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Convert Collada Scene to Other 3D Formats and Apply Visual Effects on a 3D View
Aspose team is pleased to announce the release of Aspose.3D for .NET 2.0.0. The new version allows developers to automatically set up one or multiple viewports in a single screenshot. Using multiple viewports technique can help in visualizing some large sized 3D scenes. This release will enable developers to customize the post-processing algorithms in the future versions. Aspose.3D API has added support to import the Collada scenes. Collada is an open XML file format for 3D assets, supported by various 3D software packages. Developers would be able to import 3D scene elements like material, light, camera, texture and geometries (polygon, polylist, triangles, triangle fans and triangle strips). Developers may also import an existing Collada scene, and then save in other supported 3D file formats. It has plans to enhance the import operations of Collada files as well as incorporate the export feature in the upcoming releases. Using Aspose.3D API, developers can now capture various new viewports to present complex areas of a 3D scene in better presentable form. They can also save multiple viewports in a single screenshot. Aspose.3D API performs OpenGL rendering. It creates a hardware OpenGL-backend renderer. An initialization error will occur, if the machine has no hardware support of OpenGL 4.0. Aspose team will extend rendering in the future releases.
I used to do this using http://symless.com/synergy/

Cool that it's now built in to windows!
More frequent performance feedback is a good thing. Just don't think for a second that it changes the nature of the employer-employee relationship.

The employer wants: best work at the lowest price.
The employee wants: to do best work (hopefully) at the highest price.

That tension in price comes into play in all the big (hiring, raises, promotions, bonuses) moments of this relationship and the deck is mostly stacked against the employee.

What's an employee to do? Get leverage. And when i say get, I mean earn it (because you work hard and smart and are killing it at work) and show it (be savvy). You need to track every instance of your good work, every demonstration of your value to the company. You need to know what form your performance feedback will take (quick meeting? annual review? panel?) and be ready with all the ammo/leverage/savvy/whatever you want to call it. You have to be able to show what you're worth, what the company loses by losing you (loss aversion works on your boss too) and all that.
Same.

I downloaded the Mac app clicked the "don't forget to download the iOS app!" link, saw $18.99 - and deleted the download.

(I realise $20 is actually a low price for a piece of software, but I don't _need_ this, and $20 is more than I wanted to spend out of curiosity.)

One other complaint for me - it proudly states "All iPads!" than says "iOS7.0+", which leaves out my still working original iPad which can't upgrade to 7.0... That was kinda frustrating.
Hi, I am Rocky Sharma, founder of w3clan.com site.

Lots of new product, technology and services are evolving on internet every day and creating documentation about same is boring task for some of developers like me and some of my friend, thus, I started this startup with aim to help users create tutorial or documentation website for any product or services they want in just couple of minute [ Register > My course > Add course > Add Content > Publish ].

1). Not all courses are video course and
2). Not all course on internet are paid course and
3). Not all courses should ask users to signup to watch or read course.

There is none of the platform which provides user to setup their own text based tutorial website with option to use their own domain , sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain.

There is also option for authors to use "Google adsense" inside their tutorial content for monetisation.

I could not find platform what i needed with above option, and i assumed, there could be more like me, who could be needing something like that too. Thus, i created w3clan.

I would love to have any feedback, you would like to share with me for w3clan platform which you think could be beneficial for readers or authors.

Thanks
Samsung bloat?
Kinda sounds like the latter. Sorry, but I'm afraid that we already have made things a bit too complicated.
Because then no one will manufacture it. You can't just will things into existence with unrealistic feel good rhetoric.
This pairs really well with the Mountie (https://tenonedesign.com/mountie.php).
DreamWorks Animation is now owned by Comcast
DSPs have insanely tiny power per peak OPS. The problem is that they are not good at running general purpose loads.
Making a company's customers upset tends to have teeth. There's a reason companies spend money on PR instead of just keeping that money as additional profit, after all.

If your neighbor is being a nuisance, it may be more effective to gather up some of the other neighbors and all go over to the fellow and tell him to knock it off.

I don't have any actual solutions to propose here. Maybe it merits legislation, maybe it merits consumer action, maybe it's just an opportunity for some other business to create a competing product. I just don't like criticism of people trying to work around a life threatening problem without also acknowledging the source of the problem, and I especially don't like justifying bad corporate behavior on the mistaken principle that corporations must prioritize profits above all else.
I got the impression that he was rationalizing being anti-social, i.e. "I'm too good for them anyway."
Well, 1.7 just came out, and GolangUK just happened? Not exactly surprising that a lot of posts pop up around releases or events within a specific community.
You are soo right. I really want Google to succeed (more competition the better), but I hear things like this and I'm just blown away. They are already fighting a reputation for abandoning projects when it suits them (yes, mainly consumer applications, but the perception persists) and doing this just makes it worse. C'mon Google ... hire some marketing people that know what they are doing and sort out your customer perception issues.
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I think the problem isn't the feature, so much as the unintuitive way the user interface is implemented. The link to unhide items could show up in the top bar (maybe next to the username) instead of yet another link in the users' profile, and give some visual prompt (maybe with a counter or something) telling the user that there's a relationship between one action and the other.
Was just at Ace Hardware picking up carriage bolts yesterday... They were right next to the prominently-labelled lag screws.

I'll probably keep calling them lag bolts too.
Some of the software I've had to maintain had the best UX, but winds up having the shittiest code underneath.
I'm sure it wasn't a very good one, but do you recall what the actual stated reason for this undertaking was? It surely couldn't have been "just because".
> I'm not a regular user of Chrome, so maybe that's how they all look

Interestingly, that's an exact replica of the real Chrome Cleanup Tool that was/is in use when we ran the research (I'm a coauthor). The news article only reports overarching "did they heed the warning" stats, but in the published paper we actually didn't care whether they heeded it or not. We cared how much they deliberated over their decision before making a choice. We measured deliberation, or attention, via mouse cursor movement tracking. For example, straight-line trajectories towards the dismiss button indicate less cognitive attention than do less-than-straight-line trajectories (wavering, hover time, click latency, etc.). If someone deliberated for a long time, they might decide in the end that they thought it was spam. But at least they deliberated instead of making an automatic, hasty decision! Users were more likely to show signs of deliberation when the prompts were shown at low-interference times than they were at high-interference times.
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Why is there no downvote button on this and other comments in this thread? I have the ability to downvote and many other comments have it available. Why are some unable to be downvoted?
There's an obvious market here for a dialer with out of band signalling at least for cellphone to cellphone traffic... Only devices that have key you recognize are allowed through.
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I was very confused until I realized that I had a typo. I actually meant for that last line to say "Option 2". :)
I usually browse the web without downloading CSS or Javascript unless I need it, and the experience is very different because it makes me spend time reading content rather fumbling through the page layout. I'd recommend trying it.
I actually agree with this. I implied otherwise due to a typo and now it is outside of the edit window. Oops. :)
10W is probably on the high-end for passive cooling of such a package, but zero problem with a fan.
You must be right about the cyborgs. I read the same thing, in "Race Against the Machine," by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee [1] on page 54, where the author cites Kasparov, who wrote (in 2010, regarding the cyborg thing) [2]:

The surprise came at the conclusion of the event. The winner was revealed to be not a grandmaster with a state-of-the-art PC but a pair of amateur American chess players using three computers at the same time. Their skill at manipulating and “coaching” their computers to look very deeply into positions effectively counteracted the superior chess understanding of their grandmaster opponents and the greater computational power of other participants. Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process.

It sounds like since then computers have improved enough such that humans no longer help.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Pro...

[2] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/02/11/the-chess-master-...
Hmm now I'm wondering if the brain does something like this? Might the brain need branch prediction? Interesting line of thought.
The window of time for downvoting was reduced from 24 hours to 8 hours.
This does happen (I once wrote that it didn't ... turns out I just didn't wait long enough), but I've always found AWS support to be really helpful. Couple that with the abundance of documentation that they offer and all of the information that is available on the Internet and the situation isn't really comparable to Google's offering.
I'd be interested to see the intersection of quality software engineers and Trump supporters. My guess is near zero.
... Make a difference for the generation after the next. Maybe.
then a lot of people will try to run from the hungry mobs when time comes. or suppress them by force, redistributing their money to the force of course, so much for hard-earned income.
You need a bigger team.
Our biological OS is built to worry about every one of these things.

Our bodies are still Windows 98.
I claim that the top 20% (as specified in the headline) could not be reasonably described as "essentially nobody". And the article you linked two posts ago found that more than 20% of funds beat the market.
> a 6-year-old GCC bolted to a proprietary backend

Not only a violation of the GPL, but for a code owned by the FSF and even Stallman himself.

That's a bold move. And very douchey.
Your information is out of date.

https://github.com/tjmehta/is-positive-integer/blob/master/i...
Low latency processing and speed. But it was done without anyone measuring the latency and performance parameters of the existing one that's the crazy part.
YC would do well with a hiatus. Less is more. Frankenstein-accelerator. Paul Graham had the right throughput.
That is a really cool and simple hack. Take a wireless charging coil + support circuitry and simply tap that into the USB +5V and ground? It all sounds too easy!
>SF could use a lot more of that attitude. I thought the west coast was supposed to be chill.

Doesn't London have one of the highest rates of pedestrian/cyclist deaths in the world?

This is a traffic engineering problem, not an attitude issue.
No news here, just an announcement of an announcement.

Previous discussion of the planet here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279572
Reinsurance is definitely concerned about sea level rise. Here is an example presentation from SwissRe showing their estimates of the increasing damages due to climate change (e.g., slide 7).

http://www.miamidade.gov/planning/library/presentations/2014...
Fully open version: https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/08/18/discovery-revea...
No discussion on Node.js and "overmodularisation" is complete without a mention of the left-pad debacle:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348798
What iPad stand is in the image on the site?
North Korea 'Netflix' device unveiled
FWIW pg often spoke of his desire to scale YC and benefit more startups. As I understand it that's one of Sam Altman's primary goals.
I've never really understood the "one langauge" argument. I'm a good (not great) front-end JavaScript programmer, but I don't think that helps writing node.js. Sure, the syntax is technically the same, but the bulk of a node.js program looks and is written quite differently from front-end js (even js library writing). Surely having similar syntax (which is basically C-like anyway) isn't that big a deal?
startup era of 2009-2014 is long over.
yep, and I'd argue its not working.
I have been blocking third party cookies for years with no ill effects.
Many of the comments concern bpython. I believe may more people work with IPython/Jupyter for this sort of thing. I wonder if this would have improved things for the author.

> I have to know empty collections in python are false: ... That fits poorly Zen of Python:

I disagree. I found that code to be completely Pythonic.

> In Julia you can write e.g.: joinpath(homedir(), "bar", "foo") ; But there is no such natural extension in python

It's in Python 3.5:

>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path.home()
PosixPath('/Users/dalke')
>>> Path.home().joinpath("bar", "foo")
PosixPath('/Users/dalke/bar/foo')

Yes, I quite dislike the location of "shutil.rmtree".

The author writes "I can run call command but that will not print result to console." The subprocess.call() prints its results to my console, so I don't know what is going on.
The GP post claims that every closed-source product is perpetually backdoored. If this were true, then there would be no way to detect backdoor access, and no way to deny it short of going 100% open source, which is simply not possible for large corporations.

What you describe is how intelligence services actually work to develop and protect real tools for access. What the GP claims is a fantasy in which such work is not necessary.
Yes, it should have. Unless the ad tracker placed some other cookie-like file that would evade your browser's cookie settings.
This echoes 500 Startups thesis.
eyeroll

I wonder how Robert Martin was implementing SOLID before the wonder that is Go was delivered unto us. And I wonder why all our buzzword-laden codebases are still knee deep in crap if SOLID is so amazingly awesome. We've been hearing about coupling and cohesion for over 50 years now. At what point does thinking in those terms become part of the problem rather than the solution?

Is it possible that Go or any other language du jour just seems cleaner because it's newer and so the cruft hasn't had a chance to form yet? Come back in 10 years, and tell me how amazing it is then.
Anybody found that any of the continuous feedback tools are actually helpful either as the employee or manager?
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Even with your first point, is the distinction really so obvious? Of course I can think of items which are obviously bolts and not screws, and vice versa, but I can also think of items where I have no idea which way they would be categorized.

The document reveals some pretty subtle distinctions. For example, "An externally threaded fastener, which must be assembled with a nut to perform its intended service, is a bolt." But, "An externally threaded fastener, which must be torqued by its head into a tapped or other preformed hole to perform its intended service is a screw." Couldn't the exact same fastener fit either definition depending on the context in which it's intended to be used?

And yes, it seems your tariff theory is on point. "STEEL SCREWS AND BOLTS are classified in Chapter 73, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under heading 7318. The tariff has separate provisions for the different types of screws and bolts, and separate provisions for threaded and non-threaded fasteners."
No matter how few dependencies you have, any of them can break you if your build system automatically moves you to an updated version without first testing it.
That's the wrong lesson to take from it.
IMO the top bar needs to stay simple and only show the most important things.
There's a whole subgenre of programming called algorave (algorithmic rave) which is oriented around building music using functional/declarative paradigms.

It's a super cool creative branch of prog research, much of it involving live programming, funky editors/IDEs (Ixi Lang is the macOS rich text editor, where on certain key combos its content is piped and the colours of the editor changed live -- bit of a hack and super cool).

Check some out -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAq4BAbvRS4
JavaScript in Web browsers has a lot of sandboxing (i.e: babyproofing). Node on the other side doesn't. If you are an experienced developer, chances are you won't do something lousy like coding by trial and error and playing with concepts you don't understand and copying and pasting from StackOverflow.

If you follow the golden rule of not touching anything you don't understand, you should be in a safe spot. But that's not the culture in the node community. The node community is all about sharing lousy snippets of code without error handling, without input validation, and without any regard for any non-functional requirement in poorly written blogs and npm. A community of excessive optimism and irrational risk taking.

Floating point numbers, for instance. Every number in JavaScript is a floating point number, and 99% of node developers don't understand a basic thing like how to compare 2 floating point numbers. And that's just the basics... let's not even discuss concurrency, parallelism, how to deal with files, memory, I/O...
Far too often, I see hackers looking for something to disrupt; a problem to fix. I implore you, this is a cause the requires fixing, more than almost any problem you'll find in Silicon Valley.

Social security is one of the bedrocks of the few social safety nets the US government provides [1]. It keeps seniors out of poverty, it keeps the disabled off the streets. It provides results, and its one of the most efficient government agencies at doing so (when you look at the cost of ingesting payroll taxes and distributing funds to eligible recipients).

Clearly, this Washington Post article highlights the dark side. The Social Security Administration is chronically understaffed, not just in providing customer service, but also in processing disability claims (last I checked, the backlog is approaching 15-18 months in some states) [2] [3].

Just last night, I exclaimed to my wife how terrible the SSA is at properly calculating someone's benefits (based on earned income history/credits, spousal/widow benefits, etc), and that this should be a solved problem. The SSA has all of the necessary data to compute the proper benefit amount someone should be receiving monthly.

I won't say this is an easy problem to fix. The pitfalls are numerous. The Social Security Administration is an unforgiving bureaucracy. There are entanglements with attempting to provide what might be considered legal advice through a webapp. Your users would not be what I would consider "receptive". But the data is there. The necessary algorithms the SSA uses to determine benefits are openly available. Earnings credits/history for a beneficiary is an authenticated XML call away. Marriage and divorce records can ingested (you have to be married to someone 10 years to be eligible to collect off of their spousal benefits).

My plea is simple: help me fix this. It's not ads, its not VR, it's not AI; it is lifting people out of poverty. It's not glamourous. There is no glory. But you're helping people who otherwise might have nothing.

If you're at the USDS or 18F, put me in front of the right person. If that's not going to work, we'll work at it from an "automated legal aid" front (think of the bot Joshua Browder wrote to challenge parking tickets [4]; I've already reach out to him regarding this as well), and have an automated system for calculating the proper benefits and submitting the claim to the SSA. I refuse to believe the status quo is the best we can do.

[1] http://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-t...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/08/09/...

[3] https://oig.ssa.gov/audits-and-investigations/top-ssa-manage...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-a...
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From the perspective of a student who got out of high-school, I got most of my work done in medium-sized group of individuals who actually wanted to work.

Any more than 10 was useless and they began to chit-chat. Much fewer and people tended to make mistakes or forget things. Those 10 or so people could be paired off into 5 groups of 2 for practice of exams, or 3 groups of 3 (with one floater, or one group of 4) for more round-robin type work and collaboration.

There is very much a reason the philosophers of old had a set class size of ~8, and why classrooms encourage "smaller" groups. The workplace should, in theory, value this more. However, in the sense of being "new and hip", I fear they've abandoned productive work to create "ideas".
Real.
However, the same day the left-pad debacle stuff was on HN, this was changed to be self-contained:
https://github.com/tjmehta/is-positive-integer/commits/maste...
I wish I didn't update my Nexus 7 2012 to Lollipop. Lollipop made it crawl compared to Kitkat.
Oh, that midlife crisis thing. Just survive it when it comes. Don't wait around for it or look for it, either. It'll find you on its own time, and you won't necessarily realize what it is till it's over. Then, things are better than ever, and you'll think things like, "Why did I do all that stupid shit when I was younger?" Then you'll chuckle and go on with your day. It's not that bad.
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That was my thought too. I guess it worked well for them, but it certainly wouldn't be my first choice. I wonder what the 10 custom instructions were?

ARM licensed cores don't have an easy way to add instructions, but they do have the TCM bus which might be low latency enough, depending on what they were trying to do.
Whoops! I was not aware of that.

Thanks a lot.
>benefit more startups

I call it buying more lottery tickets and it's not a sound investment strategy.
Ask HN: SF vs. NYC?
My team is currently discussing a relocation to either San Fransisco or New York City in the next 2 months our so. We are a social network startup currently based out of Atlanta. ATL is a young growing city and we believe the media connections and partners here are great. However our reason for wanting to relocated is 2 things.

1. Talent is really hard to find here in Atlanta.
2. The network of investors in Atlanta aren't interested in our space.

I personally have lived in both locations. I find them both to be expensive but livable. I've also found that 3 months networking at these locations is 12 months in ATL. I'm interested to see what the HN community thinks. Any founders who have made the move that can share some wisdom would be great.