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Manual testing is basically a 0 skill job. Can you click around this website and tell me when you see a bug. This is the most common form of QA but adds very little value that can't be added with more reliability using automation.

Given this QA can still bring value. The two roles that they really add value in are a Test developer specialist writing non-flaky automated tests, and a BA type role where they have conversations that expand a product owner's idea into an implementable feature.

Given that neither of these roles require manual testing, if a QA team has over specialised on manual testing, there's little value in keeping it.
+1 is not worth your time
I think the key difference is an engineering mindset.

When you have software developers skilled in quality assurance who have the job of finding the edge cases and producing comprehensive additional acceptance and functional testing, they're an asset. It's a particular perverse mindset that I personally really enjoy interacting with as a software developer 'customer' - those evil bastards find the best bugs, regression test them, and expand to find all of that class of error in the application.
That doesn't actually matter to the point at hand. My point was we've got all the surplus value there is to be had.

The fact that we'll probably squander that too, or it will decrease in value, only strengthens the questions... so what do we do after that?
Arts, sports, and leisure are the most likely candidates. People will both create and enjoy code, music, drawing, digital art, memes, funny cat gifs, endless videos, etc. Sports probably need no additional explanation. Leisure will mean a great deal more time spent out in nature, walking city streets, focusing on relationships, etc.

Imagining this future doesn't seem too outre.
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Android 6.0.1 fixes a bug where system clock gradually runs slower
Ailing, angry nuclear-weapons workers fight for compensation in US
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Agree. Certainly she has the right to choose, but this sends a bad message to all employees.
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Just checking but is "deliberately bad photo face" now a thing?
In the country I currently live in, the "tide" is to close all borders and consider all muslims terrorists. How's that for excluding people? Should I hop on to that tide too?

If you think the tide is always right, you got another think coming. Your mentality seems to be "I'll be part of the tide to make sure I'm not racist". That is the mentality of someone who cannot form opinions of their own.

I'll make a sidenote here and remind you that that tide you're going on about is extreme american culture. In Europe, you bring this idiocy up and you will be laughed out of the front door. Amusingly, if you look at the upvote/downvote history on the posts here, you'll find that they coincide with active hours in the US. As a night owl, this is something I see a lot on HN and Reddit alike.
You are making some bold statements about the general transparency of different audio formats that contradict pretty much everything I've read about this topic so far. Hence, I'd like to learn more, do you have any links that you would recommend?
The Dangers of Setting VR Expectations and Valuations Too High
There might still be use cases left for gzip, but this article is specifically about software tarballs. And in that case, I have to agree with it.
Setting up Homebridge
So, um, what is Open about OpenAI? Is it Open Source? Not AFAICS.
Why is flask abandoned? Can't software just be done at some point?
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I've come across quite a lot of firmware on embedded Linux devices that uses LZMA (the xz compression algorithm) to compress the kernel, u-boot, and/or filesystems. One memory optimisation for these, as they are typically being decompressed straight into RAM, is for the decompressor to refer to its output as the dictionary rather than building a separate one, as would be the case in decompressing to the network or disk.
So the people predicting a financial catastrophe in the next 20 years because of the demographic nightmare of the boomers leaving the workforce and not dying for 20 years, so we become a society with too few workers are wrong?

Awesome!

Seriously, which is it? Either capitalism is going to fail because there aren't enough workers, or it's going to fail because robots are taking all the jobs. Can't have both!

Because, of course, having both would be fine... no catastrophe, life continues as normal as it has in the face of every prediction of imminent disaster. We have less workers due to demographic changes, but that's cool because we need less workers. We sort out the political problem of how to stop all the money going to to <1% of the population, we're all good.
Can somebody who's read the paper or code briefly comment on how the algorithm works and where the innovation is compared to the currently used Bayesian-learning algorithms?
The Global Village and Its Discomforts
Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
She's a woman.
OpenAI might be equivalent to an open global market of graph annotated microservices that can recombine automatically (and search as deep as budgeted) towards whatever goal a client will be able to pay for processing. Not sure if that is safer.

With the right microservices available in the market (including business model scripts etc - every service could be an automatically pay per use microservice) automated businesses could be budgeted to search for sustainable market entities models which could reproduce themselves (copy/create microservices should be basic) and evolve in global corporations with a life and objectives of their own. One might need immensely processing budgets to compete/control with such automated corporations.

Digital and/or biological, it seems, we are exactly in this business+market+life+AI game.
Curious to learn what happens at the next levels?
The article is echoing a pretty well trodden train of thought on the ultimate conclusion of capitalism. Which no one has seriously been able to refute. Wasted time is a bit harsh.

Catchy one liners "Wealth creation through creativity" might help you sleep at night, but seriously, our creative endeavours have never produced anywhere near the amount of capital the resource sector has... What happens when we either get so efficient at resources that they cost nothing, or we run out of the resource?
Wow this is a great video. I was able to implement a simple python version of the BWT as described in the video here:

https://gist.github.com/damiankao/908fe1fd6562dc75f40c
I guess a lot of people are or were used to:

tar -xzf file.tar.gz

To be honest, I only started doing -xf a year ago. I was used to -xjf and -xzf.
Because it seems to imply a post-work, not a post-full-employment society.

We're still going to have a lot of jobs in the mid-term, probably even long-term. 70%, 60% of the working populace in the mid-term maybe, and not too few of those in menial/blue collar jobs. We still need to fill these jobs, and a generous basic income would make these jobs highly unpopular. So we can either set a basic income that is not high enough to solve the problem it was trying to solve, or we create a situation like in Saudi Arabia – where all the undesirable jobs are taken by foreign jobbers (from nations without basic income, or war zones, or…), while the natives grow fat and lazy.

Not exactly an economic policy I'd have expected from the Left.
Fabricated issues add up. You're no longer just a minority, you're a minority that wants to change which words others use, that wants others to adapt to them, etc. Even when you're just someone who happens to be black/female/whatever and would really like others to shut the hell up about sex or color.

The majority of people don't have a problem - you're creating a problem for them.
I think the major difference with Rails is that major new features and maintenance of the framework is extracted from a wildly successful service (Basecamp).

A quick Googling estimates that Basecamp generates 10 million+ a month[0] in revenue.

That's the one thing I like about Rails. Features and design decisions tend to come from real life use cases. The core developers have every reason in the world to make it the best it can be because their entire business depends on it.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-paid-customers-does-Basecamp-...
They are still going to optimize everything, something that can fire X number of shots instead of being a one-off rocket will stretch their budget farther, etc.
Invasion of Privacy
I understand your angle, but relying on 3D printing and synthetic meat, probably from petroleum derivatives because 3D printing can't happen from thin air, in order to feed humans ... dude, to me that doesn't sound like a life that's worth living.
The Curious Case of the Curious Case
Mozilla should get more ambitious with Rust
I'm not sure that I agree with this. With the current state of Yahoo Mayer is clearly in a tough position. She can't afford to be absent AT ALL. I suspect employees may recognize that her circumstances are not the same as their own and take the time they need.
If anyone is interested in setting up multiple platform dotfiles or more complicated setup, GNU stow [1] is just pure genius. It's a very simple approach which works very well for me. It's described in this blog post: http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to...

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
> no catastrophe, life continues as normal as it has in the face of every prediction of imminent disaster

I wouldn't call the circumstances in Europe 1815-1945, when the last massive societal upheavals happened, "life as normal".
Someone care to help me spell out my wrongness here.

I don't care about stupid points so no need to upvote but I do care about if I am wrong without realizing.
Who's Profiting from $1.2T of Federal Student Loans?
I have listened to a lot of MP3 at different bit rates and with modern encoders and variable bit rates I can't tell the difference between anything above 160 Kbps - most of the time it is hard to tell the difference between 128kbp and anything higher. Really at 320kps you are entering the realm of fantasy if you think you can hear any difference.
It's hard to untangle the sexist ranting from the actual critique.

Submitted article is saying that she should have taken more maternity leave in order to make it culturally acceptable within Yahoo for other parents to take that leave. (That's a good point, and is probably true.)

But if she had taken more leave we'd have had a bunch of articles saying why she's terrible for taking that much leave.

The future people will want to know why her PR is so terrible; and will be able to see a bit more clearly whether what she did was useful or not.
Haiti is more of a crony capitalism as it's one of the most corrupted country http://www.heritage.org/index/country/haiti
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It is a bit weird to me that you want starfighters to be a recruitment platform but think it's 'Fun' when somebody releases recording of the solution.

> "I recorded a speedrun of level 5, clearly labeled as a speedrun of level 5, which spoils the twist midway through level 5." -- Fun

> We're OK with you publishing facts about Starfighter games/levels but don't want people to be exposed to intentionally hidden facts (discovery of which is, in many cases, the point of the level) unless they go looking for them.

I am asking because I sometimes record or stream myself playing CTFs and I first thought I couldn't do that with starfighter... But I can do it as long as I label it properly and this would not be frowned upon?

I understand that you cannot stop people from leaking and spoiling challenges. But I definitely want to be obedient with your vision.

Really looking forward to this! Thank you for your work
Hint: downvoting research you don't like doesn't make that research disappear....
The American origins of Telegram
I hope you are right!

Just speculation but isn't that already the case? I don't have the numbers but I wonder what percentage of the human population is in the working force or, better yet, what percentage of our collective "waking hours" is spend working, with or without monetary compensation.
After what exactly? People will keep exchanging goods and services voluntarily in a free market for a long time. That's like worrying about what we'll do to deal with over-population on Mars. Let's focus on trying to get there first?
Here's a more or less faithful translation of the first solution to JavaScript:

https://jsfiddle.net/zhrpm8su/2/
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I think you just went to dark side. The side of snub deuche baggery people. Sorry could not help :)
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(I didn't downvote)

You don't have to trust politicians, and with AGW it's probably a good idea to ingore politicians. You also don't have to trust news and media outlets. All science reporting sucks, and this is mostly true of reporting around AGW.

That leaves the scientists.

One one side you have a very small number of scientists who don't believe that climate change is happening and that climate change is a result of human activity. And when you look at those scientists you see people who were previously employed (ie, paid for work) by tobacco companies to spread fear and doubt about tobacco (and those techniques were so successful that even today, when we know most lung cancer is caused by smoking, we have people who don't understand what the actual risks of smoking are) or who are paid to do similar activity. That's not real science, that's not testing the data and testing the claims.

There's a very much larger group of scientists who believe climate change is happening, and who believe that human activity is probably a cause. There's some discussion in this group about the science, but that's good, it's how science works, and that debate should not be misused to say that AGW isn't real or that climate change is not happening. (And sadly, honest scientific debate is often misused to claim that climate change isn't happening.)
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The legislative branch of the government cannot be replaced with machines. Think a little harder.
I wrote a really nice merge function (in Haskell) when I helped a friend prepare for an interview. Perhaps I should send it to the author.
Report of large object in outer edges of solar system incites skepticism
There is a common idea in economics that explains the problem with what you say: externalities. This is when my behaviour affects you in a way not captured by the market.

For example, if a forest is privatised and cut down the owner might be acting in their best (market) interest, but people living nearby will be negatively affected.

We could try and put a price on these negative effects, but it's very difficult so the better solution is normally to keep things private.

Essentially, you're arguing the solution to one set of externalities is to privatise, but that very privatisation will create a whole host of even worse externalities.

We see with climate change and carbon emissions that ensuring companies pay for their externalities (pollution) is very difficult post the event because there are strong vested interests against this, and the people affected negatively are many but spread out, there is little incentive on an individual level for them to go to the vast effort to fight against the polluter.
Yep. I wrote a post about it, also doing some comparisons: http://www.aktau.be/2014/10/23/pg-dump-and-pigz-easy-rsyncab...
I didn't know an "erstwhile booster" is a person. Therefore, I thought "pronouncements" referred to something legal, instead of just a complicated word for "opinions". My best guess at the meaning of the sentence, therefore, was something completely different and nonsensical.

The whole article is like this. Misunderstand one flowery phrase, misunderstand the entire sentence, misunderstand the whole paragraph. It's like the author hates convincing people.
One other side effect of this mafia is that it is almost impossible to get any grade of maple syrup other than dark amber seen on grocery store shelves. There are actually many different grades of maple syrup, depending on when syrup is extracted from the trees. The maple syrup mafia mixes all of the different grades together as that's easier/better for them. If you ever get the chance to try some of the other grades, its worth the treat.
Sorry, I'm in Europe and disagree. This sort of thing is even less contentious here — this particular change went through a number of offices I know with barely a murmur.

You shouldn't surf blindly. Naturally you choose the tide you want to surf. Do you want to ride the waves toward hatred, oppression and exclusion, or do you want to swim towards inclusion and togetherness? I choose the latter, even if it means seeming precious to some.
I have my own home-rolled "solution" to managing dotfiles, I'm a little uncomfortable checking them into Github though, as there's a slight risk some security credentials or something could leak without me realising.

Unless you have private repos I guess.

My solution is to use Dropbox to store all my configuration files, then use symlinks to the default locations.
I'm expecting a strong correlation with my upcoming study "Women Like Their Partners to Spend Time Hanging Out With Their Buddies, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and its follow-ups "Women Like Their Partners to Tinker With Their Motorcycles, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and "Women Will Put Up With a Load of Stuff From a Committed Partner Which They Otherwise Wouldn't".

Eventually I hope to get funding for "Newly Married Women Who Feel Their Partner is Uncommitted Dislike Pretty Much Everything That Person Does".
besides payment how's this different than this
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.7152v1.pdf
https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-html
I'm not sure it's a sexist ranting though. Zuckerberg just faced a similar criticism (about the precedent he is setting by only taking half the allotted time). I suspect that most CEOs would face criticisms if they were about to spin-off the primary business and become a holding company for international stocks (very few people would have defined that as a success before Meyer stepped in).
| The weak point of the centralized bank is with z: The person that manages the bank. He has full control over all the balances of all the participants.

Is this really a problem of a bank that needs solving by building a distributed banking system? Generally, in the banking systems of today there is a dual control system that makes
it hard for a single person to have complete control.

I know this is a theoretical article but I've noticed quite a few ideas for "blockchain" banking and similar new systems recently.
They are interesting in theory but I'm not sure they are solving the right problems. I'd be interested to see some technology that can be implemented at banks today, in the real world.
Production is also international. German chemicals giant BASF's first plant outside of Europe was built in Texas in 1958, and as of late they've found Texas very attractive because of our low natural gas prices, feedstock costs are very important when you're making chemicals by the 100s of thousands of metric tons.

(Potential supply disruptions might also be an issue, seeing as how last time I checked Germany gets most of it's natural gas from Russia through pipelines going through Ukraine, and with the latter two being at war right now....)
"It also shows she is a poor manager. No manager, even CEO, should be so irreplaceable that she cannot step away from the job for several weeks"

There is no evidence that she "cannot" step away. She just chose not to do so this time. Yes, a company should be able to function well in the absence of its CEO, but it should do even better when she is around.
Couldn't this also be solved by simply making the plots of land without right angled corners? I'm guessing there is a simple tiling solution that would solve the problem without requiring detours.
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I created this small bower library to enable simple usage of bootstrap data with Backbone.
This doesn't really seem relevant when we're talking about the development of knowledge through training in humans.
Thanks, I was trying to make a point about the example not being analogous but in hindsight I guess I should have dropped that piece of pedantry.
Well, what if she took 6 months off? Would there be another kind of criticizing, given Y!'s status?

Tough be a woman in sv.
Yes, it was a bit of a generalisation. You wouldn't expect people to hve a gun in their house in the UK unlike the US.
That sounds like a terrible strategy for a lot of us, where time to fix is much more important than bug count.

This is because there is likely to be a tradeoff between speedy development and bug count.

If you are shipping physical CDs of software, or releases which you can't update easily, or if you are working in a critical environment where mistakes are disastrous (finance, health, space, etc.), then it is fair enough to be so concerned about bugs.

But many if not most developers work on the web in areas where the product is uncertain and evolving. Prioritising rate of change is more important here. Rather than extensive QA, monitoring and fast rollback are better choices.
I think you misread my comment as sarcasm. It was an honest inquiry, if a little facetious. I should have written it differently. Thanks for sharing.

Given that you ask, my views on these things seem to be very similar to yours today, based on what you've written here. I've considered myself a small-l libertarian for most of my life. I think the difference is that I've never found the ideological purity of big-L Libertarianism very attractive.

That's why I asked the question. I really would like to understand what it takes to convince someone who buys into the Libertarian party line to embrace ideas like basic income, and to realize that privatizing everything simply will not result in the outcomes they think it will. I wonder if it's possible to convince them without their having had the kinds of life experiences you have had.

I think that libertarian ideas and libertarian activists could be a effective force for reform in this country--if only the most motivated (people like you who are motivated enough to work on things like ballot access) were willing to make the kinds of ideological compromises and embrace the kinds of ideas (like basic income) that could make libertarianism more broadly appealing.
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Edit Again: Is actually finished now, to the extent I can do without an actual account.