm currently preparing for O1 visa. I'm on B1/B2 visa now and planning to extend 2 months so I can stay total 8months while I prepare for O1 visa. My question is if I ever get denied for extending B1/B2, can I have any disadvantages when I apply for O1 visa? I met a person who told me this but I'm not sure whether this is true.
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I think you need to get an H1B first to be at least eligible to the green card. J1 is a visa with no intent of immigration.
Everyone even the engineers deserve blame.
Hey at such a low rate of $50, would any qualified person work for this?

I feel the quality of results would be low, just like odesk.
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Delaware? Any reason for that specifically?
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