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> because the web browser (at least, any with that claims to care about security) is required to maintain a separation between the "page" and the browser that frames the page, or you trivially enable "phishing" and other UI-impersonation attacks. Native has far more flexibility.

I'm not going to deny that native apps have more power to interact with hardware resources—though I would question whether that's a good thing for most applications I use—but this isn't a good place to draw a distinction. Window managers have to maintain the same security guarantees (look at the trickiness behind the impersonation protection in Windows Vista's UAC for example), and that's all the browser is in this context: a compositing window manager.

> If you want a way to develop applications that can be distributed as easily as documents are on the web, it would probably be a good idea to create some VM base portable application format that was actually free of stuff like HTML/CSS. An HTML replacement that worked more like a GUI toolkit would be much nicer for app development.

Besides the fact that this is unrealistic, I don't see how this would end up significantly better than the modern Web platform. JS is already faster than Objective-C in method dispatch. Use flexbox and the "document-oriented" layout goes away. Use simple graphics and your painting will be quick.

Honestly, speaking as someone who's measured this stuff a lot, the main thing that's slow in the Web that native doesn't have is style recalculation and layout. This is not insignificant, but I think any portable application delivery platform needs both of these. Native often gets by with hardcoded style and pixel layouts, but that obviously doesn't work on anything that has to run on arbitrarily many devices. Add in restyling and you pay a performance penalty, but redesigning the system from scratch isn't going to eliminate that penalty.

It's a common meme that "just reinvent the Web around applications and it'll be faster", but I have yet to see specific suggestions that would both preserve portability and aren't implementable in the existing Web platform. That's not to say browsers of today are optimally architected, of course.
Like the commenters on that article say and like I said: I fully believe this goes for most computer users. I would like to see these stats for experienced coders during a day long coding session. The challenge stands anyway.
But why? Double taxation of the same group of people with the same behaviors is equivalent to a higher tax. So why complicate matters?

I guess you're suggesting that it's a means to tax the special privilege of incorporation (and the protection it offers to investors). But that seems like a bad reason. Again, why not just tax the investors directly for the privilege?
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As I understand, the point is: a simple and practical bash command to http-serve the current directory (implemented in Go).
> People don't pay for web servers now?

Back in the day, you had to pay for the web server software, as well as the hardware.
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We've been using Zube for about a month and swapped it out for Asana in our workflow. (I know, I know). I've been following everything Jen has been doing since her 180 website/day project.

The devs have been really receptive to our feedback, which seems self-evident in this thread.
Huh? Do you really think that a closed app store is the only way of distributing applications?

Did you sleep through last 30 years of computing?
Can you explain why my idea doesn't make sense? (Real question, not a challenge.)
I think the problem is he uses so much similie and metaphor that you have to work to follow him, and come to expect some kind of philosophical insight as a reward. He goes a long way around the merrygoround to get to the point, and in the end never really suggests anything practical we can do today.
Meanwhile, from two comments earlier:

'more influentiable people would be like "Oh wow I can totally get rich selling drugs as long as I don't startg using it myself!"'

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I didn't even think about Usenet when responding to your comment about forums on the other thread. Still, users of modern web forums would probably view Usenet as archaic. The web platform provides a lot more room for experimentation, because a hundred thousand forums can run a hundred different forum packages with a thousand plugins. The user doesn't have to install an app, because any client-side code is automatically downloaded and run in a sandbox. Even without JavaScript, one can do a lot with HTML forms. If we returned to a standardized application-level protocol (in this case, something like NNTP) accessed by native apps, I think the result would be stagnation like what happened with Usenet. And how many apps for specific forums would a user be willing to install?
That's Ctrl+T, URL, Enter for most desktop computer users. I imagine that the weird, inconsistent, hard to decipher and ultimately confusing symbols that Apple chooses to display for some reason don't help people that are forced to use OS X.

I bet that most people don't know about all of the secret handshakes in iOS either, like the four finger pinch to show running tasks and switch between them.
Presumably you would only add this to the train cars not the track. Also electric motors can generally also act as generators so the additional costs on new cars would probably be minimal.

PS: Cars only weigh 85,000 lb or so which means you only need to store something like 10kwh depending on top speed.
I hate to say it, but it doesn't have to do much with race, but more of the perception of "status" of the person.

I have been in Sweden few times (I am white), and when people hear me talk, and know that I am visiting from NYC, I get a bit of more friendlier service.

Including getting in a club as a single guy, because I had a california ID, while some Swedish guys were being left outside.

Swedes have a high affinity for America in general, and are extra friendly if they hear you are from the States, and often (with some small talk) you will get preferential treatment.

In NYC you will notice this "differential" treatment according to your status every day. A simple experiment you can run: Go to a good cocktail place/bar with normal t-shirt/jeans clothes, and go to the same place dressed sharp. You will get a lot better and faster service if you are dressed really well (and your perceived status is higher), while if you are dressed like a schlub, you might not even get in the place.

I think it is not just about race, but more of the perceived status of the person. It happens that most countries in Africa have very low GDPs, while most countries in Europe, and north america (US and Canada), have very high GDP. If you are an average person from those countries, your purchasing power is higher, and hence you will be given the preferential treatment.
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> We simply can't imagine what it is like to live in an oppressive system without freedom of speech.

Nice try. Humanity is not so spectacularly unobservant. Most of us are stuck in an "oppressive system without freedom of speech" half the weekday. (With exceptions, like college.) School where we're constantly told to STFU and move from room to room. Great training for corporations in later life. And the US has the biggest prisons; if you're the wrong color or poor, school trains for that with patdowns and metal detectors.

I have to agree with Marc Andreessen who tweeted: "Wouldn't we be shocked and dismayed if the NSA wasn't doing this? What did people think all those billions of dollars of funding were for?"

No, sentences like this are common in propaganda. Not to convince you of untruths, but to convince you that everyone else believes these untruths and that you're weird. In this case, it flatters anyone who knows better.
You know, this is all very well, but the Windows 10 app market is pretty much non-existent. You know who really uses .NET on Windows? LOB applications, front ends to complex systems. The kind of thing you don't see in the app store.

And that market is better served with, you know, a compiler, that runs on the command line, on a machine under a developer's control.
You can argue that Time is an illusion. You can argue that our intelligence allowed us to break free from the harsh laws of nature and evolution too soon, so we never acquired the necessary sensors and abilities. Maybe if we had to compete against multiple equally intelligent species, we would have acquired them. However, I think that using a "vision of Time as it really is" sensor correctly would require a far more complex and energy-hungry brain, so it's probably not "worth it" from an evolutionary perspective. Or maybe it's out of reach of carbon-based organisms.

However Mathematics are different. It's not a perception. It even allowed us to discover things we could not perceive, and explore things we cannot perceive. It is independent from us and the universe. And if you still want to throw away Mathematics, you'll also have to throw away logic, which is kind of an issue. The only thing one could seriously argue, is that something better than Mathematics exists, like General Relatively is "better" than Newtonian mechanics. But maybe that is out of our reach, too.

Meanwhile, repeat after me: I believe in modus ponens, set theory and monads.
You need to enable the "Standard Keyboard layout" in PC Settings.

However, you don't need a key to exit Chrome full-screen from a Windows touch device. Just tap near the top of the window and Chrome should display the link that says "Exit Full Screen".
I'd be pretty happy if we had upvotes, downvotes, and a bikeshed button. If bikeshed comments could be filtered that'd be great.
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You're wrong. It is a battle. Look at how quickly the swords come out when anyone brings up C# and Java or Python and Ruby or Backbone and Angular. Any discussion involving developers and the tech they use quickly devolves into all out verbal conflict. People LOVE to argue about this stuff because it gives them something to do besides actually doing anything productive.

It's all rather sickening, really.
The U.S. had the best in uranium before the war started in a warehouse in New York:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkolobwe

Nobody else had the raw materials in such a useful form. I say this is the quirk of history that gets overlooked when it comes to the race to get the bomb.
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They're not forced by the structure, they're forced by the other kids. If she wants to sit and read and keeps getting hit in the head with paper airplanes, she gets annoyed. When do they have some of organized chaos, like all the kids in the playground playing the same game, she's pretty happy with that.
>DNA is also known to correlate with intelligence.

But not with race. You can't tell which race someone is by their DNA, because, and here's the key point I think people are missing, race is a social construct based on appearance, not a biological reality.

>picking embryos with gene combinations known to correlate with higher intelligence will cause the resulting humans to have higher intelligence on average. But imagine if genes correlated with higher intelligence occurred million times as often among genotypes of white people than among genotypes of black people. Would then picking embryos based on skin color genes instead of intelligence genes themselves produced more (on average) intelligent people? Obviously yes.

Sure, if you assume from the start that skin color genes are correlated with intelligence genes then it follows that skin color is correlated with intelligence. I'm saying there's no reason to make that assumption to begin with.
I think NASA is great, all that space stuff. I remember when I was in college I got a personal tour at the Johnson Space Center, and I got to put on a glove that had been worn on the surface of the moon (it was in a closet with all the used space suits). However, despite my interest in science and space, I feel like its a lot to ask of average (tax paying) people to pay roughly 800 Billion dollars for a tiny handful of useful spin offs. The satellites have great military and commercial usefulness, but a lot of money has been spent that would have been better to leave with the people that made it.
You are talking about high advancements in the compiler research. But is there any statistically significant performance difference between the code compiled via latest GCC vs. OpenWatcom (which is unmaintained for a few decades)?
They indicated that the other models were using the change of the atmospheric variables in their initial conditions. (Neumann boundary conditions?) The models may actually be fundamentally different.
Would you really want to bet your investment on a piece of land when you could instead bet on the US continuing to exist as a sovereign state? The only place you'd possibly bet on land would be London, maybe. Otherwise, I'd rather have my money in Treasuries.
>>All is not positive for the white man though. There is the 'white tax' where prices are instantly increased when a white person is the one shopping and people are always hitting them up for money because white people are perceived to be wealthy.

They're not wrong, they assume a healthy looking white man in Kenya must have money. Honestly, it's hard for me to imagine any situation where a healthy looking white man in Kenya would be poor.

Also, as a American born Nigerian myself, when I'm in Nigeria my relatives there have to do the bargaining. I might look like every other Nigerian, but the moment I open my mouth revealing my "oyinbo"(white people) accent, the price doubles for anything.
I'm only going from the OP. The savings they describe seem minimal (6mil) whereas they are dealing with a notoriously expensive tube system. Carbon savings are great, but one should always ask if that same money might result in greater carbon reductions if spent elsewhere.
Which is among the reasons it's so terrible to select applicants to higher education based on the race listed on their application form. It's not 'equality of opportunity' if we see people binning an application because someone is Asian, which is something we do see statistically.
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Why do you assume freedom of speech exists on college campuses?
> A common crippling meme among democratic societies is to absolve representatives of responsibility and instead keep insisting everything is the fault of citizens for not going to the ballot box, voting incorrectly at the ballot, and to keep trying again and again until they get it "right", even if there are obvious inefficiencies in the democratic process that must be corrected. Where even the most ardent, statistically aware rationalist will succumb to their emotions and begin spouting feel-good drivel about voting. None of this is to be admired. It is to be condemned as insanity and self-hatred.

Well put.

However, democracy is inherently about the masses. I agree with your statement because I often find myself at odds with the masses (or apparently just ahead of them by 15 years, while they play catch up and groupthink transmutes freedom struggles into poor ideas and even oppression), and do not believe that tyranny of the majority is some ideal to strive for.

However, there are only two ways mass surveillance is going to stop - through technical means or through political means. I believe the technical means is the only practical avenue (even if there were political will to end the state-sponsored orgs and control the big-name mass surveillance companies, the business will continue behind the scenes). But I won't detract from those attempting to do so through public means. Even if they do not succeed in [ae]ffecting the government, I would be quite happy if when talking to an arbitrary person there was a good chance they shared my values about privacy. That's culture.

And to appeal to the masses, you have to fluff their sense of self-importance. So I'll give someone a pass to operate within that framework when they're fighting the good fight - if they were to tell the herd followers that following the herd sucked, they would convince no one of anything.

I would love to live in a world where most individuals' primary measure of an idea's validity was not the number of other people who believe it, but I think that's an even loftier goal than ending mass eavesdropping.
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One thing that essentially every organization has is specialization (job roles). When I was working as an engineer, my problems focused around engineering. I simply didn't have the time to think about company-level problems every day.
Yeah, Usenet isn't exactly the example I would use as a paragon of usability. Even in 1996, I remember it was hard to set up. It's actually a classic example of how the Web won: the frictionless nature of typing the URL of your forum over NNTP configuration dominated all other considerations, even if the Web forum ran a bit slower when you got there.
It turns out, driving out all of your physicists and mathematicians because they were Jewish and gutting your academic system wasn't quite the smartest idea in the world.
> It's not like the U.S. is debating whether women should have Pap smears every two years or every three years.

As an American, that sounds like an fairly accurate summary to me. A sizable number of US elected officials are fighting to defund/shutdown the largest women's healthcare provider in the nation.

But regardless of any opinions on that specific issue -- It seems completely rational to me that the international community might consider American currency "higher risk", when we're increasingly threatening to shut down our federal government over reasonably-straightforward issues that most developed nations resolved decades ago (like healthcare).

I assume our multiple recent debt-ceiling crises probably add to that risk profile too.
Pretty much in the same boat as you. The one thing I am making sure is anything that goes into the database is properly validated and sanitised as mentioned by the other user. Keeping keys as environment variables rather than in the files would be other. Write lots of tests if you are not already doing so. But at the same time also keep in mind that there should be a fine balance , in my humble opinion, in putting in time to make your system secure and moving fast and getting the product out to market. Unless of course your product sells security. Cover your basics and add in more protections once you get a product market fit.
GPLv3 Section 5. Conveying Modified Source Versions.

> You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

> c) You must license the entire work, as a whole, under this License to anyone who comes into possession of a copy. This License will therefore apply, along with any applicable section 7 additional terms, to the whole of the work, and all its parts, regardless of how they are packaged. This License gives no permission to license the work in any other way, but it does not invalidate such permission if you have separately received it.

It really does not work like you would want it to. Technically, you only add the GPL, so the work will then be licensed under both licenses at once. But the GPL is so restrictive that this doesn't make much difference in practice beyond maybe retaining the original license text.
I moved across the country to Comcast land. I had a decent job, so I signed up with all services (HD, phone and internet) After a few months, I realized I didn't need a phone and didn't care at all about HDTV. So I called and told them I'd be backing down my service to Internet and normal cable. I got a guy that informed me that I was under a 2 year contract and had no choice. He was absolutely terrible.... like so mean and insulting. I took it for a bit then I realized, I don't have to be yelled at by a CS rep! I told him that I felt very uncomfortable with the way he was talking to me. He got even more belligerent. It was surreal, I have never had someone speak to me like this. He told me I was stuck, and that his hands were tied. I hung up. I called back because I realized he might just have been full of "poo-poo". I got another CS rep. She was very pleasant. She said, "Mr Nobleach, it appears you're under contract." I said, "that's fair, can you send me a copy of the signed contract?" she replied, " well, your acceptance of equipment equates to a signed contact". I said, "ok, the contract I didn't sign will suffice. I do need my attorney to look over it". They agreed to knock me down to no contract and whatever service would work best. I can't say it's the right course of action. I really did have an attorney wanting to look at my "contract". I'm sure they'd stand no chance against Comcast. But it did get me out of some contract I never knew I was in.
How do you dare living your life doing something entertaining rather than doing something productive? To the gas chamber with you!
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> Did you sleep through last 30 years of computing?

No, but mobile devices are overtaking PCs for a lot of computing activities, and on the popular mobile platforms, the only choices are a closed app store or the web.
Another point of view on why it is not striking that we can model heat conduction well. The heat equation is well-posed, which among other things, means that the solution depends continuously of the input data. And we observe this in many physical systems, that small changes in the cause produces small changes in the effect, therefore, we should expect from good mathematical models of reality to display this property.

Now, orbital mechanics do display unstable behaviour. I don't dare to adventure on how people work around this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-posed_problem
And that 'nice' used to mean 'foolish'? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nice

And that 'fizzle' used to mean 'fart quietly'? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fizzle

And that 'wench' used to mean 'child'? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wench

And that 'meat' used to mean 'food'? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=meat

Etymology is fascinating (a word which itself may be related to the Latin 'fascinum', or penis).
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