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It's actually not so easy to operate a space telescope, let alone build one. More so, billionaires that would look to astronomical investments would usually be better served by merely investing in ground based instruments, which they do.

The Keck telescopes are named after the W.M. Keck foundation, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is named after the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, for example.

Space based observatories are still an enormously expensive (billion dollar) endeavor and are generally quite risky.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Hear hear. I think the same thing every time I read about SpaceX, and yes, now this.
I'm not saying I don't believe any of this (I certainly do), but this whole business has HUGE bubble or even scam potential. Think those damn "moon-plots" but on a larger, perhaps government scale. Imagine some of the poor smaller governments trying to invest in the future only to find out that whoops, our data was wrong and you can only make $500k on that giant rock...
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They're investing a few millions in those people's education right now. You'd learn a lot, and it would cost you just a few sleepless nights.
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Asimov would probably start kvetching about how long it took, but otherwise, probably.

The one who'd really be chortling, though, would be Heinlein, who was (almost) always a terrific proponent of privatized (almost) everything, especially space exploration.
I heard Mr. Cameron is already suiting up for the mission. I wonder where is secret door is this time...
I think this sort of stuff is natural progression in the time scale of evolution of a species. Its called exploration.

People in the middle ages got equally excited when somebody invented a ship that could sail the seas and a compass that could point where they wanted to go. And then when they actually went there, they found some surprises. They figured that they are not the only ones to exist.

Space exploration will be similar. We have gone from a boat to sail in a small lake, to making ships that can sail and mine resources for surviving a prolonged exploration campaign.

The only thing that can throw spanner in the wheels now is this things going down and projects like these getting dropped. We are on the right track and give the direct and a little more speed. Privatization in this domain is the way forward.I think permanent space colonies very much look to be practical realities in some decades to come.
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So is the whole idea that each strip would be animated clips, and storyline would move in smaller clips?

The artwork definitely has a unique aesthetic to it. The level of detail is amazing.

Products like these, Numberlys, and other Mononbot studio products is showing us how media is going to evolve as the mode of consumption evolves. In my opinion this how you kill hollywood, by providing any talented team of individuals the ability to publish great products and reach millions.
Of course. Do you really think that it is unreasonable to expect citizens of a democracy to be able to speak the language fluently? I'm an Australian living in France, and I have to demonstrate fluency in French, and I don't see this as unreasonable. If you have been living in a country long enough to be applying for citizenship, you damn well ought to be able to speak the language - if you can't it is because you have made no attempt to integrate into your host community, and I fully get a country not wanting to embrace you in that case.
Thanks. How about if I don't have any file sharing?
I think the idea is that the payment processor (visa, mastercard) keeps the mapping between unique id and customer. They handle the authentication, and then gives the customer their "support number" or "receipt code" or whatever you want to name it.
Your system python applications might have different requirements to your project. Just use virtualenv, it's easier and less error-prone.
Granting the high level of speculation involved, but with any frequency wouldn't these sorts of things be quite the wildfire hazard? Or is the impact and subsequent disintegration and boring of the object negate any heat/fire? Yes, I'm clueless.
It would be fantastic if someone were to write a tutorial how to deploy, for instance, a simple Flask+MySQL or Django+PostgreSQL application using these tools. I'm at a loss as to where to start.
Where most people scramble and panic, I take it that you grin, roll up your sleeves, and say, "Let's get this party started."

That's what I'm envisioning anyway.
No. This is James Cameron the director. Same guy that funded Deepsea Challenger. This guy is doing some pretty cool stuff with his money.
It's weird for us native speakers too, don't worry.

My guess is that it puts the information in the title in order from the most eye-grabbing to the least. (The more readable "Google Execs and James Cameron unveil Asteroid Mining Venture" puts the holy shit part of the title at the end.)
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I think the question is the same as someone asking "Why is riding a bike so hard?" and the answer is simply "Because you didn't learn to do it well enough, yet."
FOr someone doing the same guessing for 20 years it is not hard at all. In fact he probably doesn't even have to think about it. The perfect result will just pop up in his head (or a result so close that the error margin doesn't matter for that exercise).

Is that thought so unusual? I don't really see, why it needs to be discussed, what makes a beginner guess wrong. The solution will be always the same: exercise or let someone do the task, who has the experience.

Could someone explain the point of this discussion to me?
There's no harm in admitting that you don't know what you're doing, heck it's a healthy attitude to take. It's when you head down the other path and don't acknowledge you're ineptitude or need for education/learning that things start to go wrong.
Why would you want to virtualise an entire system when your dependencies are restricted to a bunch of Python modules?
Which means, of course, it's also a repository if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/dotfiles/dotfiles.github.com/
You just restated what he said, but with a bad pedantic overtone to top it.
I suspect that the cost could be cut quite a bit, especially since the design is already done.

Also, the Mars landers cost $250M, well within the budget of a billionare investor.
I always use http://stackoverflow.com/a/651879/276569
Ryan Woodward's YouTube page is http://www.youtube.com/user/RyanWoodwardart. He designed the official Martha Graham Google doodle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsbI1GE4DGA.

He has worked on productions like Space Jam, Powerpuff Girls and Spiderman 3. You can read more about him http://ryanwoodwardart.com/about-2/
You seem to expect different things than the GP (and me).

A browser without decent SNI support, with broken XPATH support and really various shortcomings was outdated when it came out - and neglected afterwards.
No. It's used as a measure to NOT become part of a vulnerability someday, i.e so the system recheck and ask for another random number.
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With C++ it is in my experience solidly CPU-bound, for example on 12 xeon cores, or 24 hyperthreading threads, and one 7200 RPM disk.
Cool demo, but the evil me considers connecting it up to the production mailing cluster we have and seeing how it would handle a few hundred messages a second....

I would be interested to know what kind of performance you do get out of this (i.e. messages a second) as I've been writing code to do some SMTP handling in python and been looking for a way to speed it up.
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No stress - my personal philosophy is about being receptive to being wrong, so I more than welcome constructive criticism. If you could email me via the site with which examples or explanations weren't working for you I'll certainly consider your feedback during the next round of changes.
"strange, quiet sense of elation" - good way of describing it. Pretty similar to how I felt after reading the article.
Nate, the thing is, you do know what you're doing. You'd be having no fun if you were just doing things you already knew how to accomplish. You are intentionally choosing to do things where you know you will have to learn in order to achieve them. It's not that you are clueless, you just know how to achieve things you haven't already learned how to do.

You know how to learn. You know how and more importantly when to search on Google (which a shocking number of people don't). You know how to try things.

I wouldn't call that having no idea.
>I guess I don't really understand why this is impressive - the GPU is still not good enough to handle modern gaming

Because the huge of majority of the population does not care about "modern gaming", but they do care about less costs and improved batter life with an integrated GPU and would like to see it offer better performance for apps where it's needed?
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Great, I'll watch and collect emails.

Very good to target HN demographics :o)
This isn't quite accurate. Some of these features are in the 1.0.x releases too.

Also, I think there are bugfixes (and maybe security patches?) in 1.2.x that weren't in 1.0.x.

I'm just surprised that there isn't a coalesced list of changes for going from stable->stable release.

If I was in wide production, I'd want more guidance on what changed, and when I should be upgrading.
those tips are not bad at all, i could really benefit from reading faster.
> isolated

Perhaps a better term would be "decoupled"?
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So why don't you go and buy a 1,000 domains? Presumably you'll be confident you'll get at least $10/year on average from them all....
Yes, I'm British and I would love to be able to easily immigrate to the US. I know so many others who would as well - but it requires you to find a US company willing to sponsor you etc which makes it a real hassle
The intent is to use the material in orbit. It costs loads of money to send stuff to orbit (e.g. for the ISS) and this could be cheaper, especially for bulky stuff.

Bringing it all the way back to the surface is not worth the energy required.
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I'd like to know patio11's opinion on this too, but for me, networking face-to-face with non-technical business people has done a lot to show me how valuable the basic knowledge I _do_ have is.

Though you may not think you know much about SEO or conversion, explaining the benefits that you pick up from casual reading on HN tends to bring the business cards out pretty quick.
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Very cool - not sure if this is really the first animated graphic novel though. Some different, but similar things have come before. For example: http://www.cognitocomics.com/operationajax/
You probably didn't know Byook:

http://www.byook.com/
not too uncommon, similar things exist elsewhere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement
> In short, for all the talk about 'not enough women in tech', all I can say is that they're out there, and they're awesome. Hell, half the men I know in tech can't get as much as she does.

Your comment was excellent until you took the "My anecdote refutes data!" route.
The GNU manuals are extremely comprehensive... far too comprehensive to read as an introductory text. The Emacs manual's table of contents alone is over 6000 words[1].

I recommend my own guide http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html which teaches you how to use the Emacs built-in help, the elisp source code, and the built-in access to these very manuals.

[1]
lynx --dump http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/ind... |
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It's worth to note that this concept has a name - Read-Eval Print Loop, or REPL, and is present in several good languages. It changes the way people think about programming, making it much more interactive. If one didn't encounter this concept before, it's worth to take a look at it.
Its more than that. Merely the technologies that will get developed to build such a venture can patented and billions can be made out of them.

Also they are talking of water, that means resources for the next permanent space stations. Building oxygen gardens in space and space colonies. Stuff and resources that require maintaining large space colonies.

Considering projects of such big ambitions, the investments and associated risks we are taking is chicken feed.
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I think there is a big XSS hole in the current front end. There is no escaping of input from email sent to it.

Edit: Oops I'm wrong, I think it is escaped on the server. How are people including images?
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I'd come to a point where I honestly thought I'd be dead before this kind of thing happened.

It really is a powerful feeling to know the push to space is back on.
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You will get lots of opportunities in your life to create a business. You only get one chance of getting your master's degree.
I know exactly what you're talking about.

I say No a lot. It's not fun to say No, but I just try to be honest. When you get to have these conversations a lot you gain useful insights... there are a lot of ways to help people other than building their product for them.
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This is the most beautiful thing I have seen in a long, long time. Exploiting new technology for newer forms of art, and story telling is super exciting! Definitely going to buy this one.
For starters you could check if they have a github account. This might not be the best indicator, but it could give you a hint.

You could explicitly ask for open source projects they have contributed too (or that they are following).
I agree, I just hope we don't let quality of life and health here on Earth diminish more and more. Imagine if everyone was healthy, happy, and being as productive as they can be, doing what they enjoy most - imagine how much more energy could go into projects like these from productivity that won't be lost due to crime, too much turmoil from transition periods, etc.. Everyone would be able to on a daily basis have as much excitement as OP has. Exciting.
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The next space race will be between Google and Paypal.
I saw this myself sometime before. Solar panels are bringing light to remote areas in the country.

Another activity is related to biogas plants that are now spreading in rural India.

The NGOs (Non governmental organizations) has a good role in spreading these technologies and ANERT (A govt organization) is providing heavy subsidies for the poor to buy these.
Original article: http://www.pppl.gov/polPressReleases.cfm?doc_id=1242 (includes link to podcast with authors)

Article in Physical Review Letters: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i16/e165004 (paywalled)

Freely accessible preprint: http://www.pppl.gov/pub_report/2012/PPPL-4728.pdf
Even if you had blueprints that said "here's exactly how to build a space telescope" just building it and going through all the proper testing would be quite expensive. Certainly you could just privately fund, say, Johns Hopkins University's APL to build a spacecraft for you, but it would still cost hundreds of millions of dollars and still be a comparatively risky endeavor. More so when you consider that the operations side would run to the millions of dollars a month level, and require a substantial build out of infrastructure.

That sort of thing will happen, but it'll probably take until after launch costs have dropped a fair bit.

I'm not sure which Mars landers you're referring to, I'm not aware of any that were so cheap. The Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity rover) cost $2.5 billion. The total cost of the MER rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) was $820 million. The Mars Phoenix mission cost $420 million. The Mars Pathfinder mission cost $280 million in 1996 dollars, or $380 million adjusted for inflation. There have been no other successful Mars landers within the last 2 decades.
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Pretty cool! This is making me want to have a closer look at Go. Thanks for sharing.
Hardly surprising.

The seas and oceans were explored by merchants. Entities like British East India trading company.

The space might be explored by business men too!

Ironic, but true.
For podcasting, here's a nice overview on how to get you started: http://snapguide.com/guides/create-an-audio-podcast-on-the-c...

For Twitter, check out http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-grow-a-twitter-fol...

In fact, keep an eye on the site Social Media Examiner. Dig through the site. I'm sure you'll agree it's a gold mine of good advice relating to using social media effectively.
Works on the ipad though. No flash, and cant resize window. Must be working off timezone? Surely some more ipads in the UK?
All it would take to get governments back into the game is some private firm proving the value of resources that can be mined there.

If governments get a clue of how valuable space real estate, energy and resources can be. Expect a space race, like weapons race.

In fact you can expect wars on the basis of who controls which asteroids and who gets to stay where on mars.
You're right; it looks like a few of these features like the max range directive were also included in 1.0.

Bug fixes and security patches are applied to both stable and dev branches. Some of the recent buffer overflow patches only affect features added in 1.1.

Hopefully future changelogs can be more comprehensive and usable now that nginx has venture funding.
Only if you don't go cross-eyed from the diacritics and cross-tongued from the tones first...
Anyone recommend some equivalent tools for Ruby?
I don't. Is that iTunes library really the same size it was when the machine was bought? Does it play songs with the same encoding size? Is the version of XCode still the same with the same feature set? Does the browser play HD video from the web as often now as it did years ago?

Things change. My old 2006 iMac core 2 duo feels a bit clunky sometimes these days, but it runs a lot of stuff fine and is actually just as good a machine as it ever was.
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Racing games or bike games or motorbike games, any name you mention, it means the same thing. You land up playing bike games. As per the recent research there is an increasing demand of these glash games. There are different games in the gaming industry which fit into different categories, but the racing games are in a huge demand. The increase in the demand would be due to the increase in the motorbike stunts in the filming industry or any other reasons behind it. In the present world we see lot of people doing stunts with cars, monster trucks and other stuff and these could be one of the reasons for the increase in the gaming industry. While the World Wide Web expands, more and more individuals are getting online for all of their necessities and for their enjoyment.
It worked for me on the ipad...
It's probably self-reinforcing. The more you exercise the better your brain gets. The better your brain gets the more you exercise.
> Harvard’s annual cost for journals from these providers now approaches $3.75M. In 2010, the comparable amount accounted for more than 20% of all periodical subscription costs and just under 10% of all collection costs for everything the Library acquires.

I've been to a couple of schools where the costs of journals makes many valuable resources and new research simply inaccessible. Other universities pale in comparison to Harvard's regular financial figures and of course their longstanding reputation, and yet their influence could go a long way in helping all the other guys catch up. If closed-access journals are hurting Harvard's library, imagine what it's like for a ~500 student engineering school that's already strapped for cash on all other fronts.
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I use something relatively similar, but I do it with Chef.

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It takes advantage of site-cookbooks with Chef, letting you bring in your own site-cookbooks and also takes your chef-solo.json (if it exists).

I made it to get away from the rake dotfile sillyness.
Yeah, censoring the email addresses would be nice. Ah well.. 37 people now have my email. :)
Time will tell, my money is on PR stunt.
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The way it should be.

Hope to see many more like these. Reminds me of the Daily Prophet.
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Fingerprint: cb71811ba44d8d86755b03be8a83938d2946169b
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So... no?

Ipad2, jailbroken with AdBlocket running, no idea if that was a factor or not.
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Ironically, I have also been a buyer of Industrial Supply in the Oil industry, so I know both sides of the table and agree that the relationship between buyer and seller is key.

I guess that's the difference between consumer and business to business in many respects - one knows what they want, the other not so much.
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I can see perhaps the Chinese and maybe the Russians looking to own asteroids, but that would require they pull out of several international treaties (not that big of a deal). For the West, their model has always been government-backed private monopolies (Hudson's Bay Company, East India Company, United Fruit, modern oil companies, etc). The American government would be more than happy to let Planetary resources do their own exploitation, while throwing its military weight behind them "to protect American interests". I'd be surprised if Europe makes much of an effort.
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yes, thank you for the idea. Although I'm not quite sure undergraduate students here contribute much to the open source projects.