priyankt

Is it good to hire a fresh undergraduate who doesn't have any professional experience, but finds you (your company) while looking for the work of his interest, or is it better to hire someone from job portal looking for a change with 1-2 years of experience?

I know it also depends on lots of other factors (e.g. technical & communication skills), but do you think it is worth to hire someone who is interested in your work and give them some time to learn?

I have seen many people interested in tracking their daily expenses and knowing how much they spend on their food, clothing, rent, alcohol, etc. Some use excel sheets and some use specialized software, but biggest hindrance is manually entering expenses and categorizing it which is time consuming and hence, less effective (even bank transactions don't give individual item information).

I was wondering if it is possible to use QR code printed on the back side (or somewhere else?) of the bill/receipt by stores which will summarize the expenses and I just use my smartphone to automatically scan and save the details for my future analysis.

Do you think the limit on amount of data stored by QR code could be a problem? Any suggestions on how this problem can be tackled (using multiple QR codes/ colored QR codes)? Also, do you think dependency on the stores to print QR code summarizing the bill/receipt would be a big hurdle?

Appreciate your views/suggestions.

Hi, Not sure if this the right place for my question, but if not, then pointers to right forum will be helpful.

I have some real estate data and would like to predict property value given its attributes (area, bedrooms, etc) using locally weighted regression. I would also like to associate a confidence value with my prediction. Do I need to use Bayesian/probabilistic regression to achieve this? Can anyone point me to any research papers/tutorials explaining this technique?

Thanks.

Yesterday I was reading a post regarding who's hiring on HN and it took me some time to find it again. I was really looking for a search bar, but couldn't find one. Why don't HN have a search bar?