skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
System 76 are offering new configurations and frankly they seem fantastic.

I haven't ordered yet because I'm in the UK and I have to find out about VAT and tariffs (last time I ordered straight from the US I was charged them and a fine on top, and extortionate "processing charges"). Otherwise I'd be ordering straight away even with a 20% VAT on top.
I have a personal issue with the mac trackpad - clickable at the bottom and only the bottom? I understand it's their historical thing and not a genuine issue, but it always throws me as an odd thing to do.
> a heat source

You're suggesting an experiment with a magnifying glass?
For some reason the control issue doesn't really phase me as much as the habituation of invasive procedures on animals. At least in school kids don't kill the frogs they dissect; it's no more than a desensitized piece of green beef to them.

It's probably because I don't view it as "escaping the matrix." The neural system of a cockroach is relatively simple but they're patching into a very small portion of it. We can't tell what the real side effects are but for all intents and purposes, you're sending it a signal that is equivalent to, say, someone touching your left or right ear. Except the cockroach's sensitivity is dialed up and the antenna are one of their primary navigation sensors so it's more like flashing a big wall to the left or right off your vision. Here you get into issues of complexity and intelligence and I'd rather avoid that. Let's just say that to generate an equivalent response in humans, you'd have to do a massive patchwork on the brain, far more invasive (imo) than what they're doing to the cockroaches.

The fact that the cockroach so easily habituates to such massive stimuli should actually tell you a lot about how unphased and how simple its nervous system is. Only in cases of total neuron death/disconnection (spine or neck break ripes the neurons in the spinal cord causing paralysis) can most pain and other "danger sign" signals be totally cut off in humans. For example, you will get acclimated to normal house smells pretty fast, but usually not to smells of sulfur/rotting eggs because of an evolutionary adaptations. The more complex a nervous system is, the more difficult it is to habituate specific stimuli artificially(generally speaking). In the cockroach the neurons connecting the antenna to the rest of the brain are very simple and can be habituated by just stimulating them to release neurotransmitters over and over again. After a while the cockroach just ignores the sense, like you would ignore sight if it was pitch black, instead focusing on sound.
This might become a major trend in the EU if hosting/storage providers play their cards right. Sure the low prices, performance and flexibility of US providers are very tempting but surrendering your data to US intelligence agencies and god knows who else might no longer be a viable option, especially for government agencies and major corporations that might be targets of industrial espionage.
"After a few painful in­stances of search­ing for things like “go array lit­er­als” and “go repl” I got into the habit of stick­ing with Golang; and so will this diary."

https://encrypted.google.com/#q=go+array+literals

https://encrypted.google.com/#q=go+repl

...
>First, the name. “Go” has too many meanings and is among the world’s lousiest Google search disambiguators.

Enough with this old wives tale. Yes, "Go" is too generic. Nevertheless, Google understands it just fine. Case in point:

>"After a few painful instances of searching for things like “go array literals” and “go repl” I got into the habit of sticking with Golang; and so will this diary.

Both his examples ("go array literals" and "go repl") return a page full of Go related results (the documentation, the golang-nuts discussion list, related blog posts, etc).

What exactly is painful about it?
IMHO, I don't understand the comments about ethical stuff about cockroaches.

If it can help some students to get interested in Neuroscience, even only one student, it's worth it. Maybe this student will make a breakthrough later and improve lives of dozens. Maybe because of this stupid little project. Anyway when you still have "human" slavery in the world, you should feel ackward about thinking of the morality of torturing cockroaches.
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On HN stopwatch, my time: 13 hrs.
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Your understanding is false. A sole stockholder (for example, the parent of an independent subsidiary), always has control, even if not by specific direction.

They can, after all, fire the entire board, and elect a new one that will direct the company to do what they want.

Not to mention in most cases, parent companies do in fact, maintain control over subsidiaries (IE they are not independent subsidiaries), and thus can directly control activities.
So does a moderately smartly designed robot... "suffering from pain" is way more complicated than avoiding heat sources.
Privacy laws in Europe are a bit of a mess (there being >1 country involved), and possibly stricter than the companies want to deal with.

So the information they're storing is, at least nominally, stored on computers owned by the american branches.
Depends primarily upon the region you live. Even though, I live in Chennai, I cannot even get a broadband connection on the area where I reside.

Hyderabad's beem provides upto 25 Mbps of speed. ( http://www.beamtele.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar... )
http://boingboing.net/2013/06/16/what-would-it-cost-to-store...
Someone has done the math on the calls aspect, billing $27m for voice calls. I would bet text is cheaper than call data.
I'm surprised to see that so many people are concerned about ethics of controlling a cockroach. I would like to hear what your opinions are on animal farming and killing in the food industry. Or even killing a cockroach vs controlling it.
As long as they have a presence in the US, it's in their best interest to act according to US laws. I don't think saying "while we have many US customers, we are technically positioned in Ireland" is going to cut it.
"In Norway, privacy stands firm like the mighty mountains of Jotunheimen.".

Let's not flatter ourselves too much: http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalagringsdirektivet (in Norwegian, http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...), or the less detailed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Trust me, they'd run into traffic without the ball too.
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> Lets assume that US company does not want to force daughter company, how can NSA to make them?

How can you still ask that question right now? Have you missed the whole Wikileaks scandal? All it took was one phone call for Amazon to take down their website. They didn't even need a court order or something.

I don't know what the laws are exactly, but in practice, and thanks to post-9/11 culture in law enforcement agencies, they can do whatever they want as long as they wave "national security" in front of them.
In my experience (living in Berlin but not looking for a job), you mainly need to have a strong GitHub profile, and need to show up in some relevant meetups and talk with people. There will be offers.
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Screwing up the documents is usually a human issue.

That crap on your disk is probably system restore, swap file and hibernation file. You can delete the system restore checkpoints easily. The rest you have to live with.

Windows 8: install start8. Problem solved.
Are yoy saying Dell won't buy Intel because Intel is evil? Recently China started to wind down its anti-Intel stance in pqrt due to a new supercomputer deal.
Haha, a book would be nice, but I think really the only way to learn this is by experiencing it. The book should be more of a guide about how to put yourself in the environment that forces you to learn this stuff.
There really isn't a difference but we're all hypocrites the vast majority of the time, probably without even knowing it. Food is just too much of a part of us, we don't want to give it up!

I see it as inevitable that artificial meat replaces wholesale slaughter with actual animal rights. Let's just admit that most of the world (myself included) won't stop eating meat until that artificial stuff is here and focus on the easier topics first.
If you want to have data storage that's secure from the NSA then you are going to need to do client side encryption. Moving your data to a company/country that promises not to access it isn't going to cut it.
NSA.no!
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Interestingly enough, famous "_NSAKEY" was found only after Microsoft forgot to remove the symbolic debug info of the internal code of the DLLs:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000617163417/http://www.crypton...

I believe the second key remained to exist, only as "KEY2"
Slightly off-topic, but the site can do with a better contrast scheme.
Microsoft have already admitted this with respect to office 365.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patri...
Have you got any links to some of the startups that came out of v1 of this class?
I don't want to bury you in some dreary repeat wall of text so I sort of combine-replied to you in the response to the upthread poster.

As to the quality of his choices, I think that's the actual interesting thing - not whether we can come up with some semi-plausible theory for them. Are his choices a part of some grand strategy (like the article we're discussing seems to suggest) or are they haphazard? To me, the evidence so far seems to strongly point to 'haphazard', which is very bad news both for him personally and for the cause of civil liberties which he claims as his motivation.

I'd love to be wrong about this but not quite to the point where I leave my critical faculties in my other pants.
This is nice. But I think that the long term solution needs to be based on something that does not depend on the ability of your host to protect your data. The US is strong enough to pressure (almost?) any country to jump through hoops for them (we have seen leaks about their pressure on Sweden [1] or Spain) so just being out of their jurisdiction is not enough.

1. http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/06/banana-republic-justice-behi...
This was a great talk by Binney, Drake and Jesselyn Radack, on whistleblowing and surveillance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDM3MqHln8U
Cover letters are not all that important here in Germany.

Your CV matters a lot more, according to my experience, but it should be no longer than 1-2 pages.

Projects are what matters, so show them the code (e.g. with a GitHub profile).
No, but it's probably as close as you can practically come at scale. A real direct democracy would have all relevant decisions made by citizens collectively, not just potentially challenged.
I agree with you, both in your dismay and wonder, but also pose a question: At what decreasing level of complexity is something still "living", but no longer subject to the ethical concerns from this not-exactly-direct control? Insects are often neural networks of (relatively) straightforward response to stimuli. Ants for example [1], react to harmful stimuli, but feel no pain in the debilitating, emotional-trauma-inducing manner that we associate with the word "pain". And a huge chunk of what governs an ant's life is response to environment chemicals, particularly pheromones produced by other ants.

Would it be the same level of control thing if we released micro-doses of known ant hormones in front of them, to prod them into particular actions? Seems pretty similar, and you could even rig it up so that they release from a box that sat on the ant's back.

Going lower, protozoa and protophyta are even more obviously "bags of chemicals that respond to other chemicals in the environment". Would controlling them via chemical releases be equally an issue?

The real question, it seems, is where do we draw the line and say "Life on this side, we don't mess with you. Life on this other side, tough shit we're going to screw with you nine ways to sunday because it's fu--I mean because science!"

[1] I'm not discounting the complexity of an ant's nervous system here, just pointing it out in relative terms to larger insects and invertebrates.
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European like continental or European like UK? There's a big difference. In my ~2009 experience rocking up similarly with zero local experience (as an Aussie), offers I gathered wound up at x EUR on the continent vs. 2x GBP in London.

However, living in London is expensive and basically sux after summer. If I were doing it again I would go to a city or town on or near the Mediterranean. For my weak and nerdy constitution, if it's not far southern Europe, it's too cold in the winter.

I did alright and had a few pages, I wouldn't worry too much about format. Remember being from the US you are going to tend to be subconsciously sterotyped as culturally ignorant, loud and egocentric so maybe try to consciously tone it down a bit.

PS. You perhaps should have mentioned up there you are in Berlin already.
I was reminded of this post, which I think makes a good case for humility: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
shuffling between two secure locations and flight paths

That would still be observable and therefore risky.
There is a much better solution (on systems which support it, OS X doesn't).

du -h | sort -h

sort -rh for reverse sorting, pipe into head or tail for the first/last few etc.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-sort-du-h-output-by-si...
By reading this I can't stop myself to confuse the app user as the cockroach himself. Consider it seen from Apple perspective: who is controlling who ?

The other question I ask myself is if this is just another one of those "business" or is this really a contribution to the progress of humanity or science ?
> Is there a non-gendered equivalent to man-up?

Yes, it's "man-up". "Man" is, like it or not, a reference to the species there.
Priorities. Why would the government care about soldiers that are no longer of any use?
What kind of company are you aiming for? Enterprise or startup? They're worlds apart.

If you're looking for a solid enterprise CV, I've had pretty good results with mine at http://michiel.trimpe.nl (the picture and recommendations section are optional.) For big companies LinkedIn is also key and recommendations there are very valuable.

For blanket applications (e.g. submit on website) cover letters are a must and you must show that you have read about the business and explain in a few sentences why you feel your profile would fit well with the (goals of the) employer. As for format, the body of your introductory email message is often considered synonymous with your cover letter.

(P.S. This is based on the Amsterdam market. Europe is big and every country is different so advice from a German would be better still if you were looking for a job in Berlin)
This article [1] says that cockroaches do experience pain, care for their offspring, form social hierarchies. They can suffer from stress and can die from it, even without injury.

Therefore, the ethics issue cannot be ignored.

[1]: http://www.utilitarian-essays.com/insect-pain.html
I agree 100%. Your country or company isn't going to make a difference when the people maintaining it are threatened or bribed by a force that can and does leverage power outside their jurisdiction. Honestly, the problem has to be addressed at the source, not with bandaids applied by the hopeful or naive.
I shall add it also degrades human beings when doing it "for fun is" disguised as "a science experiment".

I don't know if it's the case here and I am comfortable seeing this kind of things done in a classroom.

I hope there are more ways to interact with the electronics than an iphone app though.
> US parent company is only stock owner

That is rarely the case. In most arrangements, foreign subsidiaries are still under direct control of the main company - do you really think "Google US" doesn't have a say in how "Google Ireland" operates?

There are tons of accountancy rules dealing exclusively with partially-owned-fully-controlled foreign companies, but when it comes to the Patriot Act, as long as there is even a shred of control from an American company, then all data held by the controlled company is subject to US laws, regardless of actual location. This is far from an expansive interpretation of the Act, tbh; it's just one of the many that have been tested in court.
Our media does an amazing job at presenting labor and liberal as the only two options. Especially by suggesting that voting third party is throwing your vote away (which it isn't because of our preference system).

I have no faith in Australian politics anymore, every campaign seems to be entirely focused around mud slinging and fear mongering.
Sure, this is a good question. But are really we talking about the same thing ? An iPhone app to control a cockroach and animal farming to produce food ? Why an iPhone app, BTW ?
The title is ambiguous: it doesn't say it was the _world's_ last telegram, it just say says "last telegram". You could also read it as "_India's_ last telegram".
Sure, this is a good question. But are we really talking about the same thing ? An iPhone app to control a cockroach and animal farming to produce food ? Why an iPhone app, BTW ?
Perhaps these examples weren't the best. When searching for more general things it helps to put in golang. For example "Running go on multiple machines" or "Running go on multiple cores":

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=running+go+on+multiple+mac...

vs

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=running+golang+on+multiple...
>The parallel to your argument is that people should blame Apple for random third-party hardware not working out of the box with OSX.

No they shouldn't blame Apple.

But they should give minus points to OS X for "compatibility" when "random third-party hardware does not work out of the box" with it.

And similarly: they should not "blame" Linux for "random third-party hardware not working out of the box" with it, but they should give minus points to Linux in the compatibility department.
You either grant other living entities dignity, or you don't.

Says more about you than how those living things perceive the world around them.
I can't believe the oxymoronic 'Christian Science' Monitor website is being linked to for anything other than ridicule.
I agree it is easy but are you the kind of person to kill a dog without any reason? This statement implies that it is ethical to do so.

The people behind this project say that it is for educational purposes, but really now.. how many people will use it that way?
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I have to agree. The user needs control over their encryption.

Taking advantage of Norway's laws is fine, until the day that those laws go sour on you.
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Where's the contradiction? Having working trackpad, monitor, fan control, sleep/wake montherboard, soundcard, etc is not "great driver support" -- it's the bare essentials people should expect OUT OF THE BOX.

Support for third party stuff is what makes for "great driver support".
10x That's what I'm doing right now. Although there are some projects than I can't show them ( perhaps, in person I could, since they are copyrighted ) I have a good ~10 years experience and some open source projects I have participated.
There are two good reasons why

1. It's very difficult to tell what's a good idea or not. 'Not Invented Here' syndrome is one reason why we think other people's ideas generally suck, but in the end it's almost all down to execution.

2. Startups are hard. It's much more useful to start out gung-ho with a crummy idea, and then learn exactly why it's crummy and adapt than to be shot down before take-off because the idea isn't perfect.

and one slightly less good reason:

3. We want people to like us. It's hard to break down an idea and not breed any resentment.
Why is such blatant misinformation voted so highly?
For the purpose of physical drop boxes, there are much better tools than a Pi. For example this one http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n is cheaper (< $20), smaller, much more power efficient, and comes with WiFi! Strip the wrapping plastic box and you can hide it practically anywhere with batteries powering it for days.
(the now deleted parent wrote that the Data Retention Directive is an EU directive and that Norway is not part of the EU)

That doesn't seem to stop them. 2nd paragraph of the translated WP article:

In Norway DLD was adopted by the Parliament on 4 April 2011 . It was scheduled to take effect on 1 April 2012, but has been postponed several times. Ministry of Transport are now looking for that storage requirement comes into force on 1 January 2015.
How do you come up with your "half the country" figure? Even before ACA kicks in, uninsured levels are nowhere near that high. And government disability benefits, not counting private benefits, are fairly generous.
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I'm looking for international funded startups > 2-3 years old. Yep, I pretty much hate to manage old PHP code. I'm more excited and oriented to new tech solutions, so Enterprise would be a no-opt. ( Also I have no CS-degree . My university degree isn't even CS-oriented ).
A 4 page CV would just be thrown away in the UK. 1 page, unless you have 20 years of experience - then maybe 2.

A cover letter shouldn't have their logo on it.
I was answering the question whether or not it is possible to manipulate a dog to take it's own life. I think it is possible. I do not think it's ethical, though. However, it might be, if the dog was Cujo.
Don't you need a combination of encryption AND no law forcing you to reveal the key?
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This is cruel treatment of a life form and the commercialization of a terrible and unethical experiment.

You can help report this cruelty to the Humane Society in Huron Valley now by calling (734)661-3512 or filing an online report: http://www.hshv.org/site/PageNavigator/cruelty/report.html#....
As someone doing quite some interviews for a Norwegian company a cover letter should just be a couple of lines describing some practicalities, like why you'd want to join my team over any other team in the company and from which office you'd like to work. Other than that I'll mainly look at online presence, GH, SO, etc. CV is not that interesting because I probably don't know the companies you worked before anyway.
Yep, pretty much I'm aware of the salary. I'm not from US :) I just moved here and I'm trying to exit from the freelancing business that I'm doing since I can remember ( I miss team work ;) )