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It's an utterly pointless question, it's like asking can something happen that you could never predict? this is pretty quasi rhetorical question which has absolutely no value or argument behind it.

Yes by not destroying some natural habitat and causing the white tailed ferret to go extinct humans might bring their own extinction because in 3048 they are going to become the natural carriers of the Z virus bringing the oh so anticipated zombie apocalypse.

But meantime in the real world from what we know so far from both research and experience negatively affecting the environment causes negative effects on the human civilization.
Beyond the "email me" example, as an author of free source projects for the past several years, I can say that if the project is used and if users have access to the source, they will find and fix bugs- not all, but more than would have been otherwise.

On the flipside, if few use your project, bugs can last for ages. I've had this experience also- distributing projects with free source that don't work, and not finding out until much later when I noticed it myself.

Making source free is not bad for security, because it's not about high visibility. Security problems are more frequent when the vector of attack is larger, e.g. when your car can be stolen because they didn't anticipate misuse of the entertainment system that was accessible via the carrier.

Related to that topic, Chrysler has recently been paying hackers to try to find security flaws: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/chrysler-launches-detroits-fir...

If the source is free or open, then people can find flaws more easily, so that they can be fixed. You want to be able to find bugs fast and fix them quickly. When you don't, that's when you get into serious trouble.

As a warning though, source being free and open and well-used doesn't mean that bugs can't go a very long time without being seen, after which point they are everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
Let's define the IWP as "The International World Police" - the IWP. For any given single-human actor within an IWP, they then have to carry two sets of methods of accountability. One, to the nation-state they call home. Two, to the IWP.

The (military historical) literature is full of examples of this not working well. Making it Canada instead of the US, and using the UN as an IWP, the rules of engagement in Bosnia led to ... extremely widespread dissatisfaction.

I don't think an IWP is consistent with the mores and reality of the nation-state.
I may be wrong, but my unresearched feeling is that extroverts promote these kinds of things, and introverts (like myself) are made to look bad for not liking and thriving in these imposed environments. Not team players.

One size doesn't fit all.
Fantastic article. Great examples, some of which I benefit from (English as a lingua franca for example) and some that are pretty horrifying.

The realm that I most notice this happening every day is "political correctness". My Facebook feed is dominated by people tripping over themselves to attack racists, sexists, religious bigots, etc. Great. But many times they go way too far IMO and crucify innocents. However, there's no way I care enough to stake my reputation on defending innocent strangers. So they continue to rack up positive feedback on their campaigns.

For example, this article is popular right now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/top-10-most-sexist-thing...

Most of those remarks are totally fine in my book and are only sexist by willful misinterpretation. For example,
how is it not newsworthy that a recent mom is competing? Even the article calls it "an incredible feat!" Then Ledecky, who "swims like a man" because she is strong enough to use the traditionally male stroke, unlike all of the other women. Girls "standing around as if they're at the mall" was just an old commentator picking the most casual place he could think of. And when he tried to defend himself by pointing out the Cherry-Picking Fallacy (he has covered women's sports for many years, so they picked one sentence online that might be misconstrued as sexist to crucify him online when his body of work is totally fine) they actually cropped his defense and cherry-picked from it as well.

Anyways. Things like that annoy me because I can't say them with my name attached or I'll end up cast aside. Nobody is interested in rational discussion, the Most Intolerant does always win.
The requirement for HTTPS everywhere is growing on me, especially after recent papers indicating that traffic is altered even on backbone provider networks.
So is it that we've lost the lessons learned from Vietnam about the draft? Holy cow.
Try to stick around HN a a little longer and you will learn quite a bit.

Scaling is the issue. Developers make too much per hour to make a thriving business out of one-to-one tutoring.
Think about the metaphor: an invisible cloud of poison being sprayed from far above us and descending over the entire population to make us sick and control our minds.

There is such a thing but it is dispersed through radio, TV, and the Internet, not airplaines. It's particularly thick during an election year.
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I think this is pretty much exactly right. It's also tough to accept that the world is a messy place with a lot of loose ends that will never be tied. Religion used to 'make sense' of the what and why for a lot of people. But when you don't have that, and you don't want to think we are all just the result of a huge amount of luck, conspiracy theory gives you something to believe in.

Much like religion it's also next to impossible to argue against, because you're arguing against belief and not reason. You can show someone a thousand pieces of evidence and they'll say "that's what they want you to believe". But a single piece of 'evidence' in the opposite direction, however spurious, is enough to yield a thousand "I told you so / I was right all along" comments.

With chemtrails, for instance - you can point out the science as much as you like, but as soon a believer reads something like the cloud seeding over Asia [1] or the germ war testing off the UK [2], you might as well give up. Similarly with pretty much any other conspiracy theory.

[1] http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-and-indone...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalsc...
That's simply to give web developers another incentive to use TLS. There is no real technical reason beyond that.

>any resource, even an image, being loaded from an insecure endpoint results in a warning

By nessesity, unsecured resources undermine TLS's integrity guarantees. An unsecured image on my bank's website would mean that anyone who MitMs my connection can swap that image to show a message that appears to be from my bank.

The internet is no longer the trustworthy place it was in the eighties. HTTP2 is one attempt to make developers catch up with ye that.
Ok, that would be possible, having an independent system checking the car for modifications. Though, this system then again could not be open for the user to modify.

And of course, this all would basically ban all cars with modified software from the roads. So you can modify your cars software, but not use the car in public traffic.
Ethical argument against it: these companies are deeply unethical actors. The necessary and sufficient condition for their existence is their ability to take advantage of the gullible. But there is not and never will be the ability to swamp the gullibles' time with the time of highly paid professionals volunteering to troll. So it's really just a petty attempt to score internet points while not improving anything and selling/promoting an assumed moral high ground. I'm pretty sure that a majority of these moral attempts at trollsling end up being posted as a blog post, which itself is indicative of the real motivation.

One might compare it to a school encouraging an environment where a heinous bully can do something really bad, and then an internet mob retaliates by making the bully's life a living hell. Yeah, you're hurting someone bad, but don't pretend it's motivated by trying to improve the world.
Glad you asked :) http://community.hyperrr.co/t/the-tech-behind-hyper/19/1
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is this about when free masons the small genocidical intolerant criminal minority enslaved russia in communist revolution and commited genocides?
This is just a rant. Why is it here?

It's very easy to advertise what's not in food if it never had it anyway. This is just good marketing. Many foods are kosher or halal or vegan or whatever because as far as the majority is concerned it's a checkbox feature that doesn't affect you and maybe even works as a signal of quality. I'm having a hard time seeing the issue.

On the other hand it seems like nearly everything having to do with nuts is labelled as processed on machines that also process peanuts so apparently economics wins much of the time.
I did wonder about that but there were two or three flashes in quick succession. It was spookily close to matching up with that 22:29 flare prediction in Cassiopeia, but it was at least half and hour before that.
Oops, thanks much, it should be fixed now.
Yeah, the interesting thing about conspiracy is that they're almost always self inconsistent: they believe in government/ elite having "super power", and yet also incompetent enough to cause fuck up that would require the existence of said conspiracy to cover things up.
I'm going to skip the main points everyone else is hitting (because I've been touting gplv3 for a while), and get straight to what I think is the most important part of the evolution of foss.

I think FoSS is the way to go, but, I think the main problem is with the many eyes theory. To cut to the chase, I think the future of code lies in loc reduction and simplification of code in order to combat the problem of too much complexity.

The linux kernel is now at 10million loc +! I dont care if you are Red Hat, you dont have enough eyeballs to properly audit that shit!

Thats what I think the future of software should be, is simplification of code, maybe some refactoring, so that the barrier for average user to look at and understand the code is lowered.

That and perhaps an AI/machine learning code reviewing system that can perform the function for those not able but that still want the benefits of foss.
Thanks, best is to download the apps from https://hyperrr.co, check out the docs at http://community.hyperrr.co/, then create some stacks and share any feedback in the forum.
The problem is that these conspiracy theories started to attract believers that there was global geoengineering occurring and some even started to think that this "geo-engineering" was to mitigate climate change. That kind of craziness needed to be debunked along time ago
That does sound like the most likely explanation. Thanks.
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Do you have a link to data saying that is the case? I've always figured that would be the case, but I have never seen a study/meta-study about it. A quick Google didn't yield much either.
This book explores the topic of why people believe weird things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Thing...
I've used React in four projects (after many projects in Angular[1])

1. In terms of best practices, React for serious development is a disaster just by itself. Read on.. This is what happened in my first project (when I didn't use Redux). By itself it is only good(and great) for POCs. And React-ecosystem is complex to start with. React-Redux, Router, Axios, Webpack make React complete for use in any serious project.

2. React makes web-componenting pretty easy. However it is counter-intuitive when you start thinking about the all important Smart Vs Dumb components separation. I don't know about others, but I like to see components as behaviour-complete stuff and not just view-complete. React with its ecosystem does things in a view-complete way. Yes, it does result in much much lesser bugs.

3. React is hyped because of its simple examples. As I said earlier, it makes it easier to create behaviour-complete web components. But then the ecosystem says "NO. NO.. Think in REACT way". That is not wrong but its complex. The first project in React was a disaster because of the complex state management I did without using redux or flux.

4. After working with React - when I tried Angular2, I moved back to React again. And I did React+TypeScript which makes coding even easier. The only thing I still like in Angular2 is now-not-default two-way data binding.

Do I love React? May be not so much - but its the best I have seen. But I love the way my apps remain bug free without a lot of front-end testing code. And once you add TypeScript, development is just a bit more easier and bugs get thrown up at compile/transpile time
YouTube videos make it true and it is a topic of discussion among people in small towns. The proof is all bogus, doesn't matter; They believe that the flights are in a grid, so I show them with apps that what they are actually watching are documented commercial flights of people travelling overhead. There just happens to be many such flights. There is no convincing against the will, at this point someone will need to invent a conspiracy that created the chemtrail conspiracy for it to be believed. Such a waste of time, try to avoid.
Sure!

1) Develop your Python application ;)

2) I have a batch file build.bat which I use to build the deployment folder. This sits in the root directory of every application I develop, and is customised. It basically calls cx_freeze via the command line rather than bother with a setup.py file - I find this method far quicker and more convenient. An example...

cxfreeze -OO -c CaptainsLog.py --include-modules lxml._elementpath,lxml.objectify,win32com.gen_py,requests.certs --base-name=Win32GUI --target-dir ..\CaptainsLog_DIST --icon CL_new_256.ico

This is for my Captain's Log program - a 3rd party application for use with the game Elite: Dangerous

cx_freeze will build and include all the necessary Python and Qt libraries to ..\CaptainsLog_Dist

I've had to ensure cx_freeze included some required stuff like lxml and those other things because for various reasons it didn't automatically include them when they were not specified, so be aware of that possibility when attempting to freeze your application.

3) I then can test whether the build/distribution works by double-clicking on the captainslog.exe file which cx_freeze has produced.

4) If all is well, I then run Inno Setup. I have a file captainslog.iss which I use and change as required (e.g. new version number). This will basically take everything which is in the CaptainsLog_DIST folder, and package it up into a suitably named Setup.exe file.

5) I then sign the Setup.exe file with my code signing certificate. Search google for how to obtain such - basically you need at least a Class II certificate from a suitable provider to prove your identity. I use a utility called ksign to do the actual signing.

6) I test the Setup.

7) All going well, deployment to my users is simply providing a download location - notification is built into my application (check for new versions), or if they disable that, peruse the game forums or my web site.

It's all been rather streamlined over a LOT of trial-and-error, frustration, and sometimes a lot of swearing. But the above works REALLY well for me and I use this workflow for bespoke software I write for paying customers.

It's a similar workflow (with some differences) for Macs.

The real beauty of it is that your end-users don't have to worry about installing Python, Qt, any of the Python dependencies/packages - everything required to run the application is provided.

The other bonus is that you only need to worry about Python dependencies at /your/ end.

Note: when developing and deploying my applications, my entire toolset is the 32-bit versions - this ensures that your package will install and run on both older 32-bit and newer 64-bit versions of your target O/S.

Regards.
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I have a disk with Linux Mint.

It loads faster, but it lacks about half the keyboard shortcuts I use in Ubuntu.

ElementaryOS lacks even more. No menus in the applications (like Chrome) with lots of wasted screen state, and a broken launcher.

We have tried, and Unity was still superior for doing stuff.
I'm collecting links for Japanese language resources, as well as other languages on Github:

https://github.com/melling/LanguageLearning/tree/master/japa...

Other languages:

https://github.com/melling/LanguageLearning

I'd love to find more great resources.
https://youtu.be/QZTCEO0gvLo?t=1582
As far as I can tell, this article isn't even angry. It's just explaining the mechanics behind some changes. How is that a rant?
> I think there are two classes of software modifications: those that negatively impact the environment or other people and those that don't. The first is by its nature easy to detect from the behavior of the car, and I see no reason to regulate the second class.

Assuming they manifest themselves before a crash happens. When the software modification only impacts the ESP or ABS system in an emergency situation, it is too late. Only extreme thorough testing can make software fit for this kind of purpose. And experience shows, even then bugs stay unnoticed.
Currently a wall of forest is being planned to stop the desertification of southern Africa. The accompanying satellite photo on the wikipedia article is quite telling of the enormous size of the desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall
See my workflow - once you get it down to a tee, it becomes a very smooth workflow and a breeze to distribute in one convenient setup.exe.
This. If the government is really that omnipresent and controlling in our lives, are they really going to let some blogger who knows the Truth run amok and post it everywhere?

Yes siree, this government is capable of faking the Moon landing, concealing the existence of aliens / lizard people, and executing 9/11 to invade Iraq, but they are powerless against some random dickhead with a laptop who spotted the holes in the Official Story that this omnipotent cabal just couldn't cover up. Riiight.
In my experience it's just plain ignorance. If you know nothing at all about condensation and combustion chemistry and atmospheric properties, the claim that those white lines in the sky are mind-altering chemicals is just as believable as the claim that it's water created by burning fuel. If the former claim is the first one you encounter, it's easy to just accept it.
The comment you're replying to did say "classist" as well. I'm sure you're aware of the US's unequal spread of wealth among different racial groups in its population... You are not personally being called racist.

People in the US are generally completely unaware of how subsidized their drive-everywhere, segregated-zoning lifestyles are. Land use choices have very real effects and in the vast majority of the US, you HAVE to own a car or you are completely handicapped in terms of access to jobs and services.

Public transit infrastructure proposals in the US are routinely downscaled/defeated because a lot of people think that anything other than building roads = money pit subsidies for the dumb uneducated poor people who live in the city.

If you don't agree with the egalitarian side of the argument for making cars less necessary to living in America, you should at least be able to see the hypocrisy of the general attitude towards transit given the fact that gas taxes and other car-related usage fees that fund roads don't come anywhere near making the road network "pay for itself".

I suspect that as Millennials age and gain political power, given their left-leaning politics and greater preference for urban living, this situation will change to look more like Canada does now, which is similarly car-dependent but also generally has cities with more reasonable public transit options.
That doesn't account for editing outside of Instagram, though, which many people do exclusively.
>This is because of the widespread assumption that anything that goes over port 80 is HTTP 1.1, which makes some middle-boxes interfere with or destroy traffic when any other protocols are used on that port.

I'm not convinced that's a real problem once traffic leaves your servers/CDN. In practice I have seen lots of protocols use port 80, since 80 is the port that's most likely to be unrestricted on even the strictest corporate firewalls.
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I doubt the whole of Europe will ever eat Halal. Or, at least, I hope not. Personally, I find the method of slaughter cruel (slicing the throat and waiting for the blood to drain - granted, the animal can be stunned, but there were plenty of footages of animals being tortured instead), and discriminatory (has to be performed by a Muslim, Jew or Christian). I actively avoid eating Halal meat.
Yes, really curious what the 77th one said.

I quickly arrived at the conclusion chemtrails had to be bullshit when I first heard of it in the 90s. But it's amusing bullshit nonetheless.
> please consider that his comment is not an insult to you.

And what is it, what is the point of it? Can you offer a reading of it that isn't "sarcasm that is meant to cut another"?
Making hacking of your own property into a felony has already been attempted under current law, after a fashion. Sony's lawyers claimed that George Hotz's PS3 exploit was a violation of the CFAA because he hacked "the PS3 system", and "the PS3 system" belonged to Sony (apparently equivocating between individual consoles and PS3 as a platform) [1]. I'm not sure whether a judge ever actually addressed this argument, since Hotz settled. And of course that's a different situation than actually being indicted under the CFAA, but you can see the gears turning.

I seem to recall that a similar argument was used against Jon Johansen at some point, but I don't feel like trying to dig up early-2000s history on the web today (IME going back to ca. 2003 is okay, but before that a lot of things have fallen down the memory hole).

[1] http://volokh.com/2011/01/13/todays-award-for-the-lawyer-who...
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> Is this a push to make the internet more secure by design

Yes? I thought that was obvious. Google is even giving higher ranking to HTTPS sites now and even showing HTTPS versions of the site by default on Google, I believe.

If I'm not mistaken Apple is also pretty much forcing all app developers to use encrypted TLS connections for their apps (although there may be some exceptions).
That's in theory but in practice this doesn't how it always works.

Especially when you are replacing already cheap "unskilled" or manual labor with even cheaper labor.

In the long run markets will adjust but the long run in this case can be longer than the life of a single worker.

Depending on how much labor you introduce you get get into a pretty never ending cycle of rotating your employment force.

And one can make an argument that displacing day labor with homeless people can have a bigger negative affect since employed day labor is more likely to have financial obligations and dependants than a homeless person.

This is why it's very important to carefully manage these programs and ensure they are at best self sufficient with some public funding but never profitable.

You want them to maw the lawns where lawns would not have been mawend before not to take over existing works.
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