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The artist hasn't 'lost out' on anything. With digital distribution there is no marginal cost for extra consumption --- it's all fixed cost. This is why a patronage model (such as Kickstarter) is probably more appropriate nowadays.

Even if you do think copyright is still appropriate, it needs to be carefully managed. In general, the purpose of copyright was never to ensure authors have some 'right' to control their work in perpetuity, as is commonly assumed today --- you can see that at work right there in the US Constitution 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries'. There's some interesting discussion here http://rufuspollock.org/economics/papers/optimal_copyright_t...
Just a light, I believe it is used to detect the reflective panel on the ISS. But dragon is having a problem at and detecting a different reflector.
Very cool. A variation on this might be the create a QR code that can only be seen from a particular orientation - a bit like the 4 on the UK TV Channel 4 interludes. You could use it to ensure people were looking in the right direction or perhaps or at the right thing.
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Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of two-factor authentication?
As someone who has used IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox and Chrome I can't help but think that this is all irrelevant, IE is failing, slow and ugly.

MS can try to redeem it but the damage has already been done, companies and home users are switching over to chrome and FF, either for speed or plug-ins.

In my personal opinion, Chrome usage will rise, Google will use it to push their google+ service and this will either succeed or push "purists" who prefer non-conformity or hate to be forced in to viewing the same adverts again and again for a service they don't want to use to swap to FF.

Regardless of the future war between FF and Chrome, Microsoft are too slow moving and get left behind, they are not innovative enough in the modern day ,although so.cl looks to be a promising addition to the social networks we already have and will hopefully improve the accuracy of searches made on bing through its use.

I and many others will continue to use Chrome, until Mozilla come up with some amazing new functionality, IE will drop users till it dies (lets face it, most of the users only use it because they either got it with the computer and don't know there are other browsers or because their corporation has had it for years and refuses to change. Don't forget that military organizations who had plugins made for IE6 which aren't forward compatible refuse to move, I have direct experience of asking one of my British special forces friends from high school why exactly he was browsing in IE6) and then the internet will rejoice, for microsofts clunky browser will no longer be dragging back W3C innovations with it's lack of inter-release support.

Anyway, that was extremely longwinded and biased.

LT;DR: IE is dying, long live Chrome and Firefox.
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Ask HN: don't you think javascrit would need a First Class IDE?
I think javascript development would be more and more painless if we could use an IDE with the same features Eclipse has to traverse, find, help, create, refactor, ecc java and its classes.

It would be a better OO Javascript World. What do you think?
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IMO this is a PR move, meant to garner publicity, but not really workable.
The sun changes positions throughout the year, then there are clouds, it doesn't make sense.
I think you should learn to use vim. That sounds trolly but I mean it, do it.
Looking at the table of contents, this seems like a great reference book for several technologies. I think I am sold, especially with the free updates.
It isn't native, but numexpr is a nice in between:

http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/
Odd that a lot of people think that "No one has even scratched the surface of targeted marketing" for years and years on while no great improvements are made.

It looks more and more like natural intelligence in the 80's. Promised to be just around the corner, but never came.
FB may be many things but average is certainly not one of them.

Several of the other comments you have received relate to this idea, so please allow me to ask a specific question (directed both to you and to onlookers). What is not average about Facebook? For some commenting here, the specific question I have is what is above average about Facebook, related to its revenue, to suggest it will overperform the average of historic experience of companies that have IPOed? As an investor, interested in a non-lazy analysis, what should I look for to decide whether or not Facebook is a good investment at the current price of its stock? I note that you wrote,

I'm as bearish as anybody on FB but this seems like extremely lazy analysis.

so I'm not specifically asking you for a rationale for buying Facebook. Other comments at this comment level or below imply that there may be a rationale (perhaps unconvincing to you, but perhaps convincing to some onlooker) for buying Facebook's stock at today's price. What rationale is that? If I had some extra money, would I be well advised to invest it in Facebook stock? Why or why not?

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who has an analysis that goes deeper than the news headlines of the last week since the Facebook IPO. Thanks.
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I think that an IDE makes it simpler to use, but that quickly writing accurate code is a better choice.

I personally use notepad when using my FTP or more often my cpanel light text editor. I haven't had too many issues thus far and have certainly never thought "if only this was easier, or I had some annoying code completion popping up and forcing me to use three arrows and an enter key to accept that one instead of just writing out the last 3 letters of this function."

And aswell as klr, I think this sounds trolly, but really, the time taken to download, install and learn an IDE could just be spent improving the code in notepad instead.
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The NASA guy is using Windows XP, its pretty funny, he just screen-shared in the stream.

I'm sure its some super custom software though.
I've found Python too slow for dealing with big graphs, and big number-crunching. Also, concurrency is... messy. So I don't know how people can use Python for big data-crunching in production. Don't get me wrong... I love Python.
It would require a lot of development time I think and I really think it's a great idea, especially to get there (in the public eye anyway) first, but I am only 2 months or so away from finishing a project my team is working on, seeing how quickly ideas expire on the internet it will be taken or obsolete by the time I have the free time.
Responsible disclosure gives the vendor a chance to fix a flaw before everyone knows about it.

In the case of a private key exposure, the only possible fix is to tell everyone to stop trusting that key. That's exactly what happened here.
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that does not scale. you can have hundreds of calls that require error handling inside your code. considering your example you would get the section "//handle you error" hundreds of times. sprinkled all over the place.
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I used to read its international coverage online, and never detected much bias. When I started reading it, I was also taken aback by the name, but it doesn't appear to be heavily influenced by its parent organization.
> Why is your heart breaking?

I used the free MSVC2003 compiler during high school, when $600 was half a year's worth of pocket money, and when mingw didn't even link a basic UNICODE program properly. I eventually saved up enough money to buy the "full" MSVC2003 Standard for ~€130, what later became Express. I never made a single penny off it. I bet many people who got into programming through hobby gamedev lived a similar life.

After making the switch to OS X during university, I often used the (now free) MSVC Express for playing around with Open Source on Windows. Or to compile a copy of my game for Windows friends. Tiny stuff that's not worth three-digit sums. If I can't toy around and be happy on Windows, then I'll forever stay in Apple wonderland.

Both scenarios will be too expensive to imagine now. If anything, people will use mingw instead. And that's what breaks my heart - I really wish people could use the awesome MSVC2011 compiler instead, with all the new C++ features we have been looking forward to for years. MSVC2010 is still good enough, but for how long?
This article was written for bots just as much as it was for humans. Check out the relationship of the links and keywords. The string "price guide" is found 10 times, and always as a direct anchor text or near a link to the author's site.

That's not a bad thing, these guys are doing it right. Listen to their advice.
Yeah I've done a bit of haskell at uni, it only struck me later how similar it is(/can be) to JS.
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I'd hate to say it but this is where we are going and this includes the web as well. The web is becoming less open and freedoms that once existed are disappearing. China, Iran, SOPA, PIPA, etc. are evidence of this.

The future isn't all that dark but it certainly seems like the "wild west" days of computing are coming to an end.
You can actually just play the video on the linked article, pause it at the right time, and point your phone at the screen. If I could read Korean I might be able to tell if the site has a time-lock of some kind.

This isn't really about being secure - it's about clever marketing. And it definitely succeeds at that.
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This has been the case since as long as I can remember. Not sure why it's an issue all of a sudden.
Note: This reply is mostly helpful if you work with legacy Matlab code, or have colleagues who primarily know Matlab, and you have to work with string data.

In general I agree with you; Matlab's age and origins show through in some warty ways, and one of them is string processing. Whenever I have to process anything that's not simple CSV or Excel, I use Python. (For XML, there's Perl Xpath command line tool, which has come in pretty handy for simple XML extraction.)

That said, however, the Statistics Toolbox has classes dataset, nominal, and ordinal that take a huge amount of the pain out of working with string data. Dataset lets you mix column types and refer to them by name, and lets you name rows if you like. I think it's similar to a dataframe in R. Nominal and ordinal are efficient representations for string columns. They are a workaround for Matlab's lack of a runtime string pool, but also are fast and small.
Because when investors lose money, it makes it harder for the rest of the hackers to raise it the next time around.
The big difference here is Microsoft pulling the software out from under its users and forcing you to buy all new stuff. Apple wants you to use their stuff to help assure compatibility, which is a selling point for them but they're not telling anyone to go out and buy all new stuff.
This is great point. For metalworking, inches are great for length because the tolerance limits of a typical machine are around .001". You can use cm, but it's awkward.

I've also found that with complex calculations, the metric system's ease can be frustrating - it hides "off by a power of 10" unit errors.
This goes to the definition of "ethical", and it's distinct from "moral", in the sense that ethics are a codified set of rules or guidelines: one does not judge something as ethical based on the result, but based on its conformity to a set of explicit or implicit expectations of conduct.
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A lot of SEO knowledge is about knowing what not to do. Don't create copies of the same content across multiple pages, and if you do, choose a canonical version. Don't exclude important directories in robots.txt, but do exclude wasteful pages like calendar pages (often there is a new page every day from Jan 1, 1970 forward).

If you're a Jim's Plumbing site, you should be okay following your advice. If you're a giant site with many pages to index, you need to focus on structure. The flow of pages is important, and it's more than setting up breadcrumbs and pretty URLs. This kind of problem needs to be looked at when building a site, you can't just drop some code in after you've launched.
Best one is in JetBrains products - http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp

Eclipse & VS suck with JS. There is also Dart Editor which Google is building for their new language. I think they are aiming to what you currently can do in Eclipse with GWT's Java code.
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I understand your point. I use a text editor usually, but lately I've used Eclipse with java for a fairly big project (with a team and svn ecc).

And it seems to me that for the way web application are moving toward client-side, the bulk of the code will be on javascript in the future or a greater chunk of it.

What I liked about Eclipse&java is of course code completion (for the logWordsJavaUsesForClassesAndPackage) but most of all the order it brings to all of that comlpexity (classes, packages, enums, the use of different patterns ecc).

if think the more we go toward a complexification (does it exists in english ;P) of javascript projects, the more we are going to need something that bring order in the chaos.

Otherwise we will be a bit overwhelmed by the code of a language not born to do what we are using it for today.
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Question: if Dragon is about 200m lower than ISS, and they are moving at the same velocity at one instant, wouldn't that put them in different orbits?

Assuming ISS's orbit was perfectly circular, then Dragon would be moving too slow for its lower orbit, and would sink down, to its perihelion when on the opposite side of the earth, and so on, oscillating up and down, in an elliptical orbit with respect to ISS.

The only solution I see is for Dragon to artificially make its elliptical orbit circular by continuously thrusting upward. But I don't see this in the video stream. Have I got this all wrong?

EDIT s/too fast/too slow/ # and related edits, thanks mmaunder
Also, most banks don't enforce case-sensitivity. I just logged in to my Chase account ignoring the case.
You make a very good point. Taking Brazil in perspective, middle class is growing rapidly and with better credit the automobile industry is heavily targeting these potential car owners. Makes good sense economically and the state has been granting tax isemptions periodically which boosts sales significantly.

However, car models are still pretty much inneficient fuel consumption wise. That I know of, there exists only one hybrid model avaiable and it's very expensive. Ethanol's price also turned it into a non-option for flex fuel models.

Also, collective transportation is decades lagging pretty much everywhere that it's needed. This leads anyone that can afford it to purchase either a car or motorcicle in order to have decent mobility. It also makes it a class distinction thing, as in public transportation is a lower class problem.

On the long run, IMO things look bleak for Brazil in terms of urban mobility and greenhouse emissions.
>"I think this analysis ignores the marketing potential of facebook's user data."

How could the marketing of user data be "ignored" in the analysis? That's all FB is. Without looking at its ability to market user data, FB isn't even a business.
Ignore the other site and launch... Full steam ahead!
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Or the converse. There could be $6T in the money supply, but circulation is high. Sort of like a self-contained ornamental fountain that can flow more gallons per day/month/year than it has capacity to hold.

The real insidious part of such lofty sums is that they usually are predicated on potential lost earnings (and sometimes punitive damages), which historically is obviously nowhere near the numbers requested.
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They are now looking at a capture time of ~9:40AM CT (about 90 minutes from this comment)
current estimate: 9:40 AM CT (in the video stream, and they stress it's an estimate).
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Aren't lower orbits faster? So wouldn't dragon be moving too slowly to maintain it's orbit, not too fast?
I don't think 200m is enough to put them in significantly different orbits. Every once in awhile, dragon probably fires a thruster to make small adjustments.

edit, clarification: The problem is that the object closer to the earth will experience more gravitational force, which needs to be counteracted by orbiting faster, so that it's constantly falling 'tangent' to the earth. If they had the same angular velocity and the ISS was known to have a static distance from earth, Dragon would be slowly falling towards the earth because in order to maintain a static distance from earth, things above the ISS need to travel slower while things below need to travel faster.
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If NASA had switched to Vista, station would have deorbited.
That's not what "compassion" means. It is "a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering."

What you really mean to say is "empathy"

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The official announcement is at http://www.skatelescope.org, which is down at the moment.

Early reports are suggesting that South Africa will get the lion's share of the telescope, as it had the stronger technical score.
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Dragon doesn't autonomously dock. It flies within range of the space station's robotic arm, is grappled, and then is slowly berthed to a docking port.
I have worked for banks for past 9 years. I agree that most of the software are old, outdated and just plain fucked up. I have done so many projects where we band-aid existing legacy systems even thought the project is called "Strategic decommissioning of legacy platform blah blah..". Point being that these guys are extremely difficult to penetrate into and they do not like change. I think opportunities are boundless to create good products and sell to these banks. But will need to go through lot of red tapes. Not to mention the new Dodd Frank stuff. Everyone is scared as to what that is bringing and the first question they will ask you is "Is this in compliance with Dodd Frank regulations" specifically if related to credit, risk etc.
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In the US, decrypting satellite TV without authorization is illegal under 47 USC 605(a)(6): "No person not being entitled thereto shall receive or assist in receiving any interstate or foreign communication by radio and use such communication (or any information therein contained) for his own benefit or for the benefit of another not entitled thereto."

Additionally, unauthorized decryption of a copyrighted program or movie is a violation of the DMCA, 17 USC 1201(a)(1): "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Seems mingw's C++11 support is getting there too - though I couldn't find a definitive list. That solves some of my heartache at least.
Reportedly the majority of the dishes will be built in South Africa and its partnering countries, as it had a stronger technical score during the evaluation.

I'm a bit disappointing in the decision to split the site but I'm happy a decision has finally been made. This is an extraordinarily exciting project for astronomy.
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Sometimes legislators want the law to be ambiguous, because an ambiguous law can get 51% of the votes but a law that actually spells out all the details would only get 49% (or less).

And I’m not sure it’s possible to have a completely unambiguous language for dealing with relationships between human beings. The architects of Lojban have made some heroic efforts in this regard, and while that language does a lot to delimit ambiguity (e.g., if a sentence has no explicit tense markers, then it is not asserting whether the event is past, present, or future), but it can’t eliminate it entirely.
At some point, the world will move away from the understanding of Buffet.
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Once you limit it to accounts actually worth hacking which don't have an authenticator you're probably looking at more like a million accounts.
Dragon now 30m below the ISS
I'm sure it's a little of both. Sounds like they recruited a lot of new email subscribers, which is valuable. But, even shifting demand can be good if you can level out demand -- may mean fewer staff at peak times, shorter delivery queues, etc.
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If there is a merge conflict isn't it the job of the legislators to actually resolve all the conflicts _before_ the bill is made law? Isn't this postponing of the resolution of problems an actual problem in the system that we have today? I would think it would be better to to have all conflicts resolved by the people who actually pass the law in the first place, and if there are unforeseen complications that have to be amended later by the courts, to have those legislators penalized in some form, or at least record it so we have a log of which legislators make bad decisions. If we had an easily trackable "git blame" it would go a long way to keep those people accountable and easily check this by the public.
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