skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hrm.. just reading on the net Revenues: $2.59 billion, Monthly active users: 1.23 billion. Just need about $2 per MAU which is not crazy at all.
What factual errors did this video make?
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I live in the same town as the author. Comcast is not my ISP but is the ISP for several of my friends, including friends whom I stayed with for about six weeks recently when I was (for the most part) incapacitated. I can't be 100% certain (I'm going from memory) but I'm almost positive that Netflix traffic did come from the same facility that the author is hitting when connected to the school's VPN. (If it wasn't 2:33 a.m. I'd go verify.)

As I mentioned in another comment, however, the .edu is almost certainly better connected to this facility than Comcast is.
I work in natural language processing now, but I was working on ads for the last couple of years (right out of college).

There is nothing inherent to ads that makes it universally something to avoid. Different people have different priorities for their ideal engineering job (num of users reached, power within the team, liking the product, liking the actual technical work, etc). I know people who loved working in ads: some of them didn't care a ton about the product they worked on, but loved the challenge of their technical work, and some who truly found the world of ads itself to be interesting. This set of priorities isn't necessarily something you'll realize immediately out of school; I was happy for a while with the technical challenge of the work I was doing in ads, but after a while I realized that my personal preference prioritized the actual product I was shipping higher than I thought, so I switched to something I was more excited about.

Don't listen to anyone stupid enough to tell you that there's any universal rule about jobs in ads being crappy (much less a "dead end"; I couldn't be happier where I am at this point and spending a couple of years working in the area of ads didn't hurt me at all). Keep in mind what your priorities are for your job (they're different for everyone) and do research on what a given role would entail (something that even good CS programs don't really prepare you for: I had to discover my aversion to front-end work the hard way).
"You won't find much sympathy for the middle class who choose a nicer house in a more expensive city, a newer car, or a bigger family instead of safety and security for the future."

The average cymo treatment is about $75,000 a hit. So, you know anyone who is prepared for that? The top 1% are, of course. But the rest of us? Those who don't have insurance are fucked. Those that do are ok until they get a bill for services not covered by their insurance. And god help you if you want a non-standard treatment. Then it's ALL on you. And then the house is up for sale. Then the cars. Then you are applying for medicare disability. Only to be dined because you made too much money last year.

This happens all the time. My hope is that Obamacare deals this. But I have my doubts.

Tell you what.. get cancer then come back and comment. I bet you change your mind. ;) No offense of course. Just don't come to my county hospital for care.. my property taxes are high enough. ;)
I did an internship in a bus company several years ago and we finally abandoned the idea of GTFS because they (Google) were so uptight about the correctness of the data.

We had a few trips that were non consistent (the average speed was something like 150 km/h - 93 mp/h) that we couldn't do anything about and they refused to integrate those data.

Several bus stops were also too close (they were apart of a narrow street) and were generating warnings every time.

I wish I had this book back then.
Oh I understand what you mean. Well obviously for his system to work the would need to be authorities that could find people that truly premise as impoverished.
cool feature :)
Why the non-tsandard names of everything?
And... CLOS?
He kinda reminds me of Woz in that way. Except Woz was never seen as evil, and Bill had an evil image for a while there in the 90s and early 2000s.
> If the idea is to make people feel that they have done something useful with their $25, which they get back a few months later, it works wonderfully.

This is a poison on humanity.
There are some plausible reasons to delay, at least a little, especially if you think (as is likely with a challenger) you may need a little time to acclimate to the game's buzz-in rhythm and get the gist of categories. Also, the daily-doubles are worth more later: when you've got more to wager, and know more about relative standings.
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"It's not like going from, say, refrigerators to cruise missiles"

Raytheon didn't suddenly jump or "pivot"from domestic appliances to missiles.

They acquired Hughes Aircraft and its 40,000 employees of expertise in the mid-1990s, by which time Raytheon was involved in nuclear power, general aviation ( Beech Aircraft ), polymers, pharma...

Hughes brought with it the major 'brands' of Tomahawk and AMRAAM.
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What do you mean 'of course it's going to be faster over a VPN'? The VPN is taking a non-optimal route, it should in almost all cases be of similar or slower speed. If the VPN path is fastest then comcast should be sending data in that direction.

Call it congestion if you want but it's intentional congestion caused by intentionally wrong routing.
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Well Eugene, if your as good at web design as you are at self promotion, I can see why you lost.
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It's really simple, people. The links that Comcast is carrying Netflix traffic over is getting saturated during peak hours. I am certainly not a fan of Comcast but I don't think they are actively doing anything to screw with Netflix traffic, they just aren't doing anything to fix it.
It isn't for me... New Zealand.
During my Education to Electrical Technician ("Lehre") in Switzerland we had a lot of exercises to learn debugging. One was that we got a blackbox with some pins and some maximum ratings and we had to find out what circuit is inside. Or we got a Circuit with a defined function and had to find out if it works as expected or not. And so on. This was also a big part of our exams.

Then on the University the education shifted to a very theoretical approach.
Isn't the bad hire/good hire feeling that is described here much to personal? If the so called bad hire somehow senses the hostility, no wonder why he leaves the company.

If you inadvertently cross a few red lines as a new hire you can ring a few alarms in your hirer's mind. If those red lines are in the company culture that's fine, you might be a bad hire (or the company culture might suck, which should have the same consequences). But sometimes those red lines are totally hirer specific.
Your interface seems to fail with my minimum font setting; I need to copy out the speed results to be able to read them, which isn't that fun.
I find the professor's attitude quite puzzling. You often learn best when you have made a mistake, and then figure it out ("expectation failure"). Why not take advantage of that? I think bugs are quite useful as "teachers", as I discussed in "4 Reasons Why Bugs Are Good For You" http://henrikwarne.com/2012/10/21/4-reasons-why-bugs-are-goo...
Hey Numair, I agree with you on the negativity. It's not good for anyone. Path is exquisitely designed and the product team are top notch.

That being said, websites like App Annie provide reasonably detailed metrics on downloads and popularity in iOS and Android stores and what you've just said doesn't really tie out. Besides Indonesia, it's really not doing well.

Important interactions can happen on almost any social network, Path isn't inherently bad, but that doesn't justify it being valued or hyped like it is. There is A LOT of money at play here - and a large portion of that money comes from things like retirement funds, pension funds, etc.

I think that annoys a lot of technologists who work hard and get overlooked - you know, those who believe that meritocracy rules in SV instead of connections.
Have you thought of the people with BTC stuck on Mt.Gox?
> FTC fines maker of Path app $800,000 for privacy violations

First result on goolging "path privacy"
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Being an ISP is not a natural monopoly. This premise is part of the problem, ISPs are being protected from competition when they should not be.

From the Wiki entry the author quotes:

"A natural monopoly is a monopoly in an industry in which it is most efficient (involving the lowest long-run average cost) for production to be concentrated in a single firm."

Competition in the ISP market drives costs lower as it forces the companies to become more efficient, and increases the value proposition offered to customers (greater speeds at an equal or lesser price, thanks Google Fiber!). In fact, I think it would be easy to prove comprehensively that ISPs are in no way natural monopolies.

If the author was right, and ISPs were a natural monopoly, then there would be nothing to discuss, the only practical solution would be to install government regulated monopolies in every location across the nation to achieve the absolute lowest cost and consumer price. Google demolished this line of thinking very handily, they showed how instantaneously the government protected telecoms respond to competition in a positive way.

The solution is to make it illegal nationally, via Federal law, for any municipality to ever create or encourage an ISP monopoly; and specifically the exact opposite should occur, competition should be heavily encouraged everywhere. The FCC should be mandated with keeping competition lanes wide open in the ISP market, at all times, across the nation. Standards for how cities and towns handle multiple ISPs for infrastructure should be established. Simply: you shall create no law restricting ISP competition or granting monopoly status, period.
Google has a similar program for ISPs: Google Global Cache https://peering.google.com/about/ggc.html
Visual studio has to be the best ide I've ever had the pleasure of using. Sadly I'm not much of a fan of Microsoft or its technologies (C# is great if you're into that sort of thing.)

For me its all pretty simple, ides in Linux or Mac get in my way. That is the only reason. Sublime, vim. They take learning, yes you have to spend hours configuring over their lifetime of usage, yes you have to have a core understanding about how they work. But its worth it. They're fast - like blistering fast. Once they're setup to my liking: they get right the fuck out my way and take a back seat to writing code. They do exactly what I expect, and they do it exactly how I told them to do it. (Can you tell I'm a developer yet) They dont bug me about my syntax mid thought, they wait till I'm done and save or consciously call on them for a clean up.

Also as a personal opinion and an anecdotal one at that: eclipse and netbeans are pretty ugly, menu systems and configuration is done in XML. Why would any human want anything to do with that kind of thing? BTW I'd have something to say about xcode but its still loading...
Glenn Greenwald's news site, The Intercept, is up
If as a provider you start installing equipment from a third party content provider, is that still called "network neutrality" though?

Why would you accept equipment from Netflix but not $STARTUP? Would accepting equipment from Netflix also force you to accept equipment from $OTHERSTARTUP (talking about http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2014/01/vc-pitches-in-a-year-or-two.... here)? What are the security implications?
Not really. Hugely ruinous medical expenses could be something that happened, say, once every hundred or two hundred person-years and still affect a massive proportion of people who lived long enough. Also, even just health insurance for critical illness and emergencies isn't exactly cheap...
Interesting. So the way we learned the Lord's Prayer, it seems to use the informal: "Thy will be done". But that doesn't correlate with addressing God as "LORD", does it?

Edit: I looked this up and found this page: http://brandplucked.webs.com/theeandye.htm

It seems to infer that "thou, thee" etc. are only about distinguishing between singular and plural. There's no mention of them being an informal form, at least not in the King James Bible.

Even more:

"As William Tyndale translated the Bible into English in the early 16th century, he sought to preserve the singular and plural distinctions that he found in his Hebrew and Greek originals. Therefore, he consistently used thou for the singular and ye for the plural regardless of the relative status of the speaker and the addressee. By doing so, he probably saved thou from utter obscurity and gave it an air of solemnity that sharply distinguished it from its original meaning. Tyndale's usage was imitated in the King James Bible, and remained familiar because of that translation."

Then more from Wikipedia - the plot thickens!

"Early English translations of the Bible used thou and never you as the singular second-person pronoun, with the double effect of maintaining thou in usage and also imbuing it with an air of religious solemnity that is antithetical to its former sense of familiarity or disrespect."

Also, apparently French uses the informal (see "toi" in the Lord's Prayer), whereas Dutch uses formal (U/uw).
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mind sharing those insights? I'm far more interested in the general strategy than just cramming for the questions.

I'm surprised to learn that the daily doubles arn't fully random.
most reasonable monitoring tools

20+ years of experience tells me most monitoring tools aren't reasonable.
Last I worked at a ISP, Google actually DOES provide YouTube caching servers to ISPs that want it - they bring you a black box machine which you plug into your backbone switch that does transparent caching for users. Getting one has significantly reduced load on internatinal peering lines (I'm from a small EU country) and made quite a differece for our customers as well (suddenly YouTube started working smoothly for most of them while on other ISPs it sometime still stutter).

I guess same thing can be provided by Netflix as well.
If they treated it as getting paid per megabyte delivered, they would love to make all these interconnects and such.

They fact that they chose to sell 'unlimited' data and look at network investment as a waste is not unfair to them in any way. It's a self-imposed illusion of a problem.
> I'm a beginner trying to learn Ruby on Rails. Most tutorials show who to .reverse strings of text.

Don't use an online tutorial, you need more. You really probably should learn the basics of programming Ruby before diving into Rails, but, if learning the basics is demotivating and you need a deep dive, I'd recommend you get the book Agile Web Development with Rails [1], which is a pretty good dive into rails that covers a lot more than any web tutorial will.

[1] http://pragprog.com/book/rails4/agile-web-development-with-r...
Forgive my ignorance, but why is this such a non-trivial task?

While it seems some management might be required to sufficiently route high traffic partners, does it really require 'building new pipes' or 'special infrastructure' that has a non-trivial cost?

I thought the wonderful aspect of the Internet is such tasks and distribution could be had for very, very cheap.
sure, all of that is possible. but honestly how likely is it that some or all of those things are the case on the direct path from netflix/youtube through the ISP in question to so many people's homes? and yet the problem spot is mysteriously avoided when using a VPN (not any particular VPN, but pretty much any of them, judging by most of the people who have spoken out about this problem recently). the problem so effectively avoided by changing the route from the optimal(ish) path to one that is almost guaranteed to be worse from a network flow standpoint.

sorry, I don't buy any apologizing for comcast/verizon failing to deliver HD video from netflix/youtube yet somehow able to do it under the same network conditions (same time) just this time through an encrypted VPN. if it was an isolated report... maybe. this is far too widespread to be anything but intentional.
I think the key insight of the article is how different each person is in temperament and how that comes out in programming teams.

What is interesting is why this relates to software more than, say, ditch digging or gardening.

I would say that is because software involves dealing with the most complex situation imaginable as effectively as possible. In other situations, a person only has to mobilize some of faculties, in software, a person has to mobilize all of their faculties - or at least much more of a certain type. But this shows how different people's abilities are at the limit. Not just different in extent but different in kind.
Ok, but even in that interpretation, saying "god damn it" is "god should send that thing to hell", which doesn't seem like it should be said lightly, and, um, treads close to speaking for him.
I appreciate your detailed response. As you might guess, I find many points of disagreement, but rather than belabor the matter with an enumeration of such points, let me just note that my comment wasn't a dissertation, so accusations of a lack of rigor are misplaced. In particular, my purpose in citing Pinker was to point you to an accessible introduction to the subject, not to do a comprehensive literature review. Moreover, what you dismiss as a "popular science book" has hundreds of footnotes to refereed publications. Take a look at it—you might be surprised at what you find.
The corollary of this post is "things we've been monitoring and/or alerting on which we shouldn't have been".

Starting at a new shop, one of the first things I'll do is:

1. Set up a high-level "is the app / service / system responding sanely" check which lets me know, from the top of the stack, whether or not everything else is or isn't functioning properly.

2. Go through the various alerting and alarming systems and generally dialing the alerts way back. If it's broken at the top, or if some vital resource is headed to the red, let me know. But if you're going to alert based on a cascade of prior failures (and DoS my phone, email, pager, whatever), then STFU.

In Nagios, setting relationships between services and systems, for alerting services, setting thresholds appropriately, etc., is key.

For a lot of thresholds you're going to want to find out why they were set to what they were and what historical reason there was for that. It's like the old pot roast recipe where Mom cut off the ends of the roast 'coz that's how Grandma did it. Not realizing it was because Grandma's oven was too small for a full-sized roast....

Sadly, that level of technical annotation is often lacking in shops, especially where there's been significant staff turnover through the years.

I'm also a fan of some simple system tools such as sysstat which log data that can then be graphed for visualization.
In Italian, the third person feminine is formal. The first person plural is also formal, but (I believe) it's archaic. So, when speaking formally, one would say "can she help me?" to mean "can you help me?"
That's actually a case where sending a regular ping mail to several sentinal systems which report on the LACK of an email can be useful.

Reminds me of a few times the email queues got backed up to hell and beyond. Fuck you, Yahoo.
Thank you.What are your thoughts on the idea
For Windows you can also use ReSharper C++ support: http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/06/26/resharper-to-sup...
Yes, there are dozens of preferred marketing developers who provide this service.

In my experience, Facebook actually has the best performing ads with respect to measurable financial objectives.
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I'm a fan of what works. And right now Facebook is what is working. I don't know if it's the same for you, but not a day goes by where I don't overhear someone talking about Facebook in public.

About the video, the guy ran a poor campaign for a pointless page. He was expecting advertising to work like a magic button where you click it and you get engagement. The guy had no product and no target market. He advertised nothing to everyone. Of course he's going to get poor results.

About the click farms. Yeah, they do exist. But it's not Facebook's fault. Just like it's not Google's fault if people use the internet to send spam. You have to think about the scale that Facebook operates. They're the number two website in the world. And the number one social network. Let that settle in for a second. Fraudulent activity is, unfortunately, inevitable when you have a site like that.

The bottom line: become smarter with your ads. Have an actual product and a real audience. Ironically, I know of a copywriter / marketer that made a website for the dog niche. He gets 800,000 engagements a week on it. Every one of his posts gets 500-26,000 likes and tons of comments. The site is basically a news site for dogs. He just does content right. And he knows how to advertise. He doesn't spend time making fancy videos like this guy did. He gets things done. He gets results. He partners with dog related products and services and makes a killing entirely from a Facebook page.

This video is an insult to marketers. It's like me trying to insert a floppy disk into a cdrom drive, then complaining that computer makers are all frauds. ﻿
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About the top answer: Latin as no pronouns, but it has 2 distinct forms for singular and plural second person in conjugation. I don't remember, though, if the plural form was used as a polite form at least in the texts we have.
By the way for Visual Studio you will be able to use ReSharper C++ support: http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2013/06/26/resharper-to-sup...
Analyst to the new Intern: "Here is a list of stuff people have come up with to foil our algorithms. To familiarize yourself with our sophisticated tools, have a look at this problem: Find social media accounts that used to be real but are now flagged "spammer". Make categories such as "account was hacked", "sold" or "someone tries to go off the radar". For last category, we will set the scrutiny-level to 'elevated'."
Bart is very punctual, didn't see that from TTC. Covers more areas, actually building new stations to SF. Connected with 2 international airports....

Really?
Why do you assume that? Comcast can't just route traffic through IU's private network
Let's say your customers are complaining that youtube is slow. Let's say, you found out that it's because the peering partner of your peering partners peering partner is congested.

To fix this, you can try to talk to that any of the 3 parties involved, or you find a new peering agreement (if possible), or you actually start paying for the traffic.

Or you just leave it as-is, hoping that at some point somebody closer to the congestion starts complaining, which eventually is going to happen.

This certainly is the cheapest route and this is what we honestly can expect considering that all we are promised is 'best effort'. Everything beyond that is really cool to have, but also comes with some expense for the providers.