Yep, their startup / idea / solution was worth less then the team they had grown. It's a better end to a startup then laying everyone off no doubt.

Apply to m-soft, google, and any other company on the top 100 list of H1-B sponsors.

here's that list: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2012-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx

HN is a gem

wow this is really helpful!

Wholesale this. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. will have no problems dealing with visa shenanigans if you get an offer from them.

Not to take away the point from the first line, but I'm pretty sure robots are coupled with some sort of software to make them work.

I personally think mine is the best one. :-)

Public boarding schools.

Lots of folks are hurting financially these days, so there's a lot of distraction for teenagers and not enough structure. Boarding schools will go a long way to solving that.

I also think what Obama mentioned in the SOTU address is a great idea: pre-school for all, not just those who can afford it.

Did you go to a boarding school? (I graduated from a public HS boarding school.)

Far from structure, outside of class, it is much easier for students to become distracted, since one residential advisor cannot possibly supervise a hall of 30 students and keep track of there whereabouts and how they're spending time.

I think school should take up as little time as possible, so that kids are free to do things on their own. Since boarding schools are 100% all the time, I don't like that idea at all.

Jeri Ellsworth (https://twitter.com/jeriellsworth) was the name that caught my eye. I watch her youtube's, and her life story is a good read.

She took her pinball machines when she left Valve.

That's a huge bummer. Jeri is amazing.

I expect her to land on her feet, I keep wondering about Abrash, is he still there? See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838880 which was about 9 months ago.

Given that Abrash is (was?) working on something Occulus Rift like, I wonder if they just decided "Hey we can use O.R. and not bother with this home grown thing." ?

He's still at the top of the Valve staff page.

Yes, it's in the employee handbook posted last year. Peer evaluations that actually work compared to the Microsoft system Gabe left behind.

IIRC, the employee handbook pretty much said that you can work on whatever you want, and choose your own departments. So when doing layoffs, are peer evaluation scores compared companywide (as opposed to just saying, we're letting you go because we're shutting down your department/project).

... I.... YC14