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julien421 | 1 year ago | on: Has anyone been able to access Kolors API?

Hey HN,

I'm Julien, and together with my friend Kalkidan, we've been working on making online clothes shopping more interactive. After launching our Chrome extension, many users requested a mobile-friendly version that doesn't rely on extensions. So, we developed a web-based version of Virtual Try-On that lets you try on clothes using your own photos directly from any device.

Why I'm Posting:

The current model we are using works okay, but not sure it works as well as Kolors. Has anyone been able to work with Kolors? I saw a viral post by a user on X recently ("I built it with AI in 2 hours kind of tweet) claiming they were using it, but I couldn't find their API nor any documentation. Did the viral tweet scrapped their Hugging Face page? If anyone has insights on accessing or integrating Kolors, I'd greatly appreciate your help.

Thank you!

julien421 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)

Holberton School | Sr. Software engineer | Full-Time, onsite | San Francisco, CA

Stack: Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, React & Redux, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker

Apply: https://www.holbertonschool.com/jobs/senior-software-enginee...

Holberton School offers a two-year higher-education program to become a full-stack Software Engineer. Through project-based and peer learning, Holberton School’s students unleash their creativity and naturally learn how to work as a team to solve practical challenges.

At Holberton our students do not take on debt and do not pay us anything before they find a job. That permits us to have a positive impact at many level, including opening the door of first-rate education to the most.

Holberton is on its way to become the largest trainer of Software Engineers in the US within the years to come. Our current San Francisco campus will be home to 1,000 students, our mentor community is 150+ strong and quickly growing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/education/holberton-a-two... http://www.businessinsider.com/the-19-hottest-startups-in-sa...

julien421 | 8 years ago | on: Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training

> Salary is non negotiable for entry level jobs

I can assure you that our students (Holberton) do negotiate their entry-level jobs. The majority successfully do so :)

> the only things that matters is your study programme and your degree

When we started we had no track record whatsoever. Our first students found internships but also jobs everywhere including both completely unknown and super cool startup and very high-profile companies such as NASA, Apple etc... they were all selected on what they could do and not on a degree (we are not accredited) nor the school itself (we had no track record)

Today we atart to have a very good reputation so the problem is different, our atudents don't have to fight anymore, companies come to them. But for the first students it was very clear that ppl didn't care about degrees or "where do you come from".

julien421 | 8 years ago | on: Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training

Yes we are: the admission process is algorithm-led. The admission process is totally blind and removes human biais.

During the admission process (please tey it :)) we try to replicate as much as we can what students will be living at Holberton. Simce we are project-based and students also collaborate a lot with each other, the admission process is a project where you have to collaborate with other candidates. Basically if you has fun doing the admission process you will love Holberton and if you don't then you will drop-out during the admission process vs dropping out from school. Most of the applicants don't finish it. It takes anywhere from 10 to 60h to finish it - depending on your current level (this is designed for ppl with 0 level in CS/programming)

julien421 | 8 years ago | on: Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training

[I am the cofounder of Holberton] it is working great for us. As you said we do take the financial risk on students not getting jobs. Education is so broken today: students get in debt and don't find jobs because too many universities are in the business of signing in students and not finding them a job :( hopefully we can show the way and we'll make this change. Purdue university is now offering this too, which is a good sign that things are changing. Honestly I think that this is going to become the norm simply because the current system is broken an unsustainable (US students debt is in Trillion USD! and cost of atudies is getting higher and higher -> more devt and more ppl who can't afford Education anymore) 10 years from now ppl will simply look back and laugh at today's system.

There are two other important things that this model solves too: 0. There is no more financial barrier to high quality Education. Anyone can afford Holberton* 1. Colleges need to make sure that you are a fit to their system/culture/field. Today this is not the case so students are wasting time and money in programs they are likely to fail. By having this tuition model they will need to be transparent and make sure everyone succeed

(*) we are in SF so cost of living is high. this is a pb for a lot of candidates. We are activally working on a solution.

julien421 | 9 years ago | on: Welcome, school 42. Seriously

I want to add, that I did not understand all the rage against school 42 in a previous post. Those guys basically offer free Education. This is awesome. We are VERY happy to see another school in the US using this peer-learning and project-based approach to train software engineers. When we launched Holberton School last year we knew there would more school like this coming to the US, but we are glad that school 42 is the one launching today! Congratulations to the whole team 42!
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