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But how did this president became elected? The girl in the video speaks about dictatorship. But is it one? It bugs me, that we do not hear the voices of those in support of the current government. We always get to see the Maidan and maybe some other confined protests in other cities. In the media, it looks like the whole country is uprising. But that can't be the whole truth. If the government has no support at all, it would not still be in power.

The media is full of propaganda and one-sided stories. I like to see more coverage of how people think aside those confined protest areas!
I'd like to see how far people would get doing this sort of stuff in their own countries.
The problem with the EU is, that the different member states have different interests - there is no "European" opinion and therefore no real actions will be done soon...
This is a pure propaganda piece that shows nothing other than some skill in video editing and constructing a sound track.

Think, people, think.

Do you want to spread this message in your countries? This summer when there is an Occupy or 99% demonstration in your country, do you want young men in helmets and masks carrying baseball bats and molotov cocktails to take charge of it? Will you carry a pistol with you at the demonstration to shoot police officers?

If not, then do not distribute this video.

Nothing good comes from the kind of violence that these idiots in Kyiv have started. They sit there at the Maidan with a 24 hour diet of patriotic songs and exhortations to valor and courage. If you wanted to set up a camp to train suicide bombers, this is exactly the kind of propaganda barrage that you would use. These people are brainwashed zombies and they are trying to use YOU to infect everyone else in preparation for the REAL zombie apocalypse.

This is no joke. Just say no to mindless propaganda and learn to THINK FOR YOURSELF. It wouldn't hurt to read some history and learn how much can be achieved by tireless negotiation and compromise to build a common ground and a political party. The Hitler style of party building never ends well.
Thank you for that. As a European, I would add that you really need to be aware that the country seems to be split along historical lines: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/24...

It seems that Kiev, the capital, happens to be in a region that is dominated by Ukrainian-speaking people, who feel closer to (Western/Central) Europe than to Russia. Therefore, a lot of protests are happening in the capital, which makes it easy for the media to paint a picture of an entire country with a pro-European bent in revolt against its pro-Russian government. That narrative conveniently ignores the huge pro-Russian part of the country.

Things would play out very differently if Kiev were in the pro-Russian part of the Ukraine.
A bunch of TA libraries (Stemmers, Wordbreakers, etc) ship "free" with Windows that support a ton of different languages. I wish MS would open up the API a bit more.
How would you even know when things like that happen people don't usually come out and say it in blunt terms like that.
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Ask HN: We should do something about Python, but what exactly?
Following my tweet: https://twitter.com/vince_prignano/status/436022056967479296

I love Python. I love the Python Community, but there is a problem and you know its name: 3.

I was on a train the other day directed to my University, I was reading a book about Algorithms and Data Structure. I met this guy that was in his first year and asked me what programming language he should learn next: Python. I introduced Python to him, how to get started etc.

One thing I did not say: use Python 2.7.
It really didn't came up in my mind, it's natural to me when talking of Python referring to 2.7; it's like Python 3 does not exists.

This problem is not newm Alex Gaynor posted about it in December (http://alexgaynor.net/2013/dec/30/about-python-3/) and nothing was done.

It's going to be a mess.

So I am asking, what can we REALLY do to save Python?
Actually it's worse: Most people who spread the information or even created the messages don't know it's a propaganda. This makes the propaganda more deceptive than otherwise.
Controlled by the US? Citation needed.
I have a WeMo and it works. I don't understand this hijack. Do users need access to my WiFi (or breach perimeter) first and take control?

It is a classic security/ease of use trade off, at the moment, anyone who has the app installed can take control of the device if they are on the same WiFi network. This control is retained if the user leaves the WiFi network. This is a helpful feature that can be a security risk.
It is NOT true that ONLY half of the population want's to join EU or at least get rid of Putin's influence. Majority of Ukraine wants this!
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The president was elected in a hotly contested election that attracted international observers from a number of international election watch groups. They agreed that it was mostly a fair election. Roughly as fair as the USA with hacked voting machines and hanging chads. Or Canada with its fake robocalls sending people to the wrong polling stations.
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I certainly hope you were never on any debating team with arguments like those.

Of course the people of Ukraine have visions and dreams about their future. What you are seeing in this video though, or on any western media (and eastern media for that matter) is not indicative of what the Ukrainian people actually want. Jumping onto either bandwagon only because of what you read in your twitter feed is just stupid.
What if you don't have five fingers to work with?
> Seriously, if you're really desperate for engineering talent, I can give you contact info for a dozen or so of friends who are ready to work for you RIGHT NOW (provided your startup isn't an awful place with awful people, of course) and probably another dozen or two who would work for you given enough convincing.

How can I get in touch with you? My email is in my profile page.
And lets now think about the fact that Ukraine would suddenly belong to the EU... Then about 80% of the Ukrainian people will endure even more poverty than they have now. In an ideal world yes, it might be better to belong to the EU, IF there was no corruption and pensions would inflate along with all other pricesm and people would even get fair pensions, but let's face it, do we live in an ideal world? A lot of these young Ukraine people have a false idea about the "rich" Europeans and European lifestyle, and yes, I'm speaking out of experience.
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> Do you want to spread this message in your countries? This summer when there is an Occupy or 99% demonstration in your country, do you want young men in helmets and mass carrying baseball bats and molotov cocktails to take charge of it? Will you carry a pistol with you at the demonstration to shoot police officers?

Depends: Will the police by the time the next big Occupy protests start already have shot people without reason? Tortured others to make them give up? Well, then I may consider these things if I still have the bravery to be part of such a protest.
I'm sure I'd be a really bad fit in the Valley, too. Things aren't bro-tastic over here in Europe. More often than not, the pretentious idiots who are always trying to Disrupt The Very Concept Of Transport while quoting Ayn Rand are just given a Mac to play with and kept away from programming.
Does it happen on the Linux version as well? Would running it in a LXC container mitigate that problem?
A wrapper maybe?

Even if it's only a wrapper, Apple may not approve it.
Another side of the medal is, that this very government was elected freely and a lot of Ukrainian people are still supporting it, especially in the East of the country.

Don't get me wrong, the government is far from being a good one and there surly are reasons to demonstrate. But it's elected and the OSCE said it was a fair election overall [1].

Well, in the end I must agree to Aoyagi: this is one side of a complex situation and although it is undoubtedly touching, it's not the whole truth behind the current situation.

[1] http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/110818
When I was growing up, one of the standard places that used to be cited for this line of reasoning was the Eastern Block. And certainly looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring there was evidence that peaceful protest wouldn't work.

But what happened? Oh right. Peaceful protest brought down the Soviet block.
Ukraine is incapable of a full EU Membership at the moment. It is a highly corrupt country and cannot be accepted into the club. An association agreement would help Ukraine approach European standards in terms of modern law, fighting corruption, but most importantly it would give it access to the common market. Which means they would get a highly effective fishing-rod instead of a short-term supply of semi -fresh fish.
Ukraine is a country of 45 million people and has a nominal GDP of $3,400ish per capita. That's vastly lower than the EU average and would cause all sorts of problems trying to integrate it.

If it was Bosnia or something with a small population, it would be doable. It's political and economic suicide for the EU to offer full membership on a whim like this.
This video has a condescending feel to it.
Does it really need spelling out?
It is YouTube video to raise some emotions not article from The Economist.
Over the last couple of months there is photo evidence of protestors with pistols and sniper rifles. Not to mention the bullets removed from wounded police officers. And who is to say that the gunshot victims were not shot by rivals in the protest camp? Lots of rhetoric and innuendo but very little actual proof beyond the individual incidents that you would find in the USA, Canada or any EU country. When was the last time that police in your country beat up a suspect?
of course (and chances are that's where he got the idea). But you can't also ride them on land.
that's not a fair comparison. those products are about conspicuous display of disposable wealth. Candy Crush impresses no one.
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I don't want to be disrespectful, but what's so innovative about a bike that cycles on water? Cycle boats are nothing new and everyone could think of a bicycle that floats and uses the rear wheel as propulsion. I (and so do you) can even think at least of two or three ways to make this waterbike more efficient...
From what I've understood half geographically (which is indeed the majority of the population) wants to actually join the EU and the other half mostly just wants the corruption to stop.

Is that not correct?
And why would this not be propaganda of the West? I am deeply touched by the events in Ukraine and wish it stops. But do we know the complete story? I am neither Pro Russia nor Pro West.
Live video stream from Kiev maidan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_LFrMcoEm4#t=1309546
Compulsion is not the same thing as satisfaction. Satisfaction is not the only thing that drives purchasing decisions or compulsion. You don't get it.

your comments about gambling are really cold and detached from the real world suffering that gambling addiction causes people and their families.
From my testing, in stock android 3.1-4.1.2, the native browser has some java objects injected into it and is vulnerable, so any page on the internet could execute arbitrary code. You can verify yourself by downloading the SDK and trying the metasploit module on different targets. Of course with vendor patches it's anyone's guess as to what code is on a device, so it is very possible that some vendors have patched this in their older distributions. If you want to check your device, jduck put up a test script here:

http://www.droidsec.org/tests/addjsif/
> Will the police by the time the next big Occupy protests start already have shot people without reason?

They do that in Canada. I've lived here for 3 years and there have been several incidents in the press. Ukraine has no monopoly on this.
I love those UI. They bring that sensation of abstraction and less Remote Control Syndrome. The only problem I saw in my tests with real people is that those kind of UI have a higher learning curve.

People need to learn well all the actions, even if they're 5 and learn the steps well to achieve actions. It's different when they have 100 buttons on the screen, the only thing they need is read lineary and touch.

It's really nice concept!
The also works as a traditional "land bike."
Belgium was split along historical lines but they talked over their differences and found common ground. The result of that was the beginning of the European Union which is why Brussels, Belgium is the EU capital today.

So why can't the Ukrainians solve their problems the EU way?
I was thinking that I have seen similar things before. I guess there just isn't much of a market for them to go mainstream. Still it is kind of cool.
Also, get a writing sample from them. If the word "I" dominates the single-word histogram, run like hell. (OP fails magnificently).
Because they don't point them at my face, constantly.
Patriot missiles in Ukraine to protect the US and EU from North Korea and Iran?!

Well, get back to your geography homework and have a look where the Ukraine is located...
This account is from the events in Kiev of January 22 and 23, but I recommend looking at it as a fairly objective look at how things look on the ground, as opposed to the sensationalism: http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html

Obviously things have escalated now with many deaths, but these narratives of government thugs vs. brave people, or police vs. right wing elements, grow tiresome. This is not like Syria, or Occupy. It is a significant, representative portion of the population demonstrating against the government. Plenty of propaganda from both sides, though one should remember that the Ukrainian (and Russian) governments have much more experience with that than the opposition.
Thank you for this comment. Those people occupying the square in Kyiv are incapable of any form of compromise. They refused to leave government buildings that they occupied, their leaders refused government posts they were offered, and for example recently one of the judges that sentenced protestors to house arrest was shot on the street to death. Why won't they peacefully wait for the next elections which will be in just a year? After all the current president is democratically elected and nobody disputes this.
And that is exactly what this is all about.
Well, as I'm from Eastern Europe and work in international company it somehow happens that I have some connecting points with Ukrainian people.

Your first comment is about US only and doesn't mention Russia. You did that only with your last comment "(and eastern media for that matter)".
This attitude is a big problem at best and purposefully dangerous at worst. In most systematic oppressive situations the smaller voice gets very few moments to speak. All issues are complex and worse yet opaque, but videos serve as smoke, and when your eye follows the smoke sometimes you find fire and sometimes you dont. So now people can peruse their own facts and share this video to others who might jump in the fray.
A theory is useless if it isn't testable/falsifiable. It's actually not a theory at that point.

You don't have a theory of consciousness, period.

And attributing something you can't explain, to a physical effect you don't understand is pure new-age pseudoscience babble.

Reverse the deflector polarity, fire photon torpedoes, beam me up.
Which is probably quite a good thing.
There are already ways to mitigate that. One example would be to use mandatory access control to 'host' the library in a separate process which is stripped off of all unnecessary rights/privileges.
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So on mobile this link just took me to a Wikipedia page with absolutely zero context. Am I missing something?
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some nice ones
I don't know. I haven't heard one compelling reason why Ukraine would be a dictatorship. Instead I get emotional videos and clips of what's probably pretty isolated police brutality. Enlighten me please.
The EU had Ukraine over a barrel and was demanding that they sign a punitive agreement that would have caused even greater hardship than the country is suffering now. Have you read that association agreement? It is brutal.

What I want to know is why can't Kyiv negotiate its way into the EU in stages, step by step, and at each stage the agreement would be small enough that it could be explained to the people of Ukraine and they could vote in a referendum based on the facts, rather than some fantasy ideal of "sign document, get rich".
Very interesting, however i think intelligence is not only related to knowledge but it also resembles how a person thinks and that thinking leads to all the factors you look into a person like ambition, creativity, inspirations etc.

I think intelligence(not only knowledge) as a bigger definition is one important quality i look into a person.

I too agree completely that money, beauty do not matter as they are just attributes
Wow. But bad guys don't read HTML, right? And they don't use wget or firebug, or the like, right?
How does one decide what is "compulsion" and what is "satisfaction"? What if someone really believes that they find Candy Crush fun and are very satisfied with the money they spend on it? Are they wrong? Are you able to determine what they truly enjoy better than they themselves?

People attempt to construct this dichotomy all the time, but I have yet to hear of a decision procedure.

Gambling addiction is unfortunate, but completely irrelevant to this point. People get addicted to prescription pain medication, exercise, and sex, but I'm not against any of those things either.
A lot of those pages will already be in the file cache (assuming his use case of small utilities running frequently). Anyway, it should be easy to test: since glibc will always be in memory, any differences in timing between the static and dynamic version should be those alleged loading costs.
Some popular software like SQLite combine all their sources into one big source file called Amalgamation and then compile that. Their benchmarks show modest but not negligible performance gain.

There's a lot of work going on in link time optimization at the moment, both in LLVM and GCC. It's not quite ready for prime time, it still takes more than a small change in your Makefile to deploy it (e.g. dealing with linkers etc).

With LLVM toolchain you can compile C code (or other high level code) into LLVM IR, link the IR files together and run that through the optimizer.

You will notice that modern optimizers will want to inline everything if possible and a lot of functions will be missing from the resulting binary. Boundaries of object files are perhaps the biggest obstacle in optimization today.
I'm from Eastern Europe. I'm still not sure if we got extremely lucky (e.g. economical situation of Soviet Union being in very bad condition, US getting technological breakthrough with personal computers) or "peaceful" part actually worked out.
Hey, nice job. I was impressed by this at Pennapps, cool that you did it in such a short amount of time (even if it's been possible for a long time)
So now, only companies which sell things that you find satisfying or which impress other people are legitimate companies?
Yeah - so your stripped and dynamically linked executable is just about as large as a statically built one... and yours still has to link glibc.

I can build busybox (a multi-call all-in-one executable, use symlinks to refer to the binary with the name of a tool and it acts like that tool), with init and bourne shell and the minimal set of command-line tools (coreutils remakes and util-linux remakes) into a 600KiB executable statically linked with uclibc. Combined with a linux kernel, I can boot with it. Meanwhile, my glibc is 2MiB.

Modern computers are really amazing. And it's also amazing that the understandable trend of letting software get bigger and slower as long as it doesn't really cause problems on current hardware has resulted in such astounding (though mostly harmless) waste.

All that said, these stali project pages have existed for years, and there's nothing interesting to show for it. Not that many people really buy into this thing (including me).
Any chance once you find the numbers you could post them on here? Very interested to know.
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Terrible design. “20 to go for the reply” is comically bad UI writing. And then hiding it in a corner in grey text when the user is fixating on the field they are typing in? Not surprised at all it didn't work. And the "nuclear option" doesn't even meet basic usability guidelines of informing the user of input field requirements upfront, not just relying on error messaging.
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We apply a "peer" interview model, where candidates before being offered a job have to sit down with two of their future peers. This takes care of the phoneys as their (already successful) peers see through the posing.

Interview Process is: HR filter -> Manager interview -> Grandfather (Manager's Mgr) interview -> Peer meeting

The peer meeting isn't conducted in an interview setting. It's more informal, adapted to the needs of the applicant. It could be a lunch or a dinner and once it was even participating together at a hackathon.

We carefully select peers against "buddy bias" and encourage diversity in the workplace.

Our company is over a period of several years very successful in recruiting and have very little turnover. The biggest drawback could be that we are "too picky" and thus (at times) have problems growing fast enough.
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Perhaps because they had the opportunity to use the sta.li domain and/or avoid confusion with the Stalin Scheme compilers?
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> Joining the EU is probably the worst thing that can happen to Ukraine. Only high performing nations benefit from the EU, everyone else gets screwed by the regulations.

This is not the whole story. Broke in their time nations like Ireland or Portugal benefited immensely from joining the EU. While they are not anywhere near "high performance" still, participating in common labor and trade market with enforced regulations standards pulled them out of mud.

Also let's not forget that the alternative is integration into Russian zone of influence. You can doubt the merits of EU, but life as a Russian colony would not bring prosperity (let alone justice) to Ukraine, no matter how many petrodollars circulate in the metropole. Ukrainans will always be an afterthought.
WeMo devices don't rely on 'the cloud' and you can control them with local URLs they broadcast over UPnP. Nothing has to leave your network, and there are open source libraries for integrating them into your own projects.
>How not to be a glasshole

Don't wear google glasses.

Seems simple enough to me.
http://www.cfr.org/missile-defense/us-ballistic-missile-defe...

"The Aegis BMD system is the linchpin of the Obama administration's plan for a missile defense umbrella in Europe intended to protect U.S. forces and NATO allies from Iranian short- and medium-range ballistic missiles."

Do your homework. (although I did mislabel the missile system, its aegis, not patriot that are being used here)
They didn't seem to realise that if Russia didn't do this, the russian markets would be flooded with cheap crap from the EU

And now they get expensive, quality stuff from China and Bangladesh indeed, makes sense.
If you have one wordfilter to map "!"->"" and another to replace "cunt"->"asdf" and you got the input "cu!nt" what should the output be?
The keyword in your post is protesters. Using molotov cocktails, rocks and fireworks makes it a riot.

Also, I think it'd be useful to think about how western countries would handle this kind of "protest".