skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your point that it might be worth paring back features to improve code quality.

But there is no one true code to test ratio. If you're trying to become a better programmer be wary of dogma.

As posted here the other day, airbnb didn't have much testing until a year ago: http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/

I'm not saying either way is right or wrong, which is kind of my point.
It's becoming far more common.

More importantly, there are far more positions being created that aren't on tenure track in the first place.
If I wasn't married to my cofounder, I would have the saddest love life.
What you are describing here is the cost of changing from an OS you know, to one that you don't. Since this cost greatly exceeds the sticker price of windows, or Mac for that matter, it is the real reason why people tend to stick with the OS they already know how to use.

It's one of the reasons why Linux never got much traction on the desktop. Sure it made a great desktop OS for the technorati but Joe Public knows how to do what he wants in Windows, and saving $50 isnt incentive enough for him to change.

As you say, "free is not enough".

Incidentally the exact same thing plays out with regard to apps. Office may have strong Open Source competition, but free is not enough there either to get most people to switch.

This effect is not limited to the OS itself, but extends to the flavor of the OS as well. Despite what the popular press says, windows 8 is not bad, but it is different. Vista was better than you think, but wasa different to XP and so on. Xp was the gold standard for a long time, so it's easy to forget how much people resisted it at first.

And before you get too smug, look at the division in the Linux market right now over Unity.

Here's the thing. The price of the OS is irrelevant. Free is not an advantage. Windows will exist on the desktop for many years to come, and will likely flop on the phone. But price will have nothing to do with either outcome.
Notably, there are no Walmarts in San Francisco.
I wonder if there is any TLS library that actually does certificate verification properly...
http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/
The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off
You don't think the world hates Hollywood and Wall Street as well?
Pretty much my job description.
> Oxygen has little market value

Don't tell that to the atmospheric gas industry.
Maybe I'm crazy, but this has a surprisingly high ick-factor to it. I dunno, it just strikes me as so pathetic and misguided and almost exploitative. These places that are so poor there is no internet connection need...Facebook? (Btw, you can spare me the altruistic angle, because I aint buying it.)
What part of "obtaining an input at less than the cost of production due to uncorrected market imbalances" don't you understand?
git on Debian, for example. In general, GPL programs need special exception to link to OpenSSL, and git is licensed under GPL without the exception.
There is a clear cognitive dissonance in articles like this and the actions of protestors. They highlight on the extreme wealth of certain founders/executives, yet direct their wrath (and stones) on the entire tech industry.

Regular Facebook employees aren't Mark Zuckerberg, and certainly aren't paid like it. Most tech workers make less than twice the median family income in the Bay Area—good pay, but not obscene.

If people have a problem with income inequality, they should be siding with tech workers—we're way closer to barista wages than being in the 1%.

So why are tech workers the ones getting attacked? You can bet Larry Page isn't taking the bus, but he's the one making the money.
Sorry, that was a long way of pointing out that us novice programmers often don't have good methods of determining how long something should take because we've never done it before.

That is basically the core difficulty in software estimation: none of us have good methods for determining how long something should take because most of the time we haven't done it before. If it had been done before in a way we can reuse, we'd reuse it. The meat of most projects is always something that's in some way new, even when the new bit is integrating a bunch of pre-existing parts in a new way.
The ethics of the power players in Silicon Valley are far worse than those on Wall Street. (I don't know dick about Hollywood other than its reputation.)

Wall Streeters are greedy, but they don't go out of their way to ruin peoples' careers (except in the movies). They'll do a lot of things to get that $10 million bonus, but they don't hold long-term grudges and wreck careers of people who've since flown away from them. A trader will get you fired if it suits his career goals, because he is ruthless, but once you're out of his way, he'll take an active interest in making sure you get a better job afterward. Valley people, when they separate, tend to make it really ugly: lots of gossip, negative references, long-term grudges and other nonsense that wouldn't exist among people who cared more about themselves winning than about other people losing.

Silicon Valley attracts people who want power, and those tend to be worse than those who want money. It also attracts, more than nerds, people who come on specifically to take advantage of nerds. The latter set tend to be horrible, and to rise fast.

Finally, there's the false poverty effect. If you make $10 million in a year, you're rich. If you're a trust-fund kid, but you're only paying yourself a $25,000 salary because that's all your investors will let you take out, you feel more entitled to fuck people over because you're "the little guy" and because, being "scrappy" (or "lean"), you "can't afford" the costs of being ethical.
Surveillance: Westminster faces up to the facts
You mean, like this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=nsaparanoid

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=travelhacker

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=travelstacker

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=markhacker

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=coldtraveller

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=testhacker

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tumblehack

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=airlinenut

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=stacker
I have no idea as to the status of userscripts on mobile devices but at least on the desktop they are my go-to for personalizing my internet:

("news.ycombinator.com" === window.location.hostname) &&
(function () {
var meta = document.createElement("META");
meta.name = "viewport";
meta.content = "width=device-width, initial-scale=1";

if (document.readyState === "complete") {
document.head.appendChild(meta);
} else {
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
document.head.appendChild(meta);
});
}
})();
Xbox One Update Overhauls Social Features
Age of Empires was pretty good.
If you want to see what the future of free operating systems looks like, watch free network TV.

This isn't a good trend; who will be the HBO of operating systems?
Face to face communication is archaic and barbaric. We must spread the Holy Interwebs of Google and Facebook to these uncivilized people and show them the glory of the App. History of the world.
This also could be nice if Comcast is intent on being the One Big Internet Chokepoint.

Once they have their fleet of Internet drones working, they could move them to other underserved areas, like California!
In some ways BGA is even easier, aiming a hot air gun requires less general accuracy than a fine soldering iron tip. The only difficult part is the size of the things.
BI and MW address two different problems.

BI answers "should people be provided with the necessary essentials to survive".

MW answers "should businesses be compelled to pay a fair market rate for labor", again, unless a specific exemption is made.

Providing BI without allowing for MW still creates an environment in which at least some businesses can game the market to obtain below-cost labor. I see this as a market inefficiency which should be corrected.

The human cost of production of labor isn't zero, which is precisely the point.

If a specific business (or industry sector) wants an MW exception, that's yet a third question (essentially: is the product of this business and/or sector sufficiently valuable to warrant a net transfer of wealth from the rest of the economy to it). My knowledge of economics and markets is such that I don't believe that the free market will allocate resources efficiently in all cases, but where you're going to allow for such a subsidy, you'd best do it consciously, for specific reasons, and as transparently as possible.

Awarding the benefit to large, politically-connected, and highly profitable companies strikes me as a gross market mis-allocation.

If the market clears labor above its minimum sustaining rate, then the MW is a non-issue, but you'd best be sure that that's the case, and if it's a non-issue, then having the MW present changes nothing materially in the market.
ntt.net is Japanese...
At its core, absolutely nothing. In its execution, it's extremely partisan. I'm neither a Democrat nor a Republican, but I've found that, for me at least, I despise when either side slings mud on the other.

Demand Progress isn't quite so blatant, in that they "question" Democrats, or "suspect" that they might be wrong, but similar judgements of the Republicans are downright hateful.

I don't begrudge their right to engage in "my party's right and your party's wrong" sorts of politics, but I will make sure that none of my money gets spent in furtherance of it.
Uh, except for a single mention of taxes in Britain, this is an article about How San Francisco came to hate Silicon Valley. I mean, seriously, Valleywag really capturing the zeitgeist of the common man? Jesus.

(I thought the plural "bricks through the window" in the subheadline was particularly indicative, when as far as I know that was brick singular)

The world, meanwhile, follows a bit of news about tech companies, they have opinions about some of the bigger ones, and they like taking sides over their favorite phone brand, but they continue to steadfastly not care about Silicon Valley. Seriously. Go on vacation, get out of the bubble, talk to people. They don't even have an opinion on the place.
> Since the original one is really long; would make the install script even less readable.

Really?

Who do you think your target audience is? I'm sorry, but this is not "really long":

https://github.com/supermarin/Alcatraz/releases/download/1.0.1/Alcatraz.tar.gz

If you're telling people to run random commands in their terminal that lead to local code execution, then you should trust that they can read a goddamn URL.

If you don't think your user base can read URLs, then you shouldn't be telling them to launch the terminal and run your code.
> sneaky little ratbag

Is that the phrase we're using for "scared teenager" these days?
you can access the article from this link in case if isn't opening

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.m...
Looks like they don't have any aftermarket plans... I have a belkin hands free unit, and a home made bracket for my phone. Works pretty well. Is quite versatile. And I still have use of my regular old radio, which will play NPR or various music at the touch of a button, without using my data or having to tell anyone what I am listening to. My daughters can hook their phones and other devices up by aux cable or the belkin, and they each have a favorite station on the radio. Sure, this system looks pretty slick, but I have a more functional setup for free.
The Price of Equality
Pay-week for lots of people maybe?
How to explain cryptocurrencies to your Mom (in a post MtGox world)
I don't think I am confused. I specifically brought up the ability to service a loan. If a prospective mother is asking for a loan, then the question of whether or not she will be returning to work after the pregnancy should become a relevant question if that income is required to service that particular loan.

And I say that because maybe, just maybe, the poorly phrased "I wouldn't have invested if I knew you were going to get pregnant" actually had to do with the founder not being able to "service" her company. Whether the founder could dedicate enough time, as perceived by said investor, is a relevant concern to that investor. Is that sexist? I'm not sure. Is it a shitty thing to say (in that way)? Most definitely. Is it wrong to use pregnancy as a "signal" (positive or negative) for investment? I have zero ideas considering I'm not an investor.
Doctors are a counterexample. While there are certainly richer and more prestigious specialties than others, once you hit medical school there's not much attrition. Then once you make MD even the lower paid specialties are pretty well paid, and have great job security. It's not like BigLaw where getting in the door is only the first step and there's a long way to fall.
They highlight on the extreme wealth of certain founders/executives, yet direct their wrath (and stones) on the entire tech industry.

Not even, the protestors manage to direct their wrath at the employees low enough level to be riding the shuttles.

It's pretty ironic seeing the ostensible radical leftists following the lead of the Valley Wag's middle brow demagoguery.
A professor can provide materials beyond that displayable on a computer screen.
HN is becoming another DZone, anyone to come and post your blurb blog post. Either OP just wants to discredit RepublicWireless or he should know that, if any service provider is offering heavily discounted phone, obviously they are going recoup their discount with form of either contract or forcing to sell you phone with their ROM. What's new in that?
If you get a stream kf recommendations, how will you choose which one to read?
yummyfajitas is (explicitly) interpreting "cost of production of labor" to be "subsistence wages" (and has asked for alternatives if that's not what is meant). Minimum wage is quite a bit more than subsistence wages in most places, and quite a bit less than what's typically referred to as a "living wage" - particularly if we're including raising children.
Gnutls 3.2.12 / GNUTLS-SA-2014-2 [CVE-2014-0092]
As a Microsoft customer, this alienates me from them. Paid software means that our interests are aligned: I want good software and Microsoft wants to make good software so that I buy it.

Free commercial software means that I'll have to pay through other means, typically means that I'll have less control over.
Chapter 1 is 404ing.
I'm not sure if it is entirely fair to criticise alsa for lacking (g)ui -- after all there was a major shift to pulse audio, and pretty much all relevant ui projects (eg: gnome) basically went: use pulse or forget about easily switching audio i/o. It has very little to with alsa "as such". After finally tiring of how pulse-audio kept introducing lag and skips in my audio, I found alsa-heaven with:

$ cat ~.asoundrc
pcm.nvidia { type hw; card NVidia; }
ctl.nvidia { type hw; card NVidia; }
pcm.usb { type hw; card DAC; }
ctl.usb { type hw; card DAC; }

#pcm.!default pcm.usb
ctl.!default ctl.usb

#dmix for software mixing? http://alsa.opensrc.org/Dmix
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm "dmixer"
}
pcm.dmixer {
type dmix
ipc_key 1024 # Must be unique
slave {
pcm "hw:DAC"
}
}

Note that my usb dac doesn't do hardware mixing, but alsa handles that fine (I can watch a movie and play audio at the same time, yai!).

In general I feel that Linux audio seems worse now than in the 1.3 days -- but I'm not sure easy gui of pulse audio makes up for crappy resource utilization and general complexity of piping some binary data to a /dev/audio device.

I'd low to see something like jack with a easy-to-use ui and soft realtime (and optional network transparency) -- but right now it seems a little to hard to use for me (but that could be my usb dac that isn't quite a sound card, and reportedly has pretty crappy (alsa) drivers).
Lately and for the foreseeable future it's Netflix. Oh Os'es, Linux of course.
I believe tibbon meant CS PhD in relation to non-CS (ala, Neuroscience).

Fixed (perhaps):

>>Whereas if you leave your CS PhD, you can get a job at a startup... there are few places that are dying to hire non-CS PhD dropouts.
This isn't to promote Bing this is to stop people from switching older machines to different operating systems.
To paraphrase JWZ, "Python is big because your needs are big".

I don't see anything "hacky" to get async right. It's a simple library. It's just not first class (then again, no reason it should be, isn't it not first class in Rust too?).
If you want infuriating marketing, try Googling for an integration between two obscure web services.

The Zapier "Zapbook" automatically makes a page for each possible combination of the services they hook into, giving useless bullshit like https://zapier.com/zapbook/ducksboard/aim/ (which, by the way, isn't the same as https://zapier.com/zapbook/aim/ducksboard/ either).
>>It's how a beginner becomes an intermediate player.

No it isn't. Having a good grasp of chess tactics makes you an intermediate player. So what if you memorize opening lines? Your intermediate opponent isn't going to follow them at all.
"A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion."
Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, spent a reported $US10 million on his wedding

Wow, how unbelievably arrogant. Spending his money however the fuck he wants? Paying people to render him services of their own free will? What an asshole. He must've forgot signing that social contract with angry poor radicals that once you hit $(whatever today's immoral amount of money is) you no longer have the right to spend it... oh wait.

Whatever. Give me a break. This article is really about the worst side of SF - not the successful businessmen, but the unsuccessful, jealous, negative, unproductive "radicals" whose politics boils down to "I hate everything that I don't understand, and I'm not going to bother to try and understand it because I hate it."

an arrogant and often tone-deaf industry

The only arrogant people here are these fucking losers who think they deserve to live in the one of the world's most expensive and desirable cities, and think they deserve to dictate how other people can and should behave, despite providing absolutely nothing of value to anyone.

Perkins is right. The closest parallel to the mindless, hate-drenched opprobrium of these people is Nazi Germany turning on the Jews (a similar group of successful, largely innocuous businesspeople.)
Mt. Gox Breaks Silence, Posts Statement On Bankruptcy Filing
Familiarity is more of a problem for the older generations of people. But they are a receding market share.

And my hunch is that newer generations are more adaptive to new interfaces, having grown into a world where there already many options available.
Interesting. It describes roughly the strategy that I've settled on when looking for accommodation to rent. I think it also has the added advantage of making you feel you've made a good decision.
Why Shifts in Consumer Behavior Will Have Real Affects on Cable TV
When I worked as a hospital tech, I was the 'user' of a few sales reps. My favourite sales rep was the guy who would say "I don't know" or "I can't tell you", and jot down the question in his notebook to find out and return with. He didn't always return (can't have everything, I guess), but "I don't know but will find out for you" was far superior to me as a user than the usual sales misdirection or bullshit.

It really depends on who your users are, I guess. The general public aren't particularly grateful as a whole, but niche users tend to be more understanding.
Oh, so bluetooth audio is broken now, if you want input as well (apparently not just for pulsaudio). That's great, I was just about getting ready to experiment with a2dp and friends :-(
Feminism doesn't know what it is. For every feminist who thinks it's about everyone, there's a feminist who thinks it's only about women. All of the legislation? The policies enacted and enforced? Created and aligned to the views of the latter. Feminist laws kept me in an abusive situation as a kid. Maybe if feminists didn't bully, send death threats, and kill the dog of the person who created domestic violence shelters for everyone, or never passed laws based on models saying that only men abuse, I'd have a different opinion.

Actions speak louder than words.

>The only thing I'd like to point out is that we should all be feminists, because the only alternative is sexism.

I have chosen to identify as an egalitarian. Please don't remove my agency. I have very good reasons not to identify with an ideology that cannot even agree on what it is, and has done considerable harm to both myself and many others in the past and present.

I think you can be a feminist and still be a good person. I think it's silly to imply that in order to be a good person, you have to be a feminist.
I can't speak for the guy you're quoting, but I'm sure this is relevant in the context of software you mistakenly trust executing such code. Naturally, if you're not logged in, there's less vulnerabilities to worry about. Hell, I can disconnect the power source if I'm after that kind of security.

However, this is actually an important exploit / factor to be aware of if you're considering installing software securely on a platform. Is it possible to blast through account credentials with a small method like this? I certainly wouldn't want to run any scripts on my machine if I knew that was possible on Linux, because merely being on the sudoers list would mean that my credentials are enough to damage my entire workstation. This doesn't even speak to the effect this would have if you got access to a sysadmin's account on a large network.
Seriously, employees who ride buses to their 10-hour jobs who are probably scrabbling to get some work done on the commute (those buses have wi-fi for a reason) are causing "heightened anxiety about the widening income gap between tech workers and "ordinary" citizens"?

These protesters are either misinformed or being deliberately malicious if they are targeting the ordinary tech employee. At $39000 average spending per year ($3250/month according to the article), how much do they exactly think SV engineers get paid? At say, 100k, which would be considered pretty decent by an SV engineer, the 28% tax bracket, leaves 72k actual income. Minus the $39000 housing expenses mentioned, that's $33000/year, or $2750/month for food, clothing, paying for your kids' education. etc. If your spouse doesn't work, you will be living a pretty Spartan life. Hardly the kind of money you imagine rich assholes throwing around, is it?
>>Knowing the SCO took me from 800 to 1600.

Thats absolutely ridiculous and SCO is a poor reference anyway. There are a lot of good opening books that cover specific openings to ever rely on an a comprehensive guide anyway.

I'll a little confused that you claim to 'know' it. You reviewed the entire book even if you don't play certain openings or defenses? There is a lot better use of your time.
Superior, industry-leading 'content' that nevertheless has a small slice of the total market, demographically skewed toward rich people?

Complete and and iron-clad control of its distribution?

Pretty sure we already have that. It's Apple.
It's. A fucking. Coffeepot.
Google's (official) mission "is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful" (https://www.google.com/about/company/). Microsoft's is "to create a family of devices and services for individuals and businesses that empower people around the globe at home, at work and on the go, for the activities they value most." (http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/shareholder-l...).

How's Facebook different having a mission statement?
Herein lies the problem with DDG - it probably wouldn't sound as good to say "I don't know the answer to that question; I would Duck it."