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> Both sides own BUKs.

Only the Russian side has these BUKs. One of the key findings is which specific warhead version was used. The report doesn't spell out who did it, it does however conclude that a BUK missile from the Russian military shot down the plane.
That BUK may have been stolen or on holiday in eastern Ukraine.
Student loan debt won't create a crash, it has just been an enormous brake on the US economy for almost a decade now and we've grown so used to its effects that we don't really notice it anymore.

Imagine how many young people would start a company or take a risky-but-educational job except that they need the liquidity and stability to make a student loan payment every month? You could get living expenses close to zero by living with your parents for a while, but student loan payments require you to have some cash coming from somewhere each month.
See, all those make sense! From what the article states though, Pitchfork had no noteworthy problems with their operation - profitable, advertising demand, innovative presentations, "gets" of the biggest names at any given time, and live music events. By my count, they'd solved the puzzle.

What other mountain is there to conquer? A bigger one? I simply don't get the desire, because while all the positives could be true, to me, I worry about the downsides. This is just me, the kind of guy who keeps a fun list of Murphy's Laws within eyesight at work.
I'm not sure what the typo is, care to explain?
Just because you put some blame on the victim does not mean you are victim blaming. Victims are not always 100% responsibility free.

Bank tellers are often instructed to comply with the demands of a robber. If the teller instead sets off the alarm, locks the doors, and tries to fight the robber and the teller gets shot, sure, the teller is the victim and the robber should not have shot the teller. But the teller was also taking an unnecessary risk by trying to fight the robbery. If the teller had handed over the money, chances are the robber would have taken it and left without anyone getting hurt.

That is not victim blaming, that is stating the facts. People can take steps to minimize their risk of becoming a victim. If they do not take those steps and as a result are injured in some way, it's prudent to explain how they could have avoided the negative outcome.

Don't shoot down passenger planes flying over your war. But also, don't fly passenger planes over an active warzone.
As a recent college grad who went to a community college and then a run-of-the-mill state school, my experience and general impression from my peers was that unless you shotgun as many job applications as possible, you're probably not going to hear back from anyone.

My own hypothesis is that most companies are so obsessed with a potential "false positive" hire that they're perfectly okay with not investing in a new graduate. Thus, we have to send out 10+ job applications per week, otherwise we end up as yet another one of the millions of unemployed, college-educated young adults.

It's not totally awful (I found a great job as a result of my career fair), but unless a company is specifically recruiting from your university it's pretty much a given that you won't be offered an interview, let alone a job.
Right, looks like a toned down version of thechive.com - that's probably the opposite of what they want to be doing.
I'm not sure that they are. You just need to model the concept of state as the function's input/output, as functional programmers are eager to do :)

If we start in state x, then apply operation f, the resulting state is f(x). If we apply operation f again, we'll be in state f(f(x)). If f is idempotent, then state f(x) and state f(f(x)) are identical.
Central Asia and South-East Europe are lumped together? Ouch! That feels like a rather stinging critique of the European Union.
Thanks to a reddit user, you can see JORF on the web now: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3okwt1/forgott...
Just decided to do a bit of archaeology.

The macros in the Windows 3.1 SDK were the strict header mode and message crackers.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/83456

It made my life sane every time I had to use C instead of C++, and yet very few people knew about them.

Petzold never mentioned them in his books, I discovered them by chance in another book.

Nice to know that the Afx story might have not been a rumour, since other people heard the same.

My first Visual C++ was v5.0, by then it was already clear that Borland was on they way out as first choice. Sadly.
The world was arguably better when the options were IRC or Usenet.
I was going to mention this exact same thing. The last time I had to go job hunting I submitted my resume to 40-50 companies each week or so, and unless I heard anything back ever, I did zero research outside of seeing if what they were looking for matched what I wanted to apply for.
I agree about building on skills.

I do wonder though if teams with a choice pick C# or is the use of C# dictated just because the enterprise is bought into the MS ecosystem?

I bet most probably leave C# just because they leave the company that is bought in, not because they no longer like it. You code where the money is.
In my experience, most people who are having trouble finding a job put in a lot of effort for their first several tries, then lose hope and start just robotically resume-spamming. Probably some people are just lazy, but I'm guessing in a lot of cases you're catching people on the tail end of that.
I think it's good to have the car not roll perfectly straight, but a little bit to one side. If it rolls too straight, it's going to bump from one side to the other and lose much more energy.
Shakespearean RNN
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/char-rnn/shakespear.t...

Surprisingly convincing if viewed as excerpts rather than a play.

Now to find some English teachers to try to interpret what Shakespeare meant by some of those lines!
If the entity were a single for-profit company it would be a monopoly or cartel and would be illegal.
> You can pay back either 10% of your discretionary income, for 20 years and then the remaining balanced is forgiven (if a balance remains).

For federal subsidized loans, forgiveness of loans means that it comes out of taxpayer money.

For people talking about student loans as a bubble and wondering when it will pop and what that will look like, this is the most likely mechanism for that to happen.

This is a really serious principal-agent problem, because schools have only indirect incentives (at best) to make sure that their graduates are employed at rates which allow them to pay back those loans in full. On the other hand, the federal government is essentially incapable of denying people these loans as long as they meet the financial criteria.

In that light, it's not hard to see how tuitions have spiked, and student debt along with it. Schools are essentially incentivized to take out massive loans against their students, which amounts to another source of public funding for universities.
It's the next crash through a different vector - if the loans aren't dischargable, a large portion of the the economic activity that young people normally generate as they grow along their career path is now siphoned off to repaying loans. That's a low value use of the money to the rest of the economy. Maybe it doesn't end in a dramatic crash but an economic stagnation for as long as inflation is low (inflation being a side channel way of devaluing those loans...).

An interesting note:
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/05/437628996/episo...
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The article's premise is that Big Money is rushing into podcasts but without giving details what that is. Maybe this is bad for Overcast and other clients, but it could mean that popular podcasts can make more money. Marco is definitely invested in that side of the equation, too, but doesn't talk about in this article.
While I can understand your reasoning, what will you do if your plane's flight path does take you over a warzone? Will you stay home? Try to persuade the captain to alter the flight path? Try to persuade other passengers not to board the plane?

I think there's 0% chance of your ticket being refunded if you don't show up at the gate, and serious chance of finding yourself on a no-fly list if you do show up and refuse to board. Probably near 100% if you are vocal about why.

Keep in mind that most passengers of MH17 were not business travelers. This was at the start of the summer holidays, so many families were travelling together on a holiday. Even if you would have known the flight path, would you have canceled your family holiday (and lose the money) for the perceived risk? Keep in mind that even that day, 159 out of 160 civil flights crossed Ukraine succesfully.
For those who really want to dig in on this issue, the referenced paper is "The 8-K Trading Gap" [0]. From the abstract:

When a significant event occurs at a publicly traded company, federal law requires the firm to disclose this information to investors in a securities filing known as a Form 8-K. But the firm need not disclose immediately; instead, SEC rules give companies four business days after the event occurs within which to file an 8-K. These rules thus create a period during which market-moving information is known by those inside the firm but not most public-company investors — a period we call the “8-K trading gap.” In this Article, we study how corporate insiders trade their company’s stock during the 8-K trading gap.

TL;DR: as anyone would expect, this is another way that executives make lots of money. In this case, 35 basis points over a period of less than four days.

I wonder whether it's significant that this work was done by law professors rather than by economists or B-school profs?

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2657877
This is like saying "For a taste of the archetypical Apple design ethos, look at this 2001 iMac." Sort of, but no. They've matured a lot from their snotty early days - I don't think their reviews since, oh, 2005 would be out of place in any highbrow magazine.

Their reviews of The Beatles' catalogue are great reading, for example.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13436-magical-mystery-to...
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13432-the-beatles/
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13431-abbey-road/
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No problem, will follow up in a non-work venue :) Thanks for adding the warning!
The reason they paid such low corporation tax is because they funnelled that money into a country where they dont pay tax as a business expense. Im not sure what Facebooks specific set up is, but it will be something like this.

Facebook luxembourg provides a license for Facebook UK to use the facebook logo. The fee for that license just happens to coincide with all the profits Facebook UK made this year.

It's a fictional cost, and totally legal. But its still dirt bag behaviour.
This is all very subjective, but I've never found The Verge to be intellectually stimulating. It's just your run of the mill shallow gadget site, only with better graphics. It doesn't go in depth the way Anandtech does for example, and there's little of Arstechnica's investigative journalism. The Verge spends more time optimizing how their pages are designed than their journalism.
why not using packed structure compiler feature?
Well said, if only we had a huge body of the population that was idealistic, intelligent, motivated, and had enough free time to create new solutions and ideas.
The fact that trade does take place proves that a market exists. Obviously it's a different market, selling to larger establishments or even countries versus selling to small retailers. Similarly goods markets and prices are slightly different in big cities versus remote country villages. But a market is a market, and when a trade closes that's the market price. If the merchandise and the price paid for it didn't benefit both the company and the buyer, there would be no trade.
What does disturbed even mean? Mentally ill?
There are no cmp, branch instructions. How is this turing complete?
For what it's worth, and having read the book, I went to the movie knowing that a few of the key plot points were based on dubious science. But I still enjoyed myself quite a bit. I had to go to a 3D showing, and that was very distracting. In 3D, a lot of the beautiful Martian landscapes looked distinctly odd, with the little rover sticking out as looking very toy-like, like those tilt/shift photos you see that deliberately make a real scene look like a model. While the 3D effect on the "beauty pass" shots of the spacecrafts were gorgeous, the effect of being, apparently, inches from Jeff Daniels' age-spotted forehead was much less so. So personally I'd recommend the plain old 2D version.
What's "real" about that platitude?
As soon as I saw that Kickstarter kicked them off I was wondering how long it would take for them to get onto Indiegogo. Then, of course I see it only took 4 hours.

If you're unaware, Indiegogo has shown that they're more than willing to be the platform of choice for scammers and nonsense products.
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Eventually, creditors might write it off, but the borrower would be liable if they ever return to the US.

Also, given how annoying it is for international banks to work with US expats, I can't imagine they would look past that kind of dent in credit history.
That is easy.

Creating new solutions and ideas that are workable and testable... much harder.
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To those looking for more concrete info on how this razor is supposed to work, here's the patent for it:

http://www.google.com/patents/US9017322

As far as I can tell, the idea is to use evanescent coupling to transfer light into hair follicles. There's no free space laser beam, just an optical fiber that you drag across your face. They also claim that chromophores (color bearing molecules) in hair can be severed at relatively low powers with a mixture of several specific frequencies of light.

So, what this product needs in order to work is a fiber that's durable enough to survive being dragged across skin while having very little cladding so as to allow evanescent coupling. That could be very hard to do, so the heads on these laser razors may wear out after a few shaves just like a metal razor. Second, they need to pack a high power multi-wavelength laser source and the power reserve to run it into a very tiny handle. Again, this is probably going to be pretty tricky.

There's nothing here that looks outright impossible to me. Just very, very tricky.
It's mostly related to real estate prices. In uncertain economies investment goes into stable markets -- land and buildings. Prices increase, rents increase, people need more money to pay for their housing. Everything else gets cheaper, but housing keeps getting more expensive.

If you want to decouple these things, look into Land Value Taxes and a Citizen's Dividend.
I bet they do a lot of shouldComponentUpdate, which kills the functional purity.

XAML control properties do the equivalent of shouldComponentUpdate by default. Same ideas, just doing diffs in different places.
I'm referring to the issue in this thread [0]. I haven't seen any issues with how capsule (or rather, the maven caplet) does dependency resolution; it's that you don't have much control over transitive dependencies. This is particularly a problem when trying to create a capsule that contains the output of your internal dependencies but not your external dependencies. In other words, we've spent a lot of time getting gradle to package the correct set of transitive dependencies so that our code works; I have no desires to re-implement that in capsule's limited dependency system.

See also this bug on maven-capsule-plugin [1]. Having tried to actually implement that strategy (albeit in gradle), it's clear that capsule isn't well-adapted to this sort of thing.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/capsule-user/Mjtnvwt...

[1] https://github.com/chrischristo/capsule-maven-plugin/issues/...
XAML is great, that is what XHTML should have become if browser vendors played ball. Oh well.
> We are Not in a capitalist society.

You can't be more wrong. The term capitalism was pretty much coined by Marx to describe the system he lived in (where production capital is mostly privately owned and labor is a commodity). The definition still holds true today. Maybe you can call today corporatism on top of that, but then the late 19th century was ruled by corporations more than today...

I frankly don't understand this line of reasoning. Why don't you just accept the name capitalism for what it really is, why the need to "own" the term and twist its original meaning? We have plenty of perfectly good names for system you probably describe, such as libertarianism or anarchocapitalism or minarchism or propertarianism... It seems that you're just unwilling to accept that free markets simply tend to being not free as capital accumulates.
As the article highlights, the Arab revolutions were led by the youth. I wonder what, if anything, will happen in the USA when the current generation, saddled by seemingly insurmountable college debt, comes to the realization that it cannot find stable work or afford decent housing.

I truly believe that moment will be an earthquake for the current political environment; what we characterize Republicans and Democrats today will dramatically change (just like it did after the Civil War and also the Civil Rights movement).
I would encourage anyone who clicks the link to read through the thread. Pretty heartwarming to see the goodbyes, a definite mid-day boost :)
Better think positive, guys - it's only going to get worse as you get older ;)
I find it really fascinating that they've gone to such lengths to literally recreate a large portion of the plane from the wreckage in order to better understand what happened.

I can't help but think though, why weren't similar measures taken with Flight 93 (Pennsylvania, 2001-09-11) or Flight 77 (Pentagon, 2001-09-11)? I don't wish to allude to any of the many conspiracy theories, but I do find it interesting to see how a "real" crash investigation is done, as opposed to what we've been told about 9-11.
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Of course the technique itself is not that new, but it is still amazing, because of the real few chips used. Of course the microcode ROM replaces plenty of those, but still it amazes me, how few chips make up for a workable CPU.

I guess, the PDP has at least 10 times more (equivalent) chips inside.
Flip side:

After spending a lot of time in the process, realizing that prospective employers give an extremely low effort to respond to candidates - no matter how much effort put into a cover letter, resume grooming, or discussion of why the role might be a fit - it's disheartening. Auto-declines are the norm. Posting jobs for legal reasons when there's already an internal candidate in mind is also undisclosed.

Between having to sign up for proprietary job application systems, seemingly advance to the next stage but never getting a call back like a bad one night stand, or taking months to make a decision, the power dynamic is quite unfavorable.

I think employers are finally discovering that applicants are, for lack of a better perspective, using the same kind of attitude as they have been receiving for years.

Note: I am fond of saying the phrase "Good help is hard to find" because it is, and considering the US has had absolutely appalling wage growth metrics - disgusting even - what motivation is really out there?
> But I can't think of a way that the bubble could actually pop. Or what it would look like if it did.

It would look like a social movement. It would look like tens of millions of young people realizing that they have fallen under the yoke of life-long indentured servitude to the older generation, and either 1) getting organized enough to get the law changed or, 2) saying "fuck it, I've got nothing left to lose" and rioting in the streets.
And 15-17 are lumped in with actual adults.
We lived for at least fifty thousand years without any money at all, for around three thousand with some form of money, and the last two hundred years with the idea of hourly wages and bills and rent.

It's entirely possible we'll find a better way to do this. Maybe we'll have to "undertake dramatic changes" to avoid an even bigger disaster.
One would expect minimum decency by such a big company before letting the world know about the layoffs. Such a sad state of affairs at TWTR. No wonder it has always been downhill even though they command the micro-blogging market segment.
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I can't you upvote more than one time, unfortunately. I can't speak for Twitter, but this is very true of many companies. As they grow, they start structuring the product development into multiple verticals with specific specializations like "UX design", "graphic design", "user engagement", "backend team", "frontend team", "devops team" and so on, but they fail in creating enough horizontal cross-contamination and the central direction gets weaker and weaker; the teams start to segregate and blame each other (frontend team says that backend team is providing them with bad apis, devops team complain that backend team is using too many different technologies, ux team complain that graphic design hasn't followed their advices, etc.), and many meetings are setup to solve these conflicts, and to implement new processes and new information workflows that are ever more complex (and thus slow) to make sure that everyone is useful. The end result is that product development gets slower and slower; theoretically, the end result should be that releases have superior quality (when you eventually get around making one), but it's hard to justify the differential costs compared to shipping fast and iterating.
Any system with buyers and sellers is a "market", that's a meaningless standard. If all of the insurance companies in the US decided to merge and use their leverage to lower drug prices, it would be an illegal cartel. The resulting price would be the "market price" but not the price that would exist in a free market, which in most definitions includes prohibitions on such cartels. Governments can get away with it because they write the rules and there's no higher authority to stop them.
They have music festivals and other real-world events that take serious money to put on. To put a music style analogy out, why would a band release a new album and go on tour? So they can make more money.
I have two kids and own a house but I guess I'm still 5 years away from being an adult!

Unless maybe their definition of adult is 18+ and that sentence means "the 15-29 age bracket is twice as likely as 18+ to be unemployed"
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I think he cares about other devs because he respects them and considers them his peers.

That aside, I agree with him that the small circle of podcast devs have much more to fear from oncoming train of podcast success. That success is bringing money, and money is attracting media conglomerates with money to burn. If they spend their time bickering with each other they will be a smear on the tracks. App markets develop and business models mutate, regardless of how much developers like it or not.