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This is all FUD there is no ultimatum, stop reading these shitty news sites

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-...

EDIT: oh and stop posting newspaper news on hacker news
Sean Parker, net worth $2bn.

(I guess that he probably knew the implication of what he was saying when he said it.)
personally, busy work just never sticks for me, i don't remember almost any of the math i did in HS and uni that was just "do these problems over and over till you remember it" because it just wasn't all that interesting, and this goes for any subject.

However some concepts, limits, derivatives and integrals i remember perfectly well (5+ years later) because my math teacher explained how the all fit together, what they represented wrt the real world and how they can be useful and that actually got me interested.

Yea you need to know the basics, but i daresay busy work isn't the best way to teach them.
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How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit
I had no idea lemonade stands were so complicated! :)
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Yes, this is the case. External screen support was added a few years ago.
> Perhaps you don't realize this, but many parents choose not to use the public school system for religious reasons.

Tough. Between the fact that data shows that the religious schools produce sub-par academically trained students as well as promulgate a set of bigoted, intolerant social mores, yeah, I'm kind of against the idea of opting out for religious reasons.

Let's see how tolerant these "religious reasons" objectors are when the school has "Scientology" or "Madrassa" in its name.
“iOS in the Car” becomes CarPlay
From my Linux laptop? Or I guess I could have downloaded it using an Android tablet and torrents and copied it to a usb stick. Is this one of those threads where we keep asking 'and where did that come from?' until we reach the first dollar earned from selling lemonade?
Nissan LEAF battery survives screwdriver stabbing and blowtorch attack
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Tiptronic, best of both worlds.

(Apart from the back ache)
Signatures all the way down :( And reliable methods to verify those signatures without MITM attacks.
Why all the hate for affiliate links!!! A lot of people on HN are trying to create startups and side projects and many of them consider affiliate marketing for their projects. So it's ok to add it to our marketing plans but posting about it is bad? Like I said, if this was not a relative product/service for HN readers, I would have never posted it.

PS: I do disclose that they are affiliate links in my post. Plus pretty much anyone on HN knows how an affiliate link look like by just looking at the URL.
Putin wins again. Nobody can do anything except recall ambassadors, at least Russia hasn't annexed the entire East or cut off gas, which Ukraine solely relies to keep the lights and heat on. US has shaky ground to stand on while demanding intl borders be respected considering Iraq/Libya/Yemen/Pakistan/Somalia/Afghanistan military adventures
They are only using Amazon for US-projects, all of their other sites fore their new countries pay "directly" to Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backer+questions#faq_41...
This stuff isn't done in a vacuum by compliance offices. It's done with guidance from HHS. HIPAA has a lot of stuff that is not clearly defined. As a result, it's important to be keeping with the spirit of the rule or HHS will come after you. The analogous healthcare loophole scenario you describe would not hold water with HHS.

Again, my perspective is from the biomedical research world for which the HIPAA privacy rule gives certain limited affordances for communicating patient data that is de-identified to other institutions. Without that safety valve of de-identification being fairly reasonable, there are tons of research studies that would not be allowed to go forward. There is a point where the very tiny risk of re-identification is vastly outweighed by the good of a research study going forward. This is what HHS and institutional review boards struggle with all the time.
To the exclusion of other things he doesn't know anything about
Maybe not politically or militarily, but definitely economically. No way Russia thrives if it cuts itself off from the West.
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Is it really that bad to use affiliate links? Don't many of us on HN use affiliate marketing to promote our products/services?
With q.js I could feel the same as well.
All that link states is that Russia is denying they have given an ultimatum. Ukrainian leaders still claim they have. Its all he said she said at this point...
I think the general message here that a lot of commenters are missing is that the Right Thing is way to flipping hard to get right. The fact that PuTTy itself is not distributed securely seems to underscore the fact that even highly interested hobbiest have trouble getting it right. How can you expect everyone to be secure when you expect them to be security experts to get everything right?

Or in other words, despite clearly thinking they're the smartest people in the room, security programmers are dumber than shit when it comes to actually making it possible to use their software.
How so? Doesn't Crimea have any power plants? I would imagine there was enough power available for all the critical infastructure. Besides, wouldn't it be just the civilians suffering from that anyway? The Russian military must have plenty of generators for their own use with them.
His comment makes out like everything in nature is restricted to 15mph.
Huh, that's interesting, thanks. I don't see why they don't set up a PPA (since they already have a way to generate the debs), but I'm guessing there are some issues with that.
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> Is this one of those threads where we keep asking 'and where did that come from?'

At some point you have to trust someone. But who should you trust, and how much should you trust them?

Most people do not think about that and so we live with an Internet where privacy is almost impossible and most people just don't care about that.
You should change the title to a Show HN: a descriptive title :)

Edit: but it looks very cool, I liked the running part!
> Paste this into your terminal:

> http://goo.gl/zoAnfh

lol, paste this non-HTTPS URL shortener link into your terminal. What could go wrong?!
But it would force Russia to deal with the actual populace instead of the government, if the region is as heavily pro-Russian as Russia claims the truth will come out real fast. Would it then be a Russian crisis or a Ukrainian crisis?
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It might not be, but incompetence can lead to bad things, like people dying from accidentally being poisoned from lemonade purchased at a stand.
To use startup speak, is your approach to marketing scalable?

Seems to work great, but can you figure out a way to obtain customers without personal involvement, that is delegate the responsibilities?
I agree - there's no way anyone is going to beat V8 at its own game in a "side project" that was done over a weekend. However, the benchmarks they are showing are primitive types only; it's not hard to believe that perhaps they managed to optimize the hell out of that in order to produce a better result. For now. On an incomplete engine. Seems highly, highly unlikely that the full engine will be anywhere near able to compete with V8.

The multithreaded performance optimizations are really interesting, however - but I'd be much more interested in this making it into mainline Node, rather than using this crazy closed-source fork. You're not going to find me using anything closed-source on my servers if I can help it, least of all something like Node which is hackable to its core.

If the performance improvements really mean something, and mean something outside of contrived for() and fib() loops, I hope the Node core teams have a serious talk with these guys about a merge. Node's cluster module is definitely not the final solution for properly utilizing a server's full capacity, and the team knows it; that module has been at level 1 (experimental) for a long time.
When will we see crowd equity sites? Ie invest in early startups and get equity in the company.
thanks, I exited out right after I saw it ask for a SSN
I don't think the duty on a company is all that strong

You are mistaken. For sensitive personal data, there are much stricter rules on what you can do. Please see the second link I cited before.

Given the NHS is planning to sell poorly anonymized patient records at 10'000 for $10 imminently

Are you referring to care.data? That programme is essentially dead, in the face of massive opposition, and it was even before the current round of disclosures about hospital records already being leaked.
So I am about to finish university in a couple of months and I have been using Go for the past year. Would it be a good idea to go to this conference or maybe wait a bit longer before I have more experience/money?

(I live in the UK)
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I have about 100 CDRs from before the cloud storage revolution that need to be uploaded. The data could probably fit in the premium Dropbox account (100Gb) but S3 or any other cloud storage service is the intended destination. However, I really don't want to copy them all individually. In fact, I don't even have a CD/DVD drive on my machine now!! Anyone know of a service that I can mail all of my media to and have them deposit the contents to one of my accounts?
> 1) A packager downloads a random tarball off the internet, often over HTTP and/or unsigned and unverified.

Then they're being remiss in their duties.

> 2) The packager uploads the same tarball to the distro build system (you trust them, right?)

Yes, I do.

> 3) The packager's script for building the program or library is executed by the build server (you trust all of the packagers, right? they have implicit root access to your machine during pkg install.)

There is at least traceability here. There are a large number of packagers for my distro, true - but they are required to personally sign for the packages they upload. If one of them turned out to be malicious, I don't think this would be without consequence.
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Might the problem be wealth? I don't know how things work in Sri Lanka, but as a programmer, are you not making more money than many Sri Lankans? If gutter guards are more expensive compared to an average person's income then that could help explain it.

I don't know how expensive they are here, but I'd be surprised if they were very expensive. Maybe someone else has actual data.

In that case the entrepreneurial challenge is to bring the cost down enough that people will see gutter guards as worth buying.
And the price-insensitivity comes from the easy availability of student loans, I take it. So we've effectively closed the loop.
I'm sorry, this is completely OT, but I can't help it:

Is that anything like McDonald's Triple Thick Milkshakes?

EDIT: I REGRET NOTHING!!!
we will consider bringing it back to 10.8, just after this all launch thing is over
I have a car with Adaptive Cruise Control (it has a fricking radar on it's head) and it rocks for long straight roads.

Add adaptive lane assist and your half way there ;)
I would put a link in the bottom of the page that gives a short explanation about what the site is all about. That way, people can easily find that information.
I've tried to diagnose when the RDRAND failures happen. From my experiments on Haswell, it only seems to happen when you have > N threads, where N is the number of physical cores, simultaneously reading continuously from RDRAND. But when that happens, nearly every read from every thread will fail.

This means a user process could easily deplete RDRAND's contribution to the kernel's entropy pool. So encouraging all kinds of application code to use RDRAND is really bad advice. It should at least be a privileged instruction.
There are no Ukrainians in Crimea, it was part of Russia and was literally given to Ukraine as a gift during USSR. Not Putin, but people in Crimea decide what they want. They'll have a referendum on 30th of March.
I know it says that but the UK definitely uses Amazon, at least it did when I backed something last night.
Ceding Crimea to Russia may just make things more difficult to be honest. There are many other parts of eastern Ukraine that are primarily ethnic Russians and I would think Russia, at least, would consider the ceding of Crimea as justification for their further involvement.
You must be a real joy at parties.
"This thing is dead on arrival. ... it's not open source, ..."

The open source argument holds except in situations where there is a compelling advantage/value. Companies that are dedicated to open source will not be customers, but may not have been paying customers anyway.

MapR is a good example of a closed source technology doing well in the largely open source Hadoop ecosystem. Many companies will not touch MapR, however there are enough companies that really need the features / capabilities / value delivered by MapR that they are willing to pay for it.

Closer to home, there were people who thought Meteor would not take off b/c it dropped npm in favor of a new (open source) package manager. Yet, Meteor provides enough compelling value that it's growing rapidly even with a new package manager.

That said, this product will need to deliver compelling value to a customer segment that's willing to pay, while accepting the fact that many in the node community will not use it. If there are enough of these customers then the company will do fine. However, that's a tradeoff they'll have to evaluate.

As a total aside, it's my opinion that the open source requirement is selectively applied. Mac is clearly not open source, yet BSD is freely available. Yet people choose to use a closed source OS b/c it provides value to them. Same thing with editors and just about everything else. To those who are open source up and down their stack, then kudos for the consistency. For the rest of us, we should at least be honest and own up to the fact that open source is not an absolute requirement, but a selective requirement that's arbitrarily applied. (flame away :)
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What is the hardest practical test you did to show off your skills for an interview? How long did it take you to complete? If you got the job, do you think it was an accurate test for what you are now doing for your job?
Sure, but you have to trust someone. How do you know the baker you bought some bread from didn't put hallucinogenic drugs into your bread this morning?

The key is to limit the number of people you trust and remove instances where you mistakenly trust more people than you believe you do. When downloading a .exe over http, you trust an unknown number of people working at each company your packets hop over to reach the server. You are implicitly trusting each and everyone of an unknown number of people with direct root access.

With a Linux distro this is different: you are trusting the distro and any employees/volunteers of that distro. You trust that the distro is actively vetting the people involved - or is at least in a position to publicly name them if they break the trust of users, etc. Ultimately you do still have to trust someone, though.

Debian, at least, has proven to be fairly trustworthy so far. Who has access to ae-5.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net and what do I do if they MITM my traffic? EDIT: Any why can't they spell London correctly?
>> What if I change my schedule one day or I have to stay working until late?

That's where our value comes in. By processing large chunks of information we can determine that your habits on Mondays AM are different from habits on Saturdays at 9AM. And by adding additional layers such as your Google Calendar, we can make those interactions even more accurate.

I've been very inspired by what Nest has done and we're trying to something similar for automotive.
iDrive is terrible and distracting. Never has changing a radio station been so dangerous.
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Well I think danielweber (above) got it right.

Customers (students) have been allowed easy access to student loans, which makes them less picky about price differentials and closes the loop. Closing the loop allows it to accelerate beyond the scope of inflation.
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There were other references to Snowden in the video you linked. Two others I noticed in the first 15 minutes:

(1) Colbert mentions it bothers him that Snowden claimed he leaked in order to let us know how then NSA was spying on us, but then a lot of the information revealed turned out to be about how we were spying on others. Leaking that sort of info would only be justified if one is specifically opposed to us spying on other countries - and Colbert thinks the case for that position hasn't really been made.

(2) Somebody asked what Colbert sees as the likely endgame for Snowden. Answer: Colbert guesses the guy will probably come home in the end, but it's likely to take ten years before public opinion shifts his way enough to allow that. As an example of an analogous situation, Colbert brings up the Americans who fled the draft and were eventually pardoned by Ford and Carter.
HipChat actually supports XMPP, if you don't want to use the native apps. Doubt it's popular enough that services like Slack will do it too.
Taking a sentient human being and throwing them in a cage is a profoundly violent act. I find it troubling that you guys so casually reach for it as a punitive tool

We aren't reaching for it casually. Some of us consider privacy a fundamental value that must be defended, and regard an attack on our privacy with the same seriousness that we would regard an attack on our physical person.

Which is more of a danger to me, someone who punches me in the face on their drunk night out and gives me a bloody lip and a bit of pain for a few hours, or someone who betrays confidences that may have lifelong implications for my employability, insurance premiums and credit levels, ability to travel freely, and for that matter my self-respect and basic human dignity, before you even get to the kinds of more extreme and very physical dangers that could be posed by invasions of privacy if we consider the lessons of history?
Is this one of those threads where we keep asking 'and where did that come from?'

Yeah, pretty much. As soon as I say I trust X, then you know the first place to attack because I haven't secured it.
Apparently the specific "It's a Unix system" scene used an experimental fsn (file system navigator) that SGI developed but which was never released as a product.
From what I have read, although trying to find the source is proving difficult so maybe it was incorrect, all of the peninsula's electricity comes from the mainland.
This is awesome. Gonna set up a playlist and try it out!
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I think it's awesome. A part of me wishes there was a drop down summary of each plugin when you click on it, rather than heading to the github link.
A good idea to go.

It's a hacker conference, meaning it's cheap/affordable and there will be more focus on code and interesting things you can do with the code.

It's also cheap to get to from the UK as Eurostar in advance is relatively affordable, especially when compared to the cost of US conferences.

You will get to meet a lot of people, and right now people who can demonstrate a good standard of Go programming are definitely in demand. So you can make contacts to help get you a job (though you may already have a job by the time the conference comes around).

I hate the word "networking"... but "nerding out with people who share an interest in a set of technologies and a language" works pretty well. Especially given that this world is quite small, make friends now and when you are looking for a job some of them may remember that they met and liked you... and wouldn't it be good to give you a break whilst they gain another solid set of hands.

I say all of this with the caveat that I've been to a fair few conferences, and I'd recommend strongly steering clear of the heavily business and corporate focused events (obvious by the £500+ fees). But a hacker conference? Hell yeah.
"Revolutionizing the way math is taught" and not "memorizing multiplication tables as individual facts rather than patterns" sound like very worthy and important goals. At the same time, it's hard to judge this particular initiative based on the article; it might be Hippie Math for Rich Kids Who Will Study Humanities Subjects and Become Trustafarians by a Berkelely Yoga Instructor"
So in other words you are saying that people here will vote up any story about Go regardless of merit; seeing "Go" in the title makes it interesting to them.

What is it about this story of a point release with five inconsequential bug fixes that is at all interesting?
Honest questions: what do you think the consequences would be, and how do you think they would be enforced?
One could read the article linked in the OP to get a list, should one want to prior to commenting. I realize that's not How It's Done here, but it's a thought.
If you plan your trip a couple months before (or even now) you should get pretty good rates on Eurostar+hotel.

For the experience, definitely not an issue... Most attendees will be just like you and 1 year experience is already quite good for such a young language!
Can this app be an item in the "chrome://apps/" page, and use my google credentials for logging in? Or some form of OpenID?
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Am I to believe that MtGox code that actually touched Bitcoin transactions was actually written in PHP? Is this some sick joke?

I have used PHP on and off for years for many things. I'm not a PHP hater, but if it's not touching HTTP, it probably shouldn't be written in PHP.
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Will Russia thrive if it doesn't cut off from the West, but the West will continue to ignite unrest in all parts of the world? Feel free to not reply.