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Ah no I think I misunderstood. tptacek replied with examples though.

Heartbleed and Shellshock come to mind. There have been others, and the "revelations" of NSA et al actively poking or preventing the closing of holes in all kinds of software and hardware.

> if you simply pay $100k to trained employees

Assuming 1) you can find trained employees, and 2) they are willing to work for $100k. If the value of the trained employee is $111k, then why would they work for $100k except for ignorance of their value?

This is my big problem with STEM shortage parrots and with labor as a market in general: ideal candidates are rare, and, in general, willingness to spend more or train up is pretty low. On the other hand, anecdotally businesses seem willing to wait months or years for that ideal candidate to come along and fail to balance the gigantic opportunity cost lost with the cost to train.

It's economically not as simple as what I'm describing, but that's sorta my point. I rarely see anyone in labor market discussions (especially around STEM or highly skilled workers) include the opportunity cost of an unfilled position.

Has anyone who played the original tried the iOS version?

I can't help but wonder if that was a bit of brigading...

I haven't tried Steam's streaming yet or Nvidia's Shield based streaming (have a Shield, but needs a 6 or greater series card and I have a 5 series).

Splashtop does work with OS X, tablets, and phones, and also works over the internet (with additional latency obviously). I'll give Steam's streaming a shot sometime soon.

For this, check out Splashtop. I've been using it for years and it works great. They even have Win8 touch integrations so you can play Civ 5 touch, and an OS X client so you can use a Mac from a tablet or phone.

I feel like this is an obvious "duh" followed by "that doesn't go far enough." I feel like the real question is "do we need fighters or bombers at all?" Seems like we would just want delivery platforms for guided missiles since dogfighting is to air combat as the line infantry is to ground combat.

Was my first thought, too, after reading about the link between the sugar industry and those early sugar studies.

Seems to me like the scientific community should be overly open about its sources of funding, conflicts of interest, etc if it wants to maintain public trust going forward.

Ugh. I hate to think of all of the "I told you so's" from the misguided people in Portland who continually vote against fluoridating the water with no actual scientific basis for doing so.

Also super happy with T-Mobile's speed- it's faster (bandwidth-wise) than my stupid U-verse. But the whole text message issue they have is driving me nuts to the point that I'll probably switch to another carrier with less available bandwidth just to get sms that works.

Safari is the new IE. No idea why they still require vendor prefix for a range of accepted and implemented standards.

Furthermore, depending on a number of factors, $60k is not a legal wage for a salaried software engineer in California. The minimum for an exempt employee as of 1 Jan 2015 is now $41.27 hourly, $7,165.12 per month, or an annual salary of not less than $85,981.40 for full time, overtime exempt employment [1].

Let me say that again for anyone working in CA in software as a salaried, overtime exempt employee:

If you make less than $85,981.40 a year and cannot collect overtime, your employer is not paying you a legal wage in California. You should do some research and consider contacting a labor lawyer.

Edit: [1] https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/LC515-5.pdf

I don't... and have tremendous respect for people who build software and systems that are "mission critical."

They're in the same situation as civil engineers and the like. They build a bridge that falls down, they go to jail or are financially ruined. We make software that falls over and people pay us for updates.

I didn't even think of that... good point. Is this an issue with nest?

Imminent danger of death? I want a Nest (that works, though this video is anecdotal and seems staged-ish) as much as the next person, but I have to silence a standard smoke detector once every never. It's inconvenient when I do, but less inconvenient than waking up to find my house is on fire or not waking up at all because I died in my sleep from carbon monoxide or smoke inhalation. Even if I trust my own build and code, do I trust the build/code quality of an arduino and whatever half assed, 3rd party smoke detecting shield I can find over a device designed and built by people with the life saving responsibility in mind? I'd still trust a Nest over any arduino shield.

Being alive >>>>> rare inconvenience.

I only have one option, AT&T Uverse, and I live in a < 10 year old building in downtown San Francisco.

On the other hand, I'd probably not want to work for someone who thought IRC was the best solution for team communication in 2015, and certainly not for someone who thought it was better to bang your collective head against all of IRC's problems instead of paying a small amount for Slack or Flowdock or another solution that works well out of the box.

IRC is still useful and relevant for a lot of OSS, but it's definitely not something relevant for screening people.

You might want to include your contact info in your HN profile.

>>But I think the most sensible way forward would be to synthesize this effect with drugs.

I'm no naturopath, but something about this attitude really bugs me. I know in context he was cautioning against jumping to conclusions, but if there was a safe, low barrier to entry, non-drug way of achieving an effect, why would you encourage people to take a drug instead?

I wouldn't even say we have a shortage of "good developers." Like commenters pointed out a few days ago on the "how to make it in the tech mecca" post, there is a shortage of "ideal" developers willing to work for less and a strong employer willingness to pass on 100 or 1000 "ok" or "good" candidates that they could train in favor of that "ideal" candidate.

So I would argue that it's a problem with an asymmetrical job marketplace and poor long term decision making on the part of employers.

From another comment:

>>It's transparency, it all helps

Sorta pedantic and not picking on that comment so much as the CA Prop 65/label GMOs/Citizens United world that we live in: transparency might not be a real solution or means of achieving some goal. Increasing transparency and generating more data when there is already a very low signal to noise ratio and an even lower impetus to act on actual signal feels like a waste of time and energy. For example, we don't need any more data about NSA privacy invasions or CIA torture or effective criminal wrongdoing on the part of the financial industry; we know there is willing, flagrant illegal activity, yet modern society (not just American society, mind you) is unwilling or incapable of doing anything about it.

So what will more data get us? Seems like a waste of time if the desired outcome is change.

Furthermore, it's not like physical licenses are particularly robust against identity fraud. Go to the nearest college campus and you'll find a dozen kids with fake IDs in 10 minutes.

If by easier you mean "doesn't require vast amounts of capital" then yah.

Pretty good chance we live in the same building. I've called our building rep a couple of times to try and pressure them into turning up the speeds, but no luck so far.

As a side note, I really hate article titles that use this kind of wildly inaccurate accusation. The nation of China did not breach the U.S. Postal Service, a Chinese government team did. Still inaccurate and vague, but there's a world of difference between the United States launching a drone strike and the CIA, an agent of the US, launching a drone strike.

Edit: I've read more than enough articles where the agent or actor is NOT a member of the government, yet still referred to as "China" or "America". However, even in situations where it is a member of the government or of a company, I still think the connotations conveyed by imprecisely labeling the actors totally throw off expectations and perceptions.

Even the NSA has to deal with Huxley.

I'm not suggesting that learning to code isn't "worth" 4 years and 250k, given no other option. I would say that there are far more efficient ways to learn to code and win that kind of job or salary.

>“Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?”

He's right. That is insane. But so is spending $27,950/year for 5+ years to "be taught how to think." Coupled with their absurd acceptance rate, I've gotta agree with the other comments that point out that they simply recruited brilliant kids who were already independent thinkers.

Reminds me of a Department of Labor(?) study that concludes that ~80% of people can do a job if you tell them what to do, show them how to do it, and manage their progress, ~15% of people are able to do a job if you tell them what to do, and <5% of people are able to figure out what needs to be done and do it. Cool, Minerva, you might have some "success" by finding people who are already capable of doing what you say you do for them.

>Is a university really an appropriate place to send someone who couldn't keep up with high school coursework, whatever the reason, in the first place?

A really good question. I'd say the US does a very poor job of either providing that preparatory edu for those who need it or guiding those who fall out of the educational system into trade schools and other vocations, something that Germany also does very well. Not sure what the solution is for the US... we're so focused on the people at the top and the bottom that everyone else is left out.