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It's not a net neutral for most companies. It's a huge benefit for all the companies in that area. Skilled professionals have a choice of region and company to work in. IF they choose one with better terms for them, then that region will have a more skilled pool of workers. This benefits companies in that region. One could argue that the stronger ecosystem and pool of employees creates significant benefits that outweigh any corporate advantage due to restricting employee mobility. That's what the above reference is arguing.

Fintech term is years old, but trend spiking recently

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=fintech

WOW! You can store time series in a database! This is an amazing invention!!!

Ok I'm guessing you're a new grad. If you're already working this might not apply.

Use this time to do things OTHER than work. Work out. Travel. Rest. Visit friends. spend time with family. Read for fun.

The other suggestions here are all good. very useful. It's just that this is a great opportunity to do things you can't do when working. Once you start your career it's VERY unusual to get a month or more time off. It might feel like you have lots of time on your hands, but the opportunity you have is actually brief.

I especially recommend travel. If you're young and single, you can afford to travel cheap. You know you have a job starting, so it's ok to spend now knowing you have income ahead.

Physicist?

I liked it a lot. Would recommend to those interested in NASA or Feynman. Or fans of William Hurt.

The article mentions slippage, grinding, play, noise and vibration. These are generally undesirable in machinery. Slippage and grinding suggest significant problems with wear and durability. That would limit the lifespan of the gearbox.

It's still pretty cool and could be very useful. That doesn't mean there aren't useful applications. It just means there are design tradeoffs.

The Economist is great. I highly recommend a subscription.

Please don't do this. There are a number of reasons why legitimate users would need to use new / separate accounts just for job listings.

For example, some companies don't encourage participation in public discussion boards such as HN, but posting jobs on HN is fine.

'Software Carpentry' has some good lessons on the same material:

http://software-carpentry.org/lessons.html

This looks like it's just an ad for their book. No real content on the page.

Maybe they can write a blog entry "gaming the HN voting system to get your ad on the front page". That I would read.

Here's a nice article with pictures on sphere point picking[0]. Here is another [1]. The surface of a sphere in 3-dimensional space has only two dimensions. You can specify any point on the sphere with two coordinates (spherical coordinates). The mathematical expression for this sphere is S-2. If you're using three coordinates to generate the point, you're using more than you need. It's straight algebra to convert from spherical to linear coordinates if you need those for your work.

[0] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SpherePointPicking.html [1] http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/7977/how-to-generat...

John McPhee write an excellent article about this: "The Ships of Port Revel" by John McPhee. It was an atlantic article and is included in his book "Uncommon Carriers".

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0865477396

What about paying for high-quality, fact-checked journalism and writing on wikipedia? Seems like that could have a positive impact. ?

So what do you do with your phone, ipad, laptop, etc? Clip all the microphones? That's a serious question I think these are all concerns.

For the Smart TV, How do you hardware disable the smart TV microphone? I'm searching online but don't see directions yet. Can you do it without opening the TV outer case?

Here's an article on how to block it using your router but I don't think this would defeat malware. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/lg-smart-tv-hdtv-doctorbeet...

Interested to hear ideas & opinions from HN.