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> invading sovereign country and annexing part of it IS NOT protecting their interests.

Unless that sovereign country happens to be Iraq and you skip that whole "annexation" part in favor of just leveling the whole place.
Why is the US allowed to "protect their interests" on the other side of the world, but if Russia does the same, in a place that's literally their backyard, it's suddenly a crime?

Eastern Ukraine was of immense military relevance to Russia, it's where parts of their rockets used to be built, parts of their military hardware [0]. Crimea has been the home to the Black Sea Fleet for centuries, it's the most important port for the Russian marine.

Those are all facts people rather ignore in favor of this naive "Russia just goes around annexing countries for no reason whatsoever" narrative.

> Also “obviously staged western coup” IS NOT obvious.

I guess "Fuck the EU Nuland" handing out cookies was just some emotional gesture with no relevance, same with all those other US/EU officials showing up on Euromaidan and pumping up the crowd. Just like pumping billions of $ in the country and sponsoring "Yats our man" trough NATO/NED and even the DoT [1], feel free to look up the other organizations on that list, there's a certain "theme" to them.

It's also not like this has never happened before, it actually has [2] but this time the result did stick, that's why Russia was pressured into acting.

[0] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-military-equipment/25...

[1] http://openukraine.org/en/about/partners

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
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Blockchains provide solutions to problems that require one (or more) of the following- 1)an immutable, transparent record of transactions 2) trust between parties that don't trust each other 3) optional anonymity 4) decentralization. Any one of these use cases could be a reason to use blockchain beyond the ICO use case.
That's pretty fascinating, but I don't understand how this works from a purely thermodynamic POV. If the signal is being amplified, where is the extra energy coming from? Does it deplete the material? Is it like boosting voltage at the expense of current?
>Yes, but I'm sure this will only be valid for big enough companies

Not really, the wording is quote clear. As is "processing the data of EU citizens".

I doubt any minor eshop or online service will appoint a representative, they will however still have to conform to the GDPR rules.
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Well, only time will tell, I just relayed what I've heard from people much more knowledgeable in this area than me. How I understand this is that if you serve many enough EU citizens, please be kind, open a branch in EU or at least send a representative, because you are de-facto doing business here. Mainly this is to avoid situations where, for example Facebook, closes its EU offices and pretend to have no EU presence (and no need to abide EU regulations) despite hundreds of millions EU citizens use their services.
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I feel like I've read comments of yours I disagreed with before, but in this case we agree completely. I'm not interested in winning a debate per se, but I wish we had more people looking at the fundamental principles at stake here rather than using ends-justify-the-means thinking. The hysteria surrounding this topics seems really odd.
How prevalent is the use of "sprachgefühl" in English? Whenever I read such a German word where there would be a "more native" english alternative ("feel for language" here), I wonder what the motivation of the author was to use the German variant.

Sometimes, there are subtle differences in usage and meaning, but sometimes, I have the impression the author is just showing off their vocabulary.
Don't craftspeople literally reproduce the same thing?

Reproducing the exact same button is as easy as ctrl-c,ctrl-v
Refraction index of light in fiber is ~1.44. Rule of thumb for packets in transit is 200km/ms.
Tom Hollander Cast Alongside Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan in a Private War
This story is ripe for conspiracy theories

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/16/health/mental-illness-over...
PCBS pay..
Thanks, that looks like it.
Haha, I remembered that people have proposed that solution many times and I was about to ask what changed before reading the comments.
TL;DR

The article doesn't really answer the question, it just mentions how many different Guineas exist.
Europe is also working on returning to Venus. Electronics meant to withstand the conditions on Venus are being developed at KTH in Sweden[1]. They are also Silicon Carbide based [2].

[1] https://www.kth.se/en/forskning/artiklar/elektronik-som-klar...

[2] https://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/meetings/archive/vexag_14/pre...
And in one instance of incredible bad luck - the soil probe on a Venera lander actually hit the lens cap instead of the soil so it didn't record anything. Out of all places to land, the cap landed exactly where the measuring probe was going to poke.
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Radio takes less time because it takes a direct, straight path from point to point. An optic fiber will always have a longer path.
Tangibly related due to it being Ellen Ullman.

Oh wow. So I read "The Bug" of hers just after it came out (14 years ago) and it's such a poignant read about someone being slowly driven mad because he can't find a very peculiar bug which unpredictably haunts the sales people demo'ing their product. It's a great read and I highly recommend it to anyone here. The technical accuracy is hilarious too but you don't need to be a programmer whatsoever to understand the novel. I won't spoil the reveal of the actual bug or the ending but it's very much worth it.

After reading it I loaned my hardcover copy out to a guy named Boris when I told him how much I liked it. Boris; I don't know where you are and what you're up to nowadays; but if you somehow end up reading this; I kinda want it back. Ping me.
An article such as this strikes me as an appropriate place to show off an author's vocabulary.
Honest question, I am wondering why would someone learn Perl today ?
Yes. The "n-tetrahedron" is usually called the simplex, and the "n-octahedron" is usually called the cross-polytope.
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the wikipedia article has a bit about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#Venera_camera_successes...

> The Venera 9 and 10 landers had two cameras each. Only one functioned because the lens covers failed to separate from the second camera on each lander. The design was changed for Venera 11 and 12, but this change made the problem worse and all cameras failed on those missions. Venera 13 and 14 were the only landers on which all cameras worked properly; although unfortunately, the titanium lens cap on Venera 14 landed precisely on the area which was targeted by the soil compression probe.
I'm in a very similar position. Grew up excited for the tech revolution, and became extremely disappointed when I realized it meant people tweeting their lunch and sharing fakebook news.

I'm now a freelancer because I can't stand the thought of contributing my expertise to an employer who only cares about his bottom line (99% of workplaces, as far as I can tell), but unfortunately it feels more like escapism than activism.

I wish there was a place for retro-techies to band together and try to figure out a way out of this mess. I know there are groups who are trying to create alternatives (for example, scuttlebutt is a nice community), but their interactions are mostly project-driven, and not necessarily pragmatic. I feel like if enough talented developers (and designers, managers, etc.) group together for a good cause, we can make a difference. More difference than just creating a better browser, or a better twitter.

Well, anyway, back to reality..
Do you think the way up the current US political ladder is more about merit or more about quid quo pro? I think there's this sort of cognitive dissonance many of us are suffering. Are you happy with your professional politicians in Washington? Do you think they're doing a good job? It seems to me that many people want change in Washington, and don't appreciate that the 'political experience' rhetoric is being pushed by DC insiders in an effort to try to strengthen their own grasp on power.

That's the conventional argument of course. But it's pretty clear the one party wants to govern, and one wants to "strangle the beast" (that is literally the policy).

It seems to me that people want government to govern, but not waste money, and they are fine with politicians who aren't captured by interest groups.
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Similarly, copper is faster than glass too (but not faster than air). The trade folks refer to copper in terms of "velocity factor". Example, some arbitrary RG-6 I'm looking at has a velocity factor of 81%. Equivalent refractive index is 1/.81 for ~ 1.23.
There is an error loading logo message which shows briefly then disappears...
“Don't block my drive”
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I held a similar opinion until I saw an amazing wedding photographer work her magic. That was a highly skilled job with a lot of work and effort and knowledge at play.
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It works. There's even a psychotherapy method called "problem-solving therapy"; all it does is that it formalizes the process of finding a solution to a problem: define the problem (what you have and what you want to have), outline possible approaches, evaluate, choose. I myself use something like that in my work (software development) with a text file and I can attest that following the steps often helps me to find or choose a different solution than what initially popped up in my head.

It doesn't solve all problems, e.g. a complex problem that is hard to understand are not a good fit; if I notice that what I write is lengthy or that I keep returning and restating it, then this is that kind of problem; here I normally leave the desk and try to sketch it on paper.

Very seldom I look through the file to find why I've made a particular choice; I don't think logbooks are of any use here, it's better to document the design elsewhere, closer to the product. I'd say logbooks are write-only (although they may be a source for the docs).
Agreed. I think they mean it's rare in terms of subject matter and style. If you want a painting of a fruit bowl, that's easy to find, but this, not so much...
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sorry, i meant cpu, not ram. my specs are OSX 10.11.6, 3 GHz Intel Core i7 , 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3. i'm using an external audio interface Scarlett 2i2 as well.

with only a couple of modules in my rack going, the rack process is hogging 50% of my cpu. about the audio glitches -
they seem happen whenever i use my os regularly outside of rack (switching between apps, scrolling and clicking).
Not every socialist country is rich. And not every rich country is socialist.

It would be wise for you to keep political biases distinct from a clear view of the facts.
I'm a supporter of the bailouts.

But I think that those responsible for the financial crisis should have been charged and done prison time.
Very nice idea behind this project, that's something that could be generalized to offer vendors a nice API way to share their recommended CSP policies to their users.

For as much as I know, segment.io or intercom.io are still very painful to use with CSP.
That is a large understatement. TexLive is like 4GB
There is also a new form of spam in 2017 (and even before), that's the notifications that we get from apps on our mobile phones. Does every app ask our permission before pushing notifications (for example at night when you try to sleep) ?

And every other website asking to push notifications on the desktop ?

And every Messenger bot ?
It's not common in ordinary English, but perhaps it is common jargon among linguists?
Well in the UK at least the taxpayers were hurt by nearly a decade of austerity measures, selling off of national assets and a gutting of the welfare state.

All as a result of yet another financial crisis caused by irresponsible and greedy financial institutions.
Similar to any criminal exchange I guess.

Presumably any potential buyer has access to the ability to make your life very short and painful...
Sounds like here in Scotland, so it must be true ;-)
thank you, this should be written somewhere on their website :)
Sounds like a great idea if you want to get into some very risky lawsuits. I doubt the Mozilla foundation is going to get involved in this, it’s a statement by one of their engineers.
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Some of the questions necessarily involve a pen and paper. eg "copy this picture" and link the circled characters.
Ask HN: What production features have you built using AWS Lambda/Serverless?
Q: How do you know if someone on Hackernews doesn't have a Facebook account?

A: They'll tell you.
The ghost towns that were created by the oil rush
Here is a suspicion I have, can someone who has experience in the field shed some light on this?:

In addition to the refraction index, you’d expect fibre optics to have another limiting factor: scatter. As light bounces off the side of the fibre, it gets scattered back and forth. I.o.w.: you’d expect a single, “perfect” pulse to eventually reach the other end as a slightly drawn out pulse (with its intensity spread out over a bell curve?). Is that true? If so, does that mean that in fibre optics , the longer the cable, the lower the frequency at which you can send pulses, to avoid “bleeding” from one into the next? And is it true radio doesn’t have that?

Or does fibre not work that way?
> There are some kinds of battery that only work at those temperatures - molten salt batteries. Used on earth for a few types of missile and some grid batteries.

Not an expert in batteries but Wikipedia says molten salt batteries provide high amount of power only for a short period of time:

> Once activated, they provide a burst of high power for a short period (a few tens of seconds to 60 minutes or more), with output ranging from watts to kilowatts.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_battery
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Product is at version 1.0 since 2 years and never received any update. I could use more options when rendering movies...
Not sure if this counts as a production feature but I use Lambda as a Sendgrid webhook handler to calculate/update some custom fields in a CRM in response to email events. Basically Zapier on steroids
Perhaps they feel it's valuable to maintain identical keyboard layouts across different form factors, including the 13" and 11" MacBooks? I know it's a pain in the ass to get used to the "clever" key positioning on every new Windows laptop I use.
You've experienced a lot! Thankfully I never had a rim split or a broken crank.

I had a broken chain on 自由路 (meaning Freedom Road), when listening to a song with the lyrics "every chain is broken".

I could still use it like a velocipede and scoot forward with my feet to the nearest metro station, though.

The back bearings probably break on me more often because my bag's heavy.
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Nice approach to reach out to potential employees :)
It could have been stronger but it wasn't necessary either. Civil discussion is better.
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looks a lot like "ends ways means" approach

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a222381.pdf
The atmospheric super-rotation of Venus kind of implies that (if you could make it survive the conditions) that a kind of "kite" arrangement carrying a wind generator could work.
The spacemacs community on gitter is a helpful crowd. Treating newbies with patience and encouraging asking questions.
C++ magic squares demystified with Valgrind and disassembly
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Imagine a future where the technology triggers good feelings in you when you view certain products or depictions thereof.
This is an ad for a paid & closed source application.
> learning how to run the company from zero

Is handover a thing among CEO’s?
Can someone point me to what the argument here is for why "hackers need the humanities"? I can't seem to find it at the link.
> Very little of it was actually useful legit stuff in the way we think of things today.

The way YOU think of things today. You don't speak for the rest of us.
> Sure the old terminal apps were crude bug god they were fast, processing AND ergonomy.

The old terminal apps are mostly designed to run in batches, and it's horrifically difficult to implement (secure!) interfaces to any modern systems - which is expected from a government these days. There's a reason why many banks still don't offer instant payments in 2017 - not just because a tiny profit can be made by holding the money for a day, but also because the mainframe based batch processing stuff is not able to do realtime.

And to make stuff worse: many of these terminal apps have severe issues. They don't accept UTF8 (some only ANSI!), leading to data loss when you have customers/citizens with uncommon characters in their names - while e.g. a German system will often accept the Umlauts, it will struggle with French or Slavic diacritics and completely fail at Cyrillic or Japanese. Or they're hardcoded for example to encode gender as bool (0=male, 1=female), which breaks with intersexual people, or that a marriage may be between homosexual people (because the data fields are named as husband / wife)...

Sure, the same issues plague web-apps or native desktop apps too, but for these you can at least hire decent programmers pretty much anywhere while you will spend enormous amounts of money for mainframe experts.
> Undersea fiber cables have repeaters embedded in them. So even though it's only one hop from an L2 perspective, the light is being decoded, error corrected, and re-transmitted many times along the way to hong kong from SF.

No, this is incorrect. Subsea fiber cables use all optical amplification at each repeater.

There is no optical-electrical-optical conversion.
They’re quite different, like comparing pork and beef. Guinnea Fowl is a white meat like Chicken but is more flavourful and gamey, a bit more like bronze turkey. You get a little more meat than on a duck but it’s not as fatty so can be a little dry depending how you cook it.
Depends who equitable the split from the old CEO was. Is he retiring out of his own free will and handing over the company to trusted successor he helped pick or is he being forcefully ousted by the board after a massive bitter proxy battle.
Only if they can find you. The whole point of darknet markets is that it's difficult for even major governments to track down users.

As far as I can tell, the only thing potentially binding darknet sellers is reputation, i.e. they want to be able to make further sales under this name. Even then, people run scams on eBay where they build up a sterling record selling small items for months, then "sell" something worth six figures and vanish with the money.
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A way to measure what, richness? You can either look at income or wealth, and there are several/countless ways to do that. Income may be measured by GDP or GDP per capita. Wealth may be measured by the nation's balance sheet (gross assets minus liabilities). The latter is tougher to calculate but the UN attempted to do it five years ago. No idea if there is newer data but here's the 2012 result in graphical format as reported by the Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/21557732

You will see that many of the wealthiest nations (the USA being the wealthiest, and Japan the wealthiest per capita) don't have a strong culture of socialism or welfare capitalism.

In my view, the general American attitude is, "the government provides some very basic benefits to the elderly, and the expectation is that people will save for needs beyond those basic benefits or plan to have family members care for them." It comes from a disdain for the nanny state and a feeling that taxing individuals to return the money later is less efficient and less meritocratic than simply reducing the tax burden and allowing people to save as they see fit.

On another note...just because there is a strong socialist sentiment on HN, doesn't mean that people should stop being fact-hungry critical thinkers when they approach the topic.
TIL: There are fried chicken shop clouds over London.
Small-time games, mostly.
It does; it stems from Portugal meaning black people according to the article. If I understood it correctly, it's some mashup of colony and black people. It's an artifact of early modern colonialism and zenophobia.
Nothing.

Collusion is functionally an illegal (and informal) business agreement.
> Morever, their obsession with phasing in every change via a soft fork (i.e. updated nodes must be eternally backwards compatible with older versions)

This "obsession" is about the consensus layer, for very good reasons.

The peer-to-peer protocol is much more flexible, and a lot of work is being done there.
I've found keeping a software-engineering logbook very useful at work.

Recommend the vim-wiki plugin for this https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki; in any vim-window the logbook for today is accessible via [leader-W-leader-W].
What appears to be a puff piece about an inconsiderate handwritten note, turns into a more serious observation viral media. Not a modern classic exactly, but likely worth the sub 5 minute read.
Zimbabwe crisis turns spotlight on China’s role in Africa
It's a database that is designed to be very expensive to update but easy to verify. If someone still manages to update it with an invalid state other nodes will validate the new block and not accept it.
Longhaul subsea fiber optic cables have a conductor in them that carries a high voltage DC current that powers the amplifiers on the cable route.
It's not perfect, but I (in the UK) have the choice of around 10 ISPs where I am right now, and two of those use totally separate infrastructure from the others.

I'm on 200Gbps with no data cap for £45. Seems overwhelmingly better that what the US customer has right now.
This is the case in Multimode fiber, which is used for short distances (meters). For anything longer, single mode fiber is used and the core of the fiber guides the light. See https://garyherlache.wikispaces.com/Digital+Communications+F...
"style and preference" seems so much more natural than "style and sprachgefühl".

I like German as a language, but using German in English always seems so awkward, especially due to drastic, almost comical pronunciation differences. After all, various German words have turned into internet meme's of their own entirely due to how awkward and fun it sounds when said in English contexts ("FLAMMENWERFER. IT WERFS FLAMMEN.").
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Denmark solved that problem by calling them "Marsvin" - Sea pigs. We then choose to also use that exact same name for harbour porpoise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_porpoise)
There are lots of non unique paintings.

Artists often explore the same theme in steps and create several versions of the same picture. There are four paintings of "The scream" by Munch for example.

Some kind of art is created to be duplicated. Videoart and computer art, by design. Painters living much before computer age still managed to create thousands of "identical" copies of their pictures as a standard procedure. Auctions are full of lithographs, sometimes painted decades after the death of the artist.
They represent the interests of whoever pays them the most money.
Cool approach to quantize and pixelated an image to make it look like it is made out of LEGO. The number of bricks used in reduced by applying the notion of graph connectivity. You even get an order list for Bricklink to build the image with LEGO on your own.