skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but let's be realistic. We're talking about 9% unemployment rather than a "full employment" value of 5%. The US economy is perfectly capable of finding productive work for another fifteen million people, just like it was three years ago, and eventually will be again.

People have been predicting the end of work ever since the first mechanized... whatever. In the past 150 years, we've managed to mechanize the hell out of agriculture and manufacturing and we've hugely increased labour force participation by encouraging women to work. And yet, at every point along the road, unemployment rates always seem to stabilize at about 5% in good times, and shoot up to 10% in bad times (Great Depression excepted, but that was due to some zany government interference).
Once again MG demonstrates his utter lack of understanding of how even the stock market works. And this guy was in demand as a VC? Unbelievable.

>But here’s the thing: those expectations were ridiculous and flawed and once again show that analysts have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to Apple.

If those expectations were ridiculous and flawed then the price of the stock was also ridiculous and flawed, since the price of the stock (aside from wild speculation) is a function of expected future earnings of the company. They blew the earnings call, and the price dropped. Not rocket science, not a knock against Apple as a company.

In fact, you could have likely sold your shares of Apple yesterday, and rebought them today and made a profit, making you not an idiot, but a clever arbitrageur.
I remember reading this and seeing the demos 5 long years ago, thinking "Coooool... hope it's not vaporware."

If he actually gets this to market, I imagine it won't be too long before it, or similar tech, is available in high end dslrs and video cameras. This is going to be freakin revolutionary and so, so, so cool.

Kudos, Ren Ng, and thanks! Hope you get real rich off this.
That sucks (some people having a head start). What a silly way to run a competition.
I'm pretty surprised that they don't have a "play with the focus" widget on the homepage. It took me too many clicks to find out why I needed this camera.
this is pretty cool if it works. It would be a great companion to a service like Apple's Find My Friend service they just launched.
What do developers want from a source code search engine?
Like many developers out there, I find it unfortunate to read about the upcoming shutdown of Google Code Search. In reaction to this, several developers (including those here at HN) indicated the value of having a open source code search engine such as Google Code Search and Koders.com. There have also been a couple of comments about the usefulness and challenges in using these tools. On the other hand, after doing years of research in understanding code search work for developers (http://goo.gl/GKURw), and having recently started working in the Koders's engineering team, I am very interested in the recent reactions.

It is great to see when developers get excited about these topics in places like HN. In our code search development team, we are already focusing on solving problems that developers pointed out recently in the discussions (for example, non-obvious ways to searching for identifiers with symbols, search performance etc). Some of these problems will be solved in the very near future. The site was already scheduled to go through a major upgrade to the latest version of our technology. Beyond that we are taking a step further by thinking deeper about how a code search engine should be different. For example, one of our current focus areas is leveraging more structural and relational information in code to improve code search capabilities. The innovation possibilities, and thus the challenges in getting them right, are abundant. However, it would be awesome if developers out there would speak to developers like us in the Koders team about what they'd like to see in a code search engine so that we can provide the best code search experience for developers.

So, here is a question for developers out there wishing for a better code search engine: What would a killer code search engine do for you ?
I'm not sure I like this form factor in a camera (let alone one for new imaging). It's very prone to rotations, the screen size is too small for interactions/focus-views, the design is not all too appealing.

Still has the cool factor.
The reason for this is that the parts of "Stanford" (an organization comprising tens of thousands of people) involved in each push are basically unrelated.

The paid-certificate program is run by the Stanford Center for Professional Development ("SCPD"), and is a trimmed down version of the online masters program. Costs here are high because courses are usually paid for by an employer investing in employee training; the SCPD program (like masters programs in general) is a profit center.

The db-class, ml-class, ai-class websites (and their video-only equivalents through openclassroom and classx) are being run by the professors who teach the classes, and the goal is education.

There isn't a "Stanford" policy on how online instruction should operate; just different members of a single club working independently.
Well, it was their strategy all along with Qt, but it's been slow ride. Everything is Qt on new Symbian, MeeGo and upcoming Meltemi. Qt is natively on the new BBX and will probably be on Android. Qt is also their main strategy besides WP, so we will see how things pan out.
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Yes. Absolutely. There are lots of early adopters like myself who jumped on Google Apps the moment they became available and were strong advocates for Apps and other Google offerings. Lately though it's like we've somehow become second class citizens in the googleverse.
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Yeah, if a compiler only compiles the code you actually wrote, it's still your fault. If a compiler tries to infer what you meant and compiles that instead, then it might genuinely be the compiler's fault when something breaks. Plus, the original code should still be fixed instead of relying on the compiler to compile the same broken code the same "right" way each time. We spent the last 20 years trying to convince web developers of that idea.

Clang does something like this. If it notices a simple enough syntax error that it can correct, it still generates the error message but it makes the correction internally and continues the compilation far enough to generate useful error messages about the rest of the code. But it doesn't output anything or change the code.
I think you're confusing measures X and correlates with X. Snowfall probably correlates very strongly with the number or people skiing on a weekend, but it does not measure the number of people skiing on a weekend.

Let's say you win this bet (which I wouldn't take since I never argued that was the case in the first place), all you have shown is that the ability to answer questions on an IQ test has a strong correlation with income. How does this have anything to do with intelligence, which the test claims to measure? If you where to say that "well this means that intelligence is strongly correlated with income" this is tautological since the IQ test is your only way to measure intelligence in the first place.

My assumption that IQ scores probably don't correlate that strongly to many things is based on the observation that we don't use it that much. If you look more thoroughly there are, as expected, obviously correlations between IQ and many things, but how strong those correlations are and the variance make many of them interesting but not fantastically useful.

Correlating with the extremes is not that interesting, now if you where to show that the is a strong correlation between IQ test percentile and income percentile across the board that would be interesting. If you're really interested there has been research into the correlation between IQ and Income and it's about 0.4-0.5 [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Income
Did I do something wrong? After I finished the introduction to arrays it brought me to making a calculator class (don't quite see how that's relevant to arrays) and I had no idea how to write the code because I hadn't even learned the basic syntax yet.
> For instance, in C the * character is used both to declare a pointer and to dereference one and they can be stacked to dereference nested structures.

This problem can be solved by thinking of * as always dereferencing a pointer. So:

int *a; /* "*a" is an int, thus a is a pointer to one */
int *b, *c; /* *b and *c are both ints */

This also has the nice side effect of explaining why good C programmers write the * next to the variable name and why multiple variables declared on the same line all require a * next to the variable name.

> Then & references a variable memory location but is also used in method signatures to change the semantics of calling a function into pass-by-reference. To complicate & further, & is often seen alongside const declarations, which are a whole other thing that people have to keep in their heads.

Now it sounds like you're talking about C++ moreso than C. In C, & is pretty much always the "address-of" operator (except in contexts where it's clearly logical- or bitwise-AND).

From your post, it seems that the problem is more one of poor teaching, poor explanations (metaphors), or poorly-designed extensions (C++) as opposed to shortcomings of C.
The MeeGo world had a bunch of discussions on this. What ultimately (IMHO) matters to people is simple visibility into the design process. With desktop linux, we get that. We can see Gnome 3 coming and talk about it before it arrives. We can try out a new driver from a development tree. When the occasion arrives, we can grab/test/fix/rework this stuff and know who to push the changes to.

But when these processes and priorities collide with "product strategy" they always lose. Google and its partners want to unveil ICS in a big press conference, not an email message. Samsung wants to show the first ICS phone, and not be one-upped by some geek running a CM9 nightly image on a phone she bought last year. So they delay the source drop and shutter the doors on the git archives. But in so doing they kill off the "project" part of AOSP.

And no, this didn't really work in MeeGo either. I don't know what the answer is, except to decouple the OS vendor from the hardware vendor (i.e. the Red Hat model). But that won't work because apparently no one wants to sell an open consumer electronics device.
followed shortly after by

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3132133
Ad-hominem much?
I can't speak for the poster, but I understand all of that, and I still don't see the problem.

Or rather - I see the problems, but I think they are overstated. Just saying "PRIVACY GRRRR!" doesn't make sense - it is much, much more subtle than that.

The poster explicitly addresses this:

I understand the instinctive philosphic reaction that "we own our data" but when I dig beaneath that initlal gut response I come up empty. I do think there is an important distinction between privacy and security that sometimes people miss. There is certain information (address, account numbers, ss #, etc.) that if obtained by a third party, could result in some real world problems that will negatively impact my life. But information social networks sell to advertisers doesn't fall into this category.

Your comment simply fails to address this. You seem to be stating "Technology is powerful! We should be scared", but without addressing the very real points the poster made it doesn't really add a great deal to the discussion.

The so called privacy apocalypse is far from it. "Nightmare" scenarios like you spend 15 minutes every day at the local coffee shop during working hours plainly aren't as bad as you seem to think. It's trivial for a company to track how long a person spends in their office already - companies that care about it already do it.

Given that commercial consumer databases already exist, please explain why the worst thing to come from it is annoying unsolicited mail and phone calls? If that is a privacy apocalypse then I feel it is a small price to pay for using services that don't charge us money.
Another review of the camera: http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/19/lytro-plenoptic-light-fie...
It's true that you know exactly what the service does, zavulon... but evidently that's only half the battle. You know what it does... but you don't know WHY you need it. Nobody knows that. Because it's not written on the page; it's implied. (Never good when your brand and solution are new!)

A part of the problem here comes down not to the service you're providing, mtgentry, but what you're saying or not saying about it. So my feedback is about your customer-facing copy.

Although I love the clarity of the headline, I'd recommend you consider fleshing the headline out to address a key benefit or the single biggest point of value, possibly in a nicely sized subhead. Something like:

"Broadcast Your Inbox Health

When your team or family sees you're swamped, they'll only send you critical stuff."

A few other thoughts:

1. "Broadcast" is a scary word. It's clear and noticeable, but it's scary. Reconsider?

2. What's the pain you're eliminating? It's not making it so people are "less likely to email you", as you put it. We still need communication. It's just that, when we're busy, we don't want the emails we don't need. The pain you're eliminating is unnecessary emails. It seems obvious to me, but it's nowhere on the page. (Of course, I may be totally wrong!)

3. You write about what senders/recipients can see (i.e., "It allows anyone you email to see the size of your inbox"), but you don't write about what people can't see. That's important. The details that stay hidden from others - like subject lines and sender names - are even more important, in the sensitive world of personal and business comm, than what's shown to them. Tell potential customers exactly how private their inbox will remain.

4. People don't want others to know how jam-packed or empty their inboxes are because that says something about them. (Others have noted this already.) Assuming your product addresses this issue elegantly, you'll want to message this on your home page or in easy-to-read FAQs.

5. An 'ideal for' line would greatly help. People need to identify. Help them.

6. Why is Smoke Signal better than an auto-responder? Why is it better than IM statuses? Why is it more efficient or effective than the solutions the HN community is throwing out? A testimonial from a customer that covers off these sorts of things could do some serious heavy lifting here.

Sorry if that's going too far. It seems to me that there are a lot of great objections and anxieties rising to the surface in this thread. You can totally address them easily on the page.
We hadn't heard of Clicktale before. Thanks.
Pretty much nothing.

Disclaimer: I work as a software engineer at Nokia.

Australia is very much an English speaking country (although we are at the ass-end of the world), and the N9 is getting a lot of active marketing here [1, 2].

I have also been working on the software for the N9, but most of my development has been on device, either on the N950 or the N9. We always grumble that we don't get enough devices, but these guys must have been frustrated about something else to go that far out.

There were a lot of problems developing for the N9, don't get me wrong, but they were not endemic to MeeGo over Symbian or S40 where I've also worked.

[1] http://press.nokia.com.au/nokia-n9-%E2%80%9Call-screen%E2%80...
[2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nokia-N9-in-Beautifully-Simpl...
About (2), judging by the few games I've seen, the current level of bots isn't very high yet, so the playing field is still open.

EDIT: I hadn't looked at the leader's games yet... They're already pretty good :)
If you click on the images found on the linked page, they refocus.
Do you think Google is deliberately excluding Google Apps users?

I read somewhere that this is a technical limitation because Apps is on a different infrastructure.
Or that the A7 will be more recent and more fully-featured than the A8 and A9.
It's kind of sad for PayPal that people NEED a wrapper around their UI for the reasons stated.
5)

Get a laminated card with a magnetic back. The card says "i am clean". When you turn on the dishwasher, you put the card on. When you empty it you take the card of. No exceptions.

Alternatively you can buy these novelty "i am in/i am out" switches that some people have on the door of their kids room.
I think my point is that education should be as accessible as possible and that any barrier is too much. There will always be those that are left out inadvertently or because their numbers are not significant enough to be taken into account.

Better to play it safe and to open that door as wide as possible.
It seems you're always stuck with f/2, so there's no way to adjust the depth of field. That not only simplifies the process, it also takes away an important choice.
Ask HN: Review My Startup PleaseReturn.Me - Never Lose Your Stuff
http://PleaseReturn.Me

We sell recovery labels you put on your valuables; like your Phone, iPod, Wallet, Keys, and More. So far we have about a 75% recovery rate, which we think is pretty fantastic.

Interested in your thoughts and ideas of any low cost marketing ideas.
And don't forget, due to the PATRIOT act, simply having that information obligates facebook to serve it up to law enforcement without a warrant any time they ask.

Citation needed (Especially for the obligates part). If Google requires a warrant to share data then please explain why Facebook is obligated to do differently?
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I think the OP just meant that some people had seen this page before, not that there is any conspiracy behind that.
The swag idea has some potential. Though there isn't much market for people paying to get startup swag, I feel that many startups would love to outsource the actual shipping out of their swag.
The problems described by the article are certainly real problems I've seen and seem like an indications of someone who indeed hasn't taken the time to deeply understand the programming process. But the term "bad programmer" and the general attitude of the article seems deeply mean-spirited,

I would rather work with an actual "bad programmer" than with the kind of person who'd spend their time thinking up "alternative careers" for these people.
Swag as a service: http://www.swaglove.com/ (Boulder-based startup)
"it's possible to imagine a world in which IQ is not largely heritable, and in which rich people pay lots of money to game their kids' IQ numbers, and then the kids somehow use these IQ test numbers to get better jobs"

You don't need to imagine that world, we live in it. Kids who go to private schools with SAT prep classes and practice the test dozens of times are at a several hundred point advantage to kids who don't. This gets them into better colleges which gets them better jobs and gets them better income.
Why would it have to be life changing in order to be useful?

The trade-off could well be watching soaps vs re-doing your high school or university level math.
HA. You would know ;) http://www.swaglove.com/ Is the closest I've seen.
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I completely agree. Several of the mistakes listed, particularly thinking in sets, were things I had issues with until that "aha" moment when the paradigm shift in my thinking about the problem occurred.

On the other hand, I doubt the author was trying to discourage bad programmers, but rather bring common deficiencies or mistakes up to help programmers avoid them. To me, many of these are signs that you are a new or inexperienced programmer, not a bad one (although if you've been a programmer for a decade and are still making them, you may have something to worry about).
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"2. Yelp for business services"

Take it three steps further. I want to know what tools of all types other developers are using. I'm a game developer want to browse what other studios are actually using and sort based on developer size, time, and more.

For example what do people use for Source Control? Small devs probably use Git or SVN. Show a time trend and SVN likely trends down and Git way way up. Large devs will almost exclusively use Perforce. I want to see this data for EVERYTHING. Text editors, modeling packing, memory managers, build tools, databases, profilers, and so so much more. There are dozens of amazing, wonderful tools/middleware/things out there that I don't even know exist.

This can naturally be expanded outside of software development, but I'm greedy and want to use it for myself first and foremost. :)
#2 exists.

http://www.thinknear.com/
How is this different from other companies that provide labels to help you recover lost items? Searching on Google for "label for lost items", I found several different organizations that seem to be in the same space.
Someone has never dealt with incompetently written scripting languages or tragically wrong documentation for the same. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

I remember having to test exactly how a bunch of different predicates actually worked, when the documentation thereof was a complete lie and the predicates just evaluated to false instead of creating an error when fed data they supposedly accepted (but actually couldn't).
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Hi, I am working on a few projects and need a co-founder for them. For one of the projects, I am looking for someone who can program web applications, and other technical skills. For another project I'm looking for someone who wants to work on a project with me to develop something for teens (I can give details if you contact me).

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I spent about an afternoon on it.
I meant useful or lifechanging as two seperate questions -- no correlation.
I think it's interesting how the Yelp model might work for business services, but breaks down for service providers. We're not doing lawyers, but I think lawyers are a good example of why the Yelp UX model is wrong for the "relationship" business services market.

- First, reviews are the wrong content. You won't get them, first of all, because customers of businesses who see 10-20 engagements per year will never leave lukewarm or negative reviews. Secondly, even if you only allow recommendations (like LinkedIn) and not open reviews, it's still the wrong content to describe a complex business service. The managing partner of WSGR has tons of recommendations on LI. Does one of them come close to capturing how he thinks about business or his potential value? No.

- Second, stars or any other standard comparison ranking system is the wrong discovery method. Stars help people discover who is good, but not who is good at what.

- Third, participation. LawPivot, who was able to raise several million dollars, lets lawyers generate business through a private Q&A site. Well, the most successful lawyers have no reason to use this service- they are already oversubscribed. Any service discovery/review tool dependent on active participation by the service providers leaves out the best players. This is less of a concern for the B2Brevs of the world, but describes why Guru.com and Elance became talent slums.

I probably shouldn't say anything, but we're launching (and applied YCW12) with something designed to fill a number 2 role for an often overlooked class of business services.
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