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> Yes. You can downgrade Windows 10 to whatever you installed it on top of. I think this has been possible since the Vista -> 7 upgrade.

It's been possible with every version of Windows, I believe. Windows 95 would rename your old Windows directory. And earlier versions didn't try to control the hard drive, as they weren't your OS - though 95 didn't try to own it fully, it lacked a My Documents directory and expected you to make your own root directory folders to store file!
Snowden demonstrates the way NSA and the British equivalent operate on demand* at the documentary film 'Snowden'. You should really skim through it at least, you will be surprised to what their finite budget can do.

* they collect bulk data, then develop the tools to sort them out
Microsoft doesn't want people stuck on the same version of Windows for a decade again

And a more evil conspiracy, I cannot imagine.

:)
> People bitched about the new start menu because they weren't willing to see that there were better ways to find their programs.

What exactly was the better way though? I'm still on Win7 in my primary computer, having Win10 (and previously Win8) installed on my secondary.

On Win7 I press the start button and type the name of what I want to run (or find) - this lets me do what I want very quickly with a minimum of interruption.

Win8 was similar, but it threw a jarring fullscreen slab of apps in my face. I say it was similar because it still let me start typing right away and get to the stuff I wanted with minimal hassle.

Win10 is a whole different beast, I feel. The search was decoupled from the start menu; but the start menu itself returned to most of its former glory (unintrusive, no jarring screen transition). The key factor here is that I can no longer just start typing to get to an app, and I have yet to invest the necessary time into seeing if it is at all possible since it's still my secondary machine.

Right now, amidst all of the anti-Microsoft scaremongering, I'm also finding it less likely that I'll keep going down the Microsoft path. Linux is starting to look more and more attractive, with OS X a strong second place contender. And not just for the start menu.
To an extent it was. Although I honestly think people overuse word 'burnout' a lot
Each to their own.

The cinema experience: get dressed then travel to movie theatre, line up to get expensive ($8-$10 per person) tickets, optional purchase of exorbitantly-priced junk food, try to find good seats (not too close to screen or too near aisle), put up with 20-30 minutes of ads, deal with unwanted noise/light from others, then afterwards file out of theatre and go home.

Streaming experience: Pay $5 for everyone, eat/drink whatever you like, pause whenever you like, no risk of distractions from others (choose friends accordingly), comfy and clean seats.

Even with my relatively modest setup (50" 1080p television and 2.1 sound), I'd go with the latter option almost every time.
That's a very noble position, but I'm not sure it's a very realistic one.

Some mistakes should surely be forgiven in the interests of learning and doing better next time. We might call them "honest mistakes", perhaps actions taken with the best of intentions but which proved to have unexpected and undesirable side effects that could not reasonably have been anticipated.

Other mistakes are either not really mistakes at all or are actions taken by someone who might not have intended the final outcome but should clearly have known better. Consider installing a defeat device in a car to actively circumvent regulations, or a government agent or corporate officer abusing their authority for personal gain, or a police officer who has a track record of being more violent than was necessary when dealing with suspects. At some point, the mistake is no longer relatively harmless or something to be tolerated in the interests of overall progress, it's a demonstration of bad judgement that isn't acceptable for someone in that position.
I built a new PC, it cost me an arm and a leg [$223K].
For the UK the picture is so very true. I admire the proper English of this article. Well worth reading.
Good, persistent, grass-roots activism leading to success. Nice!
No, I did. It seems like you're missing my point, which is that the authors of this article are referring to absurd and dishonest rhetoric despite not adhering to that view.

I get that they're not in support of the idea that campus rape is an epidemic, and I also get that my gripe is minor.
Well you want all that user data so you can mine if for advertisers don't you? How do you do that? Push people to Windows 10.
Go back to a doctor (preferably a real psychiatrist, rather than a doc in the box type place) and get on a different depression medication. There are an incredible number of combinations and medications that you can get on, each treating depression just a little differently.

For what it's worth, my fiance and I have both had a lot of success with Wellbutrin.

I'm not a doctor, but every symptom you listed sounds exactly like depression. Fix that, and you're golden.
looks good :) I wanted to make it easy to integrate it (someone without any knowledge of code can just set it up on their end and the front page once a day at 4 pm seems like an optimal medium to start with)
Wow, I never even thought about the Talent thing...sometimes i've been working in an empty room on my own with no-one to bounce ideas off, which could happen for a week at a time. Lonely and not mentally stimulating.

I'd be an idiot to go back, Ive realised. I'm really glad to have worked this out now rather than later.

Thank you so much for sharing your story.
Watson – A CLI to track your time
As a farm boy who grew up on a wheat farm, at the end of the season after harvesting the wheat that we had "brought up" in the spring or the previous winter, we would plow the remainder under, bringing it down again.
95-year Old Shipwreck of the Ituna Discovered Off San Francisco
This is your life–and it’s a journey
The bias against testing rape kits when a family member was the alleged rapist comes from the difficulty of prosecuting cases where both people agree that sex happened, but one says it was rape and the other says it was consensual.

There's not much point testing DNA in those cases because it doesn't help you decide if consent was gained.

(I agree with your post, btw.)
Well clearly having altitude/velocity readings is critical to autopilot function, so some kind of redundancy should be put in place. Not necessarily specifically more pilot tubes, but some kind of solution, like heating/deicing the tubes inlets, better placing them, etc -- guaranteeing in some way the chances that all measurements are unavailable is astronomically low.
Be the person you desire
Please do not use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize. That breaks the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Whoever didn't see this coming had not lived in this world in the past few years.
Technically E3 has a cap, but since only Australians can apply for it (as opposed to the whole world applying for H1-Bs) the cap has never been reached.
> Your DNA IS your identity

Identical twins share DNA, but not identity.
More Emissions Violators Is Good News for Volkswagen
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As a tech worker, I don't want to live in a world where tech workers are fired because they make a small, fixable mistake.

The quality of work coming out of the Windows Update group has been seriously problematic lately. It's well past time to fire some people.
I thought the DNA analysis being done by these companies wasn't full sequencing, but rather genotyping. Isn't the implication of this less alarming?
For every rule there are exceptions, the number of identical twins is so low that for most practical purposes it does not matter. Unless you're a magician (see 'the prestige').
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E-2 is more general and useful than people realize - I say after exploring it and getting it.
> since 'securing the border' is one of those fundamentally unattainable political goals prosecutors tend to throw the book at anyone they find engaged in this kind of activity because it plays well at oversight hearings.

It's not a political ploy. If you try to make an end-run around the law, they're going to go after you to defend the rule of law. The law isn't a computer program that you can find a bug in and circumvent (well, most of the time). The law is purposefully broad and fuzzy, and is interpreted by human judges who will see through your little scheme.

It's not the prosecutor's or the judge's role to pass political judgement on the law. Their job is to uphold the laws that the people's representatives have passed.
That's a heck of a bet for Intel to make considering Windows phone is 2% global market share and shrinking. Not trying to bash Windows phone either (I owned a WP7 device), it's just the reality that even MS is starting to come to grips with.
Highly relevant context was omitted which can be found here: http://alirachelpearl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/image1.... [1]

[1] http://alirachelpearl.com/bio/
Thanks for the resources. Not sure if calling me lazy is fair, I don't know what I don't know, but I'm almost certain my code isn't 100% bulletproof. Not because I see something blatantly broken and just decide not to fix it.
Apple won't do anything with x86 in mobile, sure, but Intel is (or wants to be) more than a one-trick pony.
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Why are you saying this? There is literally no mention of social media in this article. The data (at least from the original project) is mined from publicly available data, which could be social media data, but that data has to be made public in the first place.

It is possible that the "Research Grade" version of the program does use that data, but there is no evidence of that here.
I had personal, but short encounter with 23andMe.

I proceed with my charge and got the spit kit. Then a friend told me "it's pretty much a Google-owned company", so that was enough for me to change my mind.

I was still intrigued what they might find about me, so I asked 23, before sending the kit back, if I could actually cancel the order and re-order, but use my friend's credit card, with their permission of course.

23 responded that I can cancel, of course, but they do not allow to use someone else's CC, whether with or without their consent. I asked "why", and was told that "we need to identify the spit with the owner". God knows for what, but latest news that 23 is okay to share your DNA with insurance companies (I can bet bottom dollar they won't share it for free!) makes much more sense now, after all.

I cancelled my order and send the kit back, but I wasn't done quite yet. From $99 order, I only got $45 back. I was told that "the kit cannot be reused, so it has to be thrown away". So I said: fine, give me the kit I paid for back, and keep the remaining $. They refused, and continued to refuse to refund the remaining portion of my charge.

Eventually, a credit card chargeback dispute that they lost took care of it and after recovering all the costs, I emailed all my friends never to do a mistake and give your business to 23andMe.
Been doing that for some small sites with Google Sheets, Jekyll and Netlify (https://www.netlify.com).

Wrote this plugin for Jekyll that'll let you use a Sheet as a data-source when building the site:

https://github.com/netlify/jekyll-gdrive

Netlify can run Jekyll builds with custom plugins (unlike GitHub pages) and you can setup an inbound webhook to trigger a build.

Once the webhook for building the site is in place, you can add a script like this to the Google Sheet:

function triggerBuild() {
var url = "BUILD_HOOK_URL_HERE";
UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, {method: "POST"});
Browser.msgBox('Your site is being updated now. Changes will be live in a minute.');
}

And assign it to an image of a publish button.

Now content editors can work in the spreadsheet, and press "Publish" to trigger a new build and deploy :)
It's not an unrealistic situation now. 1 in 400 births are clones.
what is a signal space?
Most social networks provide very little that a blog and an email address don't

Except, of course, the core reason social networks are: the baked-in audience of all your friends and family who are pushed all of your updates.
But a poor person in a rural area is typically illeterate and is more concerned about shelter and where the next meal comes from
I think eradicating poverty directly is more important than internet access.
Your second description of DNA is still incorrect.
Hell with a couple of billion phones out there... you better want a big piece of that market in this world. Whether those chips go in iPhone Android or whatever. They need to exist.
What if (highly likely) they cant read English?
This is a really big mistake to make with your flagship product.

True enough. In this case, it looks like it might be particularly bad if it affects systems where someone has actively chosen not to move to Windows 10 for their own reasons. That seems to be the case for a lot of "power users". Also, while enterprise-scale businesses with full-time professional admins may well be using WSUS and Enterprise versions of Windows, smaller businesses will often be running Pro versions and handling upgrades in other ways, and could be affected too.

Even if the arguments about forced updates and privacy don't seem to concern a lot of typical home users, whether through apathy or ignorance, Windows seems to be losing the trust of the tech community who often do care about such things. That tech community both runs business IT and advises non-technical friends and family, and as a rule it does not take kindly to being bullied. Microsoft have now screwed this same issue up several times over within just a few weeks, and it's starting to look like they've lost control of both their product and their PR.
Thanks...in my case you're actually quite correct I think =). I was in foster care homes at various points. My drive and inspiration and the only reason I got to university. Because I wanted to be in a position to help my real family.

Like yourself I had family members who kept having breakdowns. I remember having taken my Mum into hospital after a suicide attempt and i'd go take an exam the next morning on only 2 hours sleep, desperate to still get the grades to get into uni.

Which is why this issue of burnout has gotten to me so much.

How is it I can content with running on several hours of sleep for a few months whilst pushing myself to somehow do exams when I could barely read the questions I was so tired.. and not reach burnout...

And yet now, I have. It doesn't seem logical. But it seems I was at least focusing on something I was passionate about(goal to help my family in the future) and at work I have not been.

Low salary sometimes paid weeks late, not mentally stimulating...essentially going against the very thing I wanted to be able to do. Help my family. Your post has helped me to work that out, thanks!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9989609
Wow, it took way too long to figure out what I wanted to know: Radicand is in Redwood City, CA.
Another topic oriented around a woman. First comments from creepy HN dudes. Fucking great.
The boy who stole Half-Life 2 (2011)
http://cdn.bgr.com/2015/04/computer-shipments-2015.png?w=624

intel needs a way out of the shrinking pc market. gonna be profitable for a long time, but the tablet/smartphone market is a pie so big establish a foothold is gonna be strategic, even if the r&d cost is high

(still article was mostly - but the writing on intel wanting mobile was on the wall for a long time )

also
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-details-new-processors-ai...
This comment is completely, utterly off the mark.

Intel doesn't just make x86 chips. They have most of the best fabs in the world and produce lots of other chips, too. Not just CPUs, but things like LTE modems, which is what the article is talking about. The idea is that Apple would take their CPU design, bundle it with Intel's LTE modem to make an SOC, and then manufacture the stuff in Intel's fabs.
I went to Ansible Fest 2014 in SF. IMO, the conference was pretty worthless outside talking to DeHaan and a few of the core developers. It was very sales focused and lacked much technical depth (what tech conference actually goes into any depth these days?).

This being said don't let that deter you. Ansible itself is an excellent project. I won't rehash what's already been said but both our dev and ops teams were able to transition off Chef and onto Ansible within a week. The time to onboard is miniscule compared to Chef, Puppet or CFEngine. There's been very little friction building customizing modules or contributing to an otherwise fantastic community.

As someone who moved from CFengine to Puppet to Chef and now Ansible I've been extremely happy.

FWIW, I'd argue that it's easier to fix a Python/YAML/Jinja error in your Ansible play/role/template than it is to try to track down attribute precedence and override issues or Ruby behaviors which aren't very Ruby like in Chef.
If you look, you will find this kind of reasoning underlying a great deal of public (and increasingly, private) policy.
I'm not related to the project, but I think by signal space they mean simply an area which signals pass through (and hence can be collected in). By getting up high they can probably get access to a lot of signals which you wouldn't see at ground level.
It's probably not the greatest bet either. Apple seems to be moving as much of their chip design in house. I'd bet many of these things will be on custom SOCs and Apple-designed chips a few years from now. Related: http://stevecheney.com/on-apples-incredible-platform-advanta...
could Twitter theoretically be a public benefit corporation? I would argue that they provide enough value to society yet they are having issues with pressure from the market
I obtained an E3 without a degree via the relevant experience path.

Somewhere filed away I have a letter from an organization accredited by the US government proclaiming that I have degree-level experience. I value it almost as much as the certificate I obtained in/for Canada confirming I have conversational level English skills.
This is a question I've seen asked so many times. The answers are always long and varied. I'd wager it's been this way for much longer than I've known. Is it because of unpredictable legal changes, or is it really just an underserved need? Or something else?
Agreed (assuming it was a mistake). If (not that it is a simple flag) a testing flag was left on or something that caused this and went out - sure, mistake. If a decision was made for this purpose and it was like "Oh...I guess they caught us" - that's something different.
"lets you configure your ringtone, notification sound and contact photo on a friends phone"

ha! this is a joke, right?
Is it the picture that's relevant or the bio, and why?
What would be the advantage of going nodejs/CLJS over running Clojure (not ClojureScript) on the server? Would it be to have an "isomorphic" app?
On a side note the 'get windows 10' update even if hid from the available 'important' updates will come back again to install. Disabled updates altogether, still not sure if that does the job!
Why would NYT omit highly relevant context?
crap article
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I work on an SDK that's used by a lot of companies you've heard of. My experience is that a significant minority of them are using Xamarin/Cordova/Appcelerator and that we're asked if we support them more often now than we were a year ago. (Anecdotal, obviously.)
My main Win7 workstation doesn't have a lot of noticeable lag anyway. In what ways is Win10 significantly faster, in your experience?

Likewise, my Win7 workstation has a couple of large monitors attached, but five minutes setting up WinSplit Revolution gave me a more convenient way of organising all that space and the windows within it than any version of Windows I've ever used (and most window managers on other platforms, for that matter). There are a couple of annoyances, but those seem to be more to do with the graphics drivers and use of DisplayPort than anything else; is Win10 noticeably better at handling such things for you?
After reading this article I still haven't the faintest idea what I read. Tinder? Make your intentions clear, wrap it up in a few messages. Go get laid. End of story.

Sex is infinitely easier for women than it is men.
This well explains why my code has been so above and beyond buggy the last few months I almost spend more time fixing bugs than actually coding! Thank you =)
yes man!

healthy food = big pump in better mood!
Previous discussion (other URL): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386214 (170 points, 2 days ago, 79 comments)

I'll quote a comment of yk about the article in The Atlantic, but it looks relevant here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10386919

> . http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03622 .

> The paper. Basically Kepler, or to be more precise the Planet Hunter crowdsourcing effort, found a star with a rather strange light curve and the Atlantic jumped the gun and babbels of aliens.
It may be misleading but also in the sense that there's no recommendation to just drop VPN altogether. How about we just stop relying on terribly over-designed protocols such as VPN and IPSec? Complexity is the enemy of security.
Document Clustering with Python
Today it's genotyping. But if they store the sample they can sequence it once the price goes down.
Libraries are not becoming obsolete.
Fired for that?!

I hope not.
This is why I didn't use 23andMe's service. Because it's in their database, forever.

I want a genetic sequencing service where they sequence everything, put it on multiple encrypted USB sticks and send it to you. Once you confirm you received your copy, they destroy the backup USB sticks.

They never will store it on some centralized server. It will never end up on some tape backup. They will never have a copy after you get yours.

Then you need DNA analysis software that runs offline.

Most of them won't want to do that although, because it makes them a commodity service.