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Two things: firstly, the article was about the long term problem of automation, so not sure the meantime is a factor here. Secondly, who is to say that even without waiting there will be enough jobs returned to make any dent in the joblessness of that "middle of our IQ bell curve".

This is excellent! One feature that's a definite that I couldn't figure out quickly: a "find meetups near you" button!

The "Hackathon" part in "Hackathon Hackers" is totally relative. Your "hackathon" depends completely on the people judging it. Being judged by a bunch of suits with no connection to the technical world? Prepare for Uber for Facebook Cats. However, if you go to a hackathon where the judges are intimately familiar with the technology at hand, you'll get more praise for technical hacks.

In mainstream culture, the latter gets far less press, but the rewards of those hackathons in terms of networking are priceless.

> I don't see Angry Birds being much different than doing a puzzle on the floor,

You're missing a huge part of tactile development going on when she's playing a puzzle on the floor vs. touching a flat surface. The fine motor skills involved with physically handling a puzzle will come in handy later, not to mention that there is an element of combining tactile response with mental strategy missing on the iPad.

The idea of requiring (and then paying for) "American-standard" lodging seems ridiculous when we outsource it for developing country prices.

Great read!

Interdependence is something that I always think about in these situations. Our society is so dependent on trade and working with other regions/countries that to see those systems collapse would be utter chaos.

Manassas is an example of white flight (which is a big theme of the communities in NoVA period). Mike O'Meara refers to it as "deviltown" for a reason: it's pretty much been abandoned by its residents.

Though many communities in that region suffer from it, I think Manassas has had very very bad urban planning. Very little is walkable, there's no character to the town, and you see very little green space. It's a case of suburban decay.

Right. The problem was his misconception with society on the side of the errand runner. All he seemed to have experience with was the exec who has tasks needed to be done.

On that note, something like this in a society with very high unemployment and a large casual labor market could possibly do well (granted, people were wealthy enough to own smartphones). My partner's family in India would constantly go through servants/maids/gardners/etc because there're so many people willing to work.

Two of your apps mention Montessori by name, which makes me wonder how often you are criticized for using her name in vain?

My wife is a Montessori teacher and would flip her shit if a parent ever substituted the real montessori numbers/letters (usually sand paper letters) for an app. Montessori would've surely been incredibly against an app for children young enough to learn anything from sand paper letters.

It's linked to in the udemy page, but the book is available for free as HTML here : http://c.learncodethehardway.org/

Only half of us felt it here in Sacramento, CA. It seriously just felt like someone slammed a door very hard.

Isn't the camera just Intel's 3D gesture cam? It also has an SDK that integrates very well with unity. http://software.intel.com/en-us/vcsource/tools/perceptual-co...

The first screen shot from the second video shows exactly what their gesture tracking looks like. When doing the perceptual challenge, this was mainly the stuff we were thinking of as applications for the hardware, funny to see someone now taking it and simply mounting it on glasses.

This has to be the oddest and most ridiculous attempt I've seen to form a social life.

The comments above have advised to go after interests, and whatnot. Do that, but also seek out people you already know and start doing real things with them. Push the boundaries, get to know what they really like doing with their time, form a network.

Also, "real jobs" are for suckers who aren't passionate enough to follow their interests.

While I've seen the filtered reviews issue and think the claims are somewhat true, my bigger problem is that yelp does nothing for reviewer quality.

So many times, I've seen blatantly false and misleading information tacked on to someone's reviews. The site allows both the microcomments "Food, okay. Waitresses, hot." and the long, trailing rants about how the steak tasted rotten. This is a problem, and not one easily fixed. Being an "Elite Reviewer" just means you give out more idiotic reviews than the rest.

Yelp is a joke to anyone who really cares about food.

This has always been the determining factor for me about mechanics. Charge $80 to do a scope test? I'll go elsewhere. In my experience, getting your repeat business is more important to a good mechanic than charging a stupid $80 fee.

Try befriending your local mechanic. That'll be the real savings.

That part of the video left me confused, because it's often not that easy. I wonder if this function depends on the model.. Also, loose gas cap often goes away after a certain period of time anyway.

Checked out the video, well made! However, it is incredibly vague in terms of answering my question. The video says you're looking for "My neighbors, coworkers, classmates, my community" why aren't these people on your already existing social media sites? They sure are on mine.

I want to know what you're going to do to attract the every day user? Why would someone choose this over meetup.com or posting on craigslist or reddit, etc.

There're a fair number of ways for people to interact with their local community nowadays (even beyond their local social circle), and I can't see anyone adopting this as just one more way to do so. Perhaps I'm missing something.

Excellent post! The one thing I have to wonder is if there are those out there who can really separate themselves from their company's business.

I like to think of James Altucher's advice that you will be most happy when there are the fewest amount of people in your life who have the ability to create negative influences. In this case, having that investor mean so much to you that it has a severely negative outcome on your emotional well being is not worth it. I've come to realize that less stress is definitely worth more than extra income, in the long run.

Vardan Kushnir also had quite the adventurous life and death!

The article mentions the competition for FamilyLeaf, but does not give any inkling of a clue as to how they'll overcome the competition and really the bigger competition from Facebook. Simply saying their confident it will fill the niche doesn't give me any reason to choose it over the myriad of other services lifted.

I'm also not really in the target demographic, but if someone asked me why they should choose to use this service instead of Facebook, I'd be hard pressed to give them a reason.

My district in California was exactly like this, sans the people out front. This being the downtown of the capitol city, too.

I agree to an extent. I think if you look at the average user (generally not someone on HN), you'll see that it is cheapening their experiences. When preteens can quantify how popular they are based on the number of "likes" they get, it is bound to change "social" behavior.

Just an fyi, you link to app.jetdeck.co, which is a lot more confusing when you're not first given the information at jetdeck.co.

You know, I was not impressed until I saw the guy playing the bananas to unlock his door. Now I must have one.

I think that's how I instantly analyzed the title: "how can someone cheat at coursera??". I get it that some people put the certifications on their resumes, but there are also a subset of people who take the courses just to learn, and therefore may not be able to spend the time doing the work.

I think the design of the site and the product conflict. The design looks like you're selling the person, not their expertise, especially from the front page. I'm sure any of these people can do multiple things, but I don't care about that, if my goal is to set up shop in Asia, mention that. I am in no way able to know that just seeing Sophie Song's face on your front page.

Also, for sellers to solely use social media as a verification system just rubs me entirely the wrong way.

I really like the idea though, good luck!

Ugh. A friend's mother fell for this exact thing. Spent a couple days "disinfecting" her computer. A few hours later, it finally dawned on her that she had been scammed (when someone asked her how the people could have known she had viruses), but she was too proud to talk about it/fight with the scammers.

Very smart though, targeting home phones, as they're just the right generation to fall for this type of scam.

Fourth request. Seems like a cool idea, but not cool enough for me to have to create an account on either of those two services.

Fully on demand cable television. So many people tell me "I'd love it if I could just pay per channel and forget about the other channels."

That got me thinking it may be something to exploit. Not so, with infrastructure costs swallowing up so much of the potential profits. People will just have to deal with all the channels they end up paying for. So, it's either the internet or bust if you don't want to play the cable game.