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Nuclear weapons are not unique only in terms of blast size. The radiation they create is a wholly new danger with no historical president. The creation, handling storage and eventual disposal of nuclear material is also new.

The hellburners had, perhaps, a few tons worth of explosive. And it was blackpowder rather than TNT. A relatively tiny nuke, such as the AIM-26 air-to-air missile, explodes with the equivalent of 250 metric tonnes of TNT. The smallest ever nukes are in the 10-50 tonnes range, still well beyond the blackpowder in any hellburner. The proportion of energy released as radiation and/or fallout is generally inversely related to yield (less confinement of the critial mass > less efficient burning). So Be afraid of tiny nukes.

The the future they will likely use antimatter, not as explosive but as a neutron source. That would allow for much smaller nukes once they figure out how to keep the antimatter suspended within the uranium shell. Such weapons could burn uranium very efficiently, resulting in much reduced fallout.
I think your comment eats to the heart of what's been happening of late. You shouldn't need to be a crypto expert to know what Forward Secrecy or ECDHE are, at least.

Anyone who might ever configure a webserver should be learning about this stuff.
I don't need an excuse to eat Soylent. I'm free to eat whatever I want. Why do my food choices bother you so much?
About to start marketing our app and thought I'd share here first. Would love your feedback/advice and open to answering any questions.
Looks like you'll have to be more precise when running, moving, etc. to prevent accidental force touches instead of taps.
> iPhone 6 is most succesfull iPhone ever.

They did a lot of background work getting the OS and UIKit and developers up to speed for supporting multiple device sizes - necessary for introducing bigger screens - and I would suggest that played a large part in making the 6 successful. People weren't getting a crappy scaled experience from the apps they already knew.
The controller alone dooms it to most console games.

Sure, some games work well on the interface. But those games are exactly the games I don't want on a TV. Do I really want to play Papers Please on a TV with a tiny touch pad controller remote as opposed to on my lap?

This is too much of a compromise system that sucks at both ends of the spectrum. It's not as good as the iPad for touch games, and it's not as good at consoles at FPS, Strategy, Fighters, etc.

Are people really looking for a niche console inbetween?
Well, no one can make you buy an Apple TV that doesn't have the features you want, so I feel like maybe you look at the world a little differently than it actually works. Given that, there's not much more I have to contribute.
Jets.js – Native CSS search engine
(Former Blaze engineer and current Go tool builder here.)

Blaze's support for building Go source code predates the existence of the 'go' tool and uses very different conventions for package naming, directory layout, testing, and project organization. As a result, most Google Go code cannot be built with 'go'. This can be a source of frustration at times.
You've just poisoned people. Rice is not suitable for storing over a few days, and reheating the rice correctly does not destroy the toxin.

http://www.food.gov.uk/northern-ireland/nutritionni/niyoungp...
Artists could also use electronic paint brushes, erasers, and chalk, too.
Back when I was a vegetarian I got a lot of the same thing. People would get upset about what I would or wouldn't put into my own body.
Go to store. Buy Food. Go Home. Cook food. eat.

I frequently fail to do this, to my detriment, but I don't pretend it's so hard and complex. I'm tired and lazy at the end of the day, so I eat easier (usually worse for me) things. That simple. Is soylent the answer, maybe.
Strange--he lost 7 lbs, but he looks less defined in the after picture. At 140lbs, that's 5% of his weight.
That doesn't even make sense; the only way they could be growing in relative market share but shrinking in absolute numbers is if the market is shrinking, and I'm pretty sure it's not.
When I opened it with ImageMagick it appears to be a transparent PNG. Very clever trick, as it seems to use Twitters black background when viewing an image to achieve the effect.
iPad also has the advantage of being sexy these days even to more old fashioned types. See the push to use them in 1:1 programs in high schools, even though the amount of writing/typing involved in most high school classes would seem to recommend something with a good keyboard...
You know they use inches in the UK too.
Look at the bright side: in a few years, Apple users might be able to run multiple programs... at the same time!*

* Like Windows and Linux.
Would there be any users of these knowledge systems that could give any comments on how

a) the user base evolved
b) how effective this system is in comparison to existent genomic/synthetic pathway/etc databases

Thanks!
TVML for layout and TVJS for logic. TVML is just an XML schema for Apple TV UIs and TVJS a Javascript framework to present the XML templates loaded with your data.

If you're wanting to stream video you can build a full app with almost no Obj-C/Swift (there's still a small shell, though probably nothing custom needs to be here).

The XML templates are a little odd in that they're JS files (e.g. Index.xml.js) and contain the XML as the return value of a global function called Template.

It seems really straight forward though.
But on the other hand, even if every non-floating glacier and snowpack melted and flowed into the ocean, that would only increase its mass by 2%. Combine that with the maximum thermal expansion from -4 C to 50 C, which would increase volume by 1.5% (and kill us all), and the highest the ocean could possibly rise above its current level is about 10m.

The highest storm surge ever recorded was about 15m. The tsunami waves from the destruction of Krakatoa ran up to 50m tall.

So now you are armed with the knowledge you need to scoff haughtily at scientifically inaccurate Hollywood movies. For further reference, 1 WTC is 541m tall, Empire State Building is 443m at the top of the antenna, BoA tower is 366m, Chrysler and Times are both 319m. NYC has more than 200 buildings over 150m. The Statue of Liberty is about 93m.

So when you see that scene in A.I. (2001) where the arm and torch of Liberty barely protrudes above the surface of the ocean, you can say, "Ha! The planet doesn't have that much water on it! Even on an ice-free Earth, and NYC in the heart of a hurricane storm surge the same size as the worst in recorded history, the water wouldn't even reach her big toe!" Waterworld (1995) is right out--the premise is scientifically impossible. You would have to systematically throw comets into Earth capture trajectories with a total mass of about 3x10^21 kg, adding double the current mass of all water on Earth, or about 1/2000 the current mass of the Earth. That's about the same amount as all the water on Europa.
You can already see it in action. Go to a Tesla showroom, a boutique clothier, a Square-enabled café, etc. They are all embracing the iPad as a multi-functional device. Oh, and those aren't usually even considered "enterprise" clients.
That's great. I look forward to seeing them evolve and hopefully become standardized.

>(And the language can't have exactly the same stuff as Go or Erlang without adding a runtime, which is contrary to the goals of the project.)

Here is 90% of what Go gives you as a C library. No heavyweight runtime necessary:

http://libmill.org/
I think as we've seen on Surfaces and on many other tablets, styluses can be pretty useful for pro-sumers.

So why not allow Apple to eat their own words and create a well-designed easy to use, functional stylus? The only downside here is it's $50 too expensive.

On your second point, where do you see a task manager? You can only see apps when bringing up multitasking in iOS 9. There is no "task manager" where you have a list of running processes with CPU percentages and everything.

And since iOS 9 handles running apps by itself, users don't have to close out any apps so they really don't "ever have to think about it".
To be clear: the Y combinator is just one way to define a fixed-point combinator in the untyped lambda calculus. You can define fixed-point combinators differently and achieve the same effect.

I do agree that the realization that it's possible to build recursive functions in the lambda calculus is mind-blowing (and far from obvious!)
The Apple Pencil
I want that screen in a laptop.
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I strongly disagree. There's a regime in which Newtonian gravity describes the world. There is no such regime for the rubbersheet model of GR, since the Earth's gravity is responsible, not the sheet's curvature. It's the illusion of explanation.

EDIT: I'd also remark that collapsing centuries of debate on what's a scientific theory into "everything is an analogy" is a disservice to the public: good luck distinguishing realism, structural realism, positivism, etc., if you put on the same level science popularizations and proper (albeit imperfect and incomplete) scientific theories.

Also, the science communication bit is a red herring. There are plenty of concepts that cannot be explained easily to the public. One might justify just as well going around popularizing Laffer's curve, since actual macroeconomics is impossible to explain on a napkin.
> I guess if you're a meta-human weirdo who claims to have no inherent desire to consume tasty food and just wants to "get it out of the way", Soylent is for you. I don't believe you actually exist, though.

Here I am, right here! 28-year-old woman, just to give some demographic information. I don't like cooking, I don't want to deal with produce that goes bad before I get around to preparing it. Soylent is a lovely time-saver for me.

What is with the vehement anti-Soylent crowd who just can't believe some of us have more enjoyable ways to spend our time than cooking, planning meals, preparing ingredients, and grocery shopping?
Nothing a little bit of epoxy won't fix.
Looks like a brilliant hacker's solution. Thanks.
Absolutely it's dead as the default. Storage is for app repositories, i.e. software which tunes into the cloud which hosts actual data.

Note that's the default. It's still optional (e.g. pay $100-200 more for more storage, or buy seemingly increasingly more niche phones that offer SD card slots).

And of course the age old alternative, which is making a compromise. i.e. not store all and any music, video, photo etc on your insta-use phone. Instead keep old albums on an external drive in your home, just like movies you've already seen or movies you won't get to anytime soon. Or albums you rarely listen to. Compromise.
I'd love to see Soylent apologising for the untruthful misleading lies they told during fundraising.

Until they apologise they deserve scorn. (Edit)
The alternative transport mode is shared rides. Those are easy today with ride hailing apps. People who don't want to pay the full charge will pay a fraction of it instead.
Say you're composing an e-mail and you want to attach a Word doc you downloaded - how do you do that on an iPad?
Again, I don't think you are aware of what "indistinguishable from reality" actually entails. The capabilities are so extreme there that you'll have essentially created your own universe.

And what do you care if you live in a different universe? You don't even understand this one well enough to know the difference. So you're basically making this decision on the grounds of your own ignorance.

What if this world is a simulation, and the real world is a wonderful and happy place? You don't know the difference, so what business do you have taking a stand on the issue?

>However, I believe there is so much more to existence than our own perception even though I am not spiritual at all.

You don't know what that word means, then.
The really galling part is the total refusal to admit they're not doing anything innovative. "There has never been another product like the iPad Pro before" was a real quote from today's presentation, and is a complete falsehood.
Well they went and did it, finally released the iPad that I've been looking for, now it will be interesting to see who, other than me, buys one. Since it is my #1 reading device these days. Only way to make it perfect would be to add an SD card and boost the battery life to 18hrs+. I'm really interested in how well the pen compares to the Surface 3 Pro's pen as well.

Of course it would be really interesting to see a "stripe" cover, which has a stripe reader rather than a keyboard in it :-).
Evading all web-application firewalls XSS filters [pdf]
But the iPod, iPhone & iPad were much better than the incumbents. iPad Pro is not.
And that's a great achievement! If there were a Nobel prize for practical use of a type system, the Rust team would get it.

But overselling it ("Rust goes out of its way to make it easy and safe to write multithreaded code" except oh yeah it can deadlock at any time) is a mistake.
Download the remote app onto your iOS devices, and turn on home sharing.

Now your Apple TV will show up as a device you can control from your iOS device or even Apple Watch.
More of these stats here: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/#/dashboard/db/home
To be clear, I don't think people will be playing Papers Please on this; the interface isn't at all suitable.

There are plenty of iOS compatible controllers already available which presumably will work with this out of the box.

I see this as being potentially huge for people who want to play some console-y games but don't want to spend 400$ On a large noisy box. Also, it could potentially be big for indie devs who want to write console-y games; the current consoles are still not terribly indie-friendly, and in practice most popular indie console games started life as PC games.
I would add that the NeXT Computer was faced with similar problems, and had to switch between different processors several times.

Apple/NeXt has much experience with technical challenge of porting entire platforms to different processors and with the business challenges of being tied to critical technologies you do not control.
It was cheap. I got my money's worth.
I'm not invested in the Apple ecosystem any more. Is this true? Being trying to find a link to some authoritative info on this but haven't thus far.

Do you mean this? http://www.apple.com/iphone/business/it/management.html

I see no mention of being able to side-load apps.
People outside of Nebraska aren't going to get water from the Ogallala Aquifer. It's sacred. You should make other plans.
Even the classic lisp eval that fits in a page, puts aside cons (aka gc). It's funny how different the problem they were describing was to put away memory as an implementation detail.
The current hardware is ancient; it's a single-core version of the iPhone 4s chip.
I add torani syrup, they are easy to mix in (don't require a blender or anything) and have a wide variety of flavors (including a good selection of sugar free).
On the contrary, there is perhaps only one use case where iPad Pro could be a boon for users: industrial, graphic, and sundry designers, visual artists, etc. As I see it today, iPad Pro is a niche product, not a mass-market pro tablet like the ones made by PC manufacturers. Everyone else can either just continue using iPads or use full featured laptops. Contrast this with the Surface Pro.
> Assuming the mass of the planet remains constant, wouldn't you get 4 times the gravitational force at the surface?

No idea why you'd ask this question but yes.

But the original statement is wrong isn't it, if you half the diameter you 1/8 the gravity [1/8 the mass]

[edit] But you'd also be twice closer, which is 4 times the force, got it.
I saw someone do something similar in ye olde days of Gravatar. It abused their resizing algorithm to get different images at different scales. It was very simple (and probably couldn't have worked if it was much more complicated) - just the text `i++` on a noisy background. But when scaled it turned into `i--`. In both cases, it was very readable.
Sounds a lot like the very first types of touchscreens - resistive touchscreens.
I'm closely involved with CFEngine (I work on CFEngine full-time); from what I see, CFEngine 2 market share is shrinking (though still quite large even though CFEngine 2 isn't "cool" and much talked about) and CFEngine 3 market share is growing (I help new users get started and there's been an uptick in demand for training).

Overall, CFEngine's share of the configuration management pie has shrunk compared to ten years ago but it's still a contender, especially in environments where low infrastructure footprint (CFEngine uses very little resources when it runs, and it is viable to use it on embedded devices - Internet of Things anybody?), scalability (5K hosts on one hub without breaking a sweat) and security (NVD shows a strong security track record for CFEngine: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search) matter.
Lots of people don't even download apps.

Would you care to expand on this? Thanks.
Five years is still an arbitrary interval though, so I'm not sure that really does fix most of the problems.

For some devices, five years might be well into the range where a significant proportion of devices would be expected to fail even without artificial breakage. For example, it might be unreasonable to expect a minimum 5 year warranty on a typical consumer hard drive being hulked around in a laptop. It's possible to build more reliable drives with better components and more robust cases with improved physical protection for those who need better resilience, but it makes the products more expensive, and the market has already provided for this with a range of different product types at different price points.

On the other hand, I have plenty of white goods in the kitchen of my home that have been working just fine for a decade and there's no reason they shouldn't be. Fixing a 5 year warranty period regardless of context might have been an open invitation to the manufacturer of my fridge to build in something that would break after 61 months (which seems a lot closer to what you seem to get with more modern kitchen white goods today).

I still think full disclosure is probably the best way to fight this trend. You can artificially cripple your device if you want, but like the warnings on cigarette packets, you have to use at least 30% of the space on your packaging prominently warning users that your product is deliberately broken and explaining exactly how so they can make an informed decision about whether they still want to buy it. I'm going to guess a lot fewer manufacturers would be so keen on nerfing their products if they also had to come clean about it to their prospective customers before they got their money.
Exactly. His point, I think, was trying to get rid of the need for people pulling out a stylus in a car sitting in traffic and scribbling notes and smiley faces. Not catering to artists and people sitting in meetings taking notes. The iPhone doesn't need a stylus. A tablet (especially at that size) acts more like a blank canvas and it makes perfect sense to get a drawing tool like a pencil on that big surface to encourage even more apps and creative outlets.
They pay for dietician advice. The credentials of those dieticians are probably online somewhere.

I'm not sure when in the process they got this advice, or if there's a dietician on staff full time.
Who had to laugh when the guy was like 'live photos .... and they're not videos guys, really, believe me, repeat after me NOT videos, photos!'

Or when he was like 'this is based on revolutionary technology never seen before, and it's totally not half-a-vine, either, it's a new breakthrough, 3 second videos'.

I mean I don't even grin anymore when they say 'the iPhone 6 was the most popular iPhone.... EVER' or when they say 'the iPhone 6S is the best iphone... EVER' (no shit). I've gotten used to that level of hyperbole, but the rhetoric around the live photos was pretty ridiculous. (and I like it, too, I think it's a neat little feature that fits nicely in between photos and vines - the original massively-popular 7 second videos - the way it was presented was just way over the top.)
While I can't say Soylent freed up funds for me, I can say it made food costs a lot more predictable.
The online auction with hard bid window is perfectly fine. Rationally, everyone bids their reserve price immediately at any time during the window. The current winning bid (just above the second bidder) is displayed so you can avoid the effort of bidding if your reserve is too low to matter.

I don't really understand the concept of "driving the price up" in online auctions. It only seems to represent a flawed understanding of cause and effect (the current price causes the future price) which only makes sense irrationally with effects such as anchoring or post-hoc rationalization of purchases.

The price is whatever someone is willing to pay for it, if you lose a purchase by setting your reserve on the auction system to less than your true reserve - what you were willing to potentially pay or conversely, if you have won an auction for more than you would have liked - you have failed to act in your own best interest, there is not a middle ground between the two.
> Most important, Soylent has a more even distribution of the daily % of vitamins and minerals.

Which is actually what you don't want, since the daily % isn't consistent in meaning. In some cases its a target which most people should meet or exceed. It some cases its a target most people should be around. It some cases (e.g., sodium) its nearly the maximum recommended for the majority of the population, and above the maximum recommended for a substantial minority.

> My feeling is also that Soylent measures more and tweaks their formula more.

Soylent is tweaking it more because they are moving it around fairly rapidly to deal with component prices and feedback from unanticipated negative impacts on consumers.
glib offers much of what Common Lisp offers as part of the language (and more, of course).
Wow, I had no idea that some people viewed that term as negative. I had to look it up. I guess I picked it up while reading history from when the term wasn't considered negative.

I always thought Democrat Party and the Democratic Party went together depending on usage plus the preference of the person speaking. I mean, after all, they are called Democrats so it would seem to me that Democrat Party would be used. Methinks people are just complaining to be complaining.

Interesting. Today, I learned something. Anyway, I don't think I'll shall stop using the term. Thanks for the input.
It's really not. It's barely an abstraction over LLVM IR
Help, got laid off and they wiped my personal iPhone. Is this standard protocol?
Hey guys,

This morning I just got laid off from my job at a startup of around 300 people and before I left the room they had remotely wiped my iPhone.

Two quick questions:

1) How did they do this? Was there something installed on my phone?

2) Is this standard/allowed?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Can a card game make your team stronger? Absolutely
Ignoring reality in favor of emotionally satisfying opinions doesn't count as either pragmatic or cynical. Under Tim Cook's leadership, Apple continues to break records as it remains the most valuable company in the world. What wake-up call is needed here, exactly?
Is "Blaze" something else or an autocorrect/typo of "Bazel" (topic of this post)?
Just as often I see this "among tech people" type of attitude thrown around as if we are somehow a totally different class of people who don't think about anything outside of compilers and caching optimizations.

We have lives outside of work that also helps informs our opinions on these things.
The BitTorrent DHT's never been successfully attacked or blocked as far as I know. It doesn't seem like a big concern. There are millions of nodes and you only need to find out the IP:port of one of them.