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#1: Paragraph 3 - "...sometimes even dead silence..."

#2: OP misses the point of why there is so much hostility. If W3Schools was on page 3 for (chosen utterly at random)"getElementById" on Google, no one would care. Predictably, however, it's number 1. That's pretty dire - I would hope that the top results for common questions would be quality resources. Which W3Schools is not. There is a greater good here, which is not served by continuing to promote W3Schools the top developer resource.
I'm not saying that the crystal is ineffective as a deodorant. I'm saying that it does not have the properties that powertower is claiming. Namely, short-term ("a few weeks") use does not have long-term ("a lifetime") antibacterial and antiperspirant effects.

If you use it in the morning and it makes you smell better for the rest of the day, then yes, that's the expected effect (and I'm happy that it works for you). If you use it for a couple of weeks and then think you're smell- and sweat-free for years, then you're delusional.
i recall reading about a letter from napolean to josephine on his way back from some war. he told her to stop bathing, I'm on my way home. when it comes to cultural context, i guess anything goes...
That can be used against anything.
Exactly. It didn't seem like ridiculing, and it was certainly a thought I had as well: is the app viable as a spreadsheet without formulas?

I think it is - I like the concept, agree that people use spreadsheet for far more than calculations. But bringing up the discussion of whether they're necessary should help the founders decide if they should focus on adding that before scaling up the marketing or whether it's useful as is...
The best experience for me is the other way around. Linux does 99 percent of everything I want and lives on the bare metal and if I need some random Windows app I just thaw out one of my VMs until I'm done with it then it goes back into the freezer.
> Except w3schools isn't approachable and it isn't for beginners.

I too had the exact opposite experience. I found the HTML, CSS, and Javascript tutorials extremely intuitive and well-presented when I was in 7th grade. I ate them up.
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considering you use this mess I'm not suprised you support w3schools: https://github.com/concrete5/concrete5/blob/master/web/concr...
Interesting. The GP's usage is aligned with every instance I've encountered over the past 20-odd years (in the U.S.), while the Wikipedia entry appears to have a European focus and is starkly different from my understanding of U.S.-ian denotation and connotation of the term.

See, e.g., Merriam-Webster:
"2: a usually white male belonging to any of various sometimes violent youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs."

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skinhead
The placebo effect I refer to is not the short-term deodorizing behavior. It's the antiperspirant effect and especially the long-term effects that you're claiming. These are not supported by the company manufacturing the product, and I'm not aware of any evidence for these effects aside from your claims. If you have some evidence that doesn't involve blindly trusting you, then by all means share it.
How would this work against torrents? I'm not aware of them using trust-based systems. Certainly you can pollute the swarm and slow things down a bit, but anyone who eventually finds someone legitimate is barely even effected.
Interesting...the one nice thing I do like about the Google+ app running on Android is how it automatically uploads my pictures to a private folder online. Many times, I have come back from long hikes but the pictures remain in my slr for a few days because I was too lazy/tired to upload my pictures from the SD card to the computer. Having this functionality to automatically upload your pictures once you get home would be nice.
There was a bug in Unity that caused it to consume an inordinate amount of cpu resources. They squashed it a while back.
Doesn't work (page limit exceeded), but this one does:
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=YC6YKYyHVKwC&lpg=PA30...

Google books has a link button (6th icon from the left, looks like a chain link). It took me a while to spot it, even when looking for it.
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#1: You and I both know more examples are out there.

#2: getElementById returns developer.mozilla.org as the first result for me. Anyway, what about the point of why there is so much support? Convenience beats accuracy. I don't use W3Schools much now because I know of the inaccuracies, but I loved it as a beginner since not many sources I found were as intuitive as it.
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I've only tested this on the latest chrome.
No, no, no. This is flatly wrong (so I'll let you guess who's the one trolling). BSD doesn't need to "relicense" anything as the license to the existing code already permits combining with the GPL; a putative FreeBSD kernel with a GPL driver (i.e. a combined work) would need to be distributed under the GPL, but the rest of the code would remain unencumbered. None of the existing copyright holders would need to take any action at all, because the distribution would be within the bounds of the license they already granted.

There is simply no equivalence with the GPL vs. CDDL. Neither license permits redistribution at all when combined with the other. The only way to do this would be to, as you say, "relicense" the kernel by getting every copyright holder (there are tens of thousands by now) to redistribute their code under the CDDL.
Or, it's evidence that the simple idea that happiness can be exercised and controlled, is unbelievable. And evidently some of us find it unbelievable. But what if it is true?

It would imply an introspecting mind that is consciously quantifying his/her state of being, maybe aided by meditation.

Can you really calculate your way to happiness or success? I'm beginning to think that the answer is yes.
* Companies are using iDoneThis to quantify their work and maintain motivational fuel.
* Developers use commit logs or derived graphics to get a feel for incremental progress.
* I look at my test-code output to feel motivated by my battlescars, and see a replay of my program destroying that bug.

Success depends on many factors but two dependencies are motivation and happiness, for which quantification and reflection may help, and it's a skill to be practiced.
"He could simply have a marketing problem at this point, although he's done pretty well thus far if that's the case."

The message may by cloudy, but it's out there, which is the most impressive part of this in my opinion. App.net may be a good idea, but it's not really an original idea. And I had honestly never heard of Dalton Caldwell before this, and even now, he doesn't quite seem a Silicon Valley A-lister.

I'm not trying to knock him or the service, but I can't figure out how he got everyone talking about this so much. There's a million kinda-good-sounding start up ideas floating around out there and even the best of them often die due to lack of traction or being drowned out. And yet even though app.net doesn't even look like it's going to get through initial funding, it's all over the tech community.
Cool. I'm glad you care. You can clean it up. We done here?
You can also try LXDE/Lubuntu. It's a very nice and usable alternative to XFCE.
Privacy-first would be logging out of sites when you're finished, or having the default state of your browser to be un-authenticated (just use private modes everywhere). If you don't do either of those, then you are clearly not using the options (easily) available to you to be private-first.

If that is true, why would you expect every site to assume you want privacy, when you chose to have customization by being logged in?
So it's graph paper that you can talk to?
Myspace just got replaced with a different version of Myspace (facebook). If some community funded, privacy secure, no ad service like Diaspora had replaced it, that would be a different story because the core model would have changed. But it didn't.

I don't think anyone is saying Twitter will never fall; they just don't think it will fall to this profit model.
I was going to mention Don - he's a friend of a friend - and the book he's writing about the Russian Venus program. There's a lot of awesome stuff here that almost no-one knows about.
> I'm not really terribly sensitive to designs of devices, so I had no personal opinion, but I have noticed that I keep hearing everyday normal people calling the Galaxy S III sexy. Isn't that bizarre?

What's bizarre is that your "perfect example" is but another personal anecdote, the very thing you've spent the whole thread raging against.
I don't think the megapixel count on the sensor is the result of a decision made a long time in the past. The sensor is a CCD from Kodak, which still makes very high resolution sensors at low megapixels[1]. I'm not familiar with the requirements of the sensor, but I'm sure that it was specifically selected. If NASA wanted more pixels, they were available.

[1] http://www.truesenseimaging.com/products/full-frame-ccd
Maybe, but I would be concerned about a future where W3School's increase in accuracy hurts it's clarity.
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The age of what is being talked about does not determine the relevance of the conversation and what it entails.
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Show HN: App creates a meal plan that satisfies your nutrition constraints
I (the submitter) didn't make this, but it's a neat idea, nicely executed. You can set your own nutrient targets, such as, "I want at least 150 g of protein per day" or "I need between 50 and 100 g of carbohydrates", and avoid food groups such as grains (for paleo diets) or meat (for vegetarians).
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> Citation needed

Maybe you should provide some citations yourself first before asking citations from others.

"Keep in mind that when ZFS was new it wasn't particularly stable either"

"ZFS isn't for the typical enthusiast/home-user"

"Nope. Never mind that ZFS assumes that harddrives works to spec, which consumer drives do not"

etc.
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None of those are copyleft.
I'm working on OpenPhoto which is part of Mozilla's WebFWD program. It's as close as we've got considering the social components are not yet finished. https://webfwd.org/portfolio/#Open%20Photo
Short and to the point. Keep trying, man.
Posted this a minute ago with the whole 'F*ing' in there not edited and got pulled from front page. Whoops! Sorry if I offended (not really).
> It is unrealistic to expect beginners to learn what good code is before what code is in the first place. Aspiring programmers do not yet understand the nuances of their trade, and often overlook security concerns and the importance of formal documentation.

That's no excuse for ignoring even the basics. Some of the w3schools tutorials are like starting a teenager's first driving lesson with "run down as many pedestrians as you want, we'll teach you how to not drive on sidewalks later".
Seems useful!
> Visa charges Square 1.76% + 6 cents

Last I checked, Square had not published the transaction fee they negotiated with Visa.
You know how FaceBook won? By being cooler than MySpace with a key demographic, and using that as a wedge to bring in everyone else. But FaceBook isn't cool now, just normalized: your Mom is there, and so are a million spammy ads and apps and games, with the open secret that somebody somewhere is probably doing something creepy. Sooner or later, another social network will become the next digital status symbol, and having it be paid-for might actually be a benefit in that regard.

Also, with enough paying customers, app.net doesn't have to win, so long as it offers real value beyond just network effects. If enough cool services are built on top of it, it can be valuable enough that people will pay to keep it afloat even if FaceBook and Twitter are still king numbers-wise. (Bearing in mind that one can trivially cross-post between services.)

Also: I really hope app.net pays attention to pricing psychology if they get funded. To most people $5/month doesn't feel like much and $50/year feels like real money, even though the former is actually more expensive.
Why are you asking someone who said "contributing to OSS is a non-zero-sum game" that?
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That's the goal...I'm skeptical but hope they can prove me wrong.
Most of the challenges Twitter has come from its inability to monetize

Per Crunchbase Twitter has had 8 rounds of funding for a total 1.16 BILLION dollars. Twitter actually did figure out how to monetize, they monetized an extremely small population (VCs) for an extremely large amount of money. Anything they'll get from consumers and brands will be peanuts unless you are looking at horizon much further out than any of those VCs wanted to be in on the deal. Sponsored tweets are going to be feeding the operating expenses monkey.

Looking at the FB/ZNGA/GRPN prices Twitter won't IPO so barring a deus ex machina in the form of an Apple purchase VCs are going to have to accept that they were the monetization vehicle, but nobody will want to talk about it publicly because it doesn't fit the standard narrative.
No, they're not. Quit exaggerating and let beginners be beginners.
Now a (member) backer for this project. I think there is definitely a market for this style of approach. (ie. charge for quality instead of ad-supported.)

Good luck guys
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I imagine is has to do with the comparative sizes and population densities.
I understand, and this helps me resolve a contradiction of understanding I've had for a while. I always thought of the sardonic saying "I want to be different, just like everyone else." I get it though - the idea is to still identify with a group, just not the mainstream (default?) group. But the group still has common values by which it can be identified.

As another commenter pointed out - I also hadn't realized that unique can also mean "not typical." I've always interpreted it as one of a kind, and it makes a lot more sense recognizing this definition.
An article full of bullshit written by MG Siegler? Shocker.

Sarcasm aside, it's the first thing I've read by him in ages in which he didn't troll the Apple vs. Android idiot war.
Black ink is far from black. Your monitor's black is also far from pitch black, but the whites are much brighter than paper (emitted vs reflected light), leading to huge contrast.

What designers are trying to achieve by setting text to #333 and background to #f9f9f9 is exactly making screen contrast more like a book.

By lowering your screen brightness/contrast an unusual amount, you're solving the problem for all sites doing it wrong, but turning the ones who use proper contrast into crap. Who's to blame?
That image was taken in 1977. Actually, this is how people saw it until 2009

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/hires/vl1_11d128.gif

when Mr Van der Hoorn "used the original 11d128.blu, 11d128.grn and 11d128.red images from the NASA Viking image archive, converted them to .png, manually removed the noise and finally merged them into one image"

Details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Van_der_Hoorn/Viking/Filte...

The Viking 1 camera(s) were of the Vidicon type: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vidicon.png
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> It's too bad it's based on DNSSEC.

Yup, that about covers it. My favorite DNSSEC feature is TLDs and .govs continually fucking it up.

More seriously this vs CAs is just a philosophy argument. CAs are a club of grandfathered "trusted" parties. This is single source .govs and other TLDs for the trusted party. Yay.
Currently I, personally, can choose to not trust Verisign and go with another CA. In this world I can trust Verisign, because they own .com, or go fuck myself. Clearly a win.

Oh well soon enough some jackass will put this in a FISMA or PCI DSS requirement and everyone will support it anyways.
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Finally, apps for cameras. Thom Hogan has been advocating this for some time now[1] and the success of the CHDK[2] somehow shows us that a lot of photographers may be interested in this. I hope Nikon starts a trend with this camera and go all the way to Android enabled DSLRs.

[1] http://bythom.com/design2010.htm

[2] http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Some ideas: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/august31/levoy-opensource...
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While I'm guessing this is in jest. All of these hardening necessary raises a lot of question about the legitimacy of the older photos.
I find Saturn's moon Titan most earth-like, in that it has liquids, forming rivers and lakes - "geological" features missing from most (all?) other local planets and moons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes_of_Titan; also
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/120723_titan.htm; and
geological analysis (video) http://www.space.com/16674-rivers-on-saturn-s-moon-titan-puz...
> I don't see how. From the publisher's point of view, it's completely legit: A video that mixes public domain imagery with original additions. Any news org that covered the landing without including some of NASA's public domain images or video would have everyone (rightly!) saying "Their Mars coverage sucks!"

Why does the stuff they upload to YouTube's content violation detector include public domain content? It doesn't have to be, and shouldn't be, exactly the same as what they broadcast.
The word "contract" is just a metaphor. Your customer is going to treat a broken link as a broken promise, whether or not you actually made one.
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C'mon. Their "PHP MySQL Insert Into" tutorial (http://w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_insert.asp) uses direct $_POST data with no escaping. No mention of security is made in the entire "PHP Database" section.

These tutorials need a massive red flashing warning saying "we've left critical stuff out, you will get your site defaced if you code like this".

Newbies don't need to be expected to know good code. That's no excuse for presenting actively dangerous examples to them with no warning.
While yes, the full color image I posted was re-compiled from the original red, green, and blue channel images sent from the rover by a non-NASA source, even NASA's B&W images look better back then than they do now.

I made an image to illustrate this: http://f.cl.ly/items/0k2w2d1C1O3w3e0t300f/NASAQualityDegreda...
There's nothing to be 'sorry' about.

I made websites sporadically from '97-'03 and then started again in Dec '11. My criticism of w3schools is from my personal experience with the site over the last year.

I was surprised when I found out that w3schools actually intends to teach people html/css. Until recently, I thought it was universally acknowledged that they're a content farm.
He's referring to Infocom's (the Zork/text adventure people) big bet on getting into the non-game space. Infocom spent all this money developing a natural language relational database - Cornerstone - that sunk the company.
Well, the background of crypto researchers was core to Quinn's "privilege" tweet. That's one of the points the OP author touched on in his response-response, so it was relevant here.

And of course it's necessary to scrutinize people pushing crypto systems or tools that claim to do something no one has been able to do before! That's not what the Wired post was about, though. It was about how the OP author specifically targeted the Wired piece's author and made it seem like she was either too incompetent to write an article about Cryptocat or that she wrote the article because she hates the crypto community (still don't understand how he came to that conclusion.)
For context, this is the next iteration of http://swole.me/.

It's a neat tool for getting a starting meal plan going, but some people have complained that the food variety is lacking. I can't eat only Greek yogurt for every meal.
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Good code makes crappy tutorials. If I was a moron, I don't care if the examples inadvertently summons swarms of locusts if I understand them quickly.

Now, I would be all for W3Schools making their disclaimer more noticeable. It is there, though.
The parent said:

"Contributing to OSS is a non-zero-sum game and the sooner companies realize this, the better."

So I am asking him how could companies possibly think that contributing to OSS is a zero sum game? Its either zero sum or it is not. If they need to realize its non-zero-sum they would have to be under the impression that it was a zero-sum game.

I hope that cleared up my question. I'm sorry if my intentions were opaque, that was not my intention.
I can completely correlate to the uneasiness brought by truly realizing the scale of things.

If you do like video games, one that had such an intended effect on me was the first Mass Effect. There are a number of side missions where you descend onto planets in a multi-terrain vehicle and are supposed to check some things out (you can get out of the rover as well). Although for the most part the planets are barren (much like Mars), I found them incredibly effective at sending the scale message across. The most incredible one though, was a side mission on the Moon, with Earth right up above you. Though the scale wasn't 100% accurate, it still made for one of the most impressive moments in video games for me.
Same in NZ. I buy 1.50 lolly purchases from the dairy on my EFTPOS card. (No transaction cost).
This is not a slow, buggy Android that happens to come with a camera. This is first and foremost a camera.

And when its running Android, that can be win win for everyone involved, if Nikon makes the hardware sufficiently open. Anything is probably better than having to flash your custom firmware through a freaking IR led.
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1) Never heard of App.net until now. I don't like the name. It's too technical. I prefer the name Quitter (Qwitter, kwitter). If you want to build something for the people, make it appealing in name and image to a 7-year-old.

2) Does the service have an API, similar or the same as Twitter's? "the structure of the Java APIs that Oracle was trying to assert can't be copyrighted at all" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/google-wins-cruci...

3) Status.net is open-source microblogging. http://status.net/packages - it became a hero, but for businesses.

4) There should be a way to give or pledge bitcoins. I don't care for state-backed fiat currency anymore - it's just like twitter, manipulated for economic gain by its issuers to the point of breaking its users.

5) There should be a "pledge to quit" .. something like "I'll pledge to quit but only if accounts up to 500,000 followers do the same" http://www.pledgebank.com/

6) Who's going to commercially benefit most from the service in the long-run?

7) Can this site just copy my existing twitter feed, until I am ready to close that one down?
> Good code makes crappy tutorials.

Not necessarily, and bad code can make dangerous tutorials.
Agreed. I don't depend on it any more, but w3schools helped me make the transition from WYSIWG web site building to hand coding.