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I'm thinking more like remarkable or the Sony one. Watched some vids last night they look lackluster at best pumping them full of features nobody asked for to hide the fact they don't do the one thing well.

I'd pay double what those cost for an eink note taking tablet that lets me handwrite normally (lefty), erase, save and nothing more.

As long as it's response time was near instant and the pen nibs didn't wear out or were at least commoditized enough I could use any brand.

The Sony comes close, but im allergic and besides there is no way I'm dropping $600 just so I get to carry micro USB again.
Well, second. These are the first two sentences:

>Labor Department investigators recently concluded that Cisco Systems Inc. discriminated against U.S. workers by favoring immigrant visa holders for job openings, sources familiar with the probe tell Bloomberg Law.

>The DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs determined that the technology firm secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring U.S. citizens for certain jobs and paid the visa holders at a lower rate than their American counterparts, according to the sources.
Yeah I think sequestering carbon in decoration, blocks, or items is okay.

Burning a tree however should incur some penalty, after all - wildfires are a positive feedback loop in reality and it'd be trivial to detect.

Might have to deviate from the idea that the global carbon score is the sum of everyones individual carbon score, since there will certainly be lots of events which contribute CO2 without player intervention.

Thanks!
Lol, likewise, I didn't share it fortunately. I was busy looking through the FAQ and what to expect and looking through my calendar to figure out scheduling. Oh well, ish happens, at least they will let us audit. As usually, those of us rejected can self organize in groups of 4-5 for a mastermind group as a substitute for the advisory track.
"Oh youre a founder huh?"

"Yep"

"What company?"

"We are in stealth-mode, currently"

"Ah, what stage are you at, can you share that?"

"Yeah, like I said, we are a stealth-mode pre-unicorn startupschool audit track company"
KB != kb.
Is Docker having trouble monetizing?
Ehm, if your server runs a reasonable modern x264, you should get significantly lower bandwidth at "transparent" quality compared to what the GPU's hardware encoders is even capable of reaching. The reason there being that the hardware encoder can't use some features x264 implements sufficiently fast to make them worthwhile to use at that sort of time investment.

Please don't try to measure lossy-anything-calculation by speed alone, always make sure that the required quality can even be reached, and even if, that it still exhibits the performance benefits, even after you tune these features up far enough.
My cofounder just texted me: "Yeah, our first rejection, hopefully there’s way way more :)" I hope you have many more rejections in your future, too AniketP1! We'll be out there getting turned down for our wacky ideas too, right there with you! :)
This may be pretty close to the mark.

I just got accepted (after initially rejected) and my startup is pre-launch and has zero customers/revenue. But I do have a degree and have worked for a dozen very large enterprises e.g. Apple, Oracle.

It's great to be accepted but my passion for my startup hasn't changed one iota. Still going to work 24/7 regardless and so should everyone. Do it because you love it.
YC is supposed to help with the rollercoaster? I thought you're just helping to make it go faster! :)
For all the other founders and teams who had that momentary confidence of outside reenforcement -- remember how unstoppable and brave you felt in that moment! That glow doesn't have to go away with a retraction email.

Exactly. It doesn't make two fucks what YC thinks of you, your company, or anything else. Just go win without them. Muster up a little outrage if that sort of thing helps you, be pissed for 30 minutes or so, then buckle down and start writing code, or whatever you need to do to move forward.

As a wise man once said:

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth, but you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody.
Several years ago, I went to a data science Meetup where one of the speakers was working for a company which entire goal was to beat the bookies at soccer. They had people watching games, recording every detail, and a host of machine learning and statistical experts on payroll to make predictions.

No shit the bookies don't wanna take their bets.
Sad thing is - if this is going on at Cisco imagine what goes on in the farm fields, the restaurants, the hotels, and the rest of the lowest paying jobs in this country. If it takes YEARS to build a case against giant company how many little guys are getting away with it on a daily basis?
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I was just in florida and was surprised at how bad even the bottled water tasted.
Database as a service; before you say RDS, cloud db is not what I mean, I mean postrest, an http/rest interface to a relational db, with jwt authentication etc. A backend for static html sites.
You can put your microfiber clothes in a specialized bag when washing to help prevent the fibers from making their way into the water systems. Here is one example of a bag: https://www.patagonia.com/product/guppyfriend-washing-bag/O2...
This is an open secret in tech. Visa holders have less job offers to negotiate with, less job mobility, and consequently get paid less. Companies preferentially hire them over Americans.

Further, the recent actions making harder for "body shops" like Infosys are actually helping big tech companies win more visa lotteries. This means the recent action that was supposed to help American workers, is actually causing the best jobs to shift more to immigrants and less to Americans.

The whole visa and immigration system needs huge reform. I am not anti immigrant but the immigration system disproportionately hurts American software engineers and American tech. You don't see many visa holders working in sales and marketing, or teaching, or law, mostly just software engineering (at the high end) and then migrant farming and illegal immigrant factory workers (at the low end).
Please see the Hacker News guidelines!

>Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Forest fires would spread forever for a while back in Alpha:

https://twitter.com/notch/status/72582596294483969

We all burned at least one house down.
I mean, the incentives are also kind of backwards -- it's usually free to drive and you have to pay to ride the train. If we're really looking at climate cataclysm it might be worth thinking about changing that dynamic.
Lol! I think this comment is the greatest thing to come out of the error.
Also it will likely marketed around the new Ray Tracing tech making it mainstream.

It will take another generation or two of speed enhancements so it can fit in a <$500 console.
Packaging food in plastic containers provides easier access to snackfoods, and allows you to carry them in more places to allow opportunistic snacking.

While the plastic itself may not be directly causing diabetes, the increased availability of food might be allowing people to overeat and give themselves diabetes.
I'm interested in how you got to that conclusion.
Do the workers own the means of production, at least in terms of government propaganda? No? Then it's not socialism.
Ultra is ridiculous and unnecessary. I play 4K60 on an RX 480 with "smart" settings — max textures/meshes, min shader effects, no ambient occlusion, no dynamic reflections, etc.
The ability to pay less, and to not worry about the employee leaving for another employer. Citizens are able to jump between employers in ways that visa holders are not, which gives them more leverage and the ability to bargain for better pay/benefits.
I received the following second email

"We are deeply sorry, but an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails and you were actually supposed to receive the email below accepting you into the Startup School Advisor Track."

But now I want to be super sure ... ¿Are We In? If I login into the StartupSchool page , I don´t see anything yet.
The Queen of Canada absolutely does live there - Rideau Hall is her residence. I accept she spends rather more time here in the UK these days but she is >90 years old.

The Canadian, British, Australian, New Zealand, etc etc Monarchy is a bit of a funny old thing but I think that through the Commonwealth (QEII's personal project) and other initiatives it is very useful and a force for good. At the moment the Royal Family are very, very popular in the UK (it hasn't always been so). They seem to have managed to re-invent themselves rather cleverly over the last 20 years or so.

The recent Royal marriage was frankly breathtaking - Harry is prince no. 2 and Megan is a Yank and yet the firm turned this into a fairy tale. Harry is as near a war hero as can be allowed and Megan is a pretty lass and clearly very bright and talented - good initial ingredients. Throw in a bloody great castle and chapel, amazing weather and a few other things and you get a right old tear jerker of a wedding.

The Queen of Canada was in attendance.

I live in the south west of England in a county called Somerset. I'm roughly 130 miles away from Buck Pal. You are a few thousand miles away but we both have the same link to our Royals.
On macOS, I recommend: `brew cask install docker`
I'm still confused. I got rejected and then accepted. I'm sure it's a fuck up but I urge YC to send a mail again to shed some clarity to those are seriously affected by this.
> For desktop UIs; we'll have to see what's next :)

I've been working on a project to bring GUI to .NET. I think it really is the best option out there.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/Qml.Net
It didn't make me stop exercising, no. I was dealing with some undiagnosed health issues that made my workouts exceptionally unproductive and chose to spend more time writing poetry, painting, and journaling while high instead of continuing my workouts. I felt I was making more personal progress with those than with exercise, and that being creative and productive was a better use of my time and energy.

After ending my five year exercise habit it became a lot harder to start exercising again, and brain fog and laziness began setting in. The highs also got a lot duller and less productive, and I subsequently began seeking the highs I knew from when I was in good health which led me down the wrong path for a while. I'm not blaming marijuana for this in any way, just acknowledging that I stopped exercising when I started smoking, and that some physical/mental health issues I've had since then most likely exist because I haven't been exercising.

In other words, putting psychoactive chemicals in your brain is a big deal and you should try to establish strong personal health and wellness routines before you begin doing it, and then prioritize those routines above the chemical habit.
I was just accepted, and then rejected.

Felt like shit.

You don't need a "startup school" or a YC acceptance to be successful.

This application allowed me to type like 45 words about my company, and that was it. I imagine they had thousands of applicants.

Once a week with an advisor that's working with 25 other companies? Startup School definitely won't be the thing that moves the needle for your project.

Pessimistically, I see this more as a feeder for YC. This "software glitch" is somewhat telling of the care they are putting into this. In other words, "It's a numbers game".

Keep putting in work. We don't need $120K for 7% in funding for "connections" to get our products off the ground anymore. We don't need this. We can bootstrap.
can you share yet
I mean, let's be honest here: a lot of people don't want to ride the bus because they associate it with poor people and don't want to share a vehicle with them. There's a lot of legacies of America's social problems getting tangled up with this question.
No, I don't believe it's moving any goalposts. The fact of the matter is, the stadiums are for teams owned by billionaires who could easily build their own stadium, and they get far more in subsidies than the other things you mentioned. $1.3 billion was raised in your article, but it was split between several different things.
Intelligence seems to me a particularly adequate solution to the existential problems of being and as such as inevitable as life its self, being a local entropic minima. To put it another way I think you can extrapolate life from physical laws and intelligence from life.
I am usually able to keep a card for several generations before I can't get 60fps at 1080p in games anymore. Unless you're a professional gamer I don't get the appeal of throwing that kind of money at a card.
This is heart breaking!
I also can't delete my account myself after having created it. I believe the best way to operate is to make something as easy to delete as it was to create...
What about this?

>I’m almost certain the cost of fixing the code exceeded the margin on revenue due to writing it in the first place.

Does bussiness really not care that you have to build the same thing twice?
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>Exactly. Uber still loses money on every ride.

Please stop repeating this, or at least find a source that supports it. There's a big difference between "losing money in the aggregate" and losing money on each ride; the latter is only true if the marginal costs of providing each ride are greater than the revenues from it, and the source in [1] only reports the former kind of loss. It's very unlikely that each ride is actually costing them the ~$4 they take from it; that would be some pretty inefficient IT.
I've heard rumors that this is the same at the big O, and for years with the big blue too.
Thanks for a direct link to the [1918] speech. This definition originates from the sociology school in academia.
Don’t think there’s much that would help short of actual help like startup school provides.

Giving us a chance to shine is what gave us so much hope. For those 90 minutes anyway.

I get that it wasn’t malicious but knowing this doesn’t really change anything for us. Thanks.
I see this copy pasta replicated several times.

What do you mean by "cause type 2 diabetes"? Type 2, you body is simply not making a sufficient amount of insulin to get the desired effect. In many cases, this is because the individual has developed "insulin resistance" but the pancreas is producing what would be an adequate amount otherwise. And this is usually due to "fat", as in, fat stores in that individual. It is not directly related to consumption of fat.

EDIT: This does not take into account other causes of type 2 diabetes and only deals with a single scenario.
I got a Discord server for us, let's get over there, share some jokes: https://discord.gg/36jp8H
I wasn't aware that the Jetson TX1 and TX2 supported fp16; that's interesting and good to know. Thanks for the heads up.
Worked at another big Californian semiconductor company for several years. Directors/middle managers, mostly Americans, would always joke about how easy it was to get H1Bs hired and all the shady stuff they did to not have to actually advertise the position. They got great bonuses, life was good.

Eventually, {specific H1B subgroup} made up a significant portion of the company as they always continue to hire more of {specific H1B subgroup} at the expense of everyone else. During a downturn several years ago, there was a tremendous layoff to try to maintain profitability.

Most of the old guard, almost all the older higher paid Americans that didn't make it to the VP level, got axed.

You reap what you sow.
The audit track has the course materials - all the lectures and other notes. If you follow along, you can keep on the same timeline and learn about startups.
I absolutely loved and kind of miss my Pre. :)
At the same time, if you clearly didn't read the article, you should expect to be called out on it.
Applied for the program and got acceptance -> shared with team -> rejection -> shared with team.

And it didn't really bother me much.

Can understand that getting into the program can be a great thing. But these things are expected. With strong conviction on the idea small hickups doesn't seem to have any impact.

BTW, for those applied to this program should consider applyin g for https://unusual.vc/academy/. They invest 100k in convertible notes.
Yes, a thousand times yes! Life is so hard for so many; that's exactly what we're working for, why we want to make a difference!

And if I may add to your excellent quote, as Leslie Knope said, "This thing we call failure is not the falling down, it's the staying down."

Thank you mindcrime, we'll be back at again in the morning!
Back in the 1960's my grandfather, who didn't have a high school education (farm raised, 1903-1994) had a subscription to Scientific American and would read them cover to cover.

Starting when I was 7 or 8 he would talk about the articles with me while we were working on things, either in his shop or cutting timber or repairing things around the farm. He would ask probing questions about the subjects, look for implications, make connections to other things he knew, all the kinds of things you want a scientific mind to do. Despite a lack of formal education and wearing a pair of blue jean overalls and muddy wellington boots, with tools in his hands, he was a smart and erudite for his circumstances.

He gave me his entire library when I was in my early teens. The first program I ever wrote, Conway's Life, was taken after a Martin Gardner article I read there. I credit those talks with my grandfather, and the articles I read, with a large portion of my being drawn to STEM and seeing it as "something for me".

SciAm was once a great institution trying to spread knowledge of the explosion of scientific understanding that was happening at the time. I miss those days.
>I get concerned if my program takes longer than 20 seconds to compile.

I go into a rage at 2 seconds!
For ycombinator to state “an error occurred in the software that triggers acceptance emails.” is extremely disrespectful. You seriously expect us to believe that? Since this is a hacker forum, please can you tell us exactly what this error is and why it occurred?
By that argument, children shouldn't be writing their documents in Word, nor their presentations in powerpoint, nor using computers that contain proprietary intel micro-code in any classes.

The reality is two-fold:

Proprietary software is used universally, so learning some of it will make you more marketable later on and help you in life. Knowing excel / word is valuable because many companies run on those pieces of software to some large degree.

Secondly, it's pragmatic; there's no real viable option to using proprietary intel or amd hardware while using any computer, so we must use them.
I'm suggesting the problem is not the factory farms, the problem is the regulations and lack of oversight. We have pig farms producing more waste then most cities and just spraying it on nearby fields.
We are at a low point for regulation, we might keep going until we get to "The Jungle" level of meatpacking, or we can turn things around and put some teeth into regulations and enforcement.
I don't believe that 1000 small butchers are going to be 1000 ethical businesses. I do believe that 1 business, or 10 can be regulated with proper oversight.

And yes, animal products have essential vitamins that are difficult to get from plant based diets.
We’re not even considering giving up but I worry it will damage our morale which just went from high, to sky high, to the dark pits. Thanks.
Have elite US colleges lost their moral purpose altogether?
Honest question: if immigrants are willing to do the same job for less money, why do US citizens deserve special treatment and higher wages? Why should companies be forced to not hire in an economically optimal way?
This is pretty cool. And it could be the first of other climate changing effects, like changing albedo based on reflectiveness of the landscape, or humidity and atmospheric dynamics leading to clouds, leading to more scattering/trapping/etc. I guess it might get hard to compute at some point, since the serious climate models don’t run on cellphones, and they don’t even try to run at “Minecraft block” resolution, but still.
Are we(in audit) eligible for 10k grant?
I see this in a monty python-esque tone:

"we are happy to inform you that we are very sorry to inform you of our previous information that you were accepted to starupschool, when that was sadly, an error on the part of our rejection system falsely telling you that you were accepted, so I am here to tell you that sadly, you were not accepted by our rejection system and your rejection has summarily been rejected by our acceptance department of rejected rejections and sent to the appropriate signatories for sign-off on your sign-up down-below.

See you next tuesday should this actually be a rejection of your rejection and an ackknowledgement of your acceptance, whichever may come first"
Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
One of my competitors has been scrapping my site and providing service to their users without paying anything. And now they surpassed me on google ranking.

I've created a website which gets around 5K unique hits every day. It's a free service for users but I've to pay a monthly fee to a third party service provider.

Because my site is free for users and doesn't require users to register it's been very hard to keep up with this guy. If I change certain things, they counter it immediately and make it work. And they use several proxies to send the request, it's virtually impossible to block based on IP.

Please suggest, if there is anything I'm missing that can be done.
I believe there are a lot of “tricks” engineers have developed to accomplish rendering goals that would be more natural with ray tracing. The added simplicity would lower the barrier of entry for more complex effects.
Foe me it was the other way round(I hope...)

But you can still audit, and where best to know bugs are a reality, than with the startup czars...
> shift more to immigrants and less to Americans.

Those immigrants are a helluva lot more American than you.
Same! Fingers crossed
Attracting the most talented immigrants is exactly what this country needs to grow its economy. There are nearly no unemployed top talent, and talent (including immigrants) grows demand. Look how many startups are spawned from the top tech company veterans. Taking in brilliant immmigrants is a defenst against the whole industry shifting the balance of power to a different country.
then that's a pretty ironic username for ya!
Almost ironic that this article is from Bloomberg. Recently interviewed with them for a software engineer role and the only american I talked to out of 6 people, was the recruiter.
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> I wasn't as ambitious. I was less social. In other words, it made me feel fine just hanging out in my apartment doing nothing.

Wow. I just realized that's been my life for the past few years and I don't smoke. I might need to change something...