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As an autodidact software developer, I've been lucky enough to avoid these self-doubts.

I still experience them, but the difference is I don't wonder what my peers think: For the first few years I was teaching myself how to code, the harsh open ego of my online community tore me down every step of the way. Mainly hackers and engineers on IRC.

There's nothing like hearing a peer or mentor tell me my work is utter crap, with full unabashed honesty. One of my most vivid memories is a fellow developer telling me my abilities were amateur and I wasn't qualified for the job, straight to my face, in front of all my peers. This is only possible in a pseudo-work online environment, with non-coworker peers. The impersonal pragmatism of online social groups has been a valuable crucible for suspected impostors, and it forces me to examine myself and see my failings. Harsh, and often false, but no longer a question lingering on my mind.

Free with ads, or paid with less ads is not much of a value proposition.

To the ad-hating, legitimate fans of the publication, there's probably minor difference. That's the group this plan is targeting.

You mean like an in-house metal server? Well because I need to adjust resources on the fly sometimes, or experiment with different configurations, or test upgrades on my own.

That's why you use a virtual machine.

If you're wondering why to use a scripted provisioning system, it's to have that code under version control and shared between developers.

You can become conscious of them, and then you can choose how you act.

The real question is, when does a person have free will? Ever? We consider people to be adults at some point. What that means is autonomous agents. I don't want to live under laws that do not assume this.

On the other hand, that technology and research is always going to be there. Let it loose in public and we can understand it, becoming naturally immune.

Is the alternative a naive public shielded from manipulative media? How long before that weakness is exploited, and by who?

The key to that immunity is education, of course. A little skepticism is all it takes to deconstruct any message with a motive.

Private media collection.

Call me a skeptic, but there's nothing philosophically "pure" about a locked down hardware platform where discrete components are all dependent on each other and NOT user serviceable.

7.5 hours daily, but some times 6 during the week and about 9 on the weekends.

Ideally it would be whatever I felt like, for maximum cognitive and memory benefit. I hate being on someone's schedule.

That's true of older versions with security updates too.

You don't sound like a developer, more IT/ops side so let me try to put this in perspective.

The existing security holes in their code are going to be given equal weight with these concerns. Now unless you know what their bugfix backlog is, there's no reason to think security upgrades are a bigger priority than say PCI audits or whatever.

Unless there's a demonstrable value to fix this OVER all other security issues, only then would it make sense to hustle with a emergency fix.

And the thing about emergency patching is that you can't just toss your "solution" into the product. At the very starting line of sanity you need to research the risk an upgrade will have on your system. Don't think of the environment the system is hosted on, but the code itself.

That takes someone really smart and expensive to get pulled off whatever they were working on that generates money and focus on this security issue (over all others). They research, document and propose an upgrade path. Code will need to be refactored, tested system wide and then QA/UAT will chew on it. Data may need to be migrated or transformed (in production, risky!).

And that's all if they know the right way to do it! If you're unlucky you get a panicking CTO or boss who (read this article on hacker news and) demands a quick fix. In that case you upgrade the server, throw code up and fix related bugs for months. Who knows, maybe none of them will be security holes!

I barely use it myself, but for friends and family who need tech support I always install it. It reduces so much risk.

You don't need to detect a machine, astroturfing now is mostly a manual process.

Recognizing the same topics repeated is enough, even if it happens over time. The longer the time between posts, the less effective the campaign. The less cohesive the topic, the less effective the campaign. This already exists somewhat, machine or human is almost irrelevant.

I know that feeling. Working at home seems ideal so it takes some real maturity to realize when it just isn't working.

My employer goes out of their way to make my workspace comfortable and I greatly appreciate it. The commute still sucks, bring on the self-driving cars!

It seems like any kind of mass-comment system would be easy to detect. Simply limiting the post rate and comparing to other posts would work just like current anti-span filters now.

Existing passive solar air conditioning is underutilized.

Some ideas are very old, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_chimney

Books record ideas, but the medium itself is usually bottom of the barrel commodity trash. Where does that paper come from? Who printed it and how is that business run?

Are those companies worth saving despite a changing medium? That's the real question.

Ah, you're right. I was thinking about the 120Hz vs. 60hz issue.

Most 4k screens on the market have limited refresh rates compared to lower res.

That's why it's news.

Asking private citizens to enforce the law in that way is a totally absurd and intellectually void hypothetical.

> What if there was a law that required you as a private citizen to spy on other private citizens?

I really don't see how any of this is incompatible with the checks of warranted search.

Compulsory digital surveillance sucks, don't do it, but if it's required else the data is lost forever then it's required. (if you agree with the legal access to private data)

This is not complicated, you don't need to make it so.

Either you believe police should have access (with warrants) to anyone's information or not.

You can argue all day about warrant-less wiretaps, but that's a red herring.

If the law should have power to discover data, denying them the power to do so via poor tools is a half-ass way to hamstring a policy that we agree is necessary.

Or we don't agree, and you want to bar the law from private information at any cost.

I've had the same experience and the opposite opinion.

Then you fall back on backups. These are all very old admin problems.

A developer who thinks xml is holding them back in anyway is not a very good developer.

What we see here is the death of broadcast communication.

Print, Radio and Television are granted a monopoly of audience attention. (If you can pay the gatekeepers.)

Now the loudest voices face a real crowd, people who will return the volley.

Does this hold us to a higher standard? Is the end of one-way broadcast the real death of journalism as we know it? I hope so.

Well you could argue they would have no real ability to financialize ads if they didn't do real work on those products.

This reminds me of the "Every dev should be senior" mindset that is all too common in this industry.

I don't see how supposing every devOps specialist is replaceable by average engineers is a real solution.

Lots of theory here but surely there's some solid science that can address these ideas?

I think you answered your own questions. Abuse of power isn't separate from a rational threat.

> Also, the content can range anywhere from a quaint series of animal photos to an intense discussion about bitcoin to graphic pornography, all in a single thread. That could spook brands that do not want their ads displayed alongside not-safe-for-work material.

Reddit is too adult for ad networks. Can they grow up?