skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Polish online press under every mention of Ukraine you will see lots of anti-Ukraine comments. These are written in broken Polish with errors hinting to Russian origin. The amount of these comments is way too high for grass roots support. They are clearly sponsored.

What I find most amazing, though, is that somebody somewhere thinks that it is worth paying money for comments on portals like gazeta.pl — this is like sponsoring YouTube comments! Nobody sane ever reads them, it's a cesspool anyway.
Mixing government with business is business. It takes power from the citizen and puts it into the hands of capital.

This is not a disagreement with you, by the way. But just as Rawlsian liberals can't postulate a government that's immune to corruption into existence, libertarians and market fundamentalists can't postulate businesses that don't co-opt government to entrench their market positions.
And the right to steal from, or "tax", the rich, comes from where? In other words, I'm curious how you think this is moral.
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Small script to make the map iterate day-by-day for a given month. Need to update it to move onto the next month.

a = setInterval(function() {
var nextDay = 1 + parseInt($("[name='datac']").val());
$("[name='datac']").val(nextDay)
$("#loadmore").click(); }
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Remember, each of us is an ecosystem in which purely "human" cells are vastly outnumbered. We should get comfortable with that idea.
That's true. My wife is from Tajikistan, she called her mom and asked about that Malaysian airlines flight that got shot down, and it was like they were speaking two different languages. She goes 'did you hear about that plane that Russia shot down' and her mom says 'oh you mean the one that Ukraine shot down because they thought it looked like Putin's plane?' we were quite confused about what she said until we watched the Russian news and they had a completely different story. The Russian news agencies are state actors, and that's all they ever were.
I'm also amazed. But if you've ever been on a photoshoot set it becomes a bit more believable. Sometimes the simplest shots can take forever to get right. Not to mention the number of people required - photographers, grips, directors, gophers, etc. Factor in the point they made about shipping all the physical stuff to a central location, all the different room setups (ie. American vs German vs Japanese kitchens) required and it starts to make more sense.
From comments currently further down:

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> It's also an environment that encourages reinvention of the wheel, especially by younger engineers with little supervision that don't necessarily realize that a particular wheel already exists and is ready to use.

Even big companies do this with alarming frequency. The best example I can think of is Google reinventing XDR (which was codified in an RFC!) via Protocol Buffers.
My personal concern in all this is that violence stops. Whether it's Russian or NATO intervention I think it's good and will eventually diminish the number of civilian casualties.

Also, a lot of the sources are not good at all.
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Ok, I' would believe that. I don't know much about the correspondence between A8/A9/A15 and real-world devices.
> If they are astroturfing for a country which is actively invading another sovereign nation, and lying through their teeth about it...

All of US circa 2003? No downvotes back then.
Typically the founders don't have 65-80% of the company, some future investor does.
It seems like such an obvious idea: rather than rely on mathematical guessing games with easing functions, animate the elements at the velocity of the user's gesture and apply physics to that.

Having messed around with 2d games this seems really intuitive and exciting. Nice job and well named.
What evidence is there that during the vote there was "strict military occupation"?
The problem is that the same actions are interpreted differently based on who is doing them. If Russia were to support an overthrow of the Mexican government with one having a military and economic alliance with Russia the same people who bash Russia now would support the United States backing rebels, annexing territory and doing a military invasion.

edit: I expect a lot of downvotes but no rational arguments.
So what's your definition of capitalism?

I think the original definition originated sometime in the 19th century, probably from Marx, and it meant the actual, real world system (this is different from communism, which designated an ideal).

I always understood it as an economic system based on two characteristics:

1. Private ownership of capital.

2. Labor as a market commodity.

I think these two aptly describe both 19th century and current economic systems, and I don't think this implies anything about symbiosis (or lack of thereof) between government and business.

Addendum: Maybe you mean free market, which, in my view, is a different thing. At least because it, like communism, describes an ideal, not an factually existing system (I am not aware of sufficiently closed economic system which could be considered to be a free market).
False equivalence is one of the most used tactics by Russian supporters/astroturfing. You can see it everywhere in this HN thread.
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Thanks for the reply!

1) Research suggests that because of the way your heart is formed, the ECG signal is as unique as your fingerprint, the only question is the ability to extract the relevant information, which we achieve using the latest research.

2) Structural changes to the heart (e.g. heart attack) would change your ECG. For this we would provide 1-time login codes so the person can update the signature. For non-structural changes there are methods for signature normalization (e.g. http://jrnlappliedresearch.com/articles/Vol6Iss4/hosmane.pdf)

3) Most of the fingerprint scanners require a repeated swiping motion, while our method is passive. Good fingerprint scanners are also more expensive that our projected price. Finally, it is a lot harder to spoof an ECG while you leave your fingerprints everywhere you go.

4) Thanks for the suggestion! We will definitely look into that.

5) That is our target initial price. With scale, we will be able to do it even cheaper.
I rewrote an older llvm/clang based static analysis tool for asserting properties about a given callgraph for use with C/C++ programs
http://github.com/fundamental/stoat

This one only really took a few days to get it working to a reasonable degree and it was worth every minute to replace the older project with maintenance issues.
Other projects were worked on of course, but none of them are at a nicely completed stage.
So right on everything. Web apps are often unresponsive and temperamental, only their mother can love them. Mouse responses are idiosyncratic (does it change to a wait-mouse when waiting for the server? almost never). Pages change drastically with a simple button press, instead of fluidly updating. Pages get drawn in pieces so you have to check the status bar or tab to see if they're done yet.

Any of these problems in a game for instance would keep it from releasing - Quality Assurance would never pass it! Yet web apps are given a pass on anything. Why? Because there's no simple way to fix them - the tools are too far from the behavior on-screen. You're not in control of your mouse, or your widget behaviors, or your server responsiveness.
When I first learned C, after having used Turbo Pascal for years (back in the 80s) it was frustrating. When I finally understood it well a little later, I felt like I had taken off the shackles of Pascal...
Only the webpage's footer loaded for me.

Here is a link to google's cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_EV1X5...
I used Google App Engine for my backend and Unity for the app itself. The code base has very minimal changes between iOS and Android.
Source bias is always an issue.

I think we would all agree that western media doesn't have the best track record when it comes to "proof" either. Same goes for NATO imagery, I recall similar imagery as proof of WMDs in Iraq etc.

The images currently being circulated were actually captured on captured on 21-23 August 2014, a week ago during Russian military exercises near the border. The interesting thing is that the artillery positions are inside Russian territory and from what I can tell are pointing the wrong direction.

Time will tell. A much larger geopolitical game is being played here and Ukraine is just a pawn to be sacrificed.
The "counter-party", which is Russian media is on the defensive for a good reason. They have a lot to be defensive about, ie http://www.businessinsider.com/nato-satellite-photo-evidence...

Russia is offensive in their actions and defensive in the words covering it up.

Would you like to provide examples of Ukraine's unfounded allegations against Russia?

Would you like to explain how this is needless escalation, when part of Ukraine is occupied by Russia?
> Sorry, was hell banned

Aren't you not supposed to create another account after being banned? I wouldn't be surprised if you got hell banned again. You should email info@ycombinator.com to figure out how you can contribute again before creating another account after a hell ban.
Just FYI, IgorPartola is extremely biased.

> Ukraine has no propaganda because Ukraine doesn't have much of anything.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28961080

http://aco.nato.int/new-satellite-imagery-exposes-russian-co...
iPhone 6 will indeed have NFC radio inside when it debuts September 9th
The problem with waiting until later in your career before working for "three guys in a basement" is by the time you get to that stage you are wise enough to realize that:

1) They probably have no earthly clue what they are doing.

2) They won't/can't pay you close to what you're worth.

3) The equity they want to offer you has an expected value that is far, far lower what they think it is and is in no way going to make up for the paycut you will take.

4) They are no smarter and have no better ideas than you so why the heck not just start your own company instead?

I guess my point is, as you get older, you kinda come to the conclusion that working for other people's startups isn't all that it is cracked up to be.
Rewrote the media path in a product to have single-allocation zero-copy for video frames. Avoids media node memory ballooning and saves CPU so more clients per node.
So would you disagree with the general sentiment in the west that most Russian media is state controlled and relatively unfree compared to most western media?
While I see the use for multi-statement lambdas, and I use them all the time in {Java,Coffee}Script, they are rarely needed in Python as there is always a more idiomatic way to write the code. In particular, with for loops and generator expressions (~list comprehensions) you can cover almost all uses of .each, .map, .filter, .some (`any` in Python), .every (`all` in Python), etc.
Okay, that makes sense. SHA-256 for 50 iterations, with salting: is that equivalent to bcrypt in the matter of slowing things down....is it good enough?
What Linux/Unix commands are outdated and have powerful alternatives?
Works pretty much anywhere. Though if it can't find destinations or previous locations in the area (on the ocean), it creates random ones.
Where is the true capitalism to be found then?
> it seems that the people are ambivalent to who rules over them

Based on my contacts in Ukrane (4 colleagues), no, they are not ambivalent. They don't want Russia in their country.

Hell, we've had to help one of those 4 re-locate due to the invasion.
Sounds interesting, but the devil is in the details. To use their example, HTTP.get() will have to deal with CORS on the web, but not in apps. If you end up with dozens of "oh yeah well for X you just need to add Y" situations then the utility is kind of wasted.

And to be honest, I still don't get why this requires a new package manager. NPM (with a utility library, perhaps) could perform most of these functions.
> Can you imagine "if you are studying art and want a job as an artist, you'd better be doing drawing and uploading to deviantART in your free time. Otherwise you're just not cut out for this career."

Yes. Yes, I can absolutely imagine judging someone in a partially-artistic field on whether they enjoy making art on their own time. That doesn't apply in every field, sure, and I bet chip designers don't generally go home and make little 8088 clones for fun. But programming is still as much of a craft as an engineering discipline, and I'm suspicious of people who claim aspirations in the field without demonstrating that they actually enjoy it.

In interviews, I ask what projects a candidate has written on their own time. It doesn't have to be on GitHub. It doesn't have to be big. It doesn't have to be generally useful. One of the best responses I got was from a guy who'd been developing his own duck hunting journal for the last decade to track location, weather, etc. I'm not surprised to see that he's the lead engineer at his company now.
I've noticed the problem in my own coding that the first paragraph outlines. Having to manually discover the most useful libraries, maintain the code gluing each of these libraries to the rest of the code.

It's a pain in the neck, doing it once or twice is fine, but once you start getting to around half a dozen projects or so in various states of development / production, going back to change the code on all of them when something changes gets pretty onerous.

I've started to recognize that I basically need to either be willing to either vendor dependencies or build interface classes to separate responsibilities.

So now I maintain an 'extractions' gem that implements common patterns as modules. For example right now I'm building a Persistence module that I can include to persist data. Point it at the instance variable containing the data, stored as a Set of value class instances, tell it which engine to use, and the name of the value class it's persisting, so it knows which columns to make in the table, and it handles all the dirty work automatically, presenting a clean interface to the calling library.

So now I can change or update the persistence library used in the extractions gem, say, by changing ActiveRecord to Sequel or even just separate DB libraries and templated queries, and all of my projects can use the new code with a simple 'bundle update'. Shared conventions, made easier by other extractions, make everything work together fluidly.

Eventually I'd love to get to the point where I don't even have to 'bundle update', running production code could poll the git server daily to see if the extractions gem has changed, then pull the repo and restart the server, the code for which can be stored, again, within the extractions gem.

This could get a little dangerous, so I'm eventually going to build a testing apparatus to test the effects of updating the extractions gem. Spin up a bunch of VMs, provision them, pull the repos, run the test suites and finally start the servers. Any errors get reported.
I am Polish. It is extremely disturbing. What I find most appalling is that Western Europe seems to have learned nothing from our shared history. We already had crazy leaders invade small neighboring countries, and we tried to appease them without raising too much of a fuss, so as to preserve economic interests. This is how it begins.

Now — we start to see history repeat itself, and what do European countries do? France seems to be fine with continuing to sell warships to Russia. Germany is mostly worried about economy and what the lack of Russian gas will do to it. Great Britain seems to be mostly occupied with thinking about whether to leave the EU.

We don't necessarily need a full-blown conflict, but I'm of the opinion (that seems to be the majority opinion in Poland) that Europe should immediately impose serious sanctions and implement a plan to stop buying Russian oil&gas within, say, a year. Yes, it will tip economies into stagnation or even recession, but to hell with it: we should not be complacent and just watch as history repeats itself!
"can do whatever it wants" look at your own country.
Opposite to your 10 sentences attacking Russians and painting Ukraine as a saint via multiple comments.

IF you were Ukrainian you would not be defending it's government after they have been milking every citizen for their own purpose within the past 10 years.

So I'm confused by your agenda, but it's obvious you are here to post garbage that blindly fits your agenda.
Great idea for a blog! Will start following it.
Idiot MIS major is 'CEO' of his own company but can't find a job... And then writes an article where he pretends to be an Engineering/CS major.

I feel like the Washington Post ought to be embarrassed to have printed this.
Looks like somebody at ZH also knows how to use a compass.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-28/nato-releases-satel...
Hidden treasure in the D standard library
Working at a startup and making a considerable change is all fine and dandy, but when they exit and your only getting 0.01% even though you were the first group of devs, then its a bit crappy.
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Much better than writing a functor, a class which overloads ().
Hey jokoon, you're clearly in a rut, and it's clouding your thinking and decision making. Your attitude needs to shift from where it is because, presently, it's so negative that it amounts to self-sabotage. I would suggest seeking some help, any help. It'll be lousy, and you'll have to wade through a different morass of bureaucracy, and unhelpful people, but eventually I strongly feel you'll be able to shift yourself from where you are.

Things don't magically get better in other countries. Each has it's own set of crap that people there have to deal with. But you know this.

Bonne chance.
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I appreciate a reasoned response. However:

1. Propaganda: in Russia, the media is very tightly controlled by the Kremlin. This is not the case in the US and most Western countries. Russia can use propaganda easily, and it is in their interest. The stories come out of their media are suspiciously different from any other stories from anywhere else. Simplest explanation: they are using propaganda, or at least coloring stories for their benefit.

2. The Ukrainian government is a joke. It was a joke when Yanukovych was in power too. It will continue being a joke until Ukraine is left alone to figure its shit out. You cannot expect a country that's been independent for under 25 years to do things perfectly. For a great example of countries that are democratic, yet get stuff wrong all the time see most Western countries.

3. The Ukrainian government did not cause all of this. Putin has a motive to invade Ukraine (rebulding USSR as his legacy) and an opportunity: currently nobody will oppose him and he has the upper hand militarily. Do you think he is so easily offended that something the Ukrainian government said will cause him to do something like this?
The current system is capitalism. The degradations are part of capitalism in practice. If you only accept categories that are theoretically pure, you cannot speak about the real world.
Well there are soldiers of one country invading other sovereign country. Is that not true?
As noted above, this discussion prompted me to investigate my company's methods, a fairly major US website, and I found they're using SHA-256 for 50 iterations with salting. Does that slow things down sufficiently, or is that not comparable to the internal mechanism of bcrypt?
But you pick it up on the ground floor without having to walk through their carefully arranged showroom.
Did you know that the United States navy shot down an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988? How do you think that was reported in western media compared to how MH17 was reported?
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False equivalence. Again.

The West is U.S. and Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, France, Slovakia and Canada and many others.

So no, you don't look at the West, you look at some of the countries of the West with the worst human rights track record and use this as a reason state equivalence, where there is none.
"Big companies put junior engineers through training programs, send them to advanced classes, and make them sit through certification tests, but I’ve never seen any of those at a scrappy startup."

They do? Is employee training (outside of on-the-job learning) even a thing in engineering anymore?
> needless escalation, when part of Ukraine is occupied by Russia?

The occupation of Ukraine is something that's only happening as of just now. Before that, the situation in Ukraine was much more akin to a civil war. The escalations by the Ukrainian government have been happening since the beginning of this whole thing.
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You do realize it's fact checked by people on computers who are probably sitting on their ass in US?

Do you think people in the conflict zones are fact checking it? Seriously?

You are playing telephone, that's what you are doing. We all know how that turns out.
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There's a difference between "building from source" and "obtaining software from a trusted party". Your suggestion (trusting the packagers) implies the latter and is almost irrelevant to the former. If one trusts a team to catch possible issues, one may trust the binary this team builds as well.
>> Ukraine is being invaded by a bull with big plans for how to re-shape Europe

Yeah, you're completely right. That bull is our MIC complex, that needs fake enemy to continue stealing over a trillion dollars annually.
>> But propping someone up with diabetes from 40-50 is nothing in cost compared to keeping someone healthy from age 65-75, because at 65-75 you'll still likely be treating diabetes but on top of that also tons of other ailments introduced by age.

I think this is part of the point. No one is saying age related conditions will go away or become cheaper to care for, but merely that you can reduce the costs by eliminating the additional health issues brought about by an unhealthy lifestyle.

You seem to also conflate a lot of lifestyle issues with age related issues. For example: you mention strokes, which can lead to expensive, long term care. Strokes do increase with age, but they are also tied to lifestyle choices, and can be reduced by a preventive care (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke#Prevention)
I'm curious how you think it's moral to deny justice to, or steal from the poor.
Is it that the Russian propaganda so strong

The opposite, actually. Many of us see through the transparent and obviously ham-fisted attempts of the U.S. propaganda machine to drive us into another war.
He says he studied engineering. But he didn't. He studied computer science. And therein lies the root of his confusion.
There obviously is some bias. Meanwhile, independent coverage (or a convincing attempt at one) could have more pronounced media impact, I think. Recounting facts without any apparent prejudice can ‘win’ the thinking reader who is wary of being manipulated into supporting either side. Can't blame the guys, though—it may be challenging to remain neutral in this situation.
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I digged some docs, I think I'll do LDAP+web for user self-servicing+SAML with Shibboleth+maybe OpenID. That will complicate the automated customer setup, but it'll cover many use cases.

Thanks for the help!
HKD is pegged to the USD so it works well as a proxy, and if you hold for the long-term, you have the potential upside of exchanging to RMB (stronger than the HKD and trend is up versus the USD) if or when the peg is removed.
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