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> We have a society where we can air discussions about topics like this

What's the use of being able to freely discuss any story if the people who's job is to uncover sensitive stories are silenced?
Your bet can remain wrong longer than you can remain solvent.
Great response, totally agree.

One more thing, I've seen a lot of people who go to undergrad in China or India, then go to graduate school in the US. The name of their undergrad doesn't matter, but really it's about getting a reputable name that US companies trust so a US company will hire / sponsor them. On this level, they are usually treated on par with someone you don't have to sponsor with a good undergrad degree.
Oh well, I don't have lounge axx yet.
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Once you set up the technology that enables this kind of police work, laws rarely suffice to stop its use.
This is just entertainment - hardly anything to get depressed about. What's so terrible about giving people a bit of joy and fun?
You can't really switch 401k providers when your employer picks them.
> I am a 20 something who was hired for a salaried position shortly after graduation with a bachelors degree in math. ... The world is not as dismal as it may seem for millenials. It's just that demand for STEM + CS continues to grow while the demand for other fields is stagnant, relying on people leaving the workforce to create new openings.

That means you weren't around for the dot-com bust in 2001 or so. Yes, things are good right now but the situation can go south very suddenly and with very little warning and stay bad for several years.
> Once in a while its important for us to take time out from our chaotic and crazy schedules and find some hours of peace and tranquility, where we ask ourselves some simple fundamental questions pertaining to our life, questions that enable us stock check, reflect and discover our exact plans and purpose in life, questions like, why are we still alive?, whats the reason for our existence?, what are we aiming to achieve or aspiring to become in life?.

At the minimum I aspire to become someone who can distinguish "its" from "it's" and use a question mark correctly.
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Can you request an ITIN?
It makes me a bit sad that such index funds are not available in my part of the world - even though this is one of the shittiest countries in the EU, services like these are needed precisely because all the other services are so bad.
The limitations that put the brakes on Moore's Law are physical limitations there is no getting around those (at room temperature, using Silicon) in this universe at a cost level that consumers are willing to accept.
Look at the peaceful transition in South Africa. Do you think that would have happened if the old government thought they could keep hanging on?
Pardon my ignorance, but how would NYT directly benefit from a boost in Vanguard popularity? Say this article somehow elicits a bevy of people/companies to invest in Vanguard, raising their mutual fund from $4.2 to a $4.5 trillion. Given that NYT stake in this fund remains constant, it's not clear to me how this helps NYT employees - unless $4.5 trillion is the tipping-point for market manipulation (but isn't this fund simply tracking major indexes?). Or would the biggest benefit come in the form of even lower fund fees (<0.1%)?
I think we are going to see a lot of interesting artistic applications of AR. There is a lot about FB that I don't like but this here is a good thing.
No one has set up the technology that allows this, which is why the police had to break the law and use hackers outside the country to do this.

The police had legal surveillance powers available to them, but chose not to use them.

Now they face both disciplinary action and criminal prosecution; and the victims can sue for damages.
The pioneers of tech like J. C. R. Licklider had grand vision of making the internet a human intelligence augmenting super power.

Its sad that the intellectual people in these tech companies only want to use it to sell personal data by playing on people's emotions.
Because their product is SO SO SO much better than the alternative, it's worth the hassle.
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And those reasons would be... what?

These are people with political views the government disapproves of. They are not bomb-throwing anarchists or people with a history of violence. They are not organising or threatening acts of public violence.

This is entirely a free speech issue.
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If you are interested in old computer role-playing games, you should check out the CRPG addict's blog [1]. He has played (usually to completion) every CRPG thru 1986 and every one that runs on DOS thru 1990. The reviews have great humor. And he covers everything.

[1] http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com
Haven't used LXSS in a while but my X11 of choice for Windows was VcXsrv: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/

Just export $DISPLAY to :0 (AFAIK) and you're all set.
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You are misleading people here. Top CS PHD or other PHDs won't go through H1B; they are most likely going through EB1 which is more efficient. You don't need to wait years to get a green card. Also, people from countries like Australia, Canada, Germany, don't need H1B. Only people from Iran, India, and China need H1B.
The better solution, as I talked to variety people and many people suggests, is to raise the salary bar from 60k-ish to 100k-ish, and filter out the unequaled candidates.
Further, listen to the latest RadioWest podcast about addictive technology: http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/rise-addictive-technology
The avoidance of aggression and violence has to do with "saving face". People who act aggresive in public "lose face" and thereby the respect of the public. The concept is more or less explained here: https://www.pattayaunlimited.com/thailand-land-of-face/

When visiting Thailand, even if some Thai person mistreats you (e.g. perhaps a tuktuk driver overcharges you), always try to act friendly (don't act angry in public). Try to resolve problems while keeping a smile. If you can't resolve problems this way, just go with the flow. This is a good way to avoid problems.
Which is why PM May has been saying she wants the UK to leave both the EU and the Council of Europe.
Likewise - except for me it's been 15 years. Switched over in 2001, and didn't look back. Running WSL creators edition is really a delight. It's not quite there yet - still has a year or two to bake - but the progress is great. They just added serial support yesterday (which is important for a bunch of the linux binaries I run). For the very first time I'm honestly considering sitting down to a Windows System to do work - I never thought I would have said that - I've got * nix in my finger DNA, so powershell, despite being incredibly powerful, just never managed to get into my workflow.

But now - It's best of both worlds - solid User Environment + Solid Unix CLI. Even better, it's a linux CLI, which means I get all the apt-get goodness that I've been missing on OS X (which admittedly has a pretty good brew install infrastructure).
The cynicism is well justified.

Facebook hires top talent, its sad that the top talent want to work on such problems for making profit instead of something else.

The pioneers of internet like J. C. R. Licklider had grand visions, sad that the large part of current intellect pool only want to sell out personal data and make money.
which country is that? because there are many options available here in Western Europe (alternatives to Vanguard are iShares, SPDRs Europe, Amundi, ...).
Very good post, comrade! Remember to use your primary account when your comments are ideologically sound, this will ensure your Good Citizen points will get properly calculated.
It is so unfortunate this has been happening and that I am not at all surprised by it, Thanks
The thing that backend devs don't realize is that frontend is not easy. A frontend dev builds something that will be used by a HUMAN, while a backend dev builds something that will be used by a PROGRAM. Related to the comment, things were changing a lot because there is not one single way to do things, as in iOS/Android. There is no standard imposed by a huge private company like Apple or Google. Everyone is free to reinvent the wheel.

Facebook did something super valuable, that is ReactJS, and this is becoming the _de facto standard_. ReactJS is simple, opinionated, and supported by a large corporation. Thanks to ReactJS a new ecosystem was born, and now finally you have many projects gravitating around it, and this is good. It's just a matter of time IMO.

I strongly disagree with _"the browser is a bad app platform and javascript is a bad language"_. JavaScript has its quirks, but it's also really plesant to work with if you don't do weird shit like `isNaN('wft' - 1) // it's true`. The browser is a great virtual machine that is democratizing the web. If you are doing things right, you can have graceful degradation (it degrade gracefully to a lower level of user in experience in older browsers) to increase the audience of your web app, from the dev in SF with gigabit internet to someone living in a rural area in a not so tech advanced country. This of course has a cost, that is spending time developing your app.
The free version of Xming does not implement several things properly. Not sure which but some applications haven't run properly. There is a charityware version but I can't find my license for it.

MobaXterm is another free version, It's a term emulator with an X11 server, but you can just turn it on and ignore the term. It runs all the applications Ive found that the free Xming cant.
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|0 also has the benefit of making your code harder to read and look smart. 


I wouldn't recommend using this unless you're trying to shove milliseconds in this type of operations.
The fundamental failure of most SJW and some populist attitudes: committing varying levels of disproportionately evil behaviors in the name of self-righteousness, when a decent person aims to be relatively consistent no matter what other people do.

Chris Hedges was shoutted down for opposing the Iraq war, and Phil Donahue push out of mainstream media.
Nice set of caveats you've got there. ;)

Let's check back in ten years, see how things are going.
Parent said WSL updates. You can get WSL but in order to get updates like this one you need Insider builds.
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I guess I just need to read up on how to actually use maven the right way. Thanks.
Perhaps a stupid question but why is there a compatibility gap between React Native and React Browser? As an outsider, I get the impression that React Native is an unfinished product.
The rule of law governs everyone, especially law enforcement, in the USA

How many law enforcement officials have been indicted for homicide again?
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>that whistle blower and the leaker could both get 14 years under proposed anti-whistleblower laws

Why do we have to consider what essentially is treason to a nation to be ok?

You have to go to the electorate and tell them "you see, this guy just leaked these documents which put our nation's security at risk. Shall we just set him free?". I'm sure that'll go well... you have Snowden/Assange to see how it went.
I was referring more to control of Vanguard itself - i.e. choosing the Board of directors for Vanguard.

I did a bit of digging though, and it seems they are actually elected by the shareholders of Vanguard funds - but they are appointed for lifetime terms, and up to 1/3 of the directors may be appointed by the other directors. So they only need to go to a vote of shareholders occasionally - looks like the last was in 2009.

The proxy form from that meeting: http://www.vanguard.com/jumppage/proxy/PROXYA.pdf
Linking technicans' vocational school diploma troubles in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and aerospace engineers hiring in Moscow is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?

It's like linking Facebook performance to Obamacare website launch troubles.
Well tried scotland yard, well tried...
Definitely, but I think most of us would rather read it directly from The Gaurdian.
Yes, the police can be in the wrong. But that's not reason (yet) to drag in conspiracy theories.
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Happy to see that nim is evolving. Any big player out there who uses nim for an important project?
I think you're missing the "web developer" part of the full stack. It means you know all tmthe stack required for web development.

Either way, aren't debugging crashes with c/ASM still taught at uni? Or is the idea of using gdb too much these days?
What cwyers said. Plus, XML was designed to replace HTML as XHTML, but it didn't happen. Doesn't mean you need to give up markup processing alltogether. Just use full SGML, which has additional features such as tag omission/inference and other markup minimization features for text authoring not in the XML profile of full SGML such as markdown and custom Wiki syntax support. You might actually like it.

You can parse HTML 5 into XML using my HTML 5 DTD [1] and eg. OpenSP's osx tool or my upcoming sgmljs.net tool.

What do you have against DTDs? They do the same as XSD, and then some.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html
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According to the recovered black box recordings, one of the crew did see the island, but not soon enough.

Probably the most shocking part is that there was a lighthouse on this island, which was operational at the time. This is shocking both because it should have been blindingly obvious to the pilot and crew that they were flying toward a lighthouse, and also that an island significant enough to have a lighthouse on it would not be on a digital mapping system. It's on Google maps - https://goo.gl/maps/Xdt7rzUErX42, even has photos and information. This is not some insignificant rock

How an aircraft mapping system can have such a huge omission is just mind-blowing
To a point.
But this isn't play you are speaking of, this is just a "play" on vanity to boost personal data collection by a soulless corporation.
Yeah, I played Atari ST version and it was a blast. Gorgeous filled polygons, up to 4 simultaneous 3D views, weather conditions, stunt flying... However this is off-topic as only PC versions were made by Microsoft.
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communism
[kom-yuh-niz-uh m]
noun

1. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

2. (often initial capital letter) a system of social organization in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian state dominated by a single and self-perpetuating political party.

In what ways is current Russia different than the second case? From what I understand Putin's party fits much of this description. I'm not being argumentative, I appreciate your insight.
The "science" in this case is

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2017-06323-001/

and yet the abstract of that paper makes it sound like it's discussing hairdressing. How can that relate to open plan offices?
H-1B3 are specific for fashion models, so it makes sense that she got one, no? https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-worker...
Internal politics, personal ambition, hammer-nail syndrome if an team or department has run out of other people to investigate, personal vendettas, jilted lovers, sexual obsession, regular obsession. No idea... but it doesn't take a huge amount of imagination to think of some, and doesn't require us to believe in conspiracies.
> Pardon my ignorance, but how would NYT directly benefit from a boost in Vanguard popularity?

I never said they would. I could imagine they got paid for this article but if I said so I would go out on a limb as I don't know whether that's the case.

All I am really saying is this:

> What I miss is a critical examination of the situation.

----

edit:

I think this is a more balanced article on Vanguard:
http://fortune.com/vanguard-mutual-funds-investment/

(It's from December 2016, though)
You're talking as if there's a swarm of fresh money flowing into the market, whereas it's more a case of people shifting away from traditional actively managed mutual funds etc. into indexing.

Money is cheap at the moment because growth is low, and that in turn means risk premia are lower and so on, but I don't think that's related to the rise of index funds. Then again I never understood why active management was so popular in the first place.
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It wouldn't. It's utterly insignificant that Vanguard hosts their 401Ks. That's like saying, "Full Disclosure: Many NYT employees have accounts at BOA!"
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There is a Windows-native SSHFS client[1]. I have it installed on a Win10 VM so can confirm it "works" albeit I haven't needed to use it for anything so cannot confirm how well it works.

[1] https://github.com/Foreveryone-cz/win-sshfs I think is the currently maintained version but you're welcome to confirm that independently.
I'm confused by your post. We see that these police had extensive legal surveillance powers available to them, but chose not to use those and to break the various laws to illegally spy on these people.
It was a SAR mission, flying low at night. I'm not a pilot, but eyeballs may not have been much use.

Preliminary accident report is at [1].

[1] http://www.aaiu.ie/sites/default/files/report-attachments/RE...
>The fact that the NYT is somewhat affiliated with them

So a disclosure that they use a massively popular product is now an advertisement?

Just one time I'd like to open the comments and not have someone saying "fake news" or "this is just an ad" or "stick with the facts".

Vanguard is an interesting company doing big things. They invented the index fund. They are massive. The New York Times profiles companies like this often.

Personally I find this more interesting than a Musk tweet announcing an announcement six months in advance.
Don't farmers ever inject stuff into cattle?
Bailing out and dropping to the rescue shell when a mount point in /etc/fstab failed is DEFINITELY the normal systemd behavior.One has to mark it as nofail otherwise systemd will assume it is required for boring the system.

(this was originally meant as a reply to above comment was mistakenly posted to grandparent.)
> What bundle size range can we expect?
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> Many mobile users are on throttled connections, due to low data caps, and research has shown users stop loading a site usually after 1 second of loading time.

I'd be surprised if most users could find the stop button and manage to tap it in 1 second, so I'm going to have to call BS on that research.

> How many minutes will users have to wait with React Fiber? And can it be improved in any way to get below a few seconds? Or will I have to continue to write vanilla JS to get responsive apps?

The current version of React[1] is ~21k (~8k gz) and ReactDOM[2] is ~126k (~39k gz) so either you're over-exaggerating, I'm hopeless at basic math or you're just misinformed.

[1] https://unpkg.com/react@15.5.4/dist/react.min.js

[2] https://unpkg.com/react-dom@15/dist/react-dom.min.js
This is the point. Many societies have devolved into autocracies with no freedom of speech, proving that it is a constant possibility for us too.

We like to think our Western countries somehow are immune, but without any particular reason. In reality we should worry more due to our technology. If lack of free speech combines with the ability to monitor everyone's speech (through phones, TV, breaking ssl) we will have recreated 1984 quite well.
lol, vega is easy to beat come on! There's a lot of trick in SF2, with almost every character.

Thanks for the info, I'm currently building my SF2 game and was wondering how they made their AI, then much thanks for the sharing.
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I wish this had a transcript.
I wonder about this too.

I know that apt-get works since earlier instead of the terrible Cygwin distribution model, but yes, IIRC there are NTFS streams being used for the Linux file system metadata IIRC and if these get overwritten or somehow modified things go bad. And NTFS streams being a somewhat uncommon NTFS feature, some applications don't handle them well?

On the other hand, wasn't a new Windows 10 Creators Update feature that you could now indeed edit the files from Windows, and not just from the Linux subsystem? And that the Linux tools such as web servers are now even notified when the files change so they can reload them automatically? I'm not sure how they solve the metadata borking issue though, in that case.
Police have their own intelligence services in the form of "special branch". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Branch
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> True, good point. But that seems more like basic incompetence or cockiness rather than awareness that 9/11 was about to happen.

Seems like mass suveillance by western agencies is jut a way to cover for their own incompetence. How many terrorist attacks in how many countries over the last few years have we heard that 'the suspect was known to intelligence agencies' and yet they still couldn't stop jack shit.

The whole intelligence apparatus in NATO countries needs reforming.
I agree that it's a shame our society doesn't place more importance on these 'grand visions'. That being said, I think the reason so many people are learning programming and studying computing is because there are big companies like FB where they can make a good living. So it's not like corporations are 'stealing' the talent away from academia, etc.
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I don't know if I believe that, however the spectre of terrorism is WAY overblown (more people die slipping and falling in the shower). So I do find it really unreasonable that it's used as an excuse to monitor our communication...
For me at least the big problem is malware. Running Arch Linux means I do not need to worry about malware. Ransomware. Crap like that. Yes, I am a reasonably experienced computer user and it's quite unlikely I would click anything "wrong" but not having to worry about a single bad click causing hours of recovery is a big plus.

Edit: while I understand downvotes I would be much happier if you'd educate me where I am wrong.
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