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Critics have charged that H visa guest worker programs are subsidies to the already rich holders of enough capital to influence inside the beltway politics. They say that the program is designed to keep wages down and facilitates outsourcing. Are the current laws also a subsidy to the legal industry who get to charge for an overly complicated process?
Email me your address on mritun@gmail.com and I shall mail you a DVD with whatever you need.
So these changed employment relationships guarantee employment for every citizen in the US? Interesting concept.
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This is what it looks like to play 8-player co-op Mario on an NES
other people have definitely spent more time in a scanner than I have - what's different about this study is how systematic we were, and all of the other things we recorded
Why 3-time? How long is O-1 valid before it expires?
The short answer is no - although there can be exceptions when the only beneficiary of this work is outside the US.
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I see something in there about a "hunchback battery", but where's the "debacle"?
I think the future of transit is no transit. I.e. VR from home in a virtual office where you interact with other VR-from-home coworkers. I don't think people are ready for this right now, but maybe in 1-2 generations. It's not uncommon for people to feel closer to chat friends than real-life neighbors.
If I were to take a year off school right now, can I still get a J1 for an internship this summer?

Also just wanted to say thanks for doing this.
When all of the "kernel" exists to service that single application alone, does it matter? Where does the kernel start and the application/libraries end? Who says that a protection barrier is even best suited for every application at what is typically the syscall level?

Yes, you can add protection barriers (at least if the underlying HW supports it), but I have trouble imagining what you'd really gain. Maybe, if we assume the cloud, if you restrict the hypercalls to the "kernel", you can add some extra fences an attacker would need to go through to attack the hypervisor, but that barrier would not be at the normal user/kernel separation in a general purpose OS.
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no MRS data, alas.

there is a lot of interesting stuff in the metabolic and RNA-seq data. metabolomics was mostly related to food and sleep, whereas gene expression was related to psoriasis severity and brain connectivity. Hard to know what to make of all of the relations but they definitely tell us that there is some interesting stuff in there.
Thanks for the reply, I (and others, I'm sure) appreciate you taking the time to answer these questions!
True, it needs to be a safe prime, but not all 2048-bit safe primes are equally good. At the very least there are those for which the Special Number Field Sieve applies, though that's likely still infeasible.

There might be very rare 2048-bit DH groups using safe primes for which the DLP problem is easily solvable, I wasn't able to find any research into whether or not those can exist.
Ok, we took 'anyone' out of the title above.
If that's the full quote, then he hasn't thought it all the way through:

> The universe is thirty billion light years across and every inch of it would kill us if we went there. This is the position of the universe as regards human life. And here we are.
There often are lots of options depending on the nationality of the company and transferring employees, the amount and source of any investment, etc. but the options typically are the E-1, E-2, and L-1 visas.
In the 90's when I first became old enough to vote and interested in politics I was on the Libertarian band wagon with what most would consider down right hippies. Admittedly the biggest part of the agenda was legalizing marijuana but there were older, smarter people than me involved who knew exactly who Ron Paul was and what he stood for and fully backed him for president when he ran as a Libertarian against Clinton.

My view at the time was that Libertarians were fiscally conservative and critical of large government while at the same time leftist in their view of individual rights and freedoms. Kind of a "stay out of my wallet and my bedroom" attitude.

But that's not really the mainstream view anymore and as many center oriented Republicans have stated I think a lot of 90's Libertarians feeling is that they didn't leave the Libertarian party so much as it left them.
It costs ~300$ to drive 1,000 miles. So, I don't think a few hundred is for a ticket is actually more expensive.
Good for Mozilla, putting their money where their mouth is and setting an example. It would be great if they or someone with sufficient reputation setup a way to make it easy for others to contribute financially to FOSS projects, a central payment clearinghouse.

In my for-profit organization, we thought we should contribute to the free / open source projects that we were using and which were helping us make money. We wanted to pay our share.

We started by putting together a list, and that's pretty much where it ended. The list was enormous. Try it yourself, and don't forget the components of other products that are FOSS. EDIT: Here's Mozilla's attempt at making such a list, which they label "incomplete":

https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS/Projects_in_use_by_Mozilla

On one hand, it reflects the incredible contribution of FOSS software. On the other there was no way, in a busy workplace, we were going to spend days tracking down all those FOSS developers, finding ways to send them money, and implementing it.
The answer to your question was actually the basis of the original Ponzi scheme: An International Reply Coupon.
L1 related. What should I do if I want to go work for a different company but am currently on an L1-A visa (been here in the USA for 3 years).
Do you mean it depends on one's accomplishments within a company? What would be good examples of eligible corporate accomplishments from an O-1 or EB1 application perspective? And would getting accepted into YC be an eligible accomplishment for these?
You all over think everything on this forum. I guess that's part of the beauty of it and likely how some people get stuck doing nothing.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this session! My question relates to techniques and probabilities of getting H1B visa for potential hires. We are a 5 year old profitable start-up with more than $1 million in revenue...how hard would it be for us to sponsor a potential new engineering hire for the visa process? I understand that it can cost $4k in the application and X in legal fees ($5k?) which we would be ok with.

My questions are (a) what are the actual chances of success given the lottery system process for sponsoring an employee for the H1B visa, and (b) are we limited in the # of applications?
Meta question: Do the US immigration laws make sense?
I think that that's a fair criticism of every benefit that the government offers that requires legal assistance to obtain, whether an immigration benefit or not.
underground evacuated chamber?
"Everybody else was breaking the law too" is not a valid excuse for breaking the law.
What about a BTC address worth 50¢? 8D
3 years term per approval. But you have to apply again every time you change jobs. I started with one company, then was founder of a startup, re-applied there, and moved it to another company.

Re-applying is easier once you've been approved once.
The article is over a decade old, I suspect it's less than half now.
Procrastinate until you have to do your work.
Farmers, or their lobbyists, would be well-advised to get very busy pressuring congress to block this. If Dow and DuPont successfully merge the control of major seed will be down to two mega-corporations; the other being Monsanto. Future prices and controls will become even less favorable for farmers. A quote from a CEO I knew: "Mergers benefit at most one CEO and a minority of stock-holders -- everyone else involved suffers, employees especially"
> did his high math regression analysis thing, put the data in the computer, and out comes this bell shaped curve where the perfect amount of sweetness, not too little, not too much, is at the very top of the curve

What is High Math, exactly?
>even better

It's the polar opposite of what flying cars promised. Flying cars promised unprecedented degrees of freedom. You could hop into your private aircraft and fly everywhere you want unimpeded by the usual hurdles of road traffic.

Self driving cars take the common freedom of owning a personal vehicle away from the individual. Private transportation will be transformed from a thing you own to a service that you subscribe to. You probably won't even be able to choose your preferred route anymore, at least not without addition expense.

I'm not being negative. Just pointing out the difference between the two.
Yeah, it's a fantastic step and we're very happy they piloted the program. The Django Software Foundation has also hired a part-time fundraiser to try and make the project self-sustaining; we're trying to make the project sustainable as a whole and not just a timesink for those who are lucky enough to have unpaid spare time.
What If I'm a genius of working hard?
I wonder what happens if that text message is intercepted; can someone claim the money before the rightful recipient?
> when you get laid off like this it is normal to get between 2 to 3 months salary as severance.

[citation needed]
Or revolutionary when applied to the left..
I work at a hedge fund and spend most of my time shorting stocks, especially healthcare/biotech/pharma stocks given the plethora of fraudulent companies in that space. I remember reading about Theranos several years even though it's private, and thinking there is no way this thing is not a fraud. I predict this will eventually be revealed as the biggest fraud ever in silicon valley. It just checks off way too many fraud boxes, based on my personal pattern recognition.
Here's a full list of Mozilla's first round of MOSS grants:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/12/10/mozilla-open-source...
File both valid JavaScript and valid CSS
I don't know of a way to give directly to an individual, but I know of Zidisha[0] where you can lend directly.

[0] https://www.zidisha.org/
They're indigenous to a part of modern day Russia. Based on their genetic composition and linguistics (as well as their own distribution) they likely migrated from central Asia northwards, to Siberia, northern Russia, Finland, northern Sweden, etc... The other major Uralic group (Magyars/Hungarians) went south, joined with Khazar groups, and eventually spread to modern day Hungary.

No archaeologist or historian doubts that Slavs are indigenous to the territory that is modern western Russia/Belarus/Ukraine...
Can you recommend some immigration resources for self-service? I am a Canadian who is seeking better work opportunities State side, with a Bachelors in Computer Science and 3 years of experience. I wonder if flying down with the intent of networking and finding companies to meet is a good and realistic way of meeting employers and lining up interviews.
>I think that there are natural factors that come into play

Isn't that what people mean when they talk about a natural? I always thought it meant that given the same drive/effort, they are able to go far beyond the average.
Here's the question that you need to ask yourself: The cheating that VW did allowed them get an emissions score that is an order of magnitude lower than the truth. Now, if everyone else was being honest, either A) their performance would be an order of magnitude lower than VW's, or B) everyone else has discovered magical technology that VW lacks. Neither of those things is happening. The conclusion is obvious: everybody is cheating, and they always have been. I mean, a hack of this magnitude wouldn't be performed without management approval from top to bottom, and let's face it, the only way management would have the balls to do something like this is if it were industry standard practice.
Some do and some don't, but this is a very long conversation and probably not possible at this time. At a minimum I feel that there should some type of entrepreneurial visa and there isn't, even though the E-2 can sometimes function like one.
Some do and some don't but this is a very long conversation and probably not possible at this time although at a minimum I feel that there should some type of entrepreneurial visa and there isn't even though the E-2 can sometimes function like one.
I donate monthly automatically, and Wikipedia still nags me. Oh well, that's what Stylish is for.
Is Uber trying to pull a fast one on its drivers?
That's the current M.O.
See, that's the thing. These days you need to hurry up to get the to airport hours before your flight, then wait. Etc...

I do this a lot flying to Ottawa. Leave at 6am, get home at 10:00pm. I'd consider driving if the car was autonomous.
Very exciting news. The Channels project within Django is one of the most anticipated future projects and the Django REST framework has been a essential add-on to Django for a long time now
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Nazi propaganda is illegal in Germany. That's pretty much all there is to it.
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Yes this is helpful and inspiring.

Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen this resource before!
I said predacious monopoly. There is an important distinction between a company with monopoly status because they provide the highest value among options freely chosen by consumers and a company with monopoly status because they are benefactors of anti-competitive governmental policies.

Google is dominant in US search, but they aren't really a monopoly. They have formidable competitors who hold nearly 1/3 of the US market. Of Google's service got really bad,I can switch my default search engine to a respectable competitor in a matter of seconds.

I certainly wasn't implying that Uber doesn't benefit from network effects and can't establish long-term dominance like Google, but if they are solely a consumer chosen "monopoly", there really isn't anything to fear. The concern is that Uber will do as taxi companies did before them and lobby for anti-competitive regulatory favors. I expect this will be the case, but this predacious form of monopoly cannot be achieved without the help of governmental regulation.
Jane Street is a major user/sponsor of Ocaml.
That's the crux of it alright. I myself am completely torn.

On the one hand, there's something to be said for owning your transportation outright and being able to do whatever you want with your vehicle.

When you rent it on-demand, there's major tradeoffs. Safety will likely improve dramatically with self-driving vehicles. That's an amazing thing. But it will go under-appreciated by anyone who gets a vehicle where the previous occupant smelled funny, left crap in the car, etc. Basically all the downsides of a cab will be translated to your personal vehicle.
Why would you have an automated motorway? Why not have rail instead and get a self driving cab from the terminal to your final destination. Self driving cars make more sense for short distances.
We were just talking about this at the office this week and came to a similar conclusion. However, someone pointed out later that you could have a valid Secret Santa configuration that was not a Hamiltonian Path - you could have two (non-overlapping) paths and still have a valid secret santa:
For people A B C D E F, you could have the graph covered by two separate circuits:

A->B->C->A

D->E->F->D

Unfortunately real-life intervened and we didn't have time to decide if this was an NP complete problem or not...
It does not only change the spin, it can also change the movement of the electrons inside the orbital (oppose manetic field) and when entering a magnetic field the gradient can cause nerve/synapse(?) excitation because of the induced electric field.
Don't hide that a project was a group project - that's a good thing. Use it to your advantage. You worked well with people, you took ownership, you distributed tasks and managed the workflow.

Don't put down technologies you don't know but lets say you can write something in javascript.. like an anagram generator. In that case you can put javascript even if you don't know node, angular, react, etc.
Get that into 80 chars or less and we'll use it.
Alibaba - the new Yahoo!
You also have to validate the generator, which is trickier than the prime.
I very much agree.

Compared to Lovecraft, most "horror authors" would have a hard time trying to scare a baby into giving up its candy.
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(Mithril author here)

I think perception plays a big role. There are fairly large and high traffic apps[1] built w/ Mithril, but when someone is taking a risk to learn a new thing (and there's a lot of that in js), of course something used by google or facebook feels "safer" to learn than something used by mashape, guild wars 2 or lichess. I've seen the "might no longer be supported later" fear being mentioned more than a few times, even though the reality is that it's not really a solo project anymore - it has almost a hundred contributors - and has a fairly sizeable ecosystem[2][3]. There are even Mithril jobs[4] out there.

Another somewhat ironic issue is that Mithril's main appeal is its lack of ceremony. It doesn't ask you to drink the revolutionary koolaid of "bi-directional data binding" or "immutable unidirectional data flow" or whatever other fanciness you can explain to others to make yourself look good. It's just a tool to get stuff done. And even though that's an important metric, it's not exactly newsworthy.

re: ES6: to clarify, you can use ES6 w/ Mithril. The issue in question has to do w/ trying to shoehorn ES6 classes to be components (which are normally plain objects in Mithril). Things like arrow functions actually make things cleaner in places where you'd otherwise use a .bind for example.

[1] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/wiki/Who-Uses-Mithril

[2] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/wiki/Community-Projects

[3] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/wiki/Components

[4] https://github.com/lhorie/mithril.js/wiki/JOBS
What's the current status of the OPT extension? I'm a co-founder of a startup that I started during my 12 months of OPT and its about time to apply for the extension, however I recently realized there'd been some changes to it.

Should I apply now for the extension or do I have to wait until further policies are put in place?
IANAL but it seems it's 3 months per visit, which accounts for time spent in Mexico, Canada and nearby islands (so that doesn't count as starting another visit). http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/visit/visa-waiver-p...
I guess Twitter really wants to send you spam!

1. update twitter account to use a spam-proof SharkLasers email (click OK, confirm password)

2. Twitter sends automated email confirmation link to SharkLasers, click the link on SharkLasers website

3. Twitter locks the account
A lot of the comments seem to be mad about both/either of:

1) Apple putting out an aesthetically ugly product

2) The stupidity of not just keeping the phone 1mm thicker and thus having a higher mAh battery in the first place, necessitating this accessory
In Toronto we have the collector/express system for the 401, it is still a mess: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Highway_...

At a certain scale congestion is inevitable, whether automated or not, faster traffic will eventually need to merge with slower traffic...
Aye, it does work out to about $100k per employee, but you have to remember that not all employees are equal in pay or severance. Applying a generous 70/30 rule (80/20 would be harsher), that is a lot of life changing for $30k for the bulk of the people.
That's still n=1. It might just be that you're particularly good at language acquisition, and you'll succeed no matter what method you use.
It seems to me that there is plenty of blame to go around. Engineers, managers, executives should all shoulder some blame.

The engineers that are actual Professional Engineers (ie the P.Eng. folks) should lose their professional standing. If a medical doctor lied and deceived patients, they should face severe repercussions. Professional engineers share similar ethical responsibilities.
Well, there's not been any tanks yet, but the only reason they gave a vote was that they thought they'd narrowed the options down sufficiently that they'd win soundly and have a mandate. A bit of a political miscalculation. As is the offering of a vote on the EU to avoid the right wing splintering, yet the business interests the conservatives represent don't want that to happen and the voter intention, once again, is not doing what was expected.

There's a reason that even members of his own party consider David Cameron to be a) winging it, b) very lucky.

We'd likely have seen the ugly side of the UK state if the vote had gone against them, they were already openly threatening to financially ruin an independent Scotland.
The point I'm trying to make is that you can audit some copy of the Telegram source code all you want, you have no idea if that's what's deployed in the app store and thus what's on everyone's phone. So it makes sense to audit what's actually being distributed to end users.
Coverage in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/12/business/dealbook/alibaba-...
Hi Peter,

I'm a Canadian and I had an H-1B several years ago. I used about 2.5 years of it and left US in summer 2011 before using up the full 3 years.

Am I eligible to come back on H-1B without lottery by claiming the remainder time? I read something about this online saying that I can come back on H-1B before 6 years past the date I left US?

Thanks!
There are 50 million languages, platforms, frameworks, databases, etc. It gets really old just seeing the same articles rehashed with different nouns, like so many technology mad libs. Likewise, I honestly could care less about startup/vc drama.

The thing that keeps me coming back to hacker news are posts about cutting edge engineering/science, how to be a better hacker/maker/productive person in general, and interesting new perspectives on life/politics/social institutions.
All work must be authorized, so work for a side company must be work authorized, although it's possible to hold both full-time and part-time H-1Bs or O-1 or TNs with multiple companies. The criteria for O-1 classification are listed on USCIS's web site - too much to note here - but as a general rule, if a company is doing well, then it's relatively easy to get an O-1.
Alianbrain was really popular for games a while back, not sure it if fell-out of favor for. http://www.alienbrain.com/
When working for your own company (a Delaware C-Corp) on OPT there is some language in the policy about having to be an employee, but that you can also work for yourself. Is being a founder enough to stay in status without technically paying yourself minimum wage and being on the payroll? And does this apply to the extension too?
I had the same thought as GP as well. Could you not implement some of the "disguise-as-honeypot" features (such as setting the name to "HoneyTrap" or "Error: rand...") in addition to the normal security features?
Ethical Outsourcing(?)
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Sure, but don't discount what he's saying. If you help your community get back on its feet, then fewer tax dollars need to go in to your community to support it. This might lead to additional governmental foreign aid.

At least once a year (I wish I did it more often) I donate food to the local food banks.