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One good thing to remember is that USCIS refunds the entire $2,325 or $1,575 application fee, if you do not win the H-1B lottery. So applying for someone is fairly low risk, cost-wise.

Attorney fees vary, but some will only charge part of their fee initially, and the rest is only payable if your engineer wins the H1B visa lottery and their visa petition is approved.

I just googled, and one[1] attorney ("Zhang and Associates, P.C.") splits their effective $2400 fee in two: they charge $1200 for the application, and only charge another $1200 if the the person wins the lottery and their application is approved. Another[2] charges $895 for the application, and no more.

With the Zhang & Associates, the total cost of just trying to get your engineer an H1B visa is $1200. If they win the lottery (odds: 1 out 3) and get approved, the total cost rises to $4,725. With premium processing, it's $5,950.

Even though tempting, it might be better to avoid lower cost attorneys (e.g. that charge below $1000). A good highly knowledgeable (thus, more expensive) attorney is strongly preferable. Even the slightest error can jeopardize an application. In addition, USCIS issues various rules and notices from time to time, and it's good to have an attorney who's on top of all of that.

[1] http://www.hooyou.com/h-1b/attorneyfee.html

[2] http://www.usavisanow.com/h-1b-visa/h-1b-visa-attorney-servi...
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YC is lobbying to change the H-1B system in order the let startups get more H-1Bs. Infosys is blatantly abusing and cheating the H-1B system so bad that startups are getting penalized when sponsoring H-1B visas.

And now YC is getting in bed with infosys...
coke, sprite, Fanta aka 'orange soda', whatever you want. The sweet corn syrup thaws first since it's got higher melting point than water, and it tastes nasty!
semi-off-topic: after Google invested $1B in Uber, I knew they were doing it for the self-driving car long play. How much of that 1B is directly going to self-driving AI at Uber?
I've got a few of the good ones for dimmers, I have however had a problem with them still. They're too efficient, all of the dimmers I have don't got low enough to be able to actually get them dark at the low end. They're all still fairly bright and I've already gone to bulbs rated at half of what I had originally. I think it's just something that's going to take a bit to actually catch up properly.
I think the OP was insinuating that a search and replace for the word slave is probably not a $15,000 task.
Uhm. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but I was slightly disappointed by the result of this. They might want to change the format in the future to promote fewer longer answers. "You might try X Y Z visa" doesn't really use his expertise very much. We also didn't really get an answer to the most obvious questions like if you can actually attend YC legally or if a temporary worker in the US can also run a company. Still a good thing of course, but a bit more structure would go a long way.
I don't see any "fear-mongering" in this announcement?
> They fired the QA team to force the devs to do a better job of designing for testability

If that is actually true, then they should have fired the Devs and found ones who understand writing correct and testable code.

That is a horrible way to treat people.
Sorry I wasn't clear.

My objection is to the very idea that 'styles' exist in the first place. I claim that's the primal rift that starts it all.

Like saying, e.g., "there are different kinds of human(ity)". Starts innocent, but it opens a dangerous door.
No, I think it's dishonest. However it is an honest mistake to underestimate the skill of people with a decade or more of experience and oversell yourself simply because you don't know how good good can be.
A user-chosen monopoly is still bad.

For example, for the drivers. They have no choice where to work – uber or jobless.

It’s also bad if uber abuses that to gain power in another market.
From the article:

> As Symantec is unwilling to specify the new purposes for these certificates, and as they are aware of the risk to Google’s users, they have requested that Google take preventative action by removing and distrusting this root certificate.

Why do you say they are "clearly not concerned"?
I think the respect there comes from what he represents (tradition, collective judgement of the Nobel Committee, respect gained by the Nobel prize as a result of it being awarded to certain people, etc.) not from the actual person of Carl Gustaf. While we can question each of those, e.g. achievements of some of the laureates may appear to many rather questionable today (I won't name names but I have a few in mind and many people do too), I think we can not deny that Nobel prize is still regarded as an esteemed award. So that what people are bowing to, not the external appearance of some old man named Carl.
Thank you for the trip. Really cool insights there...

e.g. (massive Mass Effect spoilers..):

"For millions of years, the Reapers existed for the sole purpose of ensuring the ongoing existence of organic life in the galaxy, based on the assumption that all synthetic intelligences will eventually destroy their organic creators. This end result is believed by the Catalyst and the Reapers to be inevitable, a consequence of technological advancement; organics will always create synthetics to improve their own state of existence, and synthetics themselves will evolve by means of surpassing their creators. [...]

By harvesting technologically advanced species (both organic and synthetic) and storing these old species within immortal Reaper bodies, room is made for new life to flourish and grow, as was the case for primitive man. The continuity of life in the galaxy is assured through this cycle of extinction, as it ensures that organic life will never be fully exterminated before its time by synthetic life, as was demonstrated by the quarians and the geth."
So I assume this is one of the projects Sama was talking about in his research initiatives. Sounds promising.
In a lot of cases it's just used as a threat to get a better deal. "Let us pay less taxes or we go to China"
They said this 60 years when AI began.
I'm not belittling the OP, its just that the animators and writers and creative people behind Steamboat Willie are in no way responsible for the monster Disney corporation became, and neither is the character. Put blame where blame belongs, and all that.
Set up an LLC & extend yourself a job offer. Make sure you have the capital to pay yourself according to your visa's restrictions, follow the appropriate procedure for visa transfer, & don't outright own the LLC.

Alternatively, petition to change visa to H-1B & get your employer to start the greencard application.
You might like this: https://np.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3v7zhv/why_are_n...
Please let's resist taking this thread flameward. The GP contains both a substantive point and provocation, which isn't great. In such cases, the helpful way to respond is to de-escalate, by addressing the substantive point and ignoring the provocation.
If you switch jobs you'll have to apply to a new TN visa at the border.

Fellow Canadian that's been in the USA for the past 4 years.
Hi,

Will the company sponsor the H1B visa?

Thanks
Once again sensationalism. I watched that interview. Sam's take on AI is perhaps the most practical I've seen in popular media, while everyone is freaking about a singularity event.
At the same time couldn't this just make it easier for rogues to fork?
Actually, "X works particularly well compared to other methods for one person" (even if demonstrated -- which your experience does not do, though it is one of many possible interpretations of that experience) is not evidence against "No language acquisition researcher takes X seriously".
Well, the German society has decided that yes, you should buy health insurance for every person you buy a service from, including the courier.

The result is subsidized healthcare via a complicated and weird system.

In fact, in Germany the employee always pays the healthcare insurance themselves as solution, but the government subsidizes it.

Sometimes the situation is that, yes, everyone should have something, so the employee/contractor divide makes no sense.

In the Uber/Lyft situation, the drivers should have health insurance through the government, and the car should be insured during the ride or between the rides by the companies.
This is silly. It's like a burglar suing the police for catching him while other burglars got lucky and did not get caught.

There's an actual evidence they that VW was cheating so they deserved it. What would be great is that if they could spill the beans on other manufacturers so others would be punished as well.
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Not the first. Back in the 1980s when expert systems were thought to be the way to AI, there was OpenCyc. Its still around.
They guarantee they'll issue a decision in 14 days, or refund the $1,225 premium processing fee.
They mentioned there being a "feeding chamber" on this toy as well.
> Yahoo owns 15% of Alibaba, making them a major shareholder.

I saw a saying somewhere that said if you owe the bank five hundred thousand dollars, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank five hundred million dollars, you own the bank.

Similarly, Alibaba's value is so much absurdly higher than Yahoo's that the 15% ownership stake is a burden to Yahoo-as-a-business. People have been writing for a while about how it would be immediately profitable for Alibaba to buy Yahoo outright in an all-stock deal, as it would take fewer shares of Alibaba to buy all of Yahoo (Alibaba holdings included) than Yahoo currently owns.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-02/yahoo-is-lo...

So, long story short, I can't see why Alibaba would care one way or the other what Yahoo thinks.
Perhaps its time to start an admin2, if the old one is holding back progress?
Billions of dollars in the music industry are hinging on a microscopic change
So throw more data at it then.
Did not expect Infosys or Vishal Sikka along with what is mostly SV who's who.
I don't think that's the mistake involved.

Rather, he simply (incorrectly as others have pointed out) asserts a 1-1 map between his problem and the Hamiltonian circuit problem.
IE: "A Hamiltonian circuit is a path that traverses an entire graph by visting each node exactly one time. It turns out that this is exactly the problem I was trying to solve. " (exactly his problem equals, has a 1-1 map to Hamiltonian circuits).

Edit: his problem doesn't map either way to the Hamiltonian graph problem - you could have two disjoint graphs that could be solved as Secret Santa problems but not as Hamiltonian graph problems.
If you don't recognize the name Fukuoka, part one is one of the better relatively short introductions to the philosophy of Natural Farming that I've read:
http://trentbrown.in.s205663.gridserver.com/buddhism-and-agr...
And with the layoffs that already took place during and after the Chemours spinoff, this new round will really hurt the Delaware economy. Sad to see a great company start to die in the 90's and after three decades of bad management end up like this. At least the earlier DuPont family left things like Longwood Gardens, Winterthur, EI DuPont Childrens Hospital , etc. Chad and Ellen's legacy is 1000's of shattered families.
Or if you assume that you can just sue both separately.

(And, in reality, I’d say the US government is more influenced by the media than the other way around – as can be seen in the situation with Comcast, TWC, etc)
Because Yahoo isn't a small company? They have been losing a lot of engineers and it must be hell to recruit people to join Yahoo, negative press like this is only going to make it worse.

As for why I think having Yahoo engineers take over janitorial duties is silly... If you're paying Silicon Valley engineering wages to someone (which they are, no one is going to Yahoo for stock options!) you should make sure they are working on engineering level tasks. It would be a giant waste of resources to have people do tasks they are overqualified for.
Yes, given that statements on the internet do not convey tone or delivery (see: Poe's Law), any additional clues are helpful in understanding the author's full meaning. In this case, with the author's use of punctuation and "Side note:", I can practically hear them speaking, which is what we should aim for in good writing.

You're being downvoted, but I think it's an interesting point.
The gig economy is caused by a surplus of labor from very high birthrates 20-40 years ago. It will disappear in the future because of falling birthrates around the world.
To anyone reading the comment above, I would be extremely careful with this.

While owning an LLC doesn't violate the H1B visa work conditions, working on an LLC does, even if there isn't any reported employment or income to the IRS.

Your current H1B employer probably won't care, but if USCIS ever caught wind of it (even years later) you will likely lose your H visa. USCIS recently closed the loophole where F-1 students would work unpaid internships without using OPT, and are completely unforgiving about visa workarounds.
It's not, really. Disney does not sell "adult massagers", and everybody knows it, so if I want to make one and call it the "Mickey Mouse", they do not have grounds for a trademark infringement action. They do not sell that type of product.

Once Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, I can even put a picture of Walt's original Mickey character on the box.

Of course, the profit margins on a product that does not set fire to the "sue me now" beacons are usually going to be higher. If you are not already aware, the international intellectual property protections are more beneficial to people and companies that have more money to spend on invoking them.

Just because you could doesn't mean you should.
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Numenta benchmarks their algorithms, along with others, on real-time streaming data: http://numenta.com/numenta-anomaly-benchmark/
Those same people run Android devices with dozens of vulnerabilities that can own their devices. It's probably for the best that we force them to change them. Otherwise it feels like we may as well continue to support Windows XP because there are still a few million people out there who use it and are vulnerable to all the latest XP exploits.
In terms of artificial general intelligence, the kind of stuff that gets associated with 'the singularity' etc. - I agree - there is seemingly nothing at all out there that appears to even be on a trajectory, I mean even theoretically, to coming close. But sure, for more narrow specializations, disrupting certain industries, there is a lot that could be advanced on a short time scale.

I don't think the big breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence are going to come from well funded scientific researchers anyways, they are going to come out of left field from where you least expect it.
(this is a follow-up to https://www.facebook.com/g.hatsevich/posts/741820789281463)
So you've turned "what it might be like" with a couple examples of mild AI-ish tasks that caught the public's attention this year into "the answer"?
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Platooning really needs to to be taken one step further to convince: not just dedicated lanes, but dedicated right of ways with optional use of tramway-style integrated rails and electrification. If robotic driving is solvable, then a robotic, on-the-fly mode switch between road and rail wheelsets should be easy in comparison.

The vehicles traveling hybrid routes like that would probably be seen as (much) better railcars () rather than as slightly better trucks/buses. Your point that those won't directly reduce congestion on urban road networks is certainly valid, but i am convinced that the increase of long distance passenger service quality (many single-car direct connections instead of switching between few long trains) would have a network effect spillover influencing the modal split in favor of public transportation also on the urban level. So indirectly urban congestion might still drop.

() benefits of the "better railcar": frequent, nonstop hub to hub connections for passengers, door to door transport for freight, easy fallback to regular roads for maintenance or incompleteness of the hybrid network, fallback to the road wheelset for emergency braking power, for switching tracks and to climb gradients much too steep for rail traction. Because of the much more relaxed gradients, a hybrid network might even be cheaper to build than a pure rail network when the terrain is not perfectly flat. Of course "hybrid" would only mean optional rail use for increased efficiency with heavy loads, not mixed use including rail-only vehicles.
There's no account creation flow on Square Cash. Just put in your debit card to receive the funds (and possibly some additional verification if you trip up the fraud algo)
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My spouse used to be one of the folks who are repelled by fluorescent light. She also failed to notice when I started quietly replacing incandescents with good-quality CFLs.

She did eventually catch on to me, but fortunately the event convinced her to reconsider her opinion.
Humans are really stupid without training too.
When I worked at Microsoft many years ago they had an large QA team with equal footing to Development and Product in determining what shipped and when. This was the same for every development team I was a part of there for over 9 years. It wasn't perfect, and the ship cycles were slow, but the quality bar was set higher than what I've seen outside of Microsoft.
Aw okay, I read about the Visa gaming in the NYTimes. Seems shitty. Thanks for the answer!
That, and maybe also that some of us who donated to Mozilla are disappointed to see money going towards political correctness.
Are you me?

I'm the same way. I'm not hugely overweight (6'0", skinny frame, 188 lbs). I'm also using MFP to track this stuff, and I had the same appreciation about truly obese people the moment I saw how much I was really eating. I had that same, "wow, I should be much fatter than I am!" thought.

The only reason it has taken me this long to change is because my 20's body was able to handle whatever I threw at it. My 30's body now is not so capable.
Most of the problem with untreated sewage in the Great Lakes is burst capacity - when you get a rainstorm, the sewers overflow and dump raw sewage into the lakes.

Having to store an entire storm's worth of water long enough for 10 micrometer beads to filter out simply isn't feasible.
There are LED bulbs designed to work in dimmer switches. I don't remember the model, but I had one that worked with my dimmer switch in an old 1970s era building I lived in.

My current apartment came with CFLs and a dimmer switch. They work well with the dimmer. It's a pretty new building though, so perhaps the switch was designed with them in mind. It might be worth looking at new switches to see if they help with LEDs.
The creation of what is essentially an ethics committee for a technology that doesn't even exist yet? With people such as Elon Musk on board who have publicly said 'AI is our biggest existential threat' ?

Additionally the second paragraph:

We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.

This infers they think AI will be used for hostile means. Such as wiping out the human race maybe? It is just un-informed people making un-informed decisions and then informing other un-informed people of said decisions as if they were informed.
A lot of these products feel mildly deceptive. When I buy a face cream I should not have to worry that it may be killing sea creatures. If that unexpected harm in unavoidable they should have to be honest about it and put it on the label.
Interresting. Would that affect people allergic to them (there would be alternatives so it's probably not a big deal). I'm just pointing out another issue that someone else might bring later (whether it really is harmful I don't know).
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In the meantime, several newly designed languages do in fact have most or all of these features along with other pragmatic advantages.

Rust and Scala being perhaps the most popular and maybe best ones.
"just, wow" > "wow", denotes staggering astonishment. Or put more simply: minds were blown.
Finite downside? What about Skynet?
Huh? Because of the order of the names? Maybe they did it in alphabetical order. Or because it sounds better. When AOL and Time Warner merged, it was called AOL Time Warner, but Time Warner was clearly the driver as history shows, for example.
>Uber just partners with lenders and dealerships

In other words, the Uber drivers ("contractors") don't own their own equipment ("the car") rather Uber's partners name is probably on the title.

While I don't know the answer, should the evidence come out, do you think Uber is making money from their partners financing the equipment to the Uber contractors?
It implies that you were about to exclaim something even more extreme than "wow", but you decided not to because even those terms wouldn't properly convey the amazement you feel so you said - just - wow.
"We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills..."

I realize that today machine learning really is purely a tool, but the idea that ai will and should always be that doesn't sit quite right with me. Ml tech absent of consciousnesses remains a tool and an incredibly useful one, but in the long term you have to ask the question - at what point does an ai transition from a tool to a slave. Seems some time off still but I do wish we'd give it more serious thought before it arrives.
... by machines designed and calibrated by men, and interpreted by men...made by code written by a man in a language designed by a man and implemented mostly by men on a platform designed by a man and implemented mostly by men.

Are you claiming that if my hit counter were written by a female, in a non-javascript language, then it would yield a different count? Or that if my CCD were designed by a woman, it would take different pictures?

I'm really trying to apply the principle of charity here but I'm failing horribly. So please - I'm shining a laser through a dielectric and imaging the output with a CCD. What bias does feminist philosophy think the gender of the experimentalist introduces? Do the pictures become dimmer? Is noise introduced?

To clarify my position: ordinary statistics has ways of handling observational bias (parameterizing it, averaging it out). I acknowledge that in some experiments this would affect things. I also believe that in the vast majority of experiments (e.g., shining lasers through materials, mixing chemicals together) that these effects are exceedingly implausible and can be safely ignored. Do you disagree with this claim?
The issue is that different races and even different value systems are ... different. In more than skin color.

The implication of that is that in any given pursuit, true equality will not create proportional representation. (And common sense tells you that fixing that with incentives is impossibly complex and therefore will never be achieved)
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