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I co-manage https://hackerone.com/googleplay and the top contributor there probably makes 5x - 10x of an average software engineering salary for his home country. Not a lot of hack…

Great summary! By nature of my job (eng lead of a major mobile malware detection team) I have a lot of startups pitch their ML solutions to me. A couple of thoughts: - There are no…

I just put in my promo packet from L5 to L6. This better be happening.

I'm not saying I'm a conscientious objector, but I write a whole lotta bugs under stress conditions. This may take a while ...

I've had the exact same experience with Vint ( https://www.joinvint.com/ ) - Go through personal trainers until you find one you like and then move off the app. The hourly cost wil…

The website a weekend project, not something I care for whether people use it. On average it has five to ten visitors a day unless linked to from somewhere big which only happens l…

When the DB is up, you'll see recommendations while typing.

Possibly, but not on the free tier. Anyway, our current plan can only handle 20 concurrent connections to Postgres and I am not planning to pay more to satisfy spikes.

You can find the data on http://www.foreignlaborcert.doleta.gov/quarterlydata.cfm and the data for previous years at http://www.flcdatacenter.com/caseh1b.aspx

Thank you for the note. Whenever salar.ly is linked from somewhere popular I have to spin up more Heroku instances.

Such a startup already exists obviously: http://www.thelocal.de/20140417/new-app-helps-johns-find-pro...

I shared an office with one other person at Microsoft and have the same at Google. That doesn't mean that everybody has that at either company.

I got the silent treatment twice when trying to interview at Yahoo and once with Google. In all cases it was at the stage between initial recruiter contact and agreeing on a date f…

Shameless plug: For more H-1B salary visualizations check out http://www.salar.ly/ :)

Paid moonlighting projects are illegal for all us work visa holders but sometimes we wanna change jobs too. :(

There is a grace period of (I think) 14 days if your visa expires. There is no legally defined grace period if you are fired before your visa expires.

When you say you're an international student, do you mean you're in the US on an F-1 visa? If yes, you might be in violation of your visa terms. If you have not researched this, pl…

They do report the actual wage. Except that's the employer can choose to specify it as a range between a minimum and a maximum. This is optional, it's also possible to specify just…

We probably used the same dataset but when we developed, most DoL database dumps were 404 links and so salar.ly only has data for 2011 and 2012. I sent an email to the DoL to fix t…

It's the actual wage data. Actually it's the maximum number of the range that an employer can report to the DoL. Source: I am one of the two people behind the site and for my two H…

Attacks are always described as sophisticated in press releases. What do you expect them to say? We were asleep at the wheel and got owned by someone pointing Metasploit on our ser…

I hope this does not spell the end of UBERx ( http://blog.uber.com/2012/07/03/sf-vehicle-choice/ ). As of right now, I can still see UBERx cars on the map so I have my fingers cros…

About 2: You would have to copy the overwritten bytes to another place in memory to execute them later. As the length of x86 instructions is not fixed you would need a whole disass…

No reference, but I'm a H-1B holder and I file FBARs. I am part of a German Expat forum and the opinion there is pretty cut and dry that H-1Bs have to file. Every year that forum h…

I had my H-1B visa transferred between companies last week. Took seven business days, not months. My new company paid for premium processing, which is supposedly guaranteed to comp…