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> So why such decision, why this is one of the first moves by US government in the topic of Ukraine

Its not really "one of the first moves"; I guessed you missed the US: not sending a presidential delegation to the Paralympics, initiating two rounds of sanctions by executive order, cancelling a broad array of contacts through NATO (as well as a number of other acts through NATO), participating in reverting the G8 back to the G7, participating in the decision at OECD to stop Russia's accession process there, participating in the UNGA vote declaring Russia's actions illegal, etc.
Long-time HN member tptacek's company has a challenge set that many praise highly: http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
What about Hawaii? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hawaii#American_terr...
The Ishikawa diagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishikawa_diagram) is a way of assuming and charting out multiple causes.
In this context, money is effectively unlimited. Not sure why people are ok with allowing unlimited funding of campaigns by individuals or corporations while on the other hand accepting similar contributions for anything but a campaign is a felony (ie. bribery)
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Are you serious? You don't see how immediately assuming that he's faking a serious disability in order to avoid normal conversation and eavesdrop is a negative scenario?
Hi, I'm the lead developer for Cryptocat.
I strongly urge you all to please read our blog post regarding this audit: https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/04/recent-audits-and-coming-imp...

This audit document alone does not give enough context. This audit was commissioned by us and concerns a pre-release version of Cryptocat for iPhone. Many of the bugs it found are due to the fact that it was reviewing a prototype with debugging features (such as NSLog) turned on. While this audit definitely does find some vulnerabilities and room for improvement, none of the critical bugs in this audit ever made it to Cryptocat for iPhone's release.

It's very unfortunate that this audit is being taken out of context like this and used to attack our effort. I'd appreciate it if you could please upvote this comment and help me contextualize this audit. Again, please, read the blog post for context (and also for the results of another audit we comissioned in parallel.) We've done our best to address these issues and are working towards an open discussion on how to improve accessible encryption. https://blog.crypto.cat/2014/04/recent-audits-and-coming-imp...

The blog post's last section ("On the Significance of Audits") discusses why it is that Cryptocat has seen more audits published about it than other encryption projects. Please, dare to discern. Read what we're doing to improve the security of accessible encryption and our reasoning for publishing these audits. I'll be grateful for you taking the time to read on what we're doing and I am more than happy to discuss with you and answer your questions.
I get downvoted to 0 or below on Hacker News every time I point it out along with the fact that Net Applications is more accurate because it measures visitors instead of hits. It's likely some of the same people who downvote and refuse to believe that every character of every URL in Chrome is sent to Google with prediction on (the default).

It's funny, some people desperately need to believe that Chrome is the most popular browser and does no wrong just because they use it.
I'm many timezones out from there and wrong gender etc., but I have some advice that may be of use.

Since (as I understand it) the idea of same-gender is to make the connection more straightforward, I would further suggest that you prefer a graduate student to an actual "worker".

At my university there is a grad-student scholarship that requires fieldwork to be done in a certain place (first nations community). The grad student has to involve a local high-school student in the fieldwork. When I first heard of this I thought it was wonky social engineering, but apparently it's a great success: fun and educational for both.
This reminds me of the HN discussion on Banksy [1]. Because he works in grafetti, his art is also ephemeral. (Until people decide to go out of their way to preserve it, that is; the same will probably happen here.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581899
Jarre did something similar in 83, making only one physical copy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_Supermarkets
The midrange SoCs found in boxes like this have a surprising amount of power. They are capable of powering games with graphical fidelity that falls somewhere in between the PS2 and PS3. Plus they aren't as RAM starved as those consoles.

The market has so far been defined by the capabilities of mobile devices. That means simplified controls and gameplay designed for short sessions. There's no technical reason for these limitations in the streaming box market, OUYA failed and Amazon might fail but the market still exists. Consumers have bought tens of millions of these devices just to watch TV, eventually someone will be able to expand to tap the couch gaming market. The price point is low, install base high, and the processing power is just sitting there and waiting.
Hasn't NASA been flying the spy satellites and top secret spaceplanes up into orbit to begin with, though?
Best part of the article:

"If someone insists they need to be in prison even though the door is unlocked then I am not going to argue. They are free to stay in prison."
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Now it's that much easier to look for a beer on the go. Or 💩.
That would lead to the first correctly directed DCMA takedown notice since they know exactly who leaked it!
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I found him on elance.com
How do the interactive bokeh plots work? Is it necessary to start up a separate server, or can it work through the widget communication channels?
Because like most things politicians and presidents do, it doesn't mean anything. "Contracts suspended except when they're not" is not exactly a brave, bold stance.
He really should have turned that around. "Did you just criticize my analysis of this problem?"
Assuming one agrees that filesystems map really well to that kind of GUI in the first place. It's not obvious to me that they do.
It's not ignorance though because even after explaining his expert, they just don't care.
Language doesn't have much relevance. Programs operate on data, so what kind of data do you want to work with and what do you want to do with it. Choice of library and development environment may be as important as language.

Artificial intelligence is a complex and messy subject. I would recommend following recent work on exploring the nature of consciousness since much intelligence appears to emerge from awareness which itself may be a result of attention.
I completely agree with you that the most important value with BDD and Specification by Example happens during conversations at a whiteboard.

Cucumber/Fit/high level tests aren't fundamentally less refactorable. They have a looser coupling to code than unit tests, so when the production code is refactored they are less affected than xUnit tests.

The problem most people make is that they are trying to cover too much with Cucumber. And they use it solely as an automation tool without any collaboration whatsoever. That doesn't work, but it's difficult to get that message across to people.

In order for Cucumber and Specification by Example to be used well it is essential to provide tooling that appeals to the most critical piece of the collaboration puzzle: The business analysts (or the people with the requirements).

Nobody has solved this problem yet, but I think it is a solvable problem. We're trying to solve it with Cucumber Pro: https://cucumber.pro

Let's see how that goes.
He didn't declare bankruptcy, Mt Gox did.

Does the US not allow bankruptcy protection to foreign companies without court appearances by their CEOs?
Now that the cold war is back, does that mean we'll be returning to the moon?
Grow a spine and leave, you don't need to wait to be banned.
Common Lisp implementation of the SCGI protocol using CLisp
Don't know about "medicine" but doctors have been holding back progress for decades because they're a powerful union (though strangely that word isn't used).
TOUGH QUESTIONS
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We use a wifi module in a battery operated environment (we kill power to the module when it isn't in use).

It uses about 225mA @ 3.2V.

The connection/handshaking take about 5-7 seconds to talk to a local server, plus the time for whatever data you are sending.

When talking to an internet based server, the connection time can extend out to 20+ seconds.

So you can see wifi isn't the greatest choice for low power/battery operated environments.

(Now on something you don't mind recharging a few times a week, it is perfect.)
16 hours is a rather massive amount of time to invest into any sport (not many exist that your body would tolerate for that long in the span of a week). The "balance" thing goes the other direction, too.

For most girls (less for boys apparently) this problem solves itself by age 14, and he'll probably have to nudge her to do some sport of any kind by 15.
Jennifer, ignore the haters. The name is every bit as yummy as artisinally crafted scones, freshly unpacked macbook airs, and the carefree days of a well-fed youth.
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I feel like I can't reply because I'm being mass downvoted for saying "I think women should have access to everybody" and being told that that makes me a bad person.

"Nobody is arguing that role models should be limited."

The entire tree I'm responding to is.
Has anyone done the same level of analysis on TextSecure ?
I feel like their model/seriousness is better but there might be flaws in the implementation (or protocol) and being audited might highlight some of them.
I received this email too so it is legit.

I wonder what happens with pending transfers or payments received on the day of the switch.

Would be nice if Stripe included those details in the email.
Because chiph is offering a fictional explanation for a real world phenomenon. There have been lots of scientific studies involving randomness in fields as diverse as economics, game theory, gambling behavior, and parapsychology; if 'luckiness' was a measurable characteristic of people then you'd expect it to reliably show up in such contexts. Invoking it as an explanation where a simpler alternative exists (the idea that some people are more skilled at analyzing current affairs) is illogical.
Internet access is a basic human right
I ordered one with 1-day shipping.

I'm heading to Sunnyvale for a week and I'm tempted to take it with me to see how it works over the hotel WiFi.
I think the point is not so much about the fact that they do not have a firm understanding of the field, but that they are just blatantly ignoring the viewpoint of the Expert, who is supposed to be the authority with regards to feasibility.
Trade dominance is soft force, so when that fails or is denied war is inevitable.
Umm... there was some collaboration. But characterizing it as "free" seems rather optimistic.
Even the present reduced degree of collaboration represents, I think, a much closer tie to between the two countries space programs than ever existed during the cold war.

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/coldWarCoOp.html
"The reason why you are being downvoted is that the notion of "I think people of every gender, race, etc are of value and should be available." doesn't really address the issue of why someone who is in a minority in STEM would seek out someone like themselves as a role model."

This reads to me like

"You are being downvoted because your opinion doesn't address the original question you asked."

I have been polite, friendly, and reasonable. You guys are punishing an opinion about increasing inclusiveness because it goes against your norm.
How about finishing some projects before starting new ones?

I'm thinking of e.g. NeTV

http://www.adafruit.com/products/609
http://kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
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>The majority of people don't care about the specs of their set-top box since that really doesn't affect the performance of streaming an HD video in this day and age.

My Roku 3 might laugh at 1080p video but there's an advantage for Amazon if they can improve on the UI (fluidity and ease of navigation).
It's more like "try to find the needle in a pincushion" became "try to find the spear in the haystack", since icons/tiles can be much larger if you want.
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When I tried the public preview, my heart sank when I saw that "Store" icon in the start screen.

The new UI I can deal with or customise - I've been developing since DOS, I'm sure I can get used to it. But please don't remove the very reason Windows became so popular: a relatively open ecosystem.

As a result of that (and the destruction of VS), my personal projects are no longer under Windows, and my career is also shifting away from it.

I'm not anti-MS - I was once their biggest cheerleader. I just don't like their direction.
You aren't quite seeing the full picture and including some interesting additional bits. The 'experience' of an app across devices - like WhatsApp portable (and then some) - is feasible with what they put in the keynote and what the lesser Scotts did later. It's never been a better time to be a .net/C# dev.

They put on display some pretty great tooling for sharing common code across platforms and tuning the experience per UI. With decent cloud integration, there's a smoother on ramp for C# devs to get to wide audience apps with less dev resource than most any other dev env I can think of.
I agree this is way too expensive.
"Instagram for Squirrels!" - great title for a pet project!
Exactly, for Notifon the transmit time is 40ms. That's why it can run on a small and sexy coin battery (CR2032).
> Ug, NASA collaboration used to be about building bridges even during times of tension

That cooperation waxed and waned with the political winds during the cold war; and was mostly pretty feeble except toward the end of the cold war (and even then, it was cancelled in general -- with the same kind of case-by-case exception allowed by the new policy directive -- in response to the Poland martial law crisis in the 1980s.)

Its not really all that surprising (or inconsistent with its historical character) that a major reverse in relations at the broader level is reflected in a similar reverse in space cooperation.
A great article.

But now maybe Eric Garland should look into the capital structure of Fender Musical Instrument Company. Then we can all get really depressed.
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I've been following all international reporters on the ground from day one (Twitter journalism is truly a game-changer) and corroborating it by getting personal perspectives from people related to Maidan and within Crimea. My partner is Ukrainian from Russian parents and we regularly compare Russian and Western reporting, statements and propaganda.

All in all I'm quite sure I've got a pretty solid grip on the situation incorporating information from all perspectives.

As for a referendum at gunpoint; it's not really debatable as it refers to armed Russian forces having taken over Crimea during the referendum.

As for it's validity; it's not about the constitutional framework, it's about the occupation, selective media blackout, voting irregularities, lack of independent international observers etc. etc. The comparison with the internationally recognized Scottisch referendum [1] explains it well.

As for taking over buildings; I don't find it at all odd that a movement consisting mostly of the general population and also militant far-right extremists (disproportionately present due to obvious selection bias) operates strategically in a way that maximised disruption. Self-organisation is a much more likely explanation than nefarious foreign strategic advice.

As for the snipers; are you seriously arguing that the US shot these protesters as a false flag operation?

It sounds to me like, at the core, you just can't comprehend a bona-fide populist uprising lying the root of Euromaidan.

Have you considered that that might be because at some level it invalidates the learned helplessness many in post-Soviet states were raised with?

[1] https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foreignoffice/13306114335/
I wish you would stop saying "nobody is saying (the thing everyone is actually literally saying)".

Yes, the post saying "I need a woman for a role mode" is limiting one's role models by gender.
Yea, that's fair. They could want something impossible, or they could want something possible but are describing it so imprecisely that what they end up asking for is impossible. They may not be able to tell the difference between the possible and the impossible, the tech guy can help there.
The idea of hosting listening sessions strikes me as a way to capitalize on a tour without providing the fans a live performance. They're trying to have it both ways - the scarcity of something that isn't recorded by 'performing' a recording.
Videos like this make me feel so much better because:
(a) I know that I'm not alone in my frustrations
(b) I realize that things could be much worse, and I should consider myself lucky they're not.
> He continued: "I don't know how to measure it, but it gives us an idea that what we're doing is being understood by some. And there are some good peers of mine also, who are very high-ranking in the film business and the music business, sending me a lot of good will. It's been real positive.

So Wu-Tang Clan fans in Kazakhstan or Tanzania (or even every country other than the U.S.) will probably never be able to listen to this album...? I guess these will be the people who don't "understand" what Wu-Tang Clan is doing, while only the privileged ones "understand" the concept.

That's artificial shortage, not art (not talking about the music itself).
I think it's important to be clear about what you mean by the word "censorship."

Generally it's considered to be a restriction on freedom of expression by a system of legal authority. Generally it is not thought to include matters of private choice and contracts, even if the sanctity of those contracts are enforced by the system of authority.

The U.S. has a system of law that permits people to control the distribution of their expressions. Tool can decide they don't want their music distributed by iTunes, and the government will enforce that decision. But it's not censorship because iTunes is not expressing any original thought by selling digital copies of Tool's albums. And Tool themselves are free to post their own music online with no restriction.
But then how do you know whether your lack of comments is because there isn't a large enough pool of potential commenters or if your content isn't engaging enough to incite them to post?

You're throwing away the top end of the funnel so it's impossible to know whether it's leaky or just completely dry all the way through.
I expected this to work through either wifi or a very cheap USB dongle. The price point for a base station with one device should be 49.99 and each additional device should retail for 14.99. That's my honest opinion.
The expression is 'toe the line' - as in keep your metaphorical toes behind the metaphorical line - stay in line with everyone else.
Upvoted your comment, flagged OP post. Don't think I've flagged anything on HN before, but I think this warrants that.
Show HN: Airspace helps content creators sell their stuff from Dropbox
This discussion seems to happen pretty often on HN. (Or maybe that's just because I click on any frontpage story with R in the title)

Anyways, I found this to be a good discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7030097
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You are wrong. Both NASA and the russian space program were a part of the military complex. Since the two countries were at war with each other (Cold War) it would be rather odd for their militaries to be 'freely collaborating'.

They were arch enemies.
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This one [1] is recommended by the guys behind the Radio Lab podcast (specific episode [2]). I left the referral tag on it since it'll go to help them produce more great radio.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385503865/wnycorg-20

[2] http://www.radiolab.org/story/91502-the-invisible-hand/
This is awesome. I'm sad that CryptoCat is getting slammed for this for being one of the brave few to post this online. I am sure there are an infinite number of "security-critical" apps which would fail an audit like this, but who never even thought to GET an audit -- much less post it online. The software development community is much stronger for being able to see professional stuff like this posted.

Does anyone know how much these audits typically cost, if you're not being subsidized?
Somebody should tell this to KFC/Taco Bell/Pizza Hut:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=YUM
Genuine question - was he Ukranian when he went up there? I guess customs for space flight isn't such a concern, but that would be a weird thing to have go down while you're off the planet...
It's easy to tack on the word "inherent" here, but it's misused. There's nothing inherently suspicious about authority. The Zeitgeist, though, is so strong that it's difficult to think of counterexamples, and easy to believe that how you perceive it now is how it's always been.
We commissioned this audit in late December and iSec began working on it in January. They audited a pre-release prototype that we provided. This is noted in the audit document, but it's hard to spot unfortunately.

The reason we commissioned this audit is to make sure our prototype was audited before release on the App Store. We're very happy to have benefited from this audit, but linking to this PDF alone de-contextualizes the effort and makes it seem like it's an audit of the production version of Cryptocat for iPhone, whereas the version we provided was an early prototype. The audit did find some issues with the (already-released) desktop version and server configuration, and those were also fixed and documented in our blog post.

I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to read our blog post on the matter and thank you for your understanding.
It looks like that governments are spending less money to enforce it's rules and laws. I think the money spent can be misleading for some cases when determining whether the government has shrink in a given area. For example, it would have been much more expensive in the 1970's to monitor everyone's communications than today, and even if their funding for spying on domestic communications has dropped by, say, 50%, one would hardly argue that the government has reduced it's surveillance in this area. For this case, and I'm sure there are others, spending less money might mean the government has shrunk in terms of number of employees, but it doesn't mean the government has shrunk in terms of power.
The live performances would still be "rare" just like a unique work of art. Recorded music is akin to a poster or a copy of a statue, it allows many more to benefit from the creativity of the creator instead of just a select privileged lucky few.
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