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Re:Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning Than C... on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:18PM (#14728188)
would be interesting to see benefit of MKL optimizations on the same examples

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/tensorflow-optimiz...

Re:Root cause of current Economic Crisis and why it will eliminate you... on Saturday January 31, 2009 @05:10PM (#460150)
The main point of the paper is that whole Hi-Tech industry (i.e. Startups also as part of that industry) consumes more capital from the rest of the economy than gives back to the economy (especially it is true for consumer products oriented hi-tech companies). This situation was possible due to constant money issuing to the economy via finance sector. That process started in the late 70 and often called as Reaganomics. More details are in paper.

In general if issuing of money stops, the 25-35% of USA economy will disappear. Most of that 25-35% are Hi-Tech companies. So, economics of startups are in danger. VCs firms don't have hot money anymore for funding. No more easy exits such as IPO and aquisition. Customer spending are going down.

And it will become true very soon :-(

Root cause of current Economic Crisis and why it will eliminate your startup soon

Posted by vzn on Saturday January 31, 2009 @03:03PM
from the scribd.com dept.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11544248/Crisis-Theory

This article provides enough arguments in order to be seriously worried about future of Startups and Hi-Tech sector in general.Can the crisis of overproduction as fundamental problem of capitalism be hacked in new way this time? It seems to me without such hack we will see lots of problem very soon :-(

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Re:Ask HN: What can't you do in Excel? on Sunday January 11, 2009 @04:12PM (#429565)
I would like to have mind mapping (like http://www.mindjet.com/) right inside excel (as well as for other office applications) but it should be tightly integrated. It seems to me such type functionality might be useful for data crunching and modeling with full brain thinking. Spreadsheets enable only logical half of brain so there is room for improvement.
Re:Ask HN: What's next big thing in bandwidth? on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @03:58PM (#360949)
All your home usual staff on the mobile gadged. I think 700Mhz Wimax connection across USA from "google" might be huge.

Anyone up to a Hacker News meeting in Kiev [Ukraine] in October?

Posted by vzn on Friday October 03, 2008 @05:29PM
from the self-post dept.

Hi everyone! In Kiev we have two local "must see" events for Hacker News\Startup mindset people in coming days:1. Blogcamp CEE 2008 is a three-day conference in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 17-19th, which is going to gather 500 new media specialists, bloggers, start-upers and investors from Central and Eastern Europe. Those interested in CEE region are also welcome. http://blogcampcee.com/en2....

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Re:A new experimental "similarity search" algorithm. Thoughts? on Thursday June 19, 2008 @06:38PM (#222225)
It like google with schizophrenia. Pretty impressive. It seems like drugs and alcohol as mind enhancer for creative people (writers, designers, painters) is obsoleted now :-)
Re:Ask YC: How do you invest your money for long term growth? on Friday May 02, 2008 @07:39PM (#180016)
If it was 1928 year now, would this portfolio have survived Great Depression? Almost all positions are paper actives. What do happen with the paper actives in case of huge world economical slowdown and depression? I prefer something more reliable than paper (gold, land, real estate, cash flow from the business)
Re:Ask YC: submit an application a second time? on Saturday October 06, 2007 @04:25PM (#64180)
"build on demand hardware" - it means build funny electronic devices(in Ponoko way)? Or it would be something serious HW stuff like PCB for custom device?
Re:IDEAS WANTED : How to create Buzz for new Start-up? on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:38AM (#60609)
In general your start-up should provide stories that people like to talk about.You can use some ideas from http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/07/what-people-tal.html as start point.
Re:Marketing new SW product and public relationships stuff on Sunday June 03, 2007 @10:31AM (#26129)
Hi Everybody.

I plan to run new product and I need to do PR support for my new starting company and for my product on market. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with PR stuff. But I know it is very important issue and I must to figure out how can I do that PR stuff?

I need any start point for that. For example please recommend me good books about PR in the Internet or web-site.

If you had real experience with place on market new on-demand software product I would be really happy to have several advices from you.

Thanks in advance.