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There are a few things to note about this parole. I'm copying this from a post I submitted to HN a few days ago[1]:

1. Your startup would have to have raised $345k from 'qualified investors' or $100k from federal/state grants (difficult for bootstrappers to leverage this)

2. Should have created 10 jobs for Americans in 2 years

3. This parole will be granted for 2 years, and then extended by another 3, but after that there's no provision to let founders stay.

4. You need to have at least 15% stake in your company (which can be easy initially but could get diluted going ahead, specially with multiple founders)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624180

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USCIS is proposing new rules that grants parole to International Entrepreneurs to stay in and operate from the US, but these rules aren't perfect. Here are a few flaws:

1. Your startup would have to have raised $345k from 'qualified investors' or $100k from federal/state grants (difficult for bootstrappers to leverage this)

2. Should have created 10 jobs for Americans in 2 years

3. This parole will be granted for 2 years, and then extended by another 3, but after that there's no provision to let founders stay.

4. You need to have at least 15% stake in your company (which can be easy initially but could get diluted going ahead, specially with multiple founders)

USCIS is accepting comments on this proposal till Oct 17. You can do your part by stating personal anecdotes or easy to imagine plausible examples to suggest improvements to the rules.

Having an intern write a good blog post for the engineering blog is a great recruiting move.

That's what my point is - in your head, you might think you're doing something that's less of an offense. But it's not.

I'm going to ignore your implicit rhetoric that there's nothing that can be done to help this and offer a potential suggestion - universities here can go an extra mile to put severe emphasis in educating international students about how cheating is dealt with in the US and how severe the consequences were when students were caught in the past doing it. It would also probably help if the students were convinced that there's a high probability of being caught with modern tools.

I know I'll get some flak for the last sentence there, but how many people in the world you really think are law-fearing as opposed to law-abiding?

I don't see this as their obligation or responsibility, but if looking for helpful measures that can be taken, I see this as one.

If you Google 'Foreign Students Seen Cheating More Than Domestic Ones' and click on the wsj link that appears on the results, you'll be able to see the entire article.

I'm pleasantly surprised to see the audience on HN be aware and considerate of the socio-cultural differences.

To add a few other points to the list -

1. The pressure is also to literally survive, and can sometimes extend to their families. It's not uncommon to find Indian students coming to the US to alleviate their families' financial condition by studying here and consequently getting a job here. A lot of times their families would have mortgaged their apartments/houses to get a loan to fund the education. I was such a student about 3 years ago. If I would have failed, not only would my parents not have an apartment anymore, but it would also be difficult for us to survive as a family (my parents earn very little). I realize this was a calculated risk and no one forced me(us) into it, but it was very pressuring regardless.

2. While cheating is frowned upon at a run-of-the-mill Indian university, it's not dealt with as severely as at American universities. Consequently it can be a little like you were careless enough to be jaywalking in a foreign country you're visiting and finding out they're going to imprison you for it later.

3. The immigration rules here don't help as well. You have a limited amount of time for which you can stay in the US after finishing up studies to find a job. Failing to find a job in that time results into having to go back. Sometimes you have to go back even if you found a job but didn't get through the H1 lottery.

Let me firmly state that having said all of that, I don't condone this behavior, and am unreservedly against it. I'm just glad people here on HN already have additional perspective into why this happens and I'd just like to add to it since I feel I can.

Can you share more information about your findings here?

More specifically, has any company ever been content with the delta in experience/knowledge a candidate might have gained between interviews, enough to hire them? This as opposed to continuing to evaluate the candidate against an absolute benchmark.

Because if not, then this sort of evaluation doesn't really help, does it?

Whenever someone decides to hire someone, all of their criteria are heavily biased towards what kind of skills the candidates posses.

I wonder if someone can come up with a reasonably accurate way to determine how well or easily can a candidate acquire particular skills.

I realize this line of thought might not be popular for most startups who would want someone to get going as soon as they start. But if you're having a tough time hiring a Machine Learning engineer and you get applications from a bunch of smart folks who want to gain experience in Machine Learning, would it be a good idea to give them a shot?

The traditional 'puzzle solving' in interviews was probably geared in this direction, but I'm wondering if there are better ways to gauge this.

I was hoping he was referring to something other than the snacks that were served to the people camping overnight outside stores to order the Model 3 with this tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/715566236822671360

"Incredibly inspired by the interest in Model 3. You won't be disappointed. Also, small token of appreciation coming for those who lined up."

I work at LinkedIn. Let me be the first one to tell you that it is an amazing place to work at! Everyone is super smart and talented. The infra teams have some really amazing projects under their belt - a lot of which are open sourced. I work on the applications team and I love the culture in our org - everyone is super friendly, helpful and it's a privilege to be working on products that are used by hundreds of millions of people and being able to call shots on them. Also as a relatively inexperienced dev, I'm given ample responsibilities to drive my projects and mould them that I feel are helping me grow. The perks are absolutely amazing - pretty comparable to the ones you get at FB/Google. My favorite ones are $2k reimbursement for fitness related expenses per year, an entire week off during Independence day and Christmas, a day off to yourself and your team each month (search for InDays), and frequent company and team outings (there was a screening for the last Star Wars movie and is another one for Batman vs Superman soon). I'll probably never work for another big company again after this for an entirely different set of reasons, but I am absolutely glad about my decision to join LinkedIn.

Just speaking about engineering - I know a bunch of people who work in AWS/Prime Now infra teams. The opportunity to work on services of such massive scale is not something you can ignore. A lot of my friends have helped build a few AWS services from the ground up and the learning experience isn't something you would not appreciate. They definitely do technically challenging things.

That's interesting. The largest apt I've lived in was a 850 sq ft 2br so I've never had any issue with the range or lag from my router. Thanks for sharing.

So what does this device primarily do that I need right now? Just throttling internet for certain devices and prioritizing others? I'm not even entirely sure what 'uses smart software to find the best WiFi connection' means. What's the value prop here given the device costs $200? It's not like it can better your internet somehow.

TLDR: This guy used LinkedIn's targeted ads to target an investor and 6 of his friends to get their attention, leading to a $120k investment.

Side-note: Similar and just as amusing story, but with FB ads - http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...

I agree. 'Desktop client for WhatsApp' sounds about ok. I guess with a name like 'Unofficial WhatsApp for Desktop' would remove all ambiguities and also convey very clearly that you're not trying to trick people.

You can't be serious.

You can easily check if a person has adblock installed or not (check https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-adblock/). And say, due to a prominent survey or report or other means it just becomes a widely known & accepted fact that most users are now using AdBlock, the tilt towards running ads in content will only accelerate.

That's a little sad to hear.

I was trying to think of an analogy between the game and how startups/big-companies work in real life.

Start-ups are small in size, more agile and can navigate/pivot more easily. Big companies generally take time to pivot and ignore smaller opportunities to grow unlike the small companies. They also have the potential to gobble down small companies.

I wonder what's the most appropriate analog for the spiky cells.

Would you mind specifying what was the law being broken?

This is very cool

Microsoft employee here. Can confirm. He has mentioned HN a couple of times in talks.

I did. Please enlighten me.

I'm not sure why this link is trending. Hasn't reCAPTCHA been around since a while?