aaronsnoswell

I've been following these developments closely. One question that I was hoping someone here could comment on; what are the international law ramifications of the Russian soldiers not wearing insignia? I was under the impression that the lack of displayed insignia during a conflict strips them of many rights to protection if captured etc.

Wow. The quote in that section is stunning. Definitely worth a click-through. Thanks for posting this.

As always, the Guardian has good coverage that seems to be keeping pace with the flow of information.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/ukraine-accuses...

Follow on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=ukraine%20invasion&src=tyah

Mocked this up in 30 mins this evening.

http://pastebin.com/MyB0UUFD

With the NSA graph it's worth noting that HN posts with 'NSA' or 'Snowden' in the title are known to be down-graded by the site's ranking algorithm. Can't remember where the source for this is right now.

I had fun solving this today and wrote a dinky ruby program [1] to test my solution. Is there a better way to do this?

[1] http://pastebin.com/n0vHSdzm

In the 1950s, test pilots were dying approximately once per week [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_pilot

Logical Conclusion: All computer scientists are crack addicts.

When the data that was stolen crops up on a forum somewhere, can someone please make one of those stub-websites that helps you check if you got stung by the breach?

What was Persona?

Wow. I think you need to settle down a bit and allow your ego to deflate.

For this reason I tend to position myself behind the nearby traffic pole relative to traffic on my side of the road while waiting for the 'cross' light.

The effect works just fine with thinner tubes and smaller magnets - I've done it using 15mm 'plumbing' copper pipes.

"Someone once briefly explained to me why it is that chocolate chip cookies have 37% chocolate in them." -Someone once pulled your leg mate.

I don't understand how everyone here was able to read this article - I browse to that link and get a message telling me it is locked behind a paywall, requiring my subscription before I can read it. Do all HN readers also subscribe to the NY Times?

I'm from Australia. My wife and I regularly use Expedia and other US travel websites to book Australian domestic flights - even after our exchange rate conversion it still works out cheaper (often we save one or two hundred dollars). Australian airfare taxes are insane. The only downside is when things go wrong it is expensive to spend ages on hold while making an international call...

Here in Australia in older houses it is very common for power to trip if too many appliances are running at the same time - not unusual at all.

I'm from Australia, but couldn't resist not seeing this. I used a free US VPN to watch it ;)

Man that demo is impressive!

Interesting, the website links states that INTJ's are less than 2% of general population, yet they consist of about 30$ of responses to this poll, confirming HN is not a standard subset of the general populace.

Also, coming from a site called "priatebrowser.com" doesn't help instil any faith in me about that statement.

I noticed ODE's and PDE's are not on the list. I consider them a natural progression in mathematical understanding, perhaps following on from Advanced Calculus.

The MIT guys generally do a pretty good job with their articles. Definitely not blog spam.

This reminds me of a relevant quote from my AI Professor's slides: "An algorithm that forgets it's past is doomed to repeat it"

Back up for me now.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this would have been built with Google's recently released Web Designer toolkit [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/webdesigner/

Why do these lecture series keep showing up on HN? It seems every month now they are re-posted. I for one have no interest reading about Physics (I dropped that major for a reason!)

Couldn't agree more - I would rate this as the second most important news item this year, after the NSA revelations.

It's a side view of the milky way - our galaxy. You can see it at night if you look up, and you live far away enough from a large city or light polluted area.