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Seeing just how risky the Curiosity landing was reminded me just how far away we are from landing on Mars. I now seriously doubt I'll see such a landing in the next 30-50 years.

And with respect to "we've already explored this planet, let's go to Mars" I'd offer the following: let's see someone successfully colonize the bottom of the ocean or antartica and then I'll believe we're ready to colonize Mars.
I agree, white is a lot harder on the eyes. As an experiment I switched my kindle fire reading app to a white background and forgot about it. Two weeks later I realized I was reading for a noticeable shorter amount of time (lets' say average 20 mns per day as opposed to 1 hour + per day). I would pick up the reader, but I just would not be able to go for a long time.
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"Your device is incompatible with this software" :(

Guess I'll have to finally install some custom rom on my Desire. I wonder what features they use that would justify dropping the older API. Or maybe they just couldn't be bothered, can't blame them.
Set the color to "foreground" and "background", then let the browser (or viewing program) color them based on user preference.
No, the first tweet says that a speaker at AEA recommended #333. And the second tweet says that H&FJ–an incredibly-highly respected type foundry—had been using an even lighter shade of #444 for all of the type specimens on their website.

Then, finally, it says that 4 days after the iPad launched (that's when this tweet happened) H&FJ had been noticing that black text looks best on the iPad (as opposed to all previous knowledge). And we have no update on their final decision about iPad type color.
No, it's a great pull request, i like it. Not everything has to be boring.
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And what does it do?
It isn't even that hard to get a basic implementation of such functionality. Not sure why this is missing.

Just make a directed graph out of cell references. Get the strongly connected components. All of the components with more than one vertex contain a loop and can't be computed. Remove those and you get a directed acyclic graph. Now you can topological sort them for cell dependencies, and start calculating them in the order they are needed.

Or if your language has a dataflow implementation it is even easier. Haven't seen one of these for Obj-C though.

I will add that this looks pretty cool, though.
I just rediscovered XFCE myself after the brutal letdown that was KDE "plasma" 4.x.

I still load on the full KDE groupinstall so I can run KDE apps, but I use XFCE as the desktop. I had fogotten just how "snappy" a desktop could be.
Pixely? How would color affected 'pixeliness'?
Erm, I don't understand where this impression there's no high quality media content creation tools available for Linux is coming from...

I guess it depends what segment of the market you're looking at: 80% of the large VFX houses in the world use Linux to do the modelling, texturing, animation, lighting, rendering, compositing, using programs like:
Maya, Mari, Mudbox, SoftImage, Houdini, Katana, PRMan, Arnold, Nuke.

All those high-end apps that are used everyday to create feature films (and tv shows and adverts) work on Linux.
yes but for what it's worth they're arguing against zeldman
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Landing on Mars is a more or less solved problem, if you can throw enough mass at the problem. Launching stuff from Earth is also a solved problem, but it's hugely expensive. Landing humans on Mars is well within our technological capability, but because of the cost of launch it would be hugely expensive and nobody's put up the cash yet.

The reason SpaceX is in a perfect position here is because they've dropped the cost of space launch dramatically. So if it takes SpaceX fewer billions to get to Mars than it would anyone else then they are poised to get there sooner.
Ubuntu/Gnome simplified the interface without giving the power users a way to go back. They should have made sure the fallback/classic modes were just as robust as the old to ease transition.

Developer mindshare is scattered due to the radical interface change. These developers want the older interface and were left something that was not in a very usable for most power users. Naturally, they moved to desktop environments that resemble the older interface (LXDE,XFCE,GNOME2) or started new projects (MATE,Cinnamon).

I find myself in a nomansland. I am constantly changing my DE because of all this bs. They bet the farm. All I want is stable and familiar Gnome2 DE! What a serious waste of time.
Have you actually used ZFS?

In the lab, yes. Oracle killed my plans of adopting it.

I don't know where you got that. It's actually just the opposite. It checksums everything and includes several facilities to catch early corruption and address it before you ever lose data.

Yes, that is the idea. But it is based, as the article mentions, in ZFS uses atomic writes and barriers. So, how can you guarantee that? ZFS does it by writing data to the drive and making sure that the data actually has been written, how can ZFS be sure of that? It asks the drive. The problem is that consumer drives often lie and report that data has been written when it is currently only residing in the cache. And that's a great recipe for data corruption.

ZFS checksums are beyond awesome, but they don't combat this.

Jeff Bonwick explains it better than I could:

As you note,
some disks flat-out lie: you issue the synchronize-cache command,
they say "got it, boss", yet the data is still not on stable storage.
Why do they do this? Because "it performs better". Well, duh --
you can make stuff really fast if it doesn't have to be correct.

Before I explain how ZFS can fix this, I need to get something off my
chest: people who knowingly make such disks should be in federal prison.
It is fraud to win benchmarks this way.

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-Octob...

I personally have pulled the power plug on 24 to 48 disk arrays, literally hundreds of times while under heavy load and have never once lost data.

I hope you don't use consumer drives or really do your research.

The same problem has bitten people running ZFS in a virtual machine, such as vmware ESX, that had similar problems where they couldn't trust the drive to behave as it was told, and corruption followed. Which kind of sucks when you don't have any means of repairing the damage.

Also, the replies I've gotten seems to imply that I have something against ZFS. I love ZFS but I see more potential in btrfs - but btrfs is many years away from even being worth considering an opponent to ZFS so that is kind of moot. All I want is a decent copy-on-write linux file system with cheap snapshots (and preferably good encryption support).
It is true that while the US army might have the most guns in the world, the US public seemingly isn't all that far behind. Even if your armed forces were not allowed to take part, you'd still probably win in a land war against Canada or Mexico.
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The NYSE can reverse erroneous trades. It may be possible to execute the trades, but none of the effects shown would happen.
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I don't think it is a widely held opinion. Hopefully this move helps you find the rest of your backers. :D

Backed.
From the outside, a black hole would be "pure black", but it's probably really bright on the inside.
I always prefer light on dark, to the extent that my Hackernews, Reddit, Google and Gmail and a few others all have user styles applied to darken them. And my terminal is light text on dark background. Not to pure black, though, even though I had never thought about why I didn't go for as dark as possible.

EDIT: Also, my window borders and Unity dock are also near black. Overall, the only white backgrounds you'll see on my desktop are the occasional "loud" website or apps that don't obey my theme settings.
Did I somehow portray that I didn't like ZFS in my post, that it wasn't mature? Or that I feel that btrfs is suitable for home users as it is today?
Sorry but I can't come up with any response other than: did you even read my post?

It actually is a decent read: Should ZFS have a fsck tool? http://www.osnews.com/story/22423/Should_ZFS_Have_a_fsck_Too...
Why is light on dark a bad reading experience? Is it just specific executions of it or in general?
This is a great and inspiring talk. Thanks.
I just signed up. Actually a rather slick sign up process. Well done. Emails look nice.

Only weird thing was the confirmation of my Twitter account. To start with I selected the tweet option and the sign up process seemed to end with me being redirected to my Twitter account page, but somehow I didn't feel "finished".

So then I went back and authorised the app with Twitter as well and that seemed to properly complete the process. Maybe I just needed to wait a bit for the original tweet to be picked up, but that wasn't obvious.
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Yeah, it's in the plan. I will probably phase out disks as they fail with WD blue or blacks.
I refrained from audible laughter until:

"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but I rewrote your bloom hashes, so merge me, maybe?"

Fun times were had by all.
No, this is mostly inarguable, and multiple Sun employees attested to it at the time (I remember a bunch of discussions on freenode specifically, but I'm sure someone can find a web link for a better cite). The fear with the Open Solaris release among the executives was that any code released would instantly be imported into Linux and destroy the perceived competetive advantage Sun had in the enterprise space. So the CDDL was crafted to be almost entirely identical to the LGPLv2 from a practical perspective (the only major distinction being whether "files" are considered independently for protection vs. the work as a whole) yet still be GPL-incompatible.

Obviously this also insulated Solaris from any of the drivers in the Linux tree, so 4.5 years later it still doesn't run on anything but custom designed hardware and a handful of vanilla x86 server configurations.

The CDDL was a great harm to the broader community. Like I said I don't see that there's much argument to be made there.

(edit rather than response to avoid prolonging a discussion: obviously Bryan was there and I wasn't, but it should be pointed out that not everyone who was there agrees with that take, nor are our points exclusive. The wikipedia page on the CDDL has a reference ([6]) which jives with my understanding at the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribu... )
Great question.

The window itself can be styled using a custom CSS which you pass into the chooser.

We definitely want to extend the functionality further to enable other features like cropping, filters and more.
Maybe only a black hole, but even they aren't 100% because Hawking theorized they radiate particles.
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Right, because following Microsoft's defaults always leads to the high moral ground...

Please, Microsoft is doing this for the same reason its pouring billions in competing with Bing - so it can strangle their competitors revenue streams.
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Or if you're not trying to imitate nature. Unlike paintings of real objects, computer interfaces don't necessarily have to look "natural", as long as they look good.
Anything close to a perfect black body would be close to true black.

Thousands of feet of water are pretty good at absorbing and reflecting all electromagnetic waves before they reach the bottom, but because it's reflective it's not a black body.
Neat idea. A couple of thoughts:

1- They better have a very large pool of unused numbers - otherwise it's likely my phone will be randomly ringing due to the many past users of the number I just bought... who knows where and how many times they would have posted the number at.

2- Personally, I don't immediately see how I'd go away from Google Voice, which is free, to a paid service. Because of the above, I prefer to have one or two fixed private numbers which I can always remember. If the number becomes a problem, I can always block the annoying caller or switch to a new number - for free. (I still haven't had to replace my year-old private number, btw).

That being said, it'd be neat to see what people end up doing with true throw-away numbers.
I may be outside of the normal use case here, and absolutely I am giving my opinion so judge it as one voice in 255 million (or whatever gmail's user count is now), but this isn't ever faster for me. I always have a gmail tab open.

As to remembering the source of a piece information, I made no claim to be perfect at this. What I will claim is that for the 95% of the time that I DO know the source of a piece of information I will be annoyed by results that are not from my intended search space.

Obviously Google has a pretty good track record at returning relevant results, but I can still hope for an off/on switch.
So "RealComputerScience(TM)", then?
I'm trying to remember the name of the designer that tried to call out fab.com a few months ago for "stealing" his aesthetic. By aesthetic I mean he puts white Helvetica type on black.
White on black can create a very difficulty reading experience. It may increase the contrast, but that's not the only factor in readability.

I personally prefer light text on dark background, but never white on black. Silver an a dark blue works great for me. But font and font weight are also factors.

Because of all those factors, black text on white background is more forgiving and more broadly expected. Which is why my websites are black on white but my vim color scheme is "darkblue".
The JS might actually speed things up by allowing you to do stuff on the client that you'd otherwise have to do on the server.
I have wanted this for a long time. When I'm looking for information it's incredibly useful to have email results returned as well as web. Not to mention the fact that emailing things to myself just became infinitely more useful.
Or anyone shoulder surfing (family, co-worker, etc) while you work on something together or look up movie times or anything will see contents of your gmail.
Looks completely legible over here.
Here's the first Panoramic received from Curiosity:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674846main_pia16011-43_16...

Taken from the gallery at:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-ind...
A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbody
Well in the movie the said that they can reverse transactions, but it will take time to prove
SERIOUSLY, FUCK YOU DALTON.

Now that I've got that out of my system... Learn yourself some fucking statistics. Considering that you're a programmer/hacker (well, maybe by some loose definition of the word, but at least you like to think you are) you should at least know SOME math. Statistics isn't that hard. Have you figured out why you're a miserable piece of shit yet? That's right, it's because you got the statistics wrong. Let's walk through baby's first statistics with your numbers.

What you are trying to claim: "My project has a decent chance of succeeding".

What you know:

5.7% of failed projects on kickstarter reached the same funding percent yours has.

Only 212 projects within the same funding goal actually reached their target.

What you don't know: Enough information to draw any more useful information.

Seriously, that percent you threw out there is next to meaningless without more information. I'm having trouble here communicating clearly exactly how stupid your claim that you'll succeed based on that is. And hell, in addition, it's not even a valid comparison because it's a kickstarter statistic. Punch yourself in the head real quick and repeat after me: "I AM NOT USING KICKSTARTER THUS THEIR STATISTICS DO NOT APPLY TO ME. I WILL NOT GO NEAR A GRAPHING CALCULATOR EVER."

Now all of this is enough to make you my number 1 scumbag of all time, but we haven't even gotten to the part where I let you know how much the idea of app.net sucks. I mean seriously, who the fuck pays for a service like this? Seen how many people use metafilter vs say tumblr? And that's not even the worst problem here...

People are what drive social media sites. The only reason Google+ had a chance is because google can force it onto people's phones and computers via android/gmail/etc. Even given that it's lagging far behind facebook. Your plan on getting users is the retarded idea that giving people an API will suddenly make them want to pay you money. That might work for half a dozen of your friends and steve jobs who all think that paying money for something is a good idea even if it's inferior shit (case in point; mac os X vs linux). In the real world this simply won't fly. A regular user will see his hundreds of friends on facebook and twitter and then see the 50 bucks you're charging and the complete ghost town and instantly pick the only sane option; that is to avoid your shit like the plague.

Anyways, I've already wasted enough of my time here. You're not worth half the cursewords I wrote and your idea is, if that was possible, worth even less than you.

FUCK YOU DALTON CALDWELL who does things the stupid way (nice catchphrase).
There are actually a several effects that can make a 'black' hole rather bright from sufficient distance. Hawking radiation, gravitational lensing, frame-dragging, and an accretion disk can create some ridiculousness energetic objects.
Because it's a clear description of the motivations behind the changes without restricting the discussion to an audience of a particular skill level. Also because, when possible, things should be fun - and he seemed to have fun with the essay, so why not?
There's a lot of similarities between a good scientific platform and a good creators platform. Text processing, image/signal-processing, 3d modeling/simulation, low latency, input/output devices etc. even things like storage.
After YouTube auto login was implemented, I started using a cookie manager. With one or two clicks you can enable or disable cookies, which logs you in or out. I don't want every random reddit video that I click on to show up in my YouTube history, so generally I leave it blocked except for when I actually want to view my subscriptions on YouTube.

Also, a fast way to do a logged out Google search, without switching browsers or entering private browsing mode, is to bookmark one of the IP addresses in the 74.125.225.0/25. Since cookies are domain specific and you're not on google.com, you'll be logged out.
Operations in space tend to follow a pretty strict tradeoff between mass and complexity. The more mass you can throw at the problem the less complex the solutions you can come up with. In the case of the Curiosity rover the mass was constrained by the launch vehicle used (Atlas V 541) and they wanted to maximize the amount of payload dedicated to the rover systems, which resulted in the complex landing scheme. With a manned landing the system would be a lot more massive and generally far more straightforward.

With respect to the idea that we should colonize the bottom of the ocean first I'd say: why do we have to do only one or the other?
"We are at the stage, that merely acknowledging someone's sex or race will earn you these labels."

There are most certainly contexts where unnecessarily acknowledging someone's sex or race will get you labeled. How you bring that up and why you feel it is necessary to do so is the rub.
Possibly A/C also. A/C both makes it easier to avoid perspiration (which may make that more of a norm) and makes it more necessary because you no longer have fresh air from open windows.
For WP7 users out there, there is a FOSS app, Trellizzo, that works pretty great.

https://bitbucket.org/JakeGinnivan/taskboards

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/8d58efa1-1852-461c-80...
I don't think you could actually see that pure black. Problem is, that there's always some noise in the wiring that goes from the eyes to the brain, and you'll end up seeing some random coloured patches every now and then.
I believe post is for creating with posted value(s). Put would be just a modification without posted value. E.g. "PUT /users/123/disabled" would disable a user.

Edit: after reading, POST is for creating with an unknown identifier (think INSERT w/ auto-generated PK) whereas PUT is for creating or updating (if already present) with a known identifier (think UPSERT w/ a manually entered PK).
That specific market story is even worse since cartridge razors and canned shaving creams or gels generally provide an inferior shave for the majority of men. The only major benefit is that they can be used without any skill or practice whatsoever and the modern version may shave a couple minutes off your morning shave.

On the other hand, a safety razor will last you a lifetime, replacement blades have been standardized for close to a century and even the "premium" brands cost less than $0.15/blade. A nice quality safety razor and wetshaving set can be had for about the price of 6 months of cartridge razor replacement blades, and beyond that, you can probably buy a lifetime supply of safety razor blades for around $200. Shaving cream will cost you about the same either way, so it's not a factor.
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You've got your goals wrong. Painting might be about expression and feeling. (Don't want to go down that path.) Design is definitely about clarity and function AND expression and feeling. All of the major brands that you give money to every day have spent LOTS of time on expression and feeling to convey the right messages to their consumers.

Try telling Apple that design has nothing to do with feeling.

And yeah, like the others have said, there was no pure black or pure white (at least as pure as the screen provides) during those several hundred years of amazing printing.
What's the real-world problem App.net solves? I'm not being cynical, just curious. If I back the project, I want to know the pain point I'm solving and if it's a pain point that actually is worth solving versus something else. The other question I have is, who's the market? People are using the HN vs. Reddit comparison, but HN is about as niche as it gets and also doesn't really do much other than provide a place for us to share some data. Muggles don't usually visit HN and I'm wondering if they'd have a need for App.net.

I'm considering backing it, but like all investments, there's some due diligence involved. There's also the opportunity cost for the money that should be considered. I'm also wondering why kickstarter is appropriate as opposed to traditional VC and seed funds. If there's a sustainable business there, it would seem like the App.net team would have a very easy time raising money -- they seem competent, capable and passionate (at least enough to warrant a small seed round.)
No matter how hard they try you can't live on Mars via a robot. Ultimately it's about adventure, experience, and colonization. Robots are great for science, but there's more to space exploration than just science.

Edit: There will come a time in the near future, probably by 2050 but certainly before 2100, when the idea of "space" evaporates away. Space is just a place. Mars is just a place. It's just as much a place as the street right outside your doorway or the grocery store just down the road. It's a place we can visit, experience, and a place where we can live. Once people start living off of Earth I think that artificial barrier will come down and people will begin accepting the idea that the Earth is just a part of the Universe. We have come to split up the Universe into two parts: the Earth, and everywhere else. But this is a false dichotomy due only to the particulars of history, there is only one Universe.