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Signal announcement:

https://www.signal.org/blog/announcing-signal-president/

This follows a 5.7B investment by Facebook

Interesting set of videos by Jansen explaining systems used to create strandbeest: https://www.strandbeest.com/explains

Thanks for that link.

Also found this which goes into some more detailed comparison with rectangular grids:

https://github.com/uber/h3/blob/master/docs/doxyfiles/usecas...

S2, linked from the README[1], does the same hierarchical subdivisions in squares, with each square having a string ID.

Squares divide into sub-squares exactly, but hexagon's don't sub-divide into hexagon's neatly.[2]

Can someone explain the advantages of hexagons over squares in this use case?

[1]https://code.google.com/archive/p/s2-geometry-library/ [2]https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/ta...

Monitoring aquifer health seems like a good approach to start with. Great to see you have thought about the issues.

Water is an ethically challenging area to start a business in, but the status quo in India is pretty bad, so I hope you do well!

Looks like a really good idea.

How do you plan on scaling without becoming part of the water mafia (or at least enabling them)?

After all, there are only so many independent suppliers with their own water source.

Would love to hear you thoughts on this.

Many (if not most) companies do stock refreshes annually, don't they?

This might be just me, but the most important thing to me when I get advice is:

- who am I getting it from

- what do I know about their life/experience

- under what circumstances

Because that let's me adjust how much importance to put on it. Getting advice is generally not the hard part, figuring out which advice to follow and which to discard is.

I might be missing something, but seems to me like the products are still recycled, but as raw materials, not as full devices.

This makes sense, given data is almost certainly bound to be present on phones etc.

Maybe there's a more nuanced way to do this, but this doesn't seem all that bad.

OTOH, having these phones go through a refurb program and selling them probably involves a fair amount or resource use as well.

This has been a fun blast from the past. viaCycle was in YC (S12). And yes, we shut down in 2013 around 3 years in.

The article describes a hypothetical scenario.

It's clear if you read carefully and pay attention to the dates, but this is the kind of thing that seeds fake news and forwards. Disappointed that shock value and clickbaity titles are being used by a rights advocate group.

Okay, but he's basing this argument on his paper, where he sets out to show that immigrants are in fact, not exceptional.

However, if you believe my reasoning, then he isn't really measuring anything. So, we don't know if immigrants are exceptional or ordinary or worse. Or at least not based on his paper.

Okay, so obviously, an employment based visa program does create conflicts of interest and in general, is not good for the immigrant employee, compared to a non employment based visa.

However, the claim that immigrant employees are somehow not as good as their American counterparts is based on shoddy logic.

The criteria he uses in his paper to measure this:

- high salary - high rate of patent production - Ph.D. dissertation awards - doctorate earned at a top-ranked university - employment in R&D

Because of issues with the employment based visa, he himself argues earlier in the article that immigrant employees end up with a lower salary.

Top ranked universities don't always admit people based on merit. Being in the country when applying to school and speaking the language have huge advantages. A lot of graduate admissions are on a case by case basis, and getting an in person meeting with the professor can make all the difference. Also, top graduate schools tend to be a lot more expensive.

Employment is R&D is also hampered by the fact that immigrants don't have comparatively fewer choices when looking for a job, again because of issues with employment based visas. This is especially true is you want to do research in aerospace or materials because of security clearances.

Overall, this doesn't give me a lot of confidence in his other analyses.

Disclaimer: I'm an immigrant, so I'm not without my biases here.

The non existence of other orgs fighting for second ammendment rights, even if it were true, is a pretty weak argument for supporting this particular one, especially given that you agree there are good reasons not too do so.

This is basically the same argument in general against basic income, prepended with "in the case of India, it won't work because... "

I don't know if basic income works, but that's why experiments in the field are required. None of the reasons you have pointed out seem to be apply only to India.

Privilege when used in this sense doesn't mean everything is great all the time, it means that in certain situations, some people have an inherent advantage because of something they had no hand in.

One such example is race, hence white privilege. There are other reasons for privilege as well.

Atlassian has a pretty good track record of absorbing products and keeping them independent. Hipchat and bitbucket come to mind. This should be good for Trello.

All this competition is great.

Let's hope the competitive pressure does not result in poorly thought out features/products pushed out quickly and killed a few years later.

Do you think off-shore developers are going to have the same moral stances of a first world developer? I don't think so.

It's not as if first world developers (or employers) are on average more ethical than off-shore ones. You could have made the same point without being derisive of off-shore developers.

What a disappointing thread on HN, full of anecdotal evidence.

But it's also true that if you come to the US during or after college, banks will not issue you a credit card.

Instead, they will issue you a 'secured' credit card, where you get a $300-500 limit on a card against the same amount paid to the bank as security. Only after a year or 2 of this, will the bank actually issue credit.

Maybe you had an account/history with the bank for a while, and that made a difference?

Would be interesting to hear from netflix employees on whether this hypothesis rings true

Is this not essentially like every other nationalist rant?

Too many immigrants, they are taking our jobs/benefits, we're letting the jihadis in, and so forth?

the xenophobia in this rant basically amounts to "sweden for swedes", but it's more striking when you read this on the About page:

Please note that I enforce a zero-tolerance policy towards racism, violence and extremist comments.

Judging other people by the color of their skin is manifestly absurd. So please don’t submit such comments here

Edit: removed some sarcasm

If you are on the inside and you think the issue is pay scales and job descriptions, surely you've tried to fix these issues and have some data instead of a rant?

Not trying to be sarcastic here, but actually interested th the results

From the article... "You’ve just got a lot of young people raising $1 and $2 million seed rounds for dumb products. How are they going to make money off another photo or text messaging app? It’s like, c’mon guys, let’s challenge ourselves and do something better."

Also, from the article... "Sherbert — a Twitter-like app for four-minute instructional videos"

Out of curiosity, how does one buy spectrum for a device like this? What are the average costs in some countries?

Interesting idea. Any recommendations?

debunked: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/google-earth-sos-woman-trapped-is...