skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A massive number of stations are changing their names in memorandum - http://evemaps.dotlan.net/outposts/changes
Multi-process architectures do not guarantee fluidity. In the case of more than 15 tabs, Firefox nightly is more responsive on my laptop than Chrome Canary. YMMV

What about IE being multi-process makes the experience with that browser better? Without specificity, this is like me saying X is better than Y because of some attribute of X that Y does not have.
For my algorithmic code, the unit tests do the random input selection.

Actually, it's often a sort of guided random testing. For example, if the algorithm has a straightforward linear regime with an exact solution, and a nonlinear regime that has to be solved iteratively, the unit test will target, say, 2% of inputs at the linear regime, 1% at the breakpoint, and the rest at the nonlinear regime.

Mockups and stubs are another matter. My algorithmic code is numerical, so stubs are rarely an issue. If an algorithm needs, say, a matrix solver, you pretty much just have to use a real (unit-tested) matrix solver in there.
Given that they should persist, the better way would be /var/tmp I would think, at least if persistence means "should survive reboot".

Even before shifting to tmpfs I'm pretty sure Fedora was erasing the contents of /tmp at startup (and I know Gentoo/OpenRC is).

There might be an even more appropriate FHS-compliant directory (/var/run perhaps?)
I'm not sure that gives any perspective. It's pretty obvious that any kind of "skilled labor" like programming will pay better than "unskilled labor" like making oil dots on a piece of aluminum.
I'm not surprised, but yet, i'm somewhat disapointed that it doesn't take into account your country to filter netflix releases, it looks like a cool site but it's not as useful to people on other countries.
Awesome design / interface. I saw this initially a few weeks ago and I'm really starting to come around to how useful it is.
When I think about UNIX programming gods, I think about people who deal with tools that are never modified, deal with very small problems. They're trivial to test functionally, but are next to impossible to test internally (have you ever seen source for tools like tar?)

It's definitely some solution for testing. But when you're writing a webservice, you should think twice before assuming that anything a "UNIX programming god" says is a good advice for you.
What's the typical wage for unskilled labor? That seems like a more relevant data point.
Well, considering the code I'm talking about is mostly in Clojure, yeah, definitely functional. It's really cool to see how all the pieces fit together once you buy into the functional paradigm.
Would you like a tablet with those fries?
They all kind of look the same in the beginning, don't they?
> If you were using AAC (or anything else that's more advanced than MP3) a 3MB file would actually be listenable for a short song.

Even mp3 works for "a short song", that's not the context of my comment though, its context is a 150MB FLAC file (~300MB bitstream) recompressed to 3MB with Opus.

> A 150MB FLAC file would be about 20-30 minutes long

A point I noted in my comment.
I would hope your girlfriend would have the maturity and care for you that this wouldn't put your relationship in danger. You know 50% of sexually active people are in a relationship where their partner is less interested in sex than they are on average (inevitable logic, not statistics) and if you break it down to year by year interest that number must go up (again logic).

That said, I'm going to make the brash counter-cultural statement that if you wait until after you commit to each other for life before having sex, then you worry a lot less about whether you are going to lose your partner over sex. If a necessary medication causing a libido blip is enough to derail your relationship, maybe you should consider pushing sex further up the commitment ladder?
Perhaps you mean well, but you have not got a clue what you are talking about.

Armstrong has not tested positive for EPO, HGH or anything similar. The allegation about the prescription drug incident is completely irrelevant.

Whether he has in fact taken PEDs is another question.
Was that the company that said they could make concrete that extracted carbon from air?
he probably added tons of hyperbole and wrong encounters into his story, just to make it all the more dramatic.

Are you basing this accusation on something or just pulling it out of thin air? You probably cheat on tests, steal other people's ideas, and slack off at work so everyone else has to work harder to accommodate you. Baseless accusations don't feel good, do they?
Thanks PG! More or less knew this would be the response :-)
Can you at least share the domain e.g. Mobile apps or personal finance etc?
In short: by keeping testing in mind, you make your code better.
Exactly :) Anyone having questions on that can contact me.
No, the NDAA did not allow the President to do that. The 2002 AUMF that started the Iraq War did.

It seems both did.

what they're mad about is that Obama did not VETO the NDAA in order to RESCIND the authority that the executive ALREADY HAD from the AUMF.

You say it like there's nothing wrong with the authority to detain citizens at will because it was already in place.

Also, what I said about your behavior is accurate. You always do spring into action whenever bad things The Establishment does are discussed.

Why is that? For example in this case, it doesn't really matter that the AUMF had already "legalized" something that just should not happen at all. The point is that nasty shit is afoot. It's irrelevant exactly how and when your government "authorized" itself to do it.

Vetoing the NDAA, which passes every year, would have involved not paying soldiers.

Your "defense" budget could certainly use a hefty cut, but then you might have (even more) trouble maintaining your global Empire.

But surely they could work around this issue if they wanted to de-authorize the government from shipping any old innocent bystander (or unharmonious troublemaker, as the case would be) off to Guantanamo on a whim.
Thank you so much. I didnt realise there is a monthly posting until after I had posted.
Thank you very much anyhow.
I find that the same quickcheck style testing is the fastest way to get out quality code for a project that I am the sole devleoper of.

I usually code in a terminal running screen with many shells going, one of which is running ipython so I can interactively import and test snippets, classes, or small functions that I'm writing in a larger module. It works great.

However - those tests disappear! Once a recent project of mine was handed off to a team for maintenance and more features, I found that, in particular places, where the code was subtle, it was subject to breaking by others who were just trying to fix something unrelated. This was when I, personally, realized the value of unit testing.

Yes, its slower and takes more time up front, but if your code may someday be worked on by others, it protects the sections of your code that have test coverage against breaking - which over a longer time scale can save time.
He just said the cards had sold 20k units. Which I didnt believe at first, but I Googled it and it was on Fab and some other high traffic websites so who knows.
Why not use your favoured programming tools, then include the appropriate metadata to talk to the Moodle database if that is what local admin want you to do?
Really? Because you don't like the aesthetics? Well, I for one like the new iCal.

It's mostly faux-design sense (everybody is a snobish designer these days and everybody is for "minimalism") than anything really problematic with an app that has some faux-leather as its background.
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That debate exists because the people selling the idea of unit-tests were so goddamn gung-ho for unit testing everywhere and all the time.

I have friends in the medical industry, their tests must achieve 100% code coverage on multiple coverage metrics, and code coverage is only an afterthought to even more rigorous test requirements. Even they were pointing and laughing at the TDD ideologues.

Unit testing is beneficial, if you do the right amount of it and in the right places at the right time. You might have a totally sensible test plan. But like it or not, for the time being, plenty of people are unwilling to listen to you because some other assholes already burned them on the idea of unit testing.

Its going to take years and years to shake loose all the cobwebs in our industry caused by half-cocked advocacy. Then we can maybe get to the sensible discussion about how to analyze a project and develop a sensible test strategy that fits the project's needs.
YC's class sizes have been growing every session. Given the importance of the networking between YC companies, is there a maximum size of a YC class (Dunbar's number[1] being the first thing I thought of)? Is there a point that YC and/or its classes become too large?

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Apologies, by persist I meant just beyond the end of that run of the software (i.e. the software itself couldn't manage/delete the files), to see what went "wrong". Deleting at reboot is perfectly fine.

/var/run "This directory contains system information data describing the system since it was booted" which doesn't seem to fit my use case that well. Not to say there isn't another directory that does fit, but I haven't found it.
Yep - make your box do what you want.

Nothing stops you from changing fstab to make any mount tmpfs or disk.
executive branch restrictions that have been added to the wiretapping authority

Restrictions, huh? Do you think those might be related to the NSA storing and processing[1] everything that happens on the Internet?

I sure am glad there are restrictions in place though!

[1] Yeah. Who knows. Let's just not go there.
The problem is that it's not just about the patient. None of those studies address what happens to the people around you if you start blaming them for your screw ups. This is the problem with evidence-based treatment: you end up with treatments optimized for whatever outcome you are measuring and not addressing the actual problem.

This is the difference I've personally seen between CBT and other forms of therapy that don't focus on evidence-free self-talk (including DBT and EMDR). I know CBT reduces depression; I have yet to see any evidence that it makes one a better, more empathic person or more pleasant to be around. It doesn't teach skills that are useful in interpersonal relationships.

The problem with insight-oriented therapy is that you have to actually find a therapist with insight. The job just doesn't seem to pay enough to often attract the level of intellect that it requires. It also tends to make symptoms worse for a bit while one gives up denial and avoidance. On the other hand, it doesn't require rejecting the idea of truth or lying one's self better.
Is your company open to remote candidates?
It almost makes me sad that this comment wasn't explored deeply enough. It raises an awesome point that is often ignored.

You could do this simply: a pure tour de France and a doping-ok tour de France. (would ppl tune in for the purity of the sport when times start to lag the open division?)

Recent sporting questions raised during the Olympics (when is a runner a female?)(or how do you differentiate between awesome Nikes, prosthetic legs or hyper prosthetic legs?) all fundamentally challenge our concepts of "fair"
I think we need conscious consumerism in the electronics industry just like we have now in food, clothing, etc. I think a lot of people would consider electronics made with first-world labor practices and livable wages. It would be a bit more expensive and niche at first, but it would make an impression.

This is an area where Google and/or an Android vendor could make a splash. "Fair trade" gadgets?
He is simply saying that you should not bring a lollipop to a knife fight. Verbal confrontation and physical confrontation are very different. Trying to educate your opponent might work in a discussion on the merits some technical issue but will only serve to further provoke that drunk guy in the bar that wants to smash your face in.
For some of us this lesson is hard to learn. But if we die because we did not learn it, it is the ultimate game over - you cant retry with a different perspective to win the argument, you lost. This changes the risk/reward scenario and being "nice" will not cut it. You will need to do everything in your power to prevent such irrevocable loss, including those things you would prefer not to do.
...for testing.
Whose brilliant idea was it to MAKE THE MENUS SHOUT AT YOU? Glad to see there's a registry key to fix that... but still, when did Microsoft start listening to my great aunt Gertrude about proper capitalization?

Also, I agree, the reviews aren't hitting the most important points about the new VS. Does it fix all those annoying bugs we've all been struggling with for 10 years? My guess is no (since as I said, most of them have been there for over a decade). Instead of putting time mucking with the look and feel on a tool that is SOLELY used by developers... how about fixing the bugs that cause us to lose hours of time every week? You know, like where VS crashes, or decides it can't load dependencies in installer files, or the horribly slow search, or the occasional complete hang of the UI for 20 seconds, or the fact that a minor change to an installer project completely changes the whole incomprehensible project file? How about those bugs?

But I guess most of this product was just supporting the new metro crap. Shouldn't OS compatibility be the Windows SDK team's problem, and let the Visual Studio guys... like, you know, work on Visual Studio?
I think "build a recursively self-improving Artificial Intelligence WITHOUT a stable, specifiable goal system so that it can improve into a superintelligence and do world optimization" is more frightening, even if less ambitious :)
I don't currently subscribe to Netflix but it seemed pretty user friendly before.

Amazon on the other hand is a totally different animal. I find Amazon's search for Prime (free) movies incredibly challenging. This kind of tool would add far more value to their system and is probably the only way I would browse if it were available.
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So your philosophy is to ignore the things you don't like? That may help you sleep better at night, but the world doesn't stop turning when you close your eyes. IMHO a better philosophy is accept the hypocrisy of willful indifference or try to make a difference. I don't find willful indifference to be 'action'.
"...One of the things that’s interesting is we actually have more people on a daily basis using mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS or Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for us."

I find this part of the quote interesting. Those people who use mobile web, what platform are they using? Are they using iOS or Android based devices, and using the web? Or are they using other lower end phones?

Could this number actually decrease if Facebook linked to the apps in their emails, rather than the mobile site? (I guess this might be hard to pull off, but would be better in the long run)
Apple Is Still Unfit To Sell eBooks
This is really great, but I think people would benefit from linking their Netflix accounts earlier in the process. I didn't realize what I needed to do for a while.
When I met him, it took me a few minutes to realize that he was the founder. He spoke about Quora and the associated technology therein in an amazingly casual way.

He sold it to me without even really selling it.
> "Everyone must now be careful never to store a file in /tmp that might grow large"

Be warned that when he says this, he doesn't mean it will eat all your memory, it will only grow upto a maximum size (by default half of your ram). When this is reached, it acts like any other filesystem that is full: you get write errors. There is actually another implementation called ramfs, which doesn't have such a size restriction. However, tmpfs is what is actually being implemented here. The ramfs itself is more of a 'toy' filesystem, also being quite limited, including not being able to use swap space (unlike tmpfs).
I think the pedantry was invited by the attempt at specifics. C'est la vie.
I agree with what you say. The problem is not limited to one manufacturer, and it is annoying and frustrating that it's framed in that way.

Why do people like to jump at one manufacturer while ignoring almost all of the others who have devices built in unsavoury conditions?

> not to think about how certain countries can make things this cheaply.

Some products - a t-shirt from a budget shop - cost a few dollars. We kind of expect those products to be made in a sweat shop. We hope there's at least some kind of legal regulation. And then there are expensive designer t-shirts - a $150 billionaire boys club t-shirt - and we really hope that these garments are not made in the same sweat shops. We really hope that some of that $150 trickles down to the factory in the form of much better regulation and conditions and pay.

Fairtrade-like schemes could work here, if they're done properly.

Bob produces widgets. He gets paid $0.20 per widget. I as the end consumer buy a widget for $1.00

If I pay $1.02, that's a 2% increase for me, and if that whole $0.02 goes to Bob he gets $0.22, a 10% increase.

Unfortunately, it feels like I pay $1.10, and Bob gets $0.02.
Interesting point on durability. This product fits my use case, but at $1200, if I bought it and it breaks after 100 miles I would be very unhappy.
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In my case, the runs are often run in parallel and in batches of varying sizes, so "same name" or rotation schedules wouldn't work well. They are a kind of hybrid log/storage file (they contain intermediate data sectioned/logged into the actions that created them, like an extremely verbose log). Dedicated SSDs would be very nice, but out of the price budget (i.e. its a zero cost project, run on existing scavanged hardware!).

As you say, /tmp is working well for me, my example was to perhaps illustrate that there are (what I think are) legitimate uses for large files in /tmp.
easy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367085/
Can you say where the scariest and most ambitious convincing pitch was on the following scale?

1) We're going to build the next Facebook!

2) We're going to found the next Apple!

3) Our product will create sweeping political change! This will produce a major economic revolution in at least one country! (Seasteading would be change on this level if it worked; creating a new country successfully is around the same level of change as this.)

4) Our product is the next nuclear weapon. You wouldn't want that in the wrong hands, would you?

5) This is going to be the equivalent of the invention of electricity if it works out.

6) We're going to make an IQ-enhancing drug and produce basic change in the human condition.

7) We're going to build serious Drexler-class molecular nanotechnology.

8) We're going to upload a human brain into a computer.

9) We're going to build a recursively self-improving Artificial Intelligence.

10) We think we've figured out how to hack into the computer our universe is running on.
> If your code is highly tied to an ORM or framework, then it's going to suck to test.

Unit test, yes. System integration test, no.
All regularization work I'm aware of uses W=I (an identity matrix). Where did you find this zero origin matrix?

Note that your W does not guarantee invertability - e.g., if your original (0,0) is already 0.
in my case ++beer--
It should be mentioned that swapfiles are accessed directly, going around the filesystem. They can suffer from fragmentation if you don't create them when the filesystem is fresh, however.
Your argument can only lead to the logical conclusion that you consider agile development to be only for making prototypes, which I assume you don't mean. But if you don't, your objection becomes unsupported. Maybe the problem is in your seemingly equating unit testing with TDD.
Bad title. tmpfs is good. Fedora maintainers assuming that all of /tmp should be in tmpfs is bad.

Apps are already in the habit of writing a lot of expendable garbage to /tmp that doesn't require the fast I/O of tmpfs. Clogging RAM with this junk is bad idea.
JohnnyCowboy's concern about early motor failure from the sideloading--do you have estimates on the mean mileage between component failures, and how much replacements would cost?
Bruce Schneier says trust no one
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Unit testing, like many other good and healthy coding practises is great. In theory.

In the big mean real world frequently you're shipping things in such narrow deadlines that if you say "Hey boss, I'm going to take some time to write some wicked cool unit tests, it'll make my life easier in future because we'll know this code works!" then Boss' head will pop as it's a non-tangible improvement.

Developer focused companies are great as they'll let you get away with this, but the large portion aren't.
http://instantwatcher.com doesn't need to connect your account.
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I believe the parent post was referring to QuickCheck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCheck) as opposed to "quickly checking" code in the REPL.

Tests definitely need to be repeatable.
I use mobile web facebook on android. i rather use mobile web for any site than their own app. I don't trust the apps to begin with, besides that, they take up space, cpu usage, battery, etc. so web is better, when i'm done, i close it.
I've seen lead-acid cell-powered scooters and skateboards. This one looks massively lighter and lower-profile.
People who are in disgust in Foxconn incident should also look into the factories where cloths they were wearing are made http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/may-18-20.... It is standard rule in capitalization. Businesses have to get goods/materials from the cheapest source available. No questions asked about how the supplier achieves it as long as it doesn't get worse. And yes, this article is pure propaganda stunt.
Shipping! :)
Is it a real problem? My wife sets her alarm clock around 6am and i almost never notice it. I sleep through till 7-8am.
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The reason you want to avoid matrix inversion is not computational performance - it is precision.

You can generally "multiply by the inverse" without actually computing the inverse, in a way that needs less intermediate floating point precision.

If your matrices have a large spread of eigenvalues, it makes a lot of difference - double precision often doesn't have enough precision for direct inversion in the real world.

(And even if you do want to invert, it is more numerically stable to do that as a solution of Ax=e, for each 'e' a basis element, as long as you compute A^-1 \* e indirectly using a numerically stable method)
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What a way to reframe the entire conversation like a boss. Prior to reading your comment, I thought my scale went from 1 to 10, but it only went from 1 to 2.
Elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510271 It's not bad.
unix noobies!