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> it seems immensely improbable that Japan cared about the US takeover of Hawaii per se. They cared about the US fleet that was based there

Nobody is saying otherwise. Perhaps you have forgotten again how and why the US fleet got there in the first place: violent American imperialism and expansionism in the late 19th century. It's fairly pointless to imagine situations where that didn't happen, when it did.

> So if Hawaii were independent but the US had a fleet base there, no, Japan wasn't going to act peacefully in that imaginary situation - not unless you're postulating an actually peaceful Japan, one that isn't attacking China and the Dutch East Indies.

Why not? You're postulating a mythological United States capable of negotiating peacefully with Hawaii (and presumably the Philippines, and Guam, and Cuba, and Puerto Rico?). If such a US ever existed, why would it be impossible for it to also come to a peaceful understanding with Japan?

I mean, what are we supposed to be doing here, simply coming up with just the right amount of convenient historical changes to prove your point?
The danger of thermonuclear war is just as real (yet remote) today as the danger (and remoteness) of a school shooting in the 80s. The only difference is the popular perception of that threat as fueled by the media.
Cryptographers are generally not interested in using quantum physics to achieve secure communications

Cryptographers interested in encryption schemes that use mathematical structures that are not amenable to any known quantum algorithm. Lattices, Ring Learning With Error

Cryptographers are also interested in how Quantum Computers will scale to large sizes. It will be important to understand what the largest quantum computers that can practically be built are.
We use a chat program with all three of those, and it doesn't fix any of those problems.
Um, auto-layout, which this says it uses, is an Apple supported constraints system? https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
I get that¸ but naming your project a single word that has tons of pre-existing search results can't be a great idea if you're looking for traction. The average person's (or even programmer's!) Google-fu has always been much worse than I expected, ime.
Yup! And they get paid (sometimes well) to be vaccine trial participants I believe
In a big company, if software is the product, I'm not expecting to get more than a couple years out of it.
Nice write up. As someone who doesn't work remotely this provides some neat insight.
There's a disconnect between what the meta-analysed randomized clinical trials are saying about antidepressants (that they are at best minimally effective relative to placebo) and what relapse rates suggest (that people relapse when withdrawn from antidepressants because the antidepressant was effectively treating the underlying depression).

This conflict is resolved when antidepressants are acknowledged as addictive. Long-term use of antidepressants creates a biochemical dependency that is only removed with long, slow tapering.

I've experienced this fact personally. When I first attempted to go off antidepressants, I did so at what I thought was a slow pace, but in fact turned out to be far too fast. My life completely fell apart. I was depressed, anxious, obsessive, worse than I had been in many years. I thought this proved that I really "had depression" (as a discrete illness) and needed the drugs, so I increased my dose back up to more or less the original level. Soon after doing this, my depression/anxiety/OCD went away, and I felt normal again.

But a few years later I tried getting off the drugs again, going much more slowly. And now I'm at the same point I was last time when things fell apart, and I'm doing fine. Overall this withdrawal (from 200mg Zoloft) will probably take me 3 or 4 years. (I'm down to 25mg now.)

I'm convinced that I'm succeeding now where I failed before simply because my previous approach was triggering horrible withdrawal effects, whereas my current slower approach does not.

One secret to successful antidepressant withdrawal: the rate of dose reductions needs to decrease as the overall dose decreases. So when I'm at 200mg maybe I decrease by 20mg in a month. But now that I'm at 25mg maybe I decrease by 2.5mg in a month. The rate of decrease should be proportional to the current dose.

Before I was decreasing in constant increments all the way down (200->150->100->50) but then I started going crazy.

Sorry this is so long. It's a favorite subject of mine ;-)
Is SQL Server Management Studio available on Linux? Is there anything like it on Linux?
Why is there no maximum font size setting? It would help with many sites and some of the current design fashion.
FWIW, I definitely agree that this is mostly a non-event for small apps. I work on a large, actively developed web application, where the lack of strong actively maintained supporting libraries for things like form validation, rich tables, and other use cases is painful, especially since there were great projects for those use cases that are no longer actively maintained.

Instead of using Backgrid and backbone-validation or alternatives, we've been left creating an in house "tables" approach, and maintaining our own fork of backbone-validation. Neither of those things scale well.

The approach of a small core library with other libraries filling gaps as needed only works when there are good libraries that work well with the small core library :/ For some things its easy to take a "VanillaJS" library and make it work, but for others it really helps to have tight library integration.
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Why 146200 is a terrible bonus for Wall Street
It doesn't matter if the publishers were looking for a partner to fix prices with even without Apple.

Apple was the one to provide the service, and ultimately enabled it. How can you possibly suggest that leaves Apple blameless?
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Depends a bit what you want out of it. C for fundamentals, Go for fast web serving, Rust for stuff that's memory safe?
Since people are discussing Auto Layout alternatives, I'd recommend AsyncDisplayKit (http://asyncdisplaykit.org/) – although it's a bit more advanced. Layout mimics CSS and Flexbox. It was originally built by Facebook and very actively maintained.

You also get a number of other advantages, like moving UI operations off of the main thread (which is often a pain point in iOS apps shooting for 60fps).
Well, yes. Like I said in a reply to a sibling comment, I really want breakfast. I don't care how it gets made as long as I can decide whether it'll be cereal or waffles or bagels or bacon from upstairs, and it's ready as soon as I get downstairs.

In my entrepreneurial dreams (apparently shared by one of the sibling commenters here), I'd actually imagined a fully-automated kitchen. Stick a grocery bag on a shelf (extra points if it integrates with Instacart etc, so that someone else can stick a grocery bag on a shelf), and a robot arm unloads it, reads all the UPC bar codes, and stocks it in a refrigerator. This refrigerator isn't a standard issue one, with a door and shelves, but something with individual bins for items. That way, a robot arm would know exactly what product was in which bin, it could retrieve it, open the package, and measure out whatever quantity is needed for the recipe. Then it goes to the appropriate heating chamber for cooking - it may not even have pots/pans/toasters, just heating elements and containers. Food comes out on clean plates, dirty dishes go in, and the cycle repeats. My interface to it is a smartphone or smartwatch app where I can select a favorite recipe and have it made.

I figured this is beyond my hardware capacity to build (unless I exited in some other startup first and had unlimited time to tinker), but if someone else wants to make a go at it...there's the product request. ;-)
> If you ask me the best response was the officer who told his commander he "didn't trust his command and control".

It was unclear to me whether or not that message was relayed faithfully to his commander, or whether it was intercepted by the red team.
... Well that's not a solution, that's just a statement saying a solution might be found.
It's just the store that Apple opened, and Apple didn't fix the prices. It had working mechanisms to sell even for $0.99, like they did with songs. It didn't enable fixing, it just became the competition to Amazon. The publishers used their leverage to negotiate new deals with Amazon. Until then they weren't able, it was Amazon that was effectively a monopoly.

What was Apple supposed to do, in your opinion, as it wanted to open its e-book store?
Are there any benchmarks that show the performance gains?
Time to start coming up with some new models then ;)
i've also been evaluating reflex css [1] for grids. it's been tiny and excellent so far. BEM syntax [2] is a bit odd at first, but the principles behind it are solid.

[1] http://leejordan.github.io/reflex/docs/

[2] http://csswizardry.com/2013/01/mindbemding-getting-your-head...
A 'further reading' is not a reference; 'further reading' means 'here are additional sources you might find relevant about material not covered here'. Which of 'Triumph of the City', 'The Ghost Map', and 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' did the stuff about animals come from, if you hadn't already read them? That's right - you don't know! Because he's not giving a reference.
C++ for fundamentals plus RAII?
> Are you suggesting that I support drone strikes against civilians? If not, I'd ask you to retract that as an argument against my position.

You don't have to support drone strikes, you just need to withhold your indignation when your taxes fund them, as opposed to drug treatment programs. Based on your posts here I'm pretty sure we're in 90% agreement or higher on both drug and health care policy, so I'm not arguing with you, but your OP could easily be mistaken for simple concern trolling. I doubt you pipe up in every thread discussing government spending, to "take the NAP to its logical conclusion".
I don't think this is actually an issue. You can always add context to searches -- rather than searching for just "stevia" you can search for "stevia iOS layout"
> Yes, a new drug might only be a small tweak of an existing drug, but all humans aren't the same. A patient may not be able to take an older version, but the me-too works for them. That has added value.

Indeed this is true, individual patients will respond differently, and inexplicably, to medications in the same class (e.g., Prozac vs. Zoloft). Having these choices is very useful.

However there are considerations beyond pharmacology that reduce the value of these choices. Problems arise because of non-clinical factors, particularly what rules of insurers allow. Formularies have become quite restrictive in many environments making it difficult to make use of the range of alternatives that are theoretically available.

In the last 10 years several new antidepressants have been developed, approved and marketed. That doesn't mean that patients can easily get these drugs even if patients have failed to benefit with older options. Insurers erect barriers like stiff co-payments, or complicated prior authorization procedures as effective impediments.

Consequently what good are new medications if they can't reach the people who need them? There's a strong disincentive to try to use these drugs and I think it's likely manufacturers would have less reason to develop them if they can't sell them.

So doctors would like to be able to prescribe what would work better, but that's frequently not practical. I'd add that doctors are not so easily "conned" into prescribing an agent just because companies and reps are promoting it. Quite to the contrary, making up one's own mind based on the merits and ignoring the sales pitch is the reality.
Look, im not making the claim it was a shining moment of free market triumph. However, prices are just information and witnout enough data, you don't know what the price is.

So you have amazon selling at 9.99 and a fragmented group trying to compete. They owned, by their own calculatoions, 70-80% AFTER the ipad launched.

So you have a single supply channel dictating price. Apple exploited it the other way, increasing prices collectively so amazon didnt blacklist phblishers.

Its not black and white. You have a monopoly and the kartel formed to fight it.

It is pretty laughable that they were fined 450m being anticompetitive, when they actually introduced competition.

So both companies were acting in their iwn best interest. I would almost argue thus is pure capitLism because the only way to offset a monopoly is collude or you will get blacklisted. This is gametheory, and while the optimal societal outcome of this situation may have been Apple accepting a lower price, if you garuntee cooperation you get higher value.

Obviously, the optinal societal utility would be many many distributers giving markets the ability to dictate price instead of the opposite,

Given the situation, they had no choice, and frankly society ended up bettet off as eventually more player were able to compete (although the market would be different with many players and it will necer have that )
Haha my room mate is in this team. These guys put all they got outside of work to get this done, talk about passionate. He's all low key about it but I hear their hangouts, crunching numbers and talking all sorts of jargon. They're soo stoked they got this far, they really deserve it though.
Theoretically, if you intercept in the middle, you destroy the pattern that you observe. This is a physical quantum effect, and will happen no matter what hardware you use

Since the intended use is key distribution, a MITM is fine as long as you can detect it reliably: you can keep sending new keys until one isn't eavesdropped upon, and then use that key.
Somebody get this guy an editor... or at least a spellcheck.
I think 'reasonable' has many nuances. One can definitely sympathize. Although a truly selfish person who isn't shortsighted could be better served by making sure that other members of society on whom he depends on can live in the same neighbourhood as well.
Honestly, I have no projects or specific uses for these languages. Rather, I am treating it as a tool for learning and to experience low level programming.

I might make some kind of machine learning application in it later down the line though.
Hoverfly: a lightweight, open source service virtualization tool
Is that operator-overloading abuse or something else?
Citation requested.
Why can't you just rent the server from some company? Such a company is only responsible for making sure the hardware works (there are no power outages, the disks work, the network is up and reachable) and you have to make sure your application works and have some failover (because the hardware will eventually fail and they will only replace it, not make up for the loss).

You'd still save a lot of money compared to cloud servers, need little admin work (the same compared to compute instances – amazon's EC2 servers), and have a reliable server. Providing the servers doesn't take forever, either. Some bare metal servers are up and running within 120sec, though, you can't just shut them down and stop paying like cloud servers.

Companies that offer these services are OVH.com and softlayer, though softlayer always seemed to be a bit expensive. I'm sure you'll be able to find similar companies though.

I can see that this makes little sense to startups because the admin work is way more expensive but for bigger companies, this should not be the case (I don't consider Spotify and Netflix a startup anymore).
As the two other comments note, SQL Server 2016 will support JSON, however the extent of the support is significantly less compared to Postgresql.

This is unfortunate as I'd love to have better document-db style functionality in SQL Server.
OMG - They'll probably cripple the implementation of this. I wouldn't trust MS on this. It sounds nice, but I wouldn't set this up if it meant we could have world peace...

MS SQL relies heavily on Windows OS API. How are they going to pull this off? With some kind of VM layer running under linux with a stripped down Window OS which will run MS SQL?

MS Should announce that they are going to fork a version of Linux with their brand MS-Linux. Hell - If they port every piece of software over to Linux, they would rule the world & back-end server market.

Any way. Good luck!
How is the growing of hips separate from the cultivation of the flower? I usually deadhead my roses so the energy goes towards more blooms instead of hips, am curious what you do to cultivate the hips specifically. Do you use neem oil or other methods to keep the aphids at bay?
I can't decide if this is a stroke of genius or one of the stupidest things Google has ever done.
I mentioned it in my response to the other reply, but I've found that the average programmer's Google-fu is actually quite poor, and they would not do that subsequent narrowed search.
I put my money on the former. 4chan is... itself. But it is definitely a vibrant community. And Poole himself has some thoughtful, unique insight into what makes a community vibrant and what kills it.
Virtually any major corporation will have major installations of AD, File Servers, Print Servers, etc using MS infrastructure.
> It's just easier to work with and less boilerplate when you don't need the strictness that React enforces / encourages.

domvm [1] and Mithril [2] promote the same ideas as Backbone, as far as flexibility but with vdom underneath and are far faster than React. domvm is about 2x Mithril performance and both libs are < 20k min. Mithril is more stable and has a much larger userbase, while domvm 1.0 is targeted for 4/1. If anyone is feeling adventurous, feedback and contributions are welcome!

* Disclosure: I'm the author of domvm.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/domvm

[2] http://mithril.js.org/
> tore at her skin in the belief that bugs were crawling on it.

symptom of meth use
If you are arguing THAT point, then you shouldn't have disagreed with me anywhere!

We have 3 types of facts.

1. What is the set of prior theories? Probability theory says this should matter. Bayesians are explicit about its involvement. Frequentists ignore it.

2. Observed data. Probability theory says that this should matter. Everyone takes this into account.

3. Experimental design for what would have happened had something different than the observed actually happened. This matters a lot to frequentist approaches and does not matter at all to Bayes' theorem. Bayesian approaches generally do not care about it at all.

The difference between scenario 1 and scenario 2 is a fact of type 3, the conditions under which Bill and Lorena would have stopped having children. Unless you believe that Bill and Lorena's desire for one gender has a material impact on the probability of boys vs girls, this fact is irrelevant to any calculation of posterior probabilities. And is irrelevant in classical Bayesian approaches.

Yet, despite being irrelevant, it matters a lot for frequentist approaches.
Good science does not accept "blatantly obvious" as any kind of proof. Reasoning alone just gets you hypotheses. Good science then rules most of them out based on evidence. And if we can't get that evidence because it's lost in history, then too bad: it'll have to stay unprovable hypotheses.

There is no such thing as "basically undeniable" in science; only "unproven" and "backed by so much evidence in specific context as to be considered proven in specific context". And even if it's the latter, it can still be completely wrong outside of that context.
> ... when the Old World and the New World first contacted each other, something like almost 90% of the New World population died out in the subsequent century or so.

True. Now: Why did that happen, rather than 90% of the Old World population dying out? Well, because the Old World had nastier illnesses, pre-contact, to pass on to the New World. And why did it have those, without them destroying the Old World? I think that's what InclinedPlane is getting at. For "the details of the civilization itself", you might think about housing, sanitation, diet, proximity of animals, practice of medicine...
This is why i just force my browser to use comic sans for everything.
Could machines have become self-aware without us knowing it?
I force all fonts to be comic sans. Deal with it.
I'm pretty certain they're taxed on the money simply because it crosses a border. It's not treated as revenue which can be offset by expenses.
>> I still have a couple of apps running classic ASP

Is that secure?
I dislike real name policies, but I do want to push to fix some of the problems with using real names. This includes moving the business world closer to Cluetrain for example.
> but why bother when you can compile the app from sources?

Well, imagine that you are the attacker here. Would you rather keep your malware source in sync with the upstream code and build every target every update, or just use an off the shelf binary wrapper. Would you answer the same if you were targeting more than one app (in the case of a CDN attack)?

The only scenario in which source level malware makes sense to me is this: you are targeting a specific application and you are able to get your code into the project's SCM. In this scenario OSS is no more vulnerable than closed source.
Truths you've learned as a first time CEO
Good point. Am I naive in thinking there are more fatalities for heroin than alcohol?
That is an important characteristic of online communities: someone with a bad reputation can usually (depending on the application) throw away their old account and start over with a new identity; therefore, having no reputation is more-or-less indistinguishable from having a negative reputation. That's not really a problem per se, it's just a characteristic of the problem domain to consider when implementing a reputation systems (and in particular, in deciding how much leeway to impact the system to give to new users).
There are different types of bugs. Some bugs crash the system while other bugs corrupt data while still other bugs just are annoying.
That's not unreasonable in principle, but then it gets more complicated: do you propose to hold the entire company accountable for the actions of a small part of it?

Of course.

this would mean companies would be immediately obliged to disempower their entire staff

No.

Their entire staff is already "disempowered" to make decisions that could put the company in legal trouble. Also this is intended, not merely reckless. Do you really believe this was some nobody's idea? Come on!

Please, someone with real legal knowledge could you explain why this is not like Volkswagen.

I suspect that privacy violations are not quantified or else a "class action" would dry any and all the profits.
Google’s newest hire: Chris Poole, ‘Zuckerberg of online underground’
Maybe. Creating successful online communities has a huge luck element to it. I don't think there's anyone who can reliably create new online communities out of nothing.
Good plan. Luckily MOST software, even advanced stuff, can run easily on free database engines. They really are CRUD for the most part.

My income depends on SS but it saddens me when I think of how much is spent on it by applications which could so easily run on something that is free.
"Free software," in this case, is an oxymoron.
Would you mind elaborating on his insight into online communities? I'd love to read his perspective in depth
MSSQL actually is really mature and performant (on par with Oracle) and I'm interested to see some benchmarks vs MySQL and PostGRES. I think it could become the replacement for SQL enterprise, even over the widely loved PostGRES.
And keep in mind that adding those new servers even in managed eviromnents can fail and fail in unexpected ways like taking out your whole network. We had this happen with rackspace - hence we moved to Amazon