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Thanks Peter for doing this. I have a question regarding the EB1A category. I recently received my I140 under EB2 category. I was wondering if I can apply for another I140 under EB1A category. My question is if I get rejected under EB1A do I keep my existing priority date (EB2) ? Also what are the chances of getting approval on EB2 to EB1? Thanks

how?

I am in same boat. There is a YC startup simplelegal that is trying to do this. But startups can't fix main issues with the immigration.

Well for its worth my experience interviewing for the data team there was terrible. A long coding exercise that when submitted resulted in a 7 day wait and a 2 liner email. Wouldn't recommend.

not sure why i got a down vote for this

oh ok.. then maybe credit card transactions if they dont buy it with cash instead

in machine learning we could use some supervised technique if we have training data instead of unsupervised. sorry for not being clear

thats why i used both causation and correlation. Correlation probably doesnt help here but until the model is built you can't really tell right?

to add, there is also training data available in form of people who have committed shootings or have any crime record. its then just about feature selection that could prove some causation or correlation

forgot Ask HN, can someone edit the title ?

I am pretty excited about cockroachDb. Its still in beta so not suggested for production use yet, but its being designed pretty carefully and by a great team.. check them out cockroachlabs.com

i agree. that was part of the inspiration behind https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441183 . I am making progress on the product but primarily i think linkedin is biased towards serving recruiters better than users.

At the very least there should be a way to filter out good recruiters from the bad ones. I hate to say but more like a review system where you can rate your interaction with a recruiter.

did you do this as part of a coding interview challenge ?

well handled. The positive side of all this is cohsf got 20k donation. So it wasn't that bad after all.

Hey thanks for your comment. Please share if you have any valuable inputs on the original idea. It might not be clear but I am not trying to do any recruiting tech idea. All the best with your search

thanks for sharing your thoughts. Its a great idea. One thing that I was thinking was to provide ability to recruiters to push jobs to my job stream but based on my filters/preferences a recommendation engine will sort them and also collapse them if they are irrelevant(like some quora answers) .. that way limiting how many jobs I would take in my feed is also one of the parameters

Thanks for such a detailed advice. Couple of things regarding the example of a regular person trying to connect with say Travis, Mark cuban or trump. - First of all I think those might be desired but are mostly less frequent cases so designing a platform around that is not ideal IMO - I like your friends take on it. But like you said there is a problem with it. I think this idea can really solve the problem of introduction through mutual connections though. Because lets say you asked a friend for an introduction to somebody influential. Because the platform knows how your friend initially connected with that influential person( By contact forms or well defined edges), the platform can hint you the quality of your friends connection with that person.

It is a tough but interesting problem.

Great anecdote. Brian is a great guy though. I am not sure I completely understood your concern but I think it comes down to how do you create value for influential people. I think this is exactly where having customizable contact questionnaire would help. Someone on the influential person team or ideally the person himself will do a onetime thing that people have to fill in to contact him.

That enables two things - it gives the system well structured data. And then we can give the user a UI which enables them to filter out interested reach outs than not so interesting reach out.

So in your case Brian can have a form titled digitalocean customer. You can use that to connect/contact him. He can either chose to accept it, ignore it, or if we can make it downloadable/forwardable he can send it to head of customer support etc.

One challenge that is posses is to have limited number of such contact forms do the trick and its relevance to the person who is connecting.

i have a different take on this . I think buffer and pocket have done great work in this year. Obviously pinboard as well. I am not sure if I am the only one but I think the problem is bookmarking. On HCI terms, bookmarking is not intuitive to how human brains work. Instead we just go through events and the nature of events makes us AUTOMAGICALLY index them in our brain and when we wish to retrieve them our brain just uses that index.

On those lines I think it should be more like log everything that I hit on all my devices and make the search organized. Something similar using apriori algorithm was my school project and I used it a lot until now when I have slowly moved to pocket.

My 2 cents - "In short better to have a smart search and indexing instead of bookmarking "

Thanks for your comment, Employers will do a percentage match towards the repayment. Also pay for the SaaS platform.

Currently a lot of students do not automate it because of not having the minimum balance on the due date. One more problem that it does solve just like 401k is to mandate some financial discipline. Like 401k they can obviously skip few months given that they will be fined by their bank.

Regarding benefits for employers - One is a benefit to attract talent. Some companies like deloitte pay off your one semester fee if were an intern who got and accepted a full time offer. Other employers have plans to pay towards your continuing education. I dont think this will add much extra cost to employer but yes there will def be some friction to onboard first few companies. But if Google is in, Facebook will not miss it

Either zenefits or adp. Right now none.

Yes sharing repayment status might be tricky. Good point. But employer doesn't have to see the repayment status though. The platform can automatically stop or notify the employee once the repayment is done.

I sent an email to few people who manage education loans at banks.

Also no plans on any lobbying :)

No cuts. Ethically I dont think it is great to eat commissions out of repayments towards loan. I think it would work more like how gusto or small improvements works for ex. Another enterprise SaaS tool with per employee charge.

Also there might be other revenue streams. For example refinancing options or getting into loan market itself and marketing a loan that is in terms with employers, etc.

Sure, will email you

In some countries it does. Just like how companies get tax credits on their spendings on free food, perks etc this might also be covered. Good point, I will research on it.

All my employers have had great 401k match(upto 6%) and it is a key factor to attract talent. This can be a a great way to not only attract talent but also retain them for the period of their repayment of loan. And then similar programs can be expanded to mortgage, auto, child related loans, etc.

I think 401 k makes sense when you are first out of your debts. Planning for future retirement funds while being in debt currently does not sound very right

Read this, been through this and thought about this .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444810 What do you guys think ?

Yes jotting down notes from this thread to build a MVP. Essentially I wish to target one particular vertical(engineers) or segment(students) of users. Also in case of engineers, let them import their github data or simply allow them to upload their work in files.

Regarding the lack of users, I agree that deserted website is not ideal. But I think it should initially go from a individual centric website and organically evolve into a community

Thats a pretty new angle. I think the key is to make good quality messages somehow more valuable than mass messaging. Real currency is def one way to do so but might be a little too aggressive. One idea that I commented here was to only allow certain free messages. If your quality and response rate is at par then you pay less for extra messages otherwise more.

have you looked at cockroachDB ?

I do too. i like some of the pulse/blog post articles from influencers. But lesser so since they opened it to everybody the quality plummeted and now i see articles from people I did not even know I was connected. Some of them are job postings, real estate postings or a redirect to some other website.

Thanks for your advice. I think none of the social networks got groups right. Groups is a trick thing. I think the first flaw is creating membership of groups. Instead I think people are more interested in topics(HN, reddit, twitter, etc). So I think the first step is to not have groups and instead encourage discussions around topics, links, etc.

Thats why the importance is to have a platform/features that are geared towards users.HN, reddit, discourse are great pointers btw to learn from.