skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The commenter may have implied they were troops of the Russian Army, but did not outright say it. Since these few hundred are mercenaries (might as well call them that, not 'private contractors'), they are still an extension of a sovereign nations armed forces.
Why should I donate my time and effort to improving a proprietary service?
Back in AT&T around 2005-2006 a "change of guard" occurred and a very technical team supporting SAP systems lost about half their staff to HP within 3 months. Rumor has it that at&t upper-management had a conversation with HP and a few other people who wanted to go had the door shut in their face.

I know of at least one person who had to quit her job... wait 2 weeks... then HP picked her up. Risky indeed if HP couldn't make good on their promise, but it worked that time.
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comp: non-trivial equity + salary

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Lisp: A Language for Internet Scripting and Programming (1998) [pdf]
Pawnd? WTF? So, Obama is an imperialist if he sends in troops or supports the Ukrainian government (and there's zero chance of the former happening) or he's a dunce who gets pawnd by Putin? Seems like you've been suckered in by the cult of tough guy macho Putin.
They might be onto something. I guess many users consider Reddit a trustworthy and ethical company.

Such a move only strengthens this image. This in turn makes their users very faithful (as long as they
manage to live up their image) If they manage to (directly or indirectly) sell a no-bullshit product/service that appeals to their users then they are going to be a very successful company.
(What's more, trust is a "resource" potential competitors can not easily imitate)

Sure, they haven't really found anything yet but building up trust will capitalize if the right product/service is found.

If there really exists is no such product then our whole society would have quite some serious flaws ...
To what end? You could abusively embed data in the Bitcoin blockchain (20GB), or use the Namecoin blockchain, or any multitude of altcoins with useless security that nobody has even heard of before. The end result is always the same; you can prove data exists but you can't trustlessly prove it hasn't changed without the entire blockchain.
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Just as a sidenote - this is not a remote area, this is Vienna, the second biggest city in the German-speaking world. That being said it is strange that Google doesn't have more data on it
Yep, just like Blackwater, etc were an extension of American might in Iraq. Unless the parent wants to go down teh path of saying that American PMCs in Iraq had nothing to do with American might and power?
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Nameterrific.com has gone silent
Has anyone noticed that nameterrific.com has gone silent? The help desk no longer exists and emails are left unanswered.

After some searching it seems others have the same issues, http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2216939
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> The laws of economics mean companies have to assign dollar values to human life and safety, as much as we dislike the feeling it gives us.

They have to do no such thing. They choose to do so, and some people choose to give them a pass for it once the cost reaches a certain level.

See how enjoyable pedantry is? You knew what he meant just like I knew what you meant.
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> Correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks as if it's just a system to present blockchain data to normal clients using a pseudo-tld DNS proxy.

That's about right, I think.

> That's just it, why would I ever trust a remote resolver?

You trust yourself right? The docs emphasize in multiple locations that you should be the one who is running the resolver. And if you don't know how, you can use a friend's while you're learning or others are making it easy for you to have your own.

> the "encrypted" one has no listed public key to verify that again there's no MITM.

It does, click on the IP and the public key is listed there in a gist, along with the command to use it with dnscrypt-proxy.

> They promise resolution will be signed by the server some day, but it's not a feature enabled right now.

It's not like it's difficult to implement this. I could do it in a couple of hours, but I came to a stopping point with the code and began focusing on community building for a bit. Don't worry, it's coming real soon, and you're welcome to implement it yourself and submit a pull request if you can't wait. :)

The point is that this approach works.
“lowered the deficit the most aggressively out of any President over the past 20+ years”

Clinton and a GOP Congress would have that title. This President is openning a large gap http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45010

"who's had consistent job growth for 47 months"

If you go over to the http://data.bls.gov U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics you will see that is nothing special as far as Presidents go (President Bush had 46 months even with 9/11). What should be troubling is the unemployeement rate (same website) taking into account workers who have given up. This is troubling. Also, the part vesus full time employeement figures are not happy ones.

"Which for whatever reason Democrats have been absolutely terrible at combating and presenting the actual situation."

Given the slant of the NYT, MSNBC, and CNN, I have a hard time believing Democrats cannot get their talking points out. In fact, CNN losing market share with their turn to more punditry probably doesn’t help your points either. Of course their sensationalist reporting during the shutdown (They should be happy they weren’t around for Speaker Tip O’Neill’s 12 shutdowns) given the history of the shutdown http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/04/08/6432513-this-w... was pretty pathetic.

// late because responding to this took more time than a I had at a rest stop
Syrian gas to go to liverpool RUSSIA WONT GIVE UP UKRAINE TO NWO
> This is exactly the way arrogant, cruel jerks operate.

But that doesn't mean all people who operate like this are arrogant, cruel jerks.
There's a difference between sending troops to Guantanamo Bay military base and sending troops to take control of Guantanamo province.
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We have two roles, we are looking for a database / system administrator and a Ruby Developer.

Just using this as a placeholder until I flesh it out properly but further details are on http://www.linkrisk.com/jobs but my personal email is dom@linkrisk.com.
Last time I checked I didn't see any democracy in the Western sense of the word in the western world.
Except for Switzerland maybe

Examples:

Tapping phones without warrant

Searching homes without without warrant

A policy of guilty until proven innocent

Torture
If they are neo-nazis, why are ex-IDF jews fighting for them?

As platoon leader, Delta says he takes orders from activists connected to Svoboda, an ultra-nationalist party that has been frequently accused of anti-Semitism and whose members have been said to have had key positions in organizing the opposition protests.

“I don’t belong [to Svoboda], but I take orders from their team. They know I’m Israeli, Jewish and an ex-IDF soldier. They call me ‘brother,’” he said. “What they’re saying about Svoboda is exaggerated, I know this for a fact. I don’t like them because they’re inconsistent, not because of [any] anti-Semitism issue.”

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/1.577114
Why are they supposed to adhere to gold standard of western democracy? America seriously needs a reality check. Why such supreme belief in american(western) way of liberty. Rest of the world doesnt kill innocents in drones, guantanamo, libya, iraq ...
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The Measurable Impacts of Daily Blogging
When you go see a movie, do you enjoy seeing the trailers showing what other movies are coming out? Because I do. It's useful information.

Same with adverts in magazines. It shows me products and services I didn't know about, some of which will be useful to me.
> It does, click on the IP and the public key is listed there in a gist, along with the command to use it with dnscrypt-proxy.

You're right, github must have hiccuped before. When I looked at that before it was a blank document. I assumed it was a placeholder because the client didn't support any sort of request signing yet.

(Sorry for editing my post out from under you, it wasn't intentional)
When you are someone who lacks self-confidence or whose actions are determined by how others will think of you (taken to the extreme), this may very well be good advice. This is the type of advice that helps me personally, since I have struggled with the anxiety caused by worrying too much about other people's opinion of me.

However, while this may be a good quick-fix solution to self-confidence issues, I wouldn't say it's a very good way to live life in general. We're not isolated in this world, and other people's thoughts and opinions do matter. But if someone worries _too_ much about what other people think, this may be the type of article that helps shock them out of their current state.
Images of the USSR invasion of Finland sprang up in my mind.
It's not clear to me you read the article, because your comment doesn't refer to anything that was actually in it.

Which part(s) of it are the way arrogant, cruel jerks operate? Were you referring to this? "Start standing up for what you believe in—causes, opinions, anything." Probably not.
In my mind it could be something run on a local lan, or at the organization or neighborhood ISP level. In those cases there is still a question of how trustworthy those sources are. But there is also a reduction in the ability to compromise many connections. An attacker targeting a specific computer or person or organization still has an avenue, but there is much less room for compromising the entire scheme as a whole (of which there is plenty of room currently).

The solution as presented doesn't solve ALL of our problems, but solutions rarely do, and it's not reasonable to expect them to. But it does solve SOME, and doesn't present any new ones (although I expect to eat my words as I type that). Progress is progress, even if it doesn't get us the full mile.

As for trusting those writing this particular software, we don't really have to trust them, we simply have to trust the code.
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You would think he would have adopted, if he was serious about 'made, not born'.
+1 for VMS.... so good, but so proprietary & doomed to extinction... so unfortunate.
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University tuition going up faster than general inflation is due in part to Baumol's cost disease[1] which cannot be avoided without structural changes like MOOC's.

So some people wring their hands, say "can't be helped", and walk away. But I believe that the causes that you and others have noted are more prominent.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
Yes, but from what I read Russian troops are deployed outside those bases, around the government palaces. I just hope this ends well (even if I couldn't define what "well" could mean here).
My latest discovery: jq - command line json processing, formatting and colouring.
Honestly, no. I see a secure connection, and the correct DigiCert certificate is showing up. What does the invalid/inaccurate cert look like for comparison?
Sure, they can call it however they want. Technically they're the same language. There are only minor lexicographical differences, the grammar being roughly the same. Blame Stalin for the confusion.
Being legalistic in this circumstance ignores what Crimea means to Russia, and how the majority of Crimea is ethnically Russian. The background of the region matters for realizing how much Russia cares about Crimea, and therefore how to deal with it in this situation.
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exactly a BART train driver earns about the same as a developer and will have overtime and a much much better pension.

Same in the UK a tube driver earns far more than the average developer does in London and has a Final Salary pension plus overtime.
I don't think the parent commenter was implying that, either. At the face of it, it is simply minor quibbling over details.
Google Maps is a great product. OpenStreetMap is a great dataset.

Google clearly know how to make their data support features they want in apps. They have been known to use computer vision techniques to read street signs in order to work out the logic of junctions, just so that they can do better route finding.

OpenStreetMap on the other hand focuses on just having a huge amount of data. Their online editing is much more discoverable, and as a result their data is often better. There's someone at my university who has an interest in it, and consequently, the main campus is modelled perfectly down to the level of individual trees being correctly placed.
By spewing conspiracy theories like this you're taking away from the sacrifices a lot of people have made in Ukraine in order to campaign for what they believe is right. I'm not denying that the US and EU have an interest in the outcome of this but people don't give their lives for something they don't believe in. Please take your tin foil hat nonsense elsewhere.
Not Russian territory but under Soviet (and then Russian) influence. No?
I thought so too, but the man pages suggest that may not be a requirement.

Under Mac OS X, it looks like dlsym(RTLD_DEFAULT, "symbol") will look for the symbol anywhere.

Under Linux it looks like dlopen(NULL, flags) will open a handle to the main program which can be passed to dyslm's first argument.
>>> propaganda, as long as it matches your prejudices of America being the root of all evil.

>>> believing propaganda spouted by an authoritarian dictator

>>> ambitions for territorial conquest is not the surest way to achieve peace!

wow dude, take a chill pill. how about you abide by what you're preaching? the us has military bases in more than 150 foreign countries