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Not really. We've already been installing only security updates, in light of the instability problems and silliness like the GWX campaign. It looks like this might be the point at which we consider installing Windows 7 updates to be a higher risk than not updating at all and just switch the whole thing off.

My concern is whether they will stop shipping the separate security updates that have already been released, which are useful for patching a new system on first boot.
Hello everyone! Here is a post I wrote about my learnings entering Phoenix, Elixir and the Erlang Virtual Machine.
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A fire that they are showing they do not know how to control.
Not all stereotypes are true. People have stereotyped others in the past and some of it had to do with other people being accused of being a witch or possessed if they have a medical condition as epilepsy. In Africa, some albinos may also be accused of witchcraft and killed or their body parts taken. As far as people being accused of the supernatural as I mentioned or as being vampires, there's plenty of wrong stereotypes that come to mind. I'm guilty of stereotyping but I also know that man fears what it doesn't know. Sometimes groups make up reasons to fear others because they don't know much about the others and their potential threat levels. Stereotypes are useful for protecting the self and group sometimes but in a public circle (internet) where you make known your stereotype around those that you do stereotype, if it's not true, it's just a given that it'll cause issues. No one cares if you stereotype and keep it to you or your inner circle but it's obvious it'll cause issues in large public forums.
I find it very strange that the author spends a couple paragraphs talking about definitions and yet does not offer a definition of "stereotype" because I consider a lot of his stereotypes to actually be generalizations.

Of course this raises the question of the difference between stereotypes and generalizations. I did some searching but didn't find anything I would call authoritative and I don't think I could define them myself in any meaningful terms.
Google launches video calling app Duo for Android and iOS
The portable PC could double as a counter weight for the headset.
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There's usually much more variation between individuals within a group (say, all white people) than between groups (say, white vs. asian people), nevermind individuals from different groups. Judging individuals based on aggregate statistics about their group would be foolish in the extreme. (Not to mention morally dubious, at best.)

Or course it depends on the size of the group, and you can construct artificial groupings to make the above false, but let's just say that all the 'standard' groups are covered: ethnicity, skin colour, gender, sexuality, etc. etc.
But on Windows 7, you could choose not to install updates you didn't want or to uninstall them later, and many people did.

The obvious suspicion here is that bundling the changes is an excuse for Microsoft to force updates people don't want, Windows 10 style, onto people whose Windows 7/8 systems currently allow them to choose.
You may only have moments to get away from a dangerous situation. You don't have time to consider whether running away from a large black man is racist. It may, in fact, save your life some of the time at the cost of being mildly offensive.
Update: the conclusion of the article mentioned :

"For the fix, Amazon did quite a few things. They sandboxed the browser, fixed the permissions issue, removed fc-cache.sh, and most likely patched Webkit. Webkit still crashes when executing the PoC. Unsure if that's because of the process running out of memory or some other issue."
The lightning icon is a carrot, you're assuming malice where it doesn't exist. The lightning icon will go away when being fast is the expectation.
A minor nitpick: wrong syntax highlighting is worse than no syntax highlighting at all.

The example in the home page is hard to parse and understand.
> Some of the least successful people I've ever met, can have absolutely sage like advice.

You learn from mistakes. Unsuccessful = many mistakes?
Let's break it down by gender, a woman is an order of magnitude less likely to mug you than a man. The difference between groups (female or male) is MUCH larger than the difference in the groups (white male vs. black male or white female vs. black female)
This encourages worse behavior. If an update breaks your XP era business software, and it's cumulative, you now have only one choice: Stop using your business software or stop updating Windows. Most businesses will stop updating Windows. Rather than blocking one bad update.

I actually had a vendor tell me LAST WEEK that the solution to their software not working was to uninstall one Windows Update from two months ago temporarily while the issue is resolved. That's a plausibly reasonable scenario, unless, as you can guess where this is going, you have Windows 10 deployed. Then the "solution" becomes "remove all cumulative updates for the last two months", which is a colossal joke and non-option to which my answer was "uh... no".
You just described the reality I live in. Where do you live? I want to move there.
As people get older, their minds tend to filter out most things around them as a consequence of familiarity. Hence, they become oblivious to details of their environment. They lose their sense of wonder and their minds become less active and eventually stale.

When I was young, I often wondered why adults seemed so "stupid" when it came to learning things, and I do think this is a big part of it. As we get older, it's necessary to make a conscious effort to pay attention to details of our environment, and to be acutely aware of the great uncertainty found all around us, even in everyday life. This is the difference between a person who becomes a "stupid" adult, and one whose mind is still sharp as a razor at age 70.
SOMEONE SEEMS TO BE TRYING TO SPY ON VERACRYPT'S SECURITY AUDIT
That was just an example, I don't really know much about black people in the US.
I know ruby. I worked with "merb" for a project (before it became rails 3) and use it for shellscripts from time to time.

Still JS is somehow more pleasurable, but I guess it's a matter of taste.
It's problematic for dependency management. It's almost perfect but what would be better would be to be able to switch easily between different $GOPATH. One per project.

We can already create multiple ones.
The issue isn't so much battery life, as it is heat dissipation. How does that thing handle cranking out that much? Granted the new 1000 series is pretty damn efficient at what it does(my 1070 is amazing for the price), it's still a lot for a laptop.
> and out of nowhere I got the Anniversary Update (must have triggered during my sleep).

I have noticed that thanks to UEFI (or something related to it) my laptop can no start doing things in the middle of the night even if i put it very firmly to sleep earlier.
The fact that African Americans, on average, might be significantly less likely to be creditworthy - is not racist per-sey, it's just a fact.

But denying someone credit on the basis of their race is probably racist.

Why? Because having 'black skin' does not make you less credit worthy. It's a correlating factor.

In fact - the 'dangers of stereotypes' are exactly that: making prejudiced decisions based on race etc..

Creditworthiness should be established on the basis of your job, job type, income, education, history of making payments etc..

There's no way on earth it's moral or fair to deny credit because someone is black - in the same way it's ruthlessly unfair to convict someone of a crime because they are black and 'theoretically more likely to have committed crime'.

I'd argue that this is the basis for the systematic racism that exists in the system, and that we have to get over.

And I'm not a pro-PC guy - by far. I'm not even very cool with affirmative action. But we need to treat people as individuals, not stereotypes.
>He seems to be saying that in the face of incomplete/ambiguous information, people should form judgements on other people on the basis of racial/gender/physical stereotypes.

It looks like "He seems...people should..." is overlaying a prescription that Lee Jussim didn't write anywhere in the essay.

Instead, he explicitly wrote the opposite: "Nothing in this essay should dissuade anyone from continuing efforts to combat discrimination."
With the added side affect of a surplus of labour putting downward pressure on wages
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But you're cherry-picking stereotypes that are mostly incorrect (and look outright archaic). Whereas Lee Jussim (for example) has found that most stereotypes are mostly accurate.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jussim/unbearable%20accuracy%20o...

Interestingly, stereotypes based on political party membership are consistently inaccurate.

As the Kahneman quote I posted elsewhere shows, the reality is that resistance to reasoning using certain valid stereotypes is an ethical position, based on a desire to build a better society. It has costs in terms of sub-optimal decision making. In a democratic society, we should acknowledge this, rather than falsely and naively claiming that stereotypes are false.

> I would hate to be judged and discriminated against on the basis of stereotypes, and hence, I refrain from doing the same to others.

Other people are not obliged to make bad decisions because of your feelings. They should make the ethical decisions they feel are right.

Statistical models are quantitative reasoning based on stereotypes. Every time you get a credit report or an insurance policy, that's based on nothing but stereotypes: just legally permissible ones, built into mathematical models. 25 year old men who buy red cars have a certain accident rate, therefore you're going to be charged for that rate.
As a full stack developer in NYC, I wont entertain a job for less than $130k/yr + bonus. I have bills and a family to support. Before I left Houston (3 years ago), the going rate was $35-40/hr for contract work. My first job out of Highschool was $18/hr in a mom and pop consultancy, but that was 11 years ago now. I can't imagine working for hourly for $20/hr and having bills that I have to pay.
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Had something close to that the other day. Windows was trying to update my GPU driver, failing, and causing a automated recovery. "Fun" times.
These carrots drive ad dollars, hence my distaste to calling this a "open standard".

As an example, w3c got together to say solid HTTPS websites get a green color in the URL bar. Banks, etc get a higher, more highlighted green color for a special class of certificates. These are open standards that everyone agreed on.

I hope this makes it more clear why AMP is not a open standard.
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The article gives a lengthy argument to show that "stereotypes are inaccurate" is inaccurate.
>8) Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant:

Interesting that he's not afraid to point the finger at Russia while still relying on them for protection. My respect for him just went up.
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"That article" refers to the NYTimes article linked in the previous post not Marco's article. I was confused at first too.
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Welcome to modern personal computing. There are only two types of people, users and developers. And developers consider all users drooling idiots that needs to be protected from themselves. Power users, admins, none of those exist in the eyes of the developers.

And you see this across the board, from Microsoft to Apple, and even among the Linux user space developers.
and "You're welcome, @NSAGov. Lots of love."
Unless this leak was part of that very protection arrangement, or part of some larger play. It's possible Snowden had all this stuff and the timing works out (right?). And let's not forget the mysterious "it's time" tweets from Snowden a few weeks ago.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted here. Isn't this a plausible explanation until we have more evidence?
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> There's usually much more variation between individuals within a group (say, all white people) than between groups (say, white vs. asian people), nevermind individuals from different groups.

This is statistically illiterate. Let's say you have two sets of random variables X and Y, both from Normal distributions with standard deviation 2, where the mean of X is 0 and the mean of Y is 1. Knowing whether a measurement comes from X or Y will still allow you to make more accurate predictions, even though the within-group variance is larger than the between-group variance. For very large groups, this applies much more so. If you have high-dimensional multivariate data, it is possible to assign individuals to clusters very accurately even if all individual measurements overlap substantially.

See for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12879450

> Not to mention morally dubious, at best.

This is the real issue: the use of certain stereotypes is a political and ethical debate, and those against using stereotypes should stop pretending there are no costs in terms of sub-optimal decision making. There are defensible ethical reasons for being against some types of discrimination based on valid stereotypes.
Unfortunately, under Microsoft's current terms, it looks like OEMs won't be allowed to supply new machines with Windows 7 or 8.1 preinstalled after 31 October this year.[1]

So as things stand, if you buy a new PC with Windows after that date, you're getting Windows 10 preinstalled whether you like it or not. In some cases, it looks like downgrade rights might still apply, but that involves a lot of hassle and may depend on the willingness of your OEM to support it.

Whether the OEMs will actually stand for this, I don't know. Vendors we buy from still tend to supply Windows 7 Pro by default on new business laptops, for example, which suits us (small business environment) fine since we have no interest in moving to Windows 10. If Microsoft turns around in a couple of months and tells OEMs they can no longer sell what their customers want to buy, there's going to be a mighty fight.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifec...
> Closed source communication apps are not appealing to me

And they should be forbidden, according to (admittedly a broad interpretation of) the telecommunications act of 1996, [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
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"You skim the HN comments about life in the valley. You haven't bothered to read the article so you do not realize it's a satire. You decide to comment anyway."

"Six minutes of continuously refreshing the page later, you get a reply from a throwaway account calling you out for not even skimming the article. You contemplate deleting your comment but decide that would look even worse. You then wonder why you don't set up a throwaway account of your own for your less thought out comments."
To me, the obvious endgame is a 3D reconstruction of the image from the perspective of your eyes, so the screen becomes a "virtual window". I tried to pitch this to Skype a few years back, it felt like a no-brainer given that they were then recently acquired by Microsoft (which is big on similar technologies with Kinect and lately HoloLens). But they were completely uninterested! I think they were so used to Skyping that they didn't feel it was a problem.
Agree with dharma1 that the FP32-based cloud services could be a lot useful for deep learning than the Tesla-based Clouds.

Baidu has actually built Titan X -based servers for themselves as they saw it as the most cost-efficient way to build the system:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/22/baidu-eyes-deep-learn...

Same logic would probably work in "deep learning" clouds if there would not be the licensing issue.

And this conversation got immortalized to that slideshow as well for selecting hardware parts for deep learning systems: http://tinyurl.com/zzhj9vr
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I think that many times we don't give enough credit to how amazingly lazy our brains are. Whatever they can generalize, they generalize. They don't track images, they track edges and movement (I oversimplify, of course). They can hear garbled speech in a crowded room and somehow figure out what the words are -- even if those aren't the actual words.

To some degree this is good. We don't want to go around testing every chair we come across to make sure it's good to sit in. But it has its downsides as well.
The more interesting question is that are any proofs behind the theory around? For DNCLeaks, for example, not really.
I actually liked the original matrix mobile client on android, but vector.im still rocks! (And of course vector.im will keep getting updates while the original matrix client i believe will not.) Regardless of the client used, I agree 100% with your comments on using open protocols such as matrix.org; that's going to be the future! Kudos!
Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs
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Qualcomm shuts down Ikanos
And tiny phones as a status symbol. And making sure you are the same network as your mates to call them for free after 6pm and at the weekends. Those were the days.
Definitely too low for US or anywhere in the western world. It depends how much experience do you have, and if you're talking about full time or consulting positions.

I'm based in London, so prices here are a little different (and lower), but I wouldn't consider anything less than $40/h.

For reference, I have 10 years experience and the lowest I can go, as a freelancer, is $60/h -- full stack engineer.
Would have been great if it ended with something like:

Your friend emails you a satire on Bay Area life. It isn't perfectly written, and it surely doesn't fit your life, but it fits so many of your friends' lives. You continue to read it anyway. Something about it bothers you, but you post it to Facebook, because you're sure that it will get many likes. Your friends love reading satires about their lives.
Another good reason for dropping the M is in my opinion all related to how good another company got at creating gpus... that's Intel.

Intel first eliminated the whole aftermarket entry level gpu industry and will probably eliminate the middle tier also.

As Pluma states

"If you're going with a dedicated graphics card in your laptop, battery life is already out of the window, so you might as well get as much processing power as the thing can handle"
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Waiting around to eat provides more time to see and be seen at trendy joints.
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I don't like the UI, looks like ubuntu, the finder is probably one of the worst designed ever file manager (no parent folder, need to enable hidden files display in the terminal) , some coreutils works differently (like sed), some basic windows management is missing (always on top, windows resizing). At each new version, tools like valgrind are broken for some times. You can't set keyboard shortcut easily, and need admin rights to do so. Still better than windows to work thanks to the unix base.
Lots of students buy MacBook to have an unified experience when working at home, because there are little differences with dirent/stat/xattr/acl, and "it just works (tm)".
I prefer spending 1 or 2 hours settings something to work how I expect it to do than an inconvenient pre-set software.
The hw has issue too, there are turned on 24/7, there are screen burn after some times (like old CRT), and the down left angle of the screen are burned (mostly visible on white, it's dark like something behind the glass burned it). We're using an old magic mouse which is a joke (can't right click without removing the left finger of the mouse, the 360 mouse wheel never works, need a mouse-pad to work, and doesn't work on white).
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Yes, that was my first thought on experiencing the problem. It's often quite hard to do (that's why I mentioned "How well is the essential issue of fan and heatsink maintenance considered in the design of the laptop?" above). One of my laptops requires taking the whole thing apart from the keyboard side in order to get at the heatsinks below, so I gave up.

And of course there are laptops on sale which are glued shut.

Air duster works reasonably well but can force dust further into cracks.
WebRTC handles the actual p2p audio and video, but has no method of signaling the other party for attention to actually join the "call", -- no concept of userid, so you'd always need to send a link to your WebRTC service via another channel - SMS, WhatsApp, Email, IRC, ... or some other "new" service, that's really just a wrapper to handle the userid / notification problem, and uses WebRTC underneath.
Slightly off-topic but I also tried to watch "Zero Days" since the subject interest me. But, with the constant exaggeration and dumbing down of the subject, I could only watch about 20 minutes before I turned it off.

If you want something technical that is not exaggerated, you better watch something else. If someone have an recommendation, please share.
From the article:

> This means that the ability to pick and choose individual fixes to apply will be removed; they'll be distributed and deployed as a singular all-or-nothing proposition.

So, if this "update" contains the Windows 10 nagware or all that fancy new "telemetry" that I definitely do not want, I don't have an option...

I currently run Windows 7 on a VM on OS X, using it only to (a) digitally sign documents since the hardware key that is provided only works on Windows, and (b) do my annual IT returns with an Excel utility that again, only runs on Windows. Looks like (b) is no longer an issue - there's now a Java utility that does the same thing. Now if only I had a way out of (a), I'd get rid of Win altogether.
Running away from a large man because he is black is strongly offensive if there he is not threatening in any other way. And if he is behaving threateningly, why would you be reassured if he was white? I find this a very odd argument.
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If you wish an introduction to NoSQL there is a good webinar at http://www.prohuddle.com/webinars/nosql/NoSQL_Distilled.php, which includes discussions, examples and comparisons.
Great work,

I am looking forward to recompiling my code to see how things are. I have had my side project running on a set of Go micro services compiled against 1.4 since last year.

What can we expect from Go 1.8?
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Maybe your business model has an intrinsic flaw.

For instance on LinkedIn, how many of the 400M strivers do I really want to network with? Yet I (or my bot) can see them all.
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The one thing I hate about hangouts and I could never figure out how to change was when searching for someone to text. It would search googles list of people with google+ and not my contact list first. Random people I don't even know named Mark, for example, would show up for me to text.

Still makes no sense to me.

I'm on iOS.