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ciboton Govt of India proposes to ban SSH (Or wants you to use 40 bit keys)

I think it is a very old document.

ciboton Yes, IT departments should worry about Google Drive

Maybe companies should spend some extra time and effort to hire people they can trust.

ciboton Piep: bringing the power of python to stream editing

Havent tried it yet. Will definitely read up on zero install.

ciboton Piep: bringing the power of python to stream editing

Yep. Now i need to go after another packaging tool to try it out. Well not a big deal.. However imho it would be awesome if everyone stick with the standard tools.

ciboton Piep: bringing the power of python to stream editing

Its sad that the author strongly discourages using pip to install the package.

ciboton Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company

"How do they prevent Masters students who are on an OPT from creating their own companies and sponsoring a H1B for themselves? No regulations on the amount of investment required?"

Why prevent masters students from creating their own company if that creates more jobs and will probably help the economy.

ciboton Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

Palo Alto, CA -- full-time engineers, H1B welcome (we sponsor/transfer visas)

VideoGenie (http://www.videogenie.com) is the industry leader for customer-generated videos. We empower companies to easily gather, manage, publish and analyze videos created by real people. By tapping into their customers’ passion, VideoGenie gives unrivaled authenticity to their brand.

We are located in Palo Alto, California, funded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and our growing client list includes President Obama, Levi's, and Intuit.

We're looking for awesome backend/systems engineers to help us scale our infrastructure and continue building search & analytics. We're currently at 7 employees (4 dev) so you'd have a huge impact right away. Find out more about the team and the job here: http://www.videogenie.com/jobs_engineering.html.