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Hello,

USCIS recently approved my EB1 visa I-140 petition. Since I'm abroad my process will go thru the NVC and then consular processing. What kind of questions should I be prepared for at the consular interview? And about how much time should I have to wait for my green card?

Thanks!!
I agree with you that there's potential. I particularly see it in MorphOS: beautiful, usable, different, very responsive, and all on cheap hardware. Might be pushed as an alternative to Chromebooks, gaming, and design boxes that combines best features of each. Gets out of your way, bloatless, fast, supports key apps/features, fun side stuff, and doesn't spy on you. ;)

I also see a use in business. This comes from products like THEOS that are still around despite having almost no functionality haha. One selling point that product uses is that it doesn't run modern stuff. The reason? Productivity boost if you're mainly using it for line-of-business apps where people can't screw around because there's no software in it for doing so. So, above benefits to consumer applied to business scenario in companies that want work to get done and with OS more pleasant to work with.

So, these are two possibilities I see. Some possibilities in low-end market like OLPC project, too, but I haven't fleshed that out yet.
There's some evidence that being overweight (but not morbidly obese) is healthier. It's a dispute that's going to run for a while....

(1) The big fat truth
"More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life — but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them."

(2) Scientists now think that being overweight can protect your health

(1) http://www.nature.com/news/the-big-fat-truth-1.13039

(2) http://qz.com/550527/obesity-paradox-scientists-now-think-th...
> the basis of the right of self-determination, which is very dear to the Left.

That's an interesting perspective. I think of that as more libertarian and right-wing. In the U.S., those supporting states rights (over the federal government) are overwhelmingly on the right. The left is stereotyped as wanting a 'nanny state'.
You've also got the almighty gender disparity problem again, in reverse. Teaching and programming have almost mirror-opposite gender splits[1][2].

Without going into the debate about the programming gender disparity and lighting that fire, if you've got very few teachers from the subset of the population that for whatever reason correlates with computer programming, you're likely to end up with very few school teachers that are interested enough or qualified to teach it.

I thank my stars that my high-school chemistry teacher had sons that grew up in the Apple II era to be computer programmers and that she thought it was important enough to teach an elective in it.

[1]http://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-ge...
[2]http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/it-gender...
Here's the link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10719080
You may be the most MRI'd person ever. If nothing else that's pretty neat!
How would you rate a senior engineer's odds at qualifying for an O-1 visa? Can they get by on career/work history alone or does it require a level of public notoriety?
I am glad to see somebody write this because it still astonishes me that I'm faster than the computer. I don't want to wait before I'm ready to input things, I know it can work faster!

There are two sides to it - poor choices leading to performance issues, forcing the computer to wait, and also animations that completely halt UX until they are complete. Not much is more annoying than the seldom-overridden 300ms javascript click delay on touch devices, or the iOS animations that waste a lot of time.
How does one with a H1B, TN, H1B1, or E3 visa move from their current US employer and start their own company legally while living in the USA?
Are you sure that's not just the adderall? Asking mostly as a joke, but I know a few people who use it specifically for these purposes.
Excellent question. The answer is yes but substantial ownership is problematic in the PERM green card context, where it is not an issue - and in fact is often helpful - in the national interest waiver (NIW) and extraordinary ability (EB1A) green card contexts. Substantial ownership in the PERM context almost always will trigger an audit and substantial delays.
How would you know if a particular address receives cash in the mail?
> The obvious method to audit compliance against an emissions standard is to use the same test that the regulator does.

Sure, but those folks also have common sense, and experience. If engines with comparable power have 40x more emissions, you'd do well to understand where such a huge change comes from.

I've done some measurements as well as simulations in physics, and one of the first things you learn is to be suspicious of outliers, both of results that look like total garbage but shouldn't, and of "too good to be true" results.

The only way not to raise a red flag would be if all of the compliance engineers were new at their job. And that itself would be suspicious too.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

How would you recommend an H1B holder go about transitioning to founding/working for their own startup?
Looking at the stock chart in the article, "cool reaction from investors" they mention is a downward adjustment reversing most of Wednesday gains, but still putting each company above Tuesday close.

Was there another announcement Tuesday night, that set hopes high, with this one being a disappointment? What was the new information -- something about the structure of the new company perhaps?

Edit: Wednesday's article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/business/dealbook/dow-chem... -- mentions the future split into 3 companies; does not mention the layoff details or dual headquarters though :)
I used SML/NJ for a course I took last Fall. It was my first experience with ML other than looking over some sample code on the web. I'm not sure why, but my thought processes just work well with ML. Beautiful language. Very expressive while light on verbosity.

I heard an interview with Benjamin Pierce in which he extolled the virtues of the OCaml compiler. While he said that many other languages are interesting to him, OCaml is the go-to for getting stuff done.

Given people's comments and the linked post, my project for next Summer is going to be writing a compiler in OCaml for some simple language I'll define and implement.
Man this bothers me so much.

Some of my friends and even myself have gotten rejected in interviews , after answering all the questions , clearing all the tasks just because I presume we were not the geniuses they were looking for.

It's not enough to be good. You gotta be eye poppingly prodigiously awesome sauce at what you do.

You can be determined , driven whatever , they don't want you because you're at risk of turning out to be a B-Player.

This is almost a form of cognitive elitism.
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Book Review: Python Playground
Peter Thiel talked about this in Zero to One.

http://blakemasters.com/post/24578683805/peter-thiels-cs183-...
This segues to the pure celebrity version, best epitomized by Lady Gaga. Born This Way is her recent hit album and song. On one level, the whole thing is obviously completely fictional. It’s probably safe to say that she was not, in fact, born like this. The big piece must be nurture. But on another level, maybe it is nature. What sort of people would actually do this to themselves?

Yes, it's the choices people make and the drive they have that produces the talent. But isn't John Carmack's ability to push himself to that degree an outlier statistic in itself? Maybe he really was born that way.
The engineer who actually wrote the code was most likely ordered to do so, yes. ("write something to set a flag when the wheels are running but the hood is open, the GPS is silent and the accelerometers don't detect anything stronger than someone tapping at a window")

Most likely, that engineer was ordered by drumroll another engineer. If you trace up the the chain of command at VW, it's not unlikely that it is engineers all the way up until you reach the shareholders, and even there you will find a significant fraction of shares owned by engineers.
Owner of Ars Technica says something to the extent that people have installed adblockers because some sites they visit are too aggressive.

Hmm what sites are those ...pirated content streaming sites or bit torrent sites?
A survey.

Or, you know, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-report_study
What's insane is that I'm pretty sure Palantir still pays one of the top intern salaries at $7k/month ($42 an hour) - so it's surprising their full time salaries don't follow that trend.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/03/07/the-highes...
Another excellent question. Any compensation for services rendered - for productive work - must be specifically work authorized, so as a general rule selling a product created by you - whether it's an application or a widget - requires work authorization.
> 1. Uber actively solicits drivers to work certain hours and pays bonuses/hourly salaries to do so.

Do you mean surge pricing? Either way, this doesn't meet the bar of being an "employee." If you can work only 4 hours a week, then you are setting your own hours.

> 2. Uber, at least historically, has solicited drivers to travel outside their county

Define solicited. The law allows a company to encourage contractors to do certain things, but if it's not mandated then it's not instructions.

> all other equipment to facilitate the ride is provided by Uber

Uber does not always (or even usually) supply the iPhone. In fact, drivers have to pay Uber to rent an iPhone if they want it.[1] That's indicative of a contracting relationship.

The fact that Uber writes the software is immaterial: Uber is not contracting drivers to provide a ride-sharing service, it's contracting them to drive from point A to point B. The fact that Ebay provides the software for transacting on their marketplace doesn't make Ebay sellers employees.

> 4. It is my understanding Uber will finance vehicles for Uber drivers, making Uber the owner of the cars being used by Uber drivers in many cases.

While Uber does sometimes offer financing, that does not imply Uber owns the car. More importantly, this has no bearing on the majority of drivers who are driving non-Uber-financed cars.

> 5. Where ride sharing violates the law, ranging from traffic tickets to criminal arrests, Uber will pay for the Uber driver's lawyer.

Like you said, there is not caselaw determining this. But I don't agree that it necessarily implies an employment relationship.

If I, as a freelance developer, built a casino site for a client and was later charged in the lawsuit resulting from the operation of an online gambling site I would expect the client to offer assistance with legal counsel.

Also, do you have evidence of Uber paying for representation when it comes to non-ride-sharing traffic tickets?

[1] https://help.uber.com/h/1eaa91f9-be2e-463d-809a-df7e4cdeb593
> "By clicking the button _above_, you agree to receive promotional emails from OneDrive."

So, the button to the left shouldn't have any real effect?
> I'm just trying to encourage you to think about your deeply held assumption

What assumption are you talking about?

> I'm just claiming that the very idea that "[gender-associated] styles exist" is the most profound, insidious form of patriarchy there is.

The fact that they exist is certainly an aspect of patriarchy. The idea -- which is a necessary prerequisite to the ability to recognize, discuss, and alter the fact -- is not a form of patriarchy, on the contrary, the absence of the idea in presence of the fact would be make patriarchy unassailable.

> Again, I invite you to think about it.

I invite you to stop assuming that I haven't thought about this issue, quite deeply, for several decades.
Can I drive for lyft part time on an H1B?
Or just add a sentence of clarification to the website.
I think like oil, we'll keep finding new ways to dig deeper and get more out of it through innovations and new technologies, don't you agree?
I'm a single young male, it can easily raise eyebrows if I ever exhibit interest in being around young children. As another commenter mentioned though, maybe as an aspect of my youth, I don't even like children in general to begin with. Second, I have no idea how to teach someone that doesn't really want to learn and teach themselves -- I'll help anyone of any age who comes to me for help or guidance, but anything with groups where only 1/3 of them are paying full attention at any given time isn't for me. I can tell them all to work through Learn Python the Hard Way and help any individuals struggling, but they could just do that at home and get help on the internet or by live-chatting me/anyone else. I could give them all the work to make an LED blink on an embedded system, and a few of them might extend that to something more interesting, but that doesn't sound like something lasting. Lastly, I'm prone to explaining concepts in unconventional ways (as opposed to just repeating the textbook) which doesn't fit very well with a standardized curriculum that I'd need to be certified for to teach anything "serious" in a school setting as opposed to a random volunteer code camp.
Related, I think ...

I do not play video games at all, but somehow I was lead to the "mass effect" backstory which is fascinating.

I encourage anyone with an hour to kill to read:

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Sovereign

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Harbinger

It's quite detailed and entertaining. Yes, I am aware that it is based on some degree on Lovecraft.
>I say this a lot on HN: rural interests are urban interests.

No, they don't always align. There are different needs in rural areas and urban areas that compete with one another.

Transportation needs, for instance, are vastly different in rural Illinois than in Chicago. Farmers might lobby for more and bigger roads and dislike public transit because it doesn't make sense in their regions. Meanwhile people in Chicago want more and better transit. These needs compete for the same infrastructure dollars.

People in cities need to eat, but their interests are directly harmed by the various food price control mechanisms that the Feds put in place. Price floors, for instance, ensure that milk won't get too cheap. Who benefits? Farmers who couldn't compete at lower prices. Who loses? Every other person.

Cities can pollute rivers that farmers depend on or even dam them for power needs. They can seize agricultural land for urban needs like high speed rail or airports or landfills.

So no, urban and rural interests don't always align. There are quite a number of issues that can benefit one or the other but not both.

I don't agree with stacking the deck so that they get more power per capita.
With sufficiently networked cars, you can reduce the following distance between cars and significantly reduce the drag coefficient.

(Obviously there are safety issues, but we're playing the 'cars are smart enough to make everything perfectly safe' game)
Flew to Orlando from PA. Drive time would be 15 hours. Flight time is 2.25 hours. Left for airport at 7:30 am arrived home 8:45 pm (Traffic and just getting there 1.5 hours early and a non-direct flight)

I saved 3.5 hours, but cost me hundreds of dollars. I think self-driving cars will change the way we travel to things on land that are 16 hours of driving or less.
I'd say an even bigger problem is simply that the installations aren't very good.

If Tesla had gone with CHAdeMO and put up 50kW CHAdeMO Superchargers everywhere, that would make road trips somewhat more annoying, but it would still be doable. You don't get to charge at 120kW all the time anyway, since the charge rate tapers off as the battery gets full, and temperature matters. It would definitely slow you down, and I'm glad they didn't do this, but I think it would still work.

But if you try to do a road trip on CHAdeMO as it stands, it's a major crapshoot. The stations are almost always single units. That means that if it's occupied or broken, you could be in trouble. There are a lot of stations that only do 20-25kW, some by design, some because they're half-broken. Often they're not maintained well, so they can remain broken or half-broken for months.

Contrast with Superchargers, where they almost always have 4-8 stalls and are maintained such that you can count on them.
> they only make what WE want to eat

This is the same justification for every consumable. If people didn't want X, companies wouldn't make X.

Calling companies out for increasing our desire for their products, especially when that desire goes against our better interests (mental and physical health, in particular), is not unfair, it's smart. It gets people thinking about what they're doing and why so they can make better decisions, even when all the advertisement (obvious or not) is directing them away from what they should be doing.
> Drivers get punished if they don't work certain hours

Where is the evidence of that? I've ridden with plenty of Uber drivers who only drive a few hours a week.

> they don't get to set their own rates

This is far from being a dominant factor in employment status. If I offer a job for a fixed rate on Upwork and hire a contractor to do it, the fact that we didn't negotiate the rate doesn't make them an employee.
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Such research scanners exist in the US as well.

None of this is clinically relevant, and none of it is US specific.

To be fair, the SAR problems become bigger at bigger fields too, which is related to what you are talking about. It's not really sensible to talk about this as a "problem of bigger fields" because it is there for all systems, and furthermore is also pulse-sequence dependent. By which I mean you may have a pulse sequence that is fine at 3T but woudl be dangerous at 7T, or 7T -> 10T or whatever.
How does H1B and remote work? Say, can I work in Nashville remotely from home for a company in San Francisco and have a valid case for getting H1B?
Where are they now? 10 Pre-Series A Companies in New York from June 2013
Given that unikernels are very different from one another, it depends on exactly which one.
Initial admission as a B-2/WT tourist allows the individual also to engage in B-1/WB business visitor activities, such as participating in a program like YC, but the facts here do matter, such as what was represented by the person when he or she initially was admitted.
Surprisingly enough, in most of his stories, the chaos from outside is contained. Notably in the Call of Cthlhu, The Dunwich Horror, and the Case of Charles Dexter Ward, where people spring into action once the threat has emerged. The difference between Ghostbusters and Lovecraft's work (outside of being a comedy) is the reaction. In Ghostbusters, they're presented as flawed noble heroes, striving against everything to defeat an evil. In Lovecraft's work, they're presented as individuals who are doing what must be done to contain the ever-present threat. The difference between Gozer and Cthulhu is that Gozer is a one time threat, whereas Cthulhu is always there.
> Surely an infinite universe that contained infinite horror would also contain infinite bliss, ecstasy, and love on scales only previously imagined by the Brahmin.

I think it scales, but it's not always obvious how to deploy into production. It takes patience, practice, determination, and the willingness to read the docs. I recommend compiling from source with the Buddhist "Pali Cannon".
This doesn't prove that Disney hasn't benefited enormously from extended copyright terms. Their stock growth is huge since '88, but it's impossible to say how much of that growth would have occurred without their copyright [0]. We can speculate, but it's hard to even imagine how Disney would be different today without certain copyrights. That's why I was looking for a comparable media empire internationally.

[0] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:DIS
What are the options for an h1b who wants to start up?

we can't lose our jobs to maintain the h1b status. will yc care that we are not working on the idea fulltime by the time of applying to yc? (will certainly quit the job if accepted to yc.)

what are the common attitudes of companies, like google, microsoft, apple, facebook, toward employee moonlighting?
I see what you mean, but I've learned several languages using Pimsleur and native speakers are almost always shocked at how well I can speak their language.
> Hmm what sites are those

My local newspaper is pretty bad. ABP blocks 16 items on this page: http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/

On mobile those 16 items really suck. They use energy which means I need to recharge sooner; they use expensive bandwidth; they use processor power on my underpowered phone. And all I want to do is to read the article (And I'm happy to pay to do that. There's currently no way for me to pay and have the ads turned off.)
What process would you recommend for a startup looking to relocate software developers immediately from the UK to the US?

The H1B process officially kicks off in April, so am interested to hear about types of contractual agreements that might allow employment from now for the next twelve months whilst processing is underway.
This will lead to a lot of carbs, some protein, and not enough fat. Consider looking into the Keto Diet. Lots of people are restricting carbs while being liberal with fat, successfully lowering their weight and having more energy. I'm one of those people. The trick is that fat consumption doesn't lead to weight gain. It's glucose production from carbs and sugars that leads to weight gain.
That's a problem with being first adopter: the considerable investment in early infrastructure leaves you with early infrastructure which is hard & expensive to replace, contrasted with later adopters who take advantage of scale, lessons, and bypassing incremental steps.
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There are lots of visa options dependent on a variety of factors such as country of citizenship, amount and source of funding, ownership structure. But often there is a solution.
Sigh. Nevermind then. Sorry for pointlessly rising your blood pressure.

(And to all, for bikeshedding this thread.)
We hear a lot about the limited # of H1B visas available, about how it functions as a lottery, etc... What are common issues with the H1B application process that don't receive as much public attention?
Not defending this trend, and I also fall into the non-geniuses category, but it kinda makes sense that just "determinations" sometimes won't get too far and it makes more business sense to find someone "smarter" to solve a problem, and also less risky for the employer
Hi Peter – as H1B / E3 visa holders are only allowed to work for the company sponsoring them, are these holders able to provide contract work (separate to their regular work) to clients either in or out of the US provided the work is conducted and billed via a registered business entity in their home (or another non-US) country?
this. I'm in the process of co-founding a startup. My co-founder is on an H-1B and it's probably the thing that comes up the most in "how are we going to make this work?". What are the capital/other requirements necessary to transfer/file for their H-1B by the startup?
How can I develop confidence as a startup CEO