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Does Professional Networking needs a makeover?
Experiences collated by interacting with a community of professionals.Please suggest if there is anything more to be added.

Virtual Networking
a)Building connections with un-inteded purpose.You don't get a chance to express WHY (why you wanna connect)

b)2.Replying on virtual introductions = Time consuming + Depending on someone else.

Offline Networking
A)Events/Meetups surround you with thousands of people.How do you build connections ? (wandering through name tags??)

Realisation: Professional Networking needs to Engage + Evolving + Long lasting
To me, it seems like a combination of several factors:
* None of Adobe's products are particularly stable or secure - not even the ones they charge a lot of money for.
* Flash's wide install base and the fact that it's easy to invoke on a target (via the browser) machine makes it an inviting target for hackers.
* Flash is a fairly complex piece of software - after all, it's a language runtime.
* They don't charge for the Flash runtime, so there's no direct return on investment for making it more secure. The main losses are reputational and until there's a mass revolt (which might be coming) it's hard to quantify any financial losses.
> Making chips is a commodity business. The skill is in the design and patenting

There's no point in designing (& patenting) a fancy chip that can't be manufactured in yields high enough to get a profit, is there? An approximate analogy would be wireframing a web application prototype (design) vs. egnineering the site so that it scales to millions of users (making chips).

More on-topic, IBM probably announced a 7 chip that can't be manafactured with acceptable yields yet. Hypothetically, Intel could design a 5nm chip with < 0.1% yields: but what would be point?
Ask HN: Are there any startups targeting the credit reporting market?
I know there are a few places like Credit Karma that work to help you get access to the existing big 3 credit agencies in the US. But is anyone actually tackling the reporting and scoring itself?

I know some of the micro-lenders themselves score people based on their social media and other factors, but is anyone trying this on the larger scale to disrupt not so much the lending but the reporting side?

I am also thinking about those that move to another country and don't have established credit and sometimes struggle to get themselves established. I think in some cases this is easier than others, but would love to understand it better.
How helpful would a 3d printer be to a village in a developing country?
I feel like xsi and art mean something domain specific that might be obvious to a domain expert.
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I'm Tonjé BAKANG, founder and CEO
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What do these directories offer for the startups that are listed on them? Have you looked into why other companies are charging double or triple what you could charge? It's all going to come down to your pitch and your marketing.
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Same here. Though I have a Webstorm license and that has worked quite well for the server side debug. Good to know though that 'meteor debug' exists.
Internet mobs only take down powerful people and companies when those companies are built to facilitate those mobs.

Internet mobs have completely failed to take down any number of other bad CEOs, or influence the policy of any nation state in a significantly positive way.

The disconnect is leverage. You can rant all you like online, but corporations only care about sales and the bottom line. Unless Team Rant has a measurable effect there you have no real influence at all.

Internet mobs have been good at shaming middle- and low-status individuals who attract envy and/or who say the wrong thing in public. Careers and reputations have certainly been damaged or destroyed.

But don't confuse that kind of schoolyard game for political or economic influence - they're completely different things.
I don't advise lying, I didn't know the forms ask that question. Anyhow, the discrimination against the self-employed is ridiculous, especially with so many contract workers and freelancers out there and the spread of at-will employment means you can lose your job tomorrow even at a large company.
This. In theory Cycles can be used to make the same kind of movies Renderman can. Please name a few examples of cases where this was done.

On the flipside, when people say Renderman can be used to make production level stuff, they can point to literally any film with CG made in the past 25 years as evidence.
That's almost a silly question.

If you Google it for a couple minutes, you'll see why a lot of people would prefer Renderman.
Ask HN: Startup vs. big corp fresh out of college?
I don't know if it has been asked on HN. I have been asking people around me (developers) whether I should start/join a startup fresh out of college or join a big company. The answers varied. What are your opinions?

To put more context: I have done an internship both at a startup and a big company. The pros and cons of them were in agreement with what people usually say. Startups are tougher and riskier but make you grow quicker, while big companies tend to be less interesting but guarantee a comfortable life. What would you choose if you were a senior in college who's about to begin your career?
Ask HN: Is iOS Shazam always listening?
Is it possible for an app to always listen to the mic on iOS, or is it a coincidence that just now as I was watching Pitch Perfect 2, Snoop Dog joined shazam? Moreover Shazam never sends me notifications, and I doubt my music preference would lead me to Snoop Dog. Image: http://imgur.com/xpldqLU
I am not sure, but can Renderman use the GPU, since I read if you use OSL in Cycles it is restricted to the CPU only. The node editor can utilize the GPU, but not OSL.
But then, isn't it not

"If no one has the leader key it runs health checks and takes over as leader."

but

"If no one has the leader key it takes over as leader, runs health checks, and starts functioning as leader."

? If so, I would do the health checks and then try to become the leader. Or do the 'health checks' involve other nodes?
My hope that someone who is passionate - cares more about building the best product they can (than even I do). As a result, they should welcome "valid" criticism.
Pluto,+NASA,+New+Horizons,+Jabba+the+Hutt,+Alien+on+Pluto,
The odd thing is that, on the evidence of those blog posts, Jeffries, doesn't appear to understand TDD. If you're using TDD to write a sudoku solver, surely the first thing you should write is a test for your "solve_sudoku" function; then your design is supposed to evolve out of the code you write to pass that test (and the further tests you write for parts of that solution, iteratively). But Jeffries starts writing a bunch of tests for a the low-level details of the representation of a sudoku board. There isn't really any "design" in those posts at all; just a guess at something you might use in a solution to the problem.
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This is not possible at all on iOS, just a coincidence.
Apology accepted? But I do know what I'm talking about. Monopolies in a market economy can only exist if they've had no competitors and have met all of their customers needs and defeated all competition. Google is a monopoly, because it's something we're all generally pretty happy with. Even the slightest downfalls in Google lead to competitors taking advantage of that. Say data privacy for example, Google were subpar there, so Duckduckgo gained major momentum. Market competition will almost always prevent monopolies. Monopolies occur within our current model because state regulation, state taxes (including corporate tax relief) create what's known as a 'barrier to market'. Meaning it's far, far more difficult for a competitor to actually compete on a product level.

Most of our debt's occur because interest rates are so high, and why are interest rates so high? Because they're pegged above inflation, and why do we have inflation? Because governments bide time and bribe us with free things either funded by debts they've instigates, or by printing fiat currency. Which aren't market ideals, by any definition.
Those are the "language by committee" that people complain about. Ada was made that way, if I remember correctly.
From my favorites list, very easy introduction tutorial about ML, good as starting point:

http://radimrehurek.com/data_science_python/ - Practical Data Science with spam detection example (Machine Learning, NLP, sklearn, Python).
I agree 100%. The law is stupid, weev knew he was being a jackass and he said so.

I was just saying that the "if I leave my house unlocked..." analogy is totally toxic to an adult conversation on the matter.
It all sounds rather pretty but I'm not aware of a single testable hypothesis associated with it, or at least a testable hypothesis that anyone is willing to put forward and have immediately demolished. The Rosetta mission should have turned up some intense magnetic field readings if the Electric Universe theory is true . . . but it didn't. Then again the only people I know who espouse the theory can't begin to explain what electromagnetic fields are anyway.
>Magical Push is a social project which helps people to develop new positive behaviors.

Oh wow, that's really cool! The popularization of cognitive science and psychology has resulted in some really great stuff, can't wait to see what this is! Let's keep reading the comment.

>- to learn something new

Awesome! I love learning new things! I bet this app/whatever has a lot of cool programmed learning tricks to make this great like spaced repetition or elaborative rehearsal. This sounds really cool.

>- to exercise

That's awesome too! Exercise is scientifically strongly linked to a variety of good outcomes for mental and physical health, so it should really be in an app like this.

>- to do an act of kindness

That's pretty advanced! The research about how gift-giving and similarly altruistic behavior is useful isn't as popular as the exercise research, this must be a really cool app with a lot of great empirically-minded ways to "push" you into having better habits!

>- to meditate

....oh. I guess it's just a new age/woowoo thing. Time to move on I guess. That's really disappointing.

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Really hope you remove meditation; hokey religions have no place in the modern nudge-engineered world.
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No, it really is not.
Your description of the companies you worked for - tell me a lot. Not that you are not a great developer, but the types of employers you like and filter you use to select your next job - that too is important.
Yes, I did it with significant monthly profits. I solved a problem many eBay sellers had at that time. Tips from me:

1. Try to outsource as much as possible and do not try to solve everything yourself. Upwork & Co. is your friend. There are people who are better in coding, designing etc. than you. After a while I outsourced time consuming customer first level support too. Of course you need some money to do it but you will make way more progress if you have a great team. Be VERY careful in selecting the people you work with. There are several good ones out there but a lot of not so good ones too.

2. Developing the Saas platform is not the difficult part. Winning/getting customers is. Customers won't come just because you published your site.

3. Think twice before you want to start something where you face a 2-sided-market. Building this next to your job might be very challenging.

4. Go for it! You (and others) will never know until you built it. Don't let others stop you but consider their feedback.

Good luck!
Because the combustion products must transfer their heat to water before the energy can be used, I think there is an inherent limitation on the efficiency of a steam engine as compared to internal combustion.

I was interested in steam cars for a while, I have a manual to a Stanley Steamer and a short book published by Lindsay on them.

However it was reading the history of steam that is in the opening chapters of Lyle Cummin's "Internal Fire" and his description of the limitations of steam and sterling engines, that I came to think there was a fundamental reason behind it.

The Doble and Stanley era cars seem to have gotten about 10 mpg.

On the other hand, they do have a possible advantage in being able to consume a variety of non-standard fuels. There may be a niche market for that, which given the relative size of the car markets in 1925 vs 2015, is quiet huge and could support a sizeable company.
If you are running in Microsoft Azure you need two VM instances to get any form of availability SLAs. Microsoft can reboot/migrate single instances whenever they feel like it. With manual failover you would only have a few minute downtime if someone is there to trigger it. That honestly sounds like a crappy solution 2015..
Summing up digits manually takes too long. A decent strategy seems to be: start chaining a long path together. At some point it will pop by itself, or you will notice what's needed to complete it.

Suggestions: There should be a button to clear the chain in progress because you can box yourself into a dead end. A pause button would also be nice (maybe blank the screen when paused).
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If that's the case, then isn't it part of the 5% that actually warrants a meeting?
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It's how some education works. But instruction has to be relevant to the skills and abilities of those receiving it, and has to address those things on which they have a deficit of understanding. If your approach to education is simply to stand at the front of the room and read a book to them, then you're not a very good educator.

It's a bit more complex than simply: give someone step-by-step instructions and they have the skill and/or knowledge. If they're still at the level where you have to explain everything, then that's a fairly low level of skill - and it's not clear that instruction on all subjects is appropriate to that level of skill... just as you wouldn't go up to an aeronautics engineer, ask for a step by step instruction guide on how to build a 747, and then call yourself an aeronautics engineer.

You might, if you had a very good memory, be able to build a 747 (waving aside the logistical difficulties of doing so) but you wouldn't understand why it worked, and you wouldn't know how to build any other aircraft. And if, instead, you asked her for a step-by-step guide on how to learn what she knew in a couple of months... Well, the answer would likely be that she knew a lot more than could be communicated in two months, and that you needed a higher level of understanding of physics and so on to ask a more refined question to which she would be able to give some sort of meaningful answer.
"Secondly, he's citing 'information technology' as being the death of 'capitalism'. An industry, arguably the most aggressively capitalistic."

That would be historically ironic, wouldn't it? So much so that it has a ring of truth about it. Nature loves a good paradox.

By contrast, all the overtly socialistic authoritarian-Leninist states have evolved into slave states, mafia states, and totalitarian state-capitalism.

Marx's original idea really wasn't that. Boiled down, Marx argued that capitalism would transcend and obsolete itself through its aggressive over-production and innovation. It wasn't something to be imposed from above. It would evolve out of capitalism itself.
I think you're wrong with the definition of capitalism. Capitalism is not necessarily free market and vice versa.

A historically accurate definition of capitalism (unlike communism for instance, capitalism was given name for the existing system and not for utopian ideal), I believe, would be that it is a system with two characteristics:

1. Most of means of production (capital) is privately owned.

2. Human labor is a market commodity.

I don't agree with the article that death of these things (and so capitalism) is coming, although I can certainly (being a leftist) imagine a free market system where neither of these conditions is true. For example, a system where large majority of economic production happens in democratically controlled worker cooperatives.
The unfortunate part, is sphagetti code is exceedingly common. It's effectively the industry norm at this point. Of all the code I've worked on, or read, in my 5 year career, more then 90% of it was spaghetti code.
Same here, never gained anything by having an account, haven't lost anything after closing it.
I agree with you but not with respect to Physics. I believe it is very likely that in 100 years we will think "Can you believe they didn't understand X" in things like psychology and all of the new emerging cross disciplinary fields that have emerged from it.

Economics is a good example as well I believe... Up until the second half of the 20th century many economists were not basing their theories on data but rather under assumptions that we are all "rational" actors. I will concede that the 'data' was not really available until the last 50yrs anyway but the 'behavioral' movement has hopefully set Economics as a whole on a 'straight' path and no doubt the next 100yrs will show the low hanging fruit which now dangle above us.

How poetic.

EDIT - The economics example I gave was very sweeping. Just an example.
Not that I don't think the Chinese government does evil things, and not that I think LinkedIn has any moral high ground on anything whatsoever, but is it an American company's job to solve Chinese political oppression?

I'm more concerned about the NSA and whatever shenanigans American corporations are capitulating to back home. That is something where I have the context, cultural awareness, and moral duty to try to effect change. But when it comes to the Chinese government, I don't see how western individuals or companies have any capacity to impose their moral compass. If you don't comply with local laws then you don't operate in that country. China will simply build their own LinkedIn and the world will be less connected. I don't see how that adds a modicum of pressure for the Chinese government to reform, change has to be demanded from within China.
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> physics that we don't already have an explanation for, is becoming increasingly rare

We don't understand why galaxies rotate the way they do, as the visible mass does not correspond to the rotation according to known laws of gravity. The solution is to postulate dark matter and dark energy, until things match again.
It can't be imposed. The term 'collectivism' is a poor choice due to its historical baggage of totalitarianism. 'Community' is slightly better.

I don't think this article is really talking about 20th century centralized socialism as we've understood it. I think we do have the potential to shed that cold war narrative and explore other more self-organizing possibilities.
I've seen the phrase "please provide" a lot. And I agree with you, I've never seen it actually used politely- it is always comes off like a strong demand. Maybe part of the problem is it is a stock phrase on exams.
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>anyone who's read economics 101 would tell you corporate monopolies are rarely result of unadulterated capitalism, but rather state corporatism

Corporatist despotism is the logical conclusion of any laissez-faire capitalist economy just as Stalinism is the logical conclusion of any Marxist economy. Businesses are sticky and over time will tend to clump together, for efficiency reasons, into larger businesses. Once these businesses reach critical mass, they start to have a significant amount of influence over politicians through lobbying and campaign contributions. They use this influence to do something called "regulatory hedging" whereby they can squeeze out competition and achieve monopoly through introducing complicated legal requirements that make it tough for the little guy to get ahead. The FDA and federal tax codes are good examples of this.

This will continue to happen time and again until we put in place good checks against businesses consolidating too much power. Of course, it's too late for that since we've already let them control our political system.
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You just have to click numbers, each next to the previous one. The total modulo 10 is shown. Once it reaches zero, your score is updated. You want that to happen before your time runs out, but you get a higher score if it doesn't happen too soon. When the length of the chain is a prime number, blockers are cleared.
Also interesting, North Korea's wood burning trucks developed out of necessity due to oil sanctions :

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/how-north-kor...
I can empathize with others in this thread saying that his lifestyle is unhealthy (which is probably based on the anti-workaholic ideals a lot of us hold). However, he is just describing what worked for him to get to where he is and he seems to have accomplished a lot. Not only that, he describes how he is keeping himself healthy.

One reason for his success is that he multitasks well, whereas humans typically do not. This enables him to work the way he did/does.

The top post at the moment states that he will cause the "detriment of his quality of life." Actually, it seems he has improved his quality of life significantly (he left his corporate job, has more time to spend with his family, etc.). The top post OP also mentions not finishing the article so he may have missed all that.

Someone else stated that he is just boasting about "how awesome" he is. I did not get this vibe, but from my perspective, he is someone who has the confidence to speak about his subject. Which is completely fine. You should have a level of confidence when it comes to your craft and there's nothing wrong with that.

As stated in this article, this might not work for everyone. This is true, people work differently. Some people, oddly enough, don't need breaks. I do. And so on..
People use those directories mostly for SEO reasons and most of them hope to get some users that way. Are they effective? To be honest, I'm not sure but people still submit their startups to them and many of them pay a lot of money to get someone else do it for them.
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Samsung's 14nm isn't as dense as Intel's because it's sort of a hybrid of a 20nm process and a 14nm one. TSMC's 16nm is apparently just their 20nm process but with FinFETs so will be the least dense of the three. I suspect their 10nm will also end up less dense than what Intel puts out but we'll have to wait and see on that.

As far as timetables for production, recent rumors put TSMC's 10nm plans at 2017 as well, delayed from their original Q4 2016 goal. Haven't see anything about delays on Samsung's side so they might actually get there first.
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you can't run an economy on information alone. you can't eat information, or haul lumber with it. Information is just a lever that makes hauling lumber or producing food more efficient.

Author needs to get out more.