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The Real Name Fallacy is social nostalgia- if we all could go back to the village, then everything would be good?

The solution for this and fake news, would be chains of trust.
I do not trust my government, i do not trust my media, but i know two or three guys, i would trust too know. If these guys vouched for the guys vouching for the knowledge i see to be true, i would trust that.

In return, i can fade the crack-pots opinions with a filter, based upon a similar chain of trust.

But this system would need to be decentralized, it would need to allow to withdraw this trust in an instant. Centralize this, and the inherent distrust breaks free time after time again.
I don't think that's what most people familiar with the topic believe. It's just considered to be very hard (and some think it's so hard that it may be practically impossible for a very long time).
They seem to host on Google cloud, so if the story becomes popular enough here it could give them some incentive to change that, considering Google's traffic fees..
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> you simply have to look around during workshops and speakings to see 90% of Apple systems

Are these perhaps apple events?

But seriously, that numbers seems hugely exagerated, at least from the events I have been at. He is probably talking about a specific field for these talks, but this is quite a silly statement imo.
20K bankers to shortly find themselves working in a regional office and wishing they could relocate back.

Passporting doesn't require moving your employees wholesale, you just setup a subsidiary within Europe and trade with that legal entity for European trades. A skeleton office is all that is required.
Biased as well, but for that other side of the world: Atlassian Engineering culture is amazing, and repeatedly ranked best place to work in Australia. Atlassian is also very actively hiring in Sydney with great relocation experience (feel free to poke me on that).
Using “figured out their password” instead of “hacked” could change ppl mindset
> The biggest issue isn't UI - GTK easily solves that.

I laid out above why this doesn't solve anything for products that haven't been developed with that in mind from the start. These are the majority of commercial software.

> Support costs money. That isn't feasible for a ~3% market share OS.

That's part of the reason why many vendors didn't (and still don't) support OS X either, whereas those who did turned a tidy profit. It's certainly worth it if you just charge for it. And there's always the prospect of growing your market share with an underdeveloped platform.

Personally I think it's largely psychological. Vendors assume Linux users will likely not pay for professional software. But with more developers switching over that could change.
> Of course, there's nothing stopping some sneaky JS that runs later from reading the data and sending it back through another channel, but that's another story.

Already covered :P
It's fascinating that someone installs and configures MongoDB and doesn't stop to think: "Hey, maybe this shouldn't be exposed directly to the internet". I mean you wouldn't do that with something like MySQL.

Some sort of analysis of the purpose of these directly exposed MongoDB instances could be interesting. Are they being used as a backend for JavaScript applications?
when i go to startup events/meetups it's not uncommon to see 80% Apple laptops.
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I don't see why yield has to be a macrolet rather than a labels.
Ironically enough, when you click "buy tickets" it takes you to Ticketmaster.
> "Actual systems programming" mostly does not involve unsafe code.

True. Or slightly rephrased: Most of the unsafe code is centralized to some core pieces.

From the POV of a PG dev: The big problem using something like rust for something like PostgreSQL is its it's portability, stability and uncertainty about where things are going. We do five years of back-branch releases (and for many that's not even enough!). Language and tooling around the new crop of languages simply aren't mature enough for that yet.
Real Names on the internet only create problems and the things it intends to solve get shoved into a backroom and forgotten about.

Moderating the content is far more effective if done right. It's probably a bit like IT security and should be thought of as such.

Real names are something you can do but it's most likely on the same level as whitelisting programs and hotglue-ing all unused ports shut. Even with all that, a determined hacker will just use the office copier and the installed OCR Text Recognition to infiltrate a microsoft office script. (DEFCON talk that I recommend to watch).

There is no 100% safety from trolls and every defense measure also hurts legit users in some way.

TL;DR Know your threat level. Real Names are not necessarily the thing you want and most likely are very rarely and still won't be 100%.
I find that many people posting questionable views are rather >50yrs than <14yrs.
> But do you trust Assange more than the 17 US intelligence agencies? And the actual president?

Yes, probably. I find Barack Obama to be a deeply evil person. Assange I'm not sure what to think about. It's plausible to me that the Russian government hacked the DNC and/or Podesta, but it also seems plausible that many state and individual actors may have done the same.

I need to see proof that the Russian government did the hacking, then I need to see proof that the Russian government in particular passed the data along to Wikileaks, and once those two conditions are satisfied, then I will offer my sincere gratitude to the Russian government for exposing illegal behavior on the part of the Clinton campaign and the Clintons themselves :)
I know. I actually talked to you guys and you were quite helpful. Unfortunately the product management wasn't ready back then. And, frankly, inventory management alone isn't enough in our case. Our shop system is used by non-tech savvy people and they still need to be able to create products, variants, etc. in a user friendly way.
> With few exceptions, engineers aren't hired for a specific team; they go through bootcamp where they get exposure to all parts of the stack and tasks from different teams.

How is that good? You essentially don't know what you sign up for.
Doing animation and still (admittedly haven't produced anything yet as I've only had this setup running for a week) mostly motion graphics and advertising focused.

I'm working in Cinema 4D and Octane render (render engine built from the ground up for GPU) with a single GTX 1080, coming from a 2.7 i5 MBP with no dedicated GPU the difference isn't even comparable.

Good idea of what you can expect from a single 1080+Octane is in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXmsUnbPCM

The industry is at a bit of a crossroads from what I can see, of course huge studios have investments in render farms and CPU based tech but for individuals and <10 person studios it's all moving towards GPU rendering.

Being able to run a renderer on your desktop machine that can show the end result in near real time completely changes your workflow. It's no longer just using experience to make guesses with lighting and materials then waiting minutes to see if your hypothesis was correct.
I've seen brick by brick construction before in peruvian shantytowns, but they lived in the houses the entire time.

They would start with bamboo stakes, woven bamboo mats and sheets of black PVC plastic to construct temporary walls and and claim squatting rights on the land. Then they would slowly buy bricks and stack them up to supplement the walls.

Eventually they would buy cement to construct proper walls and proper roofing materials (the black PVC sheeting was used as a roof until then)

In the long term, they might repeat the process and start on a second story.
Aquired log of such a hostage taking, contains the IP of the hostage taker, but beware it could be obscured by a botnet or similar.

Update:
in a different log he used a different server for the attack, suggesting he might be using innocent servers, therefore I removed the log.
>Trying to remove anonymity will not 'fix' trolling and harassment. After all, a lot of people simply don't care what others think of them, know they're too far away to be affected (in most cases) or just have nothing to lose to begin with.

While that is true, many times what person A considers to be harassment, the person that is harassing them does not consider it to be harassment at all.

This is not to say the person is not being harassed, although I have seen many examples of people claiming to have been "harassed" but when I view the twitter history for example I do not consider it to be harassment. That said often abusers do not self identify as abusers for example a Wife beater does not believe they are abusing their victim.

>>Facebook and Twitter struggle with this, partly because it's impractical to manually moderate a site with so many users and partly because their model doesn't really allow it.

Facebook and Twitter struggle with this because they refuse to create the clear rules for participation you stated other sites do. They proclaim to be "Free Speech" platforms welcome to "All Ideas and discussion" while creating mushy and lose rules that are highly subjective and makes enforcing those rules problematic.

Where as the sites you describe are normally subject matter sites so it is somewhat easier to define a more ridged rule set.

Facebook, twitter, and to a lesser extent Reddits problem is it impossible to be both a "Free Speech" platform and a censor... These are mutually exclusive concepts
Tried Spacemacs 3-4 times because of org mode. Most specifically inline code block execution, through org-babel. Still not ready to change over from vim, though.

What I haven't done is check neovim. Any comments regarding the potential for inline code execution?
Really? I always had the impression that getting a visa to work in the US can always lead to delays, even if you're a company with a good HR department. Wouldn't you have to first try to fill every job with someone in the US, or at least pretend to to so?
Betteridge's law of headlines—and this article seems to have no substance either, a couple of sentences and then some links to some other blogs.
> Yes.

I see the issues you are stating, but not so much a qualitative change.

> serious risk of being harassed and endangered in real life by an army of trolls

This type of trolls (aka "stalkers") have already existed decades ago. Back then I had no trouble finding such cases documented in the Usenet archives. Of course, these happened to fewer people, but then, the net was a lot smaller, too.

> For many, preserving anonymity isn't a matter of "politeness" — it's a matter of personal security

How does this differ from what I wrote? "... is considered impolite, if not aggressive ..."

> And this is without considering people living in countries with oppressive governments, where using their real name could see them arrested, beaten and imprisoned.

This may really have changed, considering that those countries joined the internet relatively lately. Yet, it still seems that this is covered by point 3) "... is considered impolite, if not aggressive ..."
Could you throw a calgon into it? :)
Sorry to be that guy, but I always had the impression that Inkscape is way more cumbersome and difficult than it should be. And it seems to me that there is very little progress.

I don't use/need vector graphics editors very much, but I now bought affinity designer. It seems to be way more professional, and is quite affordable (basically in the same price category as Inkscape, at least for me).
That's completely nuts. Tried to upload it* to http://compresspng.com/ , and after what seemed like a few hours (Australian upload on cable is 100x slower than the download) I got a 72% reduction in size to 1604kb. That is, an identical image if you absolutely must insist on that quality.

Without having a checked, I'd venture to say that a 200-300KB jpeg would look very close and more than good enough for the purposes of the article header.

*) https://blog.coralproject.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hat...
I know Chromecast has been said a few times, but to expand a little.

You can 'cast' you whole desktop of a specific chrome tab. Youtube videos and many streaming sites can cast directly to your TV.

I currently use the VideoStream[0] extension to play local videos on my TV, but soon VLC should be able to do this. (It supposedly works in the beta releases, but it doesn't for me YMMV)

Plex can cast directly to your TV.

[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...
Same here, a lot of people used linux and the machines at university all had a linux option to choose from apart from windows, which was the preferred choice for many courses.

I never really considered developping on a mac until I had to do it for my first programming job.

The thing is that it felt better than programming on Windows (because you do have a neat terminal), but it still felt inferiour to programming on linux.

It felt like being less in control on a mac and I for one did not like the UI of the mac at all. I'm sure the latter is purely subjective and the former is maybe due to me not looking around enough to figure out how to do so on a mac.

Still happy to not have to develop on those machines anymore though.
Inkscape is amazing -- I've used it on and off for over 6 years, and it's never let me down.

Protip: It's PDF import is amazing.. try it.

The only thing I miss is a workable layers functionality.
I'm in the US and I'm not sure if you have the kind of security theater in Europe that we are subjected to here, but in the security line I always see people struggling with taking off and putting on their shoes. I always wear sneakers that are easy to slip on and off, it's a small thing but it makes going through security less stressful for me.

Now I personally like the gentle hum of a turbofan engine but I've heard from friends that a good pair of noise cancelling headphones can make traveling much more pleasant if you're bothered by the noise.

Also, due to my frugalness I've always used really inexpensive and thus heavy and poorly made luggage when I travel. Recently my large suitcase broke and I didn't have time to purchase a new one before traveling so a friend was kind enough to lend me their expensive aluminum rolling suitcase. Needless to say I am now saving up for some nicer luggage. Traveling with a well made, sturdy, and most importantly, light suitcase made the whole trip so much easier. I highly recommend investing in some nice luggage.

Hope this was of some help, I'm not sure if these were the kind of tips you were looking for.
Looks great but not available for Mac users.
This job should be made a institution, a office of last appeals, allowing to reopen every case, should new evidence surface or the involved persons, methods and legal proceedings give cause for reasonable doubt.
> I have yet to see any even remote indication of partisanship, especially pro-Democratic partisanship by CrowdStrike or its ownership.

Maybe you missed the part where they were hired by the DNC or the part where the ownership is not from the reality-based community: http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/about/experts/list/dmitri-alp...

But the biggest indicator is their attribution based on internally coherent narratives instead of facts - that's not how actual digital forensic experts operate.
That data is highly questionable. Suggest trying to get some quotes for the different modalities. Via ocean is cheapest by far. To deliver to the final destination the price increases in order of barge/rail/truck.

I work for a shipping company btw. Don't have experience about the prices globally, but that source divides data from two completely different sources. That often doesn't end well.

There are companies tracking the average price of shipping a container across various trades.
Inkscape is great! Its PDF+Latex exporting functionality makes it perfect for diagrams in papers, exams, and whatnot. The editing tools are also very nice.

It also edits PDFs, which I found pretty cool! I use it to make airline tickets not take up a full sheet of paper. To be honest, if you export the PDF back out, it jumbles some of the fonts a little, but that's mostly OK.
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Could someone more familiar with MongoDB please confirm that this does not show any backup of data? Maybe MongoDB does not log just looking up data?
I also use it for a test web server and vim/nano. Docker opens up a host of new opportunities like an ANPR instance or trained OCR/Identification/scanners really unlimited options
Sounds plausible, though could be tough to handle the mismatch at those power levels. Then again, don't the use cavity resonators driven at MW levels for particle beam accelerators?

The paper says the thrust is somewhat non-linear with respect to drive. It does nothing, then comes on quickly.
Not sure why that means we should be OK with the current situation though. That logic is along the lines of "The U.S. has done some imperialistic stuff. Nazi Germany did some imperialistic stuff. Let's call it a draw."
Note that Google is not only in the browser business but also the fingerprinting business. They want a future where everything is on the web and where they have an acceptable way of seeing everything everyone is doing.

Realistically, most users use off the shelf hardware so for every machine there are millions that are specced exactly the same. That's not very useful for fingerprinting. It would be a good idea though to stop adding more discriminating features to browsers but as you imagine, that is not the direction Google wants to go to.

For every fingerprinting trick there is an obfuscation trick though. People just need to keep checking the fingerprinting scripts. A great advantage of the web is that you can in fact see the source code.

Also, we expect publishers to embrace the post-ad world. Why would it be easy to block ads so much they stop being viable, but impossible to stop fingerprinting?
Many database systems are by default only exposed to localhost, you'd have to specifically change the settings to be able to talk to it from outside. That's at least the case for Postgres and MSSQL, not sure about MySQL.

I don't see any reason that a database should allow to listen to any address without authentication. There shouldn't be a real world application requiring this.
OK there we go, then. A compiler that conforms to the ABI generates code which clears the flag, if necessary. Interrupts preserve the flag. Thus, the flag should not be surprisingly set on entry into memcpy. If so, there is a bug.
> But this system would need to be decentralized

Back in the times of Usenet, this already existed: The client-side (hence decentral) "Scorefile" and "Killfile".
I've shared by real name on Usenet for decades, nobody got crazy ideas (though I've encountered quite a few crazy people). "Calling my bank and doing something silly" doesn't work in the country in live in. There's not a lot people can do with just my name.
I have not been at events related to startups. Thank you for giving some insights into where they might use that many apple laptops.

The events hosted by my former university have a _few_ macs, but mostly I see people running Linux or Windows.

And then there are the microsoft-oriented events, but it is safe to say these do not count here :-)
Wilders only scores high in the polls and never in the actual elections. Stop selling bullshit.
I assume it'll do reasonably well in niches where financial services companies already have a substantial Dublin presence (generally related to tax advantages: aircraft leasing and services for MNCs headquartered in Dublin). I suspect it might be attractive to British fintech founders considering a move out of London for passporting reasons too.
Whether that's anywhere near enough to offset the net impact on the Irish economy is another question
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Anyone knows if v0.92 now supports hi-dpi screens? Last version didn't and I couldn't find anything in the release notes.

Otherwise a superb product, in particular if you are on Windows or Linux and you can't run Sketch.
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I've always found Inkscape surprisingly easy to use in comparison to other open source tools (like for Gimp for example).

I use it for almost all my diagramming needs (scientific publications/documentation). Closed source tools are almost certainly better in one or more respects. But it's certainly good enough for me, and it makes me feel happy and secure to be using an open source tool.
Inkscape is free, so unless you mean using stolen property, which is not free, there is no comparable vector image editor on the market for that price.
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I also have been affected by the same "hack".
Turns out I have simply forgot to start mongod with --auth option, even through the I had created users for different databases, including the admin!
Looks like in "non secure mode" it allows logins with existing users as well as non-authorized.

I understand why the authentication is disabled by default, but it should fail to start with a DB that has users with roles and stuff.
With the success of things like recurrent neural networks for text generation, an entirely computer-generated journal would be interesting in itself.
The database was dropped within ~1 second of the connection, so either it was a very small database or he didn't have time to take a backup.
Actually I would eventually consider re-opening a Facebook account should they introduce an alias/identity system so that I could manage easily and separately my différents circles.

Of course ads profiling of each identities should also be kept separated. And of course a strong privacy statement backed up by some technical information on the architecture should also be a part of that change (Apple iOS security guide is a good example to follow IMHO).

Unfortunately this look so far away from the current Facebook approach to new users "hey trust us type in your IMAP credentials so we can scrape all your acquaintances by snooping all your mails!"
Yes! I did it around the beginning of 2016. Anyone can use the techniques, and habits they talk about.

One thing they imparted was that frequent testing is better for learning than repeated reviewing. This caused me to put more emphasis on testing tools and spend less time on reviewing.

For example with vocabulary in language learning rather than review my textbook, I use an SRS like Memrise to test me, incrementally every day.

It also helped me realize how much structure, or behind the scenes help we loose when we leave an environment like university. I would say at the very least it will help you shore up some gaps in your personal learning style.
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Personally i came from Windows being a gamer for most of my teenager years so i used Windows to develop initially. But all solutions like using Xampp, over Linux VMs to Vagrant where painful in some way or another so i switched to Macs in 2009 and never looked back (still have a Windows Box for rare gaming). Today i run docker for my local projects but since OSX is Unix it works much better then on Windows.

No with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, this could change though and Windows could become viable again.
This works surprisingly well. I have a xeon chip which probably helps but its great to have this flexibility