skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mobile marketing is a unique opportunity to target travelers and tourists – who may pack light, but certainly pack their smart phone. From booking a trip to searching for things to do to posting post-trip reviews, travelers use their mobile devices throughout the tourist purchase lifecycle. - See more at: http://www.helloworld.com/insights/blog/mobile/2014/02/05/mo...
Yes, but wasn't the lack of effect on trolling obvious immediately? And yet it was continued to be presented as a reason for the policy for over two more years.
Ohh finally something for me
You are not so smart - Very nice podcast about cognitive biases, psychology and so on. (Last episode I heard was about dangers of alternative medicine)

99 Percent Invisible - About design of everything. From architecture to industrial design. (Last episode was about fire escapes and their history)

Radiolab - Quite varied but always amazingly produced stories about science (Last one was about brain stimulation using electricity)

Freakonomics - Great podcast about economics, amazing life advice. (Last one was about how to "Make you garden weed itself")

Hello Internet - Two dudes talking genre. Brady (Numberphile and more) and CGP Gray. (Last one was about flags of states of USA, ugh Maryland)

Pragmatic - Also two dudes. But on topic of engineering. (Last was about programming in military)

I also recommend http://www.shiftyjelly.com/pocketcasts for listening. Really great app.
http://foundation.bz/ - Kevin Rose meets entrepreneurs
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-random-show-podcast/... - Kevin Rose & Tim Ferriss
The Infinite Monkey Cage - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc - Professor Brian cox & Robin Ince
The Bugle, an important reminder than entrepreneurship is a fancy term for "not a successful business owner yet".
Are they by some chance mostly male, under 35 and without families?
Doubt it. It's pretty common to ask "testimonials" from people with authority for publicity etc.
Software Engineering Radio
http://www.se-radio.net/

Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/podcasting
But if your employer ever accuses you of murder (wrongful death), the fact that you were narrating a video from home at the time might provide a fortuitous alibi.

Call it a wash.
Planet Money

The Security Weekly podcast

Hardcore History is amazing. The only problem is that you pick up homework assignments from all of the books referenced.

I used to listen to This American Life, but it gets a little annoying if you overdo it.
Where is the substance to your claims? The last few years has seen a constant erosion of income both in the USA and Europe.

In any case why should trade agreements cede arbitration and disputes to tribunals and panels which are not subject to public scrutiny and proper judicial and democratic oversight?
For better or worse I have a few levels of passwords and their password strength. For most websites I use a simple password that never changes. For shopping websites I have a fairly strong password that changes once in a while and for banks, social networks, Apple ID, and google I use a strong password that changes about every three months.

The problem with this system is many websites won't allow you to use the same password over again. Other services force you to change the password if you submit 3 wrong guesses. (Not to mention the varying rules on what characters your password can consist of.) So between these two rules and the dozens of websites, the system grows chaotic pretty fast. There should be some standardization for changing submitting and handling passwords.

Apple: why is it when I change my Apple ID password, I have reenter it for FaceTime, iMessage, iCloud, and iTunes, on my iPad, iPhone, my home laptop, and my work computer? How about one password entry per device and call it a day...
> Our support of the 2010 Open Internet Order was so strong that we voluntarily agreed in our NBCUniversal transaction to be bound by those rules even if they were struck down by the courts. As a result of the DC Circuit decision and our commitment, we are now the only ISP in the country legally bound by the entire set of Open Internet rules.

Interesting fact I wasn't aware of.
The company debuted with the EMB 110 Bandeirante in their product line, which was a 100% Embraer design sold both to domestic air carriers and the Brazilian Air Force.
A seasoned hiring manager isn't going to demand a portfolio.
The rhetorical question is that if it's so minor why is so much effort being expended to try and get it in?

The answer is that it's not minor and a corner stone of the corporatism agenda.

EDIT: And his dismissing of the gutting of safety standards by using the lowest common denominator is disingenuous at best and nakedly corrupt at worst.
The implementation details of this idea are the problematic part, I think. Everything you can conceivably think of starts to skirt along ethical/legal lines but I think it's an important discussion to have.

Ideally, as developers, we would have some sort of standardized process to archive the important parts of our career. I personally don't need this for future employers but with this weird fear I have that if I ever did have early-onset alzheimers, I'd want to remember at least some aspects of my life. It may be a highly irrational fear but archiving my work life in a relatively meaningful way that I may archive my personal life seems like nothing but a good idea to me. These ideas may be completely impractical in most scenarios but at least having the discussion seems like a good idea.

As a hypothetical employer, I would want my employees to feel they can share the interesting parts of their career with my company. It promotes enthusiasm, showcases important work we're doing as a company, and a host of other benefits. I'm sure there are a series of downsides I can't think of at the moment but conceptually this seems like a good idea. It's just standardizing on what really works in most situations that'll likely be the biggest challenge.
Why do we remember the past and not the future?
If there are any Arabic listeners I'd recommend a podcast I cohost called Hyperlink: http://hyperstage.net/category/podcasts/hyperlink/.

Quick taste from the last ep: https://soundcloud.com/hyperstage/105a

(currently we have some issues with iTunes so SoundCloud is the place to follow)
In realizing that a lot of my best work was effectively walled, I've started taking it upon myself to build up a showcase of work that's strictly my own.

I think you should look to have a portfolio online and an active Github account.

I have 3 things on my portfolio (www.bcooke.net):

1) Side projects I never finished or am still working on
2) Freelance sites I built alone (where my good relationship with the client meant I could openly share the work)
3) Brief blurbs about the salaried roles in my career, with a screenshot

I haven't updated it in a while but it's something.

Do you have a portfolio? Is your Github active? StackOverflow? You need things you can show!

It sucks because your best work - the stuff you spent the most time on - isn't always available to share. And even if you could, there'd be questions about which part you did.

Having a site you can point to and say, "I did that" is a good way to showcase your abilities, and if all your work is owned by your employer, you should probably start thinking about ways you can change that.
To contrast the interviewer side: when I do interviews, I take depth over breadth, and depth can easily be evaluated by the interviewer asking specific questions along the line of: what was the most specific problem you encountered in your work on this specific problem and how did you solve it / work around it.
Note the "especially" part here:

> Land is exceptionally limited, especially in urban environments

Which basically emphasizes that while the space is limited inherently, the key part is that the subspace that is in particular demand at any given time (the place where people want it, and which is therefore as densely populated as it will support) is particularly limited.

> But is music a limited space? Prose? Software?

Even if the overall space of each isn't particularly limited, the subspace that is in demand at any given time is particularly limited.

There wouldn't be value to copyrights on these things in the first place if that wasn't the case -- there would be no value in excluding people from the particular niche you develop if there were an infinite array of equally-easy-to-develop, equally-valuable niches within the same space available. The entire value proposition of copyright is the same limited-space proposition that you say makes taxation make sense.
Also if you read "Flash Boys" you will realize that the guys that started IEX previously worked for brokers whose central job is making sure orders get executed well and they were terrible at it. They literally did not understand basic market fundamentals that they were getting paid millions of dollars to understand. I'm not convinced I want these same guys routing my orders.

As anyone with a lick of understanding in technology has to ask, why the hell do they need big spools of fiber to negate HFT systems? Can't they implement low latency time stamping much cheaper? I suppose that a box full of computer chips won't impress big named "journalists" nearly as much as a spool of fiber though...
Quite funny that in Switzerland most are apparently most concerned with fractions of a percent of the economy by being left out other than other issues raised.

Source: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-face-tough-us-eu-trade-dea...
Eunicycle certainly sounds scary
Ask HN: What do you use for web crawling?
I'm working on a product that requires a fair amount of web crawling/monitoring and data extraction. I've looked into existing services like 80legs as well as open source software such as Apache Nutch and Scrapy, but I haven't been able to find anything that fits my purpose. It seems like some startups are building their own solutions (http://blog.semantics3.com/how-we-built-our-almost-distributed-web-crawler/) and I'm currently considering something similar.

Some things I need:

- Regex URL filters / follow rules

- Distributed & dynamically scalable

- Ability to export data into a variety of formats/systems (HDFS, Hbase, Elasticsearch, S3) with little overhead

- State maintained across crawls

- Continuous crawl ability, based on URL and change history

- Duplicate detection, perhaps using LSH+Minhash

- Cost-effectiveness

Are there any projects or services out there that I should be aware of?
I listen to a lot of the LessWrong works via castify (including their audio books which cover a great deal of of Yudkowsky's sequences):
http://castify.co/channels/51-less-wrong

I also use them for ConversionsXL:
http://castify.co/channels/47-conversionxl
Mixergy... the only one I listen to. It is the best!
http://schmader.psych.ubc.ca/publications/2011/Talking%20sho... our male and female samples were matched by rank, discipline, and research productivity and impact

The particular men and women chosen for the study were not, objectively speaking, different in competence. This is a study of perceived competence.
Show HN: Cronut – A dead man's switch for those pesky cron jobs
During my commutes I enjoying listing to these non-tech specific podcasts:

This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

Try this one: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w..., about Patent Trolls to get hooked.

Radio Lab - http://www.radiolab.org/

Try this one: http://www.radiolab.org/story/193037-turing-problem/ about Alan Turing.

Snap Judgement - http://snapjudgment.org/

Good old fashion stories that are all over the place.
Former Comcast employee comments how bad the company is
This game is frequently a part of Legend Of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (in the Ocean Temple). It's cool that you've made it a standalone game.
If the CCTV cameras weren't connected to the internet and their recordings were periodically deleted, this wouldn't be a problem at all. Even Richard Stallman has said as much.

What however is happening more and more, is that recorded data is kept indefinitely and is networked.

Have you heard what Binney has said what the software he wrote for the NSA does?

There are various domains from where it gathers data (cellphone, banking, social media, gps etc.). These domains are graphed and mapped in such a way that they can pull out all the attributes any individual has from any any or all of the domains.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=590cy1biewc

In other words, the data doesn't exist in a vacuum, it's all being graphed and correlated in order to build a comprehensive picture of your life.
Excellent tutorial on the fundamentals of bootstrap 3. I wish I had read this earlier. Get bootstrap should also explain the basics in greater details so that new programmers can avoid making mistakes.
Pull live sites into InVision for development feedback
In the major metros Comcast has increased speeds regularly and also offers hundreds of wifi hotspots that customers can use. In many of these areas they also compete with Fios of course.
Show HN: Papa Parse 3
Product People: Interviews with people who've build great products. Has a focus on bootstrapped businesses http://productpeople.tv/
Well, let me say it's not backwards, it is just nonsensical. Market making HFTs don't have any built in mathematical edge like a roulette wheel. Further, they lower the cost of trading, they add money into the pool in the form of the risks they take and the infrastructure they create.

As I look around the markets, I don't see a lot of participants that are there to lose money. The ability to make a profit from market activities is central to a correctly working market.
For those of you wanting to escape the tech/entrepreneurship echo chamber, why not check out the BBC's "In Our Time". Consistently high quality, diverse discussion about all sorts of subjects. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
It's difficult. If you're under NDA then there's very little you can say. Sadly this is what we have to work with in a digital strong-IP work-for-hire world: you don't own your work, you can't archive it, your employer probably won't archive it properly, and in a decade or so it may not exist. All you get to keep is the salary and the memories.

Pragmatically the easiest thing might be to take your own copies of company publicity materials about the product. That way you avoid NDA problems. Technically a screen shot of the product information page from 3 years ago is infringing but not in a way that anyone is likely to care about.
I enjoy the productivity / technology podcast Back to Work by Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin.

http://5by5.tv/b2w

> Back to Work is an award winning talk show with Merlin
> Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing productivity,
> communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and
> more.
My company makes this easy by putting a demo video out every 6 months or so. It's always a bit behind in the feature set but its better than nothing.

I guess my point is try to look for resources your company puts out before trying to create your own
3 Reasons Why Home Service Professionals Need to Stop Paying for Leads
It would be nice if camera thieves would upload pics from the cameras they stole.
NPR: Planet Money
Roderick on the Line
Radiolab
NPR: Snap Judgment
I'd say the content volume is this one greatly outnumbers the other thread.
You don't have to read the details to grok the truth here.

A trade agreement, either bipartisan or regional/pact-based, fundamentally equates to the effective surrendering of certain aspects of sovereignty, labelled as temporary but often effectively permanent.

In almost all cases, such arrangements benefit those with greater capital/legal expertise/spying capability, which is .. guess who?

In many cases, where the US is involved, the 'free market' being trumpeted as some grand international mode of deliverance is not only a completely about-face from the reality of back-home protectionist policies. They are in no way going to benefit the little guy in the client states.

These things are signed by stupid or corrupt pollies who back-pocket the profits in personal favors or career advancement (often lucrative do-nothing retirement-time consulting positions) and walk off to a fat future while the rest of the people get shafted.

For a historical look at the development of these highly successful CIA-assisted projects in the developing world, check out Confessions of an Economic Hitman. I've since discussed it with diplomats and they've validated portions personally.

Luckily, the model is just about on its last legs though: virtually nobody is stupid enough to believe this stuff at face value anymore.
Stuff You Should Know: Two guys explain a different topic (e.g. amputation, avalanches, the game of Monopoly) each episode http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/

Planet Money: Economics podcast for the masses. High production value. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
I live outside of Nashville and they are now offering me 109mb for about $90 a month. My current speed has continued to increase as well, about 2 smaller MP3 songs per second.
Mostly comedy, but...

* Comedy Bang Bang - http://www.earwolf.com/show/comedy-bang-bang/

* Who Charted? - http://www.earwolf.com/show/who-charted/

* WTF with Marc Maron - http://www.wtfpod.com/

* The Indoor Kids - http://www.nerdist.com/podcast_channel/the-indoor-kids-chann...

* Brainy Gamer (hasn't been updated in a while): http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/podcast/
I'm also starting to think that the genie is out of the bottle and the only solution is to "democratize" surveillance.
If a treaty of this extent is negotiated in secret and then made public for ratification it _can_ _only_ _fail_ to be accepted. (At least if the democratically elected EU parliament is involved in the acceptance process)

This thing changes so many parts of European law that we took decades to agree on, that the effort to make it "fly under the radar" seems comical.
I can't tell if this is a total joke post like reddit, or a sarcastic attempt at saying "well the employer can accuse you of ANYTHING" because the poster has never heard of employers accusing former employees taking things.

You aren't supposed to take private work materials with you when you leave. I know for a fact that I've seen "screenshots" explicitly listed as one of the things I'm not supposed to take in several very reasonable employee agreements I've received over the years.

Having been presented with very unreasonable employee agreements (once a security company tried to get me to sign "we own all your IP while you work here, and for a year after you leave" agreement), that doesn't mean the company doesn't get to keep the private stuff it owns private.

It's theirs, not yours. You signed an agreement not to take it. Don't take it.
WebP is mostly handled via transparent proxies - meaning people with proper browsers and Android mobile devices get WebP (large market share), everyone else gets (larger) PNGs.

That way you don't really care either way on the backend.
At least if the company doesn't exist they're not going to complain about it. Although whoever ended up with the IP in the liquidation sale might.

Running a live version of old software is often surprisingly hard, as it will depend on other old software or nonexistent systems. VMs make this a bit easier, but if it's a distributed or embedded system that doesn't work either.
I've been working remotely for the past 3 years, so I feel qualified to give you some advice here.

Don't go for remote work simply because you think it will give you the flexibility to sneak out during core business hours to pursue hobbies or personal interests.

Remote workers have to work extra hard to fight the stigma that we are slacking off at home in our PJs and not doing any real work. Our output is measurable and often scrutinized by in-office management teams that are always looking to stack and rank employees to dole out raises/bonuses. Personal biases come into a play a lot and human nature is hard to fight for many people in our industry, especially those that are naturally distrustful. Disappearing in the middle of the day can actively harm your employment as a remote worker in such organizations.

That being said, you should be able to work out something with your manager regardless of your location so that you can go to auditions, as long as you make up the time later. Focus on organizations that support this, not whether they have remote workers or not.

Another option is to focus on consulting roles where you make it clear with your clients that your availability during the day will shift. You may not make as much money or have as much stability, but you're more likely to have the flexibility that you need to pursue acting.

I can put you in touch with one of my coworkers, who's an Android developer in LA and has done a few TV shows in the past as an actor. He can probably give you some good advice on finding a balance to pursue both. My email is in my profile.

Good luck!
Indeed. The environment appears to be quite hostile, I would refuse to live in or pay any social contribution in a town that judges certain streets only fit for certain classes of people. That way bad things lie.
As a developer, I want to have a record of my work just as an artist wants a photo or a mould of a sculpture they sold.

I'm not about to not do it based on someone on the internet's interpretation of IP.

If a programmer is working on super proprietary high-tech stuff like HFT, sure - but most of us are just pushing bits and most value we add is from processes and experience.
> Don't down vote because you disagree, down vote because it's not relevant. This is relevant discussion.

Upvoted to compensate even though I don't agree with your opinion as being the best interim approach. As you said, downvotes are for irrelevance, not for disagreement.

Surely, if you push people to the point of starvation they'll grab arms and force change. But I'm not so sure that in the end this will bring a liberal democracy, rather than another dictator taking over and fixing things short-term.
Yes, anything that the company has publicly released is fine. If you want to show off the feature you wrote for MS Word, buy a copy of MS Word as a consumer and show it off on your laptop.
Good podcast on investing: New Focus on Wealth with Chad Burton https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-focus-on-wealth-chad...

Covers broad investing issues and not specific to stock picking
Smart People Podcast is quite good - the hosts of the show are pretty bright and are great at finding interesting people to pick the minds of. http://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/
Can someone expand upon Artificial Intelligence strategies for solving this?

Are there "easy" mathematical strategies? Is there a solution for an arbitrary large grid? Complexity?

From a first glance this reminds me of "constraint satisfaction" classes of problems. I remember studying the famous one where you are asked to colour a map such that no two adjacent cities share the same colour.

Does this fall into that group or is there a better way?

Edit: just saw chaoxu's comment. cool.
>You may recall that Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft received the same subpoena but did not fight the Feds in court; they instead quietly complied.

Correction: Microsoft did not turn over the requested information.

http://bokardo.com/archives/microsoft-didnt-give-user-data-t...

“Today, Mehdi added some detail concerning what actually happened when the request from the Government was made. First, the Government had asked for information that could identify people on an individual basis (most likely, an IP address). Microsoft declined this request, and instead handed the Government a watered down version of data, which Mehdi made clear did not include personal information. The information provided by Microsoft, Mehdi said, consisted only of a sample of search terms and their frequency, as well as a random sample of pages in the MSN Search Index.”

Just a minute of research would have led you to this, but of course, that would run counter to your pro-Google bias.