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You have stumbled onto an old fallacy either - that the creation of new jobs as a result of technological development floats all boats equally.

Replacing people with robots certainly increases productivity, and frees up resources for other pursuits - it is also unlikely that the people whose jobs have been removed will find employment in many of these new jobs.

So sure, the entirety of the closed system (i.e. the Earth) has experienced a net productivity boost - but for the areas impacted (i.e. that part of China) this is very much a net negative.

This is probably the greatest social issue we face today. We are very rapidly replacing the jobs of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of people. We are creating jobs elsewhere as a result - but the intersection of these new jobs with the skills of the unemployed is very low, and the nature of these new jobs also means retraining is becoming harder, not easier.
unfortunately, this is true as a vast majority of events offer no REAL value. It's simply a forum for folks to tell their story..not offer actionable advice.

I intent to host a different type of event - http://www.meetup.com/silicon, whereby attendees will learn real tactics on how to grow their business from folks that have done it.
We tossed around Caulfield -- we like it as well. Another LA designed did a line called 'caulfield preparatory'. Still in the running, for sure - what do you guys think?
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I liked the intro. There is another use for options, which is insuring against lost gain. Allow me to share a couple of anecdotes.

In January of '95 I knew my 3rd child was on the way and wanted a 'sedan' type car to take the family out. (we had my sports car and a mini-van at the time) I was working at Sun and had been participating in the Employee stock purchase program forever, and Sun stock had gone up a bit so I sold 1,000 shares at $37/share which after taxes and fees netted me enough cash to buy a Chrysler sedan for cash. No loan, no payments, pink slip on the first day I owned it. That was an awesome feeling. In March of that year Sun announced Java, the stock ended up doubling and splitting 3 times. The car I paid 'cash' for was worth 1.6M$ (at the peak of Sun's stock value). Youch!

So my Dad's buddy, a Swiss ex-banker, chastised me for not hedging my bet by buying an 'out of the money' call option, 12 months out. He explained that if the stock never went anywhere it would lower the effective 'gain' from my sale, but if the stock went up a lot it would protect me against having lost out on that value.

Flash forward to 2006, I'm heading for Google, I've got a chunk of NetApp stock and I having lived through the dot com crash I want to diversify. So I sell a lot of my NetApp stock at $35, and buy options for the same amount of stock a year out at $40. (so 'out of the money' by $5). NetApp kept going up and up, and I sold the options a month before they were due (NetApp was trading at $55 and I wanted to keep the gain in the the right tax year) and I got a nice 'bonus' payout on what was essentially the same stock I had sold nearly a year earlier.

The option was there only to protect against missing out on a large rise in the stock price. (which it did, not as well as if I had kept it all but I didn't miss out completely either).

I found that I would keep stocks longer than I should because I was 'worried' about whether or not it was the right time to sell. Options allow you to 'buy insurance' on against that worry, and for me that has made me more willing to make significant changes in my portfolio over the years.
As I said, the machines and the software and the automation produce value. That's a given in this scenario and in lots of businesses currently in existence.

If we're going to have any value in a forum at all, we need to at least make an effort to read and understand the arguments of posters before posting straw men.
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I'm not defending the work conditions at Foxconn.

However, those conditions are deemed by many people as preferable to the alternatives in China's agricultural sector.

The people who are replaced are not going to disappear (hopefully). But they may not find other work which is equivalent (never mind better) either.
James and I grew up in a town in Maine called Holden, so the name meant a lot to us. A couple months ago someone had mentioned the Holden snowboarding company. We did some research on trademark fair use, and ultimately agreed that because Holden was a geographic area, and because we weren’t doing outerwear or snowboard gear, and because our clothes won’t have any visible logos, there’d be no chance a consumer would confuse the brands. A handful of people on HackerNews pointed out that it might be more of a conflict than anticipated.*

Holden sells all sorts of clothes, including the type of shirts you would be selling. There is significant potential for consumer confusion.
It should be acknowledged however that today for most people some commercial entities are "friends". If a small publisher I like publishes new books, my favorite sport team has some important news, etc., I'd like to know about it, and Facebook slowly became the best facilitator of such "friendships". I think it is somewhat different from normal advertising, and was slowly transforming the perceptions of the commercial entities themselves.

But now, FB has strated breaking that model, differntiating between human friends and the other (paying) kind.
Definitely will, great suggestion.
Sorry to hear about this guys, very unfortunate.

I work over at Google Consumer Surveys and wanted to offer you a coupon to run a free test to gauge opinions on some different names once you have a few options you like.

Shoot me an e-mail and I'll be happy to send it your way.
The more I read about the stock market the more it resembles a complex gambling scheme to me. My view of the stock-market limited to high-school economics is the straightforward "here's how you own part of a company and how you can support a company you want", and for companies "if you do good work, people will give you more money to expand and innovate" and I think at the base level that is there, but there is this whole side-show with the gambling that now totally shadows the original intent.
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Well done, a lot of people are going to be unhappy about this. I think it takes courage to take the pain upfront and concentrate on doing one thing really well.
Another sign that they have some great guys running their company as well. They definitely could have been much more forceful.
Just a personal anecdote, the lessons of which would not, of course, apply to everyone:

I used to have a multi TB collection of old games, movies, shows, music, etc.– and then one day it hit me: I was never realistically going to consume it all in my life. I was just hoarding it "just in case".

I bought a 1 TB external HD, and copied on it my ultimate favorites (lossless rips of my favorite albums, backups of my favorite shows/movies/games- the kind of thing that I go back to regularly, and would want to watch again in 20 years or share with my kids), and now when I want to see a movie/play an old game/etc. that I haven't experienced before, I just buy/download it (I've also found that buying those things physically contributes to their proper enjoyment) and consume it right away, and then delete it.

I've found that switching my data consumption from a "queuing" model to a "just in time" model has saved me money, time, and headaches (of course data that's unique in that it can't be obtained anywhere else, like personal pictures, is backed up to Dropbox- but even then, I more often than not realize that I don't need 5GB of vacation pictures- a well curated selection of 100 or so is more than enough).
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I don't know since I don't use the app; from the description given in the blog post it seems highly doubtful that the app specifically told him it was going to post to his Twitter account on his behalf without telling him.

Also the app appears to be in violation of the iOS guidelines (see another post upthread), which means that it is not generally understood that apps can post on your behalf without telling you just because you give them access to your Twitter account.
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I remember it well -- many of my friends and myself were affected, so we kept a close eye on that, and the memory is still alive.
On a related note, has anyone tried Elixir[1], which is a Ruby-like language that runs on the Erlang VM. If so, what project was that? how was your experience?

[1] http://elixir-lang.org/
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I passed all the question, now what?
EXACTLY.. i called this some months ago when i saw him trying to convince developers of APPs that Windows 8 in desktop PCs are just like any other tablet consumer and will buy apps. Which is not true.. Good he's out.. Now Ballmer has top leave as well.
Surface should be launched all around the world in all stores to developers see any penny coming from the Store. Instead they did that freaky show in New York with just a few Surfaces while Apple threw a big launch for iPad mini selling over 4 millions in a weekend.
Surface could sell that much IF microsoft made it available in all stores.
GO Ballmer!
You might want to partner up with picplum [1] for the photo-printing part. They already have an API [2].

[1] https://www.picplum.com/

[2] https://www.picplum.com/developer
What? I'm saying that dropping standards doesn't solve anything. Relabeled incompetence is still incompetence.

If solving whatever is keeping these students behind has something to do with race, so be it. Let's address the racial issues. But dropping standards on black/latino/... students is just a way of saying "We don't think you blacks are able to perform at the same level as asians, so we'll give you a free pass. After all, we can't expect too much from you."

Yes, actually educating children is hard. Giving them the help they need to perform well isn't a walk in the park. But isn't it worthwhile?
And that's what the thrill of money does.
Did it!

After refreshing repeatedly, I finally got through and made a purchase for the 8GB at around noon PST.
Those are some great ideas - any you like specifically?
Without Tablets the Store will sell NOTHING.
A thing is worth only what another is willing to give for it.
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The ability to fluidly fire off your website address is just as important as the actual name itself. You fumbled twice in a row, my friend.
This is a great example of using options to lower risk. You can also purchase insurance outright against a stock falling - if you own a stock and buy puts for it, you'll be protected against the stock falling below the put's strike (since you can literally sell it for the strike price to the person who wrote the puts).

This was originally one of the main uses of options, which is why an option's price is called a premium - it's an insurance premium.
I'm interested in an in-depth tutorial that shows how to use the plugin to perform this kind of analysis. While I don't work in trading, I can see a lot of good uses for a tool like this while conducting other financial analysis.
> At a minimum, know exactly what the worst case scenario is with each trade. Make sure this isn't more than you can lose.

This. Actually, it's not just the minimum - it is the best way, and possibly only way, in many cases.

Many traders/investors went bankrupt by assuming some statistical model of how things behave, and using this data, assumed that e.g. with 99.999% confidence, one trade's profit will be able to cover another trade's loss if things go bad. However, when things go bad, they tend to do so in ways that do not match historical patterns, and thus these models are invalid.

Also, if you are short call, long put, long underlying (in the right proportion) then theoretically you cannot lose. However, the options and underlying are likely to trade in different markets (with different rules, different margin requirements, and lacking a netting agreement), and as a result, extreme market movements may make your "perfectly hedged position" a huge loss because e.g. your underlying gets liquidated due to a margin call at the bottom of a flash crash, but your synthetic future remains; and now you're exposed.
Funneling it up and funneling it down rewards the people who created the productivity increases.

Spreading it around rewards an orthogonal group that did nothing to create the productive output and will siphon off it like a parasite.

Spreading it around is inherently a worse way to decide where value should flow through a society; especially one as culturally diverse (ie, filled with many self-interested constituencies) as here in the US.

[edit: So sad that on a site dedicated to the entrepreneur, arguments that promote entrepreneurship and rewarding good choices and hard work are moderated into the dirt..]
awesome as always ian
I downloaded the Auto Refresh Plus Chrome plugin, set it to auto-refresh the 16GB page (https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g...) every 1s and set the "Popup notification once FIND the target" option using the word "STOCK".

I went through 3-4 false starts of trying to add it to cart and having it fail, but it eventually succeeded and I was able to add to cart and complete the purchase at 3:04pm EST.
I think that misses my point. I'm all for easy hiding of page posts for fans, but the honest thing for FB to do is call a spade a spade and remove the Like when that happens. As things stand the page still thinks they have a fan when they don't - it's not a good reflection of reality.
It does feel that Google celebrates what I feel is actually incompetence.
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According to the article that is 83.3% of their workforce that will no longer need to be paid. It will take about three years to recoup costs, which means more profit for Foxconn and Apple and more subsistence farming for previously Foxconn employed Chinese peasants.

Labor Problem Solved™!
I stayed up till after midnight and then got up again at 9pm to try and place an order. I guess I wasn't persistent enough at the face of errors - no phone.

Google should do much better at communicating the situation. When will the phone be available for ordering, how many units are in stock, etc. How about providing some information about when the next batch is coming? The way they've handled this is a disgrace. If there was any comparable product in a comparable price I would not be buying Google.

EDIT: Are all those people saying that if you keep refreshing you'll get to buy it just part of a DDoS attack on the store?

I hope the phone works better than the store. :-(
For software engineers, tasks tend to be easily defined and of shorter duration.

For crappy ones doing commodity work, this is true. For good software engineers, not so much.

I'm a data scientist by pedigree (before it was called that) who's spent the past few years in "regular old" software engineering (and probably heading back in the DS direction). Trust me that software engineering done right is as subtle and talent-intensive as DS.

The problem is that SWE's are terrible at marketing themselves as a group and generally get too little respect and autonomy to have architectural successes.
Yep, it's not uncommon to look at the book for an option and see huge sizes on one side and no one at all on the other side.
I was wondering if a straddle on GRPN would make sense?
Player Piano (the book) is a very good description of what's been going on (mechanical and otherwise).
From the title, I thought that it was HN's fault that you received a cease and desist letter. (Which it is not.)
You know, had they implemented a pre-order option, they may have been able to better gauge demand. Instead, they decided to piss off their customers.
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It's too hard to figure out. Nobody at Google can do it.
The thing is, the same value is created, no matter if the work is done by humans or robots. The extreme would be a world where all work is done by robots, and the same value is created without the involvment of any human.

There shouldn't really be any reason for anyone to starve in such a world. It might sound like communism, but think of it.
EngineYard's Orchestra is one, though I'm not sure how far along they are with integrating it into their standard offerings.
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One way around this, if you want work/life balance, is to timeslice on much longer increments, like a couple of years instead of a couple of days. Put in the long hours at the demanding job for a few years until you have a shippable product and demonstrable, tangible successes. Then take a year off to travel, found a startup, work on an open-source project, volunteer, or otherwise decompress, using the savings you got from the high-paying job before.

For some reason, taking a year off to travel, volunteer, or experience the world isn't looked at in the same negative career light that wanting to only work part-time is, particularly if you have demonstrable successes at your last employer. It shows passion, engagement, and the ability to take responsibility for your own life, and many employers assume that will transfer over to your job performance at your next job. You're at a slight disadvantage in salary negotiations because they don't have to lure you away from your existing job, but you can make up for this by applying to many jobs (ideally through connections) at once.

I've heard it's also better on the "life" side of things as well, as you can throw your whole being into whatever you experience in your free time, and not just settle for the scraps you can fit around your job.
It's not strictly sold out.

At 3:03 PM EST, I managed to purchase a 16GB Nexus 4 after refreshing every second for ten minutes.
I'm pretty sure a lot of engineers have "designed bridges" in their free time as a teenager before they realized they wanted to be an engineer. Hell I did a huge amount of hardware tinkering for both legal and illegal reasons when I was in highschool. Build various phreaking boxes, tesla coils, radio frequency overiding devices, and all sorts of other crap. I could have either became an electrical engineer or a programmer, but I chose the latter cause it's really what I love to do.
I'm from Northbridge, MA. The town is also divided up into three villages; Whitinsville, Linwood, and Rockdale (which are also good names).
We definitely should have spent more time looking at it; they do graphic tees but mostly snowboarding jackets. We don't plan to do either.

Either way, the change is under way now, any ideas for names? :)
Do brokers typically exercise your options for you automatically at the end of the term or do you lose all the money if you forget?
I'd amend this to "tell me about an academic publication that you've been a major contributing author". Depending on the field and circumstances first author doesn't mean the same thing.
How about Holbrook, which is the name of the pond in Holden.
You said:

> "The decisions are made before the person ever gives their first on-camera pitch."

The contestant with firsthand knowledge said:

> "The Sharks also have absolutely no idea what is going happen with each company that comes on, they haven't even seen the pre-roll that the audience sees (where the camera follows the contestant around their home town, etc)..."

He invalidates your statement because how could they make decisions before the camera pitch, if they have never seen anything before the camera pitch? Unless someone from the set of the show could say something to help your statements, he is a much more reliable source than your intuition. Unless you have more evidence to validate your statement that you have not yet posted.
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Which should be getting a nice upgrade pretty soon.
This is almost like the touchpad fiasco all over again
Ah, no not at all! It was our fault, HN saved us a bunch of time and money -- I'm glad we are making the change now versus six months down the road after we made print collateral, labels, etc.
Apparently, was attempting to (ab)use GitHub for a hosting provider, and so is now offline for being over quota.
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Personally I think this will generate some social unrest in my hometown where foxconn has a factory. Those robots will drive millions of young workforces out of a basic job. I'm pretty concerned about the near future.

In the long term though, this seems to be the only way to go: automate boring jobs.
On the other hand, why not just wait a week 'till all the fervor is over. If you're cool-headed enough to realize this is all to build buzz, then surely you can wait a week.
A straddle is a way to trade volatility, so this makes sense if you think the stock's volatility is higher than the market thinks it is. (In other words, you'll make money if the stock will move more than the market thinks it's going to move.)
The last I looked food isn't free, and I don't see Apple or Foxconn planning on using their increased profits to provide food for those that are now going to be without work.
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Yeah, I live in NYC and have "high-speed" internet from Verizon and it's still crap most evenings. Like I've got to let videos buffer for a few minutes before watching them. I would definitely pay an extra 50 bucks a month for internet if it were reliably fast but I'm not sure such a thing exists in most parts of the US.
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This is written by THE Jeff Dean, who is essentially the programming equivalent of Chuck Norris at Google ( http://www.quora.com/Jeff-Dean/What-are-all-the-Jeff-Dean-fa... )
I totally believe this. Whenever I'm being unproductive or battling an idea/problem I'll go outside - walk around or bike, do something. Taking your mind off things allows it to come back stronger than ever when tackling the problem again. At least for me, anecdotally, this is true.
Awesome ideas guys! Keep 'em coming!