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While all you are saying is true, I also think the very same kind of propaganda, but actually much more efficient, is happening in Europe and the US. People go absolutely insane if you start questioning democracy, social programs or anything that a state does.

When you point out to them how internet or cellphone networks or taxis or a number of other things is actually cheaper in Russia (or in eastern Europe in general) because of the lack of regulations or government interference, they go in denial. People in Europe and even in the US are so much more brainwashed into believing they need a state that it's painful to even start conversations with them. The most notable case just happened in Finland, where reportedly the police asked citizens to rat on pizza places who sell pizza for less than 6.5 EUR because the government believes a place selling pizzas for less cannot be profitable. In my book, that's almost what a communist state with price controls looks like.

I'd like my kids to grow up in Russia. I like it that, at least when it comes to personal income, the tax rate is 13% (although fundamentally, I believe there should be no taxation). I like it that I have more freedom here than in Europe or the US. The only thing I don't like is the government of any kind telling me or my family what products or services I can use and for how much. Unfortunately that happens in many other countries too and especially so in Europe or the US.
I don't know. IBM isn't the most reliable source, since it's strategically collaborating with Apple.
How many planes were shot down by the US (Iranian planes to be specific)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
I do pay attention to the way Russia does propaganda and I've noticed one common tactic is to call out some hypocrisy of the US, then use that to completely skirt the first issue.

For instance "Why does Russia torture dissidents?"
"Ah, sure, like the US doesn't torture people that disagree with them..."
So move along because Russia doesn't torture people? Or it's OK because America does too? Or many Americans don't believe America really tortures, so Russia must not really torture either?

Or, specific to this discussion: "Why do people believe the Russian propaganda machine?"
"Oh, sure, like Americans don't believe their own propaganda cough Iraq war cough."
So move along because Russian and American propaganda are similar?

Both of those (US tortures people and Iraq war was sold with a lie) are true. The weird trick is that getting someone to admit that two parties are remotely similar makes them much more similar in our minds than we intended (our minds think in black and white, villains and heroes, "somewhere in between" is a strange and modern concept). Suddenly, you are much less worried about Russia because the US is doing it too. Or rather, you're not worried about the US, so why worry about Russia?

The other favorite is appeals to nationalism: "How do you respond to protesters in the capital?" "They are not real Russians, just look, some of their signs are in English, they are meant as propaganda for the Western media. All the real Russians understand what we are doing, despite the best efforts of the West."

But while we're at it, I'll raise your 600k people to the tens of millions that died during the reign of the USSR.
Donald Rumsfeld was on the board for Gilead Sciences

Donald Rumsfeld was a biotech CEO before he got into politics! Why wouldn't you want him on the board of your biotech?

You seem to be twisting the facts here. I would also argue that the most drastic change with the FDA wasn't during the Reagan years, but during the Clinton years and Clinton himself wasn't really leading the effort.
Strictly speaking, that's an unproven allegation so, on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty", yes, I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt.

If, on the other hand, it turns out that the allegations are true, then I would hope to see people serving time in jail.
The fact that you are calling common house appliances "modern tech" made me smile, but essentially you are right, anything that came about in the last 100 years can be called modern.

As for whether it caused more women to work, I can imagine that it really did facilitate the transition. It would take much longer if women had to negotiate housework with their husbands first. Instead, it happened the other way around, women came out to work first, while doing household chores at the same time, and in time men transitioned to helpful spouses later.
> to think that advertising results in informed consumers makes little sense. I find it strange that a community of logic and science oriented people can hold such a notion.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" -- Upton Sinclair

Many people here on HN are paid by ads.
It's not that hard to make a shell script idempotent - I've done it quite a bit. You check for the artifacts of an install and branch based on the results.

I still use Salt instead of shell scripts, but that's mostly to have the authenticated/encrypted channels and only have to push my code to one place to run it globally.
No. My country was created by the democratic independence referendum of 1991, in accordance with Yugoslavia's constitution.

Altho sadly, after the declaration of independence and its international acceptance, a guy named Milosevic who committed coup d'etats in Montenegro, Kosovo, Vojvodina and attempted a coup d'etat in Slovenia decided that he disagreed with our independence and started a bloody war.

But thanks for trying to teach me history.
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This has likely happened before during the cold war when there were concerns that communists had infiltrated the Labour party. Harold Wilson famously believed he was being spied on throughout his term as prime minister
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I don't like the idea of a subscription model. I generally do not try to have too many subscriptions because the cost tends to increase while the value tends to decrease.
Ok maybe its because I didn't mention it, but I got those factors covered.

But I was talking from a technology standpoint, working with C++/Golang vs. working on iOS. They are different playing fields. What should I look to in future? But perhaps you made your point there with "but dude who cares about the programming language".
I'll take you word that living in Russia today is better than what your parents went through. I've only watched Russia from afar. As a kid, I heard about the shortages of TP, and in some cases food, but I don't remember you guys having a homeless problem? Or, huge masses of people in extreme poverty.

My views don't matter. I was young. As I stated, I'll take your word it's better now. I have one question about modern Russia.

The question is "How does anything in business get done with all the corruption, bribes, killings, and just illegial behavior?"

I know Russia is not the only country with huge levels of seemingly stifling corruption, and your conversion to capitalism is very early. And yes, even the U.S. has corruption, but here, you can only get away with so much, for so long. As much as I despise our system sometimes; I am proud of our checks and balances.

In your opinion, how many decades will it take in order to stifle the corruption. From my perspective, I just couldn't imagine doing business in that country. I don't even trust .ru domains? Am I being overly paranoid?
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You're worrying about the wrong thing, the overhead of incorporate in the US shouldn't have any influence on your decision whether you apply to YC or not (unless you're doing something where there's legal complications in the US such as gambling).
Except Russia does not have a two term limit, it only has a two consecutive term limit. Putin did not have 3 consecutive terms.
There was an article posted here on HN detailing how this is performed.

I'll see if I can dig up the article, but it had interviews with internet users paid by the Russian state to shape argument. A group of 2-3 would take opposing sites in creating an artificial argument on say, a forum where it was being discussed. The "Western" POV would be discredited, and the argument focused between differing "Russian" explanations. The argument would never actually cease or come to a conclusion, but re-center around a number of accepted conclusions.
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Reminds me of this [1] movie poster for "Legend" that does a great job of turning a 2 star review from The Guardian into what appears to be 4 stars.

[1]https://twitter.com/benfraserlee/status/641368752798306304
Flash Harry was played by the recently deceased George Cole, gawd bless 'im. I've had first hand experience of the London recruitment scene, as permie and contractor, for many years now, and much of it is just as described in this funny & truthful article. However, one malpractice the author misses is Shitheads bunging brown envelopes to HR staff at large corps to manipulate the PSL. Also, there are some good recruiters out there who know and understand the skill sets they trade in. I've been lucky enough to use a couple of them as a hiring manager when I was permie at a bank. But they are very much in a minority...
What institutions exist to ensure that he can't be surveilled?

Realistically, none. It's probably contrary to ECHR - mass surveillance definitely is - but that makes little difference. We're almost back to the days of A Very British Coup. There have already been generals threatening this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3241904/We-won-t-sta...
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I’ve seen sites loading Angular, React, jQuery(+jQuery UI) and some custom frameworks. Different parts of the site rendering in different frameworks.
> Ukraine army shoot down civil airliner with 90 people on board just a few years ago

What does that have to do with this incident?

> It was regular war zone with dozens other planes shoot down

This contradicts your point. The rebels didn't have planes, so all planes that were shot down were Ukrainian planes that were shot down by the rebels.

> It happened on Ukraine territory, most likely by Ukraine citizens.

What proof do you have for that?
RT's Tomatometer or Metacritic's Metascore are not measures of film worth as a kind of "atomic weight." Tomatometer, in particular, is a statement about how many reviewers gave a positive review, without regard to each reviewer's depth of feeling.

Imagine three movies:

First: 90% of reviewers gave 5/5, 10% of reviewers gave 1/5.
Second: 90% of reviewers gave 3/5, 10% of reviewers gave 2/5.
Third: 80% of reviewers gave 5/5, 20% of reviewers gave 1/5.

First movie: Almost all reviewers raved about the movie - it's probably good. Second movie: Not a single reviewer loved or hated it; it's probably pretty bland. Third movie: vast majority of reviewers loved it, and the rest hated it. It's not as sure a bet as the first, but all of the reviewers reacted strongly to it.

Would you rather see the second or third movie? I'd rather see the third. For example, is The Avengers (92%)[1] really a better executed, more worthwhile film than Cloud Atlas (66%)[2]?

Metacritic handles this a little better, because the reviewer score is weighted, not just a +1 or -1. However, it still has the problem of 90%/10% and 60%/40% both averaging to 50%.

No number-crunching, but I have a suspicion that studios are getting better and better about shotgunning out enough chum to different types of reviewers to effectively game those numbers, which is how you arrive at RT scores like those you present.

[1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/marvels_the_avengers/

[2] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cloud_atlas_2012/

Roger Ebert wrote about Cloud Atlas: "Surely this is one of the most ambitious films ever made. ... Anywhere you go where movie people gather, it will be discussed."
It was never communism back in USSR, it was authoritarianism where all power flowed to the Kremlin marching under the Socialist banner, 30 years its the same shit but to the tune of Nationalism. The economy still remains resource extraction bound (more so now), corruption goes all the way to the top (see Sochi).

One quote from my mother sums it up when we moved here in middle of 90s when she learned that in Europe this thing called welfare exists "So we were building Socialism for 70 years, and they had it here all along"

BTW they didnt fall for propaganda back then, it was mocked if anything, but the modern take on it by the Russian state controlled media is actually incredible to behold in how it works, hell just look at some of the replies above that my post attracted to see it in action.
If these allegations are true, then I find it hard to imagine a fair and just society arising in these countries.

It would appear to me that autocratic governments are being given additional tools to retain power and more control over young democracies which have not yet developed the institutions necessary to 'self-correct' or reverse/prevent the abuse of such tools.

In my view, it is those who are most likely to agitate for a more democratic society and create institutions that demand for accountability who will be targeted and silenced.

This will deny those countries of the very people who are needed to create the kind of country that their citizens dream of.

Imagine such tools in the hands of the British during the time of the birth of the United States.

I am left with a bitter taste in my mouth. I am not quick to see a dystopian future, but it will make it harder for needed change to come. I welcome any alternative viewpoints that can shed a kinder light on this situation.
It's a pretty straightforward Django app, so they could open it up without issue.

They might be more inclined to roll the functionality into one of their other product lines though.
Software that runs on your own computer is not a weapon; software that is designed to run on other people's computers without their knowledge or consent probably is. That would put Wireshark clearly on the acceptable side of the line and Metasploit in a very questionable place.
Is SSH really a dependency you have to worry about though? Basically every server out there runs SSH.
Your quoted text actually justifies Amelius' assertion: the functional category is the same, but the implementation differs, and the judgement (and the law) hinges on implementation.

All this means is that the definition of taximeter (as a single-purpose device) is now outdated. It's actually a pretty bad example of the law adjusting to new technologies.

Just because we like the outcome doesn't mean we have to like the way it happened.
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I understand that incorporating in US is very simple. I have done it in the past.

I just don't want to have and manage a company inside another country, while it would be much easier to have it in the place where I live.
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You're just describing unsupervised learning; these guys are far from the only ones working in the field, and this is far from the most impressive approach. This is just time-averaged kernel density estimation, with an approachable metaphor attached to it.
Yea, except for when you're looking for wikipedia, reddit or github, right?
> Amazon can remotely delete the e-book using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.

Tell the whole story, guys. Framing it just this way is dishonest.
> upload to a website not youtube

I haven't dug into the details, but both the player[1] and the website[2] code are available so it should be possible to set up your own website if you like.

1. https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player
2. https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema.org
Is this proposing a spotify like royalty payment to software developers on the platform too then ? Seems like a bad idea.
This sort of self-dealing is bad in a private company, but for the CEO of one, and soon two, public companies, it's more than that. It's possibly illegal given his fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders.

The onus is on Jack to prove why Twitter and Square did business with another business he controls versus other possible vendors.
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Meh. They're getting guys like me well-paying jobs working on awesome products and cutting edge tech in a close-knit team. I feel like I'm just hacking away at a cool group project in a lab again, and I love that startups make that possible. I don't care if every founder outside the 1% is a wantrepreneur, they're doing a good job convincing Old Money to redistribute the wealth among guys like me who don't want to work for the behemoth corporations of the world. No, please do start your own startup.
This a lovely example of the irritating "whataboutism" that clouds these sorts of discussions and bring nothing to the table.

Iranian Air Flight 655 has nothing to do with the article or this discussion.
I'm looking for work right now (need an embedded engineer in the UK?) and some job boards have a tickbox "[]agency" or "[]direct employer" and most of the direct employer ones are also recruiters. That is a small thing but it's pure evil. And the sad thing is I'm sure that if I asked a recruiter "how can you sleep at night doing this" he'd just shrug and laugh because to him it's normal.
It was built around collaboration and the ability to split your life into multiple projects.

I fail to understand what this means (after all it does sound like promoting some kind of schizophrenia) - does it mean it's just another kind of agenda or todo-app? I kinda like the device in general but I'm not sure anyone is waiting for this. I might be wrong though. Also the wording is a bit weird - at first sight 'splitting your life into projects' sounds feasible but I'm not really buying it. I think my life is one big project and doubt that will change. And yes there might be subprojects (dunno, say wife/sports/hobbies/job/diferent projects at the job/friends/family/...) but I just don't see how I could split this up to 'manage' them (which is what I suppose the phrase means?) as they are entwined and tend to overlap both in time and space. Or maybe I am just overthingking it :]
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germany: making people enter its country without any control of who they are and if they are what they pretend and then voting a law to restrain the liberties of their own people on the purpose of watching the people they let in to prevent terrorism. seems legit. enjoy german people
I've read most of this thread, and have been feeling increasingly more like Nick Cage's character in 8mm as he followed the trail of clues until he finally got to that guy with the heavy accent who put Steve Buscemi into the woodchipper in Fargo. Ugh. Talk about slippery slopes...
Lots of citations needed.
Never heard of fried eggs with jam, but other things are mostly spot-on. I just have so wonder why red caviar seems so small-grain? Also, where are bliny?
This (collaborative filtering) is a better approach, but it depends very much on the algorithm used, and how many movies you have already rated. I have not subscribed to MovieLens, and don't know what algorithms it uses.

I developed an online recommendation system (see http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/morse/MORSE.html for details) about 20 years ago. For a user who had entered sufficient ratings for other movies, the algorithm I used (described in the paper) performed better than the more widely used average of M nearest neighbours, which in turn is better than simply averaging everyone's ratings. All it used were the individual ratings given by its users. It was entirely agnostic as to genre (which is quite fuzzy), cast, or crew. I was aware of a tendency for people to rate movies more highly if they watched them recently, but never asked users for this data.

Surprisingly, using the ratings of only the one person whose tastes are closest to your own (i.e. M=1) results in very inaccurate predicted ratings.
Low Earth Orbit is under the Van Allen belts, and so is shielded from a lot of the radiation of the inner solar system.

The outer solar system is dead quiet and quite safe... but of course you have to get there first.
> inefficient and basically a pile of bullshit and thankfully it all fell apart

You must have never lived in Russia post Soviet Union nor experienced how much worse it is to be spouting this crap. No one believes Putin is a genius - but in fact the country was so badly ruined under Yeltsin and Oligarchical capitalism-free-for-all that Putin appeared to people as the best possible option of these.
Ah "America does it" strawman, there must be a handbook on internet trolling or something made back in the old country now. Every single time, every single time, same crap gets regurgitated.

"Why are we invading yet another country? Oh because America did it too!"

"Why are our rights being eroded? Oh because America does it!"

and so on...

I been back to Russia and crisscrossed the US over the last decade, I would pick the US for all its problems over Russia any day as a place to live. Anyways I am quite happy here in Europe for now.
Ah, I was assuming the mention of "minor" in the post I replied to was referring to minor in the semver sense, without actually checking. My bad.
I don't understand the branding. The name "Solu" sounds like "Solo", which, of course, is probably generally perceived as the exact opposite of "Social".
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I fail to see how we went from comparing media in the two spheres of influence and whether it's propaganda to this comparison of specific actions cherry-picked from history.
- Just because that they can, doesn't mean that they would.

- The list lists Ukrainian aircraft lost during the conflict, not the separatist/Russian aircraft.

- Yes, separatist-held territory is Ukraine territory, and separatists are (at times) Ukrainian citizens, although Ukraine currently cannot guarantee the safety of its, or other citizens in the separatist-held territory.

- As to the last point, who knows. Who produced what, and sold where in the post-Soviet world is a lot harder to debunk than the publicly exposed news.

Russia never took on, and still does not take on its moral obligation to proactively control its border with the conflict zone. Similarly, Ukraine didn't take appropriate action to ban flights over the conflict zone. Ukraine did take action - when will Russia? Both are "guilty" in the case of MH17, due to their inaction.

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy.
I was using this for a while; until I discovered the 'script' and 'scriptreplay' commands that come with most unix systems.

You can start recording by running: `script -t timingfile typescript`.
Your screen contents are recorded into the file `typescript` and the timing into `timingfile`.

You can play back by running: `scriptreplay -t timingfile typescript`

Check out the script man page for more cool things; like streaming live by using a fifo.