skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Unshaped and uncapped copper is also available. I'm paying about USD100/mo for this at 10Mbps. Hellkom is "balancing" my line to 6Mbps, but that somehow still caters for two concurrent Netflix streams.

* Soft-capped (or uncapped shaped) copper is now available for much lower prices, even at 10Mbps.

* Copper bandwidth limits are much higher. For example, 200GB for something like USD15/mo.

* Fiber is being rolled out. Slightly more expensive than ADSL and very difficult to get hold of as you need to acquire a specific amount of business in your area.

* Mobile data remains a pathetic joke. I wouldn't risk using it for streaming: out-of-bundle it would cost over USD1000 to stream a single HD movie on MTN.

It's still not acceptable (even Zimbabwe is far cheaper) but has drastically improved. Most people I know have an account with one of the streaming services.
What's the crux of this concern?

If it's environmental, we can assume cars in the future will be all-electric, powered by nuclear or renewable energy sources.

If it's congestion, firstly we should see a dramatic reduction in the number of accidents. Automated vehicles will make far more efficient use of limited road capacity, and with no need for parked cars to litter urban streets, we will have greater capacity.

More importantly, we can just regulate against congestion. Cap the number of cars in an area at any one time, if you want, or implement dynamic pricing. That will go a long way to eliminating unnecessary journeys during peak times.
The topic of this thread is Netflix, and i have personal experience with these limits of netflix, hence i referred to them. Though it applies to all such parties. And netflix being the biggest could certainly 'make a fist' and get some stuff done.

And since Netflix is such a big party, they have blame too.
In some countries, Netflix is barely worth it / if at all. Limited and lousy selection.
The millionaires leave cities, build fortresses
> basic rights we take for granted (for example, walking into a store and not being treated as a potential thief, or having prospective interviewers assume we're professional/literate/presentable) are actually privileges that many people or color don't have.

You are aware that Irish and Eastern Europeans, and on and off through history Greek and Italian, have had all those same problems right? You know that 'White Privilege' you talk about is really just for those of Germanic origin, right?

Because I'd hate for you to look like an idiot telling someone who could have faced all those issues when they moved to Western Europe, the US or Canada that it's all wine and roses for them.

White Privilege should just be called White Devil. It jsut paints such a simplistic view of the world, not a real one, but one that is useful for rhetoric.
I agree re: the rock/bag, err on the side of caution because any potential delays will be dwarfed by the overall savings of autonomous vehicles and lead to safer driving for other road users.
This feature is implemented at a low level, and works on the command line.

For example if you have a directory that is all stored in the cloud you can `cd` to it without any network delay, you can do `ls -lh` and see a list with real sizes without a delay (e.g., see that an ISO is 650 MB), and you can do `du -sh` and see that all the files are taking up zero space.

If you open a file in that directory, it will open, even from command line, then do `du -sh` and see that that file is now taking up space, while all the others in the directory are not.

You can right-click to pin files and directories to be stored locally, and right-click to send them back to the cloud so they don't take up space.

This is actually very different than traditional network file systems like SMB, NFS, WebDAV, and SSHFS. With a normal network file system over the WAN you would have major latency problems trying to `cd` and `ls` the remote file system. Most of them also don't have any ability to cache files locally when offline, or the ability to manually select which files are stored locally and which are remote. AFS does have some similar capabilities.
I don’t think you’re going to be “driving” such trucks. I think you’ll be making decisions. For example, when you reach a yard and need to back it into a loading bay, you may draw a path on a map of the yard, taking into account obstacles that are there at that moment. The truck will handle the turning, backing up, and so on.

Likewise, you may be monitoring city traffic and choosing alternate routes. But you won’t be driving with one foot on the brake pedal and your hands on the steering wheel.
Hahahahaha, loooving the comments. ABSOLUTELY loving them. Wherein white men complain calling them white man is racist and in fact THEY are the real victims here who had to work HARD despite all the NEGATIVE STEREOTYPES against men in tech. Keep chugging mah chums, keep chugging!
Standard SQL sucks and this is Why...

I think standard SQL is not the solution to many of these problems. What we need is something new or in this case old, that is built for such queries. What do I mean, well let’s look through their examples reimplemented in qsql and I’ll show you how much shorter and simpler this could be:
http://www.timestored.com/b/standard-sql-sucks-and-this-is-w...

On another note I actually love jooq the java library and have reimplemented something similar for qSQL. If anyone from jooq is reading, I've made a free java snippet runner called jpad.io that I would be interested seeing used with jooq. I think your customers may like it.
assuming i wont do that and chances are high you accidiently will read trough one of my crappy articles in the future. what are the key aspects i should be working on? (except the lazyness of the article itself)
That is an interesting observations. I have a few Singaporean friends, working in tech. They are content with the status quo because they are comfortable, their family life is good and don't have much to complain about in general, so they are don't really care much about the level of goverance there.
It's my guess that it has only recently that sufficiently powerful (ARM) micro-controllers have become cheap enough for the move from the last generation of mc to be commercially viable. I bet we would be surprised how old some of the mc's are in many recent products.
> Her writing reminds me of Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky -- two other writers that I respect, but who share a bad habit of hating on anything connected to money, ambition, or technologically driven human progress.

Yup, similar problem with "Debt" by David Graeber, it's eloquent and well argued up until the point where he gradually slips into blaming just about all thinkable ills on money and harkens back to a more 'fair' past where people from different tribes simply killed and raped each other instead of selling one another off as slaves [sic].
True. If you're not willing to show me your price, in a huge font, with big flashing letters, chances are you're secretly a bit ashamed of that price, and I shouldn't be paying it in the first place.
There's plenty of places that are more private. What's wrong with having a few where you trade privacy for some potential upsides? So long as people are free to leave if they please, I think it's good to have varied options.
Society will trust these automakers with autonomous vehicles? They can't even get their gas milage right.

- Mitsubishi Motors: We did false mileage tests since 1991

- Toyota Unintended Acceleration and the Big Bowl of “Spaghetti” Code

- Volkswagon emissions scandal

On and on and on...
It is likely that fewer cyclists will get crushed like a grape under a semi that's instrumented for self-driving. If it works better, the technology will be launched somewhere in the world, and economic pressure will spread it.
That was part of the problem the real number of RSS readers were hidden and silly analytics like this led sites to make bad decisions.
I tried proxying through a server in Germany (in a big, well known hosting provider) and I got the same message, both with ssh -D and pptpd.

So they're either reading signatures left on the packets by various VPN / proxy technologies (fragmentation and other obscure metrics), or they're blocking the IP ranges of major hosting providers, or both.
I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was rich, I had to put in a tremendous effort to even get into the industry.

I grew up in a small, very blue collar town (the sort that most people never escape). We lived on social assistance, at least until my mother killed herself and I went to live in foster homes. Eventually my father -- who later died from asbestos related cancer from his job -- let me move into a spare bedroom at his girlfriend's house.

"White male privilege".

I "made it", so to speak, purely on the backs of a couple of teachers who tried really hard, and the luck of having interests and aptitudes perfect for the time in a burgeoning, lucrative industry. But I certainly did not have a privileged upbringing.
no, one of them has to go at 55.25MPH to make it look like they have a chance of overtaking before the top.
I'd love to be on the beta, signed up and have been waiting patiently but can't pass up a queue jump ;) Docker ID = misterdai
This had nothing to do with being a developer after 40.

tldr: Banal, overconfident advice on the subject of a software career, devolving into political rants at times.
Except syndication is explicitly forbidden by Twitter developer agreement and they can get shut down at any time.
Zizek on Zero Dark Thirty was a pretty good take along these lines (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/25/zero-da...)
That is, after all, the conceit of utopian stories: they are all dystopian.
Except California doesn't execute people any longer. It has been a decade since the last and I wouldn't hold your breath on the next. Singapore has executed people in that time.

There are a few more responses I commonly see about Singapore:

4. Political dictatorship

5. Lack of freedom of speech

6. Lack of press freedom, government controlled press

7. Capital punishment, including executions by hanging

8. Socially very regressive
Except now it's replaced with nightmares and terrors about the horrible dangers that real life presents us.
Investigation into Hillary Clinton's Emails
What's this doing???
I can see many road hazards being handled much better by a computer. Depending on what technology is used, fog could have no effect on what the truck can perceive. Also keep in mind that the trucks could talk to one another, notifying each other of road hazards/debris on segments of road.
The relevant field of research is "computational creativity". For a bibliography look at http://computationalcreativity.net/home/resources/bibliograp...
I have. A beer was really expensive, but a return flight to Manila for a weekend drinking bender was cheaper overall than staying in Singapore to drink.

I was a little disturbed by how prevalent domestic servants were, but they were almost entirely not Singaporean citizens. I suppose it's more a mark of how poor the surrounding countries are rather than anything wrong with Singapore.
In my opinion the main problem with having a hard time motivating yourself to work on a project is the simple fact that subconsciously we don't really feel passionate about it - from the technical point, the problem it solves or the niche it's intended for. Why not take a step back and think if this project is really important to you and something you'd like to work on for the next X months/years, maybe you do it only because you want to learn new technology, or you hope it will make a lot of money, or you want to create something related to your passion, but the project itself is boring, or you feel it's the "future", but not your kind of future. You could read dozen of books, take motivational courses, practive meditation and so on, but if you aren't really, REALLY passionate about the thing you want to create, you'll need to push yourself over and over again, until you get burned out.
If you already have an existing user who is perfect for the role, then there is a solid opportunity. On the other hand, hiring via "help wanted" means that the new person has to be brought up to speed on the technical details and educated on the history of the project.

The third alternative is to shift roles within the company and hire to fill gaps created by shifting roles.

Good luck.
NFS with selective offline caching and automatic re-syncing upon reconnetion. NFS never really did that. AFS and Coda kind of tried, I don't recall it working that well.

Plus all the other basic Dropbox features
Oh, yeah. Clearly you just don't "get it". Clearly you're just don't "want it enough". I say, if you're so smart, articulate what "it" actually is, clearly, without resorting to hand-waiving, or else I will default back to assuming there is no actual "it" there.
Very interesting post. I'm fully with the author except for one point: whether Google Reader comes back matters no more. The freedom of Internet and the choices for the people lies in the freedom software, not proprietary service.

Liferea and newsblur(https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur) are some good open source alternatives.
One would think that ships would be the first to be automated but alas they are not.. why? theft. Would you trust your driverless truck not to get hacked and stolen? would you trust sensitive and expensive equipment to be moved by driverless trucks? There's still a long way to go.
You're probably right, and at the time SQL was "invented" (and standardised), a lot of people were right too. They wanted QUEL, they got SQL. But hey, the presentation (linked from the article) got a slide for you:

http://de.slideshare.net/LukasEder1/10-sql-tricks-that-you-d...

Sorry :)
Content geofencing makes no sense. Until businesses realize this people will always find ways around it.
As I said elsewhere, I do not think a constant wireless connection will be an issue, because I don’t think you’ll be operating the truck remotely the way a hobbyist operates an RC car. The truck will brake when a car, pedestrian, or bicycle cuts it off, and do it better than you could.

You are there to route it around traffic jams, talk to the foreman on site, and choose the loading bay.

Even if you had a reliable high-bandwidth/low-latency connection, the truck will be better than you are at handling things that requires instant response. You are there to make decisions.
The other day my gf and I tried to rent a movie on xbox. It didn't work out so well, it had the cover and all the sequels but not the original version.

I got frustrated and illegally streamed the movies instead.
"Forget the Hype" followed by LLVM hype.
It's also a special case in being a Chinese enclave surrounded by much lager Muslim countries: Malaysia and Indonesia. How do you think it compares with those?
“Oakland,” one of them says. “That’s where we want to invest.”

“Too dangerous,” says another. “My wife would never go for it.”

“Of course not,” says the first, “but you don’t buy to live there.”

I live in Oakland. So glad these people aren't coming here.
"What about the roads themselves? I'm curious how an autonomous truck will handle a snow-covered highway, fog, potholes, and tight corners caused by narrow roads, bad parking, snow banks, etc."

It won't; at least, it won't need to handle narrow roads, bad parking, snow banks, etc.

The autonomous truck need not drive the whole route that a human driver does now. Drive down the Ohio Turnpike and you will see numerous parking lots with UPS trailers parked in them, right alongside the highway. All you need is an autonomous truck to drive the trailer down the turnpike. Humans can drop it off at the turnpike and pick it up. It could deal with typical weather events, or just look at the weather forecast and stay parked if the weather looks like it will be bad.

The highways are cleared shoulder to shoulder a day or two after most snows so the autonomous trucks wouldn't lose too much yearly time due to bad weather. You could keep humans around to drive the more urgent shipments.
This is probably an unpopular opinion here, but only a very small subset of developers need to design algorithms or even know any of them by heart.

Disregarding a few years that was mostly WordPress consulting, my experience is largely enterprise C#. Lots of line of business applications, glorified CRUD apps, and some client work. Zero need for any ability to write a BST or radix sort.

If you're working for SpaceX, or Twitter, or a Big 4, of course you should know those things. But most developers don't work for one of those companies. The vast majority of programming is done to further a business other than programming.
I don't understand this logic, from an age before i even could fathom what 'racism' or 'sexism' was i was fascinated by computers and technology

during early high school the dot com bubble happened and most of my teachers advised me against going into IT, they talked about low wages, unemployment, constantly re learning as tech progresses, outsourcing job et al

girls didn't much care for computer guys and they were near the bottom of the social pecking order. in my experience i was an outcast.

i was being highly discouraged everywhere i looked, but i didn't care one bit, i was doing it because i was interested in it. of course now all of those factors have reversed themselves not that i could have forseen that.

my point is that maybe today women and certain races face some of these issues, maybe you could make the argument that they're discouraged (seems to me that they're encouraged a lot more than i was) but even if we accept that as a truism, which i clearly don't, who cares, if these people are no less able let them prove it and this culture of barriers (which i don't believe in anyway) will subside.
I guess I'm looking at it from where I was back then (a spotty young teenager). I remember Windows 3.1 needed Trumpet Winsock, then came IE 1,2,3 and they were awful, when IIS appeared it took about a decade to become any good versus Apache. From my point of view things started changing with IE4 and then Windows 98 getting automatic updates. For me that's when MS turned it around (i.e. ~4 years after Mosaic).
Very interesting!
As I saw the last picture picture I immediatly thought why not apply landscape photography reference textures to the whole minecraft screen output.
> It just means, for example, that it probably would have been even harder if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family.

That is an absurd, subjective, abstract theory with no research to back it. The same thing can be said of any sex, race or creed in virtually any instance of life. Get over yourself and quit acting like this is exclusive to white people.

White people did not invent sexism. Neither is it exclusive to them.

White people did not invent racism. Neither is it exclusive to them.

White people did not invent religion. Neither is it exclusive to them.
Product Management Lessons from the Dojo
I'm alright with it, as long as we know the person is a threat to our national security.

As the article illustrates, we don't know the person is a threat to our national security. We'll never know with 100% accuracy. The only available options are to accept occasionally torturing people who are innocent or disagreeing with torture and not using it. Most of the civilised world has agreed that the danger of mistakenly torturing innocent people isn't worth it.
The Chernobyl Conundrum: Is Radiation as Bad as We Thought
Correlation =/= Causation
I have a little python script to do a similar thing:

https://github.com/larkery/nix-session/blob/master/scripts/d...

This remembers the randr state that's associated with plugged in displays by their EDID and the ACPI lid switch. When you change the randr state, it remembers it, and when you change what displays are connected or open the laptop lid, it loads a previously remembered state if there is one. The state saving and loading is done by arandr, which handles the resolution, position, and choice of primary output.
I think most people buying it know that it is not a full OS like Windows or Linux but sure my experience is with developers mostly.

Personally, I use my Chromebook for everything but serious dev work and photos & video work. Some of the things that I could not do on my phone/iPad that I use my Chromebook for are serious research, taking notes, watching movies in bed, using Google's Spreadsheets, minor dev via ssh and vim, and loaning it to guests and friends without a worry.
That ignores the economic factors. Much like trains, cargo ships haul a huge amount of cargo while being manned by a small crew. Thus the labor cost as a percentage of total cargo haul cost is quite low. A truck, though, requires a human driver to move a single cargo container any distance, so there's a much bigger economic incentive to replace the driver with a computer.
Or there is a use in mind, but announcing it all at once would yield more backlash than they're aiming for.

I'm supportive of high levels of surveillance in public areas, but recognise that introducing it more gradually makes it more palatable.
Ummm... isn't that the job of version control?
Imagine just how much of an unfair advantage those companies must have to basically set hundreds of millions on fire and still expand!
:)
No idea how the #3 happened as this article (and as you noticed the whole website) is pretty lazy (guess it fits the topic and the idea people love so much to get rich from nothing).

Thanks for the honest critique, you are right. I should probably try harder to build a connection between the articles and actually put some information in there that people can relate to.
> And that's exactly why guarantees are so effective for sellers... very few people actually go through with the guarantee.

Not always -- many people are shameless jerks. REI used to have a lifetime no-questions-asked return policy, but people were returning worn-out shoes and such, so they had to discontinue it.
If you're working for employers who think it's easy to find good developers, you're working for employers who hire lots of terrible developers.
For reference, there's also autorandr [1] and x-on-resize [2].

[1] https://github.com/wertarbyte/autorandr

[2] http://keithp.com/blogs/x-on-resize/
is it an advantage for a white male from a poor disadvantaged background with little opportunities has to get higher marks to get into a good college than a minority from an affluent background who has been given every opportunity?
Calculating Gender Balance in SQL (and LookML)
Why is everyone assuming that greedy German companies aren't willing to sell? Is it also possible that Netflix isn't willing to pay the going rate or hasn't bothered to negotiate for the rights.

Netflix launched globally without taking the time to negotiate content for most countries on earth. I'm not sure you can assume that Netflix is being diligent in trying to acquire content.

Especially since even in the USA netlix appears to be pivoting into being a content creator instead of a content aggregator.
And amazon took 15-18 years to make that cash cow. Flipkart will also figure out something in next few years. For all the negativity for flipkart, they have much much bigger share in apparel which is the place where margins are higher and profitability is easier.

And amazon can not keep spending money on India. They have to convince their shareholders that investing in India will be profitable. So if flipkart being market leader will not be able to convince someone for more money, it will put pressure on amazon also for the same.
What's wrong with that? It's not okay to become evil in order to fight evil.
You made a point on your own Twitter account of what is wrong with Singapore

https://twitter.com/philliphaydon/status/720811398025109504
Because the comment you replied to contained enough valid arguments.