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Is getting a visa to work at a U.S at startup something unique to the YC program? I am/was under the impression that the company had to be accredited to be able to employ foreign nationals.

Is there any advise you can give for a current undergrad (for me personally citizen of NZ and UK if that matters) to improve the odds of being able to accept a job or PHD study in the US (on the visa side of things), both at application time and now til then (~2 years away).
Legal fees aside, the filing fees are $1575 for a company with less than 25 FT employees and $2325 for a company with 25 or more FT employees. These are the fees for regular processing which can take months at present, so premium processing is required for quick decision and this costs an additional $1125.
My guess is that a high minimum wage would incentivize employers to hire citizens instead of new immigrants. There are plenty of anti-immigrant Republicans, as Donald Trump and his current base have illustrated.
The merger and the split are individually quite common, but relatively unusual as a combined transaction.

I haven't seen any announced plans to have one HQ focus on one of the three businesses and the other on another, but that would make at least a bit more sense. But then, what about the third business?

If I had to guess I'd say the decision to keep both the headquarters is psychology-driven. You don't want either the Dow folks or the DuPont folks thinking that they're the target, because usually in M&A situations the acquiror keeps A LOT more of its corporate overhead. So logically, this perhaps makes the most sense as an attempt to avert the desertion of a lot of talented lawyers, accountants, HR people, and other headquarters types.

If that is in fact the case, expect an announcement about six months after the deal closes that they're consolidating their headquarters. My guess is they'd keep it in Delaware.
If a H1b holder participates in a Hackathon with cash prizes and wins. Can he claim the money?
The article specifically addresses the 'test detection' and adjustment feature. See the quoted passage above.
I think that more STEM folks _would_ be interested in teaching, especially those who are late in their careers. The problem is that the prospect of teaching high school is horrifying to someone that isn't prepared to deal with the discipline and safety issues that beset high schools today.
I would also like to see a discussion on this topic.

Folks with H1B, who wants to start

1. What is required, if the current company allows Moonlighting ?

2. If the second job is not allowed ?
That should definitely be audited on top of the source code. You have no disagreement from me, there.
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Just to clarify: in this case it may be okay if you're doing work for a client outside of the US and they are billed by a business entity that is also outside the US? So the deal-breaker is doing work for US companies?
So, I graduated last December (2014) from a small accredited University in Texas with a BS in CS. I applied to 137 companies before I accepted at Capital One. I had many friends of friends who were HR and recruiting at other companies and during my arduous process I picked up many things that I felt helped me (and hopefully they'll help you). I ended up getting 43 offers, and at least a ~80% return on contact back (I forgot the actual statistic).

If you choose the shotgun approach, as I did, Keep a spreadsheet, or something, to help organize all the information.

Always Customize your resume by using the words that they put on their job hire post. (This will get you past electronic screenings and non-technical HR people who just look for keywords). This is really annoying (writing your resume each time) but I felt it helped me.

I always researched the company the night before resumes and try to find a technical blog that a company may produce, or some niche thing that the company does. (Capital One and it's AutoNavigator is what I focused on when I was interviewing).

Lastly, I did embellish the truth a little in any of my stories. Not to the point of a lie (... sort of ...) but I made my past technical experience an enjoyable story to listen to. There was a quote I read in 'Iterating Grace', paraphrasing it: Great Stories are better than Great Facts. Don't lie in the facts, but like statistics, you can bend the truth and still let it be truth.

Another piece of advice is make sure you are confident when you walk in. Even for technical roles, confidence is key. Being able to talk and have the interviewer like the interviewee is one of the many keys I found to being successful.

If you don't mind lying, most companies will never check your GPA past the transcript you hand over (if you do that at all). So you want to embellish that 3.2 GPA to be a 3.5+ go ahead. Most companies never check. (Come to find out I didn't have the correct GPA on my resume when I changed semesters even though I had an updated Transcript I was sending out. No one ever bothered me about it). I did not ask the HR at my company this question as well and they did not confirm this fact.

I hope that helps you some :D
Where I live I can travel in a electric car for roughly 1/6 of the cost of petrol. Of course the calculation is more complicated than that, cost of the vehicle, service etc. My guess is that this will be competitive with this type of air travel.
Thank you! I know that mileage varies, but could you give a ballpark for what legal fees might be for a "plain vanilla" case? At the other end of the spectrum, what are the highest fees you've ever seen from one individual?
There is a lot of ongoing work looking at very-low-field MRI using SQUIDs, but it's doubtful that it will work for functional imaging at any point in the near future.
I suspect because of timing. If they had not been fully invested in that particular engine at the time they would have had a way out. But given that they already had made a commitment the choice was to drop the US market for their small diesels or to cheat and they - unfortunately - chose the latter. It was both cheaper and the only solution that worked under time pressure. Someone probably thought they were very clever when they thought of this.
Nothing you're saying is wrong or theoretically unsound. But in practice, 'looking for evidence'-type activities are frequently glossed over, even by very reputable audit firms.
I would love an answer to this question! In this current election, it's unclear what candidates' positions are towards tech sector immigration.
The Postal Service advises against it. You probably heard some postal official say "Don't mail cash" and mistook it as a citation of law rather than simple advice.
Well, you can always transform a true hamiltonian cycle to two cycles of a subgraph if you have a any A->B, C->D in the cycle where also A->D, B->C is in the graph. That's any 4 clique which isn't that hard, considering that the arrows can be transitive for that matter (I think, no proof attached).

Also, to show np completeness one must show reduction in both directions. I somehow doubt that any SAT-Problem is reducible to secret-santa, if secret santa isn't exactly hamiltonian cycle anyways.
How quick is the premium processing?
I was in similar situation. I think your new petition will not count against the quota if you were holding H1 within last 6 years.
- minimize unnecessary windows

- install browser plugins that block certain sites for some time. e.g. leechblock on Firefox can block certain sites for X minutes every X minutes, similar to the tomato method

- discipline
Everyone has flaws. Viewing the entirity of one's accomplishments constrained through the lens of one flaw is absurd and unsupported by evidence.

In other words, there is no evidential reason whatsoever to suppose that the larger fears he played off of categorically stemmed from racism. Criticism of that nature is unscientific and irrational, based on nothing more than arguments of the form, "it seems to me.."

Further, making such an argument is inherently a moral absolutist position. You are imposing the cultural mores of your own society on a very different society from another time and place -- and ironically, condemning Lovecraft for having done exactly that. It is, at the very least, hypocrisy.
Yes. Why do you ask?
There has been a lot of work looking at bioeffects of MRI in nonhuman animal models. We looked at this work before we started the study, and were convinced that there was no reason to be concerned about bioeffects at the levels of exposure that I was going to undergo. See http://www.mrisafety.com for a lot more info about MRI safety
Gov.uk Verify uses federated identity assurance:

> Experian is one of nine independent identity assurance providers supporting the government’s Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service, which is one of the government’s biggest digital projects

So if their software sucks, there are other providers to try.
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1. There is no waiting period. 2. See response to earlier question. 3. Not really - USCIS will look at a variety of factors to be comfortable that the company can pay the offered wage including funding. 4. No.
> I might listen to one album very frequently, but also other albums, including new ones as they come out. In that case, I'll be paying $9.99 for streaming no matter what, so there's no need to buy the album.

I prefer to always have backup of what I buy. I don't want my digital library to disappear because some DRMed service will go bust tomorrow (and that happened quite a number of times already with various services in the past). It's one of the reasons I don't use such digital renting services.

> Yeah, it's a business. It's the entire model of the business. If you don't like it you are welcome to not use it.

Indeed I don't :) In general digitial renting is aimed at reducing ownership. It started with crazy EULAs, DRM and other nonsense "business models" that some "smart" suits devised just because they dealt with digitial and not physical things. So I support those who distribute DRM-free (whether it's music, books, games, video and etc.). It's a form of voting with one's wallet as well.
The new startup I joined is filing a new H1B instead of transferring (because it took so long to transfer due to company's registration progress). Previously, I was filed H1B two times (2011 and 2014). Is third time possible ? Especially now, since visa regulations are getting strict for security reasons.
WhatsApp encryption is broken.

WhatsApp can just turn off encryption when they want, without users knowing:

http://heise.de/-2630361

That's probably what happened in June:

"Investigators said earlier they had detained 16 people in the anti-terror raids after working with U.S. authorities to monitor suspects' communications on WhatsApp Inc.'s messaging service."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-08/belgium-ar...
PLEASE stop using sourceforge.
Don't get me wrong, these are amazing news love the project, but I'm a bit confused on how Mozilla works. Just the other day they were requesting donations, now they are donating money?

Why ask for donations if you are expecting to donate the money away instead of using it to improve your products?

I donated to mozilla a few weeks ago, but now I wonder if I should have just donated directly to django instead, skip the middleman that is not adding anything.
I had peripheral nerve stimulation nearly every time I did the diffusion weighted scans, but for me too it wasn't bad enough to stop the scan
As a competent and above average software engineer from Morocco, not holding a university degree, what are my options for a work visa in the US, assuming I get a job in a company willing to put every possible effort into this?
You have to work on something that provides so much value to you that you become obsessed with it.
I really thought I wouldn't like this but when I started I found I enjoyed it. I only got to level 12 with 175 but that's ok
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500251756/Security-flaw-...

Ffs
It's possible, yes, but have this conversation with a J-1 sponsor since the J-1 sponsors make this determination.
If you look at the database, you'll see that H1Bs are awarded to non tech people too - like cooks, researchers, etc. A lot of foreign chef's are brought over on H1Bs to run or train a staff. Here's one for a thai restaurant in NYC, salary $30K. http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=POK+POK+NY+LLC&job=COOK&cit...
Are there options for a foreign national to move from an E-2 visa (treaty investor) to permanent resident status? I've heard that it wasn't possible previously but now may be, making the E-2 a possible "startup visa" for many.

And thank you for doing this!
You're assuming half of it isn't going to VP+ level folks. Which is probably a bad assumption.
Is it possible to transition from an E-3 to a green card directly?

I had a person at the US consulate remark on the fact that I was applying for a third E-3 visa with the comment "you can't keep doing this indefinitely", I didn't challenge him, but this by understanding was quite the opposite, that there was no limit on E-3 visas issues; can you provide any insight into this?

If I obtain a green card by marriage, but then split up before the 2 year deadline, does that have negative repercussions on your ability to get employment-related visas? I've already been dating my girlfriend for 2 years and we've been living together for most of that, so it's something that comes up as a reason to get married, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea.
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> Most students of history in high school won't be historians; most students of literature won't write great novels or screenplays; and so on.

But by the same token, the economic effects are quite apparent. It takes a very special individual to rise above the pack in history and literature to turn that into a successful career. For most, with so much competition, it will never be more than a hobby. Anecdotally, I have a couple of friends who are published authors and I would be surprised if they are ever able to recoup the cost of the time they put into it, let alone sustain their costs of living.

Programmers are fortunate right now that the skill is relatively rare amongst the general population and when demand exceeds supply, prices rise. The concern isn't so much with everyone being a programmer, it is that only a few will be able to make money at it when the supply starts to exceed the demand, much like careers in history and literature today.
I took a stab at this exact scenario years ago (1999?) and came to roughly the same conclusion. I ultimately decided to treat it as a travelling salesman problem where the distances between nodes (people) were weighted based on how recently they had matched with each node in the past.

This ultimately led me to create a TSP solving library that implemented a bunch of the known heuristic algorithms to approximate the solution. Worked out pretty well in the end and learned lots while I was at it.
I'm not much of a business guy, I just find this kind of stuff interesting. Thanks for the reply, I know M&As are delicate but I don't know a whole lot of the strategy behind how they're carried out.
Assuming we have fully electric cars and "solved" the electricity production problem, I don't see the inefficiency of going fast at ground level as being a significant problem. That's a big "if" though.
Canadian, recent high school grad. What are faster ways to working and eventually living in the US than doing a degree then getting H1-B?

F-1 and OPT then H1-B? O-1? Making some money in Canada then starting a company and E-2?
H1b visa is completely independent from your GC application. Your employer has to apply for your green card.

According to latest visa bulletin (Jan 2016) EB2-ROW is current and EB3-Row is 01 OCT15. It takes approx a 12-18 months to get your labor/i-140 to be approved.
What are your experiences with going from a successfully issued O-1 visa to an EB-1A?

Any lessons learned / things one should watch out for? (specifically around required evidence or RFEs that you got issued)

Thanks for your time! :)
The common flaws listed for Lovecraft are his writing style and his racism, and it's usually the latter that people tend to bring up to discredit him. The applicability of his flaws to his ideas is usually a tar pit that unfortunately has become associated with the "feminism/SJW/gamergate" conflict within sci fi fandom, which means people often jump to bash/defend him prematurely.
No, we'd still have shop classes if we still saw a need for lots of factory workers. What we have instead is a school system that's designed from the ground up for turning out lots of factory workers (and farmers, clerks, and homemakers) trying to keep up with the times, and failing.

ETA: On reflection I suspect many here won't see it that way. It's worth pointing out that, even in the public system, there are different schools, and different subjects, for kids whom the system identifies as "smart", than for those whom it does not.

The former will generally have ample opportunities to learn about computers and programming whether it's officially sanctioned or not, and indeed will probably do so more successfully if it isn't, because being required to do it makes it feel less like fun.

The latter will have to learn that kind of thing on their own, if they're inclined to it, because the system isn't going to trouble itself, the attitude being that anything more complicated than making change and operating a point-of-sale system is almost certain to be wasted on them anyway, and trying to impart complexities to them will only leave them bored and frustrated anyway. (This is in fact true, in a superficial sense, but it has nothing to do with their ability to cope with complexity, and everything to do with the way it'd be put to them. See also: the utter, abject incompetence with which almost all high-school-level mathematics is taught.)

It works this way because it was explicitly designed to work this way by people who genuinely believed in the progressive utopia, where in exchange for there being a specific and fitting place for everyone, everyone was trimmed and pared down to fit a specific place. (See also: Aldous Huxley. Why do you think he went to the trouble of writing a book-length satire of this kind of thinking? Just for the hell of it?) Unfortunately, their design was fundamentally flawed, and they therefore bequeathed to us a system which cannot possibly bear up under its own weight. Fortunately, their design was fundamentally flawed, so the system they inflicted upon us will inevitably collapse and make way for something new which might turn out to be better, not least because it could hardly be worse.
Computer science is the science of the 'theory of computation' (essentially mathematics): proofs of correctness, complexity theory, numerical methods, symbolic logic, etc.

I am glad that your course is called 'computing' and _not_ computer science, since they are usually misconstrued (as in this article). I am all for teaching children how the digital world works, and introducing them to the concepts of electronics, programming etc. but it call it what it is.

Computer science != programming. Programming is an applied skill across nearly all scientific disciplines. Physicists, climate researchers, statisticians, etc, all require programming to do their research.
I muttered 'fuck' under my breath when I read the news this morning. Not many news can make me swear anymore these days.

As an immigrant from Hong Kong, SCMP is one of the few remaining HK media that follows a centralist approach to news regarding China. Other HK medias have already picked their sides, similar to MSNBC and Fox news in US.

This buyout will be a major loss to press freedom in HK, and a loss of a rational voice to outsiders. SCMP will probably become another mouthpiece for China's central government.

I don't for a second believe China/Alibaba will 'maintain editorial independence.' To be successful in China, you need to have connections (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi) . It is much of a 'you scratch my back, I scratch yours.' I am willing to believe Ma is a decent man, but how can a newspaper stay independent when its owner has to play this game?
Are you referring to the "base salary" on an applicant's profile? That number is created/edited by the applicant and visible to everyone that can see the profile. AFAICT that number has an effect on the "potential salary" number companies give to applicants, but I do not believe there is an internal matching between applicants and companies based on this number.
There's a common reasoning mistake when it comes to reduction and conclusion of complexity class.
You cannot say a problem is NP-complete if you reduced it to an NP-complete problem.

The problem you know is NP-complete has to be reduced to your Santa problem.

What OP described was mapping from Secret Santa to Hamiltonian circuit, not the other way around.

I've had a bunch of problems reduced to be solvable with approximation algorithms of NP-hard problems, that doesn't make them NP-hard, it's equivalent to solving a problem by reducing it to an NP-complete one with an exponential algorithm.

That's why it's not that simple to prove a problem NP-complete.

It might be that the problem is filled with symmetry and by modifying an algorithm for an NP-complete problem you get a polynomial one.

For example, Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (multiple Hamiltonians with time windows) is considered NP-hard but if your locations had a lot of short time windows you can solve any instance in polynomial time (almost O(n)). But you can also solve it with any VRPTW algorithm (DP, PTAS, heuristics etc.).
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I will need a J-1 visa this summer, but I applied for the diversity visa this year. Could my J-1 be rejected for having an intent to immigrate?
After typing 1ml into Google the paper is the first result and the link header sums it up nicely "1ML - core and modules united"
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Other manufacturers (e.g. BMW -- pretty sure the same is true for Audi) do not have the same issue; in fact, the original report is very clear on that matter: the issue is specific to VW.

The reason is that other manufacturers rely on injecting a pollution-neutralizing compound at exhaust time (there is a separate tank for that stuff), whereas VW claimed that they have been able to design engines that do not require this (obviously costly and undesirable) step, and are clean all by themselves.
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Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that.

Instead, please post factual, substantive comments, and edit out the bile if any made it in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
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Work is defined as getting a salary though. If you're accepted into YC, they are not 1099'ing you or putting you on a payroll. It's like a stipend (effectively), and legally just an investment in your firm.
I have a fun story to share about how I created a soda-disgust in myself!

In college at one point, I was drinking soda almost every day. It was bad for me and I knew it, but couldn't help.

So one day, I froze a bottle of some soda, and then let it thaw, sipping it after. It was the nastiest, sweetest, most awful-headaching thing I've ever put in my mouth. Having discovered what soda 'really' was, I stopped drinking it. I drink it maybe once in a year at most, but that's about it.
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I think thermodynamics would state that it doesn't scale.
If only Ubuntu could make it easier to run package updates 6 months continuously.