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> I thought Obama was supposed to be the anti-imperialist replacement for Bush?

America has been imperialist since WWII. It has nothing to do with the sitting president.
They won't. What you expect, US going to war with a nuclear power over some territory in some third-rate country? The maximum you can expect is a couple of Obama speeches and Kerry promising an unbelievably small diplomatic effort to solve it.

So yes, all those treaties are worth something only when everybody wants to follow them, and they stop being worth paper on which they are printed as soon as one of the participants decides to break them. That's how it always worked.
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Has anyone noticed an ramp of DDOS attacks on ISPs? In the DC Metro Area, we've had a bunch of issues with Windstream, Allied Telecom, Comcast, etc... All NTP based. Not to mention the inbound call issues with ATT in the Mid-Atlantic Market. Could this be a result of Current events with Russia?
And indeed, there it goes - it's dropping off the front page like a lead balloon.
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Blizzard Entertainment is growing our presence in San Francisco and is seeking talented engineers to join the Battle.net team. We're looking for engineers and graphic designers. We build with tools like Java, JS (Node.js), and C++.

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The article referenced by this article lists nine features of which eight are syntactic sugar. (Being able to declare the out parameter in place has a very minor but significant impact: Preventing abuse of a variable intended to be used as the out parameter.)

It's disappointing to see the team spend its time on so many minor features rather than tackling fewer major improvements.

I'm sure we all have our pet features. My wish would be structural typing: Very few of the C# developers I've worked with in the past couple of years have embraced isolation testing. A significant reason is the frustration with "extra" interfaces and the distractions they introduce in code navigation. Anything that eases the the uptake of isolation testing would dramatically improve software quality, which as we know, would dramatically improve our efficiency.
> I'm not an Apple shareholder (except as part of broad index funds) and probably never will be, but if I were, I'd like my executive to be more open and ready to answer hard questions than that.

There is an interesting dynamic here however. Let's suppose arguendo that the sustainability program is money-losing in and of itself -- buying coal-generated electricity is cheaper than maintaining a wind farm (or whatever) even after the subsidies. That doesn't actually mean it has a negative ROI, because the sustainability program is good PR. It builds goodwill that spurs purchases and evangelism. And Apple needs good PR following all that business with the Chinese factory working conditions.

So now here's the trouble. If you're doing green energy for the purposes of public relations, and some troll from the burn more fossil fuels lobby starts asking you about the numbers, you can't come out and say "the numbers don't matter because it's a PR stunt" -- that wouldn't be good PR. You have to give the line about how you run a corporation with a conscience blah blah blah, because that's the line that keeps the yuppies buying Apple hardware. If you come out and say the whole sustainability initiative is to convince Green party voters to buy iPhones made in a city with soupy air in a factory with suicide nets by workers who never leave company property, or downplay the amount of money it costs you to do it, the Green party voters will hear that and not buy as many gadgets from you. The necessary line is to play up how selfless you are in doing all of this, because anything else defeats the premise.
You can think about this as a fashion thing: on one side you had people wearing all sort of clothes and weapons, on the other you have people wearing exactly the same clothes and weapons. So, while you might have a point, it's much harder to not identify the second group as an official army not showing who's leading them.
Gladwell's over-simplification is a curse on us all.
wow! everyone was just silent after the "revolution". no one said a single word about the right-wing armed forces. now the news are back in the front page of HN, cool... and meaningful in terms of timing, as one of those politics guys says in my country.
You can't downvote articles, no matter what your karma. You may be able to flag them, though. (I don't know if flagging has a karma threshold or not.)
Ukraine has never been controlled by the government of the Russian Federation.
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I have a degree from a cow college. I'm very good at what I do. But I'm at a disadvantage: my network doesn't include people who are valuable to know. The dudes who started Dropbox are dudes friends of mine knew in college. People like that aren't in my rolodex. That's what these colleges are for: social entry into that class of mover shaker, be it MIT for tech or an Ivy for politics. This stuff is the difference between having doors open to you and needing a crowbar to get anywhere. I happen to be both good enough to demand attention and savvy enough recognize when there's an opening, but I get that getting where I am now has been a luck-based thing.

And that's a tech degree, mind. I get the feeling you really have no idea how hard it is to find a livable-wage job if aren't in tech or cleaning bedpans. The idea that fundamentally irrational people - teenagers! - should be expected to make decisions to actively limit their upside based on a downside risk they literally cannot contextualize is a failure to understand humans.
It is too complicated to discuss here. First of all, the naval bases, gas pipeling infrastructure were build in Soviet times using resources of whole Soviet union. After its collapse in 90th everything became messy, but old strategic interests were respected.

These events has very simple cause - too avoid any shift of control over strategic resources of former Soviet Union to pro-EU oligarchy and eventually EU capital which which Russia cannot compete.

The other question is a moral one - does the interests of Russian oligarchs, controlling Gazprom, who "inherited" Soviet infrastructure should be reinforced by military operations?

At least it is not an ethnic conflict, just conflict of interest.
I'll use finch over ssh
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This dude never knows what to do. That's the problem. With Bush as a President Putin just wouldn't dare.
In a parliamentary type of meeting which share holder meetings are - move next business is one way of dumping cranks.

If the trolls whine quote Citrine (UK) or Roberts (USA) at them.

And I have used Citrine as away of keeping control of a share holder meeting.
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Hate to go all Godwin on you, but you don't happen to have Sudeten German ancestry, do you? This issue has already been settled.
As if somebody would be intervening. EU bureaucrats plan to hold "emergency meeting" on Monday - because occupation of a foreign country and potential war near their borders is not a reason to work on Sunday, you see. One can be sure nothing would come out of it on Monday either but empty "we are very worried" declarations.
I assume its for him/her to claim the referral bonus.
"We set up riots over there": Who? How?

I don't know much about this conflict, but neither Russia nor the Ukraine are democracies in the Western sense of the word. I've been to Ukraine once. It felt like the Wild West only without the code of honor you see in the movies.
This is an interesting NPR Planet Money podcast where they try to break down why Duke's tuition costs $60,000/yr (and Duke claims that the actual cost of a student is really $90,000/yr).

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/283018555/episode-...

One of the most interesting points is that colleges are in a unique inverted position when it comes to price vs. demand. Cutting their tuition price would actually decrease the perceived value of the degree, and thus lower the demand for their product.

You can grind your teeth at the rest of the podcast where the administrators claim a lot of this cost is building amenities and facilities that students now expect out of a high-tier college like all-single dorms, a myriad of cafeteria options, and 24/7/365 library and IT staffing. I'll go back to my lawnchair now.
At this point; I'd accept "more than not at all."

Anecdotes ahead, proceed with caution:
Very average PA public school; had a "home ec" course, in which we did hilariously outdated calculations on things like interest vs compound interest. Not a single mention of what I'd call "practical economics"; e.g. actually balancing a real budget (which, FWIW, I've heard is becoming more a thing in certain districts), calculating the costs of goals, and perhaps touching on long term financial planning. When I first had to handle retirement fund options; you could have handed me a live squid for all I knew what to do with it. I got _lucky_. I had parents who filled in many of the gaps, and were willing to be a resource as I got older, as well as some more informed friends; but I worry about how people with less might have gotten by.
The analogy doesn't hold, as Cuba's present government is nominally anti-US.
Had to make an account and comment - my friend went through this whole thing and the terms of service get pretty fuzzy pretty quickly.

For his listings website that charged business owners fees for "premium" listings, Google[0] considered the embedded Maps to be part of what he was selling. They argued that the service as a whole (incl. maps) was "the product".

We disagree, apparently, but our interpretation doesn't mean diddly squat until push comes to shove.

[0] Edit: by "Google", I mean whatever sales drone is trying to get you to pay. I assume their salespeople are on commission like any other company.
I hope that was just a political move in response to harsh words from the USA and no real sending troops will follow. Because that is very stupid thing to do for Russia. It makes me sick that nobody in the parliament voted against. And even though western media was using propaganda heavily as well as russian's did, there's no need to bend the truth with that kind of stupid move. It will only make the conflict bigger instead of helping it. Most people in the Crimea just wants all that shit(from both sides) to stop and live peacefully. I hope everything will end up fine.

P.S. I'm Russian with some Ukrainian roots.
That kind of chain doesn't seem to be ubiquitously accepted. I built up something similar at https://ssltest.greenapes.com:4443. There is a self-signed CA signing a trusted CA (StartCom), which in turn is signing a valid certificate for the hostname.

The chain is accepted by Firefox and Chrome with NSS, but Safari (and Chrome on OSX) gives a self-signed warning message. I asked AGL and he thinks that it should be valid:
https://twitter.com/giovannibajo/status/439746540249567232

So it looks like it should work in theory, but in practice, even if npm had attempted this, it wouldn't work on Mac.
Key emphasis on and if we do conclude the [Budapest] Memorandum is legally binding. That's a rather big if. But realistically, no one is going to care, because the west still isn't going to war with Russia over this.
Edit: Technically, if it wasn't approved by the US Senate, then its legally just scrap paper.
Namecoin unfortunately does not scale. You can't have lite clients, just an ever growing multi gigabyte database on every device you wish to use it on. Relying on a remote party to securely store and relay the blockchain to you is foolhardy, at best you're trusting a remote DNS server that can be MITM'd itself (the dotDNS system doesn't provide signing requests only encrypting).

It's a nice idea but inherently unusable in almost any circumstance.
before watching this please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

"..funded by the federal budget of Russia..", "Since its foundation in 2005, RT has been widely accused as being a mouthpiece of the Kremlin."
Very nice project. However, the cost of the report is completely hidden, and I think a lot of people might get angry and close the window out of spite.

Also, what does the full report give me that isn't in the little thumbnail thing? Also, how can I tweak anything? It looks like I have to submit the whole thing over again with new data.

Maybe you should save the data in your database, generate a hash, and on submission take the customer to a page #1: They can link someone else, #2: with all the information from the little thumbnail thing, #3: with a clear explanation of the full report and the cost. This way they can also tweak and save the data when they get new information. They can also link the free page to other people who might buy the report.

Finally, there doesn't seem to be much unique information in your about page. Maybe you should move your about paragraph and contact form into the footer and get rid of your navigation altogether.
But what about downvotes and hellbans?
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Will we ever manage to act morally, ethically and rationally in situations like that? Or will the situation where suddenly everything escalates and we blow up the planet come first?
Yes, but many people in Moldova call the language they speak 'Moldovan', even if it's only subtly different from Romanian.

When given the option in a 2004 census, 60% of the population chose 'Moldovan' as their native language, compared to 16.5% who chose 'Romanian'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldovan_language
> The worst thing in world today is to become the rope on which the imperial forces tug to prove their strength.

Not just today -- it's been a shitty position to find oneself in since the beginning of time. The only difference today is that we think of ourselves as above such things. But clearly we're not.
Bitcoin to the rescue? The average person in Zimbabwe doesn't have access to clean water, let alone a computer and capability to use Bitcoin as a currency.
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This is really interesting. It helps me understand how I process my own stress. I know I'm actually stressed when my mind shuts down and is unable to process information and make good decisions (i.e. I start panicking). I've experienced this in many different scenarios, from the time I was volunteering in high school for a big school performance event, the first time I was working a cash register and tried to return the correct change to a person, first big tech foul-up that majorly impacted a client, and various crisis-level incidents managing tech at the 2010 Olympics.

As I've gone through life and experienced more and more difficult things, I've realized that stress very relative. But when I was experiencing those things at the time for the first time, they were very stressful. When I look back at my high school self trying to find an extra chair for a ticket holder at that performance event, I find it absurd that I panicked so much. Same for when I was trying to calculate the correct amount of change in my head for a retail customer. Ludicrous. But I can't deny the stress I felt back then.

But as my experiences with stress became bigger, I realized something that changed the way I thought about things. I was still alive, things were still happening. So what if the Mexican consulate lost all of their visa records and applications because I did some shoddy sysadmin work? Well, yeah, a very big number of people were impacted. But I lived through it. I was shellacked, but I lived through it. Olympic crisis incidents? I experienced several during both training scenarios and the real thing. I was shellacked, but I lived through it. And current startup stuff? Well, nothing huge yet, but perhaps that's only because I haven't reached a level of success where I am exposed to that type of risk yet.

The point is that every time I experienced something bigger and survived, I realized that actually life goes on, and because I can survive, I am quite capable of handling whatever life throws at me. With that perspective, basically I have learned to have perspective. Realize that whatever I may be experiencing right now, no matter how difficult and stressful it may be, there will be a tomorrow. Even if I am reduced to absolutely nothing and lose everything, I still would be alive and would be able to start again.

And that perspective suddenly makes it easy to deal with all the crappy stressful stuff that may come by. At the end of the day, they're all just small things that don't kill me. I hope that if I ever experience something truly terrible, like a fight with terminal cancer, I can keep the same perspective. Whatever, I am still alive, and I can go on.
Apparently, troops are already there though.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics...

I guess most stories about politics involves China, Russia, Iran, Syria, DPRK, USSR, Cuba, Venezuella...
Which is why I didn't suggest that it was.

The claim I was responding to was this
> "It's actually a myth that a company has to maximize shareholdervalue."

There's plenty of evidence that, myth or not, the courts certainly think that it's real, and if the courts think that it is, then it cannot be a myth.
Welcome to the free market. If you don't want to purchase his services at 175usd per hour don't - if you do, do. Ranting about the expense of a freelancer in a freelancer thread is unlikely to make him change his rates.
This is bad. The advice given perpetuates the myth you are an individual completely separate from the world outside of it, the very feeling that alienates you from other people and the feeling behind the animosity that we feel towards others.
The only way to be at peace with world( and people who live in it) is to realize that you are the world not a part of it.
I think the circumstances surrounding the conflict in Kosovo paint a starkly different picture from what's going on in Ukraine.
The title would have beeen better served subbing out Wall Street and the NSA for anyone interested in exploiting information about you.
> We set up riots there
Just looking at pictures of what was going on in Kiev, it was fairly obvious. Nothing is going on and suddenly thousands of people are bussed into Kiev. Large video screens are set up and professional placards are distributed. Of course the always tell-tale English language signs of the "we want freedom" type. It does not generate an effect of the type desired so they up the amount of violence with burning cars, Molotov cocktails, and then bring out the guns.

Then they finally get some control and immediately begin a harsh crackdown on the eastern portion of the country, the massive existing Russian military bases that are within land which was Russian until 1954, and officially autonomous from 1992 on etc.

Ukraine isn't the only country being pushed into the EU, while Spain and Greece stagnate economically, they have the same kind of neo-nazis that have been marching through Kiev come to the fore. Croatia just got pushed into the EU a few months ago, despite opposition, economic stagnation etc.

That Americans and some western Europeans are taking advantage of the situation is of their nature. What is laughable is watching their stage-managed show of neo-nazis and well-financed by outsiders demonstrations and hearing nonsensical moralistic bombast about freedom, how awful Russia is to protect its ceded territory with its military bases etc.
You can't "disagree" about climate change any more than you can "disagree" about heliocentrism. Also, notice that we can have a discussion despite the fact that you just threw out an ad hominem.