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We know a few other things too. For example, we know that anyone who confidently and bluntly asserts that "if X had been done Y would have happened" is not contributing to any useful discussion. People rarely know why they are doing what they are doing today, and certainly know almost nothing about why someone else did something half a century ago.

We can point to things people said and did in the past and make informed judgements about the plausibility of various reasons they had for doing what they did, but again: anyone who asserts bluntly and with confidence that "Japan would have surrendered if..." or "Japan did surrender because..." isn't helping.

Japan surrendered after Nagasaki was bombed. Some people think this shows that Hiroshima alone was not enough to convince the Japanese government that the new weapon would turn the tide of war against them.

Russia declared war on Japan after Hiroshima was bombed. Some people think this was important to Japan's surrender, but would it have happened without the bomb?

Japan had a history of fighting for every inch of territory. Some people think a conventional invasion would have resulted in a rapid conquest.

Area bombing in Europe had a relatively small effect on the Axis war effort, and an awareness of this was growing within the Allied command. Within military circles there tends to be a feeling that if something isn't working the best thing is to do more of it. The bomb was more of it. Thus, the ineffectiveness of area bombing in Europe may have contributed to the decision to use the bomb in Japan.

And so on...

It is worth noting that war itself is almost always strongly motivated by counter-factuals. "If we just bomb the enemy they will surrender" (they don't: they become more dogged in defense until they demonstrably face total destruction). "If we engage in horrific acts of terrorism the enemy will run in fear!" (they don't: terrorist organizations that employ violence against civilians have a zero--yes, zero--rate of effectiveness in achieving their goals: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/792/why_terr...)

All we can say with anything remotely resembling certainty was that the bombs did drop and the war did end. We can make some informed guesses about why both sides decided the way they did. We can say virtually nothing with any certainty at all about what would have happened if any major decision had been different... except maybe one.

What if Japan had never attacked Pearl Harbor? This is a counter-factual that people who are wont to make blunt, confident predictions about "what would have happened" had the Allies never destroyed Hiroshima or Nagasaki are generally surprisingly silent about, yet it is one of the few things that would plausibly (not certainly) have avoided the subsequent destruction of those cities.
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Interesting. Perhaps the downvoter can explain why a comment they disagreed with was considered against the HN posting guidelines?
Martian colonies would in all likelihood be dependent on Earth for a very, very long time, if not forever. There are a lot of Earth resources they'd never have access to. If life on Earth was wiped, there would be a fair chance than the colonists on Mars would slowly perish after the first blight took out their crops, or what have you.
Well it's pretty close to Java pre-1.5, which I guess was fine back in the 90s.
That's not necessarily true it simply means there are no low hanging fruit that you can think of. It's entirely conceivable that something could come out to revolutionize mobile devices that, in hindsight, was really straight forward.

It's hard to say absolutes about the future.
He said "coal", not aggregate CO2.

The distinction is important, because coal is seen as a cheap way of feeding China's relentless appetite for growth (or more specifically, the appetite for the perceived advantages brought by this "growth" to those who are in a social or political position to benefit from it.)
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> It strikes me as pure evil that the very first use of nuclear energy was to drop a massive bomb over a bunch of fellow humans.

Atomic weapons are a natural evolutionary step up from conventional explosives, which are a natural evolutionary step up from clubs and rocks. All this talk about atomic weapons being qualitatively different (as opposed to quantitatively different) is mostly hyperbole, with one exception -- only wealthy industrial powers can create them ... so far.

> Surely the force of nuclear weapons could have been demonstrated without actually dropping it on a concentration of living, healthy people.

The people in charge decided that a demonstration wouldn't stop the war or the need to use the new weapons, and later events proved them right. Contrary to what many Americans believe, the Japanese didn't surrender because of the atomic bombings, but because Russia invaded Manchuria, a development the Japanese saw as much more dangerous than atomic bombs.
The dependency on bower is stated explicitly. The dependencies that bower manages itself are easily discoverable in bower.json. I don't see why a call to bower is any more of a problem than any other build step, e.g. make.

I get that having a standard format (let's say "dependencies", "devDependencies", and "peerDependencies" as properties of a json file) would make somebody's life easier, but it's not clear that is the same set of somebodies who develop and use all these package managers.
Fascinated with this type of geologic activity? Check out Lassen National Park.

Or actually, please don't -- because it's the most pristine and beautiful national park in California that isn't overrun with tourists.
It is very easy to solve. Two solutions:

* Implement open types for the language. OCaml did this in 4.02, and it is very useful.
* Heterogenous containers: https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/lib/mlton/basic/h...

It has its uses, albeit it is rare such a use comes into play.
It's not like the country would have meekly gone home to lick its wounds, had the nasty Americans only left them alone. Remember the war started because of Japan's imperialistic dreams in SE Asia.

You might have visions of the U.S. systematically destroying any Japanese war power that ventured out for conquest while leaving the home islands untouched, but that kind of shepherding requires a degree of total military superiority we did not posses at the time.
Russell Kirsch (inventor of the 1st programmable computer) agrees with you - http://impossiblehq.com/an-unexpected-ass-kicking
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Here is the link to the slides from my PyCon India talk: https://speakerdeck.com/sandeepraju/sharq-an-open-source-rat...

Here is our blog announcement: https://www.plivo.com/blog/sharq-a-flexible-open-source-rate...
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Because you can't sit down at all then. The note 3 (which I own and love) is too big.
I agree that it's not a sandbox problem, but it's not inherent to "an AOT-compiled language" - builds of my yesod projects take disproportionately long compared to my other development, almost all of which takes place in compiled languages.
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The success is attributed to synergy :)
The most user-friendly distribution is now Chakra Linux, which is KDE-based. Rolling distributions experience none of the problems you mentioned.

Further, as the kernel has everything (but AMD/NVidia drivers) built-in, I'm curious as to how an upgrade broke drivers.
> We should tax Americans $42 billion/year indefinitely and pay much of that money to my company SpaceX.

Sounds like a better use of taxpayer dollars than spending trillions to bomb brown people on the other side of the planet. And it will cost me less personally to fund a trip to Mars than I pay for a trip to Starbucks, so it's quite the bargain.
> "Or is it more like a mass delusion keeping us from confronting the fact that poor Americans tend to remain poor Americans, regardless of how hard they work?"

The language used here is interesting. Wasn't the labor theory of value thrown out a while ago?
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This is amazing. My niece has recently been interested in "doing what I do", and Python is the language of choice for that. I was thinking of using bpython, but I guess I'll have my choice of REPLs
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Right, but that's $700 he'd have to pay to get a slightly better camera and slightly longer battery life. It's not particularly compelling.
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[AOT = Ahead Of Time, for anyone, like me, who didn't already know]
Mostly agreed, but having a truly independent Martian colony will surely require millions of people to be transported there, and millions of tons of material. If non-renewable fuels or Kessler syndrome are ever going to be a problem, then any colony we found today is doomed to die waiting for the next shipment of stuff from Earth.
You make it sound like it's elective...?
Eh. I (until recently) weighed around 220lbs. I would not have been surprised if any phone I sat on [0] broke or was otherwise damaged. Especially with the way that anything in a back pocket gets flexed. It's not just the weight placed on it, it's the tension from conforming to the shape of your body along with the pants. I guess if I had no ass, or weighed much less, or like some coworkers wear pants so low that the back pocket is actually behind the thigh it might not be a big deal.

[0] This also depends on the seat. My couch at home is very cushy, it'd be hard to break it there. But my kitchen table chair is little more than a slat of wood cut to a comfortable shape.
At least is not a 4/4s with a glass back. I never understood making both sides subject to breakage. Its possible that glass breakage may be easier as larger sizes are more prone to breakage, plus there is that beveled edge. I read we do not have sapphire because of the size issue. Is there a glass composition difference between Apple and Samsung phones?

Regardless, I will have mine tomorrow so coming from 4s my biggest shock will be size. I am assuming the new processor will make iOS 8 feel "snappier" as it has dogged my 4.

Size comparison site I found useful http://www.piliapp.com/actual-size/iphone-6/
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I lived in Santa Cruz, CA for 14 years where there is no rent control, and in regular houses. While apartments may have utilities included for the reasons you gave, individual houses don't because there is no need.

In one house it would have cost $20 more to replace a toilet with an efficient one, versus repairing the existing leaking old one. I wanted to pay that $20 extra - they refused leaving me paying higher water for several years.
Yes, transparency reports don't mean anything to me. Just because a company says "we're good guys, seriously, look at some numbers", are we to be so impressed?

The flaw is not the company's actions, but the user's misplaced trust in a separate, private entity with their data.
Isn't that a false trichotomy?
I get the feeling some people are too far up there to realize that.
When did durability stop being a factor used to assess a phone's quality? As someone who is somewhat accident prone (and who doesn't want to spend too much time fretting about protecting my phone), it's something I care about.

Granted, I don't this should be as big of an issue as some people are making it out to be, but I think the discussion should go beyond chastising owners for putting their phones in the wrong pocket. That's not much better than saying "you're holding it wrong."

If the back pocket is "not supported", that's fine, but when support is pulled on anything that people use, (however obscure or unwise its use may be), there's going to be friction.
The thing with back pockets is that the phone can stick up out of the pocket and stay in there. So the amount of pocket you need for that to work is reduced.
Hong Kong is an island and the part they occupy seems to be very inclined. Even if they manage to bring tanks in somehow, all they'll get is many expensive high-rises damaged, roads destroyed and many tanks lost (since they're trivial to immobilize).

Will look like authoritarism fail.
I didn't know about tty2gif (http://z24.github.io/tty2gif/) -- that looks pretty cool.
In my experience the dependency graph often has many more nodes as well. I'm not sure if this is because Haskell code is especially reusable or Haskell developers are especially lazy.
> I'd be surprised if most jeans for women have back pockets that could comfortably fit an iPhone 6.

The rear pocket in women's jeans might be able to accept an iPhone 6, but only if the woman's rear isn't present at the same time.

It's interesting that "cargo" pockets, located on the side of the pants at mid-hip height, are popular right now, because that's a much better and safer place for a phone than the back pockets.
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Well, there were basically a few different strategies to produce U-235 during the war. For Hiroshima, most of the Uranium came from a very temporary but quicker to setup using an electromagnetic process at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, and that ended with the war. The gaseous diffusion plant at K-25, also in Oak Ridge, came online in 1945 and ended up being the main enricher for much of the cold war; it was a construction marvel, and the fact it was built in 2 years is still remarkable. The US definitely would have been ready to produce many more in not too long for the war had it been needed.

All of these processes were brand new at the time and mostly untested. Plutonium enrichment at the Hanford site used a reactor design that was validated well into the construction of the site. The Manhattan project already had a lot of risks, and they weren't going to attempt chaining projects for something unproven. Real experiments came after the war.
most of the biggest users of earth's resources already don't care (think companies that prioritize profit over everything else), so why would you think that it would be worst?
My guess is that Mozilla doesn't know about this.
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This is really cool. Can queues be bounded, as well as rate-limited?

(I built my own Redis-backed distributed queue system long ago because I needed bounded queues with backpressure, which no other libraries seemed to offer: http://github.com/psobot/pressure)
About 90% of the people I know who own an Iphone also own a case for it.

So yes, it's always in your hand, but most people don't get to enjoy the feel, the thinness, or even the design.
That's not necessarily true at all. Imagine in 1900 I said, "We'll never get better at making digital music players until we start making them!", and then poured a bunch of money into single-purpose digital music players, at the expense of general purpose computing. Digital music players came around as a natural consequence of general purpose computing, not the other way around.

Additionally, at one point along our exponential growth curve, it became inexpensive to dedicate enough research funding to the creation of a digital music player that we got the beginnings of modern MP3 players. I don't see any reason why going to Mars will be particularly different - it's not like there's no overlap between the technology we need to survive there and the technology we need to thrive here.
In general, liked the post, and generally agree that drugs have completely permeated our society, and we mostly need to accept, and deal with, the fact that they're here.

Oddly though, I disagree with the summary points, although they're almost impossible to prove.

For example, I think the large majority of Americans can tell you a decent amount about marijuana. Maybe not purchasing info, but general effects, and good guesses on how much folks smoke. I would also guess that if its being legalized in places, than it can't be much more excessive than they're comfortable with. I do agree that they probably can't tell you much more. LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin, Cocaine - they're probably all mysteries to the vast majority of folks.

I would also guess that the vast majority of drug use still happens on a sofa. Obviously, there are people like you say, who use drugs while they're driving or out on the job. Heck, I'm sure a lot of the fast food industry is constantly out of it (see American Beauty). But drugs are still a disorienting state change for many folks, which means a lot of them want to be in a comfortable, safe place when they use them - namely at home on a sofa.
Sure, the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere is fine for life in general, but I don't really have a huge emotional attachment to the shallow-sea fish that will have all that lovely extra living space right where Miami used to be. The future Earth will not be dystopic for biodiversity, but it will make things more difficult for us, and that is, ultimately, what I care the most about.
He didn't say it was normal. We stick things in our pockets and forget about them. It happens.

This is where the marketing concept of "life-proof" comes from. Shit happens. Day-to-day consumer devices are going to get bumped, dropped, damp, sat on, etc. If the iPhone can't handle those things, the answer isn't "Be more careful you idiots", the answer is people will (presumably) stop buying them.
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>To gauge success by non-student oriented metrics like year-over-year recruitment growth or annual profit. To compete for, and try to hire big shot administrators / executives (cause that $1M (Example) Harvard guy is worth 10x more than some $100k random dude). To vote large administrative / executive pay raises or parachutes (not general faculty) while the main public story is the rapidly rising cost of tuition. To tailor the school towards showing good metrics, rather than educating students and letting metrics flow from that. To focus primarily on research output because its more profitable / efficient than educating a bunch of undergrads.

All while squeezing graduate-student stipends and replacing tenured faculty with poverty-wage adjuncts.
> It seems to me that people program heavily with types because that's what compilers are really good at. Therefore that's what most languages give us. But I don't want to be constructing huge, complex type hierarchies with every application

That makes no sense, most languages with good generics support barely have type hierarchies (let alone complex one).
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Sites that use multiple social signup methods (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) don't seem to have a way to check which method was used to sign up in the past.

Am I missing something? I'm surely not the only forgetful person.

Short of signing up with each method, I can't figure out a way to look up or reset account access. (I'm looking at BrandYourself.com, but this is relevant for every social signup enabled site I've come across).

Anyone have tips?
We shouldn't confuse what normal people consider success to be with with what a sociopath considers success.
To say you can't or shouldn't put your phone in your pocket is ridiculous. It is quite possibly the most common use case for a phone, and the design should take that into account. Full stop.
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This might be the only way the NSA is going to get paid for what they do directly by the users of Tor.

(To avoid looking suspicious the NSA will probably have to list some of their Tor nodes here)
"I have to confess I never thought of that, but it's beside the point." Because real arguments are not about the provable facts, but about their relevance.
> It wasn't know that America would be profitable.

This is misleading, because the early explorers thought they were sailing to India, not to a new world that was unknown at the time. India was certainly regarded as profitable, and was the impetus for the early voyages. BTW this is why native Americans are called "indians".
Not really, no.

My ex-wife always sat with her 3 in her back jeans pocket because fashion designers refuse to put sensible front pockets on women's jeans. The 3's case began to crack at the top around the power button after a while. And this is a girl sitting on her phone - not some 200lbs guy.

And I certainly wouldn't sit on my nexus 5 or the SGS4 that it replaced.
I enjoy how their website tells me all about the team and their vision and yada yada and tell me completely nil about the game. Not even what genre, yawn. People can't even develop a video game any more without pouring more time into the social networking than actually working on it.
Morality has nothing do with environmental apathy.

Survival takes precedence over morality and convenience, that much is obvious. People will violate morals in the name of survival.

The question of saving the environment is not a moral question but one of survival. The irony about it all is, if saving the environment is about survival why do people still don't care?

Ask yourself, "If I care about the environment, if I care about my survival, why do I pollute it by driving a car to work every morning?" The answer is deceptively obvious. I direct you to an insightful article by Garrett Hardin describing a phenomenon known as the tragedy of the commons:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/162/3859/1243.full
Honestly, I thought it was obvious that the entire thing is probably alpha or thereabout
That doesn't solve the problem of scripts that begin with #!/bin/bash
Basic business strategy. Barriers to entry increase the incentive for market participants to cooperate.
How I read this: Man argues that because we cant get away from the competitive nature of the male dominance that pushes society into its gluttony for growth ("Get that GDP up!") we have no alternate but to find new sources to exploit for growth.

While I admire Musk for his accomplishments this is no reason for us to follow his lead in ignoring the core of the problem. I'm all for absurdity masked as "vision" except when it distracts from serious problems. This is not really a critique of musk. His push for electric cars shows clearly he's both concerned as much with saving this environment as he is with leaving it. I'm just not sure great attention from the public to this idea of Mars inspires that same balance.

Finally, to entertain the idea of a colony on Mars is pretty much tantamount acknowledging you're lineage is going to die off. You do notice he said 1 million people. So I ask the proponents, are you really worried about the survival of humanity or does this issue touch some other motives? Perhaps just the novelty of it. Perhaps the relief it gives you from not having to waste as many neurons on thinking about ecological complexity and the economic complexity it carries.

In the same manner that Musk would say "fuck Earth" why can't we just say "fuck civilisation". I'm certain microbes and life on earth will continue onward long after we are gone.
Elon Mask is really smart. He know how to keep his name in headlines all the time. This kind of arguments are nothing but tools for gaining more publicity
There is an ambient culture of code reuse at a level I don't see elsewhere, that's one of Haskell's strength's in my opinion. Though it does make certain packaging problems more difficult.
I'd say windows is similar in this regard. Using Terminal Services on a Server 2008R2 computer as an unprivileged user is still going to hide all the administration tasks required.