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> I believe it is dependent on funding and you are doing space exploration harm by abstracting it down to percentages of budgets vaguely spent, as if it's a progress bar in a Zynga game that only needs to be filled.

Are you trying to sound like a smug prick?

> There are many things you can do to help with space exploration. Get others excited about physics/astronomy/engineering, conduct your own rocket research ..

Uh, ok. I am not interested in rocket research as an avenue for my own self-education, and I don't have time in my life to "run/participate in distributed projects to quantify and discover items in space." I mean, really dude? Your point seems to be, "If you are not personally building a spaceship, trying to get into outer space, you're hurting NASA!" Get a grip. In the real world, people make time for the things they care about in the spaces between all the things they must do. For those things that don't fit or are difficult to access, we do what we can. "Do everything or do nothing," which you seem to be implying, is not a viable form of advocacy.

> you are not able to see the connection between how you spend your time and what happens at NASA

I didn't know you and I were so personally acquainted. Oh, wait, you're just projecting.
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Ah, so we're not talking about taking a whole branch and squashing it into a single 2000 line commit called "Implemented at FooBar" then?
I wish Flask-Restless was more like this. Good job and thanks for publishing it!
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Ask HN: Is there a "new" WRT54G?
I've been using WRT54G routers with DD-WRT for years and am looking to get a new router. I haven't been keeping up to date on the latest and greatest in routers and am wondering if there's a "new" WRT54G, so to speak. Meaning, is there a better router out there that can run DD-WRT or can provide the same features & functionality?
Please remove the intermediate popup menu when clicking to read an article.

Clicking the title should just go to the article.

The "10 comments" TextView should be clickable to take me to the comments activity.

You could add more clickable margin and bump the font size on that comments text if you feel it's to small to click.

The fact that I have to click twice to read anything will prevent me from using the app. I love the speed and the rendering, so I'd love to use this app, but right now I can't get past the fact I have to click twice every time.
http://whois.domaintools.com/emptyage.com reveals way too much about Mat Honan!
This is a golden quote from the post.

"If you want people to like you, give them something. If you want people to hate you, take something away from them. "
“We apologize for the temporary inconvenience experienced when trying to upload and view a NASA clip early Monday morning," a Scripps spokesman told Motherboard. "We made a mistake. We reacted as quickly as possible to make the video viewable again, and we’ve adjusted our workflow processes to remedy the situation in future.”
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You might appreciate Jeff Atwood's post on the subject. [1] He comes down to the Asus RT-N16 with the open-source Tomato firmware.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/06/because-everyone-st...
I'm going to add a 5th: Being really simple. The first time I tried to figure out what a merchant account was, and a payment gateway, and all the associated fees, etc, was just exhausting.
Why would "in error" and "in bad faith" be mutually exclusive?
Seems the new notification system impacted the news feed filtering of the 'switch account context'. I am now seeing lots of activity for organizations I am a member of in my personal context. I guess this is a side effect of 'watching' those repos?
It leverages the synergy of numerical analysis along with cloud networking social circles to create a paradigm shift allowing for agile spreadsheet management.
Thanks to everyone who came out. That was a lot of fun. For homework, check out the source code of the Pong game, save it to your computer, and change things in it. Change the color of the paddles. Try to make the paddles bigger or smaller. Change the size of the play field. Try to make the AI harder. There are all kinds of things you can do, and the best way to learn is to stick your hands in it and do it.
There are many problems with this. Among them that I have some iTunes purchases associated with an email account that hasn't existed in /years/. There's no way to rename an Apple account. This same problem exists on most sites that use email as username - if your email address of choice ever changes, you're SOL on having a single identity anymore.
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You're not clipping leads to the ends of it and getting current, though -- you're using thermocouples. It's more of a "heat battery", I suppose.
Interesting - hadn't heard that CIA thing before.

I run a business. A good deal of what is on my laptop I would put in the confidentiality category. I guess apps and settings would come under integrity.
Credit card fraud doesn't really affect the end user, except in time lost disputing fraudulent charged. Mostly the cost of fraud is born by the retailer who receives no money even though they have already shipped the goods.

That said, in 13 years of credit card use, I have been defrauded 0 times.
...until the hacker calls up your registrar and convinces them to reset your domain management password.
Losing a laptop can and will happen at some point. At that point, if you don't have a backup you will lose access to your data period. Full disk encryption means nobody else will get to that data.

Keep an unencrypted backup in a secure location, not on a device you are bound to lose in a coffee shop or airport.
When you put the statistics that way, that makes for interesting corroboration as to why I hear anecdotes that everyone at Google is trying to get into Google X.
Please provide feedback for our landing page
We launched our landing page about a week and a half ago. (www.hireunity.com) Our metrics are not what we expected and we would love some honest/direct feedback regarding why our conversion rate is not as high as it should be (seemingly) based on GA.<p>Target market: Healthcare professionals,hospitals, doctors, dentists, nurses, etc.
Do you really think there are artists out there that would be paid a decent living wage, were it not for piracy?
I think it's mostly that they wanted to minimize any clouds from causing it to think it's closer to the ground than it is, and to keep the instruments from getting covered/clogged on landing.
Well, there's been a few accidents involving these things, including Apollo 13. They're designed to survive reentry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
Clear covers though, in case they didn't pop off as expected. Clever!

Somewhat related, and perhaps my favorite facepalm moment in space probe history: "...the titanium lens cap on Venera 14 landed precisely on the area which was targeted by the soil compression probe." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera#Venera_camera_failures_a...)
Just because consumers accepted something in the past does not mean they will accept it in the future.

For example, in the past when I found a flashy new b2b service I would grumble when I couldn't find a price list and continue my research. Now, when I visit a company's page and there are no listed prices, I immediately close the tab and forget about it.

Saying "We only accept Visa" is like saying "We only serve white people." Exclusive, yes. A reminder of ethnic and class privilege, yes. Desirable by any progressively minded individuals? Absolutely not.

A note about online payments when it comes to credit cards, I pretty much stopped using my Mastercards with the exception of Amazon because of that damn Securecode implementation. I think payment processors and providers who erect any restrictions or barriers will find them self quickly suffocated out by services who are going the other direction. (I'm one of the guys who believes within the next 5 years you'll just be able to walk out of most stores with a product and seamlessly be billed for it, uber style.)
Honestly? Yes. Sometimes that is just the only reasonable response.
TP-Link wr1043nd is one of the preferred routers for OpenWRT.

Featuring 32mb RAM, 8mb Flash, 4+1 Ethernet, 2.4ghz 802.11bgn wifi, and an USB port.

The best thing is that it requires no binary drivers and runs perfectly on Linux 2.4 to 3.3.8.
The Asus rtn16 is popular, it has a fast processor, large amount of RAM, is dual band N, and has USB storage capabilities. I use WRT350Ns all the time, and love them, even if they are light on RAM and are draft-N.
except that anything interesting he does 'on the side' is owned by el goog?
I agree, if you get locked out and need to regain access it should as hard as possible to get back in.

On the flip side, we perhaps need to come up with something better than usernames and password for authentication. There are plenty of services where I simply cannot remember my password and/or username. I'm getting better about writing them down inside a password protected master file. But for many of those services I rely on the account recovery procedures; a vast majority of which are vulnerable once the attacker has access to my e-mail inbox.
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What are you basing your projected conversion rate on?
Yeah, the main difference is that Clojure docstrings are available at runtime, so it's easiest just to query a running instance; you don't need to switch to a browser to do that kind of thing.

There's a place for API reference pages, but considering that most tools to generate it require evaling the code in question, a third-party hosting service would have to implement some fancy sandboxing and wouldn't really offer much over GitHub Pages since it's just static HTML.

But I don't think when people complain about documentation that they're complaining about API reference. I suspect people want accessible tutorial-style prose and introductions. But maybe next year's survey could distinguish between the two.
You don't have as many computers as I do, or as long a password as I do, I suspect. Having to type a random long passphrase with special characters on the weird keyboards of multiple devices every month was a pain. Even worse, for devices I infrequently use, I ended up basically having to do this every single time I wanted to use the device.
Somebody else found out an iCloud flaw... http://m.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/aussie-ex...
They talked about this during a press conference today. Theoretically it could operate at night, but the power draw to heat the motors and joints would be excessive since it's so cold after sunset. So they don't and allow the MMRTG to charge the battery (and keep the heater for the electronics) while most of the machine is idle.
I think we need legislation or, at least, some sort of groundwork regulation that protects user-generated content from company-issued end-user agreements tied to private takedown workflows, such as Google's content-id system. Such agreements tend to give publishers and copyright owners far too much power. I'm even thinking of left-field cases here, such as the right to control and redistribute content in the backdrop of Craiglist vs. PadMapper -- regardless of who's right or not, these two websites are fighting over content that _wasn't actually produced by either one of them_. It's come to the point where websites and their business partners have become de facto copyright owners of anything ever produced by mankind. What I'm saying is quite hyperbolic, I know, but just imagine a glitch in Time-Warner's top-notch automated content takedown workflow that takes down from You Tube, Vimeo and DropBox, almost instantly, a homevideo of my 8-year old son's rendition of Bach's Suite for Cello, due to a striking similarity to some piece of content supposedly owned by a prominent customer of theirs. Sounds familiar?

For instance, under my hypothetical legislation, Google would only be allowed to take down NASA's video if NASA accepted such action via an email notification that warned of a copyright claim by a third party. Such legislation would limit Google's liability (even further), protecting it from legal action by Scripps Local News, but most importantly, limit its power over the user's content published in its website, thus effectively (and I hope positively) diminishing Google's role as a copyright claim desk. The burden now would be on Scripps Local News to "threaten" (warn) the end-user of impending legal actions. This system works better the less anonymous and more accountable you, or your profile, are. OTOH, it reduces Google's persuasiveness when it comes to partnering with large media producers, which, all in all, is the heart of this content removal fever. Google's stance is to beg the user to bear with these takedown "glitches" because that's how we'll get to watch the full Beatles concertography for "free".

This fantasy takedown and redistribution noob legislation of mine, which has been addressed before [1], has many limitations (ie legal inconsistencies across borders), but I feel something needs to be done to better protect UGC since its existence, despite its metamorphic nature, has remained a constant for as long as we've had the internets.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content#Legal_pr...
They plan on driving a significant distance, so I don't think they're too worried about contamination of the landing site. I think the real issue is that they have many sensitive instruments and protecting against very small high velocity particles is difficult.
>It's still not necessarily a great idea depending on your business.

But that's the whole point of A/B testing, rather than argue of hours based on intuition and anecdote you can actually test these ideas. No need for debate here, just run experiment and look at the results.
Thoughts on Simple.
People here that are saying this isn't war are being silly. Apple's Google hatred is now being kicked into high-gear. The battle is in multiple fronts including court rooms world-wide as well as removing as much Google as they can from iOS and Mountain Lion.

The main thing I don't understand is why is Google not fighting back completely. Why would they make a YouTube app that makes the iOS platform more attractive? Why not block iOS devices from accesing Youtube altogether, as well as Gmail and even Search? Apple is dead set on trying to kill Android but Google isn't trying to kill iOS, it's weird.
On Apple devices, I believe that remote wipe is "Change the encryption keys for the block storage. It's as good as random data now."

That might also be why a PIN is available for "stopping" the wipe. (As an aside: the group got what they wanted, and one of the members even seems remorseful: they have the PIN necessary to unlock the device, but this was never touched upon.)

At the very least, that is why iOS devices take split seconds to "wipe", as opposed to the time it would take to write thirty-two billion nul bytes to flash.
Given your iCloud account and/or root on the PC paired to your iPhone, I think it would be possible to compromise your Google Authenticator app. At the limit, jailbreak the connected phone, but I think it could be done more simply (all you need to do is run the Authenticator app and see the screen within 60 seconds, which should be possible from a connected, paired Mac).

On Android, way way easier, due to lack of secure device storage. Just get a copy of the disk image and then you've got the seed too.

It's still better than a password, but not as good as an actually secure independent factor. Sadly the SecurID sucks.
Thanks for the feedback. For the CRM integration, do you think that is needed? My original thought was this could be used by small, one person sales "teams" to keep all of their contacts directly on their phone, rather than needing a data connection to pull from.

That said, I'll look into some of the more popular CRMs and look at integrating them. Thanks again.
If you were to 'color' these like a four color map problem, are they all trivially colorable with just two colors? It looks that way from the pictures, but I lack the math intuition to prove it.
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Unique visitors VS Bounce Rate VS Those who actually signed up. Bounce rate was 50% yet we had less than 10% actually sign up for our service. User flow shows that users are accessing our signup pages and we also have 50% returning visitors, yet most are not actually signing up.

Pageviews: 583
UV: 126
Bounce Rate: 50%
Signups: 6
BT charges for Wi-Fi service at Olympic sites and paid for exclusivity.
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Thanks, shipping did feel good but I still have work in front of me. I'll take a second pass on the UI and see what I can polish up. I have a few notes already I'm hoping to get rolled out in the next week or so.
Standard procedure when setting up MDM for a company is to disable iCloud. All remote wipe/etc. done by your own servers, not by Apple.

Apple is really bad at running online services. It's a shame that they short-sightedly decided to go to war with Facebook and Google (who are good at services and bad at hardware) rather than playing more nicely together.
The problem is that everyone know that other cards are accepted everywhere apart from the olympics, or at least Mastercard is.

This is more like BMW deciding to sponsor the construction of a road and only allowing their cars to pass.
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Thanks for the feedback. Like I mentioned above, my original thought was to have this as a stand alone app. Still, I'll take a look at some of the larger CRMs and see what it will take to integrate them.
Canon 7D v2 firmware posted on USA site, like getting a free new camera
The V2.0 firmware of the Canon 7D was just posted on the Canon USA site. I feel like I'm getting a new camera!

Improved maximum burst for RAW images (up to 25)
In-camera RAW image editing
In-camera Image Rating
In-camera JPEG resizing
Maximum Auto ISO setting (ISO 400-6400)
Manual audio level adjustment in movie recording
GPS compatibility
File name customisation
Time zone settings
Faster scrolling of magnified images
Quick control screen during playback

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/standard_display/EOS7D_firmware

Official link outlining new features:
http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/news/firmware_update_to_enhance_EOS_7D.do
Study Proves That Fluoridated Water Is Dumbing Down Children's IQs
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Color corrected? I think they mean "colorized". Hazcams don't have multiple color filters, just a red bandpass centered around 650 nm. Any color here is basically manufactured.
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http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

Then use dropbox to keep the .safe file synced across machines
I repeat myself: "Could be Scrips just says yes automatically to every hit generated by Content ID."

So they have some responsibility for saying yes (i.e. their workflow was select all, yes), but it was youtube that misidentified the video, not that Scrips uploaded a video from NASA into content ID as you wrote.
> Visa's market research suggests a significant increase in Visa usage and Visa brand value among consumers aware of their Olympic sponsorship.

Couldn't this be that heavy-Visa users notice the company's sponsorship and usage more generally? This doesn't really prove that Olympics sponsorship increases usage.

> The same report found Visa’s brand equity was higher among consumers who were aware of Visa’s sponsorship.

Again, couldn't it just be that the kinds of people who notice that Visa sponsors things are the kinds of people who already like Visa? This doesn't establish that sponsoring the Olympics helps Visa.
Have a billing phone number. If a stranger tries to get access, call that phone number before you can get access.

This massively raises the bar for social engineering.
Real-time text to speech REPL as one line of Apple bash
NASA Video of Mars Curiosity Descent 297 frames stitched.
Those are conglomerates, which are quite controversial in the investing world. They're usually stable businesses, but often come with a "conglomerate discount" that leads to lower investor returns. This is due to increased overhead, murkier financials, and the simple fact that the management can't be as focused.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conglomeratediscount.asp
I think he's being ironic. They're "hated" because they're so awesome, yet so very unavailable.
Yeah, one of the points of CIA is to help you identify which problems you want to fix. A lot of business assets do require confidentiality, and you have to spend correspondingly more money and time dealing with it.
I encrypt the entire disk of my laptop. That can contain potentially important information, and it also has the best chance of being stolen or lost. I can keep relatively important piece of information on my laptop now after I installed TrueCrypt and encrypted my entire disk. It makes hibernating my laptop about 20x slower, so I stopped doing that, but it's completely worth it.
Is typing git commit over and over again really so terrible? It's pretty much muscle memory anyways.

Personally, I like to leave my setup as stock as possible, so I can still be productive regardless of whose computer I happen to be using.
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I can just imagine the HN article when someone tries to delete his Facebook account because he disagrees with some new feature, and they won't do it for 48 hours. I've been on the receiving end of "DELETE MY ACCOUNT!!!1!!1" requests, and I know those people wouldn't respond well to "wait two days or pay up."
Google doesn't want to kill iOS, they just want people using the web, and smartphones are a great way to get more people there. Android's purpose to get lots of people using smartphones, whether it's by using an android device, or by putting price pressure on iPhone.
Good idea, dust is one thing but imagine if it was wet and warm enough for mud!
How about a three strike or six strike rule for false take down notices? Pass that threshold, and no more DMCA for you.

/snark, but also seriously
Never knew there was a name for these -- FUIs (Fake User Interface). There's even a whole subreddit dedicated to them: http://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/
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Public education — re-thought like a startup — by a 15-year-old.
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