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Excluding cheating - asking friends and family, or business to partner to boost your MRR -, a few hundred dollars prove a lot of things. Getting the marketing, billing system, and actual product right for this few hundreds is way harder than it seems.
Blank lanyards and card holders are really cheap if bought separately, and one really only needs to make sure that their printer prints 4x6" or A6, instead of buying such an expensive kit.
Some people don't like showing off all their information, but most venues require the badge to be shown at all times.
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Netflix for me works fine. You just need to tick the 'Play DRM content' setting.

My personal reason to use the snap is because it limits access to the home directory. So I can disconnect my home directory, camera and microphone and have a second layer of confidence that my browser won't leak any personal data.

That and it avoids Firefox leaking config files in my home directory.

If I want to upload a file, I simply move the file into a Downloads folder in it's SNAP home directory. This way, Im in control of what the browser can access.
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Ethereum is a more flexible programmable money compared to Bitcoin.

For example, I can create a smart contract where I can send money (say 10 ETH or USD2600) to my cousin every month. But I want my cousin to use this money to better him/herself. I want her/him to spend it on education (buying books, subscribing to programming course) not on something else (buying alcoholic drinks, etc). With PayPal, I can only send him/her money. But with smart contract, I can create a whitelist of merchants easily. And I can be very creative. I can create a condition on which on Sunday only, my cousin can spend some money to buy ice cream.
> Just publicly shame the company and ultimately they change or congress passes laws.

This just doesn't work in today's world. If it did, Equifax wouldn't be thriving the way it still does today.
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Checked out White Wedding and it sounded fantastic and looked better than I've ever seen it. Previously I never noticed the attendees at the wedding before, they were just fuzzy blobs. Now I can see they are real, cool 80s folks, haha.

Looks like the video was filmed originally. Wonder if any more quality could be squeezed out of it, the 1920 res vesion does have additional details but not a ton. This is much better than the average old video on yt, however.
Hey Dom, we worked together directly when you were in YC, and I deeply disagree with your assessment that having progress helps a startup succeed in YC.

The worst case scenario is a newly accepted YC startup with a little bit of traction... just enough traction that they aren't willing to change ideas/markets and not enough traction for them to actually know they have product market fit. It's the uncanny valley of product-market fit. These companies with a little bit of progress can spend months or years of their life chasing what they later realize was a mirage.

When a new YC company enters the batch with very little or no traction (and can move incredibly fast) they will longterm outperform companies accepted with small traction most of the time. Based on the hundreds of companies I have personally funded at YC, speed is the single most predictive variable of if a startup will succeed - not traction at time of accept.
It's actually on the people who say that we're near the ceiling to prove that statement since it deviates from our current situation. I will say that the lack of growth in populations of 3rd world countries is proof enough. It's not like one day you wake up and millions of people get wiped out, a slowdown happens first. That hasn't happened.
Because what he teaches makes our life better and because he's awesome. <3 :)
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Libra I thought?
In general US civil court judges will cut you some slack if you can demonstrate that you acted in good faith and made reasonable efforts to comply with the law, even if you are technically violating some rules. This applies to most sections of civil law, not just web accessibility.
If this fingerprinting stays across say HTTP Proxies (or VPN/Tor network) and a regular network, this may be a way to track users especially for ad networks.
> I constantly need to spend mental energy on remembering which is the Ok and which is the Error

Right is actually a synonym for Ok.. besides, Either is useful for _much_ more than error handling. That is exactly why I dislike Error for the left side; often it's just not an error.
In the U.S. :

-speech is free
-money is power
-power is speech

What is the balance?
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Interesting, for some reason it thinks that vorbis @128k has better quality than opus @160k. Youtube online player has the 160k version. Thanks!
This appears to me to be a matter of personal preference rather than fact; could you explain what you mean by "error prone and tedious"?
They could have levels, and use moderator consensus to remove the pictures

1. Blurred+Mosaic
2. Contour lines only
3. Windowed/Striped (only showing like 10-25% of the photo)

If 2/3 of the moderators above agree that it's a bad photo, it moves onto stage 4:

4. Color filters - Break the photo down into k-means color clusters, moderators choose which colors to see. They can see 100% of the colors, or one, or two, or however many they need.

If #4 agrees, the photo goes into the round folder.

No need for anyone to ever see the whole photo. It'll be pretty obvious that something was violating the TOS without anyone being able identify anything specific about the photo.

We're not talking about 'beyond the shadow of a doubt' here, we're talking about 'yeah, that's probably not ok.'
In addition to the letters not flaking off or wearing out, the DSA key profile is different than almost all keyboards made today. Most keyboards today have a concave profile for the tops of the keys that are basically uniform from the top of the key to the bottom. (I don't know if I'm explaining it well, but I think you understand just by taking a look at your keyboard).

Anyway, the DSA profile has more of a spherical concave recess, which cups your fingers more than current keyboards.

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model 3, which also had the DSA key profile and I love it. I'm actually saving up to get a keycap set with that profile to replace my current keyset on my daskeyboard mechanical keyboard.
HN is above all else about intellectual curiosity. If someone is hurt simply from expressions of bewildered curiosity, then HN is perhaps not for them.
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Can I ask which car that is?
Yeah, to be honest I wrote that before reading the article and I was painting a much rosier picture than what it was described.

I do wonder what is the distribution of content they have to moderate. Is it a continuous stream of violence or is that something that appears once or twice a day?

>if it's so harmless for people to be exposed to, why moderate anything at all?

Obviously if the public doesn't like it enough, you're going to moderate it away. Some places don't even allow cleavage, so it's not like something has to be harmful to be moderated.
It's true, more or less depending on region. In Europe we have shaped the landscape for millenia, and the ecosystems have developed accordingly.

Without humans, almost everything would be covered by forests and swamps, not the wide range of biomes we now find, with open fields, grasslands, and patches of forests. Many local insects, birds and plants need these. Our responsibility here is not to stop, but to keep everything in good condition (not like now where there is far too little slack in the system and no space left for this wildlife).
The expected steady-state outcome of this situation is that all website-owning educational companies will be targeted for lawsuits, many of which are valid, and many of which are not. The net effect of these lawsuits will primarily be a massive loss of productivity. It is very technically challenging and labor intensive to make websites accessible to the blind or otherly disabled, and doing so is to the benefit of a very small population, who will continue to primarily use other communication platforms anyway. Net effect: For every hour of time saved for the blind or otherly disabled, dozens of hours of time spent by others. A saner society would choose a different path.

I wish I could see actual statistics on this, I admit this is wild speculation on my part.
Thanks, I would love it if something like this existed for Intel processors.
I think part of the reasoning, perhaps misguided, is for quality assurance. It's easier for them to say our stuff runs only on our 'certified' hardware then to try and support everything under the moon.

These days I don't think that argument holds up though, back in the early days of x86 hardware and peripherals it made more sense.

In a past life we used mac minis sitting on a shelf in a datacenter to run builds off of, it worked well enough.
I think it's semantically incorrect. Pronouns like "he" are placeholders, simplifying the reference to a known object and avoiding cumbersome repetition. But without having any antecedent, the pronoun is left without any meaning at all.

The result is, as you say, a statement that serves only as an advertisement of sorts to click into the story, without carrying actual information.
It's the kind of situation that an auto mechanic in Pennsylvania would give a confused look of "kids these days" toward.

Focusing on growth is great but what has happened here feels to me like an inversion of accepted business logic. It seems like there wasn't a thought given to revenue before receiving this feedback.

The funny part about that is how this little bit of $500 MRR would have definitely helped this small team pay their grocery bills, and they could have been benefitting from that months ago if they just...thought about how businesses exist to make money.

The desperation to get into YC feels like an episode of American Idol, where the contestant may not remember what the benefits of being on American Idol are in the first place.

Looking at their site, it's got a few misspellings, a dead link, and some really strange ways of communicating that they used to have no watermarks, but now they have watermarks.

The product seems slick but incredibly limited as well. I'm not sure the idea of a video editor being web based is actually incredibly useful over an installed app.

Finally, they're charging $50 a year for a product that does less than iMovie (pre-installed on 50% of smartphones sold in the USA) or Adobe Premiere Clip (free).

If you stayed subscribed to this product for 6 years you'd have broken even by just buying Final Cut Pro, assuming they don't ever raise the price.

I'm not really surprised that YC had revenue concerns.
Right. And I think it is reasonable thing to happen. Languages can't mature without big public successes and failures.
You can just search Amazon. There's nothing special about a quincunx, they're simple. Any search query on Amazon, whether 'Galton quincunx' or 'Galton bean machine' or 'Galton board' will pull up a bunch, I just checked.
In the first example, this guy goes and pops a (web)shell on Datatables.net. There's no security policy, no bounty program, etc. for this site or its owner[2]. Generally I don't believe it's a good idea to go pwning businesses' servers that don't give you some sort of permission to test. That's some seriously dangerous business.

[2] https://sprymedia.co.uk/
I forget where I first read about hopper theory but I was fascinated to discover that so much analysis has been done on the dimensions of such a simple device. It makes perfect sense in retrospect given all the industrial and agricultural applications but it's one of those little corners of the world where you would never guess the pains engineers go to understand and optimize it.
You could have a system where multiple people flagging certain content would be a signal to give it manual review.
>There is no such thing as a dangerously low interest rate. The atmosphere won't suddenly catch on fire if you don't get a certain percent of risk free money.

You are completely delusional. There is a huge risk to global liquidity. We won't be able to rely on printing money to get us out of the next downturn.

>There has been plenty of evidence of money shortages causing lots of unemployment (see all busts of the early 1900s).

As Edward Thorp would tell you, bubbles thrive during times of cheap leverage (read: credit). Look at the crises of the last century.

>High interest is absolutely terrible for wealth disparity. It's literally free money for people with money.

You seem completely unaware that low interest rates are a tax on you in the form of inflation. The wealthy have enough to hold other assets that can more than offset this, and they can hold much more leverage. The average person, not so much.
Interesting, thanks for explaining.
You can kind of do that by upscaling the video to 1440p60 before uploading. Each pixel becomes exactly 3x3 pixels, unlike when going from 480p to 1080p where you have to deal with half-pixels.
Fantastic! I love hearing stories like these. Congrats on building a healthy, hopefully profitable, business.
But what if you want your heater to send an email...
My grandfather worked in a machine shop over 30 years ago. Even back then they worked mostly with imported product. According to him, the US steel was very low quality - aimed at industries that needed such huge amounts of it that shipping was expensive and quality wasn't an issue.

If that is still the case, then demand for US steel is determined by infrastructure investment, not trade.
Disclaimer: At a very large US bank.

Seconding the assessment. We have pockets of everything from legacy mainframe you've probably never heard of (no, not every mainframe is an IBM) to cutting edge cloud/docker/devops/agile/etc. Just depends on where you can be plugged in.
In much the same way that many people support the political faction/party of their choice.
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It's probably just his DC power supply he has handy.

As far as 120/240 thing, if you have a component not meant for that kind of voltage, it might fail open, or it might fail short.

If it fails short, high amounts of current might be allowed to flow through other components which would carbonize so even more current would flow. And maybe catch fire.
It doesn't change the fact that, at best, the tariffs had marginal benefits to the one and only industry they were designed to benefit.
Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
I'm interested in pursuing a few new concepts, and I'm looking for the best free resources for startups that aren't going through an incubator. Specifically looking for free tier or startup credits beyond what AWS / DO / GCP has to offer, or for off-the-beaten-path programs that single-founder startups might be able to take advantage of. I'll be using Stripe for processing any payments.

What do you folks use when you're looking to stand up your MVPs?
This kind of feedback is not to be taken at face value. YC says very clearly that the point of the interview is to judge the quality of the founder(s). Whatever excuse they invent to write in the rejection email is really nothing more than that: a polite excuse.

They don't feel that they can be frank and just say: "We think you're probably bad founders based on the fact you have been very slow to charge customers."

Just remember that they're attempting to judge the potential of a team of human beings in 10 minutes. Realize how fundamentally flawed (and demeaning) that concept is. It's quite possible, and even likely, that their interview selection process is worse than random chance.

Of course, they think they're good at picking. But this belief is based on the theory that the companies that they don't pick will succeed even without YC's help i.e. that there would be an embarrassing anti-portfolio.

Since many of YC's most successful founders acknowledge that they wouldn't have succeeded without YC, that theory is obviously bunk.

IMHO the YC application and selection process is reasonably good. It's something approaching a crowdsourced process. The interview is them injecting their egos into the process, to the detriment of themselves and founders.

The problem is perpetuated because the people that do luck their way in are then immediately convinced that the system works. After all, it did select them, it must be pretty darn good. This is the destructive power of ego.

Someone could beat YC at selection simply by copying them and removing the interview part of the process (i.e. just accept the top N applications). Crowdsourcing is going to most closely approximate the customer point of view, and that's what ultimately matters for startups.

It's okay that YC is kind of bad at their core function. They're still good enough to stay in business and it's their prerogative. It's just a shame that they're not improving and that there isn't anything better, yet.
That one in particular has a 70s cop show vibe, so yes. But I'd like to see further quality on the rest. Fun fact, several scenes are filmed in Los Feliz, the church and rooftop of art-deco apartment building.
Unfortunately, this is no longer the case. Linux support for WiFi, audio, and suspend/hibernate has been completely broken on 15” MacBook Pros since the 2016 models hit (WiFi still works on the 13” MBPs, afaik).
They seem to be having load issues. Here's a cache: http://archive.is/45DFI
I imagine future inter-galactic quadrillionaires collecting Quasar’s for their own satisfaction, so it might not be a safe bet to rely on them now :)
"The "worse" system (Unix) did indeed do "the right thing" eventually, even if it didn't at first. "Worse is better" systems incrementally improve by responding to user needs. Since users got tired of checking for EINTR, the "worse" system added the functionality for addressing this pain point.
The whole thing did leave a rather large wart, though"

Which of course is exactly what RPG predicts about 'worse' systems: after a lot of pain, they will gradually evolve into doing the right thing, but probably never as well as if they had been correctly conceived from the start.
Source article points out that tariffs/threats lead to stockpiling of steel, which lead to more capacity coming online given the sales volumes -- but then companies ate from their stockpiles leading to a double-whammy of increased production / decreased demand.

So yes, it's related to global demand -- global demand that went on a primary rollercoaster ride triggered by tariffs. And the news media is rightfully blaming the 1 person (not even party, singular person) for the consequences of their actions. What a sordid state of affairs indeed.
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Yeah it sounds like they basically eliminated their free tier. I already have access to a half dozen video editors that don't watermark their output.
Yeah, not "practically", but simply "the same" - that's exactly how half of my tabs (elscreen.el) is implemented (the other half being creating, displaying and updating the "tabbar"). In other words, if you use winner mode, or have a couple of custom wrappers around window layouts and use those, you're practically already using tabs, just without a tabbar! ;)
But Either is also a Bifunctor so you CAN do to the Left what you do the the Right as well as unpacking the value from both sides.
Exactly this. But don't stop there, give them polio too. Let's see how their vaccines are holding up from long ago. I also think people who get one of the diseases from someone who ever visits their site or whatever should sue them for damages. We don't let people yell "Fire!" in a movie theater, it is considered a form of terrorism. This is no different. We need to prevent these people from getting access to any government services that we can until they get vaccinated.
My university went through an accessibility remediation process recently, and it was a rather nightmarish undertaking. Many universities have multiple (thousands) of individual microsites that are largely untouched for years at a time, and I've always wondered if these would be targeted by people looking to bring a complaint.

Our HTML was more or less fine (though we found and fixed a few bugs), but the unbelievable number of PDFs and un-captioned videos nearly broke us. The culture shift has been difficult, particularly with people who want to post videos or PDFs but don't have the resources or training to make those pieces of content accessible.
That's effectively closing off a growing percentage of modern life from people with visual impairments unless you think that places which chose not to follow good web practice would be much better at publishing data to an API they use even less (Googlebot at least used to help accessibility because sites which were all Flash/images/JavaScript wanted to get indexed even if they didn't care about being accessible).

I would also reconsider why that “API” would be better than the existing web APIs which the community has been working on for the last few decades. HTML is great for this purpose: you have a rich document markup language with a decent semantic model, separation of display styling from content, and the ability to add metadata to support different accessibility modes. Using it to build applications is problematic but still possible: the main problem being that many JavaScript tools are developed by teams which don't prioritize accessibility, which is really the same problem as the previous paragraph where things which the people building the site don't check tend not to work. That's getting better but it really needs a combination of awareness of the need and legal ramifications to get people to build it in from the beginning.
But the grind is utterly soulless. I understand the company wants to make money, but I shouldn't have to put in 40 hours a week to make any progress