skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's impossible to ask engineers to do more work in a day - you can only change the work being done and/or the time you give them to do it. My guess is that they'll be asked to do more automated & sanity testing as part of their cycle, and as a result their timelines will be extended.

Imho, this is the way engineering teams should be structured anyways.
Agreed, not insignificant. Some context if you haven't read the details about Lovecreft's racism: http://www.racialicious.com/2014/05/28/the-n-word-through-th...
> "No email? No problem! Now you can send money to anyone in your contact list using just a phone number."

Are there really people with phone numbers but no email? Given how easy one can get an email for free, and the prevalence of VoIP (both in standard and proprietary forms), I'd expect the other way around to be true.
I hope in a millennia copyright is looked back upon with the same disgust and insanity that human sacrifice, child wives, and genital mutilation are (mostly) today. In a society unbounded by information scarcity, to intentionally and systemically stymie it is to intentionally cripple yourself. The immediate magnitude may be less significant, but the long slow death of culture to perpetual copyright is having absolute consequences on our modern society today, with escalating damage as time goes on. The longer we as a people are culturally stunted walking a tightrope of legal bureaucracy established and maintained to protect monopoly and corporate profit the more of our history we lose, and the more of our bonds are lost or never formed amongst one another in common knowledge. But because the suffering is scattered across our collective conscious, and because it requires an understanding of how information and culture are made beyond the average wit, the movement is limited and rife with a never-ending uphill battle against one another rather than against the aggressors, because we were all raised in this system and to see outside it requires great effort and a sacrifice of established ethos many are not willing to engage in.

It is the same outside thought that kept slavery the norm, or subjugated women, or made great thinkers like Giordano Bruno heretics to be burned rather than celebrated. People are born into systems of oppression and will fight for them because it is what they know, even if it is to us now what is not right. And I firmly believe intellectual property protectionism falls into that history of oppression - much more muted, much less immediately harmful, but backwards and self-defeatist all the same.
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Yeah but they're probably going to store their little collection of cricket pilots in a box inside the house... and if I know kids, they'll plop down at the kitchen table to load up a cricket before heading outside to play.
Great, but now what do I do when my hands are covered in tree sap and normal soap isn't working? I guess we'll just have to settle for a more environmentally friendly alternative like acetone.
The QA function is not pointless.

Whether a distinct QA team is the best means of performing the QA function is, however, a separate question.
Thanks Peter.
I own 30% of the company and we have bootstrapped the company. We haven't used more than $3,000 on it.
My background: I'm an trilingual Industrial Engineer graduated from Chile with more than 11 years of experience.
Does this information helps to have a more clear focus on what's the best solution for my case?

Thank you very much Peter.
Specifically southern Californians care more about it, and by several indirections they set the emission standards for the nation.
and of course all manual testing can be automated... good luck with that.
Of course Disney benefited enormously from extended copyright. But what it does show is that long copyright terms are neither necessary nor sufficient for a Disney to appear and become successful, since the US at that time didn't have them.

What I don't understand is what finding a comparable media empire internationally would give you, since most of the world has the same copyright terms as the US, and so it wouldn't be helpful to judge the results of different terms.
Surprised that people are finding this unusual, in web/mobile anyways. In my experience most engineers do some level of QA themselves, particularly in start-ups < 1000 people. In what ways does an engineer being their own QA negatively impact the company?
They aren't a polymer. Nature is well-adapted to having small bits of rock in the watershed.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for taking two full hours to do this - I've learned a lot.

I am a US/Canadian dual citizen, my cofounder is Canadian. We're currently running our business as a Canadian corporation, but would like to set up shop in San Francisco full time over the next year or two, preferably incorporating in Delaware.

My cofounder has a BSc and has done some impressive things in her career, but the O-1 looks difficult from the outside. We're in a position to raise ~1M of funding from US investors over the next 6m - would that make her eligible for an E-2? The L-1 looks like a reasonable fallback if we can get nothing else setup over the next year, but we've been told not reincorporating as a Delaware corp will make fundraising more difficult.

Is there an obvious standout option here? Are there any that I'm missing?

Thanks!
Totally buy they could reduce actual errors that matter.

I've worked with many a QA who would get bent up over a detail outside of the spec that didn't really matter, and where all QA testing was manual.

Coders (good ones) are well equipped to automate processes, and to do so quickly, and this extends to integration testing.
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Huh?

Look, I guarantee there's a game shop in Small Town, USA, right now with more Xbox One consoles on their shelf than they'll sell in three or more years. And I guarantee you'll find "new in box" Xbox Ones on Ebay 8-10 years from now.

Even if Microsoft stopped producing new Xbox Ones this afternoon, it wouldn't magically make those ones disappear.
I worked for a company that didn't invest in QA

Where are these magical places that do invest in QA? In nearly 20 years of professional development, I've never seen an organization in which the criteria for shipping was anything other than "works for me". I have never seen an organization in which there was either budget or managerial patience for proper QA, let alone anything other than VERY basic acceptance testing.
That's right. You have the option of not being counted against the cap.
Question: where do you live? Near San Jose?
I was wondering why Django was the choice anyway... Am I out of the loop here? What about Rails, or anything else?
Yes. For example, literally millions of people in India have cellphones and use them exclusively for SMS. These same people will likely not have reliable access to a computer for full-fledged e-mail.
static_if really sounds crazy and I think Stroustrup's paper nails it down. Hopefully they don't include such idiocy in the language.
I would love it if django were able to compete for more funding like this! Things tend to move much more quickly when there is decent funding involved :D
How the Fed interacts with the economy, I don't think is too different from any other speculator in the market. They just look at different charts, have more degrees, and have greater propensity for groupthink.
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Good question. For Mass Pay API, you actually need a business account. I don't think there is any extra fee though other than the usual transaction fee that paypal charges.
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Thanks for doing this! I have a question regarding time off between jobs while on an H1B.

I've been working at a startup for 2 years that sponsored my H1B. I've just accepted an offer at a big tech company, and they are transferring the H1B in the coming weeks. In the meantime, is it OK if I take 2-4 weeks off in between the two jobs without pay?
My concern would be getting a link that I am supposed to follow where I input my debit card number. Can someone explain how I know that text message -- which can be sent by anyone to me -- has a valid link to money? I would be extremely suspicous if I got a message saying
"Hey its Peter, I can pay you back for $THING, just follow <link> and enter your debit card number to recieve $AMOUNT right now"
2nd-lang learners process pseudo-words more like bilinguals than monolinguals.

Boom.
What? No. The opposite, really. If I want a link to open in a new tab, I will do it myself. It annoys me much more when a site creates a new tab for me.
That's definitely item 2 on my most annoying-stuff-list!
We've actually already had a couple reach out, but we've turned them down because we want to see how long we can sustain this by "crowdsourcing" stickers (i.e. being a ponzi scheme).
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We were able to clean ourselves well before microbeads were added to soaps and we'll continue to be able to clean ourselves afterwards.
Thanks. I'll try that. Chicken and I have become real close friends recently. My usual dinner is some sort of seasoned chicken breast with vegetables and sometimes rice, maybe with bread crumbs if I have the caloric budget for it. I thought it would take a lot of willpower to have "only" that for dinner, but to my nice surprise, it only takes a teeny bit. (I still have thoughts about a nice juicy burger, but those thoughts are easily pushed aside).

The only fear I have now is that this is some sort of phase and that I'll slowly revert to my old ways in a few months. I've been eating like shit for my entire adult life (~20 years now), so I know I'm going to have to be vigilant for a while to make the new habits stick. On the other hand, I was genuinely ignorant to the amount of calories I was eating before. I had greatly underestimated it. Now that I know what 2,000 C really looks like, my perspective has changed. And that's something that is impossible to unlearn.
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Surprised to see the negativity here. I have worked in environments with traditional manual QA, and environments where all development is test-driven and nobody is allowed to merge a feature that lacks automated test coverage.

Both the productivity and the quality were higher in the places with fully automated testing. Which is not shocking at all: does anybody really think a human can run through 800 test cases better than a computer can?

It's not a magic way to save money -- the developers obviously end up spending time writing tests. But the long-term value of those tests is cumulative, whereas the effort spent on manual testing is spent anew every release.

Manual review is still good for noticing things that "feel wrong" or for helping think up new corner cases. But those bleed into product owner & design concerns, and aren't really a separate function.
Personally, I really like the ideas that OCaml brings, but I feel like it comes with too many compromises in consistency of the language. So I have to ask myself: if I'm going to make compromises, which ones would I make? At the end of the day it usually comes down to choosing between a new language, and one that I already know pretty well, and the benefit of using what I already know is pretty strong.
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In California, an employer specifically does not own your side work assuming you don't use any of their physical assets, protected know-how or paid-for time.

In other words, if it's genuinely side work.

There's a specific statute to that effect, and they're required to inform you of same.

(I'm not a lawyer either, but I've worked in CA for a long time.)
"Some of the engineers really cared about system performance types of things, so they joined related teams. Some started working on automation [for testing], and they thought that was great—that they didn’t have to do the same thing over and over."

There is still QA, it's just automated QA. Welcome to the 21st century.
If I understand correctly, all of the cars tested (including the petrol one) exceeded their NOx ratings by at least 60%. Of these, the VW was actually the second best after the petrol one. The older Audi model they tested didn't fair as well, but it still did better than the BMW, Opel, Volvo, or Fiat. Going off of that, it would seem that VWAG was unfairly singled out.
No. Just like it doesn't cost you anything to send money to friends & family on PayPal or use Square Cash.

I'd love to get rid of PayPal so we'll see how this works.
I had an H1B visa granted to me in 1998, but have never used it. Would that have any influence, either positive or negative, on me getting a new H1B?
Yup me too. At AWS we didn't have test engineers either. Everyone was responsible for testing their own code. We didn't even have SREs, so everyone was also on call.

This just meant that everyone made sure they were writing well tested code before it got released because you didn't want to be the guy who made yourself, or worse, your coworker have to fix something at 3am.

Of course I can see how this could be bad too, like if developers really dislike writing tests. On the other hand, the people who write the code seem best equipped to understand how to set up automated testing most efficiently.
> anyone who gets a vehicle where the previous occupant smelled funny, left crap in the car, etc

This technology will be pervasive and interconnected. If the previous passenger damaged the car or disrespected the future occupants, a good ride sharing company would discontinue their service after a number of infractions. It is in their interest for profit to insure their riders are happy, and bad apples ruining the experience destroy their reputation.

You will probably be able to, from your phone, flag the previous driver as negligent. Depending on the degree of confidence the company has in you and automated tools, they may face consequences without human involvement. Or maybe someone needs to review surveillance footage to confirm the infraction. Either way, that person is told to stop or lose their service. If you false-flag, you can face your own consequences.

That also means there is a market for companies that respect their customers in that way and those that do not, that would be cheaper since they cannot attract wealthier clients.

The same applies to airlines and busses. If you are disrespectful of your fellow passengers you can easily get yourself banned from future service.
I'm told that it's easier for musicians/artists to get O-1 visas than for software engineers. Are software engineers disadvantaged from getting the O-1, simply because the visa wasn't designed for software talent?
I'm not sure how you got from me saying "there are a lot of different sources of standpoint theory" and "I disagree with a line of thought stated by some early standpoint early theoreticians" and "don't reject the whole discipline based on some early work" to thinking I reject standpoint theory. How many times in this thread have I linked to and quoted Sandra Harding?
Electric cars locally, hyperloop for greater distances, aircraft running on biofuels as a last resort.
Mostly that you're asking the developers to become experts in software testing and verification, in addition to their existing knowledge. If you have good mentoring & examples & guidelines, then everybody can learn and move along roughly the same path. That takes time and effort to set up, so in those small startups you're likely to see wildly divergent approaches to testing + the friction when people think they should standardize, or when they actually do need to, or when people switch teams.
^ True, ^^ True, and ^^^ True, every comment here is valuable!

I think @kuschku got the (slightly tongue-in-cheek) intent behind my original comment, but you're right, and the choice/willpower problem is there, and it ranges from difficult to impossible to overcome for many people!

This is actually a big part of why the food industry's actions putting sugar and fat in everything in order to make it sell more, regardless of the health effects, is being seen more and more as bordering on malicious and being considered for oversight and regulation. Food manufacturers, as businesses, should be doing whatever they can to sell more, but as providers of basic human needs, their sales tactics are now actively working against our interests. Our physiologies are built to take more food than necessary when its available, so these perfectly engineered high calorie bliss-point foods make willpower harder to fight than ever before!
TIL there's a (big apparently) FOSS project called "Bro". Is this an acronym, humour, sarcasm or what?
This is so wrong. The title was send money with a text message. Regardless of the limitations of M-Pesa, over $25B in value was transferred with it last year, which indicates to me that it's useful and functional, regardless of what you are saying about credit card "rails".
Not defending the absurdity of removing/changing words for sensitivity, but it is in quite a few documents. https://github.com/buildbot/buildbot/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
Hi Peter, thanks for your time.

I have job offer to work in US, reliant on immigration.

I haven't completed my bachelor's degree, and my final exams are after the April 1st 2016 deadline. I do not have more than a year of professional experience. UK citizen.

Am I right that an H1B won't be applicable? Would any other visa types fit (Other than work abroad, then L1)?
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If this kind of control system interests you, check out Chimera [0]. It is a similar approach that the output of the machine learning approach can go to a human, but is interesting because the human can feedback to the machine learner. That is, not only can the human see that the machine learner was wrong and write rules to correct it next time, but the learners can utilize that new training data to better classify in the future as well.

Of course its a tradeoff, because it seems like false negatives (movie had QoE problems but ML system did not flag it) should be avoided at all costs in this case.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/papers/chimera-vldb14.pdf
Not for gas, not in the US right now, unless maybe you plan to travel in an old truck or some horribly inefficient sportscar. If you're factoring in wear and tear on your car, maybe... But highway driving isn't particularly hard on most vehicles either.

The time invested is probably the most expensive part of driving, and that's where flying has been losing its lead for years.
I wonder if Tesla would allow other companies to use their charger network (assuming they implement compatible battery tech)?
I don't think a blame group size of 10 (the number thrown around by VW execs) denotes a systematic problem, which you would expect with a C-level executive being called out. That's a ridiculously small chain for a company of VW's size.
What are the most common difficulties for immigrants? Any Brazilian examples?
> In California, an employer specifically does not own your side work assuming you don't use any of their physical assets, protected know-how or paid-for time.

Of course, with the exception of explicitly-taken leave, its at least intuitively unclear how one defines any time as not "paid for time" of a salaried employee. (There may be case law that clarifies this, however.)
You are correct! I'm a programmer at Yahoo -- deploying multiple times a day to production, with the confidence your code will work, feels great.

Manual ("batch-release") deployments have been forbidden for over a year, which is a forcing function to change development process to allow deploying to production continuously multiple times a day. This requires robust test and deployment automation and for engineers to better understand what they build. It's pretty nice overall!
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Thanks.

The links I posted suggest the sender pays a fee upon use of MassPay, otherwise, no. There is no extra fee. Though I don't have a business account, so I don't really know what that entails.
Yes, I'd seen that white paper, and thought static_if would never happen in C++.

Concepts are nice for some things, but as Alexandrescu argues convincingly in the talk omaranto linked, they become quickly become very unwieldy if you need to consider multiple orthogonal concepts at once in the same place. You get a combinatorial explosion of things you need to name. static_if needs to much nicer and smaller code.

The wait paper you link raises some valid concerns, but if it is something you can implement just as a library (as the lightning talk shows) most of them are moot. Note that this library-only version is a somewhat restricted version of static_if, the code in the branches that are not taken is still required to parse, it just is never instantiated.

EDIT: looking again at the whitepaper, they were arguing against a specific proposal for static_if. I think this library-only version does not have the same issues.

Nice discussion here:
http://open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/p0128r0....
> Anyone who has fasted ...

I don't find that at all
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I made that statement because there was no gross generalization being made, that was your own internal bias at work.

To explain:

When I read the comment I responded to, my first thought was roughly "that's ridiculous, pulling a wallet out of your pocket is in no way difficult ... well, pulling your wallet out of a purse and then opening it up is probably a pita so the poster is probably a woman... well I guess if you had a lot of credit cards you'd have to rifle through them to find the one you want so the poster could be a man, I'll ask".

It didn't occur to me anyone would misconstrue that as a sexist statement about women mostly because it wasn't.

You read the question and went defensive and it colored the way you perceived the rest of the sentence.

hence my telling you to re-read the question without the chip on your shoulder.

As an aside, anyone who considers that statement to be uncivil needs to get over themselves. dang just wants me gone, I'm guessing it's when he pulled his crap with another poster I was speaking to and I defended that poster (I value honest opinions over PC bullshit, my skin is thick enough to deal with it).

Honestly I should ask for an apology since your misunderstanding kicked all of this off, but dang isn't your fault.
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this. I've been applying to YC for the past 4 years and never gotten an interview, I'm starting to suspect it's because of my background (hence they never reply to you with the reason of rejection). I'm born in Canada, meaning I'm Canadian, but I never managed to finish my college CompSci Degree so I'm not eligible for a TN-1 visa. However I do have around 6 years of professional web dev experience, founded a couple of startups, raised money and exited. I am 23 now. Any tips?

This might also help, but I did not finish my degree because I was kicked out of college: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090007
because the person who wrote the code is not the most objective person to review it or find problems with it.

automation doesn't cover everything, you need baseline automation testing as well as more focused manual testing.
Django is a popular server-side Web development framework, used in many Mozilla websites. Their award will be used to make Django suitable to be a back end for Web apps which use WebSockets.

Probably because they use it at mozilla.
Wow, this is really interesting. I have never considered a shotgun approach before when looking for a job. Can I ask you how you chose the 137 companies?
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