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Ask HN: Is Snapchat's Cartoon filter anywhere available for download?
My wife really wants to try out the cartoon filter on Snapchat that everyone is so hyped about. We're both sensitive about privacy (well, me more than her), so I don't want her to have her video/image uploaded to some random servers.

Is there any way I can try this locally? With all the news about it, it's hard to find technical bits about this. I was hoping some ML model download on github (or even a docker image). If anyone heard anything, let me know.
Been following cryptocurrency for almost a decade now. I would generalize that XRP is an asset that is primarily purchased by speculators with sour grapes that they missed <$1 Bitcoins, and hope to see the same sort of returns despite the significant differences in technology and organizational structure.

I don't feel like there is much 'smart money' investing in XRP, so I think increased regulatory oversight is probably beneficial here.
I think the OP should investigate how much time and effort it will take them to get the first vest (or an equivalent agreement). Then they can make an informed choice.

I agree that the partnership is wrecked and that he should walk away after determining if they can get the 10% ownership (heck, maybe the right number is 3% or 7% or something else, only the OP knows what feels least wrong).

But it's not clear to me that the company is doomed (from the little we know). In fact, it sounds like it might do great.
The "ticket wall" I was talking about in my original comment had nothing to do with quality software, but rather getting a team handling a different competency to do or answer something. The example I gave was actually for the "cloud automation" team, they handled such things as AIM roles/policies, cross-account AWS permissions and various other AWS/cloud services that other teams used. Other teams had similar "go through tickets" ways to interface with them, for example the team that handled the servers that CI got provisioned on. Developer-services teams that provide services to development teams internally, basically.

So making quality software would not eliminate the need for them or the need for them to manage incoming requests.
Well, I will believe it when I see it, as well as the other hard to believe claims like I don’t know how many lines of code/second compilation speed, perfect C-to-V compiler, etc. I’m not sure how many of it is still up on the website, because some were called out and were taken down.
> I rarely use recursion/for loops

Same here. I use c# and Typescript mostly. In c# you can use Select for map, Aggregate for reduce and there's a huge selection of other list processing operations that make use of lambda expressions. In typescript/javascript there map, reduce, etc
The only weird thing about this take is I could believe it. And so what if it’s true? The guy has worked to become the richest man in the world (though I may be against his methods of doing so), and isn’t even from a prominent family. I don’t see how anyone could be upset by this XD
I had the honor of meeting Nouriel at the World Economic Forum, at an event held by CV VC (a Swiss blockchain/crypto-focused VC which also invested in my startup).

He gave a scathing talk criticizing cryptocurrencies and blockchains and all other things in the space. I shook his hand afterwards and told him that while I disagreed with some of his opinions, I really respected his conviction to give a talk to a room full of "crypto zealots" and stick to his opinions.

A very kind fellow in conversation, but he sure knows how to deliver bitter critique.
>When I told one guy that I was thinking of keeping Moose intact, he picked up his Shih Tzu as though Moose was going to mount his precious Tiffany at any second. “As if,” I thought to myself. “Moose is gay.”

Wait, what? I'm 95% sure dogs can't be homosexual but someone correct me if I'm wrong..
How so? Apple could have bought a big chunk of Tesla and flipped it back to the public market for ~10 times the price today, for a cool $500B+ profit. Even if they wanted nothing to do with the company's operations.

Of course, such an operation would typically be done by a hedge fund or private equity firm. But guess who is responsible the one of the world's largest hedge funds [1] with $200B+ AUM...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn_Capital
Agree with your general stance. My current monitors are from 2007 and have endured many hours of use and a capacitor replacement.

I am considering my next purchase on the basis of at least 5 years of service and that is a long time to be looking at something "not quite right".
Their main claims to success based on OP's description are that they show up in search engine results and are only $60K in the red. If that's success in 2020 then I can launch a dozen successful startups by January 1.
Elon Musk asked Apple CEO about buying Tesla, says 'refused to take the meeting'
One thing V gets right is not requiring a keyword (e.g. “let”) for initializing an immutable variable. This is such a common operation that it should be as compact and non-visual-noisy as possible (Huffman coding). (Personally I’d go for “=“ instead of “:=“ though, for ease of typing.)
There's a massive off vibe for me in things like

> So if you have cancer and you might die from your cancer, we won't help you get treatment

It just feels.. off. I wouldn't go as far to say the person doesn't work at Amazon at all and instead wants to jab at them but I'm definitely thinking it loudly
So he has to wait a month?
Just found this video of him. I’ve never heard so much gobbledygook so fast https://youtu.be/E7Yf76XsLkA
>These products should be rewritten in a safer language, like Rust.

Sorry, but get over yourself. Firstly, if stuff had been written in Rust it would have been written 30 years after it was relevant. Secondly, if you're expecting companies to re-write code after 30 years to make it safer and do a good job? Good luck. There's a handful of people on the planet capable of doing it, there's a handful of people on the planet willing to do it, and there's 0 overlap between the two.

If these companies were seriously held accountable for bug free code, there wouldn't be better code, there would be a lot less code. Entire applications just wouldn't exist. Dozens of products would've died due to dev costs.
Just tested and it works. I also searched our support email and couldn't find any mentions of hushmail. Try again, and if it doesn't work feel free to email me directly: amjad@repl.it
Only Stallman can define freedom, prole. No wonder you’re not in the club.
Black privilege is feeling you have the right to be hired because of the color of your skin. Black privilege is having roles at companies reserved only for you because you are black. Black privilege is feeling you are beyond criticism because of your skin color.
Perhaps the final word on this goes to Ronald Reagan,"No one ever died from hard work, but why take the chance?".
There is a movement in medicine to find a cure for breast cancer. I would dispute that research should be given to all cancers, regardless of the body part, not just breast, brain, or lung
> Right, I'm thinking specifically of code like shaders that do produce copyrighted content.

What do you mean by this exactly? What I meant was "code" that produces a Disney movie for example.

> anyone could have produced a Doom movie

This would actually be great if you ask me! What I fear the most is someone renaming the project and selling it as their own with no added value.
> without any dependencies on an interpreter/environment/libs etc.

no stake on either side, but the post specifically mentions this (though that was on vlang 0.1)

> I claim that the V compiler has dependencies because it requires other libraries or programs in order to function. For an example, see the output of ldd (a program that lists the dynamically linked dependencies of other programs) on the V compiler and a hello world program:

$ ldd ./v
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff2d044000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f2fb3e4c000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f2fb3a5b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f2fb4345000)

$ ldd ./hello
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffdfdff2000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fed25771000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fed25d88000)

> If these binaries were really as dependency-free as the V website claims, the output of ldd would look something like this:

$ ldd $HOME/bin/dhall
not a dynamic executable
why do owners of pre-IPO shares care? When people talk about investment banks ripping companies with regards to the IPOs, they're not talking about the public. Moreover, most retail investors aren't going to participate in the pre-market auction in the first place, so the results will be the same
I don't think it's a matter of the pets scratching the place up. Dogs are much louder than cats.
Kind of tangential, but

> If you're working in Seattle for Amazon and you're good at your job and you want to leave your job tomorrow, you have far fewer opportunities. Where are you going to go, Microsoft? There's not nearly as much mobility. So I think a big part of the reason we have less organizing [than Google] is that people are more afraid to jeopardize their jobs. If you want to stay in the Northwest, you keep your head down.

Is that... really how people view Seattle? Feels like there's always a zillion companies hiring here.
Ask HN: How can I help my son with Autism?
He is 23 years old now and has completed all the required courses for an associates degree in computer science at the local community
college except for some core courses that are very language intensive. Some of the courses he has done is Java 6, Data Structures,
discrete math, computer architecture, Calculus 2 and Calculus 3 honors. His overall GPA is around 3.5. In high school, he took AP computer
science and AP Calculus and got 4. His language comprehension and communications skills are very low. We have been targeting his learning
from an examination point of view where he would learn at home and spit it out in the tests. It took lot of written practice for him to learn anything and do
well in the tests. So, he may not be able to code or program given a spec.

Since the start of the pandemic he has been home. Now we see that his skills are deteriorating and have started teaching him HTML/CSS and Python. Later on, thinking of introducing Selenium.
May be a long road, but the intention is to get him started on software testing. If practiced enough, he picks up on patterns.

Has always liked and built complex legos like architecture. We assume that is because of the clear instructions that comes with it.

Looking for suggestions on how we can help him. Any opportunities where he can be exposed to the work like environment and build his confidence.
Any jobs that would involve math calculations but not much social interaction? We fear he may not have focus for a long time for work, although
he has taken exams that have been four hours long with breaks.

Would appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thank you.
If you can get away with hosting static html files, there's not much else that's more performant.

The comparison is only between server rendered HTML vs backend API + some frontend rendering locally (which is not as performant) and more importantly is a lot more complex to implement technically.
Neutering improves life expectancy across many species including cats and dogs.
Behavioral changes will usually make for a nicer house pet too.
If the owner plans on not letting the pet breed, there aren't many reasons not to neuter besides philosophical ones.
Meh, I don't really get why people think "market cap" is the total valuation of something. If I sold Bob a billion XRP for 1 penny, then I sold Tim 1 XRP for $40, then told Bob not to sell, and Tim can sell his for $40 (because he wants to at least get that much back), then XRP's "market cap" is worth $40 Billion, but in reality it's probably worth $40.

I get that there is a lot more money in it than that, but let's be honest about something, if half the people sold Bitcoin tonight - they HAVE to get out today, it's "market cap" would likely go from nearly half-trillion to probably $300M overnight. Even though technically it should only cut in half right?
More on the sunbathing?
My salary is $160k USD and I live in Berlin. I work remotely for an early-stage startup in SF. I still earn less than what I would if I was in SF but obviously it's amazing from a DE stand-point.

My previous job was a German company based here in Berlin and I was on 100k EUR (as Head of Product). Any Enterprise B2B SaaS is where I'd recommend looking tbh.
What irks me most about CDPR's games, including the Witcher series is that even during the most mundane playthrough, our main character ends up being a non-apologetic mass-murderer. As a teenager, I probably would have been fine with it as some sort of power-trip, but as an adult, it strikes me as very one-dimensional and a boring way to play.

I'm not sure which case is more unforgivable here. Geralt, the Witcher protagonist, in the books at least, makes it a personal point not to meddle in human affairs as much as possible, and to keep it strictly business for the most part - e.g. killing horrible monsters for coin.

In the game, our actions couldn't stray further from this principle.

From what I've seen in Cyberpunk's gameplay, we are no less than a mass-murderer as well. And despite most of our kills being gang members and thugs, I'm still not sure it's entirely justifiable. I've seen people indiscriminately kill civilians and cops by running them over with cars, and suffer no real consequences in further gameplay.

Hence it's quite hilarious to me when people compare Cyberpunk to Deus Ex or another stealth shooter. They must be out of their mind. The games are nothing alike. The shallowness and one-dimensionality of Cyberpunk makes it much closer to GTA/Borderlands than a revolutionary stealth/rpg game.

People were expecting a revolutionary game in the way Witcher 3 was when it came out. And that, Cyberpunk certainly isn't.
> The FSF is too dogmatic.

In other news, water is wet.

More seriously, yeah there's a place for ideological organizations that broadcast their philosophy and won't budge when moneyed interests try to push them around. But such organizations also tend to be difficult to work with if you just want to get stuff done.
How did this get past Legal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercell_(video_game_company)
The rear-facing camera on a recent iPhone (or comparable high-end Android phone) is already going to exceed the quality ceiling for what streaming 2-way video will support in resolution and bitrate, given acceptable lighting and background.

If the front-facing camera on their laptop or tablet doesn't cut it, they should use the rear-facing camera on their phone, and put the rest of their effort into lighting and setup.
Bitcoin still has serious environmental costs regardless of its use case. (Which for a currency the 7 TPS cap makes it a joke and as an asset has crazy volatility.)
It's pretty common for YouTubers who have a big past employer or specialist career.

Ali Abdaal is one I have seen pop up a lot this year. Every video of his mentions he studied at Cambridge and is a Doctor. Clearly it works quite well for the audience he is targeting as he has over 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube with an highly engaged subscriber base.

His content isn't anything special when you look at it and he plays a lot on his "socially awkward" personality which seems to work well with people seeking out self-improvement advice.

These people sure are excellent at marketing so I guess fair play to them. Ali isn't hurting anyone with his generic advice, probably quite the opposite in fact so I fair enough to him.
Market cap doesn't mean much at all in crypto. XRP's is high because the circulating supply is 45 billion XRP - 2500 times more than BTC, 400 times more than ETH, etc.

I could create a blockchain and issue a quintillion coins and if I manage to get it listed and sell some for a fraction of a penny it'll have a bigger market cap than the rest of crypto combined.
libc is the only stable system api, on non Linux system you don't have a choice to use anything else.

Go tried, and went back to linking to libc, because of constant syscall changes.

So I don't view having libc a dependency, it'd be like saying that macOS is a dependency.

You can also use musl on Linux with V for 100% static binaries.
This is like interviewing a dog about the inter workings of the household that owns him.
> I really see no difference between allowing to have a nutritionist, a personal coach, a bioengineer and access to all kind of legal substances that do not exist in nature and just let it go, grab some popcorn and see.

One of those has a high chance of directly killing you, the others don't, that's my point.
I'll be honest, I'm not really a pet person and I'm curious about the issue.

I think I understand the argument that animal rights activists make for spaying and neutering that it controls the population by making sure each pet has someone to care for it, reducing euthanasia rate and reducing strays that might attack people or other pets. The article argues this as well and explains that there's more to it than societal/vet pressure. Controlling the pet population via spaying or neutering seems humane to me, especially considering the alternative of putting pets down en masse.

Can you explain the other side of the argument? Why do you feel spaying or neutering pets is cruel?
StarLink.

Algiers, Algeria.
Do elaborate please.
Not to be confused with Turbo by Yandex: https://yandex.com/dev/turbo/index/, which is a competitive take on Google AMP.
tbh I'm surprised that GoPro hasn't been exploding into this category. Granted, their cameras do a heck of a lot more than just webcams (... which is good for longer-term use), but they're small, cheaper than a mirrorless, wider angle than a normal mirrorless camera lens, and already have a stable market and existing users.
I just can’t even. What if there weren’t insane ladders to climb. This kneejerk reaction to lick the boots of a CEO is...disturbing.
It's not illegal to work for one company. I assume you mean Scheinselbstständigkeit. I've been doing it for 6 years and an accountant here in Berlin handles all my taxes.
The author is claiming that dogs are rare in shelters now and that institutions are actively buying them from the same puppy mills that are being detracted. I can’t see that to be true- look at villa lobos rescue with over 130 pit bulls, and they have a nationwide show trying to adopt out their dogs. Hell my local aspca has 445 dogs looking for a new home within 25 miles of my zip code.
That's easy to say in retrospect, but Apple stock would've also taken a hit buying what was a failing company at the time. It would've also demanded more resources and a strategic pivot on their part.

Apple makes long-term, informed decisions. Buying Tesla then and now is a pretty tough argument to make.
Set up a meeting with the investor Andy UT partner and say you want to be as transparent as possible. Explain the situation and suggest to the investor that you and the Cofounder need to find a way of working together, otherwise one of you is going to have to leave with 40% of the company. This is a great example of where vesting for founders sorts all of this out clearly and makes it more difficult to get greedy. Of course this makes some assumptions about the legal agreements you have with the company. Do these agreements allow cofounders to be sacked usually, because I’m sure as hell writing into any I sign that I can’t be!
I believe it's because it's simply not worth investing in the infrastructure when it's only gonna get used for 1 week. It's definitely not an insolvable problem.
Holy hell, calm down, bro.

I never assumed everyone, I am replying to pmiller2. And yes, I am assuming pmiller2 and I both live in the United States. There is a pretty good chance I am correct about that.

How fun are you at parties?
The typical tech lawyer has seen this exact scenario ~20 times. You probably have some leverage, and spending $1-2k to figure out how much and how best to apply it, given the lawyer's experience, makes tons of sense.
Given that Russia continues to behave as a bully (Georgia and Ukraine, at a minimum), I see exactly nothing wrong with calling them a bully.
In my opinion this is unnecessary for small teams, and doesn't scale to big teams.

Either your team is small enough that this should just be a conversation you have when you'd rather team members change their behaviors - OR - your team is too big to read and remember everyone's preferences.

Also, at the end of the day, the two people trying to communicate are either going to have similar preferences (Both morning people, both prefer talking over real-time video chat, etc), or they're going to have vastly different preferences (night owl, prefers async communication, etc). These user guides don't change anything in either situation, the person with more leverage is most likely going to "win" any decisions over how something ultimately gets communicated.
What if the other party switches activity over a new company in the meantime?
I would guess the Faroe Islands would be in reasonably unfractured rock. This would be favourable to drill and blast which is cost effective as tunnelling techniques go. The sprayed concrete seen in the article pictures is likely secondary lining for water ingress and a membrane for waterproofing than to form the primary support lining.
> But remember, antibody response (whether through infection or through getting vaccinated) is polyclonal: you raise a number of different antibodies that bind in different ways. That’s one of the key features of the adaptive immune system: hitting a new antigen from a number of directions at once. This makes it harder to slip through for a new pathogen variant – which is good, but at the same time, it’s not impossible, either. Thus the attention being paid to these two new strains.
> Former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober teaches you everything he knows in this one-month class

Why do they need to exaggerate like this? Obviously he cannot share everything he learned over years of study and practice in a month.

1) the statement "everyrging be knows" is wholely unnecessary.

2) these exaggerated claims are really off putting to me and make me less, not more, likely to buy the service.
I agree to the point that the company is probably done at this point, but of the off chance that it succeeds I'd get the 10% and then walk. if he raises another round etc. then that's a bargaining chip to get something (probably would amount to 0 but better to have it)
Non-tech founder (NTF) started it, so I'm guessing NTF is CEO. NTF is probably on similar vesting schedule, but won't fire himself. The fact they're having these conversations means that NTF has probably made up his mind, and decided this is not going to end on mutually amicable terms.

It's possible that TCF can hang on until the cliff, but I doubt that'll happen, and it's not going to be pretty if they do. There are all kinds of ways NTF can reduce/destroy TCF's equity; I'd take 3% and move on with my life.
if damage is a concern, this can always be handled with an additional fee/deposit. cats are much less likely to disturb or threaten the other tenants, which is probably why they get more leeway.
Why won't you see it? It's public:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmB8ea8uLsM

You can also download it and try it yourself.

As for compilation speed, here's V compiling itself in 0.2 seconds:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoAx9fsWMAE2M4U?format=jpg&name=...
And in still other ways this endorsement is hypocritical to their own dogma: https://web.archive.org/web/20161010040458/https://blogs.cor...