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Dismissing such basic security concerns as "extremely high standards" is quite off-putting. You need to earn a very, very high level of trust to successfully run such a service, as the other comments in this thread clearly show, and this comment does the opposite, at least for me.
I need to write one up. I tried a few for at least a couple of months at a time just to really commit to getting to know them.

Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Korora (Mint for Fedora) and a couple of others.

Mint was great. I ran it for about a year but then switched to Ubuntu after the 18.04 release that switched to Gnome 3. Ubuntu being the dominant installation tends to lead to better support from vendors, etc in my experience. YMMV.

I honestly don’t think you can go wrong with either. The biggest thing is going to be committing to push through any little quirks that might come up.

For example, I thought multi screen support didn’t work when I tried to use my apple DVI adapter. Turns out that apple uses a “passive” adapter that depends on software installed on the Mac to actually work. If you get an “active” adapter...everything works fine.

I also wasn’t thrilled with the Magic Mouse experience, so I ended up getting a different mouse that’s performed wonderfully.

Now that I’m far enough down the road I’ve started managing my configuration with Ansible so I have an easy way to just rebuild my install if I try something new. A lot of people do that too, it’s a good time.
I dont think its that. I think they just did a shitty job filtering this content.
Are you sure?

http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/

I can't say I've played around with it, but the above seems to indicate that such support is available - but that you might have issues with apps not supporting it (or reporting their DPI properly). There also might be problems with other layers above raw X (?) - but it seems like X itself does support it in some manner?

I once had X supporting two mice on dual monitors (this was a while back - I had a couple of CRT monitors at the time); seeing that made me think X could do almost anything I asked of it (depending on how I "asked").
I was appalled by the idea that kids in grade 9 are supposed to be taking clusters of classes for career preparation. What happened to getting a broad education (especially in high school!) so that you can think about a variety of topics and participate as a member of civic society and have a foundation to be able to learn to do whatever job is useful in the 2030s or 2040s? Kids in the 80s didn't take classes to help them become web developers, but hopefully they got the necessary skills to do that job when it eventually arrived.

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I went the opposite way with my own kid (do as well as you can in a bunch of subjects, think about which ones you like) to try to prepare him better and spare him a lot of the execution optimization anxiety. As a result: high school was much better for him...but he now has these "what the hell will be my career" and "am I taking the right classes" anxieties in college :-(.

At least he didn't jump in front of a train like a disturbing number of other Palo Alto high schoolers did.
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You still aren't going to be emailing eyewitnesses for their take.
My friend is on the other side of this fence, FBI agent, that's had to conduct surveillance of child pornographers after tips like this to collect sufficient evidence to prosecute. Luckily, he was eventually transferred into a white collar crime division.

There are a lot of revolting, but vital jobs out there. Hats off to those with the psychological disposition to handle them, even if not sustainable in the long term.
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>Summary: the anxiety is driven by pressure to do well in life, amplified by technology constantly reminding kids of this.

And by the shredding of the safety net, meaning that failure will result in a lifetime of indignity and struggle that you will likely never claw your way out of.
From the article: “We index everything, as does Google, and we do the best job we can of screening it. We use a combination of PhotoDNA and human moderation but that doesn’t get us to perfect every time. We’re committed to getting better all the time.”
That change seems to be in line with the FOSS ethos. I imagine that from the perspective of the FOSS community, using FOSS software in a SaaS product without releasing the code that drives the service is just a loophole.
It could be beginning dementia / Alzheimer's. At least that is the case for my father. Similarly to believing fake news, also lost his humour, he just doesn't get jokes any more, he takes them at face value.

I hope this is not the case for your dad and I'm sorry if I scared you, but you could consider having him checked.
Somehow during a system crash (hardware failure) the journal logs were corrupt and could not be read, and application logging was not being forwarded to the syslog facility. Our logs were not send to a logging server at the time, they were backed up daily and stored on tape.
How much can you actually cover? I've done solitary stretches over 30 days more than once and while I don't like confinement, it's tolerable. That much darkness is a big unknown, but I've always rather enjoyed the darkness. Perhaps the stint as an astronomer sufficiently prepared me for this challenge.
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The whole "front end"/"back end" thing is an incredibly unrealistic and unnecessary division

Ever since server side javascript turned serious with node.js and "full stack developer" became a thing I have been stupefied by this. The concerns are almost orthogonal: front end gets some data which needs to be presented in a browser. Chief concerns are proper placement and appearance. Back end needs to persist data and retrieve data at speed. They absolutely have nothing to do with each other. How is this an "unnecessary division"?
This is disingenuous, systemd-journald is the default in every systemd-using distribution I am aware of. The philosophy of systemd is all about tight coupling and forcing its singular vision on end users. When that vision falls apart you can not claim it is not really a systemd problem because in theory you could have gone out of your way and done something that is not encouraged.
The article explicitly mentions that students use an app called Remind. I would not call this, along with the web portal etc, social media per se, but it does approximately fulfill the ISocialMedia interface.
quite shocked those kids receive their grades by an app. here in germany we have this discussion on whether to have computers/phones in classrooms. i’d say no to all of that- except for computer programming classes.
Given the trajectory of front-end frameworks like React, I'm pretty sure front-end and back-end are going to be two very separate tracks about 5 years from now. Front end is just getting too complicated to be a complete expert in while also being an expert in writing microservices too.
Cleaner and more idiomatic version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18873581#18877403
Ethics aside.

>but images and video do not actually harm any children

Yes, they are. In the creation of that video, a child was harmed. Criminalizing the consumption of a good is aimed at stemming the production of a good.
PhotoDNA isn't ML-based. My understanding is that it's essentially a Bloom filter for images -- it'll tell you if your image is in the set of known-bad images, but it won't recognize newly created images.
I guess that’s why it’s a path. As you walk it, you learn it.
I think what I had was called a Body Guardian. It consisted of a bunch of sticky strips (photo here:https://imgur.com/I9cXw1V) that had 4 skin contact pads on the sticky side and 4 snap connectors on the other side. I'd stick this to the center of my chest just above nipple line. There were a pair of small pods that snapped to the 4 contacts. Each was about the 1/2 the size of a deck of cards. They would record continuously for about 16 hours. I'd alternate between them every 12 hours or so, recharging the one I wasn't using in the provided recharger. Also included was a customized Samsung cell phone with it's own recharger and an app that communicated wirelessly with the pods. The cell would download results from the pod & upload it to the company that provided the equipment. I carried that phone with me most of the time. When I connected a pod to the recharger, it would signal the cell phone which would download all results from the pod and upload to the company. My cardiologist got the results from them.

The pods had a button that I could press when I felt like I was having "an event". The cell phone app would popup a selection list for possible events like skipped beat, extra beat, weak pulse, etc. I can't remember the entire list. I wasn't actually required to log these when I felt them -- they were just there to let the monitor S/W know I had noticed something. I'd remove the pod to shower but not to sleep or workout. The sticky strips would stay attached for at least a day unless I sweated a lot, like in a sauna. Strips were not reusable. They provide enough strips for the 30 day trial.

My problem is PVCs (premature ventricular contractions ... skipped beats). Everyone gets these every day. I just get them a lot more frequently. Like 3 beats, skip, 4 beats, skip, 60 beats, skip, 10 beats, skip.

I think the monitoring is pretty continuous. Second hand info, so take this with a grain of salt ..... A friend told me that he knew of someone else on the same or a similar system who has a much worse condition. At one point his monitor cell phone, his personal cell phone, his wife's cell phone and the house phone all rang simultaneously. When they answered, someone on the other end told them to get him to the emergency room immediately. He was having an event and not even aware of it. Turns out it was a good thing they did that.
AHHH, so that is why Bing has 33% market share.
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Last time I heard of it, the gap between rich and poor wasn't just growing, but at an increasing rate. Has it been shrinking in the last 4-5 years? If not, the fact that the economy as a whole grew makes the problem worse.
Based on the redactions in the images in the article, those searches are returning ~75% cp. I guess that could still be a small portion of whats out there, but that's horrifying.
Basically he replaced the old congress with a puppet congress, gained control of the military, then cheated his way to it.
is such an app being made mandatory?
are parents/students being strong armed into surrendering thier phone numbers or other PII's ?
It's obviously failing miserably, like most other things they produce (or buy).
I would suggest that it fundamentally cannot keep up.

In the olden days you would start working on the family farm as soon as you were old enough to walk. This is where the life lessons were learned. Schooling was meant only to broaden horizons into more theoretical subjects that were not directly applicable to every day life.

But with our newfound fear of having children work every so often (to the point that is illegal for most children to work; children of farmers working on the family farm remaining one of the few exceptions), they no longer have a place to learn about everyday life. They only get the theoretical, and it ends there. Then, in their 20s, they're spit out into the real world and all of a sudden have to figure out the life lessons that were once given over the span of decades under the guidance of a caregiver.

We have attempted to try to bring practical lessons to school, but as anyone who is an adult knows, there is simply no replacement for actual experience. Everything you think you have learned about it ends up being completely different once you live it.
This is clearly explained at the beginning of the article.
You are my doppelgänger. I live in US, am not an American, and feel exactly like this. I don't know if my parents (not in US) felt like this when they were my age, or it is only an American problem, or only an American problem of this generation.

People used to think for their kids and grand-kids financial future. That seems so out of the window now.
Fox isn't the first, nor is it the only one, especially outside of the US. The UK tabloids have operated a lot like that for pretty much their entire existence, peddling misinformation and moral panics like they're going out of fashion. Hell, the Daily Mail even had a song written about it cause of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI

It's also pretty prevalent on the radio, and has a fair few historical precedents from before journalism saw credibility as an important thing to keep in mind (yellow journalism et all).
> I wish this post touched on some deeper reasons that the author was "disenchanted" with Apple.

It's mainly the feeling of ownership. Apple's apparently increasing hostility toward third-party upgrade-and-repair shops (see the whole "right to repair" issue) forces owners of their machines to use their support exclusively. I'd prefer to have more options for upgrading my hardware than buying a new machine. These decisions make sense for Apple but not for me. Maybe it's because they're still small but Purism hasn't set me up for this sort of antagonistic relationship.

There's also the increased sense of creativity with Linux. It feels a little bit like working with Legos. Because "unix philosophy" and such that other commenters feel are trivial wastes of time, I'm free to make the machine behave as I wish. And I like that.

Of course there are also superficial things. I don't like notifications that force a behavior, like being forced to opening System Preferences because the only button on the notification is "View". But it's also more than that.

> Having dabbled in tiling window managers, terminal music players, and many other /r/unixporn memes

I mean, if you want to demean things you don't like as "memes", that's your prerogative. But I don't use a tiling window manager or terminal music player to impress people. I use them because I like them---they're fast, the mental models make sense, they expose me to new/unfamiliar concepts, and I can customize them to suit me.

> Many of the things mentioned here (e.g., tiling WMs, emacs _REALLY?_) are not mutually exclusive with macOS.

True. I've been using emacs (yeah, really) on macOS for a decade. No complaints there.

> I wonder if the author has realized that rebranded ODM hardware (Librem and System76) and a modern Macbook are unfortunately not in remotely the same league.

The Librem 13 is easily the best-feeling laptop I've ever used.
I disagree. Where there is demand, there is profit to be made, and there will be supply. You really have to mitigate on both sides of the equation.

What I do think might merit a discussion is the definition of possession. If my hard drive caches an image served up by Bing, which was auto-suggested, I shouldn't be charged with possession.
If we could stop telling kids they need to go to school, and instead tell them why they should want to, that might reduce the stress of having to perform well.

If you don't go to school, you will not die in a gutter. But if you do go to school, you will be very well prepared for life. Tell this to your kids.
The Laravel Framework makes PHP relevant for me.

I'm not s huge fan of PHP but using Laravel is a great development experience.

Laravel is a great PHP Framework, with a great community, check it out if you haven't already.

laravel.com
forge.laravel.com
laracasts.com
https://laravel-news.com/laracon-2018-videos
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Microsoft itself was sued for PTSD over their anti-child porn efforts.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/microsoft...
> The nonobviousness requirement has become toothless in recent years; the Federal Circuit has reduced it to a requirement that no prior art exist explicitly mentioning the invention.

If that's true, then the Fed Circuit has judicislated the nonobviousness requirement out of existence, if it adds nothing to the novelty requirement.
You are assuming moral reasons where simple business reasons suffice.

That’s why I said I hoped you were trolling, because the alternative is that you have a strong opinion about something which you have thought insufficiently about.
There is this seemingly comprehensive belief here in America that is utterly embedded in culture and common assumptions that the only value a human life has is to increase the GDP and enrich someone else
Reputable publications correct their factual errors all the time. Reputable publications also fire people who discredit journalism with their behavior.
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What about using Google Cloud Shell (https://cloud.google.com/shell/docs/; free, open to anyone with a Google account) as a jump host to your servers? Or using GCE's ssh-in-the-browser feature (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ssh-in-browser) to connect to your own GCE VM (not free, in this case) and using it as jumphost?

Both Cloud Shell and SSH-in-the-browser use an in-browser SSH client, so the connection is encrypted all the way and not MITMable.

p.s. full disclosure: I work at Google on the team that maintains both of the above.
2019 is the year of the Linux desktop...I can feeeeel it!
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What I find bizarre is that there would be so much child pornography still left in the indexable public internet. I would have imagined that pedophiles would have been pushed underground long ago. Why hasn't law enforcement attacked the hosters and sources of such content? Surely finding them can't be that difficult if even bing finds the material.
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Be aware that if you want to follow this roadmap, everything in it will be different when you're half way through.
but if you use the analog hole and restream, then the passwd stays local, the restream can be made available to a remote guest accessing your LAN.
A big reason was Spain united with Florence and together took out Siena. If the Italian War went the other way, Siena would have been ascendant and Florence just a subdued duchy.
I don't see how torrent linking is a crime and Bing indexing and offering this kind of content is not. Especially when the anti-piracy lobbying crowd insisted on "what about the children ?".
Perhaps for some applications, e.g. hash keys, consistency is more important than correctness.
It might not be enforceable but it would take a very brave or wealthy individual to choose to do something that might make Amazon decide to sick their lawyers on you.

Months in court to prove innocence is still a heavy cost to pay.
> ...you can turn off and replace pretty much any part of systemd, with very few exceptions. And those exceptions (such as journald)...

I’m not sure what your link is supposed to prove.
Search engines, messaging services, and social networks that are all threatened by this should forego their competitive instincts and share information about how to combat this issue. If Google doesn’t have this issue but Bing and DuckDuckGo do, I’d feel morally bound as Google to share best practices to help them prevent indexing, suggesting, and retrieving this content.
Why any? You are way overexaggerating to prove some point.

There are some companies in SV that are doping something world-changing. Sometimes it's even for the better (often it's not, but let's not go there). But it's far from the only place these innovations come from. But coming back too the original point, it is just about the only place (other probably being Skolkovo) where you can get funding not just for outright frauds like Theranos, but for things like Juicero or what was the name of that company where they had their scientists pour liquid nitrogen around whenever investors or journalists came, to make it look "sciency".
I really wish Go (really, Plan 9) hadn't made their own assembly syntax. The fact that we have AT&T syntax to deal with instead of just using Intel's syntax is bad enough.

I understand the rationale—that you can use the assembly syntax as a sort of IR by unifying the syntax of certain basic operations across different ISAs—but that's properly considered a low-level IR, not assembly. (It's also a pretty bad form of IR for doing any interesting optimizations, which is why Go uses a separate SSA form for that.)
People are increasingly aware of fake news now and I really hope this spreads further into scrutiny on science, especially news articles about science. You really need to dig deep into the methods of a study so you can understand all of the caveats that go with its conclusions, but obviously a "news" article on a finding is going to gloss over most of that and crystallize the entire paper into one click bait sentence.
Ah yes, the largest (or second largest, it varies per day) company is failing miserably on all fronts according to anonymous commenter on HN. Sounds legit.
With this generation, pranks and insubordination are often dealt with by the school police officer! When I was in high school, I got a talking-to at most, or a blind eye because I was a "good kid". Now my old high school has a lot more law enforcement presence.
I fell "in love" with the Budgie desktop experience, which is a project of Solus Linux. However, I didn't like the Solus Linux package system; I wanted the Debian plethora of packages. So I "found" Budgie Ubuntu. Best of both worlds, IMHO. It's the closest I've gotten to a Mac on Linux. It still has some rough edges, but nothing that really sticks out for day-to-day work and play.
> you will find that the people with skin-in-the-game (administrators) were massively against systemd

Let me offer you an anecdote from my company. Now, we're a RHEL shop and not a Debian shop, but we've been around since long before systemd.

Most of our hosts now run RHEL 7, but we still have a handful of old boxen still running RHEL 6, and I've been personally involved with quite a few migrations from RHEL 6 to 7 during my time here. Whenever we retire a RHEL 6 host and replace it when a RHEL 7 host, the general consensus from the people who administrate it is "thank god we can now use systemd instead of having to deal with sysvinit". Every time I have to do anything on one of our remaining RHEL 6 hosts, I brace myself for pain, because our RHEL 7 hosts are just that much easier to manage.
The root goes back to the fact that child porn laws do not contain a mens rea. It's a statutory crime: you possessed the image, you're guilty.

Almost every other crime take in account the mind of the accused. Someone who forgot their dog food was on the bottom of the cart and leaves isn't committing theft, as long as they go back and make it right. And on the other end, we execute people who conduct premeditated murder. And also we take in account an accidental homicide due to negligence (manslaughter) as a limited punishment.

And worst yet, how do you tell a 17year364days old's image on pornhub and 18year old's picture? You get arrested for CP on the 17.364 image if you're caught and they know it's bad. Did it matter if the minor perjured themselves? Nope. Did they use a fake ID? Who cares. You're at fault.
Youth suicide rates in the peninsula don't seem all that much higher than outside-the-bay-area counties and are lower than some other states.[1]

[1]https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/213/youthsuicide-rate
I agree, especially with point one. Who would not be anxious when it looks increasingly like there is no future worth living in?