skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FF is right, I've seen a Jetta and what I can only nail down as far as a GM B-body that looked like that after car fires. The ones instead which you see at the pick-n-pull after fires were only localized fires like the electrical fire from the radio that melted my center console. I've seen some odd ones at the yards that had fires near the gas filler and what must have been an electrical fire in a taillight. Most with fire damage had greasy engine bay fires though near the battery or under a carb. Those cars still contain many valuable parts, and that's why you see ones like that only.
>As an aside, I think If IT workers had become unionized, I think I'm not far off in thinking that we'd still be using DOS and system7 or System V.

I've worked in a large, unionized IT department and find your comment to be hilariously accurate.
Physicists tend to like to repeat an experiment lots of times before attempting to make conclusions based on empirical observations.
So black duck, sort of. http://www.blackducksoftware.com/products
Sure, given a real valued random variable,
it has a cumulative distribution.
If that distribution is differentiable,
then the random variable also has a
density (distribution). Fine. Alas,
that doesn't mean that in practice
we should try to find what the
distribution is!

Actually, in practice, it's generally
difficult to know with much accuracy
what a distribution is. Then, for the
OP, in practice it's much more difficult
to know much about the tails or when
they are fat or not or if fat how fat.

The OP wants to claim that the normal
distribution applies to heights of
people. I can believe that this is
only roughly true!

Actually, the usual way we come to
a normal distribution is from
the central limit theorem (CLT); in practice
we want something like the
mechanism of the CLT to apply.

When do we get the CLT? Sure: If
for some positive integer n
our random variable Y is the
sum, divided by the square root of n,
of n independent, identically
distributed (i.i.d.) samples
of some distribution with, say,
a mean and a finite variance.

If n is 12, then can start to entertain
normality if don't want accuracy in the
tails. If want high accuracy in the
tails of the normal distribution from
the CLT, then I'd recommend some careful
work and otherwise not trust the
accuracy.

A place where have a better shot at
getting accuracy in a tail is
the exponential distribution.
The leading case is: Suppose
we have a Geiger counter that
goes "click" when it detects
a radioactive decay. If the
click rate is low so that
the chances of two or more decays
giving only one click are low,
and real random variable T is
the time until the next click,
then under usual situations in practice
T will
have quite accurately exponential distribution.

More generally, the stochastic process
of such clicks is a Poisson process
and an example of an arrival process.
Well with weak assumptions, for positive
integer n, the sum of n
independent arrival processes
approaches a Poisson process
as n approaches infinity.
This result is the renewal
theorem with a proof in
W. Feller's volume II.

An example of a use of the
renewal theorem is arrivals
at a Web site. So, for each
person on the planet there is
an arrival process for that
person at that site.
If assume that the people
are independent, then the
Web site sees the sum of those
arrivals and should see,
over intervals of time much
shorter than one day,
a good approximation to a Poisson process.

So, that's some 'applied probability'
where we might work with
tails.

Mostly in applied probability,
just f'get about accuracy in the tails!
/s? Maybe you've never taken public transportation in a major city. Riding the BART can be sketchy enough as it is - I've witnessed muggings in broad daylight. I don't think many people would feel safe enough to take the BART if there weren't drivers and attendants around to dissuade the worst of it.
That's a pretty small number of success stories relative to the # of potential candidates, no? Also, none of them except Singapore is still fully self-determining, and Singapore is on a pretty small island rather than being embedded in a larger land mass.
Ask the NSA for a copy?
That's a pretty good rationale. I'm not saying pair programming is good/bad, I don't have enough experience with it to be able to call it. But I do know management thinking when I see it. It's always riddled with assertions, lamp post search methodology, and clueless comparisons.
I found the article confusing because it begins by noting the deficiencies of studies on pair programming and then presenting data from... where exactly? I couldn't tell.

And then:

It is obvious from table 3 that the best economic results do not come from pair programming but rather from hiring and using expert single programmers.

Well... sure... of course, and good luck with that! Meanwhile, in the real world, while you're waiting for your expert programmers to submit their resumes to your company, pair programming is a great way to bring new/junior devs up to speed. In fact, I think that may be one of its greatest values.

If you have two roughly equally skilled devs, it's possible that you'd be better served by working individually combined with good code reviews, though I don't think the article made much a case for that.
If the life of a BART employee were as hard as you describe, there would be all sorts of stories about a BART worker shortage, stories about the state bending over backwards to find new hires, like you always hear about tech employers.

Is there any evidence of that?

If there's no evidence of chronic BART worker shortages, of employees quitting and going to work for some other municipal transit agency, that would suggest that BART employees actually have it pretty good.
Could that be https://www.google.com/search?q=gsm+speaker+interference

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/27/why-do-speakers-ma...
Are we confusing a college degree with skill?

I can't speak to what all of BART's employees do - but electricians, mechanics, machinists, etc, all do not require a college degree, but are all very much skilled work. Hell, as a bit of a transit nut I also know that driving a train is way more complicated than pushing the throttle up.

Again, what does a college degree have to do with anything?
Something something old dog new tricks.
I've been reading articles about this fascinating game for several days now, but haven't had the guts to invest the time into it given its steep learning curve. Kudos to these guys for doing exactly what they want to do and (yet) still making a living by coding.
now THAT is the way to do it! Yes, the average user has trouble grasping the CRITICAL IMPORTANCE that the user, AND ONLY THE USER, must physically hold the private key. There's no problem with having the public keyring in the cloud, and I don't even see any reason to keep it encrypted. It's called the PUBLIC key for a reason, to paraphrase Whit Diffie. You guys are on the right track...tools that make REAL 4096-bit PKE EASY are what are needed (Certainly it is an understatement to say that a 4096-bit elliptical curve DH cryptogram is "at least as secure as symmetric keys" - indeed, symmetric schemes are several orders of magnitude weaker, even with the same size passphrase) . But users will have the "inconvenience" of having to store their PRIVATE KEY on all their devices; but hey, that's not much work to be virtually impregnable. I applaud Parley's efforts!
::shrugs:: The bylaws github page is linked on the Bitcoin foundation's website.

> The Bitcoin Foundation has not filed any documents with the SEC according to an SEC EDGAR search, nor can I find any existing IRS 990 record. I'm not a lawyer, and especially not a corporate lawyer, but I think you're required to file with those entities if you're a company and if you're claiming nonprofit status, respectively

No. SEC only deals with publicly traded corporations, and only some non-profit organizations must file a 990. Bitcoin foundation hasn't existed long enough for any 990s to be publicly available in any case— they're filed a year behind and there is usually a year lag before anyone posts them.
Where is this from? Google did not turn anything up when I searched for Thomas Gutschker and submarine.
> If you would like functional elevators that aren't biohazard zones, I'd suggest becoming involved locally and solving the problem at its root.

"If you want clean elevators, just solve homelessness!" Reminds me of "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must first invent the universe." It's cute... but if you actually want to know how to make an apple pie from scratch that answer is just obnoxious.

Your prescription for how to clean an elevator is absurd.
A different view, total salary histogram:

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/BARTsalaries_0/Dashb...
Problems: 1. He quantifies productivity in lines of code. 2. By doing so, he only considers the development but not the maintenance cost of software. 3. He is not even internally consistent. He states pair programmers are 15% slower than individual programmers but then lists then as only creating 75% of the LOC an individual programmer does. 4. He pulled that number out of nowhere to begin with. The only referenced papers are his own. 5. The numbers given for errors are equally bogus. 6. At no point does he define his different tiers of programmer(novice, average, expert). 7. It would seem he assumes the same wage for all three tiers, which is completely unrealistic. 8. Point 7 being the case, the conclusion of the entire paper is that the best thing to do is hire a bunch of expert programmer to replace your average ones while paying them the same wage. Even thinking that you can identify with a high level of certainty who truly great programmers are is a rather lofty goal, and pg has an article or two talking about how difficult it can be. Add to that the fact that even google has come out recently and said that their methods of interviewing programmers has largely failed to identify those that would be successful at their company.
Delightful. I love this sort of thing. My jaw almost hit the floor when I realized what was happening when the cycle drove off screen. Does anyone know where I can find more stories like this?
Lot's of $100 hammers I see.
Dirt on every single one of them personally? But I'd doubt that as Snowden actually seems like a person of high morals who wouldn't stoop to that even to save his life.

Anyhow, the sad thing is, I don't think the government really cares. This is about making a point, showing their power, and discouraging this from ever happening again.
"I've got nothing to hide" and other misunderstandings of privacy (2007)
> This is just whining over a "wrong" (presumably; assuming you would have pulled it off well) tradeoff you, yourself, made back in the day. It's not "today's Google vs. back then's Google".

I don't see any whining about a wrong, I see somebody saying that Google is different today from when it was back when he first made Reader. I don't see him regretting making Reader, just saying that today, because of cultural changes at Google, he'd do it outside of Google rather than inside of Google.

This is not somebody regretting their actions, this is somebody saying that Google's culture is different today then it was back then. Clearly you're a fan of this new culture, and that's just fine, but don't miscontrue his words.
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You don't need the code. You just change some strings in the binary/bundle (if you're fancy), sign it with your certificate and upload to the app store.
As opposed to how they usually do business?
Read some of the other comments here that dissect how these numbers are purposely misleading. That's his point.
Viber is testing a new business model: Hijacking your cellular calls
No one has a total over 500k – the default sort is by total pay and the first on the list is Dorothy Dugger (General Mgr,
Deputy General Manager), $419,661. What's the person's name? (Note that "Other" includes bonuses, but also includes payout for unused vacation time, which could be accrued over time – so in some cases it might represent something accumulated over many years.)
> Not a single person I know ever updated anything on Google+

I think the trick is to follow writers and artists, assuming that your friends are not.
Except public employees' counter-parties at the negotiating tables are politicians financed by public employees' unions.
It is just natural, given Apple is in the fashion business since 1984...
Nope -- I've had that exact app working like a charm across multiple devices and OS updates.
Depends on whether or not the driver had been swerving or giving the cops intent that he is suspicious of doing something wrong. But If you've seen the video with the cops killing the dog and arresting the (African-American man) than you will notice some people tend to use power to limit.
Is there a reason why they don't include something similar to Bing Flights' Price Predictor? I haven't actually booked a flight since they released that, but it seems like a nifty/useful piece of tech that Google would want an answer to.
Implementing Brainfuck in Racket
If everyone teaches one person, it will not be too long before everyone knows.
It also applies to desktop software. This problem has been known since the good old shareware days.

Sending an DMCA complaint to Apple/Google has at least the potential to be successful. Trying to take down a web site in Russia or China that is selling your software is another story.
Do you understand why people get pissed off when they read the salary tables? The people riding the trains don't have massive employer contributions to their pensions -- or even have pensions. They don't get paid overtime -- they just work unpaid. Stagnant wages? How have wages changed in the area generally, relative to the cost of living?

If you want the upside of big jumps in salary, you should have to take on some of the risks (like losing your job and medical insurance, or your business).

Do you ever wonder if there's someone else who would be willing to do the job you are doing for less?

Would you appreciate your salary negotiation going like this:

"I want 20% increase over four years."

"No. We're laying off 20% of the staff because revenue is down. We might hire you back as a part-timer later, without health insurance or benefits."
When a service is both essential and a natural monopoly, employees extracting all of the "immense value being provided" is very, very bad. Suppose the employees of SF's water company were allowed to charge the full value provided by delivering water to San Francisco. People can't do without water, and so everyone's water bill would now be thousands of dollars a month, since they have no alternative but to pay it. And the next week, everyone would realize this sucked and anyone who was able to would leave.
minor nitpick - it sounds like parley is storing the encrypted private keys on their server, encrypted with the user's passphrase.

This method is the best tradeoff with cloud encryption IMO - convenience of having the key file accessible anywhere, even if it is not as secure as copying it yourself to all your devices. Also, much much better than using symmetric keys.
> Again you fail to understand what was going on at the time, falling back on pop-culture memes.

Stop posturing--these remarks add nothing to the discussion.

> France and the UK were both hastily remilitarising and were buying time. Everyone knew war was coming, but the UK and the French needed more time to prepare, and it wasn't just the US that was suffering from economic depression in the 30s. They knew for 20 years that there would be another war - Marshal Foch said of the Treaty of Versailles "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years". He was only two months out.

I don't see how that's anywhere at odds with what I'm saying, which is that Europe tended to have these wars from time to time and the US was justifiably reluctant to intervene.

> You have just said that Iraq was a war that 'called for intervention'

I said that's how the US government saw it at the time.

> but you say the same is not true of the Nazis?

> ...

> though it is odd you cheer both their early isolationism and their later interventionism

I did no such thing--I said it's hypocritical to criticize America for both isolationism and for interventionism. Please read what I actually wrote and make an honest attempt to comprehend it.

> The US bills itself as the 'world cop'

In 1939 they did that?

My whole point, which you have arrogantly refused to comprehend, has been to justify the initial American non-intervention in WWII, and in WWII the US never billed itself as any such thing.

I can offer no defense of American interventionism. I think it's consistently been a mistake. But if you're going to go around arguing that the US should have been interventionists in World War II, then you have to accept what it looks like when the US pursues a foreign policy of interventionism. Most people don't like how that turns out. Most people would prefer if the US would mind its own business and not get involved in wars overseas, but if they hold that position, it's hypocritical of them to criticize the US for not directly joining the Second World War before they had a good reason to.
Our friends have a concept called an Orblitz. You got to orbitz.com on Wednesday and search for the cheapest tickets out of the state to anywhere. Take a backpack for the weekend and no hotels book - figure it out there.

Has been a blast every time. I actually used the concept at a Noisebridge party once:

http://makezine.com/2010/10/13/noisebridges-3rd-birthday-par...

A lot of fun for the winner (who actually beat me in the rock paper scissors tournament on the way to 'winning')
The low-level details of exploits always sound like they require a miracle to pull off.
Extra-awesome if we could include a snapshot of the source code without the git repo or commits.
OP, what is the source? The only source on google is this paste.
Nitpick: That $55k includes benefits, actually. That's $35k base, a little OT, a few weeks of vacation, M/D/V benefits, and pension contributions.

I'd call that "$35k plus full benefits" if I was summarizing. Maybe "plus great benefits" if you wanted to slant it (I dunno if those MDV costs are high or low, though).

Betcha the nurses you know are making more than that.
>> I don't see any whining about a wrong

I don't think it was a wrong decision either--hence the quotes. I think it was not easy to pull it off outside Google.

>> I see somebody saying that Google is different today from when it was back when he first made Reader

I do not deny that there might have been a fundamental culture change at Google. My point, precisely, is that a culture change is orthogonal to the fundamental fact that at someone else's company, they have the ultimate control over your invention. That's one big reason people go (and went) start start-ups. This is what has never changed and it's the employee's fault if they do not realize this when they accept their employment offer.

>> Clearly you're a fan of this new culture

I've never accepted an offer from Google. What I said does not necessarily imply that I'm a fan of the internal culture, or would have liked new Google management better if I were an employee. I am assessing the overall vision of Google leadership and their output from the outside and believe they are doing a very good job, and the credit for a company doing well should first and foremost go to the utmost leadership.

I like the new management better because they seem to have a much more coherent and focused vision, waste less resources, and while they obviously make mistakes too, overall, they have shown boldness in their actions. Even if I'm not particularly happy with the act of shutting down Google Reader, I like that they are bold and have the courage to execute what they think is right.
Cutting a fairly successful product does not directly imply good leadership, but it does imply boldness which is highly correlated with good leadership.
Word to the wise: don't waste your time on the video. The interviewer ("laborvideo") coaches the interviewees through their interviews. When they lose steam or wander off script, he helpfully coaches them back on topic with dramatic, inflammatory statements/questions.

Oh, by the way, Fox News' coverage of the strike is also poor. News at 11!
I definitely wasn't swerving. I just turned into a side street and returned home after he followed me over a few blocks. I think this raised his suspicion. I did have a distinct feeling that he was following me from the get go though.
The Day Without Satellites
Thank you for the kind words, but just to be crystal clear: we are storing the users' private keys on the cloud, hence the symmetric encryption. It's certainly a trade-off, and not the right option for everyone, but it lowers the barrier to entry for OpenPGP enormously.
I think the best way to compare individual programmer vs pair programmers is to look at it this way:

When you work yourself on implementing something, how will compare these two:

YOU (60% of your capacity) vs YOU (>90% of your capacity)

My philosophy is that pair programming is just like individual programming but just increase the output efficiency of one of the member in the pair by 30% or so (if the pair is a good pair). Thats it.

An individual programmer at his >90% capacity will outweigh (in terms of output/cost) two programmers at 60% capacity.

So, if you have to pair them to get a single programmer with 90% capacity, do it.
"Table 1 is extracted from a pair-programming calculator developed by the author."

One could claim that the author made up numbers to support the author's argument.

And hasn't pair programming been around at least since the 90's? doesn't seem that new to me.
This is very poorly written and lacks credibility. Interesting though.
Not all cops are bad but in any field there are bad and good people so just be aware of that, there is a good and bad in this world no changing that.
Andrew Mason's album on Spotify
wrong. different people have different learning styles, so while some people may learn from writing notes others may learn from listening, reading or even saying things aloud. one of the best things i've learned from peter drucker is that one key to success is to understand your learning style: http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styl...
Our thoughts exactly :)
Bolivian president’s plane redirected due to fear Snowden was aboard
Right, I'm just saying counterfactually, if you were in charge of a global capitalist conspiracy, you'd sell weapons to both sides until Germany and Russia were both weakened and then conquer both, and then you have global capitalist hegemony.

The fact that that's not how it worked out is pretty good evidence that there wasn't a global capitalist conspiracy behind the whole thing after all.
> This is what has never changed and it's the employee's fault if they do not realize this when they accept their employment offer.

My point is that he already realizes this. And that within one Google culture, he felt comfortable handing it all over to Google and taking advantage of all their resources and clout, and that in today's different Google culture, it's not a clearcut decision anymore, and in particular, pursuing a project that management sees as being at odds with the core mission of Google+ would probably be a bad idea. So I don't think you have any news for him, despite your initial claims.