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Ask HN: Who would you recommend as a startup influencer in China?
Hi,

We are in the process of building a global startup map. Our goal is to create a one stop shop global startup information and collaboration hub which will allow entrepreneurs to grow their startups and connect with relevant resources.

In keeping with our goal, we also have a map of startup influencers around the globe. We believe every startup needs mentors, and the influencers we choose are those we recommend to follow and connect to if possible.

As of now we do not have influencers in China. Who would you recommend we add? Also, we would love to know if we have missed out any other influencers and feedback on the map in general: http://www.startupblink.com/influencers

Thanks!
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Instagram.

http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/new-social-s...
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Strange. I didn't think it was unclear at all.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gusto

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For me it was: HTTP/1.1 => 3.07s vs HTTP/2 => 0.76s
Infrastructure is falling apart because people like the grandparent commenter succesfully reduce its funding.

The conservative strategy works shockingly well: defund government, appoint administrators who are actvely opposed to the existence of the programs they run, then sit back and claim that government can't do anything right.
> any picture of them on facebook is quickly harvested for use by some shady dating website

I doubt that even one in 10,000 people has noticed this happening. I also know about 50 women aged 18-25 and all of them are on facebook.
Quantum state is not local hidden variable. It's non-local.
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People seem to admire ruthless leaders of the past, despite what they did. I wonder how Hitler will be considered a thousand years from now.
"To Sell is Human" by Dan Pink. It doesn't so much teach you how to sell as to take the perspective of people whom you may want/need to convince or persuade.
This should go without saying but if you go against your culture, your chances of finding a life partner and having children are less likely. So genetically you are tailored to "fit in".
I've rarely met anyone that has actually "worked" a full 8 hours. The marathon work days where you actually do 8, and more likely 16, are few and far between. Once you exclude the coffee breaks, snack breaks, stretch breaks, brain breaks, etc. you easily get back to 6 hours. Hell if you are on here and at work you are technically not working. Most managers will overlook the occasional reddit or YC page load because they know it's hard to "crush it" for hours straight.
The reason Google developed Piper was basically that Perforce couldn't scale beyond a single machine, and our repo was getting too large to even be usable on the biggest, beefiest x86 server that money could buy (single machines with terabytes of ram and zillions of cores).

If Microsoft has close to the same amount of code in a single repository, then they must have also written their own version control service that runs on more than one machine.

The last rumors I heard is that Microsoft bought a license to the Perforce source code, and created their own flavor to host internal code ("Source Depot" ?), which presumably still runs on a single machine.
I got 3.14s vs 1.01s on my Android smartphone with Chrome. Nice improvement.
I keep hearing this mantra that young folks aren't on Facebook, but all of the young folks I know (younger cousins mostly) are on Facebook. I'm skeptical that this notion is true.
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I am extremely sorry to hear :(

Have you thought about trying an immunotherapy? I've seen some impressive outcomes.
“Uber for kids”?
> Many people mention Breaking Bad, but it's a completely different situation isn't it ? it's more a 'back against the wall' / idiotic heroism thing. He didn't go there to sustain a lifestyle, he was cornered.

Walt was never cornered by anything except his own pride; he choose to cook meth instead of accepting help from people he resented (for reasons which are, IIRC, not actually explicitly made clear.) I mean, really, its pretty much classic hubris-driven Greek tragedy in a modern setting.
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-Path dependence has no relevance. You are still going to make a single choice at each event no matter if the choices depend on previous history or not.

-"there is no utility function" is an odd claim. A function can obviously be defined, so what's the objection? Note that in any case there is an implicit utility function for which each action you do take has the maximum utility. Of course, there's the recursive problem of choosing the "best" utility function, which just highlights that at some point we stumble upon certain fundamental principles of physics and ethics which are ultimately arbitrary in which we would guide our actions consistently.
Now I'm waiting for someone to write a script that spams fake tweets to alter a stock's price.
This doesn't really have anything to do with holding customers funds, given that this attack was related to OTC Bitcoin trading.
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> Please give clear feedback that will help give direction to the candidate if you reject them.

Beyond the logistics of communicating to dozens of candidates for a single position, legally speaking, telling people why you rejected them gives you ammunition in court to say the process was discriminatory, and a violation of one of the many civil rights act. Simply saying 'we decided to go with a different candidate' gives you a courteous brush off, without giving you reasonable cause to go fishing with during discovery.

The purpose of an interview is not to get better at interviewing. The place for this is mock interviews. Honest feedback is expected to be given without the risk of employment discrimination lawsuits. I figure to the extent that constructive feedback is owed, mock interviewing is the way to provide it.
Usage vs capacity. I have Gbit service at home, but I'm not saturating the link 24/7.
There are 3 books you should read: SPIN Selling. The Challenger Sale. The Charisma Myth. In that order. You will learn so many jedi mind tricks.

Yes, there is such a thing as sales. But do yourself a favor and don't sell shitty products. There's a wide range of incomes among people selling the best products, and the difference is stuff you can at least read about in those books.
It's one of those borrowed words where the English pronunciation is different than the original Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Tgrk6dLuw
How would that be any different than any business model? Don't do what customers like, or do specifically what they hate, you have less success...
Browser? OS?

HTTP/1.1: 2.06s
HTTP/2: 0.45s

with Chrome 45 on 64-bit Debian 8
All of it. The 40 line methods with no self documenting variables, order or sense.
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Well, it appears you are prejudiced rather than unsympathetic. You don't know enough about the case to make that kind of a judgement call.
Thank you Amir, I will try reaching out. The best way to learn is by doing so I figured instead of working on some useless side project/tutorials, it'd be more productive to give back to the community that has helped me learn so much.
I used GOG to buy the original Master of Orion. Randomly throughout the game, to stop piracy, a screen will pop up and ask you to identify the name of a ship. Back when the game was release, the instruction booklet was the only place to get this information. If you clicked the wrong ship name, the game would exit.

In the GOG version, you can click on any ship and the game will continue. I was very impressed that they kept that small detail while providing an easy way around it. It really brought be back to the early 90's, playing the game round-robin with my father.

Frighteningly, since I hadn't played the game in 20+ years, I realized I still actually remembered some of those ship names.
It's also quite hypocritical to sell a book about privacy that is encumbered with DRM.
On facebook, but do they really use it in a manner profitable to advertisers? Those I know have erected behavioral barriers to protect themselves (privacy settings, not clicking things, quick unfriending) that limit their marketability to advertisers.
"Totally Honest"

"(a lie, I added $14k to the original offer)"

"(a lie, I added $20k to my current salary)"
Reminds me of the work of the Human Interference Task Force, set up in 1981 to come up with strategies to provide necessary knowledge about the dangers related to active nuclear waste across several millennia to future generations. Françoise Bastide and Paolo Fabbri, two members of the Task Force, proposed breeding "radiation cats" that would change significantly in color when they came near radioactive emissions and serve as living indicators of danger [0]. In order to transport the message, the importance of the cats would need to be set in the collective awareness through fairy tales and myths, which the authors considered to be the most effective way to communicate with future generations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force
First off, congratulations to the team. This is a big change and I'm sure a huge amount of work went into making this happen.

I wonder what this says about the company's focus. They started out focused on payroll, with the BI press release saying they had 20k customers out of millions of small businesses. So obviously a lot more to be done and they are off to a good start. Which raises a few questions:

Do they consider payroll "solved"? Payroll seems to be a pretty massive problem with as much to be done as when they started.

What are they bringing that Zenefits doesn't? Zenefits does payroll and benefits as well, so if you are going to take them on directly I would have hoped to see a lot more about differentiators.

On the one hand, very exciting. On the other, I'd be worried that they are letting a huge competitor drive their actions. Payroll (to an outside) still seems to have massive potential.
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No, because as a developer of a site, you know the defaults... if browsers defaulted to predictably blocking ads, content providers would adjust accordingly. There is a difference between a standard on pretty much every browser and an addon.
I saw my first "restart to install updates" dialog in Debian this week.

SystemD is cargo-culting Windows.
The real problem is that facebook fans are useless, because even if you have them, 95% of them still won't see your posts unless you pay to boost them. Fans are effectively an illusion.
Great game! I love it.

One critique, the controls feel a little bit off when moving.

There's a slight jerk when moving from space to space instead of fluid motions. I understand that there might be a need to slow down when moving between spaces, for input actions, but I'd recommend decelerating when landing on spaces instead of "stopping." It has a sort of negative visual effect.

Keep up the good work.
I'm not sure how smart it is to give people advice on privacy and which software to use to avoid surveillance via a traditional book. I'd much rather get my advice from EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense or TTC's Security In-a-Box because they're online and can be updated easily if a critical bug is discovered with any given popular privacy or security software. Capabilities change over time and when they do, you can't update a book as easy as you can update a website. If someone relies on this books' recommendations and think that they're secure when they're not for whatever reason, that's incredibly harmful.

Reading the overview though, the book is also seems to be about history of obfuscation and protesting laws (?) so I guess it could be useful for people who're seeking that information, but I wouldn't recommend this or any book that acts like a tutorial to someone who's trying to learn more about online privacy.
Much of our genetic adaptation agrees with this - growing up with infantile features (like extreme social behavior, empathy, imprinting on other adults for years after birth, smaller face/jaws, far less hair) helps us live in larger groups in close proximity i.e. villages, towns and cities.
Some people are given free product in return for a good review.

In England you must make it very clear if content is your regular content of if it's sponsored content. This is hard for YouTubers to comply with because a big pre-roll splash probably isn't enough.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30203816

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/26/vloggers-must-t...

https://www.asa.org.uk/News-resources/Media-Centre/2014/Maki...
I think this still smacks of too-situational thinking. Every day my inbox fills with "exciting opportunities" that are nothing but a laundry list of requirements. Am I going to learn nothing on this job? Are you going to invest in me by letting me learn new skills? Are you going to unleash me on new problems, etc? If this is a boring maintainance mode job you don't need the 'best and the brightest' that everyone says they want, and let's be honest; anyone decent can learn that laundry list.

It's rare that I see a req that interests me, because most are extremely situational and based on very specific tasks. Again, I recognize these sorts of jobs will always exist in established companies, and I thank the writer for making that clear, but a list of 8 technologies (who am I kidding, it is usually 15 with 10 more 'nice to haves') from a start up that will probably be pivoting in 3 months anyway? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. "Come work for us and absolutely stall your career as you grind out tasks that you mastered 3 years ago" is not an appealing sales pitch, and not one that will bring in the talent you need to respond to new challenges.

I'm not saying you meant any of that in your post (you might of, but I'm not sure), your post was just a convenient one to respond to.
...it seems fair give a theist take on an agnostic or atheist thought.

People expect leaders that are:

* strong
* fair
* capable
* intelligent
* loyal
* available
* caring
* personal
* decisive
* on top of things
* courageous

People who believe in God see that as a list only God himself could check off. That means we have an innate desire for a leader with the qualities of God himself. To the extent that people try to find perfect leadership in imperfect men and ideas, they will be disappointed. Pick literally any names: Bush, Obama, Trump, Jobs, Gates, Musk -- even Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dr. King and Thomas Jefferson. So we become disappointed and move on to other people and concepts. Or we find God as He is, not just as we would imagine Him, and find peace in belonging to Him.

In a more personal take, I tend to be hard on my bosses and organizations; at times I have to remind myself to have reasonable expectations for human leaders.
Bitcoin has many flaws but in this case some major screw ups within BitPay were the root cause of the theft. Analyzing these can help to prevent similar mistakes in the future.

- Why was the Google Account of a CFO (of a financial organisation) not secured with 2fa (most likely) and if it was how could it be breached?

- Why did the CEO just sent the money ("an hour later" suggests that no much research could be done)?

- Why did he send it the second and third time and only then CC the "customer" company?

- Was there a paper trail of the fake purchase (order / confirmation / invoice etc) and if yes how could it be forged if no why didn't it exist?

I suppose there are some details missing in this article and the attack was probably sophisticated and well prepared, however this is something you have to prepare for.

If you are a financial service dealing with substantial amounts of money you have a red mark painted on your back at all times and since trust (in you, your organization and the whole bitcoin community) is one of your major assets an incident like must not to be taken lightly (I don't think it will)
Management, negotiations, and money are only for the Gordon Gekkos' of the world. Mind you, I'm humpin on 40 and have had my own stint as an IT manager at a start-up (VERY successful one, actually) and stepped up to bat as a Director of IT several years back - feeling cocky just as you have in your ability to rise to the challenge. However, leadership rarely burdens the young and I mean <30, because of a discrepency of this thing called life-experience and human relationships. Writing software is fine, and becoming top technical dog is another - and you _can_ and _will_ eventually make the money to match it. HOWEVER, be weary of young management as the company grows - people follow leaders, not managers into stressful output periods. Start-ups as time goes on want to grow - namely 5 million to 10, 10-50, 50-100. What that brings, are folks from OUTSIDE the company who come DOWN from those next tiers to weed out folks who do this kind of thing. I respect your efforts, and thanks for sharing.

My next thought is around the belief that money / drive combinations can lead to happiness. Ya, ya .. lil bit softer end of the stick, but drive to go from $46-150K in a short period is one thing, but having a family / life / opposite experience of work is less about how much you make, but making the balance.

I do well, and I live in a depressed market of the US (rust-belt city), and I have a high-earning wife w/ no kids. Needless to say, my life is fantastic. I am not going to die at 45 from stress, either.

So balance will be the longevity, and understanding how you want to "grow" in your field is the other. It's great being ambitious, but just remember - the higher you go, the lonelier it gets.
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Readers simply take a picture of their bookshelves (Shelfie) and we do the rest. We have signed over 450 publishers (including 2 of the big 5) to bring over 100,000 titles to users.

Would love feedback from the community.
FYI: This web demo already works extremely well on my Android device.
So to be clear:

1: Search rankings not effected, because you do a "if useragent is googlebot and iprange = x, show normal site"

2: You are going to run the advertisements on the publishers site, even if they have nasty malware attached to them and use your system resources? Not displaying those ads wont keep your computer safe. Does not seem like a good idea.

3: There is so much logic capable in JS which can determine if its being hidden or not - What color is position x,y ? Its white? thats not correct... dont load the site. There could be a infinite amount of these non-interaction gotchas you will not be able to automate- You will have to go back and try to write a rule each time, and that rule will be tricky if everything is randomized.
So you have not been rebooting when you update kernels up until now? That might leave you open to security vulnerabilities.

You don't specify which update tool you are using, but if it hasn't shown you that screen before that sounds like a bug.

EDIT: replying to digi_owl, as HN won't allow me to reply at a deeper nesting level.

> 1. you can actually do a kernel update without a reboot now, using certain tools.

To my knowledge, none of them are supported by debian, which was what the OP was talking about. Maybe he's using them, but then, it seems weird to complain about debian requiring reboots if he's gone to such lengths to prevent that problem in the past.

> 2. dbus was a reimplementation in C of dcop, the KDE IPC system. It was aimed at allowing desktop programs to talk to each other, not carry the whole OS on its back.

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything in my post.

> 3. drop the attitude. Or are you deliberately trying to derail the topic?

I'm not sure what attitude you refer to, it was not my intention to come off as hostile. Apologies to the GGP if that's how it sounded. I was merely pointing out that reboots for upgrades are not a new thing in debian, as the GGP seemed to be implying.
that's why you always voice confirm...
Even this is flawed as gmail caches images so any subsequent edits would not be displayed!
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I really like the Zenpayroll product, but I wish they would focus on expanding into more states before adding benefits etc and trying to compete with Zenefits. This would prevent companies who have employees in multiple states outgrowing them and needing to switch to ADP.
I do not think a company owes you anything with regards to feedback. Why do you think you or the community deserve feedback?

If you get rejected you were simply not the right fit.
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I've run it a few times. It seems to depend on normal networking conditions, which makes sense. I've had 1 run as low as 1sec and as high as 6.
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I've been explicitly told that the code should compile, as I write it (Hi Microsoft!). That's daft, and I told the interviewer that that is not how I think and did it my way.
Googles doesn't really say, and I believe they are caught in a tough spot - unable to create an enforceable rule.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2648487?hl=en

I actually think one of the things that stops competitors from buying poor quality links, is the fear that it might have the opposite effect. Google simply can't keep up with the spam that is created - so they are forced to take a moderate approach.
Do you doubt your skills? Why are you interviewing if you're employed at a good company?

I hear this position often when people talking about contract-to-perm, and I just don't see it. If you're good at what you do, and people enjoy working with you, why wouldn't you take a contract to perm position? The only reasons I can see are that you are afraid you don't get the job (well, then you wouldn't have been a good fit if they hired you) or you end up not liking the team/company as much (same as if they had hired you.)

So, why wouldn't you? And I don't buy the 'I have a good job' line, because you wouldn't even be entertaining offers if you weren't interested in leaving your current role.
As said in another comment, phishing can circumvent 2fa (just phish the code as well).
"You’re right. I should apologize,’’ Barbie said. ‘‘I’m not mad anymore. I just want to be friends again."

So this barbie "friend" is incapable of walking away, of ending the friendship, and will basically say or do anything to keep the child happy and talking. That's not friendship. That's a perverse version of siri.
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What's the indication that its an english word v. the spanish word. This is especially curious since their previous name was also a word borrowed from another language.

Gusto(EN) - to do with vigor
Gusto(ES) - taste
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