skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying the only reason poor people use the internet is to watch Netflix and Candy Crush. I am claiming that most of the bandwidth consumed online is likely to be utilized watching online video. Sandvine published a report a while back showing that Netflix uses "34.89% of downstream and 9.4% of upstream bandwidth during peak periods on US fixed lines". Between Netflix and YouTube, some stats show those two services consume about half the total broadband bandwidth. So I think it's reasonable to assume that online video is likely to consume a large portion of the bandwidth provided by this service.

As for your last question, given the financial constraints the city faces, I'd prefer they allocate their budget towards ensuring schools have the resources they need (including internet access) for the classroom. Internet at home for everyone is a great goal, but there's a ton of teachers forced to buy their own basic supplies for their classrooms (think basics like pencils and paper and pens), and given the choice, I'd prefer that every student has the materials they need while they're at a place structured around education. From what I've read, broadband in-school is also pretty lacking.

http://commercialobserver.com/2013/08/manhattan-borough-pres...

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/more-th...

My comment wasn't intended to be nasty. I'm sorry it came across that way.
A psychiatrist is key - but finding the right one for you is also key. There's a book about it (edit: changed the link): http://books.google.com/books/about/How_to_Choose_a_Psychoth...

I used to have a 20 mile-a-day cycle commute and doing triathlons and I didn't find that it actually helped.

I have directly witnessed my mood improve from getting a good night's sleep. But I'll still regularly fall back into not sleeping if I'm coding - which isn't bad as long as I'm enjoying the coding.

Just simply having a 20 minute walk every day can be better than running or cycling as it takes no effort and doesn't involve pressuring yourself to do it.

I found looking for interesting projects worthwhile. Code on things that you enjoy. If you hate some of the code you work on just try some ideas out for yourself how you'd improve it - it shouldn't be for anyone else - just for yourself as you enjoy it.

Yoga, meditation, Taoism, Buddhism, easy reading (about these topics), talking, beer(s) all help too.

Accentuate the positive (in any way you can).
Yes what truly would make them stand out is if they ask about some problem they are having in their business(redundant network access, too many tests or whatever) and ask you how to solve that and in which steps
Thank you!

This is pretty much what I wanted to say, but I only realized this when reading your comment.
They should both pay a bounty. But if you had to assign blame only one place it would be ECMAscript. Setting the value of an unintended cookie should not be so easy to do by accident.
Change "Unlikely" to "Cannot" and that sounds about right. You cannot become native in something after the critical period is over, no matter how good you are(this is by definition). The best you can be is "fluent" if you miss the critical period.

For example, if you ask for a native English speaker to write a newsletter, Joseph Conrad would not fit the bill(since he started learning English at 21 years of age), even though in terms of talent he would surely be leagues beyond any random native English speaker.
Those are still executed in some order.

in all languages? i don't think so.

def x = y where
y = a * b
a = 21
b = x
That's an interesting point that definitely has some degree of validity.

So far I don't think there has been anything that makes actually processing transactions cheaper (maybe moving to levelDB from berkelyDB would count), but I think that part is essentially trivial anyway.

If there were high bandwidth costs for mining that would work in the favor of centralization, but I don't think the cost of processing a transaction or the bandwidth are anywhere near being a bottleneck. Processing transactions seems likely to never be more than trivial but I don't know that much about it.
This all goes back to the numbers games in hiring. Targeting the listing is cheaper, and if you can identify a subgroup that contains most of the potential candidates for your opening, it might be sensible to target.

Sure, there might be some "big fish" in a group you didn't target, but so long as you are happy with the people you hired, didn't it pay off? Not every position needs to be filled with a rockstar-ninja-pirate-haXX0r. Maybe all you need is a person who can get the job done (imagine that!)
Neither Woz nor Bill Gates used Agile and TDD in their developments

Neither knows what "the market" demands, no Ruby, no JS, no Java, etc. Maybe they know C, Fortran or 6502/8080 Assembly (recruiter rolls eyes)

So, "thanks for your time and we'll contact you"
Supposing it would matter, why wouldn't laptop manufacturers include some 0.01$ part that switches off the charger as needed?
But presumably using Facebook is also a core component of the actual job, given that it mentioned social media.
Before going to work? what time does it make you wake up then? Well I'm not a morning person
Bipolar disorder and depression are different illnesses. The medications used to treat are different; the therapies used to treat are different.

(I didn't downvote you)
Why not just say "digitally fluent", or something like that? Discriminating against someone based solely on the year they were born seems illegal(IANAL) and just plain wrong.
I think the default is the New York example, I briefly saw that before it switched to "If you’re poor and live in Connecticut, it’s better to be in Tolland County than in Fairfield County or New Haven County."
I'm not trying to be edgy at all. I have anxiety disorder and personally suffered through depression. I spent years on medications that didn't work.

Sometimes you can't fix depression with pills. There are alot of mights in this situation because none of us know what OP is actually going through.

I would kindly ask that you consider my advice from personal experience and not downplay it so much. I never suggested OP not take medication or seek out a doctor, I was just giving other, more personal advice that may help them in their situation.

>They might not have good familial relationships or friends to fall back on, or they might have issues with non-hallucinogenic drugs as it is.

I listed a bunch of different things they can do, with ors and ands all throughout. Also, hallucinogenic drugs have very strong evidence backed-trials in their favor. Of course as long as you do it in a safe situation.

I was not, in any way trying to be edgy. It's awfully offensive that you and anyone who down-voted me would think that. The guy is already a programmer, he's clearly not benefiting from the ultra-safe sterile environment that the HN crowd constantly promotes.

Sometimes you have to get dirty. Sometimes you have to make mistakes. Sometimes you have to drop shrooms and find yourself in the middle of someone else's living room dance rave party.

Maybe it's not for OP, maybe it is. Maybe none of the other advice in this thread will work for them, either. But regardless my advice is just as fucking valid as anyone elses. Coming from the perspective of a person who, as I said, went through this, still goes through this at times, and who medication has had little effect on.

But, if you want to solve his depression with condescending suggestions of medical help and medications, back that up with medical journals and statistics, that's your prerogative.

//edit Also for more clarity, when I said "don't listen to this advice" I was actually referring not only to my comment, but everyone's. I wrote that when there was like 2 comments on this thread. I'm not trying to demean anyone else's opinion. Why would I do that? I'm not an asshole.
But, they are doing more than just inviting/encouraging, right? They said that they have 40% women and want to take that number to 50%. Isn't that not declaring a preference for women?
Unless they're discriminating against a protected class, which people over the age of 40 happen to be.
I was in a kind of similar situation recently - I never went to class, ended up dropping out of school, would sleep 10-12 hours a day at odd hours, drank way too much, didn't really have much motivation for anything.

For me the dominant factor was anxiety, and I didn't get help until I started having panic attacks. Like you I started seeing a psychiatrist and a therapist, and I was very lucky to not experience any adverse effects to the medications I was prescribed.

SSRIs are an interesting thing - because they are such a gradual change, a lot of people write them off as not working. For a while, I wasn't even sure if it was doing anything, but at some point I realized that I didn't get the awful dread/despair feelings from normal everyday life anymore. I started reaching out to old friends again, and making new ones. I sleep 8 hours now.

I didn't realize how bad things had gotten, and how much better they should have been. I used to be very against being dependent on drugs, but I eventually came to the realization that I'd rather live till 40 and love it than live till 80 and hate it - even though I don't think that's the tradeoff I'm making, it's the one I was willing to make. So I just did whatever I could.

Don't write off drugs, meditation, exercise, diet changes, etc - try it all, and find what works for you. I mostly wrote about drugs here, but different people are averse to different things, or don't believe in them, when the reality is we still don't really understand mental health very well, and your best bet is just to throw everything you can at it and see what sticks. But you gotta do it. It's way better when you do.
This is definitely the case for the Prius, even from 2004. I really doubt higher-end manufacturers like Apple wouldn't do the same since they control the entire stack.
Pinterest, btw.
"In summary, exercise appears to be an effective treatment for depression, improving depressive symptoms to a comparable extent as pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Observational studies suggest that active people are less likely to be depressed, and interventional studies suggest that exercise is beneficial in reducing depression. It appears that even modest levels of exercise are associated with improvements in depression, and while most studies to date have focused on aerobic exercise, several studies also have found evidence that resistance training also may be effective. While the optimal “dose” of exercise is unknown, clearly any exercise is better than no exercise. Getting patients to initiate exercise ---and sustain it – is critical."

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3674785/

For more studies regarding this 'inconclusive' research. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=disconnect&x=/html&q=exercise+trea...

Also, I cited Omega 3 and social support. Are they 100% definitive? No. But are they solid steps to healing the mind? Yes.
Oh you don't get social media?

You're using one right now.
> We have been able to map phone numbers to SIP URIs for a long time with E.164 ENUM

yes, because dialing 3.0.3.3.8.4.0.3.5.5.1.2.5.e164.arpa is super easy to do.

I was talking about a proper solution, not patching an existing one.

> We can't turn off the PSTN in favor of VoIP until everybody has switched over

Exactly, but we have to start at some point. We have been doing phone calls for more than 100 years, and it remained practically unchanged since then.
Other times, the abyss eats a goat.
I'm in the same boat. I blame it on karma; I spent a couple decades lambasting people for not knowing about BBS, IRC, email, www, etc.
Scrolling is completely broken. :/ (But this looks awesome!!)
Also, there isn't an unlimited supply on young people, so many employers have to settle with older ones...
What about scientific papers that depend on software artifacts?

Either scientists somehow understands all the "ins and outs of a software he/she develops, along with all its dependencies" in order to publish a paper, where a programmer doesn't have the same understanding, or you are comparing two entirely different concepts as if they were the same.
Maybe with dedicated fiber links that carry no other traffic, sure. But the vast, vast majority of voip routes tend not to measure up to their circuit switched counterparts. Why do you think things like T.38 and RFC-2833 exist?
Seconded. I've never really drunk the social media koolaid and I feel just as native as the next guy. Got started on a used 2400 baud modem in the early nineties when it was not easy to get connected to the internet, let alone browse the web. I feel like that grit's gotta be worth something. Of course, this is to say nothing of the people I know and respect who wrote their first programs on freaking punch cards.
Is it OK for employers to discriminate based on criteria that the applicant can't reasonably change through education or training, like race or gender?

Is that the same as discriminating based on age?

Is 'digital native' HR-code for discriminating based on age?
It reminded me of Martin Fowler's "Event Sourcing" paper from the enterprise world http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

So as a bluntly simple example, assume the entire world's state is just the number 100. Instead of storing 105 as the new state, you store {:increment, 5}, and somewhere, the reversible counterpart to increment is defined {:decrement, 5}. You're correct that a full global state would have to be stored at SOME point, but could you simply hold the initial state, and the current state, and work from either of those?

Or just do what the mp4 video algorithm does and store so-called "keyframes" every N frames which store the entire state, but all intermediary frames are just diff frames.

Many web apps end up needing a global event feed/stream that various processes hook into via publish/subscribe. In theory, these events are reversible. Of course, in practice, individual types of events may find difficulty, especially if they have side effects that are outside the control of the app developer
Seeking a connection is fine, but there are already people posting terrible advice - things that we know are not a treatment for depression as if they are a treatment for depression.

It'd be a shame if OP read all the stuff about exercise and thought it was going to be a cure. We know exercise is no better than nothing at all as a treatment for depression.
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I don't know, but there seems to be not very much incentive to invest a lot of R&D dollars on this problem from a manufacturer standpoint:

* Devices marketed on how long they last on a single charge, but much less often on how quickly the battery degrades
* Batteries are a later upgrade upsell opportunity
* I would not be surprised to learn that a significant number of device upgrades start as simply wanting a better battery (but why not upgrade at the same time)
I'm in my early 20s and I'm in the same boat. Reddit/HN/Slashdot are the extent of my use of social media and a lot of my peers in college were the same. Hell, I know a handful of people who work at Facebook/Twitter/etc who didn't even have Facebook/Twitter/etc accounts when they were hired, some of them still don't.
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In case the creator is reading this, please don't break scrolling. This page scrolls impossibly slowly for me. (Firefox 37.0.2, OSX 10.10.3)
Ah, so it's just like how someone could be acquitted of murder, but still face a civil wrongful death suit?
That just means it's illegal.
This is a web page, sonny. Pretty much as simple as they were in '92.
If you do Skype or WhatsApp you can prove yourself wrong.

No one is saying VoIP is as reliable as PSTN. Not even mobile (GSM, CDMA, etc.) is.
Just another data point: I'm at 77% (4431/5770) on an April 2010 MBP. I tend to leave it plugged in when possible, and often run it far down when not near an outlet. I take it that's about the worst I can do, but the convenience has seemed worth it.
Why would that even be a metric?
I want to start off with a bit of encouragement. You've admitted that you have a problem and you're taking steps to solve it. That's a great thing, because it's showing acknowledgement of the problem and a commitment to getting better. Too many people lack that, and so you should feel proud of yourself for that.

That said, a therapist can probably guide you better than the internet can. The trick is finding the right one. Most of the effectiveness of a therapist comes down to the "fit" between the two of you, so if you've gone to about three sessions or so and you're still not feeling it, it's encouraged and expected to try another one. Your current therapist may even refer you to another.

Above all, just keep fighting the good fight, and never be afraid to reach out for the things you need.
But Minnesota is one of the top agriculture states and being up north, they have more severe winters.
>hacked

I don't think that means what you think it means.
No, people who use ad blockers are cranky old idealists who demand tiresome, expensive relics like "privacy" and "dignity."

Digital Natives™, having never lived in a world with those things, don't cause trouble over them.
The Thinkpad power manager mentions the issue and comes with different modes to maximize the battery lifespan.

Quote: "If you primarily use your computer with the AC adapter attached and only infrequently use battery power, battery deterioration may occur faster if the battery is constantly charged at 100%. Lowering the charge thresholds for your battery, periodically resetting the battery gauge, using Maximum Lifespan mode, or using Battery Health Mode will help increase its lifespan."
To your point about young people not actually having a better understanding of technology I really think the question should be "Should employers should seek out 'Logical/Rational natives'". It's frustrating to see folks (young and old alike - I don't think this is related to age or knowledge of tech) with a complete lack of critical thinking when using powerful search tools.

I incorrectly assume that more access to information implies a greater level of critical thinking. I think this is probably due to my engineering educational background - I'm not an engineer myself, but it was drummed into me at my engineering-heavy university.
Get a dog. They're called man's best friend for a reason. :) When I'm feeling like you are now, I look over to my little buddy and think, "What would you do without me?" But what I should really be thinking is, "What would I do without you?" Words cannot express the amount of joy that my dog brings to my life. I don't know if I would be here right now if it wasn't for him. When I don't feel like getting out of bed, he's always there to wake me up and give me a reason to get moving. I cherish every moment.

Here is a video I recorded the other week of one of our walks. We've walked along this path at least a thousand times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH4TsjD97cU

Get a dog. Give it all the love you have. You will receive the same, unconditionally. Go do all kinds of things that your little friend enjoys. Go for long walks as often as you can, morning and night, at least. Your friend's excitement and joy over the smallest things will rub off on you too. And you'll come to realize that, to your dog, you are literally everything. It really puts things into perspective. There really isn't much more to life than that, and I think there's a certain beauty to it.
Have you tried MDMA-assisted therapy?

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/03/health/ecstasy-ptsd-3/

Incase it was never available to you, it should be soon. DEA approves study using MDMA for anxiety in seriously ill patients (Mar 17, 2015):

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/17/clinical-tri...
There are a lot of different medications you can take, and they have different side effect profiles. Prozac is different from Wellbutrin is different from Lexapro, etc. Sometimes doctors don't have a good reason to choose one over another in any particular case. If you sit down and have a serious talk with your doctor about which side effects often come with each medication, and which side effects you can live with, you're more likely to get off on the right foot.

People telling you to exercise are right, but that is pretty hard advice in that format. The real answer is to find the kind of exercise that works for you, and don't give up until you do. I've never been a morning person, and I always hated running and other cardio, so for years I didn't really exercise at all outside of walking places. Turns out I really like biking and rock climbing. If you can switch to biking as part of your commute (biking to the train maybe) then you don't have a way out, and you have to exercise. Use the days when you do have energy to make plans for later days when you may not. Try to do things for other people.

The best thing for me in the end was 1. Getting out of the life situation where I had been depressed for a long time. 2. Getting into something totally new and overwhelming, and doing it totally by myself. I spent all of college and grad school dealing with some pretty severe depression, and when I finally graduated I took out extra loans to travel for a few months over the summer before my job started. I bought a one way ticket, planned almost nothing except listing a few places I wanted to see, and went alone. When you are traveling alone in a foreign country, it really hits home that you are entirely responsible for your own experience. There are beautiful sights, incredible food, life changing encounters to be had, and you have to make the choice every day between getting up and out and interacting with the world and crying on your hostel bed. You'll still spend some time crying on your hostel bed, but you might also smoke a joint with a Brazilian and some French women in a park in Prague and start a travel romance with a former professional trail runner in Barcelona.
Anyone else surprised to see that this is a C# application? Anyone know if how much C# development happens at Netflix?
Fizz Buzz is a pass/fail test that wouldn't even exist if the pool being tested weren't bimodal. Why would anyone administer the Fizz Buzz test to a normal distribution of programming skills, for example? (I mean https://www.google.com/search?q=normal+distribution)

It would make no sense - below what part of the normal curve of programmers would you put someone who failed at FizzBuzz (cannot code it)?

In my interpretation it's because programming skill doesn't follow a normal (bell-shaped) distribution, but is bimodal. Which is why Fizz Buzz exists, to tell you quickly which pool (left or right) your candidate is from.

Either that or we have a completely different interpretation of why Fizz Buzz exists or what it means. Why do you think it exists?
A small clarification, the second problem doesn't apply to public school systems in wealthy cities in CA (or wealthy neighborhoods in cities without school assignment lotteries). In both scenarios, additional local tax levies or parent fundraising makes up the educational funding gap.
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As a Google Voice user, the downside would be sad but totally worth it if it meant I could have GV accurately screen my calls. I could still get full caller ID information for GV calls received through VoIP, and when receiving calls through POTS I could at least know that the call is from somebody I'm willing to take calls from.

The other use case applies pretty much only to people I don't want to hear from in the first place, so I have no sympathy for how it would hurt their bottom line.
Was checking their members list recently and found it interesting that Red Hat was a silver member, while SUSE is sitting as gold.
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