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- Pxtl 13y ago... am I the only one who had to hit google news to find out what's going on in Ukraine right now?
- ajankovic 13y agoIt's pretty mainstream news if you are in Europe.
- singold 13y agoI'm in south america and it is on the news too
- jfoutz 13y agoI'm in the USA, it's not about snow or football, so it's (embarrassingly) not front page news on the various tv news sites. It is showing up on the nytimes & washington post. so that's something.
- daveslash 13y agoI'm in the USA, am I'm aware of it - but only because I listen to NPR on my commute and I'm signed up for the Quartz Daily Newsletter (qz.com - I recommend it). Unfortunately, neither are hugely popular news sources in the US (outside of certain circles).
- maaarghk 13y agoWow, that's pretty shocking. It's HUGE news in Europe.
- saryant 13y agoIt's definitely been on CNN. The elevators in my building have little TVs playing CNN all day long so I get it in 30 second snippets.
- jfoutz 13y agoWhen i posted, i went to the front page of msnbc, cnn, and fox and did ctrl-f ukraine. Fox has something now. Actually on tv is probably different.
- alan_cx 13y agoIm normally all for having a go at Americans for being so insula, and not realising there is a rest of the world out there, well, the NSA know, but, you know... stereotypes and all that. But in all fairness, the Ukraine borders the EU and there are political ties or ambitions there concerning the EU. No, I don't know all the details and I wont pretend to, but ultimately, it affects the EU. The US, on the other hand, is a world away and frankly what goes on in the Ukraine is not exactly a big deal to the US or its people. Yes, on a being informed of big events in the world level, it should be reported in the US, but I can understand the US not being that interested. Im sure there are levels of concern for the US, but its a much bigger deal to us in Europe.
- cushychicken 13y agoI only found out yesterday. US news sources are too busy talking about some polar vortex junk.
- Pxtl 13y agoHere in Canada we got distracted by Toronto's mayor being caught making racist jokes after he fell off the wagon again. Also polar vortex 2.
- halostatue 13y agoAnd PM Harper’s visit to Israel, complete with the various (entirely predictable) reactions to that and his speech to the Knesset.
- jaynos 13y agoNPR has been covering pretty decently.
- drone 13y agoIndeed, and Google News has had headline items for a while. I've heard about it here in the US at least 5x a day for the past few weeks.
- bluetidepro 13y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one that did this. I felt like a horrible person for a second! Ha
- vanderZwan 13y agoI suspect that by and large it's the lack of media coverage that's the problem, not the public.
- Pxtl 13y agoTo be fair, the media covered the protests pretty well when it started and there was the possibility of joining the EU and thumbing their noses at Putin... there's just been a bit of typical fatigue on a long-running political story lately. I just hadn't learned how much it had escalated.
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- BruceM 13y agoAl Jazeera has been covering it.
- valarauca1 13y agoAl Jazeera, RT, BBC, basically every news organization that isn't based in the US.
- thinkpad20 13y agoAmerican news have been covering it as well. I don't watch TV news so I can't comment there, but at least NPR has had lots of coverage (albeit lots of it comes through their broadcasts of the BBC) and it shows up in Google News as well.
- valarauca1 13y agoABC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN (your TV news) have been very quiet on the issue.
- tzs 13y agoMost US news organizations are covering it, too. What many don't realize is that large news organizations often provide two views of the news. One is a view aimed toward the local audience, and focuses on in-country events, and includes a lot of sports and entertainment. The other view is aimed toward the international audience and focuses on events of world wide importance or interest. A typical US visitor to a news site will get the local view at US sites, and the international view at non-US sites. Al Jazeera doesn't cover "Arab Idol" the way CNN covers "American Idol", for instance, not because Al Jazeera is serious and CNN is fluff, but rather because Al Jazeera's "Arab Idol" coverage will be in its edition aimed at Arab countries, which US viewers won't see. (Yes, there is an "Arab Idol", and it is as big in Arab countries as "American Idol" is in the US).
- Demiurge 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8
- peteorpeter 13y agoFor my fellow ignorant folks, I found this summary useful: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/21/ukraines-protests-are-back-heres-why/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/21...
- jowiar 13y agoWell, apparently there is no trace of Ukraine on the front pages of cnn.com and msnbc.com, and barely a mention on foxnews.com, so it seems that - in the states - that's probably your best bet.
- drcode 13y agoYeah, pretty sad that it is on the front page of reddit but not the front page of cnn.com.
- aeorgnoieang 13y agoIt's pretty sad that someone would be checking cnn.com for news and not reddit!
- ry0ohki 13y agoThis is why as an American I go to the BBC for news. US news is just glorified talk shows and entertainment.
- runjake 13y agoUkraine is all over the front page of CNN.com this morning when I went to read it, but I have the "international" edition set for my preferences.
- VLM 13y agoThose are infotainment / political agitprop sites. May as well complain about TMZ not covering it. If you go to bb.co.uk or reuters.com or news.google.com or reddit its front page news.
- GFischer 13y agoThe problem is they did a "bait and switch", those sites started as news sites, however the US public don't know or (most likely) don't care that what most consider news aren't covered anymore. To be honest, it's perfectly reasonable, there's a 0% chance of it affecting the average US citizen.
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- vanwilder77 13y agoThe Indian media is too busy featuring the new CM of Delhi, along with some new gang rape that recently occurred. Along with the Indian Cricket Team which continues to lose games abroad.
- sebnukem2 13y agoUkraine must not have significant oil fields.
- saryant 13y agoActually, Ukraine's natural gas production has been picking up. Significant shale deposits have been found and off-shore drilling has begun in the Black Sea.
- Toenex 13y agoeXtreme Programming?
- Pxtl 13y agoSee, this is why I think XP was poorly named. My expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew. Not pair-programming, good testing, and a minimalist design process.
- igorgue 13y agoMy expectation of Extreme Programming involves guys with body-piercings and facial tattoos coding while base-jumping and chugging Mountain Dew. I think I heard that before who said it?
- Pxtl 13y agoIf I'm quoting somebody I'm doing it unconsciously - I've been trotting that line out for a while but I thought it was original.
- andrewflnr 13y ago"You have 30 seconds to finish coding this function before you reach the ground, perhaps a bit more if you angle your body just right."
- auvi 13y agoIt is so kind of the developer to even have responded in such a situation. There are people in the streets and 3 are already dead.
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- ignu 13y agobrb. revolution.
- Ryel 13y agoThis is awesome
- ck2 13y agoThe revolution will have internet access? This I didn't predict.
- nmc 13y agoHeard about the "Arab spring"? [1] That was three years ago. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_th...
- ck2 13y agoIf I am not mistaken, the first thing the middle-eastern governments did was try to kill internet access? In fact it is how people knew something bad was about to happen?
- hidden-markov 13y agoIt has pretty decent internet access. Check this out: http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/ http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/ I also personally organised 2 Euromaidan hackathons in the last 2 months.
- fahadkhan 13y agoAm I the only to find jokes like "What is the ETA for the completion of the revolution?" and "Is there an issue for the revolution? Can we label it as a blocker?" inappropriate?
- jeremysmyth 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallows_humor
- matthuggins 13y agoEither that, or they don't understand what a revolution really, truly means for those involved.
- Argorak 13y agoI would count the initial reply under that. Gallows humor is very hard to pull off without being involved yourself and there is the clear danger of overdoing it. I think the replies are an example of both.
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- badman_ting 13y agoGallows humor is when the person about to be hung cracks a joke. Not when the people watching crack a joke.
- roshansingh 13y agoSome people start making fun of everything that does not affect them.
- mhurron 13y agoOther people just have dark scenes of humour, yet others deal with the world around them with humour.
- rburhum 13y agoFor the past four days I have been looking at this non-stop streaming channel of the revolution. Really crazy that we can do that nowadays http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-action-spilno-tv http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-action-spilno-tv
- PavlovsCat 13y agoalso: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan/pop-out http://www.ustream.tv/channel/euromajdan/pop-out
- Doches 13y agoApparently the revolution will be televised...
- networked 13y agoThere's also this 24/7 stream: http://videoprobki.com/eng/camera/70-nezalezhnosti-majdan http://videoprobki.com/eng/camera/70-nezalezhnosti-majdan. It shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti and a good part of Khreshchatyk from above (through a robotic camera originally intended to stream live traffic).
- guard-of-terra 13y agoSome context: http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2014/01/20/04/20140120045601963/preview_dcee481d68d6194771730872a047843e.jpg http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2014/01/20/04/20140120045601963/... http://cs313830.vk.me/v313830150/6f8f/54NP95_-Eh8.jpg http://cs313830.vk.me/v313830150/6f8f/54NP95_-Eh8.jpg
- chiph 13y agoJust IMd with some former contractors I worked with that live there - they're doing ok so far. They said that this law isn't final - there are people in the Rada who oppose it and want more debate before it can go into effect.
- na85 13y agoFor anyone like me unsure what the Rada is, it's the Ukrainian parliament (they have a unicameral system).
- ihsw 13y agoIt seems unicameralism and despotism go hand in hand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unibicameral_Map.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unibicameral_Map.svg There are a few notable exceptions.
- hidden-markov 13y agoIf you are concerned, please support ukrainians here: http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/donate http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/donate
- oddx 13y agoJust don't be naive and understand that you are supporting not ukrainians but some (minor? worst?) part of them.
- hidden-markov 13y agothanks for the `worst' part
- oddx 13y agoThere are corrupted but legal government on one side and opposition that tries violently take power on other side. Sure it isn't obvious choose as you try to present it.
- hidden-markov 13y agoIt's not the political opposition but the people who are on the other side. Looks like you used the biased sources of news. Let's just stop this for now, HN is not for politics.
- oddx 13y agoI'm not speaking about politics here. You are calling to support one side and I just want to make very clear that when you are helping one side you are not helping "the people", you are not helping "ukrainians", you are helping conrete doubtful political forces to take power.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago> corrupted but legal government How do these things go together? They are passing laws in clear violation of the usual process. Of course everything a corrupt government does is legal, since they just make whatever laws they need... you could say the same about Nazi Germany, and it'd be technically correct. Also, the "legal government" is also trying to violently stay in power, while the protesters stayed peaceful until they were brutally attacked (by now, some have been murdered). So claiming the government has some sort of moral high ground is kinda rich, if you ask me. > Sure it isn't obvious choose as you try to present it. Are you projecting? The poster just posted a donation link, and then you claimed it's a clear-cut situation of a "corrupted but legal government against people violently trying to take power".
- xando 13y agoHackerNews ranking algorithm works in the really odd way. How this happened that after few secs this went down from #1 having more than 200 votes. Is it an algorithm after all?
- glasz 13y agoi just hope they don't just go from one dictatorship to another, that is, eu membership. the most noble thing i've seen so far is protesters wearing gear and going against those thugs who call themselves police -- they're cowardly on the wrong side, the establishment's.
- snitko 13y agoAs I'm watching these news from Ukraine, it makes me really sad. People getting hurt on both sides (a couple of police officers were attacked by molotov cocktails and got burns, really horrific). All the while politicians sit in their offices and give orders. The saddest thing of all is that all this fight will eventually be in vain. Whoever comes in power next will be corrupt or even if they themselves are not corrupt, then they wouldn't be able to get rid of an endlessly corrupt apparatus. People fighting governments in protests should really understand one thing: they feed the beast with their own money. If they want to have any influence whatsoever they should organize not to go protesting, but to stop paying taxes and stop using corrupt currency. If you do that, then at least everyone will be able to see who initiates violence (and it will be the state trying to take tax money by force) Unfortunately, people are wired to fight individuals, because it's easy to identify them and see some actual paths to fight them. And most people reject the idea that they don't need rulers to make peace and order. Until they keep believing that, they will keep fighting and losing these battles against their owners. History predominantly is on the dark side, showing that most protests either lead to civil conflicts and wars or don't lead anywhere. There's this joke I once heard: there are more good people than bad people. The problem is that bad people are better organized. That is very true.
- prostoalex 13y agoUkrainian government is less dependent on individual taxation, and more relying on corporate taxation (of enterprises divvied up among oligarchs) and external borrowing. Taxation in a corrupt environment transforms into endless series of bribes one must succumb to "speed up the process" for pretty much anything.
- wallawe 13y agoWhy did this get removed from the front page? I hadn't even heard of this news until seeing it here.