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I think it has to do with risk for the most part.

Consider a middle aged non-partisan couple who are part of the middle income bracket. They are extremely risk averse. They do not want any drastic changes that could jeopardize their livelihood and their family. They vote for the incumbent except when the incumbent has begun abusing their position of power a bit too much and have been involved in too many blunders. Then they vote for the other solid option.

They know that the elite do not represent their interests but they also do not trust any newcomers to do a better job of keeping things more or less the same.
I'm very familiar with the traditional methods of sequencing, including the commonly used forensic techniques[1]. I used to work at a well-known genetics lab way back when everybody used Sanger sequencing. I left right around when the first pyrosequencing machine was available, so I'm not familiar with the newer techniques that were developed after that point.

My question is what these newer methods are storing. Elsewhere in this threat someone mentioned that 23andme was able to inspect >100k SNPs, which would be outstanding data if they can produce it with an acceptable error rate.

> the chance of multiple matches can be less than the worlds population.

See, this is exactly what I was talking about: it depends on what question you are trying to answer. If have a sample from the scene of a crime, we can get very high confidence when matching that sample to even a large number of suspects. The "paradox" happens when you try to ask a different (but related) question that changes the search from one-to-many into many-to-many. Even with a low probability of a match, the larger number of possible matches makes false positives very common.

(if you prefer, when the prior probability is extremely low, testing entire databases will tend to find a lot of false positives)

DNA analysis is a powerful technique, but you still have to be careful to make sure you are asking the right question.

[1] there is viability in how many which unfortunately are somewhat variable, but I'm ignoring that
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Although I have nothing against Erlang, I regularly see claims such as "Erlang is powering around 50% of telecom networks.", also stated in this article. Is this correct, though? Or was this the case only many years ago?
I'm not familiar with upwork but I've been surprised looking at other freelancing sites and seeing the range of salaries.

It went from $15/hr - $40/hr - $100/hr. But what surprised me was the mix of people in each range; including Microsoft MVPs in the middle and idiots at both other ends.

For reference; $40/hr is about a low-end full-time salary and $120-$150 is what would get you someone hopefully decent from an agency. So pretty much everyone was undercutting what I think was a reasonable amount to request for contract work.
Classic PR.
I'm not sure that we should feel the need for this kind of imperialism in the 21st century. We can certainly "defend our borders" militarily, but wouldn't it be wise to make sure our economy can be sustained regardless of the actions of other countries?

I think another take-away is that we should be transporting more goods by rail and water. The decline of our railways has helped the oil companies but has resulted in a huge number of truck-car deaths at the same time it's increased transportation costs. We should move more towards using trucking only for local deliveries.
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I wasn't trolling at all. I was genuinely curious. I knew there were many possible answers, but I was curious as to what the person I was replying to meant by his statement. To me, feminism means that men and women should be treated with equal respect and have equal rights. I wanted to know if the poster had a different definition of feminism, or if they agreed on feminism but thought that it wasn't good for women.
Have you heard about openSNP? It may be relevant to your interests: https://opensnp.org/
When these kids want to do something more than what the app allows, they'll find out just how locked-down smartphones are as a platform. They could be content with staying inside the walled garden, but maybe they'll want to get out and do more - perhaps even advocate for more open systems in the future when they grow up. I very much hope it is the latter, although it is hard to see beyond the platform if that's the only form of computing they've been exposed to.
freelance can be a full time job. I am guessing all the "remote" tagged jobs posted here can be considered.
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Sorry, that wasn't my point at all. I was focusing on the part of the article that describes the potential of the general populations discontent with the social program management by the elites.
Old and inaccurate:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/window...

Microsoft has said the force push was a mistake. I suppose you could argue their sincerity on that, but the fact remains that they did remove it.
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I’ve never seen this gender stereotype in action, but then again I’m not in the workplace yet. However, I do see that some of my classmates, including me and other guys, put their thoughts this way in order to avoid sounding too sure of themselves if they end up being wrong or to avoid inciting a debate. Maybe this signifies a parallel between student–teacher and woman–man relationships.
Well, I'm saying that general elections in the US tend to be functionally the equivalent of run-off elections in many other places. For instance, in France you generally have candidates that weren't in a competitive primary run in an election, then have a runoff with the top two candidates (the Socialists seem to be introducing primaries for presidential candidates though). So you have an election, then the top two candidates compete in another FPTP election. In the US we have a (primary) election, then the top two candidates from each side (except for in places like California) compete in a FPTP election.

In the US, this differs state by state (California has their jungle primary system, some cities have IRV) and in Europe country by country and party by party (as I mentioned, the French socialists seem interested in have presidential primaries).
That was about Windows Update "mistakenly" installing Windows 10.

The OP is about GWX removing the option to delay the upgrade.
I agree with your all of your concerns. But what if all campaigns for office were funded with public money instead of private money?

Seems like it would solve some of the stated problems without arguing over what some would call a "loophole" but others would recognize as "free speech."
What is so special about it?

We are at the verge of a new area of aristocracy. The new aristocrats are building their relationships and are shielding themselves from the plebs -- just the same as in the Roman empire: The "best" people of the world, don't need morals or standards, that belong to the outsiders.

That is also the reason, we need more and more surveillance -- to protect the "best" people from the terrorists -- all people, that oppose this world-order.
I wonder if they respect noindex tags, and the like. If so, I would not see a problem.
Surely this isn't the first time you've encountered this idea? Britain explicitly held this policy for hundreds of years with regards to continental Europe (make sure neither France nor Germany could take over the whole continent).
Isn't voting a requirement in Argentina? Look at the politicians they're electing...
Thus far I have been spared the plague because my Boot Camp partition has less than a gigabyte of free space, so Microsoft can't install Windows 10 for me even if they want to.
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The Bullingdon Club members are a nasty bunch. As Right Honourable Tories they back harsh drug policies all the while denying their youthful indiscretions. Separately two British journalists told me that Osborne was deep into cocaine when they were at Oxford. I don't care about his poor health choices, but the baldfaced hypocrisy is laughable.
LaTeX and DOT are not graphical tools.

There are literally dozens of examples of text-based markup tools that are cross-platform, version-controllable, and can be rendered in a terminal if you're into that, and which don't require me to waste time drawing ridiculous ASCII art borders to denote logical relations.
...in a handful of markets.
The headline points to the Washington Post, not the WSJ. Did someone change it?
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If you want to be a successful front end developer you need to learn JavaScript. The more JavaScript you know, the more valuable you will be. If you know JavaScript then you can pick up Angular / React / Gulp / Node / Backbone / whatever web tech someone needs.

Having experience with a specific technology might help you, but I'd hire a JavaScript expert with no experience in my tech stack more than an someone who has become an expert in a specific framework / library.
It seems a bit rich for the Dean of an educational institution that demanded, during her tenure and after, the sort of qualifications and CVs that encourage this behaviour to protest it. If you don't want it around, stop providing the incentive for it.
This may be a stupid question, but why are people so keen to work in their start up in the US? My background is IT, so perhaps that colours my perception, but I can't actually see comparative value for working in the US.

Of course you can create a US company. You can travel to the US to make connections and try to raise money, but for actually doing the work, the US seems like a pretty poor choice. Salaries are higher than pretty much anywhere else on earth. There is a shortage of good talent. Real Estate is expensive. Visas for foreign workers are practically impossible.

Obviously, some people live in countries where the infrastructure is not set up to really be successful. But there are lots of easier countries to start a business in (and get a visa) than the US.

Is there something I'm missing, or are people just buying into the "American dream" thing and assuming that they will be successful in the US?
On the one hand, Microsoft gets criticized for abandoning millions of machines by dropping support for XP. Then, Microsoft gets criticized for not letting that happen with Windows 7 and 8 by keeping them up to date.

Do people tend to complain about Chrome's auto updates?
Intercom.io is a very cool tool indeed. We use it to extract unique product links from product overview pages of webshops for adding them to Pricepin (our own tool).
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I'm assuming this didnt apply to enterprise customers? The move from xp to 7 was a big deal for IT departments everywhere. I cant imagine them moving on from 7 anytime soon.
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I absolutely agree. For freelance/contract work the price should be about double expected base salary.

First of all because agencies get away with charging that much so you're just undercutting yourself needlessly unless you join in.

But secondly because there are big costs; liability insurance and software licensing being some of them.
GWX is very consumer-focussed, I'd be surprised if it was even installed on enterprise Windows versions.
I mistyped, too late to edit it now: I meant to say the "Freelancer" thread. I don't have to contact anyone myself. In fact, I never had much success getting business from people who didn't contact me first.
OS upgrades aren't directly comparable to automatically-updating software. They bring big changes and break compatibility. In the case of Windows 10, it merges two UI paradigms together. When software updates itself, it doesn't typically hop to the next major version, anyway. Chrome and evergreen software like it are exceptions.

This is especially true for Windows, which doesn't have a seamless upgrade process.
While switching to a new OS, especially Windows 10 is definitely a good move

Microsoft would certainly promote that view, but is it really? Am I one of the minority of users who prefers a stable environment customised exactly as I want it, instead of "latest and greatest"?
I think the point is that many murdered women or children are often murdered by spouse or parent. The type of case which can be hard to prove. Perhaps a better quote would be "cold cases which are usually hard to prove"
I've been working as a freelancer for about 10 years, getting clients from word-of-mouth, making about 2-4 times what people make here working 4-6 hours/day.

It all depends if you can sell yourself.
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Do you see why Europe has data protection as a fundamental right?
In all seriousness, if you want to learn Elixir, learn Erlang.

Couldn't we have said the same thing about Objective-C with regard to C? I'm not trying to be confrontational, just trying to understand why anyone would say that one should learn the foundation instead of the abstraction? It would be nice to have some concrete reasons delineated or even referenced. I have been searching to find them because I've more than once come across the above criticism, but I've never been able to find anything besides gut reactions. If there are any real obstacles the smarter among you perceive then I'd like to know to avoid them.
He's not opposing freelance work, he's opposing using odesk/upwork to get contracts.
> While switching to a new OS, especially Windows 10 is definitely a good move

Who is claiming this? Maybe for hardware known to have good Windows 10 support it's a good move. For me, I've had more blue screens in the last month than I had in the 10 years before that. Lots of poor driver support (fingerprint reader doesn't work, touchpad reverts settings after every boot, crashes).

The user experience is an upgrade from my perspective, but the upgrade has been anything but painless.
Opportunity cost - assuming everyone has fair market cash wages, the BigCos are offering more in bonuses and stock - at GOOG/FB it's not uncommon to see $150-200k+ per year in stock, with less uncertainty.

You'd expect that for taking on the risk (relatively low as it may be for a unicorn) you'd do better than the extremely low-risk public stock packages being offered by BigCos.
Universities love to complain about needing to react to what parents are saying, but this seems like something they bring on themselves. With such expensive tuition, a student's choice of college often cannot be made independently, and parents feel like they are buying their right to hassle higher educators. I would love to see a world where students truly decide on their own university and the ability for parents to affect the day-to-day of a university is drastically reduced. To me, this is the most interesting aspect of the push for free college.
What about 23andme's European offerings? The EU's data protection laws should protect you?
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It's hardly ironic. It's realistic, and your defense is simplistic at best.

What does President Lessig do during the first 100 days of his Presidency if war breaks out? What if a natural disaster strikes putting millions of Americans at risk? We have no idea because his Presidency is not about governing towards a better future but rather tearing down a system he doesn't like.

Noble as his idea may sound on the surface it is a childish proposal which does not take into account the complexity of the system it intends to address.
I seriously doubt that there is that much discontent - perhaps most people are evaluating politicians based on their policies and actions when in power rather than being influenced by whether they are posh or not and what they got up to at university 25 years ago. [Edit: what a horrendously naive thing for me to say :-)]

Perhaps my own concern about modern MPs is they often lack "real world" experience before working in politics - but that's a criticism I could make of both sides of the political spectrum.
The client side of the equation may be bad but the profile building side is excellent.
There is middle ground that you aren't considering: give people an option to update.

They didn't give that option to people with xp, and they aren't giving that option to people with windows 7.
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Location makes a big difference. I live in the Midwest and there aren't many $125K positions out here. But a 3 BR house in good shape in a decent neighborhood can be less than 100K.

Freelancing at $~60/hour * ~30 hours/week can work fine here. You can raise a family on it no problem. You're not going to retire early this way, but different strokes for different folks.
Of course it's not quite so binary. The dean wants a strong applicant pool as well as to dissuade helicopter parenting. I don't believe it's a contradictory stance she's taking.
Do people tend to complain about Chrome's auto updates?

I'd bet most of those are minor bugfixes which don't change behaviour drastically, but fix things like exploits. Most people won't even notice any changes and they can keep using the software like they used to.
At Harvard, there is the Porcelian club. The initiation ritual is equally secretive and elaborate. The club is said to be the third largest land owner in Cambridge (behind Harvard and MIT), and that if you are a member who is not a millionaire by the age of 40, the club will make you one (so that every alum is). Winlekvii were members
That's not a good argument. Do you ever leave your stuff lying around? I guess we can just take it then right?

Just because you have access to something doesn't give you permission to access or access it in any manner possible.
> You should go and look for local clients, networking, contact companies that look for developers and try to persuade them that they can count on you too, etc.

Every time in these discussions people ignore the fact that there're thousands of developers outside of US/EU who can't just "look for local clients". Not so many companies want to hire a remote employee without some kind of protection.

I'm working via Upwork and I personally know over 20 developers from Eastern Europe who work there too. We all would be incredibly happy to work directly, without the app that takes screenshots every 10 minutes, and for US rates instead of $20-35/h on Upwork. But it's not that easy until you're a known developer with a good reputation.
Personally after KB3035583 that I had hidden before, was re-enabled and installed automatically, I started feeling bothered by that fact. That was the final push that led me to nuking my Windows 7 partition and jumping to Xubuntu GNU/Linux.
Putting his penis in a dead pig's mouth is one of the least objectionable things about Cameron, which says a lot.

(And it's probably not true, even though it was widely reported).
I agree that error handling in Go is a headache. But since we are forced to handle every single error where it occurs, we can at least make the best of it and add context information before returning it.

I'm using a small utility library to wrap the original error and add function name, line, file name and optionally a descriptive message that explains what failed.
Kids aren't obsessed with "their phones." They're obsessed with the stuff their phones let them do.
Google has a unique position in that any site that wants to be found has to let Google bot index its content. Google does not build a derived product from your site's content that ends up competing with your site.

If someone needs to build a search site for real estate etc why couldn't they just scrape the Google search result, filter it (white list domains), extract the actual link and present it? In that case you'l need a Google specific scraper that can be based on open source scraping libraries.

Update:
Google actually will IP ban you if it thinks you're a bot trying to scrape for search results.

But they have an API:

https://developers.google.com/web-search/docs/?hl=en
That is not how HTTP works; your analogy is not correct.

Nobody is taking anything. If you don't want someone to access your page, then don't respond to their request.
The amendment process isn't relevant here. Republicans were completely opposed to any version of Obamacare; amending it wouldn't have fixed matters for them. They were opposed in principle to any large new federal system to make it easier for citizens to buy health insurance.

Are you perhaps referring to Constitutional amendments?
Yeah, it does. It's pretty damned important to trust that the Commander-in-Chief would be a competent leader of the armed forces. How would he respond to an act of war? What would he do to stabilize the Middle East and neutralize ISIS?

Of course every outsider wants reform. It's nice to see a smart person thinking creatively about how to achieve it. Still, you don't get to be Commander-in-Chief unless you can instill trust that you can handle being Commander-in-Chief.
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I was lucky enough to be around when my parents had to upgrade their computer, because it took a long time to customize everything in such a way they could find what they need without drowning in a sea of useless icons.

I don't even want to think what would happen if they called me out of the blue because that upgrade happened without their knowledge, and they can't find anything anymore.
Chrome's updates have always been like this, whereas people bought Windows 7/8/8.1 machines with the expectation that they would be able to keep using those versions unless they chose to upgrade.
Disable the Windows Update service. Microsoft will never bother you again and you can have your exact, perfected experience for all eternity.
Very interesting discussion. I've been doing some related work where I needed to run some tasks in a non-overlapping way and while flock was an initial option I later moved to redis queue (ie rpush & blpop mix) to guarantee a certain (and needed) order of execution. This is mixed with a 'send email in case of error' check and so far is doing fine, though I'll definitely look into Jenkins if I ever feel this current approach proves not to be reliable enough.
My concern with Windows 10, and I expect it to get addressed, is having a platform underneath me keep changing. I don't want to get in my car one day and find out that the gas pedal has changed positions with the brake. I expect my OS to be just as consistent in this regard.

So, for me, I need a way to say, "I don't ever want to upgrade automatically. I'll upgrade when I'm ready".
When you answer an RFP, most likely you are engaging into a race to the bottom (competing on price). Often an RFP means some PHB made a poor diagnostic, devised the wrong solution and just want someone to build it.

That is why I don't like to answer RFPs. Working on someones else's diagnostic is root of all evil for freelancers, it makes very hard to deliver maximum value. How would a brain surgeon answer if a patient enters the office saying "Yes, doctor, just open my skull right now and pull out the tumor!"?
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If you want to keep corporations from giving money to politicians, the only effective way to do it is to stop politicians from giving corporations money.

Limiting the scope of government is not ideological -- its pragmatic and practical.
And when Chrome and such do add stuff, any changes are gradual and unobtrusive. In a sense there is only one "major version" of Chrome and it is continually subtly changing.

On the other hand, operating systems and most software have distinct major versions and automatic updates only happen within those versions.