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I may have misspoke, but there is a real danger from solar radiation on Mars:

"Solar storms are not dangerous to humans on Earth’s surface. These storms are awesome to contemplate, but they cannot harm our human bodies as long as we remain on the surface of Earth, where we’re protected by Earth’s blanket of atmosphere. Remember, there’s every reason to believe that storms on the sun have been happening for billions of years, since the sun and Earth came to be. If that’s so, then all life on Earth evolved under their influence.

What is the danger of a solar storm in space? Very high-energy particles, such as those carried by CMEs, can cause radiation poisoning to humans and other mammals. They would be dangerous to unshielded astronauts, say, astronauts traveling to the moon. Large doses could be fatal."

http://earthsky.org/space/are-solar-storms-dangerous-to-us

Mars lacks a magnetosphere.
> they're stuck looking kind of like a half-baked Photoshop clone

So does the GIMP look like Photoshop, or does it not?
The quality of writing has definitely dipped since Anand's departure. Though this review does contain a lot of information, it seems like it was written in a very sophomoric way.
Well - the issue isn't that it's a good idea to sit on a iPhone, the issue is that this iPhone seems to be less durable than previous iPhones, where nearly every other model was an upgrade in terms of durability.
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How's the power draw on that thing? I'm not really familiar with it, but I'm under the impression apple is interested more in balanced performance than all out perf
I would love to see this take off. I haven't bought a Chromecast because I don't use Chrome. I'd love a way to point my TV at arbitrary multimedia streams using any device I happen to have.
Well, except for the suckers sitting atop the stack of course...
I keep my phone in my front pocket 90% of the time. However, there's been a number of times where I've been distracted, and have slipped it in my back pocket just before sitting on it, such as finishing a conversation just before getting into the car or working on something that may get my front wet, like gardening. It's a nice adrenaline rush feeling it under me all of a sudden, but, thankfully, I've never inflicted damage like that.
Invention is best fuelled by need. A motivation to colonise new worlds (either as a extinction safeguard as it's proposed in the article, or merely for economic exploitation) will drive the journey's price down. And a need for ways to stay in those new worlds will push technology so we don't die on Mars. And so on.

Nobody is going to spend billions to live in cities underwater. Simply, nobody wants to live underwater, or pay for it, or there is enough to be gained from that (we hurt the oceans enough already with fishing and others). And the eventual possible gain of maybe applicable useful knowledge is not enough to warrant the inversion.

It would be cool, though.
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As a developer, you've got to be able to assess risk in a more nuanced way than this is/isn't violating the guidelines. It is startlingly obvious that Apple's Guidelines are full of gray areas. Just read the introductory bullet points:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

"We'll know it when we see it."

If that isn't a clear indication that Apple takes broad latitude in the judgement of what is acceptable, I don't know what is.

It's obvious to me that the launcher widget fell in a gray area. Any app that launches other apps overlaps with the functionality of the home screen.
Except it wasn't rejected. It was accepted, sold, and then Apple changed their mind. Did we agree to that fickleness?
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I agree that living conditions will undoubtedly be hard at first, but will only improve from there.

The first humans to live on Mars will almost certainly already have gone through many months/years of rigorous on-Earth testing to ensure they don't go stir crazy. Indeed, MARS-500 is a wonderful, recent example of research into this area.

By the time 'ordinary' humans get to Mars, there should be a reasonable amount of infrastructure (power/water/heat) already in place to support a population.

As for entertainment, I don't imagine that football stadiums or theatres will be required in the future if everyone had access to something like an Oculus Rift.
You can only really think like a programmer by programming. Just keep at it, and you'll get better at it.

I have heard that going through SICP can help you better wrap your head around functional decomposition and that sort of thing, but I haven't gone through yet it myself.
It's still a vastly simpler language than pretty much any other widely used language out there. Consistency is superseded by pragmatism in the language design.
Generics add addition type checking at the the cost of complexity in other areas: syntax, compilation, runtime[0]. Heavily debated there, but what they are trying to get at is that generics have a cost associated with them, adding them is not free. The Go team is trying to search to see if there is some better way to solve this problem right now.

As well, from what I've heard of Java's generics implementation, it add a huge amount of complexity to javac and the JRE. The Go team is small and probably didn't have the resources to do it out the gate.

[0] http://research.swtch.com/generic
Terraforming your own planet to make it less habitable while trying to terraform a hostile planet to make it more habitable seems like an odd way to do things.

It doesn't have to be either/or. But politically, the odds of an unsuccessful Earth creating a viable Mars colony are somewhere very near zero.
But the thing is, most things that we say will "wipe us off the planet" actually leave Earth still more habitable than Mars is today. It's just that when we talk about those scenarios, we acknowledge that we have no way to survive such utter deprivation, while with Mars we wave our hands and say "Oh, we'll figure it out." Being able to survive on Mars means being able to survive under totally inhospitable conditions. That alone takes a lot of doomsday scenarios off the table even if we never go to Mars.

I'm not arguing for underwater cities or against going to Mars. I'm just saying that the cost and effort of getting everything to Mars is the easy part, and is not the part that will actually ensure humanity's survival.
Solar panels and water gets you all the fuel you ever need. One of the things that is interesting is finding asteroids with water and parking a solar panel on them to quietly sit and make hydrogen so that you have loads of refueling stations zipping around the inner solar system.
> It's as if history is repeating itself:

> Apple rolls out new features/platform.

> Developer forges ahead in gray area (there's history here with apps that launch other apps).

> Apple "clarifies" their stance by rejecting said developer's app. (In Apple parlance, clarifying means issuing a firm opinion on their openly stated policy of "we'll know it when we see it".)

> Development community cries out.

> Apple remains singularly focused; stringently enforcing their policies (even if they are often unclear or inconsistent).

You missed the last step - one iOS version later, Apple copies the killer feature it originally rejected as a misuse of the platform, and makes it its own.
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Does it really matter what his compromise is? His app is a Today widget app launcher. Apple decided after initially approving it that you can't make Today widget app launchers. The end.

I agree that the dev thinking it is a "valid compromise" is iffy, but I don't think there was any compromise that would allow his app to stay on the store.
While I disprove strongly with Apple's policies, that article is hugely apologist. They act like it is a peppy lone developer underdog stepped on for no reason and it is an utter surprise!

Sorry but Apple's app store policies are pretty clear in this area. They have also squished tons of similar apps previously (which was well publicized).

Plus according to the article Apple contacted the developer essentially saying "Do X and Y or we'll pull you!" and the developer didn't do X and Y so consequently got pulled. They say the developer "compromised" but the way it is worded I have to assume it was a one-sided "compromise" (as in, he never got Apple's approval before submitting an update that clearly didn't fix the issues raised).

I honestly would have had more sympathy if the article wasn't so manipulative. Now it has just got my back up and I'm more on Apple's side than the developers.

PS - Apple's policies are dumb. I dislike them. I'm all for protecting user privacy and security, but many Apple policies are essentially "don't compete with us!" which is dumb when app installation is entirely voluntary.
I apologize if it sounded like I was pushing my opinion on anyone. It wasn't my intent. I'm only here to learn, so I genuinely hope people will correct me when I'm wrong.
Old. Very old.
Technically, I suspect we could improve humanity's chances by launching a million-person mission to the Sun. The tricky bit is figuring out which million people to put in the rocket...
The article essentially chronicles surprise that this app would be rejected. What you describe is you believe the terms are unjust. These are two different things.

I may not agree with the speed limit on the freeway, but I am not surprised if I am ticketed for going over it.
Well, this is phantasmagory. The mars has actually very low magnetic shield and almost no atmosphere. The core of mars, which should generate this kind of field, as earth do, is burned out. There is no way how to create and sustain a sufficient atmosphere to colonize this planet. What worse the earth come to this point soon or later and solar wind flush all atmosphere and vegetation and there will be another mars on solar orbit. Humankind should focus to leave this world and transcend to another form of life :))))
Why would you plan based on current limitations in AI and robotics? Better is coming.

We assume too much about the future. Technological progress is not inevitable, as we had seen with the space programs.

Besides, when the time come, it's not like the plan won't be revised.
I think U Chicago is a top tier school but I don't understand what you mean about Berkeley. UC Berkeley has a low standard of instructors? It is usually in the top 5 for math, physics, and computer science. Were you talking about departments aside from these?
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Hey, Brick project member here. Completely agreed, the styling for these components is not where it needs to be. We're a small team that works in the open, and like to ship.
>>As in, we have no other choice.

Of course you do. Android, Windows Phone, even Blackberry if that's your thing.
This really depends on (A) How often you use your phone, (B) What you use your phone for, and (C) most importantly, how old your phone is.

Anybody who actively uses their phone, particularly the Camera, CPU and GPU capability, definitely stands to see a pretty big improvement if they upgrade every three years, and definitely every four. The jump (for me) from the 3GS to the iPhone 5 was massive, particularly around the camera. The shutter is incredibly fast on the iPhone 5. And the Games/Display also were a pretty big leap forward.

Anybody who is currently on an iPhone 4 can definitely justify moving to the iPhone 6 if they are an active user, and I would even suggest there might be value for 4S users.

I'd concur with you that iPhone 5 users can probably wait another round before seriously considering upgrades though, and obviously iPhone 5S users under contract (unless they have some really huge need for the large screens), don't have any need to update anytime soon.

All this is predicated on you owning your phone. Obviously anybody stuck in a contract with the carrier in which they are "subsidized" should just upgrade every two years and re-sell your phone.

[Edit - I just checked out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5 - The Nexus 5 is less than a year old and already has a 4.9" display. Unless you are a professional phone reviewer, I'm not sure what would motivate you to pick up an iPhone 6. Returning it was almost definitely the right decision]
> That I vastly prefer multi-window is my only evidence.

That's ironic, given that the latest Gimp (2.8) defaults to a single-window interface. I'm having a hard time adjusting, but this doesn't mean it was a bad idea.
When will we stop hobbling ourselves with copyright? It's used to harass people or guarantee profits (or both; the evidence that copyright infringement has an effect on profits is debatable).
The failed business models of publishers is not my problem.
Facebook did the same thing with FB Fund
Launcher apps have been available on Android since the beginning. I doubt the developer would have seen such a massive initial success on Android unless their app was particularly impressive.
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Agreed, these books are interesting and cover the geopolitical aspects of a mars colony attempting to break away from the control a dying earth government.
In the internet age as in any other time in history, whoever controls the communication channels win.

For now IMO the winners are: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple(on the top but sliding down?), Amazon, US Gov, NSA, CIA, FBI, KGB, Russian Gov, Chinese Gov (win by block out others), Badu, Alibaba, WeChat, Line, SnapChat,

For now, the losers or losing players are : Yahoo, Nokia, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Liberian Gov, Ukraine, Egypt(almost?), Most of Japanese Electronic firms.
Which part of that is describing this exactly? Is this extension really a home screen alternative? Is this extension showing widgets that simulate multiple apps?
And I'd say the biggest uncovered useful use case is type-safe containers that aren't slices, arrays, or maps.

For that, my current preferred approach is to wrap a generic implementation (using interface{}) with a concrete type. Like this:

http://play.golang.org/p/LkVWkyph75

There is some boilerplate code needed for each concrete type, but it is relatively small and easy to verify.
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One of them zealots being a downvoter, huh?
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> You may not agree with it, but its not arbitrary to say that the economy should strive to give people credit for what they choose to do, rather than what you luck into. Its a distinction based on a well-defined criterion.

It's not well-defined at all. If person A is "smarter" than person B, how can you tell whether that's the result of A working harder than B or A having lucked into greater intelligence? Measure how much time each spent studying in college? If person C "chooses" to be an alcoholic and is therefore unproductive, how much of that is "free will" (what does that even mean?) and how much is bad luck?
Package management at the systems level is a completely different problem from package management at the application level. An externally-facing server application is ideally a self-contained system of its own which should be installable on any modern kind of system without regard to whatever is or isn't on that system already, beyond the bare minimum. Trying to resolve library dependencies between two externally-facing applications is pointless; there should be no effect of one on the other.

In the days when space and bandwidth was expensive, a lot of compromises had to be made, but with many current language ecosystems, the cost of maintaining separate infrastructure is trivial, so we shouldn't be continuing to make our lives more difficult by deferring to the system package manager.

The sibling comment brings up Nix, but the only reason that looks like a good solution is that it happens to make all libraries application-specific libraries (if I understand correctly), which fuses the two problem domains. Nix excepted, however, I think it's a mistake to conflate them.
This is a project under active development, and was created to address of the need of mobile app developers who expect some form of UI toolkit for building mobile webapps.
I'm with the parent. If you think sitting on a phone in your back pocket is a problem, I don't think the solution is a "stronger phone."
>the war would have ended without them.

How do we really know this? The Japanese were ready for a long drawn out decades conflict. The US forces were war-weary and war was draining the economy. This could have gone on with quite some time, or ended in a frozen conflict that would reignite periodically. Who knows, but a quick non-nuclear win was certainly not in the cards.

>would the superpowers have been as restrained as they were in reality?

Arguably, if the US used nukes on Chinese soldiers during the Korean conflict, as some generals advised, there would be no North Korea. We'd have a cowed China and built a single free and democratic Korea, essentially one large South Korea. Instead we have one of the worst regimes the world has ever seen as a client state of China, who uses China's political influence and muscle to threaten the West with nuclear war every day. So, progress?

Conflicts need to happen. The more we put them off or try to find conditional surrenders or half-assed peace, the more we're asking for more trouble down the line.

imho, the cold war thinkers had no love for humanity and weren't influenced by the bombings in Japan. From a game theory perspective they had no incentive to fight a full scale war because it would annihilate both sides quickly. Its a losing outcome for all. Instead, it led to dozens of brutal proxy conflicts in non-nuclear states paid for by the lives of young men of those states. How many died because of the advance of Communism in Asia? How many states failed because of it? How many did Stalin send to their deaths?

These are not trivial numbers. You still had conflict by the USSR's expansionist agenda, and a serious amount of it, just with conventional arms while nuclear arms largely protected the West from a Soviet surprise nuke attack. Countries without nukes were gristle for the Soviet oppression machine.
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There is a minimum, no? I can't downvote....
I don't know any good alternatives, which ones would you recommend?
>So, like it or not, it's what we agree to

I believe the point of the article is that we don't like it. Terms of Service are not the ultimate arbiter of ethics.
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Oh, we most certainly do have a choice, especially as developers. If enough of us don't support their infrastructure or buy their products then we most certainly can effect change and their bottom-line. Don't be upset and powerless, be proactive and don't support Apple in any way.
Nothing is unmanageable, and it is obvious that an engineered habitat will be less "diverse" than Earth that have evolved for billions of years. Take food for example. The basics will be available anywhere in the Solar system, but you are not going to eat fresh seafood or truffle. I know that this sounds pretty trivial, but lots of what we are taking for granted on Earth will need lots of careful planning and execution to get elsewhere.
That's just good business. Google is a company that's run for profit and is ultimately answerable to its shareholders. Google's job isn't to perform a social good, it's to continue making money. If it has areas of its business that are net losers (with no hope of eventually performing) then it has an obligation to do something about this.

For a good example of a business that divested its underperforming businesses to the great benefit of its shareholders, look at General Dynamics beginning around 1994.
I think it's true that Martians will feel a great cultural separation from Earthlings (note to self: think of a better demonym), but I don't think it's true that colonies have historically become disinterested in the politics of their founding countries (be sure to consider only colonies that establish new populations shipped in from a host country rather than subjugating natives, since AFAIK Mars has no natives to subjugate).

> No one born on Mars is going to have any reason to care
> about what happens on Earth any more than the people of
> one continent care about the day-to-day life of people on
> another continent.

But humans on Earth care about what happens on other continents incessantly. Today in the news: attacks on ISIS, Hong Kong protests, and the ebola outbreak. I care about all of these things, and as a taxpayer my money is influencing all of these things, though I cannot say that I was born in Iraq, China, or Senegal.
Any links supporting progress? It has been two years. I know the community had major optimization plans. I have not been following it of late.
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at the time Microsoft had > 90% market share of desktop PC operating systems. currently apple doesn't have even close to this market share for mobile handset/tablet operating systems.

remember, the anti-trust laws are meant to curtail abuses of monopolies. they are almost powerless when a company is not actually a monopoly. that's by design. when a company is not a monopoly the remedy to their abuses is to simply buy from their competitor.
How have you been able to build interest?
Mars isn't "space." It has an atmosphere. It's thin, but it's enough to stop solar flares from killing people on the surface.

Earth's magnetosphere could disappear today, and whatever other chaos that causes, Earth's atmosphere would still deflect most charged and uncharged particles from space. The magnetosphere has no effect on the uncharged particles, remember.

The moderate-level long-term cosmic radiation will probably be an issue for colonists, making cancer quite likely for anyone spending 40+ years there.
Musk believes the cost can be US$500,000/immigrant. Assuming 100 kg/immigrant plus an absurdly low 1kg/day supplies and 150 days of travel gives a maximum transport estimate of $2,000/kg.

This is extraordinarily expensive, yes, but not out of the realm of question. Saffron is $1,100–11,000/kg, for example.

A colony of 1 million is also very unlikely to have the ability to produce pharmaceuticals and high-end chips which are cost competitive with Earth. Assuming a core weighs 20 grams, the shipping cost is $40.

Of course, this is as public-private partnership. Assuming the real cost is $2 million / immigrant gives a shipping cost of $200 - which is still going to beat the cost of starting and maintaining a set of fabs on Mars.

If Musk is right about the cost, then there will be goods exported from Earth to Mars. If Musk is wrong about the cost, then it's not practical to send a significant population to Mars.
Yes, lens-aeson looks pretty damn close. I've got a bunch of reading to do.

The existence of zipper lenses catches me by surprise, as I have been frequently directed at a stackoverflow [0] response on the difference between the two...

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22094971/what-are-the-dif...
No, but there isn't any low hanging fruit.
Who wants to live on Mars?