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Comment: Re:Maybe, maybe not. (Score 2) 185

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48337205) Attached to: Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job

So you don't think that a combination of factors such as where you live, how much you get paid, relative market rates, current job market conditions, your recent payrises, your recent year end appraisal scores, where your partner works, your age, your time since last promotion or anything else the company has or can easily gain access to would be an indicator of how likely you are to leave?

I have never left a position for any of the reasons you listed. I have only left when the situation had deteriorated to the point where I couldn't stand being there another day. A toxic work environment, poor employee morale, job off-shoring, incompetent management, not promoting from within, not staffing appropriately/overwork, lack of professional growth, etc. are why I've left. By all of the metrics you listed I should have been happy.

If a company needs to use a computer algorithm to judge an employee's satisfaction with their job, then they probably don't know the employee well enough to be able to do so accurately.

Comment: Re:This is silly (Score 0) 720

So you believe a thirteen year old kid with a paper route should be paid a wage high enough to allow him to move out and get a place of his own? That government should step in a prevent a person from taking a job that they want to work for the amount of money they're offered because it's not a "living wage"? That businesses should be forced to pay someone more than the value they bring to the business?

Comment: Re:This is silly (Score 3, Funny) 720

The problem is that government programs often don't provide enough to help people escape poverty, or they are structured so they penalize people for saving money or getting a better job.

I would argue the best way to fight poverty is to donate money to local charities that fight poverty. We also need to be encouraging people to work hard, graduate high school and not get pregnant out of wedlock. For a great many people in poverty that's an uphill battle against cultural expectations.

Comment: Why not use a single line? (Score 1) 168

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48215957) Attached to: Austin Airport Tracks Cell Phones To Measure Security Line Wait


Based on the airports I typically use I had assumed that all of them used a single line with TSA agents directing people to a particular lane. Wouldn't that be a simpler solution?

Comment: Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate (Score 1) 398

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48196121) Attached to: Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected

Chicago just got busted issuing tickets for short yellows. They instructed their vendor to start ticketing vehicles that ran yellows that were only 2.9 seconds long instead of the Federally mandated 3 seconds. Please note, they did not actually change the timing of the lights, just when tickets were issued. Previously if a yellow was shorter than 3 seconds then any tickets generated were discarded. Apparently times can fluctuate slightly due to electrical issues.


Comment: Be competent? (Score 2, Insightful) 120

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48196003) Attached to: Safercar.gov Overwhelmed By Recall For Deadly Airbags

How about building your tech stack so that it can be scaled up/down on-demand? I'm using Rackspace and we have dedicated servers along with cloud servers. I can add or remove cloud servers as needed and also have the load balancers updated.

If you're just doing reads against a database, it's straightforward to add additional replicas (we use MongoDB with replica sets, don't have enough data for sharding yet). If you need to do any processing, then you should build a grid compute system where you can just add additional compute nodes. We're using RabbitMQ along with Celery. Granted, this strategy ignores issues like a saturated network, but our provider is responsible for dealing with that.

Comment: Re:That works fine if you manage to nip it in the (Score 4, Interesting) 381

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48158759) Attached to: How Nigeria Stopped Ebola

The hospital also waited until they got a positive Ebola test result back before taking any safety precautions. Staff were exposed for something like two days and administration resisted isolating the patient. The sample was sent through the normal channels for testing which potentially contaminated their tube system. High-risk individuals who treated Duncan were not placed in quarantine and they allowed something like 70 different people to come into contact with him. Then there's the issue of them initially prescribing antibiotics for a viral infection.

Comment: Bitcoin ATM is pointless (Score 1) 117

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48154341) Attached to: The Great Robocoin Rip-off

I have never understood the point of using a Bitcoin ATM versus buying through an exchange like Coinbase. It just seems like a gimmick. Why would someone on the street need to convert between fiat and cryptocurrency? If you have cash wouldn't you just pay with your cash?

Bitcoin's great for storing and transferring value. No one can take your coins without your private key and you can do international transfers yourself. Purchasing with Bitcoin, on the other hand, is not terribly practical. Not many vendors accept it compared to fiat and the confirmation times are way too long for in-person purchases.

Those guys would have been much better off spending their time and money creating Bitcoin wagering games playable over the Internet.

Comment: What ever happened to computer science? (Score 1) 213

by h4ck7h3p14n37 (#48153013) Attached to: Microsoft, Facebook Declare European Kids Clueless About Coding, Too
Maybe I'm showing my age, but why do I keep hearing a lot of talk about "coding" and hardly anything about computer science? Does the world really need more people that can program a computer, but who are clueless about topics like data structures, algorithmic complexity, grammars, etc?
