skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is already a trend, but until last week it was the realm of huge companies, bureaucrats, weapon manufacturers and other security-industry types. Now there's potential for going mainstream.

This said, I wouldn't trust a French provider or an Italian provider with anything too sensitive: their police forces have a history of being incredibly heavy-handed when dealing with data. I remember one occasion in mid-00's when the Italian police investigating G8 riots (or something like that) raided a data centre, took home all disks they could find, cloned them all, then went through them with a fine comb, all because one mailing list hosted on one of those servers might have been tangentially related to whatever they were investigating. I'd be surprised if things were much better in other European countries, to be honest, but I guess Norway is one of the best bets (with UK/Ireland being among the worst, of course).
That logo was a link to codepen, just a demo that I'm interested in the company. It was definitely not in my cover letter as attached image or smth.
I realize that its not the same thing but I'm raising the other issue because both of them concern the subject of animal treatments.

And why not an iPhone app? Hackers don't need a reason do something new. A simple reason I can think of is to demonstrate that this is possible and also get people interested in the field so that more research is done. I would very much like to see computers directly connected to human brain and I/O being done on it in the future.
Just a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?
Most VMs don't have interrupts. As a less-complex alternative, you might consider implementing an I/O thread, something rarely done in hardware because an extra CPU is a lot more hardware than an interrupt mechanism.

One interesting exception is the Unix VM, whose interrupts are called "signals".
Maybe it is disturbing to me and many others because many people with a 'hacker's mindset' share the romantic idea that technology shouldn't be used to gain power over other lifeforms.
While I mostly agree I also think that having some legal/jurisdictional protection is a good thing. If nothing else for the case where there turn out to be an exploitable weakness in the client side encryption you are using.
Put a picture on your CV in the UK and it directly goes into the bin. No one wants to be liable for discrimination.
Obama does not believe Americans' privacy has been violated by NSA
Or, for all systems:

du -sk |sort -n

Sure, the results are in kilobytes but it's not that hard to read. It's even clearer in a way, it's obvious at a glance as to which entries are orders of magnitude bigger, since they have more numbers next to them.
Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story
Apple releases stats on national security requests for customer data
When I bought my Thinkpad W510, USB3 had recently come out, and the partially-implemented drivers the distros were shipping caused the machine not to be able to sleep. To say that Thinkpad support is equivalent to a reference implementation is overstating matters wildly - although the support is generally pretty damn good.
"Nice C-flavored code (there’s even ++) but look, Ma, no semicolons!"

The hate for semicolons is far, far more annoying to me than semicolons ever are.
Tianhe-2 is now the fastest supercomputer in the world
The title is ambiguous, but the body unambiguously and incorrectly states: "The world's last telegram message will be sent somewhere in India on July 14."
I'm a little offended that as a non American, this invasion of my privacy is apperantly a non issue.
DON'T put a picture on your CV in GERMANY and it directly goes into the bin. :)
It is not good manners to tell people that their idea, in your opinion, "sucks". That's why.

I wouldn't tell them that, just as I wouldn't tell them that, in my opinion, their clothing, haircut, or other aspects of personal appearance "suck". Nor that any aspect of their personality "sucks".
Most of the stuff I did wasn't for research to publish a paper. I sacrificed those mice to get a better understanding of the natural world all for my own selfish reasons. I did this in an academic lab with a scientist by my side and I knew from the beginning that mice are not "expendable," they are alive.

I would have preferred a full holographic and interactive mouse multiphysics simulation I could manipulate to my heart's content, but those don't exist. These types of educational tools can inspire the future scientists and educating the young minds that will do tomorrow what we can't bring ourselves to do today is worth the sacrifice, as long as we take care to not waste life needlessly.
Open source experience is great, when applying for a job at a startup! I think you will have good chances.
Basic rule of keeping your C.V. short and sweet, because if every candidate is a 2-3 page C.V. and 25 candidates apply the person responsible for reading them is going to be in for a long, annoying day.

Cover letters are fine, don't worry about it too much though as they're normally just scanned over. If you're going for frontend have some work in a portfolio online they can view. Backend consider having some open source work on GitHub, even if it's just a few snippets of useful code you use every now and again.
For what a software company would need a picture in a cv of a software engineer candidate?
Good suggestion, I've been using Amazon Glacier with the CloudBerry backup software which supports client-side AES encryption (http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-glacier-backup-software....) and couldn't ask for more. Of course you will have to trust CloudBerry not to put a backdoor in their Software, but it seems there are no OSS alternatives right now that work as easily.
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I heard you guys also like mentioning in your CVs where you went to primary school. Horses for the courses.
And look who has been defined a threat in the past: civil rights leaders, protesters, and those with political differences.
"Vi vil ikke overlevere brukerdata til myndighetene om vi ikke mottar en kjennelse fra norsk rettsvesen"

meaning

"We will not hand over user data to the government if we do not receive a ruling from the Norwegian judicial system"

which is pretty much the same thing as the Patriot Act in the US...

But as far as PRISM goes - that's a whole other matter!
They pivoted or changed what they were doing based on just your feedback?

Seems... odd
Mobile roaming charges to end in Europe next year
This comment is below HN's standards. Your vitriol and ad hominems do nothing to further the conversation and, if anything, make you look like a government apologist.
I had my CV checked at a recruiting event at my University here in Germany. While officially the employers are not allowed to require a picture or the age, I was told that both is a must.
To my knowledge in Germany you should include a decent sized picture, your birth date, and your nationality. If you do not include this, your risk your application to be trashed, at least with larger and more traditional companies.
The cover letter should be no longer than one page, the CV must not be longer than two pages.

It is also important to directly address the person in charge, so call them if in doubt and ask who is responsible and if you should include a picture.
The law that might force you to reveal the key depends on where you are, not where your hoster is.
That is because, at the end of the day, Facebook and Google are advertising companies and Apple is not.
NAT will always have a place, because not everyone wants to expose a uniquely routable address for every device they own (probably based on a device's MAC address) to the world.
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All ideas suck until they are products.

Then they either suck or they are awesome, but at least they are real enough to be judged at that point.
I have a hard time considering cockroach control a major ethical issue when cockroaches are considered a major pest and are often killed on sight. I don't see how a few minutes of steering where it goes is substantially worse than stepping on it. I mean, letting a kid play with cockroaches brings about a greater understanding than just telling kids that they all need to be killed. In that way, I'd consider it a good experiment for children akin to catching a caterpillar and watching it make a cocoon.

Maybe I'm missing something.
Ubuntu 13.04, which is smart enough to configure Bumblebee for you.
Is this the case with companies like Ableton or SoundCloud?
I thought that the NSA surveillance was at least partially illegal. Laws (Norwegian or US) don't stop TLAs doing what they want.

Also in a related note I find the following fairly unconvincing:

"We will not hand over user data to authorities unless a warrant issued by the Norwegian court of law is presented"

Warrants are in my view more about providing a paper trail than actually preventing abuse.

Ultimately I think the only protection against surveillance is well-employed cryptography. Especially if the law offers some protection for encryption keys and/or passwords.
I am a developer and IT manager/director in Berlin.

I will say this: in most small to medium IT companies (in Berlin) a cover letter is not needed or even wanted in most cases -- speak with your work and your CV. The cover letter is just excess "stuff" that we have to read on top of everything else. Larger corporations may appreciate this more.

A CV should be kept VERY short and to the point (i.e. 1-2 pages). A "creative" CV is fine if you are applying for a creative position, but outside of that keep it simple and avoid being confusing. Note that Germany has its own CV format which often includes your picture, marital status, and so forth. Adhering to this is a plus in most cases!

Example projects you participated in (such as a URL to a site you developed) or code samples (i.e. GitHub) are an enormous plus that will put you at the front of the line (if it is good code, naturally).

If you are applying from outside the EU, it is important to stand out because of the extra cost and process (which is relatively quick and painless in Germany compared to some other countries, such as England) for your visa and residency. There is, however, a large shortage of talented IT professionals here and most companies regularly seek out candidates from outside Germany and even outside the EU.

In Berlin, you can likely get away with not speaking German, though it is a "plus." In many parts of Germany (i.e. Munich), the majority of positions will require/assume you speak German plus some level of English proficiency.
As mentioned in a comment on the post, The EU Data Retention Directive does not apply to cloud storage providers.
Not yet at least.
Waar kan je logopedie studeren?
A million a year, just from that? How?
Golang ins't all that new. I don't get it why so many articles exploring the basics get so much spotlight.

It's a good language. I'd like to see more articles about things made with it and not about it.
For the life of me I cannot understand the logic of massive foreclosure campaigns like the ones the banks have been onto. There is already a surplus of housing for the next few years (outside the obvious top 10 cities) so how does forcing people out of their homes (the ones that have paid up) benefit the banks? the neighbors banks? the neighbors or the town?

Maybe there is a bigger picture that I'm missing.
The EU election is where the swedish pirate party has managed to get seats. It's also nice to have a party for "protest voters" that isn't far-right or far-left.
Interesting although it doesn't really try to explain what 802.11ac is. For a deeper dive: http://cdn.rohde-schwarz.com/dl_downloads/dl_application/app...
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Yes, that is probably better. I needed to use du -k (Centos).
I'm kind of suspiscious of that page and it's sources.

Did my own search, appears the role of opiates isn't fully understood in cockroaches and it isn't very conclusive on any front.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00319384879... <-- Reports changes with morphine and naloxone. Seems to increase how fast headless cockroaches learn to avoid shocks. (Yes, headless. great way to figure out what kind of receptors there are in the body)

http://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0096392508040032

Norwegian gold mine ahoy: http://english.vkm.no/dav/413af9502e.pdf
The filter bubble! After you've googled enough, google starts knowing what domain you are searching in.

If you search for 'array literals' you'll likely get Go results at the top rather than, say, Javascript (which is what I get, I just tried).
Angular team is going to split the Core into several small modules, hopefully a data-binding module will be available to replace knockout and do nothing more ;)
It's What You Take Away That Matters
Spideroak...
It's on my list of things to integrate into my own Android Builds, but have not had time to do much AOSP modding lately.
Well, I write some Go and I agree with OP. As soon as you aren't too sure of where to looks, Google doesn't either and return garbage results.
The US has a great deal of influence in the west, especially NATO members. They will readily comply to avoid complications. No country wants to find itself on the US "terrorist" list.
Reminds me to "How to give negative feedback effectively"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4431289
Like what you can see through all the comments, there is no "European way of applying", even though there is officially a "European type CV", but don't know much about it.

I just went through the process recently (in France), and what I know is true for sure in mainland Europe is :

* No more than 2 pages. Make it 1 if you can (I worked quite hard to make fit everything I wanted into 1 page, but if you really had a lot of projects showing a wide range of skills, it can be hard). If you have less than 5 years of XP, I'd say only 1 page.

* Picture : This depends per country. In Germany, it's practically mandatory (except maybe in some more "international" startups, don't know about that). In France, it is not, but the latest trend is to put one. Reading elsewhere in this thread, in the UK, it seems you should not put one.

* Cover letter : in France it is highly appreciated (especially if there is an HR person/department) and you should put good time into it and definitely tailor it to the company you are applying to (you can still have pattern though, that helps to write them much faster).

* Github profile can help but that really depends on which type of company you're applying to I think.

* Degrees : That really depends. I guess (hope) in the startup world it is less important, but in "normal company" in France and Germany, they value it a lot (one would say too much) but of course, you can't change that. You can try to counterbalance it in your cover letter though.

Hope this helps.
Thanks for this addendum.

Yes, the premise was built on some generalization. Not "everyone" was courted by Wall Street 10 years ago, just as not "everyone" is trying to get into tech these days (though I would argue that from certain points of view both feel that way).

I am aware that these narratives don't represent the typical American experience and should have made that clearer.

Thanks for reading and responding.
a) Honesty costs money. If somebody wants to tell you something for free, they also want to do something else with/to you.

b) Networking events are for networking.
Or the law of the country you are extradited to.
Maybe Google is tailoring your results to bring back sites that include the programming language based on a) your past searching habits and b) the emerging trends for those specific search patterns.

Google's results are highly tailored, thus two people can search for the same term and get different results.

Going back to the original point raised, I too have gotten into the habit of searching for "go lang [query]" rather than just "go [query]" due to the same frustrations in the past. What the author describes isn't a unique quirk he's experienced, it's actually a very common complaint.
"Yes, saw. Is covered by opt in privacy policy and only used in aggregate, but looking into how we use and whether it's DNTable."

Source: https://twitter.com/msurman/status/346564623539003393
For me though, no linux support :(
If you read the Carr article, you might see that these associations are much less tenuous than you suggest.
I've witnessed speeds up to 6 MBps down (i.e. 48 Mbps) at IIT Madras on a wired connection.
Building Adaptive Learning Systems in USA
This would be shocking if you did not also read "BoA: Too Crooked to Fail" http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-to...
Private equity firms are buying the foreclosed houses then turning them into rentals. This was a growing concern in Atlanta when I lived there. It seemed like entire neighborhoods were being bought up.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/private-equity-in-a...
I'm from Germany and find cover letters very important: They give you an idea whether the candidate has done basic research about your company.

Also it certainly shouldn't do any harm to include one
Just out of curiosity, which area do you live in?
Hmm. I've had my picture on the CV (SO careers profile basically) and had no problems. But, my GF has been applying for jobs for over a month now without any luck. She also has a picture on her CV but she is not in IT (more like administrative jobs, reception, etc...). Do you think this might be the cause of the poor response rate (ie. non existent) she has? Would really appreciate more insight into this.
I'm a web developer in London, who's moderately involved in hiring. Most advice you'll get is subjective, but here's my two pence.

A 2 page CV is the norm, though you won't get dinged for a page either way - especially if the content is good. A cover letter can help, especially if it's focused on the company - why you want to work for them, what skills you can bring & why they're relevant, etc. It's also a chance to show off any side projects or Github accounts; if it was a front-end job you applied for, the logo in CSS3 sounds ideal. Don't worry too much about formality of language; polite but friendly is fine. Aim for 2-3 paragraphs. I wouldn't include a photo; that's a little weird in the UK job market, though it's generally understood to mean "Oh, the candidate's from another country."
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Well for better or worse you can not really escape that. Best to my knowledge most (western) countries have the concept court orders/warrants or equivalents.
Are you sure? They don't seem to mention subscription pricing on http://bufferapp.com/

I can't verify that myself since I don't want to link their app to my linkedin.
Yea even that makes more sense than 4k on a logo that looks like that.

Come on I'm all for people doing their ideas but this is a joke. Read his other comments/posts before down voting me whoever did, guy has no clue what he is doing. Pretty much its like picking a random person on the street and then picking a random idea for them to do.
Ya I should have specified my domain when posting this. I'm currently in the healthcare field for one of the larger hospitals here in Toronto. One of the reasons for this posting was to gauge how useful it'd be for the private sector, as it's both my preference and it's only a year long contract.
From their website, it seems that tarsnap can't be counted as OSS:
"The Tarsnap client code is built around the open source libarchive archive handling library. While the Tarsnap code is not distributed under an open source license..."
Maybe this reference list should be more widely available, especially from major vendors like Canonical. Improving the visibility of the list by putting it up on the distro download page would certainly put quite a few minds at ease.
In London:

1. Include a one to two paragraph cover letter that you wrote specifically for the opening you're applying for. Make the quality of English very high. Use simple letter-style formatting, address in the top right, company logo in the top left if you have a freelance brand that you're using.

2. Include a two page CV. Simple formatting please (I am going to print it and write on it). Mine has worked well for me (though in retrospect is too wordy!), http://hackerb.io/cantlin.pdf, you can get one from http://hackerb.io.

3. Make both documents PDFs. Anything else is a pain for me.

4. Include links to your web presence, if you want. They can be in the cover letter, CV or email. You'll be Googled anyway so it's best to be proactive, especially if you have stuff on Github, SO, etc.

5. Companies vary, but be mindful of potentially needing to get your application through an HR department who at best will be searching for keywords from the job post.

6. Startups are a different game. Your CSS3 logo is a good stab (though make sure you back it up with meat). If I were looking for a startup role today I would be focused on making connections through events, social media and the open source projects they use.
I am more afraid of a roach dying due to a faulty logic or becoming a "The Fly" and then flaying me! :)
In the US over 90% of mortgages are fixed rate (http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci16-8.pdf)
Good luck, I have terabytes of random data. I can always provide you OTP key, and create what ever content I want you to see. (Malleable encryption)
This has probably struck you before, but any reason why you're not using a Linux VM? Free virtualization solutions are available that would certainly save you quite a bit of trouble.

Adding RAM to your MBP should be fairly straightforward (and cheap) if necessary.
The post is fun, thanks. I like Tim's idea of "taking the journey" with a programmer on discovering new content. It's certainly the best way to introduce the topic to others. All the potential sticking issues have been handled for you!

I was also excited when he said "I filed a bug on June 6th, and it was fixed on the 12th. Gotta love that.". There is no better feeling than sending a pull request and having someone thank you, merge it, and fix the issue within a few hours or days of you sending it.

In this case, however, I think his joy may be premature. Rob Pike replied to the bug saying it was indeed an issue and either the code or documentation should be fixed. Having Rob Pike reply is a good start, considering he's the primary author of Go. Someone else then came along and fixed it in a way the article's author is unhappy with, though[1].

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=5655
Except the 30x500 course is MUCH more expensive
And the Stamford course is taught by a professor - I am not sure what accreditation Amy hoy has other than a time tracking app her husband Thomas Fuks built.
This is not meant to disparage Amy - she is very smart and a lot of geeks do recommend her course, just her website does not show if she even graduated so I am not sure what makes her an expert
Google lacks instinct