skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlimited data plans are actually bad. The incentives are all wrong. Consumers and websites have no incentive to fix any problem that causes them to use unnecessary data, clogging the network. Carriers actually have a perverse incentive to discourage use of the network, because increased use doesn't increase revenue, it just causes more congestion. This leads to stupidity like extra charges for tethering, blocking of VPNs, "traffic shaping" to kill "bandwidth hogs" like BitTorrent and Netflix, prohibitions on running servers, service termination for "excessive" use, cooperation with the MPAA to identify and stop BitTorrent users, etc.

With pay per gigabyte, incentives are aligned. Consumers and websites have an incentive to conserve data. Carriers have an incentive to encourage use and increase speeds. There's no reason to block servers or VPNs or tethering. There's no reason to throttle BitTorrent or Netflix or terminate anyone's service for "excessive" usage. In fact, with pay-per-GB carriers should encourage BitTorrent use and fight for consumers against the MPAA!

Historically unlimited data has been better for consumers because carriers have charged ridiculous prices for overages (e.g. per-KB prices that add up to hundreds of dollars per GB), and consumers don't have a good way of knowing how much bandwidth they're using when they use different services, so they can't predict their bills. If these two problems can be fixed, pay-per-GB is the best way forward. I'm glad Google realizes this.
Thanks ksar! Wait until you see what we've been working on ;-)
I think it's pretty uncontroversial to suggest that Clojure is more expressive than Ruby - without even getting into macros.

Just take run of the mill Ruby code and convert it to Clojure. Especially anything that looks like functional programming.
They will according to the comment section[1]

"We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."

[1] http://blog.brokep.com/2015/04/22/update-on-heml-is/#comment...
China's growth boom has already ended, I'm not predicting it.

If it weren't for perpetual stimulus, and truly epic debt accumulation, their economy would already be contracting. And that's before the bottom billion people in China have an opportunity to participate in a better life. The painful reality is, there are not enough resources, savings, or consumers to lift China's bottom one billion up to even the levels of a mid tier economy (~$15k incomes) - at least not in this century. They're entering Japan's debt phase of the post growth bust - the point where the country gets desperate to maintain its growth and so turns to accumulating debt - and they're doing so before having even a mediocre social safety net.

When you have to take on $5 in debt to get $1 of GDP growth, your growth is over. Ten years ago their return on invested capital, and return on debt had already begun to plunge. At this point China is far beyond yielding good enough returns on the debt they're accumulating. Now it's merely a question of when China enters a debt panic, as all of their 'growth' gets starved out due to debt obligations.

7% GDP growth equates to $600 to $700 billion in new GDP per year for China. They're taking on $4+ trillion per year in new debt annually. To maintain above 5% growth, they will probably have to take on another $30+ trillion in new debt the next six or seven years alone (based on what it has taken to reach the growth levels of the last five or six years, and assuming a continued decline in return on that debt).

Their liquidity mess has resulted in one of the greatest stock market bubbles in history and will soon implode; 2/3 of the investors participating don't even have a high school equivalent education level. Their real estate bubble has already begun to implode, pushing fleeing money into the new bubble in equities. They're also bleeding foreign capital, whereas previously capital was desperate to enter China.

There are only two possible outcomes for China the next 20 years. A lost 20 years like Japan, for similar reasons, following the implosion of both a real estate and stock market bubble (again mirroring Japan). Or China acts very aggressively, very quickly to curb debt accumulation and to pop existing bubbles - that will result in extremely mediocre growth (1% to 3%) for a decade or two, after a period of painful contraction.
That was a question I had: where's the money for Google? Are they in this to force competition only, or do they see this as a viable business model?

For those in the know: how much would they get per subscriber, assuming $20 for the "basics" as they call it, and $10 per Gig for data?

This is likely difficult to calculate, given they are using both T-Mobile _and_ Sprint, and they refund unused data. But I'd be curious nevertheless...
Larry (and Sergey I believe) is an INTP, the business reflects that personality type.
Reminds me of the "Mass/Group animal deaths" of various swarms of birds, heards of cattle, and schools of fish, that seemed to gain a lot of news headlines around 2011.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=64.320872,16.171875&...
Roaming will hopefully soon be abolished throughout Europe (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26866966). Although there have been talks that this might be delayed by a couple of years.

Then in the UK there's Three who basically abolished roaming in 18 countries (sadly not Germany for now). This includes unlimited (25gb) 4g, which is pretty awesome and better than the 256k Google is offering.
> I felt stupid...like I was missing something.

Angular does that to people. :)

I started writing a library for dialogues (modal window, prompt, alert & confirmation), but stopped as it felt like re-inventing the wheel.

Maybe such a library is needed after all..
Since you mention it, Java 8 brings bundling and installers support into the reference JDK.
They will according to the comments section http://blog.brokep.com/2015/04/22/update-on-heml-is/#comment...
150 kg of beef per person per year

Where the hell did you get this number from? I buy all my beef from a farmer who's a friend of a friend. A year's supply is purchased all at once, so I have a pretty good idea of how much of it we eat. My family of four goes through less than 250 lbs (about 110kg) of beef in a year, yet your statistic is that we should be eating roughly half a ton of it per year?

If you're going to make shit up, at least make it sound reasonable.
Well the same could be said about any new service that requires a specific (new) technology, no? In theory it won't be device lockin in the coming year(s). Your objection seems a bit silly at the present time.

Now, if Google has this technology licensed and only they themselves are allowed to use it in phones.. then you'd have a valid argument.
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I'm tempted to get short Tucows on this, but they've been so awesome that I don't think I'd leave for Google's price point.
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T-Mobile has a 5GB (LTE) + unlimited (slowed after 5GB) plan for $30/month.

It only has 100 minutes, but you can use Google Voice or similar over data. And who talks on the phone anymore anyway?
They pay the engineers more, perhaps, because it's the work product those engineers create that generates revenue for the company. The receptionist, as useful as the position may be, is not likely a revenue-generating source for the company. There's no 'cultural belief' necessary to understand that.

As for 'markets', they're as rigged as the participants allow. You, as buyers, need to turn a blind eye toward the actions necessary 'behind the scenes' in order for the companies to get away with underpaying their personnel. As long as the buying audience actively chooses 'not to care' the companies will do whatever is necessary to avoid profits being spent on employee wages.
But these are high-frequency trades, which mean that they're executed by a computer programmed to do that. If you can examine exactly what it was programmed to do then that could probably help prove intent.
Are there any plans to add features like artifacts or test integration to Gitlab CI?
That's exactly one of the examples I had in mind!
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This just happened in Belgium. One of the networks was reselling through the biggest internet and tv provider. It seemed like a sweet deal, since they were getting most of the revenue and had almost none of the support costs. Now the internet provider has bought a competing wireless network, and will move their customers over to that one instead, ending the contract. The original network provider is going to have some tough financial times ahead because they're seeing 20% of their customers walk out the door all at once.
I see a lot of new offerings that have unlimited slow data. I doubt they regret it; it gives people peace of mind while still giving them incentive to upgrade.
They don't, but on-phone software (stock iOS, as a prominent example) enforces the policy.
Everything about this sounds better than my current plan with Verizon except the coverage. Looking at their coverage map in central Virginia scares me because of the large areas of no coverage.
I often have to manually disconnect from a slow wifi connection and switch to 4G. Project Fi doing it automatically looks great!

Those tariffs seem pretty steep though - I'm getting 3GB of 4G data for £15 a month [1]. Is $50/mo normal in the states?

[1]: https://giffgaff.com/goodybags-4g
>Although the trend of many data breaches certainly wouldn't decline in that case.

Exactly. Successful and profitable are not mutually exclusive with "secure" or "well-architected". At least until those last two come to bite you later and start eating into your profits.
Cool concept, I didn't realise this existed. Can you run Hadoop and friends under this? I've worked at companies with over 500 servers in a Hadoop cluster and literally never once heard about anything other than using Oracle's JRE aside from one proposal to use OpenJDK which was shot down pretty quickly.
For those asking/wishing for open source, according to the comments section[1] they will.

"We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."

[1] http://blog.brokep.com/2015/04/22/update-on-heml-is/#comment...

[Sorry for the multiple comment replies, I realized a top-comment might be better]
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No. He does not mean unifying separate languages or dialects into one standard.

Rather, the point is that the existing ML language has two parts that are pretty unrelated: the normal value-level language where you write your actual programs, and the module-level language you use for organizing your code and types.

Think of it like the distinction between C proper and the C preprocessor. They're part and parcel of the same language in practical terms, but really they're two completely unrelated languages grafted into one. The ML situation isn't nearly as bad, of course, but the idea is the same: wouldn't it be nice to have one language for both?

There are some ad-hoc efforts to bridge the gap between the two (extensions for first-class modules), but they are not enough. His solution is a language design that starts from first-class modules and, roughly, ensures the module language is just a special application of the base language. It radically simplifies the design and exposes the minimal underlying abstraction which is a typed variant of the λ-calculus called Fω.
Not to be confused with operating engineers (which I was, initially)

http://www.iuoe.org/
T-Mobile does offer an unlimited LTE plan.
Well, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt are both involved in Planetary Resources[0]. They are actively doing stuff even now[1] (their product is the Arkyd in this case). Not quite officially Google, but I can see where people would assume so.

[0]-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources

[1]-http://www.miningweekly.com/article/planetary-resources-laun...
Basically any new business needs capital, so not sure what you mean here. Where do you think VCs get their money, for instance?
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Then why have it on the FAQ?
Yeah, but other telcos in other countries don't have that offer. So a universal cheap data rate will be game changer.
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My point was that a surprisingly small amount of explosives is a risky bet for nearly anything as vulnerable to decompression as the pressurized hull of an airliner.

You could construct skis that incorporated a very thin layer of HE sandwiched in the material and/or had a few drilled channels of HE through the actual ski that could make some poor bird fall right out of the sky.

Believe me, the red teamers in the government have thought of this and done their best to try and make the front-line workers at least aware of how THEY would sneak a bomb on a plane.

I know someone who regularly carries two weapons in the cabin on every flight he's on and has since 9/11. His trick was to make them look like ordinary things you'd never suspect.

Don't worry though. He's one of the good guys. :-)
Users that recognize that some websites rely on their ad revenue for their existenc eand want to support the continued existence of this business model might prefer not to block all ads, yes.

I'm not one of them. I'm ready for ad-supported businesses to die.
Looks great for international travelers, but this would more than double my $30 monthly unlimited data plan from T-Mobile. I used 5.2GB last month, so that would cost me $73.
From Hailo. Running 200 microservices in production. 199 of which are Go. We run on AWS with our own system that orchestrates Go binaries but are also moving to containers.
They're equivalent plans, but people have cognitive biases. Here are a couple of explanations from Propspect Theory:

- refunds are perceived as gains (against the reference point of the monthly charge), whereas a fee is perceived as a loss (and losses hurt more)
- bills are capped so the the possibility of big fees (losses) is eliminated (people struggle with probabilities and fear extremely unlikely events)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics#Prospect_t...
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The -Wmaybe-uninitialized flag can produce loads of false positives, and may not be very useful (depending on your code). The really interesting part is that a compiler that gives 100% correct warnings about using uninitialized variables can be proven to be able to solve the halting problem, thus it cannot exist.
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This is great. I was hoping the data charges would be cheaper. The T-mobile $30 prepaid plan gives you unlimited data with the first 5 gigs at LTE speeds. You also get 100 minutes. This works incredibly well for me as I mostly use my phone for data. If I need to make a call, I'll use google hangouts over LTE.
I also use an AT&T share plan and they recently started rolling over unused data. So while I'm not getting money back I feel like I'm at least accruing something when I don't get close to my max.

Depending on your plan they might be doing the same for you now too?
It may be more consistent, but is not easier - humans are generous with regard to input, they can infer intentions from context. I could type in "please unbork this" to a human and he'd know precisely that he has to a) untargzip it, b) change the directory structure and c) upload it to a shared directory for our team.
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One day it would be nice to not have large chunks of the country not covered by good cell service. Since this service can make calls over WiFi that would remedy some of the situations I have been in where I had WiFi at a campground or similar but cell was spotty or non existent. Granted making a call over the WiFi provided at some camps might not be all the possible.

edit, another area I found little to no cell service was the turnpikes through Virgina and West Virgina.
Well, like I said, in this case, "it's a failure of the company".
iptables rate limiting still doesn't solve the problem of identifying attacks against one service so that they can be preemptively blocked by other services on other servers.
Again, for PR reasons.
Your sarcasm is noted. I believe hahainternet was referring to articles that either gloss over the bad parts of a thing, or make specious claims to reinforce their ideas.
I think it would fair to summarize Brand's thesis as "worry about ecosystem degradation and climate change, extinctions are a symptom of these, not something to be addressed in isolation."
The reason I mentioned Straight Talk was that it works with all 4 main US carriers. T-Mobile doesn't have service everywhere.

>And who talks on the phone anymore anyway?

I know a number of people who wouldn't buy a plan unless it had unlimited minutes. Some people use their phones for talking heavily.
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I bet there would be a psychological impact. People would curtail their usage and frantically switch antennas on and off, resulting in an overall poor experience.

Perhaps having a big allowance in mind just encourages people to use their data!
Same with Thailand - 5x the price of local 4G data, which caps to 384k after 20GB.

Even their roaming price doesn't compare well - for Asia I get ~$8 per day, for Europe, North America and Oceana it's $15 per day. This is for unlimited data, at full local network speed.

Last time I was in LA for a project (with half a dozen others, all came in from different countries) it often worked out cheaper/easier for them to all just ether to my phone than deal with a crappy prepaid data service each.
I already have metropcs, its $40/mo for unlimited everything. My plan covers unlimited up to 3g, for 4g or LTE I get 2gb/mo. If I wanted unlimited though, its only $60/mo. How is $100 for 10GB even comparable? Metropcs also has no contract required.
That's what I would have thought but would mean the Sky rep in the link is flat-out lying. As mentioned below, it could help isolate groups of subscriptions and allow progressively tracking down individuals. He only claims that it's not tied to an individual subscription.
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Doesn't seem too tricky to me. Email and push notifications are almost zero data; go ahead and let them pay full price.

Download updates and podcasts at 4AM.

Maybe ask before doing interactive high-bandwidth things, depends on user preference.
I usually don't have wifi while I am out and about, most stores at least require you to hit accept on their terms and conditions before you can actually connect. Maybe if they showed wifi hotspots on their coverage map I could get behind this idea.
I was speaking of MINIX. I can see how my language wasn't clear, though. Linux was not designed as a teaching operating system. Though Linus did hint that he was using it to learn about operating systems.
No, they could make a business unit less profitable than it could be. They can also afford to throw money away, it doesn't mean that they should.
> What I don't get is, what's in this for Sprint and T-Mobile?

Both Sprint and T-Mobile have to build physical infrasture, both to offer basic services (e.g. 3G, talk/text) but to also compete (4G, LTE, etc). Building infrastructure is really expensive. They need land, licences, power, and a network to connect that tower to (assuming it isn't just a relay).

So both networks have this HUGE sunk cost. In an ideal world they would be able to recruit enough users to consume each tower's capacity by 100% at peak. But because they're competing against other networks (with more users) and have to look competitive, they've over-built their network both in scope (e.g. servicing areas with few users) and capacity.

If Sprint and T-Mobile were confident that they could recruit enough users to fill their network they likely wouldn't agree to this deal. Just as AT&T and Verizon haven't. However the likely reality is that both Sprint and T-Mobile are well over capacity in certain areas and every penny that Google can bring in by stealing uses from the big two is just further helps Sprint and T-mobile, even if they just use it to further build out their respective networks.

Additionally: You could frame this as an "illusion of choice." You have Walmart/Target Cellular (Straight Talk/Brightspot) on the low end, T-Mobile themselves in the middle, and Google's Project Fi offering a niche service, but in reality they're all just T-Mobile aimed at a different user base. In all three cases T-Mobile grows, their network grows, and they could kick these brands off any time the contract is up for renew.

PS - T-Mobile actually host just under 30(!) different cellular providers in the US[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_v...
I've found that there isn't an easy ramp into system admin from university -- most of the talent comes from dogmatic self learning in computer repair shops or subpar IT shops. All the good guys at $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY seem to be in their 30s after putting in years doing /tedious/, but extremely useful, work for little pay.
True, that's what I meant by fast. I think it's only something like 30kbs, but it needs to have low packet loss and low jitter or the call will be garbled.
The entire problem here is the division of "us" and "them". From the customer's perspective, you are both "them". If the product doesn't work, you're both to blame no matter whose fault it was.

Work with your developers to make the application more supportable. Show them the problems you are having and ask for their help in fixing them. Too many sysadmins just throw it over the fence and say "not my problem, you fix it" and that's honestly not acceptable.

This is the entire reason "DevOps" is a thing. They are not fundamentally different roles; you're both involved in building a system that does things for customers. You bring different skills to the table, but that's often the case with every developer: you probably have a dev who is a whiz with databases, another who knows some other library really well... a sysadmin skill set is no different.
I use Shoeboxed. https://www.shoeboxed.com/features/

I just send them a prepaid envelope full of my receipts every week or so.
I have been encouraging my girlfriend, an instructional designer and an English teacher, to learn programming. She complains non stop about how poorly done the tutorials are. Apparently programmers are notorious for using terminology that normal people don't grok. She will also stop in the middle of coding to emails the creator about spelling mistakes.

Her goal is to one day build programming tutorials using adult learning principles and with good grammar.
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Can you elaborate on why these are problems for ML?
Whom do I pay, Google?
Not now, but it could in the future if it changes how we make choices about society and policy.
This seems really naive. A lot of HFT is taking something a trader has figured out and can do in real time for one symbol, automating it, and applying it to 2000 symbols at once. A WinXP era-laptop can be fine, if the trader's strategy worked at human-scale latency and limited human input bandwidth on one symbol, a WinXP-era laptop might indeed be able to do the same for some thousands of symbols.

I think we might be a bit biased on this site because a lot of the HFT recruiting targeted at techies in other industries is going to be in cutting-edge areas of ultra-low-latency or generically-dealing-with-massive-data where experience in a different industry can directly cross over.
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He specifically brought up Google Analytics. Did you just skim?

The particularly pointed anti-FB sentiment stems from their selective policy enforcement, the privacy issues weren't specifically targeted.