skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard that there are a lot of nukes in Ukraine and the last thing the world wants is those split off into separate hands. I would harbor a guess that the US would rather have those nukes in the hands of Russia, who is a known evil but rational, vs someone else entirely new.

I read on Stratfor that Russia does not want Ukraine to become independent because it's basically the "soft underbelly" leading into Russia. It's basically the equivalent of letting Texas become independent. With Putin in control, there's no way he's letting Ukraine go free, especially given all the nukes, its strategic location, etc.
I also grew up in central Ukraine and have my close relatives there. As much as I despise the current government, I must say that this "beautifully done" presentation is completely one-sided, unbalanced, and manipulates with both real and made-up facts. And, this is always non-constructive and even dangerous. The situation is much more complicated. I am really afraid that this is going closer and closer towards a civil war and split of the country. Presentations like this one only work in favor of that.
The real issue, IMO, is the Ω3:Ω6 ratios. As someone who is trying to lower the amount of Ω6 in his diet, I can no longer trust olive oil
Stop telling Millennials to get off the lawn
That's a great idea! In addition, we could also put good guys in charge of everything, and send bad guys to the jail. Also, raise salaries and lower prices.
I sense the solution to the Ukrainian crisis is starting to shape!
Give me humanity and a sense of humor over PC-"professionalism" any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
been around longer and funner: http://www.geoguessr.com/
In the UK the employer by default does own work at all "related" to you day job - this is direct from a senior contact in HR/IR who is a lawyer.

You might be able to negotiate an rider on your contract but most companies would probably not do this.

UK employment law is based of an old act referred to as the "Master and Servants Act" - guess what Servants don't get a very good deal
Streaming comes to Steam: run on your gaming rig, play on your laptop
What is like working with the NDK? C++ is the one language that can work on both iOS and Android (and Windows phone?)

Personally, I'd like to get some reuse out of my iOS code. I'd do more C++ if I knew that I could reuse it. Of course, Objective C could actually be portable too.
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That's actually a very well done summary. I have an acquaintance that is Ukrainian and I have been asking her about it. Pretty much what happened so far can be summed up as "The leadership betrayed the Ukrainian people to Russia under pressure from Putin" and both of generally agree that it's too late now to stop, and that the protesters have to be at least partially successful or else it is likely there will be more bloodshed.

Being self designated geopolitics guy though, my curiosity is "Where is the US?" We know they were involved in Georgia in 08, and we know the US has a vested interest in giving the Russians a black eye, so I would think they would be involved somehow, but have not seen as such.
Oh dear, how did I miss HTTP 2.0? And why are they trying to reimplement TCP exactly?

HTTP's simplicity is the reason it's been so successful and proved so flexible. Please don't throw it away.
Amazing. This is literally the end of a small road in the middle of nowhere (no offense), Lithuania. How few people ever see this person's home, and how few outsiders does this person come across in their back yard? And all of a sudden, here we are, all looking at this person's yard with more intrigue than they'd ever guess.
No, it was put together by a chap called Darryl Weaver. He's a smart guy, and you are damn rude.

It's fine to comment on the lack of deep detail, but the way you have conveyed it has just made you sound like an ass.
I don't care what they call it, as long as they fix it.

It works great most of the time, but occasionally on my surface I get a message like "40k of disk space needed" to open a 40k document. And it simply won't open. Sometimes on my laptop it won't save.

And yes I have 45 gig of space on the device. Still using Google drive for most stuff.
Thanks for that, now I don't know which of you two are trying to be more intentionally offensive.
Monstrous Earthquake to Hit Mansfield, Ohio
OneNote..
That is largely unfortunate dogma.

The most likely reason to use the NDK is when you are using existing C(++) code, for instance from your iOS or desktop versions of your app. For me the biggest advantage is building the app for Win64, using rich tools and a high power testing platform and just run a different make and now I have an Android app.
Wow so it's wolf of wall st online err-Wolf of Reddit?
Some dude once said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and he was right.
More than 2 parts:

http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/splitus.JPG
No, it was previously known only as "Microsoft Expression Blend", no Visual Studio. The new name reflects that you can no longer get it standalone, you must get it as part of VS2012/2013.
It wont sync with your windows phone either. And half the time ot wont play off SkyDrive.

Every ecosystem has a pain in the ass step somewhere either by design (Apple/iTunes) or questionable integration (windows live or whatever it is called now). It's frustrating. Android may be better but my only experience is with 2.3 which is ancient.

For music, I actually got pissed off with it to the point of buying a CD player.
As someone who has been to the 12 Hours of Sebring many times... The biggest problem with the Wankel is that it sounds awful. It is positively pain inducing to listen to those Mazdas go by for hours on end. :-)
What is the point in this thread? http://status.github.com will answer that question. HN doesn't need threads asking / telling people whether things are down
This may be a good advice, but for a lot of people that were not so blessed with imagination, this same advice may also appear just... hollow! It may not necessarily be a mater of courage, because they don't really know what they want until a commercial tells them (and probably they won't do anything with their life if the primary needs won't push them to). For such people here's the template thinking labeled "American Dream". When there isn't anything better and more personal, it's a good direction, for both the prosaic soul and overall for the society. So yeah - work hard, have fun/kids/etc. and pay taxes! ...at least till you'll figure out something better.
I have to disagree with you. Care to elaborate on what facts are made-up?
I recall something similar that would show random places on street view and you had to guess where it was located on the map. The closer you were the more points you would get. Does anybody remember how that was callled, because that was way cool.
I got curious about how a company had done a deal to put a camera on ISS and sell the pictures for profit so I started Googling. It looks like they basically did a deal with RSC Energia and the Russian Federal Space Agency. However, what's far more interesting is what I found out about how UrtheCast raised the money to make this happen.

UrtheCast started out as a privately-held (i.e. pre-IPO) startup company called Earth Video Camera Inc (EVC). EVC raised C$4.5m in 2012 but the bulk of its funding came last year when it completed a reverse takeover of a publicly-traded company called Longford Energy.

Longford used to be an oil and gas exploration firm but in 2012 it sold its sole remaining asset (a 40% share of an oilfield in Iraq) and ended up with a pile of cash ($25m) but no operating business or significant assets. Instead of returning the cash to the shareholders (which would presumably have incurred dividend taxes), Longford's management decided to pursue "acquisition opportunities"[1]. However, a couple of hedge funds got involved and convinced the other Longford shareholders that they'd do a better job than the existing management team who were duly fired and replaced with the hedge funds' team[2].

Six months later, EVC and Longford announced[3] the reverse takeover, which was duly completed in June last year - Longford "acquired" EVC by issuing shares in Longford to UrtheCast's shareholders. Normally, that sort of deal involves a larger company acquiring a smaller one but, in this case, EVC was valued at nearly three times Longford, so EVC shareholders ended up owning three quarters of Longford. The EVC management team took over running the combined company and changed the company name to UrtheCast. The $25m effectively became an investment in UrtheCast by Longford's original shareholders.

Reverse IPOs (where the company that wants to IPO is "acquired" by a shell company that already has a public listing) like this aren't unusual (it's a way of bypassing all the hassle that usually accompanies an IPO) but it's the first time I've heard of it being combined with what amounts to an investment round.

[1]: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/07/12/longford-energy...

[2]: http://business.financialpost.com/2012/08/13/longford-energy...

[3]: http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1138175/urthecast-to-complet...
Um so where these solicitors a specialist in employment law?

Unfortunately a lot of people in the uk take advice on employment from the same solicitor's who did their house legal work and come badly unstuck.

The Q is can could you afford to defend a claim on your IP - you wont get legal Aid
Sounds like my win phone. 4.5Gb free and it wont install a 200Mb app because it is apparently "out of space". WTF.
"quite obviously not related to King's games"

How so? It fits the regex of numerous King games, something like /^.+\s+Saga$/

What I don't understand about the response is if they wanted to be jerks they'd sue Banner Saga guys and "Lego Star Wars: The complete SAGA" also. Or if they wanted to get massive internet karma basically for free they'd license the use of the "banner saga" name to the makers with an extra clause that its only $1 as long as its the last time they ever name something "* Saga". But no they march right down the middle taking neither side.

I don't think anyone involved would be very amused if I changed my HN name to "jaegerpicker saga" and started posting rants about how "I" love american IP law.

Of all the stinky things about IP law, this sort of reputation management / consumer protection system is the least stinky. Oh don't get me wrong, it is in fact stinky, just everything else in that general area is worse.
You heard wrong: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine. There are no nukes in Ukraine.
Hi andreas, very cool post. I agree 100% that one should leverage his own database first thing: those are numbers easy to truck and on which you can rely on.

Since I am looking for to undertake a medium(ish) OS project in Flask and D3.js I wanted to ask: do you think there might be a need for a good simple app that startups can run on their own servers and can use to segment their database?

I know there is a bunch of analytics platforms out there. I work in finance, believe me I know. But I was wondering if there is any particular pain point for startups tracking their db numbers that has not been fixed yet.
Then do what Google did and keep using the brand name everywhere else except Britain. You have to do internationalization anyways. It's not like you call it the same thing in Swahili or Mandarin, why not just call it something different in British English and keep the established brand running everywhere else?
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Uhm, Ukraine is an independent, sovereign country. Comparing Ukraine to Texas makes no sense.
Ukraine has no nukes. They were disarmed in exchange for security assurances from both Russia and USA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Ukraine
Try http://randomstreetview.com/#slideshow , and switch your browser to fullscreen modus.
Popular binaries can be uploaded falling back to building from source.
Yanukovich refused to sign EU association in November. I am wondering if the EU association was approved by most of Ukrainian through voting (or other ways), and Yanukovich disobeyed the voting results.
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Very scary similarities with what has happened in Turkey.

I have amazing respect for all those brave people risking their lives to say "No!" to tyranny. They are the modern day heroes.
There's no evidence the US wants a "weaker EU" and I doubt you personally have access to classified state department documents, and nothing of this sort was in any of the documents leaked by Manning. A weak EU is not in America's interest with a rising China and waning influence. The US has continuously asked allies to increase their military spending, so you are just spouting off run-of-the-mill incredulous and unthoughtful anti-american cynicism.
LiveDrive wouldn't work b/c their hotmail/msn mail/live mail service has been re-branded yet again to confuse longstanding users of their cloud-free, unsocial mail client...

edit:condensed; removed OT color commentary.
I can actually answer this decisively.

Don't take legal advice from anyone but a lawyer that you are paying.

Seriously, this depends on a variety of factors and is especially dependent on your local laws, the specifics of the contract and most importantly, precedent.

Find a lawyer, give them your contract, detail your side project and get an opinion.
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Having worked with the NDK in Android Developer Tools (Google's Eclipse Fork), it's pretty painful. It takes a long time to get the environment set up and working (somewhat) nicely. You have to get a plugin to debug via ADT, I used the ARM DS-5 debugger. It works, but it's not a good user experience.

I used to complain about certain niggles in Xcode, but having used ADT, I shall never complain again. Comparatively, using Xcode is a joy.
This worked so great with Germany...
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I've come up against this before (Scotland, but broadly the same employment law).

My understanding is that this term would not be considered reasonable, and as a result would not be enforceable. However, you'd need to either opt out or discuss this with a solicitor if you were planning to do anything which might come under that umbrella, as it would likely be expensive and messy if you had to fight, regardless of who's actually correct.

In most cases, I've found this has simply been thrown into an employment contract as part of a lawyer's off-the-shelf documentation, and will be removed upon request.
Reminds of this somewhat dated video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvh5k1RWER4
That's http://geoguessr.com/ !
Because the issue is not west vs east. Ukraine spent lots of time divided this way over the centuries and no it does not work any better than splitting the US into red and blue states.
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Here is one on a train, I'm using the arrow keys to ride it through town.

http://randomstreetview.com/#rkof5_5zmfd_-av_a_-a
> I must say that this "beautifully done" presentation is completely one-sided, unbalanced, and manipulates with both real and made-up facts.

OK... How?
How the Future of War (and Flying) Could Be Swarms of 3D-Printed Drones
Ummmm, how is Candy Crush not a straight up clone of Bejeweled? What am I missing here?
Nukes were transferred from soviet republics to Russia exactly because western world didn't trust newly founded random goverments.
Yes!!! I sometimes do this manually by zooming out the map and then dropping the Street View pin with my eyes only half open (can't drop him in the ocean).
Yeah, but we've now had 10 "minor" releases of OSX, over the span of 13 years. If they followed any sort of version conventions, we wouldn't be at 10.9 right now, we'd be at 19. Each of the point releases should have had a new major version bump.
The Confederacy you mean? I seem to recall there was a bit of a problem with that...
Why does it have non-phone OSes on there, and state that it includes OSes for mobiles and laptops?
I dont think UK lawyers take $ its £ and for the really posh ones they still bill in Guineas (21 Sillings in old money)
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Can someone shed some light on the reasoning behind paying 3.2 billion for Nest (thermostats) and only 400 million for DeepMind (artificial intelligence). Is it really that Nest was a consumer, revenue positive company?
This is propaganda and has no place on Hacker News. Anything that says 'Civil War Has Been Ignited", when there is no civil war YET, is war mongering for some cause.
> Yes, but grand parent said it's all going in the same direction.

The original quote seems to pretty explicitly say its a trend across all industries, not a historic trend across all time.
Great, so you've read a blog and you learned a word. Good for you. There's still no civil opportunity to challenge government behavior in a vacuum. Article III Section 2 requires a "case or controversy."
I'm curious as to what you mean when you say Russia is a "known evil." Are you alluding to real life? Movies? The Cold War? It would seem that true rationality and evil have little to do with one another.
Seconded. Russian is my first language. I do not support this government.
going by the information on wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_Crush_Saga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banner_Saga

Candy crush saga came out april 2012, while the banner saga's kickstarter campaign had already begun in march of 2012. People were already throwing money at them and investing in their application. Does that matter at all?
Ukrainian here.

Ukraine gave up on its nukes in nineties in exchange for military guarantees from US, NATO and Russia. No warheads, no enriched uranium (has been given away by the current president in exchange of nice handshakes with US at the beginning of his term).

Russian leaders are trying to restore its Soviet era, where Ukraine used to be the second most populated country after Russia itself. Clearly, this is a big deal for them. Location wise is not that important, all Baltic countries are way closer to Moscow.
Although not directly applicable this judgement is worth a read - http://www.nakedlaw.com/2010/01/software-developers-who-owns...

"Under statute, copyright is only automatically owned by an employer if it is created by the employee in the course of his employment. On that basis, code written in an employee's spare time and outside of the scope of what he is doing for his job would belong to the developer. However, many employment contracts (particularly for jobs that are centred around the development of IP for the company to exploit - such as software development) include the transfer of ownership to the company in much broader cases. This might capture any code developed that relates to the business of the company (eg. any computer games), whether written entirely at home and not using company resources."

I get written waivers for all work that I don't want my employer to own.
Oh, bless you. Just don't forget to open your mouth to breathe.
So because of an overly-broad warrant, or lack of training, or vague suspicions or even the mere chance that your data happened to be stored on the same box as Criminal A, we should just allow the FBI to violate the Constitution?

Reductio ad absurdum with your argument and we should just let the FBI run all internet infrastructure, because it is expedient for the FBI, it makes life easier on the FBI, and they can inspect your data to their heart's content. It is a much preferable situation to the one where an FBI agent has to do something complicated.

Nowhere do I see you advocating for the innocent whose rights are infringed upon.
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> I heard that there are a lot of nukes in Ukraine

You should re-evaluate how you acquire information and which sources do you trust. You could have found out that this is not true by spending 10 seconds looking it up. Ukraine had nukes, but gave them back to Russia due to US and Russian influence.

How many other things do you believe that are flatly not true?
I wonder what you'll think if you have another friend who is saying completely the opposite.
All nukes went from Ukraine to Russia (same in other former Soviet republics) after the Soviet Union broke apart. It all was regulated by proper treaties. You should not listen to rumors.

Regarding your next statement, Russia is not interfering in what is happening in Ukraine AT ALL. As opposed to EU and US who send their emissaries to Ukraine very often. The only "interference" from Russia is giving to Ukraine a huge credit and pushing down the gas prices which I guess is more help than interference. Also, this is not about Putin or anybody else. Most of Ukraine is culturally and historically extremely close to Russia. They are pretty much the same people. This may not be true regarding a couple of the most Western regions of the country. Those guys, I believe, have their full right on "independence" but that effectively would mean the split of the country which is the hardest thing to do.

Please be careful with selectively picked information. It's not constructive and not helpful.
I don't know if others suggested this but it might be interesting to define a rectangular region and it would only return views from inside that rectangle. Let's see how well I actually know my hometown.
Association pact is a purely economical agreement that is mediated by governments only. So no, he did not violate anything. However, 42% of the population supports European integration, while only 31% wants to join the Customs Union, seen as USSR v2.0
"What's not clear to me is whether there is anything King could do to protect their IP without harming Banner Saga."

I believe the term you're looking for is trademark licensing.

So the trademark licensing contract would read something like:

1) Pay us $1

2) Plus legalese for "only valid as long as you don't disparage us in public" and "you are not to even joke about impersonating us" and "include a phrase similar to trademark used under license by King, somewhere in the ads/docs deep in the fine print."

3) Equals you get to use our "* saga" trademark, perhaps just this one game or just for a decade or whatever wiggly

(Note: The disney company has not sued every tee-shirt company they've ever hired to make a mouse tee shirt... this about the same kind of transaction, more or less)
Funny like this is posted while GitHub is under DDoS attack.
OneNote isn't a cloud storage system.
Maybe Wikipedia needs correcting...
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Candy crush has shaped boards, and is thus a clone of any of the other similar match 3 games. Candy crush has some different power up me hanics too.

There are a gajillion match 3 games and they're all similar, but that doesn't make them all clones. Especially when they're as different as candy crush and bejeweled are.
Wonderful ! The sites like yours remind me why I love Streetview, which is like a gift for me.
I take this opportunity to share one of my favorites blogs, "Dreamlands - Virtual Tour". It's a photograph blog, like every photograph blogs, except that all pictures are made with Streetview ! You don't have to speak french to enjoy it. Some places are incredible.
http://dreamlands-virtual-tour.blogspot.fr/
Yes. I develop software for jailbroken devices and the products I've made have been things I personally needed/wanted the phone to do.
Whoops, I guess I heard wrong about the nukes in Ukraine. Thanks for the information!
I think they've deprecated the live.com brand, which makes it odd that Outlook.com still lives there.
I agree completely on the diagnosis. But honestly suggesting Bitbucket as an alternative is kind of ridiculous: it has the same scale of availability problems, without all the pressure (DDoS) GitHub faces, and is much less transparent about the exact nature of their technical problems (it was different before being bought by Atlassian). Yours, a bitbucket user