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This was a live a few hours ago on H1B news.

"The Chronicle interviewed numerous dealers who were deported but re-entered the country illegally and returned to the Tenderloin shortly thereafter. One has done it nine times."

“One said he moves furniture, another said he was an Amazon delivery driver in the morning and sold drugs in the evening.”

"The dealer said he likes some of San Francisco’s police officers. Sometimes, he said, one will tap him on the shoulder and say, “You’ve been out here for four hours. You’ve made enough money.”

In some ways, reminds me of Aaron Swartz's case.

Yes, we are not introducing a Radio, TV or Computer. But surely the quality of content and success of each platform has been guaranteed by powerful monetization efforts. In the case of TV, Radio, NewsPaper - it was advertisement. We want to help developers better monetize their properties, so that they can provide richer, more valuable content to the end user. We too hate intrusive advertisement and we too have ad-block installed. For this reason, we realize that someone ought to find a better solution. That's where Virool comes in.

This post was more focusing on how to source all types of talent from a big organization like Google.

friend of mine who had a first hand account of the standoff

We recently announced our $6.6 seed round, and are growing at light speed. We are making an impact on video advertising industry and want ROCKSTARS to join us in this journey.

Here's the type of people we are looking for:

Backend Engineer - you will help us handle 1000 requests/second that hit our 20+ servers, store 10GB of data every day and double every month

VP of Network Growth - you will be signing partnerships with leading websites and apps

VP of Sales - you will take our sales charts to the whole new level

UI/UX Designer - you will share our values with over 300 million people via simple yet elegant designs of our products.

Ad Sales Manager - you will deliver happiness and peace of mind to our clients.

You can see all open positions on: http://www.virool.com/about/work-at-virool

We can't help our advertisers create good, engaging content, but we can help with distribution. We can get their video infront of people through our network of publishers, but if their video (content) sucks, it's not going to catch on.

We are not looking to become a solution for promoting viral videos. We are building a Google AdWords for video solution with distribution taking place on Facebook, Mobile Apps, blogs and sites.

Very inspiring to strive to surround yourself with best of everything.

As far as appearing on front page, I am not sure how hn works, but I can guarantee you that I have no interest in manipulating upvotes, nor do I have time to do it.

And overall, I am just trying to create useful content for the community.

I am open to constructive conversations and suggestions. If you have ideas about social hacking, then please share them.

Thank you for pointing out the links.