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Not at all. The support window for Windows 7 was advertised as going up to 2020. It should be possible to install important security updates without anything else changing as a side-effect until that time. It should also be possible to look up those updates and know what you're getting before choosing to install them, to make sure they really are security updates. That's not so much a matter of trust, it's a matter of Microsoft meeting the commitments it gave when people chose to buy its OS before, and verifying that this is happening without just taking their word for it.
There exist purely theoretical computer science topics. Ullman's automata theory lectures are freely (legally?) available online. There are also authors like Knuth who are surprisingly practical.

This problem goes way beyond math and programming and into physics and general engineering. There are a surprising number of engineers who can manipulate the linear algebra tools but can't actually engineer structures or figure out linear circuits. EE filter design is another good example.

If you look at higher ed vocational training as kind of a prep-school or maybe a qualification filter for an apprenticeship it makes more sense. Once you figure out linear algebra you're qualified to apprentice to someone to teach you how to actually use it.
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If they find out or even suspect it, hello felony obstruction of justice and making false statements charges.
Well, around Jan 31st according to [1], more interesting details are listed in a presentation made for SXSW [2]

[1] https://nhsbuntu.org/nhsbuntu/2017/01/31/initial-post/
[2] https://nhsbuntu.org/nhsbuntu/2017/04/26/sxsw-show-and-tell/
Since GM owns a bit of Lyft equity, is it not weird that Lyft is doing this? Maybe this is a sign that Cruise is quite far behind, and the best Lyft can do to prepare for the future (whether with Waymo or GM) is to use Waymo tech?

People are also speculating that Alphabet might buy Lyft, but it's not clear that Alphabet wants to be the first party involved in hiring contractors for cars. (I understand these are autonomous cars, but will they really be transitioning that soon?)
But if you're installing and running the security updates then you're back to trusting Microsoft. How can you verify the patches are all exactly what they purport to be?
I agree.

Additionally I believe organizations are better when they serve a prime directive.

I always shake my head in disgust when I see companies like Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby trying to promote religion, or the myriad of Silicon Valley companies trying to promote some progressive social agenda, or even fireman in uniform out on the side of the road collecting money for something.

It's not that I disagree with helping people but I think it's best done if fireman are putting out fires and Amazon is delivering goods and Chick-Fil-A is making sandwiches to the best of their ability and at the best price point rather than posturing about Jesus.

The organizations for helping the helpless should be charities, churches, and since we can't depend on these (and many have ulterior motives), indeed mostly government itself.

We don't need puff PR moves. We need efficiency. And dependable results that scale to society at large.
What do you do about legacy software? Porting all the crap they're currently using to a new operating system isn't free.
I had no idea miners could actually hit the jackpot like she did and find enough gems to become rich with.
You can attach a GPO to the OU that the machines are in and turn it off for everyone.
Yeah, and I mean this without a drop of sarcasm or joking. That's where being one of the richest countries on earth comes in. We should just pay up.
I haven't noticed much of a difference. Even if there is, there's the matter of the Mac price tag.

and the utter agony of using a Mac if you're used to Windows.

If you lack the budget for a Mac but you want to do graphic design, Windows is the logical choice.
Finally it looks like the desktop CPU market could become interesting and competitive again. Intel being pushed to release a new top of the line core i9 processor?! I cannot remember anything like this since the amd64 days more than 10 years ago.

Would love to play with one of these setups..
Awesome article on this very topic. http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html
http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/overview.asp...

That's the about page, what's the problem?
So, no offence, but this reads more like you and your colleagues destroyed a multi-million $ project by trying to save a few dollars by using Windows Home instead of Enterprise?

And you're pissed at MS because of this?
A good example of this is all the union busting the GOP were championing in the 2010s or so. The police and fire unions supported the GOP and the GOP went on to reduce some of the power of the worker's unions. Scott Walker is one of these politicians. The police and fire unions were left unharmed and are still strong.

There could be an argument that the strength of the police unions are partially to blame with the issues we are having with police shootings and lack of prosecution, among other things.
I believe some registrars default to that value after you buy a domain, presumably to make it harder to transfer it elsewhere. I've run into this with an old domain name with Namecheap, not sure how widespread the practice is.
This is one of those moments where I notice the stark difference in good vs. bad branding (in my opinion).

Raspberry Pi.

Dell Optiplex FX160.
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It's nowhere near the same, but I remember being a little kid back in '96 (maybe '97, I'd have to call up my mom and ask) and getting to ride up front with the monorail pilot at Disney World.

Anyhow, kids aren't the only danger in the cockpit. Around the same time, I rode in a Bell helicopter with family members during a local festival. An older cousin in his 60s at the time sat up front with the pilot. Trying to "get comfortable," he'd slammed his foot against one of the pedals and managed to bump the cyclic in his surprise. Needless to say, the pilot wasn't very happy once we landed.
The idea that NSA are under military control is also pretty fanciful. That almost plays against the spooks in the current situation, however. It inspires some skeptics to notice the puppeteer's hand the spooks have run up the media's ass, constantly searching for any narrative that could bring the current officeholder under their thumb.
Intel Core i9 would target the high-end desktop market
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If it works with XP, chances are it will work with Wine or VirtualBox. Where there is a will, there is a way.

But it would mean giving a huge F* YOU to established networks of parasi- er, vendors specialised in public sector tenders - Microsoft being the king of them all.
They're right to expect the target audience to know what NHS is. NHS isn't any less known than e.g. Obamacare, after all.
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Agree, but also, if price is a consideration the optiplex is clearly 5-10x the cost depending on what of the listed upgrades you get for it
On the Github page: © openhealthhub.org 2017

If you follow that address, you find this forum post: https://www.openhealthhub.org/t/welcome-to-nhsbuntu/908

NHSbuntu was launched 20 days ago, before the recent attack.
Forget the intended meaning, and focus on facts and consequences. When people have to chose between servitude and death, for whatever reason, whoever chooses servitude is effectively a slave. Good old slavery or modern sweatshop, it doesn't matter: the situation is the same.

Coercion (or lack thereof) is immaterial. And even if it's not, we could argue that there is a coercion of sorts: how come the employers don't offer better choices? Are they even talking to the government to help them offer better choices? Or do they just want to maximise profits, using whatever means necessary? Sure, their responsibility is much more diffuse and less clear cut than that of a slaver who would personally kill unwilling slaves. But from the point of view of the slave/employee, the result is the same: servitude or death.

Note that the sweatshop situation is dire enough that some people do chose death over the sweat shop. Enough of them that some shops have nets around them to prevent their employees from jumping off.
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They failed to find creators of wanacry, so they found the guy that didn't hide and made him look like he did something bad.
Indeed, the blame clearly lies with Microsoft.

One of the reasons I choose a PC over a Mac is because I want to decide things for myself. Microsoft's updates seem very Appleish to me.

All they need is large text that says something like, "You are more likely to get viruses, malware, randomware, etc if you uncheck this setting." Heck, make them confirm the choice two or three times. Some people want to risk it, some people need to risk it. Let them, it's their machine and their data.
The Dell is absolutely not outperforming the RPi on power consumption. I run multiple internal- and external- facing servers (eg multiple static and Java-based Web servers, SMTP, DNS, NTP, etc) and the total power usage is generally much less than 50Wh/day.

I can throw my Internet connection router and FTTC box on as discretionary load but that's another ~300Wh/day; it is quite staggering how relatively efficient the RPi is, compared to presumably similar or lower processing requirements in the other two boxes!

http://www.earth.org.uk/off-grid-stats.html

(You can only see the RPi's power consumption when the networking gear is pushed back onto mains.)
Having participated frequently in SO and others, I understand why it is necessary. But, I feel that so much is wasted with such a qualified audience. There is so much potential to be explored there.

I don't have a solution either. I just wish I had.
If that were to happen it would be more the fault of power companies that do not have critical systems well protected. Fort Meade is hardly the only entity developing these sorts of exploits, so you have to expect them. The patch for this has been out for a while now.
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We would be in the exact same situation if the NSA had immediately disclosed the vulnerability to Microsoft. Old software wouldn't have been updated and someone would have exploited it.
Static content in a ram disk and haproxy+apache replicas grown as required. No CDN.

Even the most "dynamic" sites in terms on non user-specific content can be turned into a static snapshot via a simple cron job. That means the dynamic content is only ever hit by one person, that being cron.

Real user-specific dynamic content must require a login and cookies for haproxy to even let the connection pass the first stage of validation.
That's a somewhat naive way to say it. Math is not code, it's not programming. You can code a Python script without knowing how does a operating system work. You cannot understand nor use a theorem without knowing the definitions involved. I can tell people, for example, that the concept of derivatives and integration comes very handily when solving differential equations that model real world phenomena (for example, fluid motion). But how can I explain what is a differential equation in a manner that's useful to someone who doesn't know what a derivative is? Math, for better or worse, tends to not have direct applications (on the other side, much like other subjects in their basic stages) and you need to advance before getting to a point where you learn something you really need and then see the usefulness of it all. It's like everything: you don't know what you need and how strongly you need it (despite how many times people will tell you that you need it) until you really have that necessity.

Starting off with the general concept and breaking down into paradigms is not always possible. For example, say you want to teach people the Stokes' theorem of integration of manifolds [1]. It is the generalization of the divergence, Kelvin-Stokes and Green theorems that are very useful in electromagnetis, fluid mechanics and probably more. The theorem says, broadly, that if you are measuring some quantity in a certain space, you only need to know how does it "accumulate" on the boundaries of that space. But that will not be useful to an engineer or physicist. To really understand that theorem and break it down you need an entire course on differential geometry, with requisites on topology and calculus. Therefore, in the analysis courses for engineers/physicists the most probable situation is that either they present you the theorem and tell you how to perform the required operations on differential forms (which, if you don't know what they are, is a complete mistery/dark magic), or they go to the specific theorems (Gauss, Kelvin-Stokes, Green) which seem clunky and completely magic again.

The summary is that to be able to know what does a theorem apply to, why does it and how to break it, you literally need to study mathematics: that's what mathematics is. And the way to study it is always backwards, it's not like physics or programming where they can show you the high-level stuff, you can see what's happening and then you start to understand it. In math, most of the time, if you learn some subject starting from the high level stuff, it is difficult to even know what on earth are they talking about.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%27_theorem
I've often thought that one of the main problems with pedagogy, at least the kind that tends towards the abstract, is that it tries to give you answers without prompting the questions.

I suppose you could argue that it's the student's responsibility but maybe that would require insight and inspiration on a par with that of the person who came up with the answers in the first place and I think it's fair to say that that's an unrealistic and unreasonable expectation.
If software worked every convincible use case, it would become impossible to use from UI perspective.

Windows 10 is focused as a consumer os, designed for users to run their applications. Similar to iOS or android.

If you want to run batch operations, use the right product.
I believe the "hoarding the fix" comment was in reference to the patches for Server 2003, XP, and Windows 8 that were released publicly for the first time over the weekend (but had been distributed previously to customers paying for custom support) [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914
I think that Dell would claim that their brand is the more valuable for their purposes.
That is a beautiful definition, thank you.
research papers can all be read by "people in the field".

its just that someone who is doing environmental physics doesn't necessarily understand papers on string theory. science is specialized, yea. if you want to understand research papers, get an education.

or just do something else. cutting edge research is not for everyone. not everyone is supposed to understand it. whats next? people demanding research papers be dumbed down to adhere to the freedom of information act?

science is hard. big deal. you cant have all the things at the same time. read the hawking books written for casuals if you want a cute little story about science.
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exactly. this video is nerd thinking 101: here's a great solution to a problem of our own devising. Look, we satisfy all the specifications!
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Don't lie you don't want to play with one of these setups you want to take it home own and make love to it. xD

16 cores is absolutely insane my first computer was a commodore 64 VIC-20 it was 1 MHz with 32kb of ram...

Hopefully this will bring some life back into AMD..
One of the other good reasons to use off the lease enterprise hardware like Dell Optiplex FX160 is that it's a great way to recycle / reuse computer hardware instead of throwing them into landfills.
It's not because of web browsers, it's because web applications of 2017 are much more advanced (and resource-consuming) than web applications of 2008.
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Who would they be marketing such a thing to? 8-core Ryzen seems like enough for most people and any more cores will probably have to be down-clocked for thermal reasons.

I thought for the high end they'd go to something like the EHP concept from a couple years ago - put a CPU, GPU, and HBM2 all on a single substrate and market that thing. Call it BraZen because it would be. Give me that in the case from their project quantum...
> math books tend to prove the most general case of every theorem first

If only! Many times during my studies I was hoping that someone had proved a result I needed, only to find textbooks that proved a slightly more special-cased version that wasn't enough for my uses.
If some journalists were able to find his identity, he can safely assume that the people behind wannacry are also able to do it.

How do you figure? Digging through information and finding out this sort of stuff is literally what journalists do for a living.
I don't think they are mutually exclusive. This module can be applied per path too. So I could set it up to turn off something heavyweight, but optional, like a search function, when CPU is high.

It also appears to be able to kick off any action, not just 503. So you could have it conditionally enact limit_req on heavyweight requests. That seems to match your desired approach.
No, Intel's i9 if it exists is a rename of the old HEDT platform.

This is also likely unrelated to AMD, with Coffee Lake coming which brings 6-core/6-thread and 6-core/12-thread CPUs to the mainstream (150-300$) Intel likely wants a new tier to relay performance segmentation when even a core i5 will come with 6 cores from Q3 2017 onwards.
> Think about your first job, and the summer jobs your high school classmates had.

Walking a dog - ain't going to be automated any time soon.
Filling shelves in a supermarket - I am not aware of any automation on the way for this, though it may be.
Whitewater rafting guide - no chance that is getting automated.
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Yes; you use the build server to build the docker image, and run tests on the docker image in a test environment.
Trust isn't black and white. Of course you can't 100% verify any update without personally decompiling and analysing exactly what it contains, but you can take reasonable precautions before installing them. You might be willing to trust that a security patch described as fixing a specific vulnerability such as the one we're discussing here is at least trying to do what it says if no-one has reported otherwise after a while, without being willing to trust Microsoft as a whole to push only genuine security updates without supervision.
> By that definition, pretty much all software has "poor security" regardless of language.

My definition of "poor" is that it must have a babysitter to maintain and patch it. Whether or not this is the case depends on the attack surface, which of course depends on the complexity of what it does. A system that has no attack surface can be very buggy without having poor security. But an internet connected machine with modern windows/posix OS that does some useful work will likely need a security patch already within the first couple of years - and that I consider pretty poor.
That delightfully detailed description is definitely HN approved.

I'll add another one: lean your back against the wall sitting upright, pull your knees towards you so they form an inverted V and prop the iPad up against your legs. Slightly awkward but workable.
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So "the internet" keeps saying for over a decade, yet the collar keeps shrinking. I think it's kool-aid.
"In 10 years they may be as powerful as today's $2000 computers."

That's been continuously true for some decades now. What might save us is capitalism in that the bean counters are not permitting $10 controllers for a toaster, those get the ten cent controllers. Also the cost of labor to program those is a limiter in that a mass market toaster with $50M of programming budget will be financially destroyed in the marketplace by a competitor spending $5K on "its a 60-180 second timer, nothing more".

An embedded swamp will form of $25K cars with expensive insecure software. Your car will get powned 1000x more often than your toaster even though the risk to your life is fairly similar.
But this is a request made prior to any charges being laid. I'm actually curious what the legal situation would be: if you had been charged on other evidence it would likely be obstruction, but is that a charge that can be laid without any reason to suspect a crime has occurred?
Vitamin D, for a start :)
Can't wait! Postponed my Ryzen purchase as rumors started to surface about June launch of 16c version - this could allow running 4x GTX 1080 for ML and provide significant boost for movie rendering.
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I still wonder how a company can go from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in such a short while. It was all so good, everything seemed to work in a cohesive manner. Now everything, especially the UX seems to have forgotten how to do it's job.
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I'm not better than others, the contrary even. Everybody learns to do this when the nearest gas station is far enough that you will probably not make it there by the time the fuel warning lights up. Now it has become a habit for me.

Assuming that things work the same elsewhere as they do around you is akin to self-deception.

I'm probably leaning towards the power user category of computer users nowadays, but I wasn't born that way I learned it the hard way by having to deal with Microsoft's crap for years. Now it has become a habit too.
Yes you are right. Good detective work.

It turns out the vimeo video I linked to was private. It was sent to me by a video editor on upwork who I am paying to add B-Roll etc. into it.

I will have to resubmit... perhaps after uploading everything to a YouTube channel.
>and the last fatal US passenger airliner accident was in 2009!

Asiana flight 214 (San Francisco crash with the fake names announced by a major news outlet) was in 2013.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
I do not know how people can entertain this myth that linux support is as expensive as windows. The stability of linux applications is incredible compared with the brutal changes of windows (xp -> vista/7 -> 8 -> 10). Remote administration is far more easier and deployment on many machines is trivial. Machines rot is a lot slower, reducing the cost of machine replacement.

IMHO, the main cost is replacing the old window support guys by linux support guys because people a rarely competent in both and erasing the windows way of thinking is very difficult. The new team has to learn the specific needs and manner of NHS. Once they have the same experience as the previous team, the cost should melt.
There's no need to guess, at least in the PC version of Windows 10 Microsoft explicitly says this is the case. No one should be surprised that this is the case for Windows, given that other speech/shape recognition is similarly degraded with cloud support turned off.
It's not weird at all. Lyft (like Uber) wants to be the universal middle-man, not an in-house captured app of General Motors. They want to be the marketplace where consumers of transport call up the nearest self-driving resource, whether that's Cruise/GM, Waymo, or someone else.
Well, there were Microsoft updates that did make all your files inaccessible.

Try doing the Windows 10 anniversary upgrade if you run bitlocker and have customized your UEFI.

Windows will screw up, bluescreen, and destroy the bitlocker keys.

I’ve fought with that before.