skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should look @ total compensation (or at least Base + Other). The Asst Treasurer's base is $33,000 but the total is $338,000.

Interesting to see the 60k 70k hump, though. Thanks for the visuals.
iDontGetIt...

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No, unfortunately these photos were not manipulated with Aperture... http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Rockabilly-Saint-Laure...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html

"The capacity of fiber optics is so much greater than other communications media
or technologies, and it's also immune to the stick-up-an-antenna type of
eavesdropping," said Jeffrey Richelson, an expert on intelligence technologies.

To listen to fiber-optic transmissions, intelligence operatives must physically
place a tap somewhere along the route. If the stations that receive and transmit
the communications along the lines are on foreign soil or otherwise inaccessible,
tapping the line is the only way to eavesdrop on it.

The intelligence experts admit there is much that is open to speculation, such
as how the information
recorded at a fiber-optic tap would get to analysts at the National Security
Agency for review.
I knew it was real last September, when they discontinued the 6th gen Nano out of the blue, right after some very popular watch bands were designed around it.

Textbook "kill your competition before your product is released" move.
First, I have to say that everything will be ok, believe it. Now, if you haven't had one in years, maybe it's some chemical imbalance, I don't know, but first, you gotta find a psychiatrist like tomorrow, because all it's going to take is "one" run-in with the cops, and it's going to be a mega shit-storm from there on.

Hang in there and deal with this as soon as you possibly can. You can get ahold of it right now, everything is still ok.
He probably doesn't realize that it would have never been as successful without Google's data power. So yes, he could have opened his own company and released a Reader, just that no one would come to know about it.
The Future of Software Patents
The "Making of ..." feature at the end of the video is also worth watching. Apparently they have no love for lawyers, however.
If anyone wants to read that FP article without registering at FP you can bypass the register screen by selecting "View -> Page Style -> No Page Style" in iceweasel. I apologize I do not know the equivalent function in chromium.

I used to enjoy reading Tom Ricks Best Defense blog at FP but I stopped reading it once they introduced that monstrosity.
Why can't Google implement something like this that is very easy to use, themselves - since they "care" about their users' privacy so much?
I take it all the time. Never seen a mugging on public transit, not even in São Paulo, where more of the people I know have been mugged at some point.

Anyways, automation would free up more budget for people and automated solutions focused solely on safety. I can't imagine it'd be that hard to devise a solution that lets few employees observe most of the stations and then trigger some sort of lockdown where a mugging occurs. The computer vision heuristics for focusing the attention of a CCTV monitoring station could probably consider things like:

(1) Show locations with a sparse number of people occupying the space.

(2) Based on walking gait over time, cluster humans together as related (Two people walking together side by side are probably together)

(3) Place importance on humans walking alone

(4) Place importance on humans walking alone that are about to "intercept" another human walking alone.

(5) Use head and eye position and gait speed changes to determine intent to intercept by assuming a gaze heuristic is being used by the mugger.

An operating watching the live videos with focus would then make a call of whether of not a mugging has occurred or probably has occurred. They would then dispatch an image of the mugger and muggee directly to the phones of a the nearest officer or two that can investigate. The system would tracker the mugger and muggee across several video feeds.

These are just a few ideas on how greater safety can be fully automated.
Bookmark it, tag it with your favorite keywords and then close the tab and hope that you will find it when you need it.
> Guess what dude?! If I were in that position and I were primarily worried about my project "being at the mercy of Google" (or any company that I don't have sufficient control over, for that matter), I would have left _anytime_.

If you don't have a boss, your boss is either your VC, or your customers. Guess what - they can suck more than Google (at least, Google back in 'the day').
Acorn Project - A new app discovery method.
I think it's interesting to note here that despite Facebook, Google, and Twitter's best intentions, new social networks grow faster today than ever before. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat exploded in a manner of weeks.
or maybe they don't want their employer knowing everything they read?
You'd think they could at least have slowly integrated Reader with their G+ vision rather than alienating a good portion of the users who have championed them for years.
"not in neutral"

Damn....Damn it all to hell.
>Well, fuck them, and fuck that.

But—I'm curious to see what everyone thinks—are we too late for this attitude to change anything?
Why not simply install elevators with a grated floor and install a plastic tarpaulin at the bottom of the shaft. This way and urine would not stay in the elevators. It probably wouldn't do much for poop, which would still have to be removed manually, but I imagine that simply having the elevator open on top and bottom would allow enough air to circulate to eliminate the smell.

Alternatively, is there a way to detect when poop or piss touches a service and trigger an automatic lockdown of the elevator until an officer has come to inspect it and release it? Once someone has been trapped and fined once, they are more likely to avoid doing anything that triggers them getting caught in the elevator.
Yes, there are 20% projects.
Your account isn't inconsistent with the article at all. The effects they are describing are all taking place below the level of conscious awareness. They are giving a high description of how psychologists understand an information processing system. "Experiencing a sensation", as you say, is actually quite a lot like the activation mechanism you contrast it to.

edit: a word.
The intelligence experts admit there is much that is open to speculation, such as how the information recorded at a fiber-optic tap would get to analysts at the National Security Agency for review.

How about another fiber in the same bundle?

Also, during the telco bust, there was a lot of 'dark' (i.e. unlit) fiber, probably prophylactically tapped by NSA.
Where are you from and what is the most important thing happening in the world today?
Yeah, I should have done this as a Show HN. Live and learn.

And you're right about the avalanche of news. Feeling kind of (ahem) snowed in right now.

Not that I want this particular story to go away.
Good read, but it fizzled at the end.

Creating openness is not good enough. There were business reasons to support every long lasting open technology, and with the dominance of proprietary social media platforms, that business reason (for RSS at least) is dead.

The web opened up e commerce, and modern social media lowered the barrier to entry for online communities.

Its the same problem cryptography has, if its not dead simple and obviously useful don't expect it to stick around (at least at mass appeal)
I think I may be confusing things by conflating disparate ideas. And this is the basis of my interpretation of your statement - which I still see as slightly ambiguous.

Biblical hermeneutics is a separate concern from biblical inerrancy. They're similar because they're both concerned with the ultimate interpretation of scripture, but separate in their scope and effect.

What I was referring to in my original statement was the interpretation of decidedly hermeneutically-literal passages as figurative due to their apparent improbability. These include miracles that Jesus performed, historical events, and even extends down to the account of creation.

I do not disagree that some parts of scripture are designed and meant to be read figuratively - much of Revelations comes to mind as a basic example.
Instacube Out of Cash, Needs to Raise 1+ Million
Like dsymonds mentioned in reply to the parent comment, 20% time is still alive and well.
I don't mind a good critique of pair programming -- it deserves a hard look to think about its pros and cons -- but I do take issue with a paper written in this way.

I want to mention the opening line in the introduction: "The pair programming method could only exist in an industry that does not measure well and does not understand economics." This argument is speculative and unpersuasive.

Speaking of measurement, I take issue with this paper because it suggests that lines of code (LOC) is a good metric. The author demonstrates a lack of economic savvy by writing, "As can be seen from table 1 the economics of pair programming are severely negative." That table uses lines of code (LOC) as the key metric. There are so many problems with the choice of such a wrongheaded metric. First, writing better software often involves writing less code! Second, as a commenter points out, knowledge transfer is very important. Third, pair programming may build team cohesion.

Many industries use variations of pair programming, as the author recognizes. That said, I think the author fumbles in suggesting that quarterbacks trading time is similar to pairing. I wonder why the author didn't look at apprenticeships in manufacturing, where skills are demonstrated in a hands-on way.

Finally, as a model-builder myself, it pains me to see weak, flawed models baked into papers such as this. Take this section of text: "Table 1 is extracted from a pair-programming calculator developed by the author. It allows researchers to input a number of variables including staff compensation, application size in lines of code, and coding speeds for both pairs and individual programmers."

Such language, to me, makes it appear that the author is trying to make his claims seem "mechanical" -- just the matter of turning a crank and running some calculations. Such a claim is silly and a sham, of course. The choice of what to measure and how to weigh it is central. This paper makes no serious attempt to promote such a discussion.

In summary, this paper did not make a serious attempt to understand the true (economic, yes!) value of pair programming, in my opinion. If I were to guess, the author may well have had his conclusion in mind before writing the paper or doing his research.
I wonder if that's the same Gerald Weinberg I'm thinking of-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Weinberg). I've read a few of his books. I am inclined to think 'yes'.
It's not all roses. Have you ever tried scripting and versioning SSIS for example?

Probably not.

Which is why we use Spring Integration...
Well you can't do search without at least having the metadata and the title. If you use other PGP methods, you can have that - but then the NSA can still get your metadata and e-mails title.
1. Uh, they have local lawyers in EDTX, and those lawyers are friendly with the judges. They are happy to.
In fact, in EDTX, they have (or at least had) a local counsel requirement (IE if you didn't live there, you needed to also have an attorney who was local be retained), and plenty of local counsel charged ridiculous rates for the privilege

2. They'll just sue everyone anyway. What you are arguing about is the merits. Most have never cared about the merits.
They care about getting settlements, or large verdicts in some small cases.

3. This is a great way to get thrown in jail for contempt.
I just looked at [1] which compares the productivity of a pair of programmers to that of two individual programmers. The paper claims an increase of 15% in man-hours while the author of this piece is claiming that a pair of programmers is 15% slower than a single programmer!

(Note: I've never used pair-programming and don't really care one way or the other. But this analysis seems terrible to me.)

[1] The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.P...
I haven't had anger, but I did have to work through non-clinical depression and the process might be helpful to you. Please note, I can only speak from a Christian perspective. The behavior (anger, etc.) is the fruit of something deeper, so you need to figure out what that is. My counselor had me write letters to God: describe how you are feeling (he gave me a list of words, see [1]) and why and then commit yourself to his care. I found that the goal of this is to figure out why you are feeling the way you are: the anger is coming from somewhere. The problem is not the anger, but what is causing the anger. If you have been abused, that likely factors into it, but injustice (real or perceived), frustration, unmet needs, etc. might also be reasons. Once you identify the reasons, then you need to deal with them. (See [2]) For example, forgiving people who have wronged you.

I strongly recommend seeing someone professional; we need doctors for the soul as much as for the body. I would recommend finding a good Christian counselor, because I don't think that we can truly resolve our issues without the healing that only God can provide. If you are near Austin I can recommend one. However, definitely find someone (secular or not), a counselor or a psychologist who can help walk you through this.

Also, you said you have no one to talk to in real life. I would recommend taking some risks to be vulnerable with the friends you have, or intentionally start looking for the kind of friends that you can be vulnerable with. We weren't created to be alone.

[1] http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~prewett/archive/FeelingWo...

[2] http://www.joycemeyer.org/articles/ea.aspx?article=dealing_w...
EDTX as a venue is already a mostly solved problem.
Rules/laws were changed in the past few years to make venue transfers more sane, so you can get out of EDTX.
The federal circuit, in a fit of sanity, smacked EDTX down a few times for disallowing venue transfers, and there you go.
Since then, i believe a district in delaware has almost taken the lead (since that is where most companies are registered)
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-09-16/
Yeah I was looking forward to reading through what he thought could be done to try and turn the tide on the issue, but to essentially just write 'fuck y'all' kinda made it feel like someone rambling on.
I was under the impression that many of them were closed after 9-11. I was told by a BART employee that that is why the Berkeley BART bathroom has been closed for years.
Yes. It's called "Saturday".
> I think Apple tries to avoid being involved too much in policing other people's IP.

Given that they provide the sole means of performing this infringement (given that there are no other means to make money off iOS applications), this argument is a bit too generous towards what is basically Apple not giving a shit about developer's rights.

They do not "avoid being involved too much in policing other people's IP"; they are providing the only infrastructure and act as payment processor (even taking their share!) of the infringements taking part. This is morally significantly worse than Pirate Bay and the like (who provide a service to the public), but unfortunately[1], there's no RIAA/MPAA equivalent for software developers.

[1] It's debatable whether this is actually unfortunate for the general public
I think the distinction is that the receiver need not have signed up or installed anything at the time the message is sent. That is, the sender need not worry if the receiver is currently using SecureGmail, they can send the message now and the receiver can install the extension later.
> Of course, the manuscript writers needed to draw the letters in a calligraphic style, which necessitated precise wrist motions. So a writing method designed for brisk mark making wouldn't have helped them.

I'm hardly an expert, but I took a calligraphy class in college, and the instructor was always getting on our case, telling us "write with your arm, not your wrist/hand"... you weren't supposed to rest your hand on the paper as one typically does when handwriting; rather, you were supposed to use arm/shoulder movements to move your hand, with your wrist kept relatively stiff.

The idea, as I understand it, was that your large arm/shoulder muscles tend to tire much less quickly, and using them makes it much easier to maintain consistent, smooth, controlled movements. Even when fresh, writing with your wrist/fingers tends to be rather different simply due to the highly restricted movement range and the smaller muscles.
It also shows the opportunity for a new open standard to emerge very quickly. The timing feels right. The battleground seems to be photo sharing this time, not links.
That's Hedi Slimane's Saint Laurent Paris, essentially a reboot of his earlier work at Dior Homme, and still irrelevant to the discussion at hand either way. The CEO at a fashion house is hardly directly involved in the creative process, at least at one as large as YSL.
> Then you spend twice as much time figuring out how to deal with poorly crafted feeds, ambiguities, and edge cases — especially for Atom, which is a huge, overengineered pain in the ass

Funny: that's what most people said of RSS 0.x (poorly crafted), 1.x (over-engineered) and 2.x (ambiguous and full of badly-specified edge-cases). Atom was supposed to fix all that.
There was no cool stuff.

They fixed a load of stuff, threw new versions out and spun it as marketing.

It's not cool if you have to pay for it at a rapidly growing pace.
Cfpb/django-nudge - Gently push content from development to production.
I hope he's wrong, because I hope Google wasn't so stupid.

My usage patterns/goals/content/etc on G+ are nothing like they are with {my new RSS reader}. In fact, I'm looking at unsubscribing from all but my smallest communities because the big linux distro and android based communities are overrun with individuals spamming religious, political, and just random personal images in them.

(edit, oh and Adiós!, apparently!)
A gaming keypad featuring adjustable key columns. Designed with online tools.
Agreed - quality of a password is the key. We wanted to start with something that regular people would actually use. Its current;y not the most secure solution - but we were hoping the community could help us with that while preserving a good user experience.
That I think, is the most thrilling part of the story. Imagine how much longer it could go if it didn't leave a bit trail. I bet if you ran this in an emulator, you could arrange the memory array to resemble the screen, and watch it drive around.
> Symmetric crypto (like this) is relatively easy to implement, but a usability nightmare.

Conversely, it's the only type of crypto the general public understands. "Enter your password." It bothers me that this is the case, but there you go.

The biggest problem OpenPGP has right now is that you need to explain what public and private keys are to someone before they even have a hope of using it.
The gravitational pull of Google, Facebook, and Twitter is just too big. If you're a business and not creating content on those sites these days you aren't getting noticed. So you cater all of your activities towards their locked-in APIs and you don't have resources to maintain an RSS feed nobody uses.

As long as content continues to be centralized in those three companies interop is toast.
That's not actually the codebase for code search though -- it's a re-implementation of it done in the original authors new language.
What's Next? A Tribute To Stanislaw Lem
There is a spectrum of pairing possibilities. You can pair anywhere between 0 and 168 hours per week, in theory. I would not assume a linear relationship between that number and the value of pairing. :)

For me, a few hours of pairing a day has a lot of value. If I could, I would do that regularly. When I use it to focus on hard problems, it can improve my thinking, it improves knowledge transfer, and it builds team relationships.
I agree that Facebook started a "war", but I don't think any of these companies want to "close us in" any more than they did when they first started. Sure, you can look at the closing of Google Reader as the antithesis of openness and RSS but you'd somehow seem to miss that Google, Facebook, and Twitter still support a lot of APIs that promote openness and interoperability. Actually, they continue to release more and more APIs as do other startups (i.e. Github).

Openness and interoperability aren't going away, they're merely being refined. That might mean taking away the hacker's toy for a bit while some kinks get worked out (i.e. Google's Jabber issue and the switch to Blink). It might also mean that we live in a monoculture for a while (Webkit). But regardless, the web is steadily improving and no matter how much you all try to spin it, RSS and Google Reader really aren't the martyrs you claim them to be. It sucks that even a successful product can be mercilessly shut down by the evil Google tyrants, but it shouldn't be surprising at all.

Sometimes companies make decisions that hurt a part of their user base for some perceived benefit for other users. Did Google fuck up by closing Reader? Probably. But it's not the end of the world.
We're all nodes on the network
Why do they even call it Firefox? Where's the fox on fire?
No, I don't think so. The web at its core has to remain open, and it does allow for spam, but I don't see the whole web getting locked down anytime soon.

I also don't know if I'd call it an attitude but more an alignment towards the actual situation. Many have compared the various services mentioned to AOL and the walled garden, but they all still thrive on open, crawlable, & indexed links.
Shouldn't this be actually the better case (Apple not replying to a DMCA notification?). IANAL, but it seems the safe harbor policy of the DMCA don't apply if the service provider just ignores DMCA notification. Which means you don't need to go after the person who actually put a copy of your software into the app store, but you can directly go after Apple. The facts in that case seem to be relatively clear, so the risk of losing in court against Apple should be low.
Mapping tool can pinpoint any location in three words
There was a great post a few weeks back here about why whatsapp, viber et al had such a dramatic growth. Basically, the hypothesis was these apps have access to the entirety of the user's contact data on their phones, which allows them to reconnect with our friends automatically (or fallback to sms/email). Ironically, I think this is something where Google+'s circles could come in very useful for us (meaning, normal users): if Google stopped pushing Plus as an end goal unto itself and instead started integrating it at a lower level in android and provide APIs accessible to other websites, it could have massive privacy and usability advantages for us. Cyanogenmod is doing something similar, but I think they're implementing it as a everything-or-nothing switch for apps. Providing more granularity (and seriously, Google got the circles UI spot on, I'm very impressed) is something that's sorely needed if we want to move away from facebook's monopoly on our social graph.
Brilliant piece. Perhaps we'll always have shifts to and from the mainframe as it were, in some senses, and I for one really enjoy the ride.
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