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Dan Ganiev, software engineer and entrepreneur danganiev.me
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cinskiy··on The war against money-laundering is being lost
As John Green once wisely said: "Do not go to war with a noun; you will always lose."
cinskiy··on Ad blocking is under attack
Well, I just blocked functionalclam.com in my OS hosts file, try to DMCA that
cinskiy··on China's Great Cannon
AFAICR there is still no evidence that North Korea attacked Sony, but everybody seems to think they did.
cinskiy··on How Chris McCandless Died: An Update
Read about the incident in Deep Survival, absolutely stunning survival story.
cinskiy··on Making Fast-Paced Multiplayer Networked Games Is Hard
Your articles were SUPER helpful when I added multiplayer to my game, you may be the reason I succeeded in it, alongside Valve documentation. Thank you so much for writing them!
cinskiy··on Hidden obstacles for self driving cars
Living in Russia, I always tried to conceive how Google cars would behave here, especially in winter.

As a driver here you have to take daring decisions sometimes, something that robots probably should never do due to 'do no harm' rule. That's a real engineering challenge.

cinskiy··on Justin.tv has shut down
This is awful, 1 game on Steam can weight 40 Gb now (see Injustice), here in Russia I pay only 12.5 EU/month for 30 Mbit/s and unlimited traffic. I hope telecoms won't start reimplementing traffic caps.
cinskiy··on Russia Moves To Ban Online Services That Don’t Store Personal Data In Russia
I think you're painting everything black and white here. I'm Russian, I have no TV at home, I get all my news from reddit and twitter, and I still support Putin, though I don't like him a lot. You're right about mass media, but that doesn't mean you can't have sources of information you like. Russia is not North Korea.

Putin brought quality of life in Russia to a pretty nice level, and he keeps doing it, and a lot of people like that. And I see no point in becoming involved in protest movement and revolution rage. We all saw what happened to our neighbour, we need evolution, not revolution.

cinskiy··on Microsoft takes down No-IP.com domains
Trust & Safety maybe, but it's still impossible to use CloudFlare in Russia, due to harboring some drug-selling websites at your services. ISPs ban them by IP, and taking whole subnetworks of websites that reside on the same IP down with them too.

As much as I love your services, it's not possible to use them here, and ministry of communication even issued a recomendation not to use your services due to your unresponsiveness about takedown requests.

cinskiy··on Vermeer's paintings might be 350 year-old color photographs
No, it's not better, Tim got it wrong with the shadow under the cello—it looks like it's floating, and tilt of the mirror looks way more natural on Vermeer's painting.

Otherwise both paintings are great.

cinskiy··on Cue, the home lab for quantified self
A sample of something containg testosterone, flu, inflammation, vitamin D and fertility! Not sure how something can contain fertility, but still.
cinskiy··on Game servers: UDP vs TCP
This article is boss. TCP vs. UDP holywar is not going to end any time soon, it's nice that some people can actually explain the differences in simple manner.
cinskiy··on The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off
I hate monopolies, and currently see US as trying to gain a monopoly on world power, so I want it to have competitors and live in a strong and powerful Russia. But both Russia and China are far behind US for now.

It's kind of like with bitcoin pools, if any pool gets 51% of hashrate, it can do nasty things to everybody. Same with influence, if US gets, say 51% influence in the world, it can be bad for everybody. It's all very simplified here, and my only politics knowledge comes from playing EU and Civilization video games, so that's only how I see it.

I support 'invasion', which is not really an invasion yet, because it consists only of selfies of native population on the background with unmarked Russian(irony, ha-ha) military. Nobody is dead, and I hope, hope, hope it will stay that way.

I see this as a very calculated move to show Crimea they have our support, which they asked for, and nothing more. All hysterical WWIII comments is an overkill.

However if Putin would enter east provinces of Ukraine, like Kharkiv, and it might be tempting to do so, cause they are somewhat pro-Russian too, but much less than the Crimea, it would be insane, and I'll never fight for him, and I'll go to protests and try to overthrow him, because I don't want a war. So that's my biggest concern.

There is one more thing to keep in mind: even if Russia would do nothing, Ukraine may go downward into civil war because they have some nasty social problems now. If it would happen I really don't know what would be the best move for Russia to take. But I think there was enough violence already, and I want only peace.

cinskiy··on The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off
I'm Russian, I hate Putin, I support our troops in Crimea, and the article is right that Nato just doesn't want to lose influence right under the Russian border, that's all western hysteria is about.

However I think news like this probably should be posted on reddit than here.

cinskiy··on [dead]
Redesigning them is actually a very good opportunity for someone in need of a good portfolio.
cinskiy··on MPAA’s latest anti-piracy move accidentally screws Hollywood studios
Say, if someone posts some text on a website like Pastebin, and another person copies and pastes it in another country, would it be considered as an import?

(Additional irony if text is a Python computer language program)

cinskiy··on Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states
I must've misunderstood the article then.
cinskiy··on Aereo loses copyright fight, gets banned in 6 states
I'm not American and I heard of this company for the first time, but it's obvious for me that 'over the air' is the progress, and 'over the physical cable' is not, and it seems to me that physical cable owners want to block progress, and an unreasonable toll solely for owning the cable, because they know they will never own the air.

Same thing with Tesla and car dealerships. Why would I need a dealership, if I can order a car to my door online straight from the manufacturer these days?

cinskiy··on Drawing as a programmer
Sushi story is about a man named Jiro. There is a wonderful, wonderful documentary about him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi

cinskiy··on Drawing as a programmer
I tried to squish a warning like "You won't become a good artist after reading only one book, you still need 10000 hours of practice" into the post, but couldn't find an appropriate place for it.
cinskiy··on Drawing as a programmer
I found it after all!

http://nabeelqu.com/blog/surprisingly-undervalued-books/

Old HN post now refers to dead link.

cinskiy··on Drawing as a programmer
Yes, probably, but it's harder to play a musical instrument in the office in day time, although everybody loves that when you do that after work.
cinskiy··on The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
Well nobody today thinks twice about posting something on the internet, especially youth, and while they should, it's still OK, because it's the way social messaging and posting works, and everybody else should be more or less OK with that too.

10 years for trolling is way over the top, just fine him already and let him go.

cinskiy··on Ask HN: Have your parents done anything to make you interested in Science or IT?
My mother hired her friend "fortune-teller" when I was like 1 or 2 years old, and she predicted that I'll become a "computer master".

I'm an atheist now, and I don't believe in any nonscientific stuff, but my whole teen age I thought "I'll become a computer master", so I had no other choice probably.

Still don't know if this was a deliberate attempt to guide me to computers, or my mother really believed in fortune-telling.

cinskiy··on After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursued him
Searching Duck Duck Go on the contrary, gives credible results as Wiki page and his own anti-atrazine website
cinskiy··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
http://gameofworlds.net a voxel video game with custom everything.

It's cool because you can change everything, even program terrain and blocks distribution over the world.

cinskiy··on Yandex CTO and co-founder has died
[UPD]: Apparently Ilya is in coma on life support with no brain activity signs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idU...

cinskiy··on Yandex CTO and co-founder has died
Yandex made its whole logo black.
cinskiy··on Yandex CTO and co-founder has died
Sorry, fixed the mistake.