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I may have some of the facts wrong here, but I think this means that upgraded systems will also start to run Microsoft's evergreen browser Edge, in place of IE, as the default browser.

It seems like this aspect, at least, could be a very good thing. Thinking about the very non-technical and casual user who uses the default IE and doesn't upgrade/switch for no particular reason other than some mixture of doesn't know it'll be better/afraid of breaking something/doesn't know how.

It'll just kill all those IE 8s/9s/10s still running out there that, really, should be replaced. Yes, it's a little brute force, but I can't see this being anything other than a good thing for (the vast majority of) these users and for developers.
Getting your kids into Stanford has nothing to do with helicopter parenting and I think you are missing the bigger point.

The failing that you do when you are 6 is very different from the one you do when you are 16 or 26, they all accumulate and you can't redo your childhood.

The things you learn when you are 6 and 16 are closer to the competition you are in when you are out of Stanford. Getting in to stanford is nothing compared to making it through life in one piece and with success.
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This article seems to be light on specifics and completely devoid of verifiable sources.

If Microsoft actually did force an involuntary upgrade this, it seems likely they would be on the receiving end of real lawsuits or even facing criminal charges for unauthorised access to computer systems (particularly if they did it to anyone who had actively avoided installing or keeping earlier updates related to Windows 10), not to mention any later formal data protection complaints over Windows 10's privacy implications, opening the floodgates to complaints under consumer protection legislation, and other risks. Even given that I wouldn't trust Microsoft as far as I could throw it at this point, I still doubt they're arrogant/naive enough to go that far.

Is this just a vaguely rehashed story about one of the optional updates being ticked by default from the other day?
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These helicopter parents are the same people that protest when their kids don't get a trophy for losing a soccer game.

Granted this is off topic, but I've reached a similar conclusion that "everybody gets a trophy" is an urban legend spread to promote a conservative political agenda. Most parents -- conservative or liberal -- roll their eyes at that idea.

A handful of anecdotes:

1. When my kids were little, they participated in soccer. For the smallest kids, it's apparently customary that they don't keep score. Well, the kids themselves kept score. Every kid knew the score, who won, who scored the goals, and who were the best players on the team.

2. My daughter brought home a ribbon for something. She said: "Oh, this is just one of those ribbons that everybody gets for participating." So this apparently liberal agenda can't have had much of an effect.

3. The most liberal parents in town put their kids into competitive or selective situations from a very early age. Through the fairly standardized repertoire for violin lessons, my daughter has known her exact rank as a violinist, since she was practically a toddler. There's no ambiguity about who can play song 6 from book 8, and who can't.
Yup. Citizens United wasn't a "is money speech case?" It was a case about whether the government could ban an unflattering movie about one of the leading candidates in the election. Its core political speech and always has been.
Some guy doesn't have marketing/coding skills and complains about it instead of thinking constructively.

What all the fuss is about?
The author gives one bad example and extrapolates that to all of freelance. I've found plenty of well-paying gigs on these sites. As with most things in life, it takes hard work and lots of failure to get there. It's really that simple. The author shouldn't have pursued that job from the beginning. Recognize a loser and move on.
There have been some pretty significant under-the-hood security upgrades in each new version of Windows. So while the UI changes are what users notice, the new security features are probably the more important reason to upgrade.
When I installed windows 10 last week I had the .. pleasure... to look at the various privacy options.

During the installation, Windows uses weasel words to present the user with privacy settings hiding the option to change them at all. Take a look:

https://jonathan.porta.codes/images/posts/2015/07/window-10-...

In "express settings":

* Send contact, calendar and input data to Microsoft

* Send typing and inking data to Microsoft

* Let apps use your Advertising ID for "experiences across apps" (I'm not making this shit up)

* Send microsoft and "trusted partners" location data

* Turn on SmartScreen (Admittedly I don't know exactly how it works but seeing as it's in those options I can take a horrifying guess on the implications)

* Send your browsing data to Microsoft to "make your overall experience better" (WTF wording)

* Autoconnect to shared networks

* Autoconnect to suggested open hotspots

Damn. And then, one that's not in there which you have to find for yourself, if you even know about it: P2P share windows updates with any windows computer on the internet.

Ho-ly-crap. I like W10 as an OS so far but this stuff is just insane.

BTW, the only reason I went with W10 was that W7 doesn't support GPT.

Sources:

http://www.howtogeek.com/224352/what%E2%80%99s-the-differenc...

http://www.howtogeek.com/224981/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-...

Edit: Yikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SmartScreen#SmartScr...
Public financing is totally orthogonal to Citizens United. Even if campaigns were publicly financed, you couldn't stop independent organizations from blasting the airwaves with advertising supporting their preferred candidate.
Not true at all. High-profile startups do post jobs there. You can find good clients--it just takes some digging, negotiation, and patience.
> Nobody wants to be the parent of the most mentally stable Starbucks Barista

here's an important question to ask yourself: if you had to choose, would you rather your children be kind, or smart?
Why does Europe always come up in these conversations, as if it's the litmus test for good policy? You do realize that's an entirely separate continent, with a different culture, history, and set of issues, right? Are you so ignorant to believe that the United States should actually be run like Europe?

To say that the Republican Party of today is a business lobby is an absurd and I'll-willed attempt to deliberately oversimplify, misinterpret, misrepresent, discredit, and ultimately slilence a legitimate political party that represents the thoughts and viewpoints of millions of American Citizens. Real people. Tax payers. Born here or abroad. Educated or self made. People that help make this country what it is.

I'm a registered Democrat and even I can't put up with this radical loyalist bullshit that aims to silence an entire portion of our population.
Wikipedia probably doesn't include the downstream (no pun intended) value of that cargo. Grain becomes bread. Coal becomes energy and steel.
That's just stupid. What good will an Stanford education be for someone who puts a bullet through their heads within one year of being thrown in an hyper competitive corporate environment where there is no safety net to ensure that your every step will eventually lead to success?

I specially disliked the part about having the rest of their life to "fail". That's tautological of course, but it takes on a whole new dimension if the "rest" is measured in months instead of decades.
Yeah, that would be nice. There is such thing as a Certificate of Analysis which we are going to try to get from our supplier. http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/united-kingdom/technical-service...
...Except that Edge is the new IE, in some bad ways. Sure, many bugs and missing features will be fixed and added in the coming months/years, but there are already a number of hacks that need to be made to properly support Edge with similar functionality as FF, Chrome and Safari. All that's old is new.
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So, what happens to those kids after Stanford, e.g., the ones who get CS degrees but were helicopter-parented? How do they compare to the kids who were equally interested in computers but "allowed to fail," e.g., did not have sparkling resumes and were rejected by Stanford?
"First of all because agencies get away with charging that much"

Perhaps they deliver a different sort of value than an individual freelancer? Having a larger staff, having multiple people with different expertise, separate billing/financial folks, admin folks, etc. They provide a different set of services and customer experience - some people want/need that, some don't, but just because agency ABC is charing $200/hr doesn't mean every else can "get away with that" as well. Just being able to have 4 people work simultaneously on a project may be worth the increased pricing for some clients.

Liability insurance isn't that big a cost, and unless you're focused on some really niche industry, "software licensing" probably isn't that big a deal for an individual freelancer. I'd be surprised if even with multiple systems, those combined costs are more than a couple thousand per year (much less for most people I know).

Health insurance is going to be a far bigger expense than almost everything else put together for most folks.
It marks whatever precedes it as sarcastic.
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Ah, so I wasn't the only one that had this happen. I thought I was going crazy for a while.
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We picked L-Theanine because of its safety profile and mild psychactive properties, meaning you can tell if you've taking it or not but it's not an overbearing feeling. We wanted the first experiment to be fairly predictable while we work through all the kinks of launching this.
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Unpopular opinion here... Anyone can be a doctor!

I've had multiple health problems over the years that I've cured by doing the proper research online. Most doctors wouldn't even consider the solutions that helped me because they're always just looking to prescribe a pill. They fix the symptoms and not the cause. You're better off acting as your own doctor, unless you have some traumatic injury that requires surgery.

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... and people have to leave a disclaimers like that when they say something like I did. Why don't non-programmers have to leave disclaimers? Our profession is more legit than modern medical practice. I can't wait until expert systems and robots replace doctors!
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In this specific instance, it sounds like an "extra" and not a "change". So, I would be okay with that. However, I don't own a Tesla so I can't say for sure. For me personally, I don't want upgrades that throw away all my muscle memory in the name of "design". As more and more people enter the software development ecosystem, they're going to need to learn (the hard way) that sometimes "boring" is the right thing to do.
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A kind idiot probably isn't of much use to society
I'd like to add an increase in your fish and seaweed intake will also be beneficial. There are so many things interfering with iodine uptake in our thyroids that this warrants some serious attention. You can also google "iodine cured my depression". I can honestly say it did for me as well. What fefifofu has said about "less bread" is extremely important.
The college admissions system has encouraged the arms race mentality. The SAT has been repeatedly reworked such that test prep works better. I really doubt involvement in the summer activities they apparently value indicates anything about qualification other than parental resources and involvement.
"To say that more of their ideas will help to solve the very issue they created..."

I don't see how I did that.

I do appreciate your perspective that I spun a cultural issue to support my political agenda. I'd argue that I'm actually doing the opposite, but I agree I did nothing to make that clear

In all honesty, I've long thought that parental influence on college students' decisions - whether it be the choice of college itself or the concept of "helicopter parenting" within college - has the single greatest negative influence on top universities. Without a consistent "expected contribution" across colleges, cost is a dominant factor in the decision process, and we end up with students that don't necessarily want to be studying where they are. I loved my school, and while I felt bad for the kids who complained about being there because they had no choice, I often just wish they'd leave and stop dampening the culture. At top universities, it's similar to someone in YC constantly complaining that they have to try this pesky startup thing.

I also disagree that the effects have existed forever. I think it came with the cultural shift of helicopter parenting, and parents generally making more decisions for their children.

Ultimately though, I support the Bernie Sanders bill because I think it's an interesting way to try and resolve the negative impacts of the cultural shift. It's a bit like using a sledgehammer to drive a nail, but I'm not one to complain about free college (and I do think free public tuition will extend to the private sector, especially quickly at the top university level)
Wonder why they chose to make individual elements rather than a HTML5 video for their animation.
This won't be an issue because we are supplying the supplements which are going to come from an established and reputable supplier. This is not a platform where anyone can sell their own supplements.
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> I can't see this being anything other than a good thing for (the vast majority of) these users and for developers.

For developers? I think they are quite capable of deciding for themselves.

For users? Here I can see where you're coming from, but let's think this through:

- Some users know how stuff works. They'll upgrade when they want to, no need to force them.

- Some users have no clue about how stuff works, but they know someone who does (e.g. my grandma and me). If there would be an opt-out of this forced upgrade, that someone (me) could perform that on their computer and upgrade them when they're ready. But there is no opt out, so instead they (me) will have a hell of an explaining job on their hands. It might actually be the perfect excuse to install Ubuntu since the only reason not to is because they're "used to Windows now". And remember, this group didn't need a forced upgrade in the first place since they have someone who helps them stay up to date and does stuff that needs doing.

- Some users have no clue and have nobody to help them. There's no point trying to get them the latest updates when they'll click accept on anything their screen tells them to accept (e.g. fake flash update). Some protection is better than none and thus Edge is better than IE8, I agree on that, but I'm not sure there is that much of a point. And they may become unable to use a computer altogether with a disruptive change like this.

In other words, nobody benefits. Maybe not even Microsoft, but I can't tell yet.
I keep a text file that grows noticeably every day. I write it in Restructured Text (could have been Markdown) for two reasons:

1. My text editor (Vim in this case) renders the text file in colors, and helps me distinguish different elements.

2. If I want, I can export to html.

Markdown and the like grew out of what people were already doing in plain text: dashes and asterisks for bullets, indentation, etc.

I would much rather write plain text, or minimally marked up Markdown or rst, than have to write <tags> for everything, especially for something like my text file that isn't really intended for the web, but can be converted if needed. html is not really meant to be read, but rendered. The various markdowns can be comfortably written, and read as is.

My 2c.
While it is easy to mock helicopter parents, it also dawns on me that there are literally twice the number of kids today competing for the same placements first in school and then jobs as say 20 years ago.
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Do the amyloid proteins you'd expect concentrate in similarly-shaped groupings? One claim is that the shape of the stains has fungal morphology. If Amyloid-beta concentrations can have fungal morphology then I would think that might strengthen your claim and weaken the paper's. I'm only an engineer though, so feel free to dismiss me as ignorant of your field. Either way I can see how these findings are not terribly interesting.
Or shaking corporations down. A whole lot of "gridlock" is merely milking proposals that'll help or hurt various companies and sectors, and collecting contributions to continue preventing the bad or pushing for the good. Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets is (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544103343) a really good book on the subject, taught me things I didn't know despite watching this sort of thing closely starting around the time of Watergate, like how there's a type of PAC a Congresscritter can establish that can be legally converted to subsidize their lifestyle.

This is one of the reasons for the constant changes in the tax code, despite the great uncertainty this creates for businesses and people. The obsession with short term results makes more sense when you realize long term financial planning is literally impossible (yeah, technically you might get that widget into production in a few years, but you really don't know how much money you'll be allowed to make from selling it).
Are you speaking from experience? I've found plenty of great gigs on these freelancing sites. You just have to dig a bit and know what the "crap" jobs are, so you can avoid them altogether. The world is not underbidding you. Most times, you negotiate directly with the client and the bids are just a formality.
I built a little Swift/iOS "search engine". It contains about 2200 urls. I only search page titles and tags, that I've manually added. What would be my best option for crawling the links and allowing the search to include the text of each page?

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

This is a weekend project so I don't want to spend a lot of money on it.
You have the right to disagree, but that's the way World Wide Web was built. Feel free to use alternative service(s) or stop publishing your stuff. Put it behind password or don't answer to my scrapers or browsers requests. Fair and simple.

Web is for people from people, not solely for company(s) financial interests.
People don't vote for those parties not because they aren't independent thinkers, but because they don't want what those parties are selling. They don't want some libertarian wonderland without consumer protection laws or Social Security. In broad strokes, they want what we already have, with small tweaks.
You still have copyright to your online content and can dictate how it can be used. Websites can also have TOS for their content. If you're arguing ethics then it could be unethical to use content in a way that the copyright owner doesn't want it to be used.

That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
> if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang.

After spending a few months with Elixir (at least in my case), you pretty much DO know Erlang. You just don't prefer to work in it. ;) I mean, the easy interop is right there, the semantics are (especially with OTP) nearly identical, you often call into Erlang, the data structures are almost the same, but you just get a heck of a lot more out of the box, even simple design decisions like "the first argument to a function is always the main thing being acted upon" have tremendous repercussions such as enabling the lovely |> transformation operator (from F# and OCaml). You get a more sane treatment of strings, you get "true" macros, you get great tooling (while still being able to take advantage of FABULOUS Erlang tooling like :observer.start() )...

Elixir complements Erlang quite nicely IMHO. And if my best guess is correct, Elixir will take Erlang into more places than it can currently imagine...
I'm not a scientist and defer to your judgement as to the quality of the research method. But if there is even a remote possibility of AD being caused by or someway associated with Fungus infections than I would hope someone does follow up research that is rock solid and not sloppy.
No, what's new is that those bugs and missing features will get fixed without an OS service pack / release.
I first gained interest in Lessig when he offered a poll to vote for his vice president (who takes over when he steps down).

https://lessig2016.us/vote4vp/

I just love the idea of Neil deGrasse Tyson being president.
So now getting into a top college is more important than being a functional person?
Failing when your an adult is more than getting a bruised knee: It's getting stuck in a job you hate, ending up in a bad marriage and becoming sick/obese because you don't know how to take care of yourself.
All of those things happen because people don't know what works for them. The reason they don't know that is because other people have told them how to live their entire lives.
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Makes total sense. Free radicals are thought to damage a cell and turn in cancerous. Antioxidants mitigate the number of free radicals so the rate of damage is lower, but once cancer is occurring, antioxidants aren't going to do anything to prevent the spread of cancer. In this experiment, cancer was transferred directly showing that AO actually hinders the bodies ability to fight cancer. Could free radicals actually be part of the immune system?

Another theory, which i think is interesting is that free radicals damage strong as well as weak cells, those weak cells that are killed by free radicals could actually more easily transition into cancer in the absence of free radicals.

It is too easy to explain less free radicals as good. There isn't a single variable in this equation.
I've been advocating for a US version of those data protection laws since the mid 90s. Unfortunately progress has been slow, often because of the traditional paranoia about any kind of government regulation.

As usual, we will probably have to wait until a lot of people start experiencing negative effects. Nobody cares until it hurs them personally.
I agree. It's ironic they protect their page so aggressively against scraping, being the biggest scraper in the universe at the same time.

Often they ignore robots.txt also, they still continue scraping, sometimes they even publish things in their SERPS.

From Google's FAQ:

However, robots.txt Disallow does not guarantee that a page will not appear in results: Google may still decide, based on external information such as incoming links, that it is relevant. If you wish to explicitly block a page from being indexed, you should instead use the noindex robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag HTTP header. In this case, you should not disallow the page in robots.txt, because the page must be crawled in order for the tag to be seen and obeyed.