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With regard to maintaining legal status:

If you get a part-time job H1B petition approved, you can use it to maintain your status.

With an H1B visa you just need one job (at all times) to maintain legal status. Part-time H1B petitions allows the employer to specify a range of hours, like 10-20.

If you find an employer willing to hire you for 10-20 hours, and file the H1B petition (which costs including attorney fees, around $3k to $4k), then that should free up enough time to do something on the side.

With regard to working on a startup:

In order to legally work for your YC or non-YC startup, you will need another (concurrent) H1B petition approved. This is actually rather hard. Key points:

1) You must own less than 50% of your startup. Someone (usually the board) must be able to fire you. If there is no one that can fire, your startup H1B petition will most likely be rejected.

2) You'll need investment that is sufficiently high that you can give yourself the "prevailing wage" for the region your startup's office will be in.

Use this tool to find out what the prevailing wage for your region is: http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx

For example, in order to be legally employed on an H1B in the "San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA" MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), you must be getting paid at least $98,342 per year or $47.28 per hour. You'll need to get investment that's high enough to cover that. YC wouldn't cut it. My estimate is that you'd need stable yearly investment (or revenue) in the range of $500k to a million.
How are the requirements for salary are taken care of? H1b employee must be paid market rate salary (not in stocks but actual cash)
Railroads are better than self-driving cars for most purposes -- more efficient, safer, simpler to maintain, and _much_ less complicated to create -- but the US apparently doesn't have the political will to build new ones anymore. It reminds me of the failed attempt to upgrade the air-traffic control system back in the '80s and '90s...
Unfortunately, it's hard to respond because the facts really matter - the facts about the company and you - but yes, we have handled work visas for YC companies and other startups. As a general rule - from a company requirements standpoint - it's easier to get an O-1 than an H-1B for employment with a startup.
One of the creators here. We made this app for iPhone and iPad to help with the painful process of test coverage in SFDC. We've had it priced at $3.99 and haven't seen any movement, so we made it free for everyone to download and give us feedback!
> What did the CPG companies think was going to happen when they dumped a billion tiny little pieces of plastic directly down the drain?

They clearly thought it wasn't their problem.
The 2015 H1-B quota is already exhausted, so you can only apply first week of April 2016. Assuming your engineer wins the lottery* they'll be able to work starting October 2016.

* There are 65,000 visas. In 2015 there were 233,000 applications so probability of winning = ~28%. It will probably be worse in 2016.

http://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-completes-h-1b-cap-ra...
Enumeration like {X, Y, Z} is just one of the two main ways to define concepts. The other one is with a property, like {the Turing machines that halt on empty input}.

In the first case a meaningful question could be "what is the thing that makes these objects similar, what is a description that connects them?" For example if you see that certain animals die from some poison but others are unaffected. Then you may make up the concept of "resistastrong" animals that don't get killed.

You can do it in two very distinct ways. Either by enumeration, or by declaring the set as {the animals that don't die from the poison}. In the first case the definition is fixed and any more animals that are discovered to die from the poison are not accepted into the set. In the second case, the set may grow as more animals are discovered to die from the poison.

The way natural language works is often a hybrid of the two. We may call something a name, but then gradually the meaning can drift. We first have a fixed set. Then we realize some simple description that unites those things. Then we discover more things that fit this description and incorporate them in the set. Then we iterate again to find a better, more compact description of this new set. Maybe this will actually even throw out some of the elements that were previously included, because the description can be made much simpler if you throw out some edge case.
Why lean meats?
People can choose where to work. If people thought that Uber didn't offer them a good deal for employment, they can just go work somewhere else.

All this does is force Uber to offer benefits which would only make them take a higher cut in the long run. Drivers will suffer in terms of their income. This entire thing is pretty dumb.
> If you are an Uber driver you can have Uber finance you a vehicle

Uber doesn't provide the financing. From their financing page (https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/)

"Each participating lender has set requirements for approval and certain items on your credit report may exclude you from eligibility"

Uber just partners with lenders and dealerships, and deducts the money on behalf of the lender.
1) Is winning an ACM-ICPC national/regional contest enough to be considered a top programmer and be able to apply for an O-1?

2) If my B1/B2 visa allows me to stay in the US for 6 consecutive months; can I do programming, sales, fundraising, etc. for my Delaware C Corp in the US?
Whenever I need to do work that the boss needs to see asap, somehow I fail to get distracted by all the usual suspects (e.g. HN). But whenever work is light or I'm stuck on a bug or something then yes, it is a problem. Look at when and why you lose focus, and try to fix your issues on a case by case basis. Focus and attention is a reservoir that is depleted slowly. The more you structure your habits, to avoid distractions in the first place (to a point where focusing doesn't require force of will) the better you will get at this. But it is never ever perfect so don't beat yourself up if you slip.
No, DuPont does not have an employee first attitude:

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti...

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/08/dupont-found-liable-in-c...

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slip...

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/19/teflon-toxin-goes-to-cou...

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/17/teflon-toxin-case-agains...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/15/opinions/lerner-chemical-c8-du...

As someone who lived in the area during the height of their contempt for people and the environment: FUCK DUPONT
Hmmm. There was a TV movie I saw about this when I was growing up in Canada...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby
They're breaking into 3 companies after merging, so the cultures shouldn't need to be too mixed, in too many places, for too long. (Or so one hopes.)

http://www.wsj.com/articles/dupont-dow-chemical-agree-to-mer...
I'm currently on an H-1B in California working at a startup. In my spare time, I work on side projects that might provide value to somebody somewhere, but have an operating cost that I would have to cover if I wanted to offer the project as a free service. I'd like to be able to charge for this (or at least provide the option of a "Premium" plan) to supplant the money that I will lose in hosting the platform. I am NOT trying to make this a high revenue generator, and I am NOT trying to supplant my personal income. I'm more than happy to have an LLC or corporation (with a bank account), and all revenue stays within that ecosystem to cover costs. Is this possible?

1. Can I set up a company with zero employees? Since I am on an H-1B, I am not allowed to work for this new company that I would create to house the service.

2. Is there any legal implications for me of doing this? Most of what I have read claim that any additional work is illegal, but I am not trying to get paid. I am just trying to make the service self sufficient so it's not a cost to me. I will not take a paycheck or salary, and will not remove revenue from the account of the Corp/LLC.

3. What other avenues would you recommend for doing something like this? I've heard from many other engineers in the field that they have similar ideas. They want to create things to benefit others, but are not willing to do so if it is a literal cost to them.
By 'entire field' you mean handwriting recognition? They reduce the search space by limiting themselves to combinations of typical pen movements. Very smart, but I cannot see how it can be applied to machine learning in general.
As a general matter, nonimmigrant visa eligibility requires a job offer so you can't apply for a work visa until you have a job offer. The exception is in the green card context where self-petitions without job offers are allowed, but the standard for a self-petition green card is high.
What's the reapplication process like? Do you need to have done something exceptional from the time of the previous one's expiry to warrant an extension?
Half of U.S. energy industry will be bankrupt in six months with these prices
Nit: chaining IVs was the norm, used in a bunch of protocols, until the mid-2000s. It's obvious why you'd want to do it (saves space, and, conceptually, the IV is the negative-oneth ciphertext block anyways).
EB-1 is basically a green card version of the O-1 (i.e. an immigrant visa, not tied to your ongoing employment). Once you have an EB-1 you can freely change jobs, start companies, do consulting part time, etc. The requirements are essentially the same as the O-1, but evaluated much more strictly.
That makes no sense. ML agos are not something that you can steal from the competition, much less copy it by reading a blog post.
There's investment. From the website: "Unshackled takes 5% common stock + invests up to $160,000 as a convertible note to help catalyze progress."
I'm learning Phoenix so I've been on their website a bit lately. I believe Dockyard (the company with an ad on the bottom of Phoenix's site) is supporting the project.
Look, the Linux kernel itself uses the GNU GPL, so GNU probably is the most important factor in all of this. Linux kernel under a proprietary license or even under BSD-style, you probably would never have heard of it. At any rate, basically nobody thinks HURD is useful anymore. RMS thinks time spent on HURD is a waste since it is totally unneeded now that we have the Linux kernel. GNU is a political movement about software freedom as much or more than a particular set of software, and even KDE is licensed with a GNU license. etc.
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What's wrong with admitting that the system doesn't work?

If it's true, then we should act in consequence instead of flipping out at the suggestion of palliative measures.

It's like refusing to consider measures to mitigate harm caused by global warming because you don't want to "admit" that corporate interests make it very difficult to prevent global warming.
Hi Peter!

I am a citizen of Australia and I am going to switch on ZeroDB [http://www.zerodb.io/] fulltime pretty much now. For that, I have to leave my employer with whom I have an E3 visa (and I have a wife on E3D). Also I need to travel right after that.

Would there be any problem for us to enter back under Visa Waiver? Should we just fill an ESTA form online and have back out-of-US tickets on hand when we enter back? Any possible caveats here?

Another thing - my employer could technically terminate my employment very close to our date of re-entry (due to some corporate stuff). Would it cause problems in getting ESTA (when you are still technically on E3 visa but in a couple of days you're not)?

Thank you!
I am happy that small, but fairly substantive (and meaningful) policies like this still manage to get through Congress. And that not everything becomes like that "feds are confiscating our light bulbs" fight because of posturing or corruption.

This is a good regulation/law, and it's actually going to be passed. Glad it still happens sometimes.
I think Alibaba is the Chinese Amazon, and Tencent is the new Yahoo! I am not an expert in this but I always thought Yahoo should copy the heck out of Tencent.
Ah, see ddg give me a lot of people asking yahoo questions about converting things to milliliters. Completely forgot to check Google.
Are there fees involved? They don't seem to say anything about it in the post.
I'm not sure why you think self-driving cars necessarily mean the end of all private vehicle ownership?

Certainly cheap readily available taxis will be a popular choice, but if people feel there are advantages to owning their vehicle then they will do so.
Canadians can work on TN (treaty NAFTA) visa if your profession is on the list.

http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/doing-business-in-america/...
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Hi Peter,

I want to know how can a founder and a co-founder who are on F-1 and F-2 Visa respectively start a company. What are the requirements for the company to sponsor their own Visas at a later date if and when required? Do investors have a bias against investing in such companies.

Regards,
Kris

kur158@psu.edu
+1(814)321-7651
what does it mean to choose your preferred route anyway, and why would you have a preference?

if its because 'this route is less busy' well, thats your idea but the car should be able to tap into traffic information anyway and route around busy areas. Even ones you didn't know about.

if its because 'this route is more comfortable' then I think the car will drive safely and smoothly anyway. If the road is bumpy, then it probably won't go that way (damage to vehicle is expensive)

if its because 'this route is nicer to look at' then apart from the fact that people mostly don't care to look out the window while travelling along, when they can just fiddle with their phone, the case is that it is more expensive now to travel the longer, scenic, route already so if you are willing to pay the extra you can continue doing that.

The common freedom of owning a personal vehicle you mention doesn't seem to me that much of a positive thing in any case. I don't own one and when I do drive around I am always shocked at how much trouble it is to arrange to park it in a safe place when I want to get out, or maintain it. Simple self-driving vehicles that turn up when you want them and take you where you want to go, and then disappear.. Well, that sounds like a whole lot of freedom!
pvg is not calling them dumb. He is saying that they lack an understanding of the laws, regulations, and regulatory environments of different countries. And faced with this lack of understanding relied on their company and boss' judgement.

I don't consider myself an idiot but there are many times I read about actions taken by companies and go "S&*t that's legal!?!?!?". Many times unscrupulous and gray areas in the law aren't technically illegal. In addition the the Milgram experiments shows that even very smart people feel enormous pressure when when confronted with an authority figure. These two effects and I can imagine how hard it would be when the V.P. comes in and has a talk with you about how he had talked with legal counsel and they had looked over the regulatory rules and decided this was allowed, and other automotive companies were doing it.

The engineer could easily rationalize this away thinking "surely VW wouldn't do something illegal. They could get in so much trouble. I imagine I just misunderstood the laws."
Can you share some advice on how to build a prototype / proof of concept while working as an employee? I have read this is not an issue in places like California as long as you do not use company resources. But what about states like New York?
Citizens of certain countries do not require visas to come to the U.S. as tourists or business visitors for up to 90 days, and business visitor status can be an appropriate status to attend a training or non-degreed education/learning program.
I will argue that. Coke is definitely, in my mind, part of the "food industry". I speculate the article's author was also including soda manufacturers, due to the use of Dr. Pepper as an example. I personally believe soda is a major contributor to rising negative health problems. This is why I agree completely with and upvoted your previous comment that sugary drinks are a factor.
He knew about radioactivity; fission was theorized well before it was discovered, and his circle of sf/fantasy nerds was precisely the sort which would both know about what was then still a relatively obscure branch of physics, and contemplate at length its possible implications.

It sounds like you're fumbling toward the question of what Lovecraft would've made of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously there's no way to know for certain, but I think Charlie Stross has come as close as anyone could in his short "A Colder War", which is freely available online and quite engaging.
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Hosting companies give away free credits like candy. Don't let the lack of incubator stop you from asking. I've gotten up to $10,000 in hosting credits just by emailing someone and asking for it. No contract or anything, they just added credit to my account.
Have you looked into US companies that have UK branches? You get hired by the UK branch, and then ask for a transfer to the US.

London's banking/insurance/etc industry might be a good place to start looking at that. Getting transfers to New York City is common as heck.
If you qualify for EB1 you almost surely would qualify for O1. If you want to start working ASAP, you could probably get an O1 visa in a few weeks, enter the US and work on that, and then file to adjust status to green card based on your approved EB1 I-140.
Yeah.. made me think, consider my presumptions, taught me and left me with a need to ask questions. That certainly was a good one.
Actually it is highly dependant on a geofraphical location of the specialist. For example, in Russia and Eastern Europe there are senior developers who'd work on this price. But of course it depeds on the task
Mostly it varies from $50 to 150 per hour
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/article48622680....
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Yeah, I think this gets especially fascinating if people don't own their own vehicles. Uber, etc., are pretty big now, but they're still employing people with regular off-the-shelf cars. I think eventually we could reach a tipping point where most people don't own their own vehicles and Uber, etc., get so large that it makes sense for them to start building/buying purpose-built vehicles that could be dispatched according to your particular task. Commuting solo? You get a super-fuel-efficient one-seater. Driving 16 hours? You get a car with a bed in it, and your trip will take place overnight. Go to sleep in PA, wake up in Orlando. And so forth.
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> Engineers should stick to their oath

Um... what oath?
I've felt a similar pull away from django on a number of apps. Just looking through the Channel docs [0] however, many of the reasons I get frustrated with Django (primarily the lack of a solid websocket/SSE story) are being addressed. Frankly, I'm addicted to Django's built in auth & admin UI, and I'm thrilled I won't have to bolt on a kludged solution if I want to get some realtime behavior. My frankenstein chat system of Node & Django can be put out of its misery... someday.

[0] http://channels.readthedocs.org/en/latest/concepts.html
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I'd say you try first, and then see the result. It's risk free for customers
It doesn't, which is why I'm hoping for native Windows support soon.
Maybe that's because one can be reasonably confident that one's committed partner doesn't value one only or even primarily for sex.
H1B, L1, O1, etc. are all non-immigrant visa. You must be able to show non-immigration intent. (Except for O-1 which allows dual-intent.)

Edit: I may be wrong about this. IANAL.
As much debate as I've heard recently over what qualifies a person as an "engineer", one of the key features has always been a very strict adherence to a code of ethics.

I'm starting to wonder if the title is even worth arguing over anymore.
Unfortunately I don't think there are that many cases where engineers even have much independent clout, enough to force the company to "do it right" vs. just make a note of problems. This kind of thing is taught in engineering curricula, but the ability of engineers to stand up to the business and marketing sides of things is pretty limited, outside of regulated industries where there is some specific legal framework requiring the company to do a proper engineering review and follow its recommendations. Then it becomes easier to say that your legal duty requires you to make a particular recommendation, and harder for the company to bypass it (though still not impossible). But if it's legal and just a bad idea? Hard fight to win. It doesn't help that engineers tend to be fairly weakly organized, without a particularly strong professional organization or union or other entity willing to put more muscle into the idea of professional ethics when it comes to actually saying "no" to management.
These money probably come from Mozilla Corporation and not the Mozilla Foundation, so from Firefox's revenue. Firefox is a self sustainable project and isn't developed from donations. And the MOSS program is one way to give back to the projects that Mozilla depends on.

How many companies do you know that are giving back to the open-source projects they depend on? I don't know that many, so I think those that do should be praised for it.
You can't start working until you have your OPT work card in hand. There are circumstances where someone who hasn't yet graduated can be sponsored in the H-1B lottery, but this essentially requires the student to have completed all requirements for the degree by the time of filing (in April).
Not really, Uber is using their growth and capital to finance R&D of self-driving cars. They are actively hoping that in 6-10 years they won't have any human drivers.
I would bet that owning your own car is going to be very marginal, and human-driven cars will eventually become illegal to drive on public roads.
No, it isn't. It is true that solving the Hamiltonian problem would solve Secret Santa. But the Secret Santa problem is more technically the "disjoint cycle problem" and that is in P.

See http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/8563/partition-a... for details.
Does this mean that premium processing circumvents the lottery whatsoever?
They have failed before.

https://www.google.com.py/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&bi...

Somehow that is allowed in my country because they are not selling cartoons, just food and spices and things like that.

Using an image of Mickey Mouse himself adds insult to the (admittedly tiny) injure.
Ask HN: Who started something in 2015 which is already profitable?
I think it can be inspiring and interesting to learn about the early journey of already profitable businesses.

2013/14 edition : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983631

2012 edition : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088538
Isn't TN Visa also an option?
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Nope. A fluid labor market means just means that contracts and labor have a much easier time finding each other.

I'm not particularly interested in guaranteeing employment for anyone, let alone everyone.
Since there is other research indicating that bilingual children on average have a slightly higher IQ, most likely due to the brain being trained to compartmentalise information earlier, I wonder if that effect is notable in these former bilingual children too.