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Good news but won't apply to a lot of H4 visa holders.

It's only applicable to those folks who have been on H1B over 6 years OR have an approved I-140.

For those who don't know, employment based green card has three stages

1. Labor Certification (PERM)

2. Immigrant Petition for Alien Worker - I-140 - This stage checks whether the company filing your petition is legitimate and there is no fraud.

3. Application to register permanent residence - I-485. This stage checks whether the person applying has a good character, is not criminal etc. etc.

Getting through 1st and 2nd stage takes 1 to 3 years. It's the 3rd stage which has a long wait, mainly for people from India or China.

See: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/law-and-policy...

As per that link, USCIS is processing cases of folks who applied in 2007 (for EB2) and 2004 (for EB3).

This is definitely a huge relief for those folks who have decided to apply for permanent residency and have been stuck in stage 3 for many years.

P.S.: I know about this because I am from India and went through a grueling 10 year immigration process to get my green card.
I commute by bike, and agree that it's probably more efficient than skating, but I'd probably put some skates on and use this path in the winter just to change things up a bit. Ice skates are actually pretty darn efficient. Much more so than roller or inline skates.
Thank you, that looks like a very useful website :)
I think there is a difference labeling yourself a generalist here on HN, and with a respective client.
The maximum grant you'll get from the government is about 6k. Anything beyond that is typically the school giving a scholarship or a third party scholarship. And schools typically use a different formula for need aid that doesn't presume you are independent at age 24.
They've sold over a million watches at a retail price of $100-$200
Theoretically this is a big problem on shared hosts, no? Since they share the same memory, you could potentially compromise other users of the host? Or is it locked at a virtual level?
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“It is more useful to look at what the power system needs in terms of energy, capacity, and flexibility and what the best resource mix is,” explained American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) Research Director Michael Goggin, “rather than categorizing resources with terms like base-load that aren’t well-defined and don’t sync up that well with what grid operators actually need.”
alternative: take fewer classes.
The demographics feel very different. Is it meant to compete with Apple Watch, or with Android Wear?
Assuming this is a serious question, you can hire whoever you want without worrying about their location. The world is your talent pool.

Or to put it another way, almost every recruiter e-mail I respond to states that I am not interested in relocating (usually to the bay area). Requiring all of your employees to sit in the same building is not just old fashioned, it misses out on talent that chooses to live elsewhere.
Austin's metro economy is currently insufficiently developed (that is, it hasn't found a way yet to geographically lock in any desirable, large-scale economic network effects) to support the kind of globally-unique signature metro economy associated with the metro areas like NYC, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, etc. Those signature economies can support the kinds of incomes it takes to regularly yield six-figure bidding gaps.
I also recommend people try startpage.com
I believe that is an intended purpose of go-qml, yes.
The annoying thing is that, even if we prevent them from harvesting data on us, there's nothing to prevent them from convincing our friends/parents/coworkers from sharing that information on our behalves.
> FOSS fanboyism that rules HN.

It's this, people HATE when you criticize FF (as I found the other week when I got downvoted for raising, what I thought were, valid points about crashes, lockups, and not being multi-process). I upvoted you and your parent but it won't be enough to stem the tide of downvotes (this is probably going to get downvoted as well).
Thanks, I'd forgot about that.
There are no non-leaky zero-cost abstractions - there is no such thing as a free lunch (hah!).

Good abstractions come at a cost. You'll need more CPU power, but it becomes easier to write, read and maintain your code.

If performance becomes an issue, rewrite the critical sections to make less use of abstractions. If performance is a massive issue and it's not doable in a high-level language, then don't use a high-level language.

If CPU power stagnates, it doesn't matter. There is, and always will be, a place for abstractions, no matter what overhead they have.

JavaScript is very efficient in some respects: it trades off speed and memory usage for programmer productivity, safety, security and portability.
Yeah, tup is neat. Much lower friction than the equivalent Makefiles as it can auto-detect dependencies and outputs in many cases. We've run into a couple issues, but for the most part it's been smooth sailing.
Some of the Android Wear devices support standard 22mm bands as well. I had a custom one on my LG G Watch, but am staying with the stock band with the Moto 360 (since the one it shipped with is actually quite nice)
Definitely. During the time it took me to watch the video, the counter went up 100,000$
Have you ever seen a normal watch? Like a Wal-Mart, off-the-shelf Timex? They're hideous. Absolutely atrocious. If people want a nice looking watch, they buy a Rolex or a Tag. What people get from a Timex is a functional watch that is easy to read, relatively oops-resistant (can take some damage and go under water without breaking), and has some features they really need. A $500 Rolex probably doesn't have a stopwatch with a lap counter, but that $10 Timex sure does.

There's precedent in the watch-world to not care what the watch looks like. Watches are not always fashion items, which is why the watch section exists in Wal Mart. I keep hearing people say "it doesn't look as nice as the Apple Watch or Android Wear" (personally, the Apple Watch looks awful), but if you're looking for features over fashion, this is the device for you.
I agree that Kickstarter isn't a store. It's an informercial platform optimized for hype and maximally dumping risks onto your customers.

I am a fan of Pebble, but I find this campaign on Kickstarter (after an already successful Kickstarter and three years of continued success), to be both excellent marketing and an utter disgrace to the goals that Kickstarter once stood for.
There seems to be two types of people here who like/dislike it. With few services they love the new design, and with a lot they hate it. The Android app was also updated to the square icons on the bottom, the drawer was much better if you had a lot of services added.
There is a possibility to share statistical analysis of data privately. This is the subfield of computer science known as differential privacy, and I bet companies just looking for trend data (not specific targeting) would be able to benefit from user data without compromising user privacy.

In other words, there are good and bad ways to use user data, some of the good ones are provably private, and we shouldn't rule out all data sharing as inherently evil.
> What's next, artisanally-crafted pocket knives?

You can spend a pretty penny on pocket knives.
Bring in a partner. If you find the right partner and give them 25-50% of the business (or earn-in over time/vesting) then your pie can grow. I have free time if it's valuable, a lot of other people would love to work 5-10 hours/week for 1-3k/month, especially if they knew it could grow!
Or save the token in an encrypted password manager so you can retrieve it later
From HN Submission Guidelines: 'Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.' https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I think it's the other way around. Landlords know you can't buy, that you're forced to rent, so they can charge more than you would pay if you had a mortgage.

On the subject of the landlords mortgage. There's a couple of things at play here. Most of them bought property at significantly lower prices. My previous landlord bought the property i lived in for £270k in the early naughties. It's now worth over £800k. So not only does he have more than £500k profit in the house, he gets to charge "fair" rent which is orders of magnitude greater than his mortgage payments.

My landlord has 50 properties.

Another trend I'm seeing is landlords with the capital buying properties with short leases. Basically, if the lease on the property is less than 70 years, you can't get a mortgage. So there are houses out there on sale for basically half their market value, that first time buyers can't get to. Despite the fact that the cost of increasing the lease is nominal when compared to the actual value of the property.

Everything is stacked against the renters and first time buyers, while private landlords are afforded all kinds of opportunities.
The site's not loading for me in Germany :( Google Cache also didn't do anything, besides load the bare HTML page.
Out of curiosity, how much do you think it costs to hire a top industrial design firm?
Really symptomatic of the way the JDC works.
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Social Security and Medicare are also essentially longevity insurance, which is extremely valuable.

Since one can't predict with any confidence how long one will live beyond 'probably 50-110 years if I don't get hit by a car', retirement savings is much easier when there is a government-provided income floor in case of mistakes in retirement planning. Otherwise, how do you choose between saving enough that you're 80% or 90% or 95% or 99% or 99.9% sure that you'll have enough income for the rest of your life? And if you wish to buy such insurance (an annuity) in the private market, how do you spread risk so that you don't face risk that the company will fail? And how do you make sure that any financial adviser you have doesn't exploit you as you decline mentally?

Or do you just save single penny possible and never consume anything? Buy an apartment building and hope like hell your neighborhood doesn't decline? Buy a portfolio of widespread rental houses and try to manage them when you're 85 and have cancer? Hope your children are loyal? Or spread risk by having 6 or more children?

Historical experience suggests the outcome of attempts to leave such complexities to individuals is widespread poverty amongst the elderly.

And that's not even getting into the question of whether we have a global savings glut. Safe investments are getting awfully expensive, with negative interest rates on some government and corporate bonds being sighted lately.
These aren't naive phased arrays systems and if the performance really were worse as you imply no one would use MIMO.
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Across the board, you need to prioritize.

Do you need to "manage sales", if your current userbase is already overhwelming? Or can you find someone to to that work for you, and be paid on commission only?

Can you outsource at least the intial response to support tickets, so you only need to worry about 2nd tier responses?

Are you prioritizing new coding toward reducing support tickets?

Is there any automation that can be done to streamline your daily tasks, either for school or for this work?

Frankly, can you slack off on your schoolwork a bit? Unless you plan on grad school, your final GPA at college is not really all that important. (Within reason -- drop from a 3.5 to a 3.0 is OK, but from a 3.5 to a 2.0 might be a mistake.)

Can you reduce your monthly personal expenses, to help afford to hire someone? Are these other ways to simplify your personal life?

In general, you need to performance tune your life. Fix all the small stuff before worrying about major changes.
What kind of cat do you? Mine a persian with long hair and I groom him every day (10 minutes with a metal comb) so he leave less furr around the flat.

The bedroom is the only room he's not allowed, although sometimes he does manage to sneak in. On those occasions I'll probably change the bedding just to be safe.

I have an okay diet, but nothing special.
I couldn't disagree more about the access to talent section. While many engineers are willing to relocate to the bay area, many also are not. Right now, it is pretty saturated. There is also a missing part of your function, # of good positions with other companies. When you move to the bay area, because of the saturation of engineers, the lowest hanging fruit for many is to poach engineers who work at other companies. You are going to have much, much more competition for your engineers in SV than virtually anywhere else in the world. Your example of Waterloo proved it is a great place to bring in talented engineers with RIM, even if they didn't hold on to their dominant position.
Thanks! :) The seal is our mascot, it's a Saimaa ringed seal from Finland. Btw, it's the most endangered seal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saimaa_ringed_seal) in the world, there are only 310 of them left. It was separated from the other seals when the land rose after the last ice age.
KickStarter: Why do schools have military weapons?
That appears to be David Baron, of Mozilla.
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New York Magazine, not NYT. NYMag is not affiliated. Someone else here confused it with the New Yorker. NYMag is a light entertainment/gossip magazine with NY coverage. Nobody takes NYMag seriously.
The appeal of mechanical watches is the idea that there's this beautiful mechanical machine inside (often visible through a transparent crystal back) which is powering the watch, either through a hand-wound mechanism or by converting the kinetic energy of your wrist's movement into potential energy stored in a spring. Mechanical watches are jewelry, and they're designed to appeal not just to the eyes but also to the mind.

This Pebble is 100% function over form. It's far more useful than a $2k Nomos, but also far less beautiful. It's not something I would ever cherish, or keep for decades, or pass down to grandchildren. I would never look at it and marvel at how it manages to work. I would never love it. But it would be useful.

The Apple Watch is likely something of a middle ground. It's prettier on the outside, but there's nothing interesting about the inside. The Moto 360 sits in this same category as well.
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Are you saying young males caused the change in culture by being more easily separated from their money? I guess that's possible. But if skaters really threw away their "meritocratic" culture in order to chase money, I wouldn't hold the community up as a model to follow.
> Works with iPhone, Samsung and Android.

So I guess I won't be buying this one either, doesn't work with my 1520!
Yep, it's a GIF of the app..
I was pretty excited to read some more information about this development which was first discussed back in 2013 [1], but I haven't really been able to find any new information because the original story is paywalled [2].

One annoying thing about all of the articles is that they all use old press images of Gehry and Zuckerberg looking at models of the new Facebook campus rather than the discussed apartment complex which is misleading for people unfamiliar with the campus' design.

EDIT: For those interested, here's 'West Campus' under construction. It will connect to the main campus via a converted drainage under the 84 parallel to Willow Road: http://binged.it/1zDxmE0

[1]: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/04/facebook-building-its-ow...

[2]: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Americas...
I really just want a "normal" watch that has some "smart" features. I already have a sports tracker (Garmin Forerunner), and I have given up wearing my Moto360 because it's almost never useful in compelling enough ways that I don't just pull my phone out after seeing a notification ... and I have to charge it nightly.
In Firefox, HTTP responses using SPDY will have an added X-Firefox-Spdy header you can see in the inspector.
This could make the backhaul problem even worse- because in order to get that 35x bandwidth , you have to transport ALL that data to a large group of base-stations,unlike today where you transport data only to the relevant base-station.

On the other hand, if a company invented a new wireless technology, it's probably smart enough to be aware of the back haul problem.
I actually love the buttons.

I can change the current song or take a call while on the bike without taking the of the road, just because I know where the press. This would not be possible with a touch screen. If I want to do stuff where a touch screen would come in handy I take out my phone anyway.
I'm one of the founders of SigOpt and I am happy to answer any questions about this post, our methods, or anything about SigOpt. I'll be in this thread all day.
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Alibaba leads, but do you know the other top Chinese tech exits of 2014?
Borderline abuse / misuse. I do not support this behavior because they are already a well established group and shouldn't be using kickstarter.
I bought a replacement metal band for my Galaxy Gear. No clue if it was standard, but certainly replaceable.
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> Concurrency needs a Rust-like language to protect us at compile time against data races. The restrictions it would impose on what we could do might be abhorrent to our generation of coders, but the benefits would be far reaching.

Not sure if this is what you meant, but Rust does protect against data races. You are unable to share data unless you use message passing, share read-only data, use atomics, or use mutexes.
> Why would you keep labeling yourself a generalist?

Because variety and new challenges are the spice of life? All jesting aside, if I had deep passion/believed deeply in something, I would be the specialist for that ("Appointment reminder systems for equine vets") -- but I don't.

This is the best quote I've seen on the subject. Haven't made the transition, and still trying to see what to define myself a specialist as:

"The generalist is drawn to the problem he has not yet solved. His curiosity trumps all else. He feels no discomfort in operating outside of his area of expertise because such an area is broad, shallow and loosely defined. He pursues with passion the new and the different. When the transition is made however, and he becomes used to the benefits of deep expertise—when the client ceding control to someone deserving of such control becomes the norm—he will not be easily enticed back to operating from the powerless position of the generalist. "
The other big one is that the company can save a lot of money on office space. If necessary, a small HQ can still be located in San Francisco or Silicon Valley for physical proximity to investors, but you don't need to worry about getting a big, fancy and expensive space to house all your workers. For a funded startup, this means the burn rate is a lot lower. For a bootstrapped company, it just means the company has a lot more money to spend elsewhere or save; they could even roll the savings into higher salaries to attract better talent (which fits with your point as well).

You're never going to have to worry about whether you need an open floorplan or not, because by default everybody gets a custom-designed private office.
Justified inequality is good as long as it filters out high quality from low quality. The genius should be compensated more than the low-life.

Systems that classify human potential at birth though are rather unfair and amount to nepotism. The opposite of objective quality. No matter how many jobs a King or Queen creates, the upper class is always above the lower class.

Also, absolute transfer of wealth doesn't mean relative transfer. Slavery nowadays is actually more expensive then just hiring illegals because of housing and food costs. Wealth here is transferred in an absolute sense.

That said, many Uber drivers are very happy with the steeping stone it lends them. Flexible hours, and rather decent pay.
Pondering it from the point of view of the alleged perpetrators is actually the best way to discard theories like this as bullshit.

Making an aircraft disappear might have taken Ukraine off a few front pages, but the propaganda benefit to Russia was - as any reasonable person would have anticipated - minimal at best. It made essentially no difference to Western policy towards Russia, and if anything drew a bit more attention towards crashes involving Malaysian Airlines 777s than was good for Russian interests.

Conversely, the implications of being caught hijacking an aircraft full of civilians and flying it into their own airspace would have been very severe indeed, especially given the number of citizens of their neighbour and only major international ally on board.

Consider the reward is minimal at best, the cost of failure is exceptionally high, and the probability of failing to hijack and fly an aircraft several thousand miles over multiple jurisdictions without detection is comfortably above zero.

Assume that anyone with the acumen to pull this sort of stunt off successfully possesses the faculties to do some basic weighing up of risk and reward an ask yourself why on earth would they do something so risky for such a trivially achieved and insignificant objective as distracting news media

Just because a particular organization theoretically could pull off a particular course of action doesn't mean it's not ridiculous in the extreme to assume they would.
Chrome chews through a lot of resources on my machine. Firefox is a lot lighter. And I think it will still be lighter since they're targeting a 2-process model instead of Chrome's (let me count) 17 that it just launched on startup.
In my unstudied and ill-informed opinion, computers and the internet have trained many of us to view intellectual content as more abstracted from the physical experience of ingesting it than it really is, as though the ideal of reading would actually be telepathy from writer to reader, and anything added to that signal chain must be by definition noise. I don't know if I totally buy that view though. I sympathize with the students who focus better with print; I do too - and I take better notes when I write by hand. I don't think that's because I'm anachronistic; I think it's because of some fundamental aspect of being both a mind and a body.
> I'd assume the majority of it does go to pay out goods and services in the future

I don't know the answer to your question, but my guess it's that people want to make profit now and not in the future.

Digressing a little bit, I made myself the same reflexion concerning fracking. There's a lot of pressure on my country's government to authorize fracking. Supposedly, it would be very beneficial for the economy. However, since this gas isn't going anywhere, i'm not sure why there's such a hurry to get it. Especially considering that it may be cheaper to extract it in the future.
I updated with sources - here are the direct links to the studys:

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http://www.ipse.co.uk/sites/default/files//media/documents/R...
This is good news indeed. I moved back to India 1.5 years ago because my wife could not work there. Not sad I moved back, but yes, a lot of people would be really really happy today.
Hope you're wearing appropriate gear when you're applying this poison in your "side" farm. https://gmandchemicalindustry9.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/g...

Unfortunately there's no protective gear for eaters of your corn.