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Yes- the original company NextDrop has been around since 2011, but we shut that down about a year ago and started this new version of NextDrop recently.

At a high level, you're correct. For the past 6 years we were essentially selling water data to consumers, governments, and global brands. It was actually a profitable business but we decided to shut it down, not because we didn't have enough demand for water data, but because we were crowdsourcing water data and that was not very scalable or reliable. Back in 2011 IoT devices were way too expensive. When my co-founder and I noticed that devices were pretty cheap, we decided to start a company around water data again.

YC was great about us spending time in India- we split our time between India and the US because all our users were in India and they knew that. Honestly, to go after a big opportunity, sometimes it helps to be on the ground, and then step away and get advice/feedback from people who will listen to what you're saying and help you see the best way forward. That was how we used the time in the Bay Area, and found it very valuable. It was also useful for us because we were still in the launching stages. Had we been further along in the business, it may have been much harder to do what we did.

The water mafia question is definitely a super important. The only way we can see taking on the mafia is to add more water supply on to the market. The only way we can do that is to enable micro entrepreneurs to sell water. As you probably know, about 50% of urban Indians have their own borewell, but less than 1% sell water. Phase I is to aggregate water demand using our IoT devices, and Phase II is to enable hyperlocal selling of water.
It's pretty difficult to anonymously buy an SBC with cash.
What if you make it work and there is no more Combine to take it from you?
PIK won this test. PIK seems to be less than half the file size of everything else on the "red-room.png" test on the same butteraugli scores.
As long as you're dealing with layers of raster data loading psd files works. Once you start adding things like smart objects it fails.

I use gimp to deal with psd files of web page layouts from designers and so far it's worked every time.
Aren't the ones in charge (e.g. executives, managers, etc.) responsible for the wrongdoing and not the workers carrying out the criminal activity? I'm surprised his lawyer didn't make a claim that he was just "following orders." There have been countless recreations of Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment and its results have been consistent. People are willing to obey and comply to authority figures, even if it's for a detrimental cause. Isn't it unlikely that the engineer acted on his own?
Are you saying, it wouldn't be too difficult to implement this in the go compiler but the crucial question is (just) the syntax of the import string?
That's correct and you can even start working for the new employer upon confirmed delivery of the H-1B petition to USCIS< But there's risk with this of course. Unless there's a compelling reason, it makes sense to wait until the petition has been receipted in by USCIS and the filing fee checks cashed. But also note that you do not need to start working upon receipt; you can remain in valid status in the US while the petition is pending and only start working after it is approved.
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> I bet that most, if not all, decent restaurants in Japan ultra-freeze wild fishes on the other hand, even if they may not admit it.

They (can, in some restaurants or if you ask) serve the head next to the sashimi and it is still twitching so you know it is fresh. So no, they don't.
Yes. But college/university career counseling staffs and unemployment bureaus of various sorts and the like leave a lot of people with an early, negative impression of networking.

People who may have had a lot of opportunity in their life/careers and who tend to fall into productive and interesting networking scenarios, should at least know that for a lot of the... well, I can really only speak for the U.S.... by dint of experience, "networking" -- at least as a formal and promoted activity -- is a dirty word.

And having quickly looked at the OP story, I also recall some very uncomfortable feelings, watching someone aggressively pursue a senior executive's email or phone number. E.g. this fellow or gal comes to a friend's purely social event, and ends up having to handle undesired and poorly couched attempts at professional connections.

And the few times I've been talked into attempting to "work the system" in such a fashion? Still make me shudder.

P.S. Or the person who's picked up their license as a mortgage broker, and the conversations you attempt to dance around whenever your own looming home purchase comes up. And...

Even at the everyday level, a side of "networking" that's kind of a pain to deal with.

Anyway... I mostly agree with the article. Have something they're genuinely interested in.
Why? Is Pizza Hut's CEO criminally responsible if I run a red light to deliver a pizza because I'm afraid of being late?

Edit: Please explain how the VW case is any different than my analogy
I think there is another piece to this. Buying a cup of coffee means I get a cup of coffee. Buying your $0.99 app means I have the right to trade my time for whatever your app provides. The reason I don't buy apps is because I don't have the time to spend on your app, not because I think the $1 is strictly more valuable elsewhere.
Your cynicism apparently outweighs your reading skills:

Quoting directly FTA:
"U.S. prosecutors have charged eight current and former Volkswagen executives in connection with the diesel emissions cheating probe. Liang is one of the lowest-ranking executives charged so far.

Another VW executive, Oliver Schmidt, has pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced in Detroit on Dec. 6. Under a plea agreement, Schmidt could face up to seven years in prison and a fine of between $40,000 and $400,000 after admitting to conspiring to mislead U.S regulators and violating clean air laws."
There's a flip side implication of this decision: it gives tremendous autonomy to engineers to stand up to management. It can empower legions of engineers to do the right thing when faced with pressure to do wrong.

Maybe I'm trying too hard to find a silver lining.

I'm angered at the hypocrisy of the management getting to sleep in their own beds for the next 40 months and their kids having no indication of their parent's role in this crime, while this engineer's reputation gets smeared for life. Not that he was innocent, but being the lone fallguy for a billion dollar corporation doesn't particular feel like justice.
For both customers and 'potential customers' you'd need classification staff to categorize the mail. Their jobs might be made easier by machine learning providing them a guess to confirm, but it is important to have a human involved as actually intelligent verification (and additional training in some cases).

Obviously non-customers would be fed over to either sales directly or a Sales Engineer.
Just "following orders" doesn't even work for soldiers, let alone criminals.
Exactly, and to me that leads to the question of whether or not selfishness is required for a civilization/society to advance.
Shouldn’t there be a distinction between the person writing the code and the person who chooses to use the code? An engineer shouldn’t be responsible for knowing the law and doesn’t have access to corporate lawyers that executives do. You could argue that there are legitimate reasons to write code that’s illegal for research purposes but never implemented. Why should an engineer be responsible for that?
60k in Sweden: 30k after tax
60k in U.S.: 40k after tax
It's really not gray at all. As long as the green card was obtained in good faith, there's no obligation to continue working for the sponsoring employer for any period of time after the green card is issued.
> Javascript is not harder to unit test because it has fully featured anonymous functions.

It is if you actually use them. ;)
Gettier Problems
Depends on field. I paid my last postdoc $90K CAD ($72K USD).

It's hard to find good postdocs in AI with the job market right now.

For biologists or other oversupplied PhDs, salaries are much lower.
By way of early Fermilab history, the story of the former Illinois town of Weston, site of which is now Fermilab:

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/weston-il-how-nuclear-r...
$1M is a typical US startup fund, if not a little low.

The $250k for a house is weird, but in the US we make deals like spousal hires that might seem strange in other places.
I haven't read a ton of academic research in general, but in trying to understand CRDTs and concurrency, gritzko's paper on "Causal Trees"[1] struck me as incredibly smart and clear in its thinking. Many of the other CRDT papers I read (even influential ones) were flawed in a number of respects: blurred lines between design and implementation, blatant mistakes and typos, hasty and unconvincing conclusions, an overabundance of newly-minted terms and acronyms, dense proofs lacking any concrete examples, unintuitive divisions between operation history and state mutation. The Causal Trees paper is also dense and also invents a bunch of new vocabulary, but the logic is completely consistent (to the point of being unified under a single metaphor) and clearly explained every step of the way. The data format is also very clever, and the paper spends a good amount of time following the practical consequences of those design decisions, e.g. the ease of displaying inline changes, or of generating a particular revision of the document.

Weirdly, the paper isn't much discussed alongside the usual contenders. (WOOT, Logoot, RGA, LSEQ, etc.)

[1]: https://ai2-s2-pdfs.s3.amazonaws.com/6534/c371ef78979d7ed84b...
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Per the article this engineer was an executive.
Agriculture which has also kept up with productivity improvements. "It must be unsustainable" is not an argument.
>despite those millions of civilizations having fundamentally different mental architectures, ecologies, circumstances, time scales, and difficulties in spreading out into space is really a tough sell

Absolutely, which is why I said "an answer" as opposed to "the answer".
Hi Peter, currently on my 3rd E-3 visa with the same employer as a 'Public Relations Specialist'. My employer is now starting the green card process. They are preparing the application, and have updated the job description to reflect my current responsibilities and minimum requirements.

My BA major is a field called "Performance Studies', which is an obscure interdisciplainry sub-field of Social Sciences and Humanities. My specific research is directly related to my job - experiential marketing in nonprofits, and my employer considers this a "related field" to Marketing, Communications or Public Relations major.

My issue is that my employer does not want to list "Performance Studies" as a required major in the minimum requirements, but my lawyer is recommending we do this to avoid a denial. What are my chances of approval if we list minimum requirement as "BA degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations, or related field" - with Performance Studies + my specific research as the 'related field'? I'm finding it hard to get advice from peers as most people I speak with applied for their GCs as engineers or mathmatics majors - your thoughts are much appreciated!
What is the best resource for understanding how to create FPGA constraints? Any good resource for floor planning ?
Good catch, that was towards the end.
This is why many academic institutions require a philosophy course for engineering majors. I had to take science, tech, and ethics.
Probably sounds silly, but I absolutely love Gimp and Inkscape, and use them both everyday. Their poor support on Mac was one of the reason I switched back to Windows.

It's odd, because I've read all the arguments about how OSX is a unix, etc., but in the real world I've found better success running user facing open source application on Windows.
Affordability is not the point. Not everyone is _allowed_ a passport.

You can't get a passport if, for example, you have outstanding criminal charges that you are awaiting trial for on bail. Should that prevent you from being able to get or use a bank account? You might need that to be able to pay a lawyer.
If you don't have the time to read the actual article, read the other comments - the managers are also facing jail-time. Also, this guy wasn't a regular engineer, he's also an executive, the title is misleading.
A good lesson to learn.

"I was just following orders" is just as poor of an excuse for engineers as it was for nazis.
* Ugly Oracle DB style contracts

* Scaring potential customers away with said contracts and suing customers

* Google walking out on Java going with Kotlin instead....boom billions of users moving to a different language. Still on the JVM though....but that's not a hard requirement.
The article flatly says that this person an executive and that several other executives were charged.

This thread is fulling of people who didn't read a tiny well written article.
I'm not really holding my breath on CS:GO getting that sort of treatment. They told us months ago we'd basically be getting a shoe-horned in Panorama UI and NOT a full Source 2 Reborn-type deal.
That's a roughly steady state flow, all else being equal, and wouldn't explain the change.
Updating to say "top executives".

They have no trouble charging engineers and low level managers, but then it stops. It's not my cynicism because it happened so many times.

DOJ has no trouble charging a Goldman Sachs trader, but will never charge C-suite executives.

Read the book.
There's an equivalency formula which governs. The quality of one's employment or one's ability is relevant in the O-1 context, not the H-1B context. Without a bachelor's degree, you would need 12 years of full-time professional experience to be deemed to have the equivalent of a bachelor's degree, which is a requirement for H-1B classification.
Yes, I think RadioShack is probably the most famous example for sceptics. The US legal system really is that bad.
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There is a typo in the title - Boomarking instead of Bookmarking.
"U.S. prosecutors have charged eight current and former Volkswagen executives in connection with the diesel emissions cheating probe."
Not a chance unless clear whistleblower laws emerge providing strong incentives coupled with extreme protections
I can't comment on the detection accuracy because this extension makes an important mistake -- it ignores the actual URL you are on and always performs detection on the root domain. So if I point the extension to a webapp at app.mycompany.com I get results for our marketing site at mycompany.com, which uses completely different (and more boring) tech.
>No, we stick with fossil fuels because they are cheaper (at the scale we need). More expensive energy -> less energy use -> lower standard of living.

So why aren't we using nuclear?
Did you read the article (or any others about this) at all? His lawyer absolutely made the 'just following orders' argument:

"Liang’s lawyer, Daniel Nixon, on Friday urged Cox to consider a sentence of house arrest, saying Liang was not a “mastermind” of the emissions fraud. Liang “blindly executed a misguided loyalty to his employer,” Nixon said."

Also, executives are being charged:

"U.S. prosecutors have charged eight current and former Volkswagen executives in connection with the diesel emissions cheating probe. Liang is one of the lowest-ranking executives charged so far.

Another VW executive, Oliver Schmidt, has pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced in Detroit on Dec. 6. Under a plea agreement, Schmidt could face up to seven years in prison and a fine of between $40,000 and $400,000 after admitting to conspiring to mislead U.S regulators and violating clean air laws."

I find it horrifying that engineers here on HN think that following orders is a good enough reason to stay out of jail for something like this. No matter what executives have done, we must never remove all blame from the people who are directly responsible for committing crimes rather than doing the right thing.
Kind of like torrenting, right? But how stable is that data then? Isn't it too complicated, to find all that data and piece it together, and not lose any of it?

I will look at those, thanks.
Why is this a company? It's one Chrome addon.

Seriously people.
I don't think so. I mean, read the story. It's written really well. Many years passed between Half Life 1 and Half Life 2, and yet #2 was very successful.

Another example is TF2.
My guess is they are worried about protesters collecting in a train station, which could be a serious safety concern.

They see someone with a sign, and they try to get him to move along quickly before (potentially) a train load of additional protesters arrive.

I don't really know all the facts here, I am just offering an alternative way to interpet the facts provided.
Forgive my ignorance but is there actually enough water in and around India to make up for the shortage, but right now it's just not distributed efficiently? Or after solving for all these inefficiencies, there'd still be a shortage? If so, what are other sources they can leverage down the road?
I was going to make a similar comment but in this case wasn't this guy in a leadership role? I believe the article may have even referred to him as an exec but I have to reread. But yes others should definitely be held responsible.
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That's a good question. Actually, we've spent time figuring out how to drop the cost of the device to sub $30, at scale.

For frequent users, we would give the device away for free. For people that are on a public water connection and only use tankers once in a while to supplement their water usage, it would probably be like you mentioned- order tankers on demand, when you need it.
Read the article. This guy was an executive and 7 or 8 other executive were charged as well.

He happened to be the executive in charge of engineering. He also plead guilty.
There was much more information about his role in Bloomsburg last year. He was head of the diesel competence unit in the US, and appears to have been directly involved.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-09/veteran-v...
If a customer really wants to contact you they'll find a way. Life always finds a way.
I'm not a designer, but a web developer (professionally for about 10 years) and I've done very serious work with it. It's been pretty much enough for my needs so far.
The problem with python class definition is the need to write instance vars 3x:

def __init__(self, foo)
self.foo = foo

There is an attrs package and new proposal (https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/blob/master/pep-xx...) to remedy that.
I do not understand?, if vw post huge profit the execs will all get fat bonus .in the case poor sob did all this behind his managers back ?.
There's no clear guidance but as long as sub-renting doesn't become a "business" - meaning that it's just limited to your one place - then I see no problem with it.
This was was an executive per the article.
Less time than he'd get for robbing a gas station.
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This is the true problem. Apple is pushing in-app subscriptions on developers now...but as a developer you have no way to inform your customer of this. We have a SaaS business, and still get 1 out of 10 reviews complaining that there is a subscription. We state that it requires a sub in the first line of the app subscription, but that is not enough.
When you clean data from violent death, child mortality, and pandemics, our predecessors did not live much shorter lifespans!
It's true for anything with a GUI using GTK or similar. For cmdline, macOS is generally a lot better. WSL is getting really good as well, so cmdline on Windows (well, it's actually Linux, but running on Windows) is getting really good. Other open source things (like Emacs) has macOS and Windows native GUI support built in and mostly works great on all platforms.
He just happens too be the first person sentenced - there are many others, and the execs above him are facing higher fines and longer sentences.
That's never the preferred answer. That's the trivially achievable answer, given the sheer bloody-mindedness of the body politic, and the difficulty in really, truly convincing even a small portion of the population of existential risk when they haven't already lost family members to said risk. It is literally the least we can do, while still doing something.

The fact is, I can't fight global warming with my own actions. Collective actions are required, and they need to be fairly substantial sacrifices on the part of society. Coordination problems on a national/global scale are just not a thing we're good at solving without force of arms.

Enterprises that cost trillions of dollars are a thing we have the luxury of affording; All we would need to do is get supermajority agreement on the subject.
The interface to the feature is perhaps more important than the complexity of the implementation because it will affect many more people - only a few programmers will work on the compiler but tens of thousands of programmers will be writing code using it. I make no claims as to how complex this would be to implement, but it probably wouldn't stand out. The interesting thing is that this shouldn't necessitate any changes in the language of generic modules (no <>s and such). It merely parameterizes some types and constants in a module. As such, after a certain phase in compilation, the process is the same as for a non-generic module so perhaps it's a low-complexity change in the implementation, too (not just in the language spec).
I've seen noreply@ useful/necessary in cases where the original message contained sensitive information that you wouldn't want forwarded to support staff if someone chose to reply.
Comparing with Wappalyzer and BuiltWith, here's why we think we have something different (and maybe better):

1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them).

2. Ability to follow sites (and know what techs websites started using/ditched).

3. Very lightweight compared to our counterparts, and arguably better UI ;)

4. More accurate data. BuiltWith can be very inaccurate as you might've already noticed. Wappalyzer is fairly accurate, but limited in technologies.

WhatRuns is trying to be the best of both worlds. :)
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I'm aware of polymorphic variants and row types and the like. My concern is one of modularity in that I consider a running system pretty dead, extensions during coding are where language features and their logics are interesting. Closing your sums is valuable to consumers: they have complete induction principles, e.g.

Open sums and row types are a little different in that they represent a fixed/closed type but retain enough information to extend it more conveniently and to see it as structurally related to other (open) sums/products. This is no doubt super useful, but I see it more as an application sitting atop polymorphism rather than a fundamental concept.

Finally, I am exactly confusing the language mechanism with the type it intends to model because exactly now we have to think about things as a mechanism and model. This is where breakdowns occur.

Anyway, I doubt there's a real difference of opinion here. I'm very familiar with the concepts you're discussing, but perhaps argue that they are not as fundamental as regular, closed sums/products and language support for those simplest building blocks is important.