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> I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed.

That is of course your personal choice, no arguing with it.
I'm thinking of projects where communicating with/about videos and images is an integral part of the work. Think image processing for example. In that context a message of the kind "Hey, I tried this new method, look what I got as a result [image]" can make tons of sense.

If you don't need images, you don't have to use them. If the person on the other end of the chat insists on sending them anyway, why are you talking to them? :P
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OP here, also happen to be a YC founder (S17 -
https://lambdaschool.com). Shocked to see this on HN.

A lot of people are asking me about number 7:

> 7. We had one student on the edge of homelessness, was $400 short on bills and almost had to quit because of that. I personally loaned him the money, and his income moved from $10/hr to $70k+/yr. It only took $400, but he didn’t have anywhere to get that from. Insane.

We train people to be software engineers for free in exchange for a portion of their future income for two years (we only get paid if they make above a certain salary threshold doing what we train them to, otherwise we don't get paid). So as a school we focus on eliminating the risk and upfront cost to the student, which lets many brilliant people access a world-class education who otherwise might not afford to. We're also incentivized to make the perfect school that will cause you to be successful in your career, and those incentives make an enormous difference.

The average stats from our first classes are remarkable: our average student increased his or her annual income by over $40,000/yr, 50% were hired within weeks, and the median salary was $90,000, including a lot of low-cost-of-living areas.

Since we're paying for all the other costs of running a world-class school without upfront revenue (we're spending over $300,000/month all-in right now), we're not in the place to pay for living expenses as well, and currently students need to cover their own living expenses for six months. Usually they can live with family, some have part-time jobs, we do have a part-time program, etc. but it's never easy.

This kind of small discrepancy forcing people to quit is something we see all. the. time. I probably see a similar situation with different small dollar amounts weekly. There are times when I am fairly confident I can swing someone's future earning power by several million dollars, but I don't have the thousand dollars it takes to do that. It's incredibly frustrating.

We can partner with lending companies, but if they're paying for students' living expenses they also require students to pay their tuition upfront and be saddled with debt, which goes against our mission, and we think there has to be a better way.

I'm looking into raising some sort of non-profit, living-expenses-only fund/endowment to lend during these sorts of shortfalls, but I'm new to raising nonprofit dollars. If anyone has any suggestions I'm happy to hear them. I don't have a good sense of what the interest rates would need to be for this to work in a for-profit world, so we'll see.
There's blogger that is absolutely free.

You can also try ghost - if you're willing to self-host it, it will cost you $5/mo. for the cheapest cloud VM @ digitalocean or whatever)

There's also medium but I actually find their interface difficult to read in, heh.
> My theory is that scanner manufacturers are deliberately choosing the JPG encoding profile that gets them the fastest result.

This is more-or-less correct. The chips in the printers have a lot less power than your CPU, and the algorithms are a lot worse than those in Photoshop.
Elon Musk's Mars-Bound SpaceX Rocket Takes Flight in 2019
Was the second instance of "textual" (out of the 3) meant to say something else?
Problem with mobile devices is they long outlast their manufacturer's software support. My iPad, for instance. The first device was announced in 2010, and software support ended with 5.1.1 in 2012. Two measly years of updates. This thing has not had an official update (including security updates) in nearly 6 years. Your 3GS hasn't been supported for 4 years. Whereas, I can keep a desktop computer for 20 years and update its software throughout that time.

We should be able to keep our devices until they die, but without regular software updates, you're playing with fire.
I'd definitely buy some products.
To your point - software is king. Any two-bit electronics company can ship a phone, but it's a useless paper weight if it doesn't run the right software.

iPhone is generally behind the curve when it comes to hardware specs, but nobody cares about that because iOS is such a strong platform.
I agree that graphics programming has become more and more hostile to infrequent users over the years. Comparing the setup boilerplate needed to draw a triangle from OpenGL to Vulkan is just horrifying.
Microsoft invests heavily in Xamarin, but I haven't seen an amazing cross platform app written in it yet, even though it's four years older than React Native.

React Native is really good, but I wounder how many developers will be able to move from OOP or Web development to Declarative Programming.

I think we'll continue to see a lot of Kotlin and Swift developers for the next decade, as both languages are still attracting many new developers. Android and iOS have been playing nicely with the compatibility layer, but could potential break it if they begin to lose control of the market place. Developing in React Native, while having lower costs, is still more risky than having two native development teams.
What I find ironic is that mean absolute deviation is just a lot more intuitive and useful for describing a distribution for laymen. Doesn’t excuse the professional mistaking the concepts. But it’s not like the models the professionals rely on are using m.a.v. in their calculations rather than standard deviation. So the whole controversy is a bit overblown ion my opinion
University of Arizona tracks student ID cards to detect who might drop out
A 4-year still matters a lot. The issue is that a 4-year from a state school has almost as much value as a 4-year from an Ivy League. A prestigious university on your resume will open a few extra doors, but in most disciplines it’s just not worth the extra cost. The University of Washington is $5.5k/semester (resident tuition). If you’re spending 20k/semester, you better be getting a degree from somewhere very prestigious and you better have a plan to leverage the network you build there. Otherwise you’re just wasting ~90k on your 4-year degree.

And of course the less in demand your degree is, the more the math favors cheaper schools.
I'd like to make explicit what the author made only implicit, that languages are just one example of many. For me, setting up an apache server used to be a task that took 2 hours, even when I was an engineer with half a decade of experience (mostly windows).

I view this as a major failure. In fact, if your open source software takes many hours to set up, it's costing hundreds of dollars of effort to learn the unnecessary quirks every time.

(Example issues: permissions, conf file failing silently, server installing in multiple distinct places leading to multiple installations, .htaccess ignored due to config setting, config settings including directories of other config settings, logs going to different places, OS security setting screwing up server. )
Github isn't git; if hg takes off, github (the company) can just add support for it.

SCM hosting is very different than SCM software; the latter is usually... not lucrative.

Eg; I'm sure MSFT hopes to make money from their GVFS effort, but not by selling it – simply by using it as a marketing tool to establish credibility (eg; for Team Foundation Server and other developer products).

Even if nobody _used_ GVFS, it could still be a profitable project for MSFT if it made everyone think MSFT an expert in source control. (To be clear, I love this incentive structure, and it's working on me – my respect for Microsoft is growing, thanks in part to GVFS).
no worries, who knows, maybe in a future revision it might
Note 9 is why I gave up trying to mentor developers.

Relevant background: I've held a career that is a dream of high profile projects: game studio owner at age 17, beta developer for original Mac in '83; on Mandelbrot & DeVanney's original Fractal research team, 3D graphics research community during the 80's; engineer on the 3DO and then original PlayStation OS teams; 15 years as a lead game developer of major release titles; 5 years VFX developer and artist and financial analysis for 9 major release VFX heavy feature films; and now 10 years in machine learning and facial recognition.

I love to mentor developers. I ran a free coworking space for 3 years where I tried mentoring many, many starting-their-career developers. I also have both undergrad and graduate school teaching experience.

Out of perhaps 3 dozen mentoring situations, only 2 people actually took the opportunity seriously. Both of them went from nearly minimum wage shit coding jobs to real development companies making in excess of $70K. The other 34 people I tried to mentor never even finished the first "let's see if this person is serious" task I gave them.
>I guess this is my problem, I understand the principle of Mediterranean diet, I just don't know _specifically_ what food to make.,

What do you mean?

Do you need a (say) weekly example?

Mind you this would greatly depend on where you live, and which products you can find (and the actual quality/originality of those products).

Personally I am an advocate of the Mediterranean Diet (not really as "coded" by the various scientists, but more like traditional eating), but you need to have "real", "good" ingredients not the kind of stuff that you can normally buy at a supermarket - say - in the UK (with no offence intended to the British or to their supermarkets, of course, only an example) if you want to have the "right" experience, at least regarding taste, but I suspect that also the (supposed) health benefits come from fresh, genuine ingredients.

And I would add - OT but connected to other recent discussions on HN about Vitamin D and sun - that most probably part of the generic Mediterranean good health might come from eating "right" while living in the "right" climate.
It's because of this potential drama with the GPL that Apple went to the trouble of investing in LLVM/Clang as a GCC replacement. Also, Google is working on Fuchsia which is an OS without GPL.

Companies are explicitly trying to make software with different licenses for stuff they actually sell/give to consumers. I would not be surprised if in 10 years, the only major software with GPL used by large companies is all on servers where they are basically no compliance issues.
Magnetic Storm Could Disrupt Essential Services on March 18
My single working mother had no bandwidth to help me with getting into college. Neither of my parents had a dime to give me. Despite both my parents being college educated and emphasizing its importance, they had little practical advice or assistance to give. I knew nothing. I ended up applying to one state university, in-state, commuting long distance, not taking any loan, and working 30 hours a week to afford it. I dropped out after a semester from the unmitigated strain and sleep deprivation. I owe my quite exceptional career to our industry being lax about degrees.
iOS also seems to perform better with similar specs than Android.
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I remember graduating from a four year school, and my girlfriend asked me, "How--do--you feel? Proud?"

I looked at her, and said, "It was a waste of time."

I said, "Looking back, I there were probably only eight courses that I think will help me?". (I finished because there was a health school I wanted to get into, and didn't want her getting one up on me. Plus--I didn't want to work as hard as my dad did. I remember having to say, "I want to help people when I applied to the professional school. In all honestly science was really easy, and I didn't want to break my back doing an honest job. Yes--I said it, and so many of my peers were frauds. Frauds that used The Placebo effect as their main tool, but were to in denial to admit it.)

Back to my college love. She was going to a UC, and was obnoxiously proud of it. She always had to announce what school she was in, but always left out the CC that barely passed her. (At time, where people didn't brag. I'm so out of now, I guess bragging is ok now? Back in the day, it was a no-no.)

I said it for two reasons. One--being it was the truth. Two--she was just irritating.

For three years, I had to hear about her dream of becoming a Doctor; with her C average, and cheating off me in chemistry.

I remember the last day we were together.

It was the day she asked me if I was proud. I do remember thinking, I'm so glad I finished before you. A lot of you are thinking, another misogynist?

No--I just was with the wrong person. She was stunning, but cold, had the emotional depth of a reptile, and calculating. I turned down so many opportunities while in school because I was with her.

Back to school. I really felt it was a waste of time; But I knew the worst day at school was so much better than any day working. That is a truism for myself.

If I didn't have a nervous breakdown, I would have stayed in school as long as possible. Every day, you get to look at those beautiful girls, and maybe learn something new? (My breakdown was unrelated to school. Just could stop thinking about that weird pain on my head. I was just sure it must be a brain tumor. And I couldn't quite figure out death, while delaying gratification. A little advice, there's no delay of gratification while in most schools.)

If I had a kid, I would tell him to stay in school as long as possible. I would also tell her to network, even if the rich kids make you want to up chuck.
The title of this entry at both Hacker News and the actual website is very misleading.

For me as a scientist "XY coordinates" most likely means cartesian coordinates. In SVG (like virtually any other graphics file format), coordinates are given in a cartesian coordinate system by default.

However, what is meant here is: "Turning an SVG into a dot matrix" or "Turning SVG paths into a series of dots".

The purpose of the author is mainly to emphasize clarity of animations.
Dropbox Unsealed: Gears Up for IPO with Valuation of $7.6Bil
Is this really standard writing paper? I assume it would be useful for calligraphy or learning how to write (as you can use the subdivision to draw letters to the correct height) but I find it weird for it to be standard issue paper.
And the "right" software is often controlled by one company. If you read a lot of reviews of Windows Phones, most reviewers seemed to more or less come to the same conclusion: That Windows was a faster, smoother OS, but that they had trouble going about their daily lives with it because it didn't have Gmail and the other five or six Google Apps they relied on.

As long as the market share of any newcomer is low enough, Google can leave them out in the cold for app support (or intentionally interfere by blocking YouTube access, similar to what they did with Windows Mobile, and now Amazon's Echo and Fire platforms), and they'll die off for that reason alone.

Whether it's an Android fork or a new OS like Tizen or some new Windows flavor, it won't beat Google unless it has the market share to force Google to support it with apps. And it's hard to get that market share without Google's support.
Curious about what ended up working for you? What project management app are you using now?
That is true -- but most of that traffic is traveling to or from destinations along the route, such as central Stockholm, the ports, or some of the nearer suburbs. Quite few vehicles actually go from Huddinge (or south) to Kista (or north).
Is automation labor-displacing? Productivity growth, employment, and labor share
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The company they need to beat is AMD. AMD's integrated GPU's are thoroughly trouncing Intel's and are good enough for light gaming. Their weak integrated graphics hurt their core business of CPU sales.

They certainly want to compete in the discrete GPU space, but I think they should be much more scared of losing CPU market share.
As long which ones you send to each link is determined entirely randomly, you have indeed done a "scientific" (i.e., statistically valid) control.
Apple Watch wristband sensor claims to detect potassium in blood without needles
> it's cool to demo first person shooters at NRA events the day after a mass shooting where you play the part of a deranged mass shooter killing random people on a train platform

Sounds much cooler than hypocritically cancelling an event just because of the unfortunate news cycle.
Tesla paused Model 3 production for planned upgrade in Feb
This looks interesting conceptually. TIL about NFQUEUE in iptables. I've only run such tools on Mac/Windows and haven't really searched for something like this on Linux.

I know trying to do this on Windows isn't trivial. I currently use Windows 10 Firewall Control, but I don't really like how it fails the first connection attempt from an application instead of holding it until you select an option.
It's almost like politicians manage their perception and image in strategic ways where they lull their enemies into being emotionally caught up with minor character flaws rather than the tactics and orientation of their actions.

The smugness of people against Trump is even more worse than the smugness people had against George W.

They're not idiots. They're sharks who have a very clear aptitude at manipulating people and public perception. It's very bad strategy, and very human, to ascribe to your opponents victories as "luck" and to ascribe their mentality as "dumb".
IMHO all users should consider switching to some reputable VPN with no logs policy https://vpnspecial.com/tunnelbear-has-just-been-purchased-be...
20% of all Node.js modules found vulnerable to injection attacks
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, there used to be lots Basic compilers for doing systems programming in Z80, 68000, VAX, 80x86 ....

In fact, they still exist for micro-controlers, https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobasic.
That's not at all what they said.

The said that as the battery degrades, they limit CPU spikiness that can abruptly kill the device even with a non-trivial amount of juice left.

That's not nearly the same as "slowing down the phone with every upgrade".

Often people have reported better performance after an OS upgrade, although obviously results may vary, and subjective impressions are always, well, subjective.
Helping 3500 students learn to code
IRCv3 has the same problems as XMPP's XEPs [1]. You need servers capable of handling these standards, and then you need clients capable of handling these standards.

In the meantime people will chose other platforms that provide better and more consistent experiences.

[1] https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
Haskell can be fantastically fast (rivaling C for some tasks), and nothing can beat it for writing parsers. Relying on lazy IO can be risky if you don't know what you're doing, but I've been able to write log parsers that can crunch multi-gigabyte files as fast as my SSD can read them, all without ever going over 4MB of RAM.

Plus it's incredibly stable. Once you learn to avoid a few sharp edges (head, !!, etc.) you should never encounter an exception at runtime. Literally never.
Take mobile devices- add a new type of battery, allowing for true decentralized servers- and intels seemingly value in the serverspace evaporates in a cloud of smoke.

Add to that, a new generation of envelop layer in the making (Augmented Reality) - that will replace desktops and workstations, and intels huge castle seems truely build upon sand.

In addition they also failed on the other big market- massive parallelization (Neuronal Nets, Cryptocurrencys, etc.) - it just seems that intel lost its ability to innovate quite a while ago- and was just kept upright by its ability to monopolize markets.

Im sure steam-engine companys had great share-value, until the day they had not.
Claudia Sanders Dinner House: http://claudiasanders.com/

Turns out the company couldn't argue that it owned his wife's name. There are interesting arguments that it's a sort of feminist justice in the end given most of the recipes were likely Claudia's to begin with.
> Could you make a whitelist that, when faced with a site not on the whitelist, serves up a webpage that asks for the parent to enter a passphrase to add this site to the whitelist?

I could, but it's a lot more work than just installing Sophos XG on a used server and enabling filtering for certain users. I could also show my wife how to use the admin interface and add additional sites to the whitelist, but there's still the issue of CDN's and such that make life difficult.

> Sounds like it could be a worthy venture. Make this software running on dd-wrt or whatever, then sell people wifi-routers with this preloaded so that they can just plug it to their existing routers with ethernet, and voila they have a kid-friendly separate wifi.

Some companies already sell content filtering devices that sit somewhere on your home network, I'm not a fan of them because they usually require you install some client on your devices or use a captive portal for authentication. Some also have a monthly/annual subscription or those that don't I worry how they even afford to keep the list up to date once they get out of growth stage (or I'm out $$$ for the hardware if they fail to exit it at all).

I realize my setup at home isn't for your average user, but one huge advantage I have that nets it a high Wife/Spouse Acceptance Factor is authentication to my firewall is done through RADIUS accounting packets and I already have AD deployed at home. The moment you login to my network the wireless access point or switch (if wired connection) tells the firewall what user is assigned to a specific IP address, so my wife just signs in with her AD credentials on her iPhone/surface pro/etc. and the firewall already knows to let all her traffic through, if my daughter signs in on her computer/iPhone (she has my old 6+ to play games on) traffic is immediately filtered.
reddit.com/r/iamverysmart ?
rust has actors too https://github.com/actix/actix
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I can't understand HN's algo. This story is 5 hours old with 202 comments and 552 points, and currently ranked at 15 on my list. Whereas there's another story 8 hours old with 89 points that's at 4. It always strikes me as more than a coincidence when startups that YC is affiliated with (Slack has purchased a few YC alum companies) get their bad news briefly commented on, then buried.
I was introduced to Lua via writing a Wireshark plugin for packet verification. It was hard in the beginning but dove right into working with a C backend. I'd say that's an approachable side project if you want to explore Lua.
You should chat with us. Filtering for interest is important, but is very possible. We have 300+ very motivated students enrolled right now from thousands of interested applicants.
Ray Kroc's story is fascinatingly told in recent film "The Founder" with Michael Keaton as the fascinating food franchise businessman and "founder". The film isn't entirely accurate, though closer than many films get, and a fun watch.
Agree and price with 3 year deal is unbeatable https://nordvpn.com/special/specialdeal
I was an engineer at a company attempting to extract rare earth metals from fly ash using a solvent method (supercritical CO2). Similar to how caffeine is removed from coffee.

There aren’t a lot of rare earths in coal/fly ash but even modest coal plants produce tons of fly ash daily.
Dajie's Carbon Credits vs. Tesla's Powerwall