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Everything has it’s pros and cons, but a con isn’t “OH it’s developed by Apple” or “Oh it’s created by Microsoft”, a con isn’t “It’s a clone of Java” that’s all just your ignorance bleeding through.

When it comes to Microsoft, their motivation is just what they made their motto way back when: a PC in every home, running Microsoft Windows. To me that has always been a threat, and combined with the tactics they employed it's not something that can be glossed over. Some things you just don't forget or forgive if you're worth anything at all. I don't mean to pick on Microsoft though, they're a dime a dozen... but that doesn't make them worth a damn, it just gives them something they might delude themselves into being able to hide behind.

I hope that helped.
>And you don't have to install anything. I chuck it all in c:\windows and it's available in PATH then.

You think copying random files from the internet into system directories with no tracking, no upgrade management, no uninstall capability is a good thing?
Commie bullshit.
BGR also notes that the same screen is used for both the iPhone 5 and the iPod Touch. It can't simply be assumed that the iPhone demand has lessened because Apple orders less of one component used in multiple lines of products.

http://bgr.com/2013/01/14/iphone-5-analysis-component-cuts-2...
The livescribe link in the article is well worth watching. Fascinating, rocket science is!

http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/ML...
Hahaha okay, I hadn't read this yet. Glad I wasn't the only one who was reminded of it :)
Take a look at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/import-html-pages/
I've seen it used most commonly for framework assets (e.g., icons in profiler bar, exception handler pages, etc.) so that you don't have to clutter up your public directory with assets that will never be served on production. Otherwise, spriting + a pre-processor/asset pipeline gives nearly the same main benefit (reduced HTTP requests) with a lot less developer work + allows for caching.
That is obvious that secret services would do that - it is a too good opportunity to let go. We'll see more and more of that, every country will launch its own - until we learn how to fight it.
Correct. And if Congress members wish to "sign their retirement letters" by impeaching him over the matter, they have that check/tool in their pockets and at their disposal.
I agree. If OP is incorrect (I say if because I am not making a statement about his correctness) perhaps he was ignorantly incorrect. It's never good to start off with an arrogant, disrespectful tone without asking questions first. Ignorance is not the same as intentional deception.
Then do you know what the competing advantage of a small number of large engine is? The robustness of many small engines seems so useful to me. Cost?
wiil you expose remaining tutorials from lesson 4 onwards
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I've seen these type of startups (Book P2P) pop up every semester when I was in college, and I have a genuine question: are these kinds of startups actually sustainable?

a) both supply and demand are seasonal (very, very few people trade books in the middle of a semester)

b) Amazon's/Chegg's prices for college textbooks are good enough that they can be purchased and later resold back to them for a decent amount of money, which can outweigh the inconveince factor of scouring a book-trading service for that one book you need. (and as a college student, you need all the time you can get)

c) Chicken-and-egg problem taken to the extreme. No one buys books until there are sellers, no one sells books until there are buyers.
The whole point of the tactics used against Aaron was to render his right to a trial by jury too risky and expensive to exercise. In both cases, the legal accountability of the Executive Branch is what's being undermined - by the Executive Branch.
This is such a great resource, thanks for this! I have been looking for a good consolidation of some of the more advanced features just to keep around. Can't wait to see this finished!
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> how geometry can related to mathematics

Geometry is part of mathematics!

More generally, it's sad to see this attitude all over the place, as if geometry and drawing were somehow "less mathematical" than writing and symbols. Both, algebra/analysis as well as geometry, have their place in mathematics, and complement each other very well.

The same holds for creativity versus stringency, by the way. A theorem has to be proved (stringency), but how did find that proof? By aternating of stringency and creativity back and forth! And why did you ask the question answered by the theorem in the first place? Creativity and real-world problems (e.g. physics or economics)!

Note that the distinction between geometry/algebra is totally unrelated to the distinction between creativity/stringency. However, more often that not media associate math only with the algebra+stringency part, glossing over the other equally important aspects. This leads to a totally distorted image of the wonderful field of mathematics.
I dread the time when Linux is popular enough for malware. it will be a massacre.
Now that's interesting. Did iPad Mini kill iPod Touch sales? $299 and $399 vs $329 iPad Mini. Hm.
I'm shocked by the author's ignorance. He's kind of an idiot. Simply because he's been living under a rock and lacks common knowledge about how 90% of the world's personal computers run. Pick any OS and if you've never used it before you'll run into quite a bit of cognitive dissonance when trying it out for the first time. Nothing new here. Just a dummy who's trying to acted shocked by an OS everyone and their grandma has used for years.
If you're an American who actually has to worry about costs the Ivy League is almost always going to be one of your cheapest options. I find it incredibly irritating that the typical debate over college cost lays the tuition price out there and claims that's the cost for a normal person.

I'm not from a poor family, but I payed less than a thousand a year for Columbia. You'd have to make a quarter million dollars a year and have no other siblings in college (I think they even take into account medical expenses) to not qualify for something. I'd imagine most of the other schools that do needs-blind are about the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need-blind_admission#U.S._insti...
Erlang has decades of use in fast, robust, large telecommunication systems. Haskell promises more robustness than any other platform as well as performance sometimes comparable to C. Its downside is just that steep learning curve though.

So if you want speed, I'd go for those two out of your list. Go and node.js are still infants in the game, so I don't think there is enough serious software out there built with these to properly judge their effective speeds.
You should read a few call-for-proposals, it's pretty enlightening. What I learned (hopefully this differs from place to place) is that they write them in such a way that only huge, dishonest shops can respond, by making the requirements huge and contradictory. An honest shop can't call out the contradictions and get the work because "fully satisfying" the requirements is necessary to be accepted. A small shop can't afford the time and expense to respond with a proposal. In both cases you need to build in enough overhead to cover the countless hours spent arguing about the featureset and to afford the lawyers when the litigation comes a few years down the road.

I don't think the government means to lock out small vendors. It's just that bureaucracy tends to generate bloated and inefficient systems like this, in which the only part of the contract the vendor can afford to skimp on is the implementation itself (and not the lawyers, negotiators, managers, etc.) The people who work for the government want good, working systems, they're just prevented from choosing vendors who can produce them because using common sense is not sufficiently bureaucratic.
I've been assuming it meant something along the lines of "we made him hand over some of his gear as an early punishment". Seems to be a common thing to do in nearly all cases of (alleged) "cyber" crimes. It's nothing to do with "returning data" of course.

An old episode of Friends really nailed the concept: "it's like trying to take the urine out of a pool".
That's a funny question. The preparation started when I turned 16, and kept bicycling even after I got a driver's license. I moved to NYC, and started bicycle commuting 5 miles each way from Manhattan to the Bronx. I became very comfortable in traffic.

I teach, so one summer I decided to ride cross-country. I did that two summers in a row; WA-ME one year, and CA-GA the next year.

I had thought of doing the Alaska-Tierra del Fuego trip, but a friend wanted to do another cross country ride. I did that ride, WA to ME again via northern Canada, and then continued on to FL, CA, and AK.

Most of the preparation for each trip was just a bit of extra riding in the months building up. These months-long trips are actually easier to get ready for physically than week-long trips, because you can take the first few weeks easy and use the first part of your trip as training.

I slept outside in a tent. There are places to hide a tent and a bicycle everywhere, and if you're stuck you can almost always find someone willing to let you pitch a tent in their yard for the night. Although that gets interesting sometimes...
Whether or not a stock is over or underpriced at a particular point in time can only ever be determined with hindsight and relative to other investment opportunities.

My own view at this point is that there is a rotation going on. Growth investors are leaving Apple because it's too big to continue to grow at the rate it used to, and value investors are still cautious, waiting for a bottom.
I have seen students from India use this method for small numbers and a partial sum method for larger numbers.

http://wsgfl2.westsussex.gov.uk/Aplaws/maths/multicultural/V...

Google 'Vedic multiplication'. Its all good because it is unusual here in the UK and it looks interesting.
It may have been improper in some grand sense, but that's not what Professor Kerr was addressing. He was addressing whether or not the conduct fit the laws in question, as interpreted by the relevant case law.

Alex Stamos doesn't even really try to refute that. Instead he provides context that suggests that it was an injustice to apply those laws to Aaron Swartz. That's a separate question, and one that Kerr apparently intends to address in a follow up post.
Likely related the fact that you can't tickle yourself:

http://www.skidmore.edu/~flip/Site/Lab/Entries/2007/1/31_For...
>linux was originally intended to not contain large libraries of drivers

Huh? Support for obscure hardware has always been a big selling point for linux.

>the drivers that it does have are often not as good as those on windows.

Quite the opposite IME. With windows you will always get some kind of driver, but it will usually be buggy. Linux doesn't always have drivers, but those it does have tend to be very reliable.

>If you want to use a scanner that is not supported by x-sane on linux, you have a very short list of options

Sure. But how many scanners is that? Maybe I've been lucky, but all of mine (mostly HP, who admittedly have a reputation as being especially good with linux) have "just worked".

>If you want to use certain multiple monitor setups, you typically have to install the buggy proprietary drivers.

Buggy? Maybe by linux standards, but I've found the nvidia graphics drivers far more reliable than any I've used on windows (it's a shame that ideology means installing them is poorly integrated). Admittedly the way modern windows can seamlessly restart its graphics drivers mitigates this a lot - but linux hasn't needed such a thing yet.

With Intel graphics you can do multi-monitor just fine with the open source drivers. I don't know about AMD.
It's not a new or original idea, but with the right hook it might just work well... I created a site like this some years ago for my school: http://shelfswap.com/

The challenges are getting adoption at a school. We hit a lot of interesting ideas around it...

1. Obviously the best times to facilitate these transactions are between sessions with short breaks (e.g. fall to spring, vs spring to fall, separated by summer). We were on the semester system, so we only get 50% of sessions to have such a gap... vs if you were on a trimester or quarter system, you would have 66-75% sessions this way.

2. Some students (sellers) immediately saw the appeal "oh, I can get a lot more money for my books, I just have to hold them a little longer?" others did not "I don't care how much I get, I just want to get rid of them" (which is why college bookstores are able to cheat these people). The buyers were less difficult to convince.

3. There were battles at my school to get it allowed... yes we had to check, word of mouth wasn't enough, we needed to put up ads. Luckily I was already in good with our school executives, so they went to bat for me against the bookstore.

4. The bookstore was very upset about it, but I do believe we spurred them to give better prices, have better advertising, and an easier system the years following this project -- helping the consumer.

I eventually walked away because my "non technical cofounder" started doing stuff behind my back, contributed very little, yet he got upset at me in my senior year not doing more work on it. Really, it's my fault. I should have known that he wasn't actually bringing any useful skills to the table ahead of time--enthusiasm isn't a skill.

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I'm surprised. The trend in education seems to be MOOCs. Charging tuition feels like a step backwards. There are plenty of bright people in the world who wouldn't be able to afford to pay $500 let alone half of a typical Ivy League tuition.

I suppose exclusivity in the form of curating and moderating could help ensure quality of the content. But is there any reason why the general public shouldn't have read access at the very least?

I'm curious to see what this turns into. Education is important, so I hope they find a way to put that $25 million to good use.
I recently heard creating mobile apps for iPhone and Android was possible. Forget the library though. I can ask if you're interested to know.
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You should cover, or at least note, jurisdictional differences and interactions, promotion of patents to national/regional/international phases and such. For example "How will having a US patent help me against a European developer?", "Someone has copied my whole site and is serving it from Papua New Guinea, can I sue them in the US?"

As an aside could I make a request that those posting on legal matters or on subjects that are highly regionally variant note which region they're posting from.
> New lessons will be posted each Monday until all ten lessons are available.
SAFETY!

If you go with a small number of rockets, it's unlikely you can sustain one (let alone) multiple engine failures. With several rockets arranged in a distributed geometrical fashion, you can significantly raise the probability of proper vehicle function even with several failures (as mentioned before, with the Falcon 9).
It is fair game to register whenever possible with your real id and when required with anonymity.

Unnecessarily placing orders leading them to believe you are a genuine is customer would be immoral though.

I had a hilarious incident when a new user signed-up & responded to my welcome mail saying, she is part of a stealth startup & needs guidance with choosing payment gateways. Silly part was her rapportive profile clearly showed her linkedin profile, that she joined competitor as product manager just a few months back. We had a hearty laugh & let it go.
FTA "My first version was hosted on Heroku and lagged like crazy."

Hmmm even on heroku you should have pretty damn good responsiveness as I assume it should be using what is known as "COMET" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

The polling is just to reestablish the kept alive connection. Which while still less than ideal... I wouldn't think would be terrible.

Not saying the author is wrong but being that it seems like his first foray into socket.io it's a possibility.
Have you tried writing services in Python and running on gunicorn or gevent?
1) This occurred in the US, not the UK.

2) All of that requires the consent of the person involved. Do you think AS would have suddenly decided to accept support because the DA prosecuting his case offered it? If his family and friends couldn't stop his suicide, you think the DA could have done so?

3) Are you sure it is typically the responsibility of the DA to sort that stuff out in the US?
The way I read it overall was that "being inconsiderate" is the crime, with the laws that we have on the books now relating to computing and networking. It is true that he was being inconsiderate and not "hacking" as it's commonly termed, but I just don't see how that helps Aaron.

What they could/should be arguing instead is that the law is far too onerous in cases like this, but the issue with the law that we have now is that it's deliberately written to be this broad. It's either to allow the judgment of a jury and trained legal assistants to prevail in an area where legislators had no experience, or to put the screw on computer activists (or maybe even both), but it is very broad.
It's not a particularly great thing, but it's "good enough" for your average single shot laptop.

If it was a corporate machine, we'd package it and deploy it via GPO.
I know this (I'm trained to provide voting assistance myself). But given the alternative....
Looks great, and reading the first lessons shows it's also written well and very useful.

One small question, why did you chose a non responsive layout? It is pretty unreadable on mobile (at least for me). I'm sure it's work in progress, but this is the first thing I've noticed.

Again, thank you for posting (and creating) I find it useful and looking forward for the next chapters.
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Why not both?. I like compound or blended names with one part of the name subtly telling what is about and the other part make it a brand (ex Photobucket, Pinterest etc)

Its easy to trademark such names too.
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Unfortunately this also increases the load on the accused and the costs it will take to defend, and increase the uncertainty of the whole situation.
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thanks! (I was sort of aware of the distinction, but it was really late)

my favorite similar pedantry is nauseous vs. nauseated :)
It seems to me that the obvious way to fix college textbooks is for professors to create new electronic versions -- alone or collaboratively, free or non-free -- and let the market decide. What's clearly broken here is the "buy this and we'll make it out-of-date or hook it to a one-use set of online tools" model.
HN can be surprisingly fact free when the topic of drugs and drug policy reform comes up. Thanks for being part of the solution. I believe that workers have detected methamphetamine in Acacia as well.
Dworkin was a big critic of pornography, claiming it caused rape and subjugation of women. While there are undoubtedly some women in porn against their will (or verging on doing it for lack of better options (ie, "for the money")), this point of view completely ignores women who are aware of their options, but choose to do porn and see it as an issue of "their body, their choice".
A felony is any crime for the which the maximum penalty is at least one year in prison. The term used to mean crimes which were potentially capital, but with so few of them these days the definition changed.
Oh and also! Great stuff and thank you for sharing! Personally, socket.io is the reason for node to exist. It's a beautiful marriage and I wish more people who learned node learned it in this context.
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Seriously, if you think this
generation has a monopoly on
glamourising the "live fast,
die young" ethos, you haven't
been around for very long.
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I didn't say that really, did I?

I've lived long enough to hear more than one case of rapid success claiming a suicide victim in the field of arts. We all know them. Many of these cases are often dismissed as some sort of underlying pathology and the rest as inevitable result of the individual's pathetic circumstance. All of course inadequate in truly explaining the "storm inside".

But guess who the high-achieving rock star child prodigies of today are, if not the erstwhile artists? The new kids have given up their piano keyboards for computer keyboards ... and there are plenty more of them in every second suburban basement than there are talented musicians, actors and artists today. And they are winning! And good for them! But some of the winners are even dreaming, no - decided, about ideals like social justice, equality, freedom. No amount of black and white binary talent will help answer the grey of these concepts that have plagued humanity since the beginning of human conscience.

Wisdom is a slow cooking dish ... that's never going to be ready. I guess you'll just have to grow up, kid.

(I'm sorry to sound patronising but there's no point in blaming the morons at MIT, the tits at JSTOR, the vindictive FEDS or the rotten capitalistic system. All really irrelevant.)
Yes, it's my first time using socketio. So, yeah, I must have missed a lot. The gain in speed was visible, but maybe it wasn't for the reason I thought
What is the boundary between a public service and an invasion of privacy?
If criminal charges haven been brought forward

Neither JSTOR nor MIT brought forward criminal charges; that was done by the US Attorneys themselves. So saying "this is not for the prosecution to decide" is wrong--the prosecution decided to bring charges, so it's their responsibility if the charges were way out of proportion.
This looks interesting. I like the idea of a Product Idea Validation Tool, but I feel like there are enough sites that let me upload images for users to choose between them.

Perhaps something similar to what the http://survey.io guys do but with survey questions more for an earlier stage might be even more useful.
It is also economy of scale when manufacturing. You need smaller tooling to make smaller engines, and because nobody makes rocket engines in quantities that would load the production line 24x7, almost only additional expense is raw materials which is negligibly small.

Also, gas dynamics in a smaller engine is simpler and easier to simulate.

And yes, it gives a lot of redundancy, if the only engine of the stage fails you are toast, if 1 out of 9 fails it's almost okay, as the most recent F-9 flight shown.
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