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Nothing is farther from me than not automating a highly repetitive process. :) Please don't respond to strawmans, that's not useful for anyone. I'm saying that there are things that you can't mock efficiently because the thing you want to mock has a very complex behavior -- this means you can't think of all the possible combinations of how it can deviate from the spec.

Let's not forget where the thread started from -- continuous, automated deployment to production. I agree that one should do a lot of automated tests, mock what makes sense to be mocked, etc. However, a fully automated testing means no manual testing, right? That's what is almost impossible in many environments -- and this makes continuous deployment extremely risky.

Just to reiterate: I am not against mocking, I am not against automating repetitive processes. I just think that 100% automated testing is not feasible in many cases, and that makes 100% automated continuous deployment infeasible as well.
I wish I'd learnt the same prior to university.
Yeah, but the implementation of this is rather difficult to do in practice!
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Are you sure you're not thinking of Starship Troopers?
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I agree with you, but knowing a little how hard it is to stay smart about this as an open source company, I understand why it went wrong. The Open Source Way is surprisingly hard to understand and the pressure from Sales turns the focus on short term gains.
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I did something similar in 2013, see my blog: http://peterevjan.com/posts/a-week-of-no-media-consumption/

In the end, it forced me to be more creative and social, but didn't produce any lasting change. I need to keep forcing myself to turn off internet etc to be able to get creative stuff done during evenings and weekends. Sad but true.
This makes a lot of sense on Blackberry's side, making their enterprise security offering stronger and utilizing their strong advantage in the field, but does that mean they'll become an enterprise software company?
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You're right. I must have imagined the SHA-256 part.
This is a common misconception. For example frozen vegetables from the supermarket have higher nutrient contents then from the farmers market because they get deep frozen so shortly after harvest.

Personally I don't buy into articles like this. The one and only tip I can personally give to eat healthy and well is "learn to cook yourself". No matter how high quality the restaurant where you are getting your food, you will be able to do it better at home for yourself.
> The C standard was apparently written in order to allow compilers to introduce subtle security holes into previously-working code, all in the name of a fraction of a percent of performance increase.

Yes it was. Or at least, that's the constituency C currently has - and understandably C continues to serve it. There needs to be a language for that kind of people, and that language is C.

If you don't want that, stop using C. It's not hard.
This is science fiction, we can't and aren't doing this.
Does that mean that path tracing engines like Brigade[1] fit well with VR?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpT6MkCeP7Y
He's so right... Many people do this and it is disrespectful.
It's not offensive, it's just yet another example of "every anecdote I have from this specific culture supports X!! Why don't we just admit that X is clearly biological and not a property of culture at all!??!"
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People would compile "paranoid C" with a normal C compiler (perhaps there is no paranoid C compiler for their platform). If your code is silently broken on some compilers, that's arguably even worse than being silently broken on all compilers. It would be better to a) make a compiler that errors out on any undefined behaviour (so that people would fix it in their code and it would then be fixed everywhere they compile) and/or b) use a new language.
The opposite is true. That is a likely way to get your posts penalized.
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Both lack accomodation (i.e. focus). This is the ultimate display [type]:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~gordonw/Focus3D/
Netflix is making the same mistakes. They sold the rights of "House of Cards" to Sky Television preventing anyone from watching season 3 in most of Europe.
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Why?

Sequence data is series of huge strings, perl is famed for its string handling.

I don't see the issue.
It never occurred to me to consider the performance per watt of CUDA vs C/C++/Fortan on the CPU (instead of only raw performance.) So one should consider CUDA only if they want to favor raw performance over cost? (and only if their algorithms yield a significant improvement when implemented to run on a GPU.)
Don't agree; downvoted.
Skyfaring, the book referenced in the article is the current narrated book of the week on BBC Radio 4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05q0tw0/episodes/guide
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I wonder if the equipment to farm to feed those people
would actually weigh less than the people

I would certainly think so, considering how advanced modern farming tech is (or even 50 years old farming tech). 4.3m people plus food/water/other stuff they need to survive a couple weeks on a ship (plus then transporting them overland to wherever) weighs A LOT, fuel & vessels to transport them are also not trivial.

The farm equipment also doesn't have to come from America, there are far closer manufacturers (Israel is ~3000km by ship from Eilat, Europe or India ~1000-2000 more).

Anyway hauling millions of people over to America sounds like a pretty ridiculous solution to me. You think the US government would accept millions of refugees with open arms? Why did the majority of Iraqi war refugees had to come to Europe instead?
It is unclear whether sexual selection impedes or facilitates natural selection [1]. Sexual selection can happen just because. A female who prefers chins will give birth to sons with chins and daughters who like chins. It's a positive feedback loop that doesn't need cooperation from natural selection to give it fitness.

At one time in the past there may have been a reason that the men with chins were more successful than other humans. The correlation may have been coincidental though. Maybe the men with no-chins happened to be living in a part of the world that suffered a famine. Or if there was a direct relationship, the sexual preference remained after the natural advantage was no longer relevant.

The study does a good eliminating mechanical advantage as a reason for having a jaw. (And that's all it says.) But the speculation about why the jaw exists (inserted by the news writer and has nothing to do with this study) seems less certain to me. Why did chins not simply get smaller with the rest of the skull? Something encouraged chin growth in humans. But to say what you'd have to study skulls from the past to see exactly how the chin changed over time.

[1] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2811...
I recognized the feeling/fear of going insane. One of my mushroom trips I had the same thing - not exactly fun. I'm not really interested in trying LSD due to the trip lasting longer - 4 hours (mushrooms) of pure fear is enough. Yes, I've had good trips too, but about half of them went bad at some point and that ain't fun.

In general, only take hallucinogenics if you're in a good, stable place... Not when you're worried or afraid of something.
Don't know of any research about those lamps specifically, but based on research from blue light devices use and what I know about our circadian rhythms, you will probably end up with sleep issues (difficulty falling asleep as well as low quality of sleep)
For an example of this not working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402506
We rather enjoy the "Conch in Lord of the Flies" vibe the current setup imparts.
One reason is it takes time and resources to process food at home, limiting what you can eat. I don't have time to bake cakes more often than about once a week, thus limiting my intake of cakes. (The malt loaf I made two weeks ago -- excellent!)

A second reason is that processed foods are engineered to have addictive qualities -- lots of sugar, engineered "mouth feel". At home, you can limit the amount of sugar and salt, and you probably wouldn't be able to do the complex food science behind getting the right "crunch".

BTW I think it's a reasonable question - don't know why you were voted down.
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Apparently that indicates you are more than likely male. VR sickness affects women at a higher rate than men. It's interesting what we learn about how perception works from trying to trick it. http://qz.com/192874/is-the-oculus-rift-designed-to-be-sexis...
Before I clicked the link I thought: That is going to be a short read ... and it was ;)
I wouldn't call 9% a much better conductor.

[tin foil] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil

This being HN I get to be a pedant... I'm really bored in work. Sorry.
Nice article but are you sure you want to end the article with a "Contact me" link?
I know - startupstash.com and Getapp.com
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Daredevil is no doubt good but I wouldn't put it in the same league as HoC, as another commenter did. They could definitely go darker (though I couldn't say how, at the moment), take out the silly banter and little jokes mostly coming from or involving the long-haired lawyer.
This is actually really well done. Nothing new technically, but presented really well.

(I thought this was going to be another posing of https://mosh.mit.edu/)
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People who complain about downvote for disagreement all say the same thing: "downvotes turn comments grey and thus hide the conversation".

No.

Downvoting will only turn a comment grey if none of the ten thousand logged in users thinks your post is good enough to upvote, and if someone downvotes it.

Greyed comments are not the result of one or two down-vote abusing people but the result of very many people thinking your comment doesn't add enough to get an upvote.

And this is true even after the comment is grey. In that case none of the people with upvote privs (anyone with an account) thinks the downvote was wrong enough to need correcting.

The only reason to stop downvoting for disagreemet is to stop people posting these meta threads.

People will downvote to disagree. You need to work on methods to fix the result rather than changing behaviour -- upvote those comments that you think are incorrectly downvoted.

EDIT: if anything we need more downvoting and flagging.

Here's a comment that had one or two downvotes and went at least thirty days live. (It got more flags when I pointed out that someone was talking to a holocaust denying troll) HN is not a free for all - there are other places for that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9200905
Avoiding processed food should be what Cartman would call 'hippy nonsense'. Unfortunately, many food processors are interested in removing, expensive, nutritious food and replacing them with things that make us 'enjoy food', sugar, salt, and fats.

Unless processors can see the point in changing formula, for whatever reason, it's good, and simple, advice for those wanting to live healthily.
I haven't had motion sickness in VR either. That said, everyone can get sick. Some people have a higher tolerance than others, but no one is immune.
Daredevil is fine, but it certainly isn't good enough to sell Netflix to me. Netflix with only Netflix shows isn't something I'd pay $10 a month for unless they seriously up their game. HBO is the baseline they have to match, not a goal they should hope to reach for.
aninhumer was (and may still be) doing something similar-sounding with bluespec; you may like to talk to him.
A century is imminent as it is, unless you think only in single-life timescales, and a two foot rise will be enough to make Miami economically unviable - as above, sewerage - and fresh water - will be severely impinged by a moderate rise.

That's 50 years, even with current models. If Miami is to survive, it needs new infrastructure, now - and even that will only hold for the short term. The only long term option would be a massive caisson building effort, building a huge concrete sheet wall around the city, buried deep into the strata, down to below the porous limestone it's built atop - at least 20 feet deep in most places. Even then, you'll have issues with sinkholes due to water being removed from the strata... in short, abandonment is where Miami will end up. Nothing else makes sense.

Sea level rise is accelerating beyond our most aggressive models currently, due to ice shelf collapse - Antarctic and Greenland ice shelves are vanishing much faster than anticipated, and will likely all be gone within the decade - expect new models over the next 18 months to predict some rather radical outcomes entirely within our lifetimes.
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I too read it as noise. This happens to me very often these days , don't know if it's part of some cognitive decline :P

EDIT:
Another such HN headline misreading was when I read "The contribution of Cheese to western civilization" as "The contribution of Chinese to western civilization" .
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Please don't post non-English stories to HN. French is a beautiful language, but HN is an English-language site.
Because you do not have an industrial process at home.

Industrialization does not fit well with food production. Because price optimization through division of fixed costs leads to standardized high volume products. But it is diversity that is healthy, tastes good and is natural.
Likewise. Maybe a financial incentive to stay in your current role rather than accepting a promotion.
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He should change his taste in modern music instead of listening to old old old music. Just because it is modern does not mean that it is agitated and aggressive.
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I am not sure, I knew he was a scammer and wanted to see how this plays out :P
Not a single post in 2 years :D

I hope this will change after the release of PHP7
I ran a Tor exit node for about nine months and only ever had two complaints sent to me. Both were for people performing some form of hacking through my exit node. I responded to both with a form letter, and that was that. Granted it was a low bandwidth exit node.

I hear US-based nodes get more legal attention because of the DMCA, but I can't comment on that as mine was based in Romania as well.
Stops the entire process dying though, so you can keep on serving?
I wonder in what way the web would look different today, if Google had been acquired and became a mere footnote in Yahoo's long list of sunset acquisitions...
But it's not really material, because bar doesn't touch x (and if it did, this problem wouldn't exist to begin with).

In other words, it might be a bit strange and cause a slight detour in your quest to discover the cause of a bug, but it wouldn't actually change any behavior or cause any issues.
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>I'm saying that there are things that you can't mock efficiently because the thing you want to mock has a very complex behavior -- this means you can't think of all the possible combinations of how it can deviate from the spec.

Mocking complex and unreliable behavior by 3rd party systems is part of writing good tests and, ultimately, delivering high quality software.

If you can't think of all possible combinations of unpredictable behavior, that's fine. You keep testing until you find as many as you think there are and once you do, you mock it.

Once you get to the point where you think you have found all of them, you can release. Continuously.

If you never release that point, either you grit your teeth and release anyway, or you never release.

If you can do this, you will probably score one over on the competition, because getting to this point is rare and valuable.

>However, a fully automated testing means no manual testing, right?

Absolutely not. It just means that you've minimized your reliance upon it, and the manual testing you do do does not have to be done at the end of each iteration - it can be done continuously.

>That's what is almost impossible in many environments -- and this makes continuous deployment extremely risky.

If you are minimally reliant upon manual testing then continuous deployment is not risky.

If you are heavily reliant upon manual testing then continuous deployment is risky

>Just to reiterate: I am not against mocking, I am not against automating repetitive processes. I just think that 100% automated testing is not feasible in many cases

There's a difference between something being hard and something not being feasible. Getting to 100% automated testing is hard, but it is feasible.
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If you're going to be a pedant you need to be an accurate pedant. smoyer didn't say "a much better conductor", just "a better conductor", and as you say yourself, gold is 9% better.
Now I'd like to know: do people who have lost their nose irl experience more motion sickness?
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Try Singlish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish_vocabulary). Combined with their accent, it's a wonder if you understand anything at all when said with a lot of Singlish.
You could probably make some interesting demographic observations on the basis of this data.

That HN readers are unusually interested in millinery.
There is a so much of nonsense about food that it is worth it to look back at some traditional or tribal eating habits.

For example, traditionally, majority of the Nepalese population is eating white rice with some kind of lentil curry and seasonal vegetables two times a day basically whole year and remain healthy and not overweight due to their active, working lifestyle. Modern memes are telling us that white rice is almost poisonous, despite the fact that more than half of the world population (almost whole Asia) feed on it.

Tibetans, Sherpas and other Himalayan tribes are still rely heavily on cow/nak butter (the main commodity and the source of nutrition) and Tsampa (rusted barley flour) which they consume on a daily basis in the form of so-called Sherpa tea (butter, Tsampa, hot watter, sugar or salt) or in a form of bread-like mass (same ingredients). According to modern memes this is a disastrous diet, but, you see, these people are healthy and happy.

I could go on, about various tribes of India or Sri Lanka (mostly rise and veges). The picture will be almost the same. Simple, homemade food and not being a couch potato makes it.

There is no problem with traditional foods. The problems are with the food industry and its commercial products which, being aggressively marketed, altered the traditional eating habits.

As for myself, I could confirm that especially in high altitudes (in Himalayas) the tribal eating habits, which I follow happily, are the evolved balance for energy storage and intake, according with the harsh conditions, seasons and available food sources. There is no alternative in calories efficiency to the a half-kilo lump of nak butter (just cream, no additions) and a small bag of Tsampa for weeks-long crossing of the ridges in Himalayas.
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You are right on, on your argument, we simply can't compare semi-general purpose servers to highly specialized machines.
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The Night Watch by Sir Terry Pratchett.
I have always liked his Discworld series, though two books had a bigger place in my heart : The Small Gods and The Night Watch. The first book was given to me as a young teenager, looking through his way to live and I am pretty sure that it took a huge part of my religious beliefs later(not exactly atheism, but agnosticism mostly).

But The Night Watch... It's a book, that I have rereaded over ten times in the last 3 years and will continue reading it. It is a time travel story, where the main commander of police forces goes back in time and has to be a part of a revolution. I mean, I can talk about it for ages, but I really don't want to spoil it, so go ahead check it out(although to fully grasp the ideas of the book you should read the first few books of the Watch series, but believe me all of them are worth it).

Something else that I loved to read when I was younger(12-14) was Winnetou, but my tries to check it again once I get into my 20s wasn't successfull, so maybe it was just a phase.

Chronicles of Amber is another great fantasy series which I would love to recommend, although the series wasn't finished and is left in a pretty huge cliffhanger, but yet the 10(shortish) books are all awesome and the world, that Zelazny has built is easily one of the best built world in fantasy scene.
Reading the headline I automatically thought that BackBerry was finally acquired. My brain is waiting for that news :)
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This is really good news. Unlike the US it seems these companies need to proof that they can turn a profit.

Economists have been crying out "bubble bubble !" on china for 10 years. The science of capital as applied to western countries do not apply to a system like china where there are so many SOE. Imagine if economists applied the same type of thinking during WW2 and the space race.

China seems to be in a similar "war" mode, with there economy. This is a good thing since their goal seem to be allow billions of asians to have the same level of living standard as western countries.

The growth of tech outside of silicon valley is good news for everyone. It creates an alternate market for competition, rather than the current monoculture.