skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed googling for this kind of stuff usually finds advertising poorly hidden as curated lists. You can tell it runs off the rails when 90% of the list just so happens to be employees of one media megacorp. So as a public service I'll list the history podcasts I've actually listened to with some commentary, highlights, and (mild) criticism. All of these podcasts AFAIK are just one dude vs the world, or at most a couple guys as background helpers. Corporate podcasts typically have all the personality of an HR employee manual or an EULA, but one dude and a microphone always has a unique and interesting personality. May or may not like all of the personality, but at least its interesting.

History of Byzantium - Nice accent, dude, no sarcasm. About as detailed as the history of rome. Well researched. At the speed he's going I'm not entirely sure he will ever catch up with the present day, at least not in one presenter's lifetime. I exaggerate slightly, he's only spent about one calendar year on the century of the 600s.

When Diplomacy Fails - Pretty good in abstract, extremely good, for a kid (was just a college kid when he started). There is some "kid enthusiasm" which sounds good almost all of the time, although occasionally annoying. A detailed discussion of how the war of "fill in the blank" started. Has a bit of a bias that wars only start between civilized-ish countries when their diplomatic corps and/or cabinet advisors screw up, and he pulls no punches on who screwed up and tends to take sides and explain the facts and why he took a side, which is interesting and I usually end up agreeing. The "informal roundtable with friends" followup episodes are totally skippable. The very long WWI sub-series is well worth every second spent listening to them.

Revolutions. Focus with laser like precision on the causes, events, and outcome of various revolutions. This guy is going places and will be a famous name someday. Can't find much to complain about.

The British History Podcast. A bit more comedic than the others. Where he finds so much source material is a mystery. He's an unemployed (formerly unemployed?) lawyer so he sometimes focuses more than others on judicial / .gov process type stuff, because that's kind of what lawyers do, which is interesting.

The Bulgarian History Podcast - Lots of history in a small country. Flashes between today and back then, more than the competition. His intro music, although appropriate, is a little annoying. Note that the British History Podcast doesn't have medieval British music and its still cool, as a compare and contrast. Its a foreign enough culture to be very interesting.

Dan Carlins Hardcore History - Lower case L libertarian-ish episodic commentary on one event, sometimes across a couple episodes if complicated. If you hate his WWI discussion thats OK just chill till he discusses the Mongol Invasions, its like the weather, if you don't like it today, just wait a month.
BitLocker uploads device encryption keys to SkyDrive
I know Vim well enough to use it for this kind of thing but, IMO, if you find yourself doing a lot of hot edits on live servers you're doing it wrong.

Almost all of the editing I do is in a consistent environment on my development machine and I don't see the point of using a lowest-common-denominator tool when I don't have to. I'm sure with some work you can bend Vim into something approaching the power of an IDE but why would you bother? Text editing is a pretty small part of the work of development, after all.
> I really hope Apple will come up with a modern alternative to Core Data; it's neat and all, but it just doesn't feel like it's a good match for most situations.

This pretty much seems to be the aim of the (non-Apple) http://realm.io/
That is one approach... but I would really like the H1 to not to be tied to an employer. Let it be open with instant portability. The only obligation is the current employer (even the original sponsor) has to report the employee assignment on the first date to the DHS. And if a company tries to put bond/restrictions on that movement (either in the US or back in the home country) penalize and remove their ability to get H1's for 5 years.
Of course. Since when popularity equates intelligence? Truth is that traction is so important here that values are twisted.
The article wonders at the huge increase in diagnoses that mysteriously disappear in adulthood, but if the author had spent some time at college recently he'd know that Adderall is seen as THE way to ace tests and study more.

It isn't difficult to walk into a doctors office and act and say the right way and things to get your prescription after you get tired of buying it off friends, either.
Removal of Personal Protective Equipment After Biological Attack
Either that or you're constipated.
Adam Curtis is my favirite docummentarist. All his docummentaries are great.

Specially The Century of the Self
http://vimeo.com/91200667
28 C++ User Group Meetings in November
Sorry but it is. You want to say that it is practiced - sure I agree but it is illegal. Bonded labor has long been abolished in India.

Section 27 of the Indian Contract Act clearly says one sided contracts are void. Most contracts in these companies are one sided in nature and of the type - if you quit, then you pay X but if we fire you then we do not pay anything. The Supreme Court of India has clarified this Superintendence Company Of India ... vs Krishan Murgai on 9 May, 1980 [0].

In fact, Section 383 of the Indian Penal Code even makes the illegal to use the common coercive tactics by firms (TCS in the article) to withhold documents [1]. The tactic amounts to "extortion" and carries a punishment of 3 years of prison or fine or both [2]

TL;DR - Bonds are illegal and so is the practice of withholding ANY valuable to enforce vulnerability. The latter is a criminal offense.

[0] http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1186410/

[1] http://indiankanoon.org/doc/262864/

[2] http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1944660/
>We still have the power – we don't have to turn it over to the robots now or ever.

In theory, but can we control ourselves? There are a lot of financial incentives in developing better machines and algorithms. We couldn't stop nuclear weapons or global warming, and AI is a lot more attractive and powerful than either of those to business and governments. Not to mention that nuclear weapons and global warming are harmful in a very easily understood way, whereas AI might be harmful in very strange ways. It's like a pack of wolves left alone with a poisonous steak. It's a delicious steak and the poison is somewhat beyond their understanding; some wolves even think there's no poison at all. Isolating the poison from the steak is as difficult for the wolves as making safe AI is for us.

You can imagine how incredibly valuable an AI capable of doing a programmer's work would be. It's a technology far off, but not implausible.

But as soon as we reach that point, it seems unlikely that things won't spiral out of control. Imagine a thousand highly intelligent programmers who are capable of research, think fluently in statistics, and cooperate perfectly. Additionally, these programmers can examine and modify how their own brains work, and boost their performance, remove their errors. With the press of a button, they can also create more copies of themselves.

Everything might spiral out of control.

How do you make sure things don't spiral out of control?
There is no success because of ADHD. There is success despite having ADHD.

It's not a personality trait that I cannot physically do something I want to do and need to do without medication and, frankly, I'm sick of people who don't experience it offering new theories on it as if they have some grand insight into it.

Get a head injury that breaks your executive functions. Join us. Then try to offer it up as a personality trait.
Without TLS and having control of the network, it doesn't matter how many channels over the network you use; it's simple to MITM everything and search-and-replace all text matching the key with your forged key (in fact, many networks already MITM all non-TLS HTTP traffic through a "transparent proxy").

With TLS, even with the imperfect CA model, it's much harder. It might have been "demonstrated broken", but can you get a certificate for "fedoraproject.org"? It's not that easy. Add to that the Certificate Patrol extension, which warns the user quite noisily when a certificate is signed by a different CA (and shows the user the old and new CA).

With mailing the CDs, as suggested several posts upthread, it also gets harder; now the attacker has to MITM two things (the network and intercept the physical disks). If you add TLS, it gets even harder (three things: MITM the network, intercept the physical disks, and obtain a valid forged certificate).

So, trusting the CAs is better than getting the key via multiple unencrypted channels through the same network. Trusting the CAs plus getting the key via multiple channels is even better. The methods are not exclusive, and "multiple channels" is already common in practice (in my Fedora example, the DVD image is obtained via bittorrent, while the key is obtained via TLS, and they have to match).
For me it's definitely mouse reporting. If my hand is already on the mouse I really like clicking tmux panes. Sometimes it's also easier to just scroll with a trackpad too.

iTerm lets you do this, but Terminal.app doesn't.
I was late diagnosed with ADHD. I used to be on Adderall for years. I'm now on a non-stimulant medication, as well as an anti-anxiety anti-depressant.

Adderall helped me in college. It helped me get every homework done, even if the homework was pointless.

I spent some time trying to switch medications, as I personally did not like feeling glued to whatever activity I was doing. I like having the choice to focus, or not focus.

I switched environments, where I could experiment with this new way of approaching learning and working. I don't mind iterative, mundane tasks, because at the end of the day and before I begin them, I try to think about why it's interesting, novel, and different, for me to perform this iteration of task. I try to think that the fact that I have gotten my mind to this state without dramatic intervention is as well novel, unique, and worthy of self praise.

In a world where I already felt distracted and slow, Adderall offers a quick fix. But I would have never built those parts of myself, of my mind, that can find novelty in what superficially appears to be 'boring'. I just try to change everything else in my control, to help myself see 'boring' in a different perspective. If I work in java at work on jsp pages, at home and during my 'web surfing time' at work, I teach myself about unikernals, clojure, the curry howard isomorphism - with serious intent, over long periods of time. And then I begin to see connections in the ordinary that are extraordinary.

As for nootropics, I'm trying to look for research in anything that uses language such as 'relaxing / calming' and 'focus'. I think there is a serious slant in literature that truly believes, and primes it's audience to believe stimulant -> better concentration. Stimulant -> temporary concentration. I am firmly confident that stimulants either prevent or override the creation of neural connections that are less explicit.
Economist here. In my view you're exactly right. Though there has been a merging of Neo-Keynesian and Neoclassical modeling methods in recent decades, interpretation thereof is still a battle.
as a Hongkonger here, karma to support
I absolutely hate having to lift one of my hand off the keyboard to grab the mouse. Vim's text navigation is the top killer feature that all modern editor are lagging behind.

The second one is modal mode (editing and navigating/command).

I am trying to warm up to ST and the vim plugin is okay but some things are really missing (capital R)
Facebook’s secret newsfeed experiments affected voter turnout in 2012
> So what makes you think that's so likely, what about our current priorities and behaviours makes you so optimistic?

I'm not enormously optimistic. I'm just saying that compared to interstellar travel, avoiding fossil fuels seems like a fairly small problem.
I would have posted the same thing beforehand so I have To ask
Didn't read the article?
No, it doesn't try to suppress pirated contents as such, it tries to boost quality sites like those of Disney and its brethren. Reverting would bring all kinds of things to the top, good and bad, not just TPB.

To me it looks like the original pagerank plus a large dose of wishful thinking, and if it were implemented disney.com would rank 0.01 until manually boosted (in an act of "editorial judgment").
"It takes a certain kind of person" is what they say, isn't it? That kind of person exists in all cultures/countries.
Create an email address just for paypal transactions. There is no other way because PayPal will always send your email address so the merchant can update you about the purchase. This is a feature that makes sense to me.
"where they have the exact same 3 person radio show in every city"

On every station, not in every city. There is no radio alternative where I live other than morning zoo shows.

This is a typical indication of aggressive narrowcasting. "Our goal is to increase our percentage of morning zoo listeners by becoming a better morning zoo". Unfortunately the product that is the most popular among zoo listeners is likely abhorrent to the general population. They're going to chase each other all the way down until the few advertisers left won't be able to pay the electric bill, and right up to the bitter end they'll be trumpeting their "percent of total listeners" metrics rather than "total number of listeners" metrics. All I care about is having a bigger slice of the pie, and don't care how much smaller the whole pie gets.

Similar problem with TV, newspapers, magazines...
> I don't actually think there's anything good about US public schools.

It's a good thing no one here actually went to one isn't it.
Is your comment supposed to make someone feel sorry about a country that helped start wars that led to tens of millions of lost lives and devastated much of the continent for decades?
This doesn't look too nice graphically. Influenced by -lines are grey on grey which is almost invisible. Also, it doesn't make much sense either. C# is placed close to Smalltalk, far away from C and C++, not to mention Java.
David Brin (you may remember him as the author of "The Postman", but not the screenwriter of the movie) has a fantastic novel on this.[0]

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Existence-David-Brin-ebook/dp/B0079XPM...
I actually work a bit with SPIR. They standardized a subset of LLVM IR 3.2 as SPIR 1.2

SPIR 2.0 on the other hand already is based off LLVM IR 3.4
The app that analyzes and recognizes human emotions based on vocal modulations
> sure I agree but it is illegal. Bonded labor has long been abolished in India.

The law doesn't seem to be doing much to protect the millions (perhaps as many as ten million) of people in bonded labour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27486450

> India's economy is the 10th largest in the world, but millions of the country's workers are thought to be held in conditions little better than slavery. [...]

> "There are deep-rooted problems of business-related human rights abuse in India," says Peter Frankental, Economic Relations Programme Director of Amnesty International UK. "Much of that involves the way business is conducted, an unwillingness to enforce laws against companies, and fabricated charges and false imprisonment against activists who try to bring these issues to light."

http://www.antislavery.org/english/what_we_do/programme_and_...

> In India, our work focused on freeing the millions of men, women and children forced to work as bonded labourers. Regardless of their age, they work long hours labouring in quarries, brick kilns, agriculture and as domestics, receiving little or no pay in return for a loan needed for survival.

http://idsn.org/caste-discrimination/key-issues/bonded-labou...

> In spite of the encompassing and seemingly progressive legislative framework, the use and abuse of Dalit bonded labourers in India remains endemic within a range of occupations and branches, both rural and urban, such as agriculture, forestry, fishing, domestic work, and cleaning. A report by Anti-Slavery International in 2008, revealed that dalit bonded labourers are employed to carry out the most physically straining and menial types of work in industries such as silk farms, rice mills, salt pans, fisheries, quarries and mines, tea and spice farming, brick-kilns, textile and domestic work(2).
That reminds me of the way people sometimes defend flaws of their own nation by pointing out that it's worse elsewhere. So everybody points to North Korea, and North Korea points to outer space which is even more hostile to life. It's great for making people feel better, but completely useless to improve anything at all.
Does the computer owner/shareholders maintain the residual rents? If so, I think you may be spot on.
I would hope that if you're developing a brand new rocket engine design to carry people, you'd welcome offers of peer review and do everything else you can reasonably do to help make it safe (like avoiding PR driven deadline pressure).

In the history of manned space flight, lots of unmanned experience was made before crossing that threshold.
As someone who worked in a testing department at a large company, I have to say that vetting even just your own devices for defects is an incredibly tough nut to crack, much less other companys'.

Your solution is effectively "Don't sell non-Microsoft products at your store."

Yes, I know that Apple has managed to do exactly that, build a retail store where there's an expectation that anything you buy there will be at the brand level of quality. Apple can do a lot of things other companies can't. It has the best designers, the best technology platforms, the best infrastructure. Apple's remarkable consistency is the product of the company Jobs built.

Microsoft has to struggle very hard to come up with one half-decent product.
I thought it might be useful to document my experiences starting out with Rust, in the same vein as Artyom's "Learning Racket" series (http://artyom.me/learning-racket-1), which I got a lot out of.

I really liked the style of that series when investigating Racket myself. That is, little to no preparation, and writing down everything you try, even if it doesn't work.

Hope someone finds it useful.
Pieter Bruegel - Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs
5 Tools Every Internet Entrepreneur Should Have (#5 Will Blow Your Mind)
> "Yes. You can purchase as many accounts as you want and gift them should you choose. (Hint: If you're clever, you'll use your referral link to purchase three accounts and get a fourth one free!)"

Admin can you please strip the referral from the URL (#1849)
Most of the other answers have been technical, along the lines of the storage space and bandwidth are minimal. Once you can download 20 times faster than you can listen, and you've got at least one show in the backlog of things to listen to, it doesn't matter. However, I'll give a content oriented response against streaming.

Selecting a stream at a random time midprogram would work very well for content that has no past and no future and no logic or information, like a morning zoo show or a news show or sports coverage. I guess that stuff is called infotainment now.

That wouldn't work very well at all for maybe 90% of current podcast content. If the content were aggressively dumbed down, it might be possible to join in the middle, but then no one would listen to the dumbed down stream given an option of non-dumbed down podcasts.

Maybe another way of phrasing it is its like the difference between tuning into a random webcam at a random comedy sports, vs watching this weeks sitcom episode. The former is likely to be pretty funny but no idea what you'll get, and the latter has at least has an 18 minute long story, if not a longer series based story.
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Does the FCC really not get it about the Internet?
> You cannot add RAM [+ CPU Cores] on the fly...

I doubt that this type of instant scaling is useful for the typical .NET shops that serve small and medium size businesses and still sell a lot of on-premise solutions and niche-market web apps.

> That's one OS license, one SQL Server license and one Visual Studio license per developer.

Not necessarily. I just worked with a client who had every one of their 10 developers on SQL Server Express (free, with 10GB db limit) and Visual Studio 2013 Express (also free) which is good enough for doing basically anything in the MS universe. The computers they bought came with Windows.

My current client has me working at home where I use my own copy of Windows 2012 R2 + Visual Studio 2013 Pro and SQL Server Web edition which I got all for free via a free WebSpark membership that I signed up for 2 years ago.
finding an apartment in Paris is a complicated thing but I'm not sure you're in the right place to ask for this kind of help.
The Lone-wolf coder in a basement in Minsk
I'm using Node.js + .NET for my part-time, single founder startup.
The agreement never uses the word bond. They like to claim that it's just compensation for training expenses.
Speaking of "cherished hypothesis", this guy's is that he is a good enough presenter to do justice to this material. Should've done A-B testing with a pro and gone with him.
NationStates – create your own country
At a couple of companies I was at, an Indian jobs shop had somehow gotten their mitts into our HR types and we were indundated with candidates who showed up with books like "Learn Java in 12 hours" or "Windows Device Drivers for N00bs" under their arms. Very junior types, without exception. Our interview questions were fed back, and I had to change them a fair amount. Not a problem.

"The guy at XYZZY will ask about hash tables, so..." and I'd ask them questions about something else, like concurrency, to very obvious consternation. Halfway through an interview, one candidate even asked when I was going to ask about hash tables.

"Fine. We can talk about concurrency and hash tables."

There was an undercurrent of expectation. Their handler / manager (the relationship was never really made clear) called me one day and said "We expect you to give a job to several of our people. You keep changing your questions. What is the problem?" And I would explain that I wasn't going to hire someone junior, who we would have to teach how to do engineering, for a senior wage.

Eventually they stopped coming, presumably having found better pastures.