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I can't eat only Greek yogurt for every meal.

Interesting. What nutritional requirements did you enter to give that result?
Nice troll. But I'm sure you could explain the DNS setup that would work to "redirect" nasa.gov. to www.nasa.gov., right? Bonus points for not using provider proprietary implementations like ALIAS.
Geoffrey Landis suggested that: Although the surface of Venus is an extremely hostile environment, at about 50 kilometers above the surface the atmosphere of Venus is the most earth like environment (other than Earth itself) in the solar system. It is proposed here that in the near term, human exploration of Venus could take place from aerostat vehicles in the atmosphere, and that in the long term, permanent settlements could be made in the form of cities designed to float at about fifty kilometer altitude in the atmosphere of Venus. Source: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/2003002...
To the first part: that's obvious and stupid, but I agree that's the motivating factor.

In regards to the 2nd: what?
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Pfft. What thinkpad did you have with an unsupported wireless card? I find that hard to believe in any case, but especially hard to believe since you had the thinkpad for more than a week and therefore it was not something brand new. I've never had any linux support issues with my multiple thinkpads.
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A content farm with quizzes, a live editor and sequential lessons?
Counter analogy: I'd rather have a coffee every day for a month than throw $50 in the garbage.
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Does this really make sense?

I mean, a camera is for taking pictures and the corresponing OS should only care about the job of taking pictures and show them later on.

Why do I need a fullfledge Android system running on my camera?

This seems more like a toy experiment.
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The medium used for sending an SMS is generally a mobile phone, but when it comes to commercial use, a computer is believed to be a much more convenient medium so that you can easily send bulk SMS with a click of the mouse. A mobile phone comes handy when you have to send just a few SMS. But when it comes to bulk SMS, it is best to use an SMS messenger so that you can send SMS from PC because typing text so many times and adding hundreds of contact names at one go becomes a tedious job and may be impossible to do.
Pretty sure I just got taken down again lol
Gruber is pretty clear that he wants this to succeed because Twitter is getting shabby.

I don't see why his express opinions are always second guessed. (e.g. Does he own Apple stock? Is he concerned about Google?)

Is it so implausible that he actually believes what he says he believes? Why?
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If it just had awesome trackpad support...
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The child of a Jewish mother is Jewish regardless of their religion, and this applies recursively, so you can have generation after generation of secular Jews as long as there's an unbroken matrilineal line. So Israel is not a homeland for a religion, it is a homeland for a nationality.

Sure, a convert to Judaism is also a Jew. But Judaism is explicitly not a religion for everyone, it is only a religion for the Jews. So if you believe in Judaism but have no desire to be a Jew yourself, you can just follow the Noahide laws. Actually becoming a Jew entails an extra step beyond that, namely the intention to join the Jewish nation. So not even in the case of conversion can the Jewish nation be equivalent to Judaism.

In practice, Israel is also just as secular as any Western country. No theocracy to be found there. This is more than you can say for, say, England, which has a state-established church with the monarch at its head.
> "Not necessarily, and bad code can make dangerous tutorials."

W3Schools is not responsible for what devs do, and safe code means introducing more concepts that can leave the scope of a tutorial.

I agree the code sucks, but we're talking about minimizing time to understand something, not security. Save that for the security tutorials.
1). Huh? That's giving quite the benefit of the doubt. Kind of like how burglars are really just on a spree to make sure that that home-security companies continue to have a profitable market. I take issue with the idea that press that questions the tenets of this company is going to cause more people to donate.

2). I don't like it when people can attack someone trying new business ideas on pure speculation. That's just a mean thing to do. Also, I take that you don't mind the FUD that the post perpetuates if there's enough sprinkling of humility for you to pretend that it's balanced?
Except w3school is a road to heaven paved with bad instructions. None the less it is a road, and it's approachable.
I am curious : would you mind sharing the research papers that you found to be useful ?
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Not sure if you're serious or just trolling (you seem to be posting snippy responses to everyone's comments here), but there's a big difference between something like O'Reilly's Missing Manual or Head First series and w3schools. As demonstrated on the w3fools site, some of the information on w3schools is inaccurate or just plain wrong. The O'Reilly books have a much higher degree of accuracy yet remain approachable, beginner-level texts.
I recently deleted my account with Quora. I asked them in the email to delete the account and all data with the account.

They replied via email and stated they would be happy to delete my account and help me out - and they were sorry to see me go.

Now I see that the only thing they deleted was my name and picture from my profile.

My account appears as "account"

My profile still states my Location and company affiliations.

"account" is still receiving upvotes and notifications in my feed.

Posts, questions, edits, all still viewable (albeit maybe to me only) (I am using the transparent chrome extension)

I sent another email stating I noticed they have not complied with my request and asked for a confirmation by EOB tomorrow.
Right. USPS PO Box was just one example. It's my understanding that the other services have the same requirements.

E.g. I checked and UPS offers a service called My Choice:

> The UPS My ChoiceSM enrollment process uses public record information to verify your identity.

http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/sri/ups_my_choice...
To sum up sentiment of many here: NASA should have got Canon as a sponsor and give us some decent images.

It's ridiculous to travel across the system and not being able to send good images.
Yea, but I mean, it's a twitter clone... It's like the flashlight app of the internet. It's barely worth using the free version.
I for one think this whole raid was made so that the media, and people around the world are distracted and ask the wrong questions while the real issue at hand is silently taken care of.

There was probably a file, or a bunch of damaging data to the US government that has found it's way to megaupload.com and had to be eliminated without a trace so that it doesn't resurface at an inconvenient moment.

The raid, the illegal warrants, the choppers and swat teams are all just a big show that will have people talking for years now while the FBI/CIA secretly got what they needed behind the scenes.

Speaking of.... why is the FBI the one giving directions to NZPD... isn't this supposed to be a CIA operation if it's outside US borders?
The question, I think, isn't whether someone from a culture influenced by the deodorant ads will find the smell of body odor offensive.

The question is whether we would find it offensive if no one had told us that our body odor was repulsive.

I could honestly go either way on this. I've seen plenty of evidence that people's reaction to odors is quite context dependent. I remember someone ruining a popular brand of cheese-flavored chip at my old office when they realized that when you asked someone to smell of chip bag with their eyes closed (and without them knowing what you would put in front of them) they'd recoil in disgust. It turns out some kinds of cheese smells indistinguishably like vomit.
Okay, so it's not a dichotomy, but doesn't the comparison still makes sense?

Apple is way over toward the "pay for the product" end of the spectrum, and conversely Twitter are committed to the "selling the users' attention" business model.

Even if the difference is not clear cut, people who like Gruber expressly favour one side have reason to want more of the kind.
Weird, I might have to try it again sometime. I definitely remember thinking Unity's performance was horrible, but some of that may be confirmation bias (I expected going in that XFCE would be lighter than other options). And I was unaware the launcher could be hidden.
> People (taken as a whole) thinking our natural smell is "bad" is the direct result of advertising

I am of the same opinion. It is also mostly an American or Western phenomenon. People in other countries, it seems, don't mind they way sweat smells as much, or at least don't consider it so offensive.
So true. Imagine your primary school art teacher telling you you were ignoring centuries of established neo-classical techniques by holding the brush wrong.
There are so many things a camera could do that it can't right now:
* Sharing photos on Facebook, Twitter
* Post processing pictures (like Instagram)
* Automatic backup to Dropbox
* Live stream videos
RE: what?

My point was, we all want app.net to succeed, because it means our success is mostly in our own hands and our faith in people's ability to see past the quick, easy and free. I like that thought too, I don't have much faith in it but I like it. MG is cynically playing off that hope as well.
Stunning pics! Amazing.
I found the linked article almost impossible to read on a ThinkPad T420 running Ubuntu due to incredibly light-colored text. Luckily I have the Plain Clothes Chrome extension which allowed me to force the text to black on white.

I must be in the minority, since I see many sites with light grey text, but I find it very unusable.

Screen shot: http://www.diigo.com/item/image/yjhu/t4ix?size=o
Noting that the money will be refunded if there aren't enough backers. This guarantees a non-trivial customer base and makes it a lower risk investment.
> ... the general attitude of the West has always been antisemitic.

Yes, we so viciously keep the Jews out of the good jobs in finance, law, and science.
> "you seem to be posting snippy responses to everyone's comments here"

Sorry about that. It is not my intention to be rude or troll, but I've got a lot of discussions to manage. I went ahead and edited out some needlessly harsh bits here and there, but I'm not touching ones where I am just reciprocating the same attitude as the parent post.

I'll watch myself more carefully, so thanks for the reminder.

> "The O'Reilly books have a much higher degree of accuracy yet remain approachable, beginner-level texts."

Yes, but they still promote outdated and insecure approaches. As a beginner, I actually got yelled at for using an image map for obvious reasons. The edition of the book I used did not discourage them, but I still swear it was a nicely written text.

As for inaccuracies... W3Schools has been addressing them if the cited sources were reliable.
Twitter Bootstrap site borked? Frame error?
That's pretty much what identi.ca was supposed to be.
Probably none. What advantage does a house have over a trailer if I don't care about space/heating and how is that worth $n to me?
Deleted my account on Quora, with confirmation, account/data still viewable.
I recently deleted my account with Quora [1].

I asked them in the email to delete the account and all data with the account.

They replied via email and stated they would be happy to delete my account and help me out - and they were sorry to see me go. [2]

Now I see that the only thing they deleted was my name and picture from my profile.<p>My account appears as "account"

My profile still states my Location and company affiliations.

"account" is still receiving upvotes and notifications in my feed. [3]

Posts, questions, edits, all still viewable (albeit maybe to me only) (I am using the transparent chrome extension)

I sent another email stating I noticed they have not complied with my request and asked for a confirmation by EOB tomorrow.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4333119

[2]>From: privacy@quora.com, kat@quora.com

> Hi Sam,I'd be happy to help you with your request. I've now processed your request for account deletion and you should find yourself completely removed from the site. We're sorry to see you go but hope you'll consider rejoining the Quora community some day!

> Thanks,

> Anjali

> User Operations

> Quora

[3] http://imgur.com/a/aY20p

In my original posting, I may have gone overboard calling the folks at quora "kids" (Too much wine?) - however, it appears I was dead accurate in my questioning of their morals.

The fact that their staff reply to me, confirm that my account is deleted and then keep all data visible and undeleted is ridiculuous.

Following in the footsteps of FB.

This reinforces why I deleted my account.

Zero respect for user requests/privacy.
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Does the success of app.net depend on unseating the incumbent?
Those people call "lists that don't involve math" an "Excel". They have never heard the term "spreadsheet".
This may not be the place for attacks on an author's writing style, but I really find it hard to take any of MG Siegler's "I'm hyped about Movie X and so I'll make up an article or story around it"-type posts seriously. Some of the articles even make some decent points, but the article as a whole is a bitter pill wrapped in insistence to swallow.
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w3schools is not the best resource, but 90% of the time, when it shows up as the top result on Google, it tells me exactly what I want to know.

Some common examples:

- What values does CSS attribute white-space take? #1 result on Google for "css white-space" is http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_white-space.asp which has exactly what I need to know.

- What members does the Array object in JavaScript have? For the query "javascript array", the first result is an overview of what an Array is, but the second result is the object reference which is exactly what I need.

When learning, looking things up is one of the most common actions. Whenever w3schools comes up, it doesn't necessarily make me smile but it's reliable^Wconsistent so I know what to expect. It maintains a lot of utility, unlike good ol' experts-exchange.
It told me I should eat a minimum of 118.99999999999999 grams of protein.

I may bill my customers in picodollars, but I don't eat food in femtograms...
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Definitely, with little gravity it could even be impossible for women to bear and give birth to a child
This kind of thing is the reason I've started boning up on Android development. With the sheer volume of phones on the market and the versatility of the OS in completely unexpected applications I think there's going to be a lot of demand for people with Android skills in the future.
"I don't care enough about money to run a startup business."

It sound like you don't have to worry about connecting a job/business with your desire to create.

Build a great workshop at your home and work on projects that you are passionate about. If you start to build something that you think has market viability you have the experience needed to vet the idea in the market. Something that can be done on a lunch hour or over weekends, depending on the demographic.
It looks nice, but orange and yogurt in the same meal?
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Then why did you prepend "Show HN:" to the title? "Show HN:" is used to show off work that you've done. Otherwise every post would be a "Show HN:".
I think the most important thing is the dynamic range. The range which a camera (and our eye) can see is limited. If you extend over the range, colours look, weird. Having said that, I would agree with the justification of contrast. Too much contrast can be a distraction. It is important to have a pure white and a pure black in a photo since it gives a fairly good idea about the whole palette.
Pretty cool. I was all ready to come up with some canned whine about no paleo options but there they are. Very nice.
We're trying to do this specifically around Photos using OStatus. http://theopenphotoproject.org
So? The 2nd result (MDN) does the same, looks better, and almost never contains inaccuracies or bad practices.

> it's reliable

That's the whole point of w3fools: w3s is not reliable.
He's relatively plugged into the SV tech scene. He also struck a cord with his original blog post[1]. App.net was obviously just a reaction to the outpouring of support for the ideas he expressed in that post. This could just be proof that 80,000+ page views of a blog post does not equal $500K in paid users at $50, $100, or $1,000 a pop.

More recently he received a ton of attention from his open letter to Zuck[2].

[1]http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been
[2]http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg
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With such a lofty goal I do not understand why they capped at $1000 donations. Missing out on the big fish.
I have learnt/used as reference way more from w3schools than I ever will from the people who created w3fools.

So kudos to them for criticizing the crap out of the site? (I do also see what they are doing as valuable, but I'd agree it's needlessly hostile).

I of course didn't learn exclusively from w3chools (I doubt anyone does), it's just a resource. Not perfect, but it's useful.
I completely agree. Back in the early 2000s, I remember trying to learn HTML and CSS from them and understanding very little about a whole lot. I would say that the experience effectively put me off webdev until just recently.
What is it 2008?
This is pretty cool, I'll definitely keep this in mind if/when I finally get a smartphone and start using a photosharing app.

Thanks!
Can you convince some mom at the gym to pay $50 to use App.net? If the answer is no, then that's a big problem in building a sustainable social business. Most people don't see a "problem" with Twitter. I occasionally have seen a sponsored tweet, but it's even less obtrusive than google and EVERYBODY uses google. Convincing the soccer mom set to ditch facebook and twitter over some nebulous concept of a developer-friendly social thingy.. not going to happen.

To me it seems like the App.net gents are playing this power to the people angle just as a hook to justify funding for a twitter clone.

I can make a twitter clone (and an API to go with it) in less than a weekend. If I wanted it to be beautiful, my buddy and I could spend a month of evenings working on it and it would cost us no more than the price of the beers.

I am starting to think that this entire thing is a scam. A publicity stunt to convince people to pay $50 for something that could be built by following the Michael Hartl Rails Tutorial and the Service Oriented Design with Ruby book.

This whole project is too much "inside baseball" the user on the street doesn't care, doesn't want to care because it really doesn't solve any problem for them. A pay-per-tweet platform? C'mon, who actually thinks that has business potential? Especially if just a few people are using it. None of my friends are on it. So what value is the "social" component to me? I don't know a single person on App.net, so why the heck would I spend my development time building some "robust" app atop of a platform that no one is using? You get 10 million users and then I'll potentially care about the API.
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From the w3fools I learned the valuable trick that if you add "mdn" to your Google search you are likely to get a link pointing to Mozilla Developer Network.
"Effective immediately" is common for VP and CxO level positions. Remember Marissa Mayer quit Google and started at Yahoo! the next day.

You're right though that "everybody is still friends" is boiler plate and doesn't actually mean anything. Especially given how horribly Zynga is doing right now, it seem unlikely that things are going great for the CxOs.
It's time to put men on Mars and not just robots. It's embarrassing that in the 40+ yrs since Armstrong we haven't gotten anywhere else.
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> What is the definition of a real lisp?

Something that makes people fight over whether Scheme is a real lisp. Something that makes people fight over whether Dylan is a real lisp.

In short, there really isn't one. Unless you say that all real lisps adhere to the Common Lisp standard, which isn't, actually, a common position to find anyone taking in real life.
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Interesting. I'm just going on a hunch here, but maybe getting better photographs of the Mars surface is not a priority anymore? From the wikipedia page of Mars Science Laboratory the goals of the mission are:

To contribute to these goals, MSL has six main scientific objectives:

* Determine the mineralogical composition of the Martian surface and near-surface geological materials.

* Attempt to detect chemical building blocks of life (biosignatures).

* Interpret the processes that have formed and modified rocks and soils.

* Assess long-timescale (i.e., 4-billion-year) Martian atmospheric evolution processes.

* Determine present state, distribution, and cycling of water and carbon dioxide.

* Characterize the broad spectrum of surface radiation, including galactic radiation, cosmic radiation, solar proton events and secondary neutrons.

By those I can understand why carrying a high res camera was not a priority because it would have added weight, taken up space and also consumed more bandwidth while transmitting? :)
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I think Diaspora was crushed under its own weight. A few things I think that worked against them.

* Too much hype meant they had big shoes to fill before even writing a single line of code.

* Inexperienced team. I think they were all new college grads.

* Chicken and egg problem.

That being said, we're building federation (via OStatus) into OpenPhoto (it's already distributed). We're working with Mozilla and other yet to be announced partners. I don't think we have the chicken and egg problem.

http://theopenphotoproject.org
Well - I actually concur that any press is good press at this point. It's not like anybody who has already pledged, can (easily) revoke that pledge. The only downside is it's hard to believe anybody who might read Siegler hasn't already read about app.net - so the additional exposure is minimal. (I backed app.net - fingers crossed Dalton hits the $500K/10,000 original users level)
> "That's the point of w3fools: w3s is not reliable..."

This unreliable (albeit crystal-clear) source did not stop me from scoring a good portfolio and happy clients (http://linkd.in/ON5eHL).
In my current meal plan, on my workout days I minimalize fat intake and maximize carbs/protein in a 40/60 split - the calculator suggests Greek yogurt or fish chowder for nearly every meal. Obviously, this is more on the extreme end of diet planning and arguably I wouldn't have much of a use for it since I already have my own specialized plan.
It's consistent. The layout of the site is simple and predictable. It's easy to figure out where to find what you're looking for and what to expect.

> So? The 2nd result (MDN) does the same, looks better, and almost never contains gross errors/bad practices.

So indeed. I have nothing against MDN--it's great. If it was the first result, I'd click on it instead.