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OP if you read this, if you decide to get married, you REALLY need to do it before your visa expires (by as much as possible).

If you do it after you'll technically be in the country illegally and they will reject your marriage visa automatically (i.e. you'll have to go home to apply for your marriage visa, they won't even accept your application while you're still illegally in the US).

It may already be too late to do this without having to leave the country. A marriage visa can take anywhere between six months and a year and half, unless you can get them to rush it though (which they've done before, but normally at foreign embassies rather than at the NVC, and without kids, a dependant, or either of you being US military it will be hard to get an expedited process).

PS - Maybe consult an immigration attorney in your case.

PPS - If your visa is expired try not to get "caught" with it expired. Sneak out of the country to avoid a ban, rather than getting a ban and trying to fight it. It could save you a long fight and literally years banned from the US.
Making things is hard (Hilite shutting down)
I'm surprised that this is the state of the art. Compare this to the manufacture of, say, orange juice: from the input oranges, the chemicals are all individually distilled out, put into separate bioreactors at exact concentrations along with additives and catalysts, each reaction product is filtered to remove waste products, and then the results are mixed back together in prescribed concentrations. Effectively, they're making a completely synthetic product, like a plastic or a mouthwash, except that (almost) all the input chemicals happen to be extracted from the same source.
openssl s_client -connect www.example.com:443

GET /
Friedman's original paper is well worth the read, and toy Vogel implementation if you have time! [0]

[0] waring, pdf: http://math.boisestate.edu/~liljanab/MATH509/IndexCoincidenc...
This is all assuming that we don't have a space elevator.

tldr; it costs a lot of money to launch mass into space.

Sending 1 pound of water into space costs $50,000. This is more than the price of gold on earth. A space elevator changes the economics dramatically.
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It draws some doubt that the author lists accelerations in units of km/sec, not km/sec^2.
How else are you supposed to flush the cache?
> job after paid training ($5k) 2. After 3-month long training they totally and completely faked my resume. I.e. included 5-years experience, fake credentials, fake references. 3. Got me a job with large, large bank. 4. Got half my salary for 6-months. 5. After that I was on my own as I couldnt stand lies anymore.

Wow, your lie tolerance threshold must be way higher than most people. I know a few very needy people who balked several times at "fake experience". You just can't hide that, esp not with poor English!

> From my experience 90% + people from H-1B is on these terms in the US.

If you meant 90% of all H-1Bs - then it clearly falls into lying category. May be if you compromised so much for the job you don't have so much of a problem vastly upwards estimating something that benefits your viewpoint?!
The analogy breaks down thusly: The non-terrorist farmers are neutral, but the web servers not running proprietary software are, by definition, running free software – i.e. they are not neutral, they are the opposite of proprietary. The web is not something that, inherently, suggests use of proprietary software, so I don’t see a similar reason for RMS to discourage use of the web in the same way he discourages .doc format files. A .doc file or a .swf file very much suggests specific proprietary software, even though free alternatives exist. Not so with .html, .css and .js.
Yes, you can specify extremely powerful statistical models in only a few lines of code using probabilistic programming.

However, at this point, unless you design your program in a very specific way and use a lot of tricks, your sampler is very unlikely to converge, and you won't get any meaningful result without a gargantuan amount of computing power.
The force will be perpendicular to the surface light reflects from, not perpendicular to the light arriving at the surface. Therefore if the sail was mounted at a 45 degree angle to the Sun, there would be a force that reduces angular momentum and puts the object in a spiral towards the Sun.
The goal of marriage really shouldn't be getting a visa... I'm saddened that we have to entertain this solution. It feels almost like exchange my body for some materialistic goal when I think about it (of course I'm not OP).
many laws already exist. for example, scotch has to be aged at least 3 years in scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky#Legal_definition
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You could try and maybe normalize salaries based on the location I guess, but this also hits a snag when you take into account occupation. Some occupations generally pay lesser than others. Do they then not warrant H1Bs? Don't think so.
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Reference counting isn't even very bad; for certain patterns of allocation, it's even optimal. However, for certain people, having to manually deal with cycles is enough to switch to a mark-and-sweep type collection mechanism.

See: Apple opting for ARC over mark-and-sweep GC.
I've had "real" absinthe and US versions. Honestly, they both taste pretty much the same to me. That is, there is as much difference between "real" versions as there is between real and import versions.

Clear absinthes lack the herbal flavor of naturally herb colored absinthes and I find to be generally inferior. You might as well be drinking ouzo.
And now we start to wonder even more - is Google just an unexpectedly profitable NSA front?
time_t is 64-bit on openbsd since last year, http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/
"slightly higher"? I know that slightly is subjective, but going from 175k to 233k seems quite significant to me... Especially considering that last year was already a new record.

The same thing (lottery for H1B) happened only the last 2 years (2013 and 2014), not for 4+ years (before that 2007 and 2008 also had a lottery).

It is relevant to HN because if we you start a company and need to hire, it can impact your strategy. If you're a software engineer, it shows that there is a high demand and it can be time to review alternative offers.
I have the entire LS collection and they are exceptional. As a rum man I agree with you about the complexity available in aged rums -- and even the early trial versions of Lost Spirits that predate the full-fledged Colonial example are outstanding from a "mouth feel" standpoint. I have routinely trotted them out to put in front of my Scotch-drinking betters, and while a Scotch snob is an impossible conversion target, it's rare to have one not express surprise at what they've tasted.

They are all overproof but extremely drinkable. Even the 151-proof "Cuban Inspired" can be sipped, and its texture sensed, which is pretty unbelievable for its alcohol content (notwithstanding its age).

Anyway, all this to say this is less fake than other techniques, e.g. sugaring wine.

If you're in the Bay Area K&L and Beltramos carry various versions, all $40 or under. Worth a shot!
I'm planning to write right now a service that queues a lot of HTTP requests and them send them all as one. It is curious that you put this here right now.
I agree. I would rather my girlfriend and I get married because we love each other and are ready, not because of immigration issues.
Perhaps a combination of boolean logic and set theory? For instance let X be the set of possible dates and let m, d, be functions which, respectively, return the month and the day of any date in X.

Now the three statements can be translated to the following logical statements (this isn't necessarily a good thing to do, but you can):

P(B) = #m^-1(m(B)) > 1 ∧ ∀x∈m^-1(m(B)) : #d^-1(d(x)) > 1

Q(B) = ∃!x∈X: d(x)=d(B) ∧ P(x)

R(B) = ∃!x∈X: m(x)=m(B) ∧ Q(x)

your task is then to find a birthday B in X such that P(B), Q(B), and R(B) hold. Or equivalently find the unique element of {x∈X : P(x)∧Q(x)∧R(x)}.

Edit: Still not 100% sure if P(B) is correct.
The argument as you descibe it sounds silly, and to believe that RMS used it I would have to see a citation. Even so, if he used it, he would be wrong. I argued against the argument as presented, I can’t be expected to know whether it was subtle sarcasm or not.
Does this issue exist in servers like Unicorn? A new instance forks from the old one, inheriting sockets, and starts handling requests.

http://unicorn.bogomips.org/SIGNALS.html
It sounds like you believe that there should be an equal geographic distribution of H1Bs. I've never heard this as a goal - can you explain why it should be?
I hear some complaints from academia, at least in my country - don't know if it's valid globally, that they are being more and more regulated and spend too much time applying for grants.

Do you have any opinion on that?
Use the Jules Verne solution: a cannon.

A solar powered mass-driver could sling a steady stream of pellets from Earth orbit into Solar non-orbit using existing technology.

That being said, burying it deep near the the start of a plate subduction zone makes at least as much sense.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but the thought that once HTTP is deprecated I'll need to go through extra effort to manage the myriad of devices in my LAN is bothering me. The configuration interfaces of these devices (routers, printers, IP cameras, etc.) mostly don't support HTTP. Most never had updates available and certainly never will. We're not just talking about 5+ year old devices (which despite their age still function as designed): none of the most recent routers I bought support it, except if flashed with some powerful and well maintained alternative firmware.

I'm already annoyed enough by firmware update tools that only work with a specific old version of Internet Explorer... I rather not throw dozens of equipment away just because browsers started to insistently refuse HTTP connections. Let's not talk about the fact that I often spin up simple HTTP servers on my computer just to be able to transfer files to other machines on the same network, and I rather not have to worry about creating certificates (to then find out that the machines in question are "obsolete" too and don't support HTTPS?).

Can we just consider HTTP to be like telnet? Old, super insecure, definitely not meant to be used by everyone daily and definitely not over the Internet, perhaps not even available/installed by default, yet super compatible and simple to implement both for the client and the server.

I really hope that should mandatory HTTPS become a thing (and I'm not saying it shouldn't), an exception is added for local area connections.
A space elevator takes care of a portion of the earth escape velocity, still leaving >20 km/s left once you get to the top.
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I'm one of those 233k this year. Was an intern with a J1 a couple years ago, came back to my country to finish grad school, and my former employer wants to hire me back.

From what I've been researching, there are several of these so-called "consultancies" that hire mostly Indian guys (please don't take it personally, no offence intended), fake their resumes, and give them shitty life conditions in the US. Lots of people also pay for these consultancies to apply for them with fake jobs as to increase their chances in the lottery.

Its a shame that us with real, good-paying jobs have to go through that. I'm being hired because they cannot find someone in the US to fill this spot and because they already know me and think I'm a good fit for the company.
ENCOM MX 16-923 USER #0176825 06:00 INFORMATION
VIDEO GAME PROGRAM: SPACE PARANOIDS
ANNEXED 9/22 BY E. DILLENGER
ORIGINAL PROGRAM WRITTEN BY K. FLYNN
THIS INFORMATION PRIORITY ONE
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Add this to the printout? :)

But yeah, had that happened to me a few times too. One time it was at a conference (Open Science Summit), the same douche guy decided to do a presentation on my tech as if it had been developed under him. So I pushed past security, turned off the projector with the powerpoint, went on stage, slammed the microphone down, and did my presentation by shouting. Got a fair amount of applause.

And yes, I was wearing a Flynn's t-shirt.

And yes, I know this is a bit of a tall tale, so here's the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnRSu9LjV7E
"It appears they are basing prices on what firms can afford not on the product services they are providing."

Which would be sales 101: price your product or service to the value it will create. (Look at any "freelance rate" discussion on HN, and you'll find a comment about charging by the project vs. by the hour.)

If Apple is willing to pay $25k for apple.sucks, hey—that's the market rate.

Yes, it's a little predatory. But 1) predatory domain transactions haven't been punished to date (e.g., squatting, expiration sniping, etc.) and 2) welcome to the new world of gTLDs.

Here's a thought experiment: pretend it's .rocks we're talking about. Let's say Apple will pay $25k for apple.rocks. Why the hell wouldn't I have a smart pricing algorithm that takes demand into account, as opposed to selling in a FIFO fashion?
Creating all that force ourselves isn't the only option. We could use gravity assists from Venus and/or Mercury to alter velocity directly towards the sun, too.
It could be substantially less than 100x. The maximum amount of thujone in the EU is 35mg/L. The US requires that absinthe be "thujone free" but defines that as less than 10mg/L.

Old recipes (from 1899) have been recreated and measured at 4.3mg/L.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone
If you read "delta-v" for "acceleration" throughout the article, the whole thing makes more sense.
Good point, I have given that some thought too. Besides the problems already cited in the other comments, another problem is that smaller companies trying to grow might have a competitive disadvantage because of the upward pressure on the salaries.
You are vastly underestimating the space of possible orbits and vastly overestimating the size of debris and satellites.
> But in the end these 'tricks' always produces an inferior product and are really only good for mass-produced wine/alcohol on the cheaper end.

Double blind proven or asserted by experts?
Hey armchair lawyer, you're wrong. You can apply for adjustment of status immediately after exchanging vows. This gives you an independent legal immigration status while the application is adjudicated; "pending adjustment." Unless you are already in removal, you're good to go. Even if you are already in removal, if you haven't actually been deported, then you can make the same application for adjustment directly to the immigration judge.

And as long as you entered the country legally (e.g. not without inspection or fraudulently), simply having being out of status is forgiven when sponsored by a US spouse, so long as there are no other bars to the application.

That said, going out of status is never a good idea. But as long as you apply while you have a valid immigration status, there is no out-of-status time period.

Anyway, OP would be advised to consult with a qualified immigration attorney rather than HN commenters.
Look up Riena LLP who build net zero structures in Fairbanks, AK. Key to the design, an embedded 5,000 gallon vertical stratification thermal storage tank. That and several feet of insulation and a deep foundation.

http://www.reina-llc.com/
I'm not familiar with HAProxy, but with other load balancers. I've been looking into it as a replacement for the hardware load balancers we use.

Why do you have to reload haproxy? When you update the configuration?

I reload nginx all the time (nginx -s reload) and I'm not sure if that is a true zero-downtime reload either.

Interesting hack nonetheless (stopping SYNs.)
Tangentially related:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/58g/levels_of_action/

HPMOR also addresses it, in a more accessible way:

> Professor Quirrell had remarked over their lunch that Harry really needed to conceal his state of mind better than putting on a blank face when someone discussed a dangerous topic, and had explained about one-level deceptions, two-level deceptions, and so on. So either Severus was in fact modeling Harry as a one-level player, which made Severus himself two-level, and Harry's three-level move had been successful; or Severus was a four-level player and wanted Harry to think the deception had been successful. Harry, smiling, had asked Professor Quirrell what level he played at, and Professor Quirrell, also smiling, had responded, One level higher than you.

http://hpmor.com/chapter/27
No, this is about the speed of the earth relative to the sun. E.g. even if we wanted to shoot, say, the ISS into the sun, it'd be hard. As soon as you point it towards the sun it will go into an elliptical orbit.
What the hell. Someone please stop this madness.
I'm not sure why you feel compelled to defend a company you don't know anything about, but suffice it to say that I've been in the workforce long enough to have plenty of perspective on this, and it was not paranoia.
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Here's the site: https://order.hbonow.com/

I don't have an iOS device or their specific supported ISP, so I haven't signed up.
A Clockwork Orange was the same way. Real effort to get through the first 50 pages or so.
First .google domains, now this? We should stop using this stupid thing named DNS.

https://gnunet.org/gns
http://wiki.solarsails.info/index.php/Tacking_Solar_Sails You can tack a solar sail so that it gets closer to the sun, but solar sails need to be very light to work at all... and nuclear waste is heavy.
If an occupation has a lower salary, then perhaps its time for the occupation to pay more to attract local candidates. Otherwise the H-1B is being used to suppress wages.
Microsoft Europe has a salary cap?
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It's a very powerful statistical technique, yes, but I doubt it will be enough for AI. The problem is that you need to sample efficiently from the posterior distribution, and for anything AI related, MCMC isn't going to cut it.

Let's take a step back and consider a logical problem. Can you put N socks in N-1 boxes such that no box contains more than one socks? Obviously not, it's the pigeonhole principle.

Convert that question into a Boolean circuit, and throw a SAT solver at it. It will die. In fact, using only first order logic, a proof of the pigeonhole principle requires an exponential number of terms. Looking at logical propositions alone is too myopic to solve the problem, you have to formulate higher level theories about the structure of the problem to solve it (in this case, natural numbers).

The same goes for probabilistic programming. As long as the paradigm is to treat the problem as a black box energy function to sample from, it is doomed to be inefficient. Try writing a simple HMM and the system will choke, even though there are efficient algorithms to sample from such a model.

If you look at deep learning techniques, they take an interesting approach which is to learn to approximate the generative distribution and the inference distribution at the same time. This is the basis of the work around autoencoders, deep belief networks, and it guarantees that you can tractably sample from your latent representation.
More specifically - they terminate your SSL connections, thereby having the cleartext of your traffic - and doing whatever their NSL/gag-order requires them too do before fetching/forwarding your request to the appropriate chache/endpoint.
Thanks for taking a swing at this rebuttal, but isn't "gentlemen" a touch, um, gendered?
Threres a dash that flashes during playback for a while, they may have a different flashing/timing sequence for each reviewer...
Or bury the nuclear waste in oceanic trenches. It is out of the way and future generations won't stumble upon it when humans forget where they buried all this stuff.
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I didn't mean to drink it, I meant to turn it into table salt.

Seems like there ought to be some kind of further usage of it.. industrial or otherwise.
Or possibly you are overestimating the probability of impact beyond which this should be considered too risky.
And if they do, they'd likely be able to handle it.
It's crazy to muck around with timing, When things are quantised to frames you have very little scope for change without it being very noticeable.

There are a heap of image based ways to encode data. Kerning on the credits, Position of titling. Minor brightness colour tweaks.

The thing that springs to mind the most. THERE'S A FULLSCREEN WHITE NOISE EFFECT AT THE START OF THE SHOW. You could stick whatever you want in there.
> If the CEO is the only person meeting with investors or only trusts one or two other people to meet with them that is another big concern.

I know you said 'concern' and not 'problem', but I generally do this and have a totally different motivation for it.

Our guys and gals are really busy. There is a lot of work (often very specialized work) that needs to get done, and it's important to shield them from distractions. Investors generally tend to helicopter up -- they see our world/company from thirty thousand feet. It's a totally different perspective that takes some time and experience to get used to. Even most CEOs have trouble shifting into this mindset. It requires an enormous context shift. For people who don't have a lot of experience with this kind of thing, it can be dramatically harder to do it on a whim.

A minute ago you were sitting at your computer, trying to figure out a C++ boost error message, and now someone asks you "how do you think the feature you're working on will impact the company's revenue in the next quarter?" That can really throw people off. They might feel like they should have had a better answer. Investor conversations can seem extremely important to people who aren't used to doing it on regular basis, and it can distract them from critical work. I think it's good general practice to try and avoid it.

That doesn't mean undue paranoia -- if someone wants to talk to the investor (or the other way around), they're welcome to. But I think being thoughtful about protecting your people that are neck deep in work from distractions is usually a good policy.
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