skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Victoria Nuland, the woman who was caught on the leaked tape saying "F*ck the EU", essentially because the EU was not quite as enthusiastic about supporting further action, was the principal deputy foreign policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

Obama has a lot of stuff he has to deal with on a daily basis - listening to the audio, it would make sense that she is calling the shots on a daily basis. you can hear her saying that she is going to arrange biden to give an "attaboy" which is basically "i need a guy in a leadership role to appear to bless this" not that biden is actually making any substantive decisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_GShyGv3o

Her brother-in-law came up with Bush's "surge" strategy in 2007, her husband was a foreign policy advisor to mccain in 2008. i would guess that's not the full extent of their republican advisory work but that's all i found in a minute or two on wikipedia.
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This does scale, and lite clients are not being proposed here. To use this, your phone/computer doesn't need to run any type of node to communicate with the blockchain. Instead, all of that is done for you by your chosen DNSChain server.
Yes! It's insanity!

Well, I wish it was insanity. It's actually cold and calculated exploitation. This is why we need campaign finance reform. Under the current system, politicians don't have the freedom to reject bribe money even if they want to. What a mess.
All sides have been saying a lot of shit that is not exactly true over the past week. Here is the full text of the memorandum: http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2014/2014_1-9/2014-08/.... Nothing in there provides an obligation to defend Ukraine from a third party.
It might be worth noting that Crimea is actually the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. They have their own government, etc. They are still under the Ukraine umbrella, sure.
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That's some pile of bullshit. Who are "we" that set up the riots? Those people stayed there since November, with wide popular support, risking life and limb. It is unbelievably obtuse to echo Kremlin propaganda that those were but the agents of US State Department. One has to be either exceptionally ignorant or exceptionally motivated to find a way to blame America to believe this canard.

>>> Question is - who is the aggressor in this situation, really?

Really? I guess that would be the country that sends the military to the territory of another country. But who would that be? There should be some way in here to blame America here and prove sending military into neighbor's territory is actually all fine, provided that neighbor did an unspeakable atrocity of potentially siding with America or EU.

>>> I've got no stomach for war.

Looks like you've got a lot of stomach for believing propaganda, as long as it matches your prejudices of America being the root of all evil. What a surprise would it be for you when it turns out believing propaganda spouted by an authoritarian dictator with ambitions for territorial conquest is not the surest way to achieve peace!
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Also, is there a good app for contributing to OSM?
Now if there was a well performing map editor & viewer for the desktop, and without crazy deps..
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Live, running version: http://htmlplayspokemon.qoid.us/

Although it doesn't seem to be working properly for me. From the looks of the JS console, it seems to keep resetting.
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Strange, I haven't had a problem using their app on the iPhone.
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Actually, that is a good point I was forgetting. This is not a treaty. This is a "gentleman's agreement" between three nation states.
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If you care about e-mail delivery, you won't send it from a VPS or virtual server anywhere. You'll have the same problem anywhere it's easy for someone with the same shared IP space to set up an account with a prepaid or stolen credit card and send a bunch of spam before being caught.

Use SendGrid or Mandrill. Mandrill is free for up to 12,000 e-mails per month then it's just pocket change per thousand. You can point Sendmail at their SMTP server and your apps will send mail through that without any code changes.
how? same way libya was bombed into oblivion. same way europe and the us can "legally" send guns to extremists in syria, that decapitate civilians, christians, and basically anyone who disagrees with the destabilization efforts. same way france can constantly do political coups in african countries without anyone caring.

heavy german support of the opposition, eu sanctions of the country(i'm not sure how legal this really is) certainly helped as well.

you call it backdoor. i call it coup. and if we're still alive in 50 years, and didn't bomb ourselves into oblivion given the course we're taking right now, we can probably read about these coups in controversial sections of wikipedia or wikileaks.

watch ukraine get split up like so many other countries in the recent past.

it's not about which party is more powerful. it's about which party wins the media war. if we had respected their sovereignty in any manner we would have let them play out their conflicts internally, but we didn't. we completely supported the opposition.
And you have forgotten the possibility of long term health issues you cant do this sort of work until you are 65.

Plus the habit of the choppers servicing the rigs/north see crashing at an alarming rate.

Oh and there is the black swan type events like piper alpha.
> This does scale, and lite clients are not being proposed here.

The first part of this document tells me that a local daemon communicated with Namecoin, ergo the system is dependent on having it running locally for anything approaching security.

> Instead, all of that is done for you by your chosen DNSChain server.

That's just it, why would I ever trust a remote resolver? There's two public resolvers listed on the homepage of the site, one is doing resolution in the clear and the "encrypted" one has no listed public key to verify that again there's no MITM.

None of this is filling me with confidence and we haven't even asked who is running the things yet.
The Crimea was part of Russia until 1954. there is a very large Russian military base there. In 1992 the Ukrainian government ceded that the Crimea was almost completely autonomous of Ukraine.

How is Russia invading when it already has a massive military base there, in the Crimea, which was Russian until 1954?
Normally if you want to send a letter to a president it goes to a warehouse, gets tested that it is safe. From the mountain of letters at the warehouse, a small bag containing a few actually gets send to the president office and then usually only two letters will be put on the presidents desk each night by the secretary, and maybe he will read them. The odds of getting your message heard as a civilian are not good.

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I recently wrote a book on this topic[1][2], and you're quite right - most people seem to get wrapped up in the status that surrounds the idea of expertise when the real value of this research is what it tells us about how to go about acquiring new skills for personal or professional use.

As you mentioned, practicing to the point of enjoying the skill is the most effective strategy. If you can reach the point where practicing is fun, you're much more likely to continue leveling up.

Adult learners typically find the first few hours of practicing a new skill extremely frustrating, and a very low percentage will complete even 2-3 hours of deliberate practice if the skill is complex, ambiguous, or challenging. Somewhere around hours 3-10, however, you start to see clear improvements, and pushing through frustration is much less of a factor. That's the point where you start seeing clear results.

In my research/experience, the threshold for acquiring new skills for personal or professional use is somewhere around 20 hours. That's not "expertise" - it's being able to produce a desired result or enjoy the experience. In the vast majority of cases, you don't need to be an "expert" to derive value from practicing new skills.

Since most people have a hard time pushing through the early frustration barrier, 10-20 hours of strategic, deliberate practice will also give you a surprising level of competence compared to other people. All it really takes is having a smart strategy that ensures (1) you invest those early hours of practice in acquiring the most commonly-used sub-skills, (2) you alter your environment to make it as easy as possible to remove distractions, sit down, and do the work.

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We definitely need better marketing and explanation of what's going on. Thanks for putting the words to that :)

I gave a voucher code above that gets you the excel sheet for free. Use it and you'll see the full thing! (But admittedly there needs to be better enticement on the page)

We've built this without a database at all, so all the info is stored in the hash. You can copy, save, share, and reload your model whenever you like it by using the URL. Ain't pretty, but it works :). But I like the idea of the linkable report page that others can buy the report from.

About page: makes sense. Should be a single-page app indeed.
Are you trying to make a point with your comment, or simply pointing out the error? Either way, I don't see much value in your comment at present.
There's naval base in Sevastopol with permanent troops.
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why would the history of the commit open them up to law suits, but not the final product?
Also, it's hard to take this advice seriously, when the title of the article engages in polite self-censorship by partially masking foul language with asterisks.
Obama is about to be pawnd by Putin. This is going to make him look extremely weak. If I was on his national security team, I would push for an immediate no-fly zone in Syria. Then, in March, when the Ukraine dissolves into 2 separate countries via referendum, the US will at least have gained something from Russia's blundering.
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"The advice given perpetuates the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside of it" <--- where in the article does it say anything like that?
Unless you subscribe to an extreme pan Slavophilism, in which the Balkans are legally and morally Russian territory, then no, Russia had nothing to say in the Balkans.
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it does say any block chain can be used
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Um, no treaty is worth starting World War III over.
Doctors and other medical professionals are known for having a morbid sense of humor - for example some of the humor in MASH.
>You want to do as far opposite from this as reasonably possible.

And be crushed by the arrogant, cruel jerks.

(I realize becoming the enemy is in no way defeating the enemy, but using the enemy's tactics to advance better principles and achieve a just outcome is War 101 stuff.

"Not giving a fuck what other people think" does not imply being mean or rude to people. If anything, the people who need this advice the most are the people who already give too much importance to external signals and won't become arrogant just by becoming more confident.)
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I'm seeing it on two networks (home wifi and work vpn). I googled for news, but didnt' see anything… anybody else running into it?
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Many of the big innovations coming about in public schools are about creating deliberate, intentional, thoughtful practice by breaking students out into small groups with specialists who design lessons based on the students' current level and areas of need.

I'm one such specialist -- I teach math to groups of 4 fourth graders at a time, 45 minutes per group per day [0]. My students have averaged 1.6 years worth of growth this school year, and we still have 3 full months of school left. I'm not alone, either. In my poor inner city public school, there are 4 math fellows (so every fourth grader gets the same support), 5 reading interventionists, 2 special education specialists, a speech language pathologist, an occupational therapist, 4 or 5 enrichment teachers [1], and an after school program that includes tutoring and free dinner for families.

The system you have so little respect for isn't the "current system" where I'm at, it's a generation out of date. If this is important to you, come join us and bring your friends. Help us create and expand a learning environment that's personalized and differentiated based on student needs and abilities.

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So, you're left with one lowly ranking woman who you think is some mastermind of an evil cabal.
"Her brother-in-law came up with Bush's "surge" strategy in 2007"

TOTALLY irrelevant here. Logical fallacy violated. Non sequitor.

EDIT: Seriously, you think Victoria Nuland, by herself, is pulling the strings of the American foreign policy?
This is known as Muphry's Law. (Yes, like that.) It's on Wikipedia.
Curious, but what other reasons do you see?
What I see people saying is that Apple is using OSM data from earlier in the project, when the license was somewhat different.

But Apple simply cannot force someone else's data into the public domain, if they were mixing the data without permission, they would be violating the licenses and legal action could force them to fix that (but it wouldn't directly change the licensing of any of the data)
You are being disingenuous. The number of laptop users with a bunch of external disks compared to desktop users.... very, very different.

This is about what is normal. My desktop machines have ALWAYS had more than just the boot drive. My laptops have NEVER had anything but the boot drive.
It's only for the board to decide if the board isn't comfortable granting that responsibility to the CEO. They obviously are. If some climate change deniers want to get buttmad about it they'd better buy a lot more stock.
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At least this system gives you the option of security. At worst, it's just as good as the current DNS system.
US has a long tradition of "protecting" as well.
They were protecting Yugoslavia, then protected Iraq, Afganistan, Libya.. recently Syria. They are also looking to protect Iran and Ukraine now.
Most of it without UN resolution, with the exception of Libya, where they interpreted "no fly zone" resolution as "just bomb everything that moves" (because Gaddafi tanks could fly I guess).
Playful engagement is certainly important, especially if you're practicing skills outside of a structured, measurable, competitive activity, but I'd question anything being more important to mastery than deliberate practice: Is it my bias or are successful competitors almost always very serious during practice, and relaxed after winning "matches"?
Crimea is legally, according to international law and recognized by everyone but Russia, part of Ukraine. You mean Crimea was part of the RSFSR until 1954, not the Russian Federation.
Yes but this is the UK where having a pint at lunch doesn't mean your a full fledged alcoholic.

I remember a course at be where the course leader also did the "dealing with staff with serious problems course" he commented it was the ones with a couple of vodka bottle hidden at work when you know they had a real problem.
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