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My experience with interviewing is that what I think of as level two or three problems are presented, where you have to solve some recursive problem and give the O() notation for the implementation. This happens in each of the multiple interviews over the three to six hour interview session. If you're not extremely good at this you are going to be false negatived tf out of there right quick.

Top level problems are where the solution involves days, weeks or months of study and contemplation where the solution possibly involves a large amount of refactoring of existing code. Architectural level stuff. There is no way to test for this in an hour long interview.

When I mention refactoring, I often get a blank stare from the interviewer. I had a coworker recently who insisted on calling it "refuctoring", having no concept of it or any desire to investigate.
Agreed with that - I know that in my campaigns, I prefer having a bunch of smaller campaigns, which I can track the performance on at a very incremental level.

One twist is also that a lot of advertisers don't do CPC bids with FB. I know for Mobile Installs, the default is optimized CPM, without a specific CPM bid. Just throwing it to the FB algorithm wolves, and seeing where it lands.

I've found that has better results than CPC, CPM, or CPI bids, but, because it's entirely in the hands of Facebook, I have to watch it like a hawk. If I look away for a few days, the costs can get out of control.
Yeah, in the case of billg, he turned out to be a great person.
http://virtual-notary.org/

http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/06/20/virtual-notary-intr...
Fracking envenenando agua e intoxicando la tierra.
You do pay extra. Your cable company passes along the cost of ESPN subscription to you, regardless of whether or not you want it.
Yup, they're available here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html
I don't remember that ending well...
You can't "just" do stuff if you don't feel like it, as this article suggests.

And yet every morning, millions of people get up and go to work to do a job they really don't feel like doing. People still do back-breaking work just so they can put food on the table. I'm not saying it's a recipe for happiness but people have been doing stuff they don't enjoy for millennia. And even in present day, only some of us can afford to choose when, where and what to work on.
Underlying Firefox OS is B2G/boot-to-Gecko. That doesn't include any of the Android app stuff that's in Fennec.
Thanks, I was just trying to explain bitcoint recently but didn't know enough of the details so I'll pass that along.

I find the linked hashchain rate chart and the 1000x increase over the past year to be really interesting when considering that bitcoin relies on 50% of that being honest. The difference in processing power used in hashing now vs. about a month ago would be enough to own the system a month ago.
(Created a throwaway account just to post this)

When he was at Yahoo, he was considered a bit of dick by the way he parked his shiny BMW M5; he would take two spots, and then argue with people who complained. Parking at Yahoo's Sunnyvale campus is a bit tight, so seeing him park like that rubbed people the wrong way; and despite being called out on it, his attitude was "so, what are you gonna do about it? I'll park as I see fit".

Go to Flickr and look up "ycantpark" tag from those days.

Just offering another data point thats all.
1GB pages are great if you don't mind waiting 10 minutes for page being flushed to swapfile.
Will the telecommunications industry ever become competitive? The barrier of entry seems just too high with the amount of infrastructure it takes.
This is a terrible precedent to set, and if it's true, I'm very disappointed in Netflix. Comcast is vulnerable right now since it's seeking to merge with TWC. Now's the time to pull out the big guns and show Congress, the FTC, and the citizens of the US why net neutrality is important. But instead of taking advantage, they cave and even pay off Comcast in what's essentially extortion. A disturbing vision of the future broken Internet to come.
You can't make this up. Priceless.
Thanks for the info, I never saw one such system live, just a few papers about them, so some wrong info on my side.

Still if those systems had become mainstream surely there would have been an investment making them run as fast as possible. After all, Hotspot is a consequence of an commercialization attempt of such systems.
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Thanks, but do I have to enable them on the host or the guest OS? Or both? Sorry, I'm not familiar with the details of HW virtualization.
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Equivalently, they were refusing to upgrade specifically to help Netflix.
Ah sorry, missed that completely! Looking forward to using it.
Net neutrality is dead. The FCC has failed us.
Company towns existed not because housing were unaffordable but because there were no infrastructure in the place where company needed it to be before they came there. In your own link it says the company rented out and old off the property once built, thus negating the claim ownership or renting this property was not possible.
Doesn't this solution make the assumption that the guard will continue to pick prisoners to enter the switchroom indefinitely? If he picked P1, P2, P1, P2, Counter, Counter, <end> would the solution still work?
"Netflix is network heavy and competes with Comcast offerings using Comcast's own network"

Funny, back when I was a Comcast customer, I do not remember paying for "Comcast Network Access." I remember paying for "Internet Access;" sure, I went over Comcast's network, but I (maybe naively) thought that such distinctions were irrelevant on the Internet (that was kind of the point, if memory serves).
Better to break everyone's TLS connections than leave them vulnerable.

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Heres what I would be trying if I was netflix. Probably sure I'd have trouble pushing it against the rest of the company but I'd try this:

1) Collect evidence of network tampering/filtering

2) Get agreement in place to pay for better service

3) Collect the rest of the evidence that network filtering was in place when it gets lifted.

4) Simultaneously hit comcast up for breaching the neutrality agreements, while notifying all comcast customers that comcast is forcing netflix to charge its customers more for access.. that it might have to be along to them to pay... but we are working on ways yo prevent it.

Try and squeeze comcast from both ends at once and public embarrass them, while trying to keep the higher ground, looking like the peoples hero, under dog etc...

I doubt many companies would take that risk, but that what I'd try.
> Essentially what we are talking about is a real democratization of contractual agreements. Whereas today contracts are restricted to deals with enough value to justify a lawyers time (mortgages, business deals, land transfer etc…), in the future there is no limit to what could be codified into simple contracts. You could imagine forming a self-enforcing contract around something as simple as sharing a lawnmower with your neighbor, hiring a babysitter, or forming a gourmet coffee club at work.

Contracts are already totally democratized. A simple verbal agreement pertaining to lawn tools is already an enforceable contract, as is a simple English statement of terms. I don't see how making it into a programming language doesn't make it less democratic. I don't know if you had noticed, but programmers are more expensive than lawyers now.

Of course simple contracts aren't "self enforcing" but I fail to see how crypto anything helps here. How does that make your neighbor return your lawnmower?
This seems like just the sort of thing big banking would've caught whiff to and become engaged in. Though I imagine it would remain under wraps...not the sort of thing well suited to be interfacing the general public. At least until perhaps some startups had gotten the ball rolling on this ball of wax. But for big multinational (secret) interactions? How better to enforce contracts? The advantages on that scale of avoiding legal entreaties and a digitized security system would be enticing.
You don't seem to understand: This is not a technical issue; is a conceptual one, people are not going to read the details of the deal, rather to grab the idea and slowly believe that paying for better connection with a site/ISP is normal.
I saw that. Curiously, someone also downvoted you for your observation. I guess they're also touchy. ;)

I admit I was having a little tongue-in-cheek fun. It's plausible that I'm wrong (and likely); perhaps lucian1900 was genuinely stating an honest opinion. If so, that's fine. Everyone's entitled to such things.

I guess what bothers me the most is how arguments on the Internet quickly escalate to arguments from extremes. Suggesting simple eavesdropping (even if it can't be helped, some people are loud) is committing an act of violence is so absurd, it almost hurts me to even entertain it. Yet look how little time it took to reach that conclusion.

I suppose that's what I get for being optimistic. Instead of rational debate, you have extremist, absurd language arguing from a stance no reasonable person would believe. Hence, I'd rather give someone the benefit of the doubt, believing that their motives were mostly humor and sarcasm. I have my doubts, especially since the argument itself seems so prevalent and so many other people in this thread are arguing the same thing.

Maybe I need to go back to bed. It's almost like a live play from the theater of the absurd.
Please make some examples when you apply it. I'm eager to hear the applications as the other commenter!
We need to do something guys. Probably this falls under some monopoly law or practice against free market because it hurts way too much all the current (and future) Netflix competition.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7162153 (216 points, 22 days ago, 26 comments)
There just isn't that much money.

There's as much money as the regulator of the currency cares to create. Money is fungible.

Money isn't real wealth, and you cannot create more resources than you have simply by creating new wealth tokens. However, if what's ailing you is that the exchange tokens aren't equitably distributed, that does turn out to be a problem that can be addressed, directly, by creating and distributing more money.

The incentive effects are an interesting case to contemplate, but the more I think about it, the more that chasing revenue-generating opportunities of themselves seems to be more a part of the problem than of the solution.
Is that really considered hiding? I expect the unsubscribe link to be a small link in the footer. If it's not, then it's an inconvenience.
Disconnecting businesses from their users seems like it might be part of Facebook's & Google's strategy. Promotional tab in Gmail, feed curation in Facebook, personalised search (thinning organic traffic), etc. What better way to boost the performance of an advertising business? It's also usually welcomed by consumers. Quite clever, really.
Sure, that's another case entirely, and I wouldn't mark that as spam.

I was referring only to the cases where you sign up for X and you get newsletters and whatnot that's not really related to your use of X.
Docker is evolving towards a generic "container engine" with swappable execution backends. In that architecture, lxc becomes one possible backend. ZeroVM, OpenVZ, kvm/qemu or plain chroot could be used as backends under the same management API.
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by keeping money in escrow until said conditions are met.
This is an extremely important point; "job lock" has been acting as a brake on the US economy since at least 2007--8, maybe earlier, and the outlawing of "pre-existing condition" redlining practices by insurance companies benefits the vanguard of Gen X at least as much as millennials gain. Have you ever tried purchasing health insurance as a individual? The difference between last year and this year is stark.
>>> I doubt too many people are going to stop working because they qualify for ACA subsidies

Equivalent of 2.5 million workers is too many or not too many?

>>> I see the ACA subsidies as a way to make people more proactive about their health and keep them out of emergency rooms which is significantly more costly to the system.

This is also proven not to be true. Having insurance, actually, raises usage of emergency rooms by 40%. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/02/s...
It was a nice theory, too bad it's not true. But repeating it now, when it is disproven by experiment, is just substituting ideology for facts. It is not going to get us in any place that is good.

>>> As far as older folks working less because they are not tied to their employers for healthcare I think this is a good thing.

What is special in older people that them not working is good? Is that that we want the most experienced workers to be removed from the workforce, so that the productivity would drop, because lower the productivity, richer we are? And when replacing experienced and productive workers with unexperienced workers with much lower output and who also are paid much less, while moving the experienced workers from productive work to tax-sponsored welfare (which the younger workers now have to support with their salary, which is lower to begin with but now becomes even lower from having to support older folks too) - so tell me again, where the good part starts in all this? Because I kind of fail to see it.
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This is anti-competitive. It is clearly unconstitutional. I hope the FCC still has a chance to compensate for their shortcomings.
"Many people in the US have quite a bit of choices: Cable, DSL, Cell+Internet, Wireless. Usually those that live in large urban areas. But the service and quality of these ISP's varies greatly, which Comcast--in my area, being top."

This needs to be emphasized more. We rarely get to choose between equally cost-effective ISP options. The typical choice is one cable company, one phone company, and some kind of wireless service (possibly satellite). That is not competition, any more than heavy truck sales compete with mo-ped sales.
Consumer ISPs always have received more traffic than they send, it's the nature of the service they provide. I'm not sure that the settlement free peering model used by upstream providers makes sense when applied to ISPs.

I'll admit my knowledge of peering is minimal, but consumer ISPs have always been something of an anomaly if memory serves. The traffic flow is highly one sided, but peering with consumer ISPs is obviously necessary if you want to actually reach consumers.
Yes contracts are meatspace focused, but meatspace isn't object oriented only because it is obscured by the observer right now - more the legislative bodies behind law than the practicing attorneys or the parties to contracts.

With the entrance of pure theory and object oriented worldviews necessary to "open the eyes of the machine" onto what's going on in what it's tracking and providing an environment for, the programmers and administrators of legal systems can finally remake law in the image of reason, and not the obfuscations which tainted reason early on that we have now.
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Peering agreements existed in the form they did because of the underlying assumption that traffic would be roughly symmetric. Services like Netflix that send massive amounts of traffic in a single direction violate this assumption.

This is one of the underreported issues in the whole net neutrality debate. In the late '90s I worked in the WAN engineering group doing capacity planning at a big regional CLEC, which actually was a Tier 1 backbone provider. It was widely assumed in the industry that the flat rate pricing model -- pay $X for Y "guaranteed" bandwidth -- was living on borrowed time and would be replaced by actual usage-based pricing, paying for packets like you pay for gallons of water. The flat rate model only worked because we generally could keep available capacity well ahead of demand. We could do that because we were adding customers like crazy, and customers sucking down high bandwidth were outliers. If those prerequisites ever changed we'd be screwed.

Well, here we are in 2014 and ISPs like Comcast are not adding customers like crazy anymore, because most of the people who want high-speed data from them already have it. But the customers they do have are, on a per capita basis, using much more bandwidth now than they were five years ago. And this is only going to get worse. The nightmare scenario is basically upon us: capacity requirements are climbing faster than ever, but those requirements are no longer being driven by customer acquisition. Which means either the ISPs eat the cost of upgrading their infrastructure (ha!) -- or they raise rates.

But wait, doesn't Netflix pay for all their bandwidth already? Well, probably not: unless industry practices have changed drastically, even those backbone trunks are actually oversubscribed. If you pay for (say) a DS3 line, there's an implicit assumption that you are not going to be pumping 44.736 Mbit/s through it 24/7. Netflix breaks that assumption.

I don't know quite what the solution here is, and I certainly don't want the kind of dystopian "the ISP only gives you access to web sites that you pay for" future the sharpest critics paint. But I don't see this as a step toward that dystopian future. What I see it as is the ISPs trying to figure out how to work usage into pricing models without saying "screw it" and actually adopting a usage-based pricing model.
Will amazons' customers be okay if UPS charged an additional fee to amazon's customers to receive their packages?
this is very cool. I wonder what happened to it.
Ok, I misunderstood the architecture. I thought Fennec was a retargetable 'mobile Firefox' core as opposed to Firefox for Android.
Contracts create obligations. Obligations can be substituted with penalties. "We will attempt to acquire you. If we can't, we pay you a breakup fee."

If you had formal contracts around informal things like babysitting, you'd end up requiring licensed and bonded babysitters. "Henceforth, unto be known, babysitting shall commence at 1500 on Thursday, June 22, in the year of our lord 2014. Unto forthwith, inability to sit for baby will result in a $1 (one) million dollar ($) penalty payable in DOGE."

Not sure how "forming a coffee club" requires a contract unless "gourmet coffee" is code for "meth distribution."
How does the computer know conditions have been met, and what prevents using those same mechanisms with ordinary contracts?
While it's true that Russia was a major world power, the passage you quote only really establishes that it was large, which would be true of a "huge backwater" too.
Yeah, funny world - once one decent internet provider pops up in an area (Grande, presumably, and now the thread of Google Fiber too), all the other classic providers seem to provide the best service they offer throughout the country. AT&T doesn't offer that in 95% of their territory in the US (so like 99% of the US can't get it), and the same goes for Time Warner. If any area has decent internet options, it's not because of a classic / well known broadband ISP, it's only because of some small independent ISP that forced a local market to be competitive.
Why do they provide housing and not pay workers to rent the same housing? Why part of the salary must be designated "housing allowance" instead of just calling it "salary" and let the worker decide to spend it on housing?

Owning property outright might be hard to a lot of people, but there's an easy solution for it - renting. What you describe is functionally renting. The question is - why is it organized this particular way?
While Comcast is primarily a residential ISP they do have a non-inconsequential number of transit & business customers that have more balanced or outbound heavy traffic flows. It most certainly isn't enough to balance out the residential traffic but they are trying to grow that end of the business.
So if I need to drive to a customers site I should build my own interstate?
My favourite part:

> # Folks get annoyed when XfD discussions end up the number 1 google hit for

> # their name.
A 3D printer is the first robot that most people will own. With the decreasing costs of components, open source designs, and advanced software, it is going to kickstart a whole bunch of other robotics projects like this. The technology is becoming accessible.
And being a real estate agent is quite different from breaking your back picking oranges.

Yet they're both work.
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You situation sounds like mine a few years ago.

I did CBT and ended up going (100% no-show fee can do that) - I'm not sure if it was the method (CBT) that worked, or just having a stranger say "and why is that?" a lot. Basically she did a "Five whys" on my life. It was all so simple, but I couldn't see it.

For me it was low self esteem, but veiled: I consciously knew that I was pretty good at what I did and had my life reasonably in order - I checked all the boxes, so I should be happy. "Just pull yourself together" seemed like reasonable advice, but I just couldn't do it. But subconsciously, I had huge doubts about my self worth. The first step of the solution was to reflect every evening over what I did that day and what went well to reinforce a positive self-image.

I also changed jobs (this was pre-CBT, so not a direct effect, but in retrospect it's all related) from a high uncertainty contracting gig with a promise (ha!) of becoming a start up to a bog standard full time programming gig in a good company. The new job gave me many more chances to get good results and much more time and opportunity to learn stuff and self-improve.

One habit I've taught myself is to pay attention to a certain "jab" in my stomach that I get when something is wrong. I immediately stop what I'm doing and carefully analyse the cause. More often than not, I've seen, heard or read something that plays into a subconscious fear about my self esteem, and by forcing it out into the open and applying reason to it, I can make it go away fairly simply. It's worked wonders for my overall feeling of happiness.

You situation will obviously be different from mine, but your post resonated a lot with me. Feel free to email (see my profile) if you want to continue the conversation in private.
Warning, this is a spoiler. If you want to read the book, don't read it.

I simply can't get how the characters kept being human, even after not locked into a body anymore, and turning themselves into several different forms just for fun. In those circumstances, it could end in no other way... but it is a very bizarre set of circumstances.

Also, the lack of ambition of post-singularity beings annoys me to no end.
+1 for the comment.

Just some info on my side.

Like many developers I do have my issues with C++, but I do like it, since my Turbo C++ days.

However, my experience with GC enabled system programming languages dates back to being an Oberon user in the mid-90's.

So I experienced first hand that such systems are possible and have been ever since dismayed by the lack of attention from mainstream OS vendors.
Internet companies already pay for their access: they pay their own ISP and hosting bills, just like Amazon pays UPS to ship packages.
> having to deal with a good portions of websites which wont render properly

I am seriously interested in which sites these are. I suspect you're exaggerating (I'd be amazed if it were anything like at least 1%, let alone a "good portion") but am willing to be educated.
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"While I imagine that larger contracts would likely be built with some sort of failsafe mechanism for arbitration, there is no need for such a thing to exist."

I don't understand why. If I were to use a large cryptocontracts, I would make sure that an impartial third party could 'debug'/judge a bad situation.