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"Fourth, the causes espoused by Mr Litvinenko – such as the FSB’s alleged responsibility for the apartment bombings, the war in Chechnya, and alleged collusion between President Putin and other members of his administration and organised crime – were areas of particular sensitivity to the Putin administration. "

"Finally, there was undoubtedly a personal dimension to the antagonism between Mr Litvinenko on the one hand and President Putin on the other. The history between
the two men dated back to their (only) meeting in 1998, at a time when Mr Putin was the newly appointed head of the FSB and Mr Berezovsky and Mr Litvinenko still hoped that he might implement a programme of reform. In the years that followed,Mr Litvinenko made repeated highly personal attacks on President Putin, culminating in the allegation of paedophilia in July 2006"

That is from the report. Call me a Putin-apologist, an agent from Olgino, but these motives look like garbage. There is an entire industry of "making highly personal attacks" on Putin and blaming all kinds of things on him. The name of these "Putin's critics" is legion, they have been doing it for more than a decade, and they've had zero success... that is, of course, if by "success" you mean making Russians believe what they say, and not just selling shocking stories about the darkest secrets of the KayGeeBee to British tabloids...
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I won't comment on corrupt and dictator, but opportunistic? Hardly. He's just protecting his interests, in a very transparent and predictable way.

He was the only one supporting Assad and warning about the "Islamist rebels" in Syria, long before the current crisis happened. Sure, he annexed Crimea, but what do you think would happen if Russia/China orchestrated a coup/revolution in e.g. Japan, where US has military bases with significant strategic importance? Do you think US would peacefully stand away?
Isn't it against Google T&C?
Errm, that's almost exactly the same as what I said, he's just spinning it differently to make it look like a minor issue and omitting certain facts, like the fact that the cash shortage he downplays as a "purely a business accounting issue" meant that they had to freeze promised reimbursements to Gnome developers for expenses they'd already incurred to attend Gnome development events because they no longer had enough cash in their bank account to pay them and still cover admin costs. This is mentioned in the mailing list announcement: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general...

(To be clear, I don't think their liabilities were ever in danger of exceeding their assets, but you can't pay wages and bills with a promise from Google to pay you money at some unspecified point in the future once it winds through their accounting process. I believe there was even some risk that they might not have enough money for the admin expenses involved in invoicing companies for OPW and chasing them up. Cashflow is never some minor accounting detail - screwing it up kills companies.)
Because it means YC itself has a falsifiability problem.
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Thanks!
I wouldn't say current Ukrainian government started as a "regime hostile to Russia". Annexiation of Crimea made it hostile to Russia
U.S. total taxation as percentage of GDP is the lowest of any of its peers in the West. Only a few developed countries are lower (HK, Singapore).
Apple doesn't take a cut either for selling non digital goods and Amazon doesn't let you buy digital goods via the app.
People criticize Putin - they die. Who is killing them?
The key point for this is #69 of http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:320...
stating that they must be credited to the beneficiary "at the latest by the end of the next business day".

+1 business day if made in paper, and cut-off times apply - if you make an order at late evening, the bank can treat it as received in the following business day.

"for what cases" is a bit tricky. It must apply to all intra-EU deals in EUR and for the EU countries that don't use EUR, their national transactions. But for other combinations of countries and currencies (e.g. to non-EU places like Switzerland, local transfers in USD, etc), it varies, and there's some room for interpretation by member states.
It should be a republic, but it isn't really. Republic implies rule of law, which the U.S. doesn't really have anymore. The government, and to a certain extent the upper classes, are not ruled by law at all, they have impunity, and neither are the lower classes, as they mostly bargain a plea deal.
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What's an example of a profession where the leading firm publishes ratings of all its competitors?
Misleading title.
Sounds like he wants ad agencies to pay him to allow adverts onto users device.
When I saw the title I was really hoping that this would tie in with their Oculus purchase to have a stadium experience for live sports in VR. :D
'His decomposing naked remains were found in a red The North Face bag, padlocked from the outside, in the bath of the main bedroom's en-suite bathroom.'

...

'A subsequent Metropolitan Police re-investigation concluded that Williams's death was "probably an accident."'

... what?
The inquiry says - 'Putin probably approved...'
'Probably'? Come back with facts and proofs.
Wikipedia suggests he ingested ~10 micrograms of polonium. If somehow even most of it reached the sewage, we'll be talking homeopatic quantities at this point. It's very unlikely it would go through water treatment and end up in someone's food in enough quantity to cause harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
From a first glance, it is not yet clear to me how far this project actually is and what its goal is. Could you give a short introduction (or point to an introductory blog post)?
This reminds me a Latin proverb "Homo homini lupus" meaning "A man is a wolf to another man," or more tersely "Man is wolf to man."
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People. Reminder: You are watching ads. In this case, completely voluntary.

Stay away from this stuff. It's highly addictive, manipulatory and sick. Don't fall for it.

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Only semi-related...but why do you think Mithril is always so easily dismissed? I kind of get it: huge companies are working on and adopting React. But after using Mithril, I just can't figure out why it has failed to catch the attention of more people.
Transfers between ABN accounts are effectively instant, one to three seconds before the money pops up on the recipients account in the app.

Even abroad (South America) I still see my debit payments a few seconds after completing them.
Actually it makes Daesh more dangerous, to replace oil income they are turning to slavery in greater numbers. Replacing paid fighters with children forced to march into battle.

But they also tax their populace, so if they increase taxes unreasonably, perhaps people will revolt against them. The consequences for the innocent are horrible though.
The story was broke the New York Times, but Business Insider seems to have the best reference for it as they quote directly from the note and mention the lead author. Presumably the note isn't available online (for free anyway, such notes are often part of paid subscriptions but are occasionally provided to journalists). But bear in mind this entire thread is predicated on analysis, not canonical data.

http://www.businessinsider.co.id/apple-walked-away-from-iad-...
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If it weren't so awful, the Met's verdict after their investigation into Williams' death is almost comical - sort of like Occam's Razor taken to some sort of incredible extreme. I mean, of course he accidentally padlocked himself into a bag and died - happens every day, right?
You can buy or hack elections same as anybody else, and you can campain on issues. If anything, foreign Hacker News readers have more say than the average U.S. citizen.
Yeah, as an android user with a high end phone, I have no problem paying for apps, even (relatively) more costly ones. Offhand I can think of torque pro and tasker that I've purchased, and a bunch more that I can't think of. The reason I don't buy more is there is almost always a free or ad supported version of the apps, so I only buy ones that have functionality that I can't get for free, which is rare.
Simple solution: track the accuracy rate of drug dogs. If a drug dog has a false positive rate of over 50%, then it can't really be callse "probable cause" can it? Probably not, more like.
What lesson do we take from this? Always implement Test Driven Development?
Calling AVR a "joy to use" is pushing it a little far. There are things to like about AVR chips as a package, but the AVR instruction set is pretty janky. I don't understand why they're so popular compared to the MSP430.
Can anyone here compare Meteor with a full Clojure(Script) stack?
My favorite thing about free android apps is how so many demand access to contacts and location (and sometimes microphone and camera!) despite never really needing them to work. Since most people have no idea how to deal with this, they are paying a much heavier price for those free apps than they think. At least the newer android versions let you revoke these permissions, but given the state of android version deployment, it seems likely the vast majority of android users are giving quite a lot of personal information away to quite a few people.

It was not the sole reason I moved away from android but it definitely helped me make the decision.
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What kind of stereotype are you talking about? I said nothing about "usefulness" or whatever. And I cannot care less about jobs. I shared my observation that I'd never seen JS developers "buying into all the optimistic promises" [of WASM]. At the same time I see a lot of discussions about how "WebAssembly is a step in the wrong direction" from "experts" who haven't even managed to read WebAssembly's FAQ. Do people who have invested their time into learning JS think that WASM is a threat for them?
I am from India, and my younger brother is autistic. What the article states about the role of the surroundings and the awareness about autistic people is really true. I have been facing lots of hardships getting him into a proper school.
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That's the 32 bit integer subset, floating point is available.

Plenty of stuff can get away with integer-only. Massive numbers of Xilinx DSP48 on a FPGA is pretty common.
That would be interesting... this article has something along those lines: http://subtleengine.org/2014/06/28/mps-degrees-what-do-they-...

I'm not sure which is the more relevent statistic: proportion who hold STEM degrees, or the ratio of STEM degrees to humanities degrees?
There's another way to view that...

On Android, you expect high quality for free.

On iPhone, you expect that to achieve high quality, you have to pay for it.

I don't experience that iOS is "more varied." Maybe it is. Sounds pretty subjective.
Was this intended to be a rebuttal? It's really just an unrelated tangent phrased in an misleading way.
Exactly! Next time please use 'organic' toxins!
Maybe because such stories are usually nothing more than Russian state sponsored propaganda and gets debunked nearly instantly(0)? Your linked "paper" doesn't look academic at all, I didn't see any actual evidence there, just an opinionated "analysis" on some blurry footage.

EDIT. here some more on this "paper": http://euromaidanpress.com/2014/10/23/the-snipers-massacre-i...

0. http://www.stopfake.org/en/tag/russian-propaganda/, http://www.russialies.com/ just to name few.
cool, thank you! Def need to pickup a copy of Klepman's book
very cool, thanks much!
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I think it's more likely that this was done to gain favour with Putin, rather than directly ordered by him. This possibilty is more dreadful in a way, countless FSB members dreaming up elaborate murders for Putin's detractors without him having to say anything.
I'll go with "Putin-apologist." Why act like pointing out an obvious motive is the focus or even a main point of the report? What about substantive points like:

"Traces of the isotope were later found in many of the same places where the two alleged killers had visited: The hotel's bathroom, their hotel room, a board room where they conducted an earlier meeting and the plane they traveled aboard."

We're not talking about traces of carbon or lead, here.
Really nice. I had built something similar in Python and matplotlib [ https://github.com/sidthekidder/kmeans-visualize/blob/master... ]. Of course your implementation is 100x, and I gained a better understanding from reading the source.
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Without knowing a thing about the case, just by reading your posts and the linked rebuttal:

No, that doesn't seem to be the same. The mailing list explicitly states what the rebuttal claims as well: They were bad at collecting money for a time.

The mailing list _doesn't_ state that the director was in any way responsible. Your words were "the former Gnome Foundation executive director who caused them to run out of money". The reponse to your post linked to a statement that claimed that this isn't true and your link doesn't support that argument either.

I'd say that this ("She is the reason/she caused the foundation to run out of money", directly implying a personal responsibility) is a very big difference between these two stories. You might be correct - I wouldn't know. But again: I wouldn't consider these two statements (exactly or even remotely) the same.
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I agree with you, we can estimate the amount of polonium he ingested, but we surely cannot estimate the amount of polonium involved in that operation.
Please do a follow up because I'm working on an idea that hits 19 of the points you list.

Last year me a 2 of my friends sat down in a pub one night and did a brainstorming session for me (IT ideas) and 1 of the others (a writer - so story/article ideas).

We were trying to do the 100-10-1 process. Harder than it looks, but me and my other friend got 50 ideas each. Then over the next 2 days whittled it down to 5 ideas each to start work on. The 1 idea I am now concentrating on hits 19 of you points, and I am actually quite excited about it, especially as I will be the first power user, it scratches an itch for me.

I would like to see your list passed around some other successful people to see what they would add, and whether or not more items could be added, maybe including some negative items (ie if the idea hits this, minus a point from the score) . Then think about what the real number of points needed for a good idea should be. I am going to look back over my brainstorming list now and see how some of the other ideas score on you list.

Thanks for putting it together!
nice. if you like this you might also be interested in Devarist's integration with Slack. Devarist is a daily journal for developers. https://devarist.com/slack/learn
If the creator didn't find the idea interesting enough to actually put the project into life, it will be probably better to come up with your own project. Of course it has nothing to do with being inspired by someone else.
Yeah - completely farcical ruling.

However, surely if he was killed to order, the people responsible would make it far less obvious, and if it was attempted to be covered up - surely it wouldn't be as poorly done as this?
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Wow, I think this comment has finally explained to me the success of Donald Trump. :)
Done, tried to write a summary on the home page, thanks for the feedback!
>And there has never been any real doubt

There's never been much doubt in the western media, but then again the western media maintains the pretence that Russia isn't factionalized and Putin has absolute power over all ex-FSB/KGB members (Putin isn't unhappy with this characterization; he'd rather be seen as a monster than powerless).

The western media isn't coy about bringing up that Lugovoy is a member of the Duma but they usually leave out the fact that he belongs to the far right Liberal Democratic Party and is not a member of Putin's United Russia.

If the situations were reversed - let's say an ex-CIA agent killed Edward Snowden (noted critic of Obama) and was subsequently elected as Republican senator would you automatically assume that Obama ordered the attack?
An illustrated explanation how ssh-agent is not like copying private key anywhere. http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html
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As a non-physicist, I very much appreciated the clarity and simplicity with which the article explains what is going on. No mean feat.
Why does the FSB threaten a Russian in (bad) English, is this a James Bond movie?
I remember that I found the documentation quite hard to read at the time I was checking it out.
There's less doubt about Lugovoy's / Kovtun's than there is Putin's involvement.
Twitter must be pissing themselves. This is the twitter stream, without the noise, in Facebook.
I stand corrected regarding the linux foundation, I was under the impression they were a company and not a non-profit. Thanks for the info.
My idea checks the following: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25.

Ideas are so cheap people get distracted with lesser ones.
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We received the communication below from SoftLayer (owned by IBM) yesterday.

Essentially they plan to block all traffic from these countries to all customer servers. What this means:

* Any website or service hosted on SoftLayer servers will automatically go "dark" for anyone in those countries from 1st Feb 2016.

* According to this[1] 2013 report SoftLayer hosts 5,000 of the top 100,000 websites. This means 5% of the most important bits of the web are about to become unavailable to some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.

* IBM are applying this policy to all customers globally, regardless of their business location.

* They have given their customers just 3 days to put together a case for having an exception to this blanket policy, meaning most businesses won't be able to react in time.

Start Date: Monday 01-Feb-2016 15:00 UTC
End Date: Monday 01-Feb-2016 15:01 UTC
Duration: 1 minute
Event Type: Planned Event
Subject: Event 24985077 - Ongoing Actions to Implement Best Practices in SoftLayer Network

/ Event Description /
We are expanding an existing policy, effective February 1, 2016, as part of our regular efforts to implement best practices in the operation of the SoftLayer network.

Currently, at customer sign-up, SoftLayer blocks IP addresses that originate from countries that are subject to U.S. trade and economic sanctions. At this time, these countries are Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Starting February 1, 2016, SoftLayer will implement network-wide blocking of these IP addresses. Expansion of this policy will further prevent the use of SoftLayer services to interact with those countries. This policy will help to implement the export compliance commitments detailed in SoftLayer’s agreements with its customers.

You can find a brief explanation of how SoftLayer will identify IP addresses from countries subject to U.S. trade and economic sanctions on this KnowledgeLayer article: http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/faq/softlayer-network-wide-ip-blocking

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If you believe your planned interaction with U.S. sanctioned countries is consistent with applicable export compliance rules, you can request an exemption to the IP blocking policy by contacting exemptions@softlayer.com and providing details about why you believe you are eligible for an exception to this policy. Be sure to explain the nature of your communications involving U.S. sanctioned countries and the regulatory basis for your belief that an exception is warranted. Our team will then work closely with you to evaluate your situation. Please note that requests received after January 23, 2016, may not be processed prior to effective date noted above.

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[1] http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/23/where-the-worlds-top-10000...
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If these low-value ideas are worth sharing, then I have 1000 ideas to share.
I especially agree with 3). I was expecting more people to mention this. Compared with other build systems like wepback or gulp, meteor rebuild times are insane.

edit: Just checked out the Meteor Roadmap, and build times are not even mentioned there.
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"So why not say yes?"

This is how the article frames the situation, somehow insinuating that the default is to let the cops violate your privacy.

However, the law is very clear on this aspect. The default is No. The cops have to find a valid reason to be able to search. There is absolutely no reason why a citizen should allow for a search, and doing so can only hurt, not help, them.
What's the pun...?
That's the problem though: laws are basically never repealed in modern society. Three felonies a day...
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The AVR architecture was designed in Norway[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel_AVR#Brief_history
Your simple solution has already been tried in Florida v. Harris. The actual false positive rate was ~80%, but the court still found that it could be used as probable cause.
Of course not, Putin is not an idiot and wouldn't leave a trail to him after ordering someone killed on British soil. There is no doubt about Lugovoy or Kovtun's involvement, but directly or indirectly Putin is responsible for his agents running around poisoning people with polonium (edit: not plutonium!). The fact they are refusing to extradite them is telling as well.
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Pretty sure the article wasn't insinuating anything like that. It was just a journalist asking an obvious question so the interviewee explains their thought process in more detail.
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Steve Westmorelander - He received his B.S in computer science from Louisiana Tech University. Westmoreland is based in Portland, Ore.

Dan Cauchy - Dan earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Engineering major)

Dan Kohn - Dan received a bachelor's degree in Economics and Computer Science from the Honors program of Swarthmore College

And all the fellows:

Linus
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Till Kamppeter
Richard Purdie
Janina Sajka

Weird question, don't see why the management have to be coders. They work for the foundation. The foundations pay plenty of the kernel developers.
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