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I'd love a cite for this.

It seems really really hard to believe that Scott Meyer really hasn't got production code to his name, even as at least an occasional consultant.
The RIAA is fighting to maintain an outmoded business structure in which major record labels' presence as a middleman was convenient for artists seeking broader visibility and distribution.

It is no longer the case that an artist must sign away all of their rights and virtually all the resulting revenue from their work merely to get their music distributed, so what purpose does the RIAA serve?
The problem is really only with IE on XP; of course, that's still a huge share. We can thank MS for that, since if other browsers support in on XP, there's no reason IE couldn't, especially considering 7+ already does in Vista and 7.
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I hear it all the time, but I think this is a pretty silly sentiment.

Nobody wants the entire Internet encrypted more than the giant banks that Redditors believe control the political system.

What malign forces do you believe the government is actually wielding to retard adoption of crypto? Who controls how much of the Internet is encrypted? Because the Internet is an end-to-end system design, the two parties most responsible for crypto adoption are your browser vendor (which vigorously supports crypto adoption), and the people who run servers (most of whom vigorously support crypto adoption).

The onus is on you to provide evidence to back your silly argument up.
Publish the key fingerprint visibly? Then at least savvy users could verify it.
Great comment Paul

The slide was absolutely the final thing I needed to see the vision
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The point is that you condense the evaporated water. You can do this more than once to get purer water. One thing though, you'll end up with a significantly smaller amount of water than you started with, so you have to compensate for that.
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The title of the post is Sound
Someone put a new title on it here and changed the point of the post
Why is it surprising that the government would be involved in enforcing its own law?
The title of my post is Sound
Someone changed it here
It is not at all about the slide
It is about sound and why it matters
Except github's plans screw companies that have a lot of projects. At my last full time job we had 20-40+ projects at once. The public plans only go up to 20 repos. Most were microsites coming in under 2MB space.
Previous versions were open. I suspect AppStore has lead the way to this (proved that consumers are OK with this model).
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mostlylisa on Twitter, of the taptaptap people I think, put out the following link:

http://campl.us/f349

Not a comparison, but it really does show that the iPhone4S camera is pretty damn good.
If you think this isn't relevant, I don't think you have the slightest clue about what the "HN ethos" supposedly is.

If that's what you think, btw, back it up. Don't just flatly state that the article isn't relevant (especially when it obviously is).
Can't that argument be extended to patent trolls, though? "Fighting for the rights of inventors!" But the RIAA, like patent trolls, are not themselves content creators. They just managed to get a hold of IP.

It's not as simple as that, obviously -- the RIAA and musicians' interests tend to align more frequently than do inventors and patent trolls -- but the RIAA isn't in any fight for the "rights" of artists. They're in it for lawsuit money, and they could care less about anything else. And I doubt the artists' contracts stipulate anything about royalties on payouts from the industry's legal adventures.
Alas, this article is not remotely accurate. In truth, the best thing that you can drink when extremely dehydrated is lightly salted, sugared water (on an empty stomach, at least — food can provide the salt/sugar otherwise). This is why Pedialyte, which contains both salt and glucose, is often given to dehydrated children and adults. This is also why Gatorade is better than pure water.

The reason for this is that water absorption in your small intestines is significantly more complicated than depicted in the image in this article. Water is not absorbed across a simple membrane passively — rather, the small intestine is a two-layer barrier with specific transport proteins positioned in each layer of the barrier in order to pull nutrients into the body at a very high efficiency.

A dominant theory right now is that sodium-glucose co-transporters are responsible for drawing water into the body (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16322051 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-glucose_transport_protei...). Specifically, an osmotic gradient is created by (I think) the Na/K active pump ("active" meaning the body uses up ATP to overcome the normal steady state). The Na/glucose co-transporter then uses this gradient to pull those molecules into the body, bringing water with it — the water of hydration.

If we were hydrated using a simple system such as the one depicted in the link, we would be orders of magnitude more responsive to the food we eat. Our bodies are very good at maintaining homeostasis, but it takes a lot of complexity to do it.

Edit: it's worth noting that seawater may indeed be too highly concentrated to drink safely, even in moderate quantities, if it's true that the kidney cannot excrete at a greater concentration of salt as is present in seawater. This link from Wikipedia suggests this is the case: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99416.htm . But the posted article's explanation is entirely off-base in its explanation regardless. And I'm not even sure what of seawater would be absorbed on an empty stomach...it's possible more salt than water would be absorbed, leading to diarrhea as water is left unabsorbed in the intestine, leading to dehydration from poor water absorption and poor salt excretion.
Go read the top comment in this thread, cstross did a pretty good job of explaining it.
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I had been thinking that as soon as someone made a place that was "I can post my drunk photos here and mom won't see them" will get very popular.

Facebooks past with requiring an .edu email address to use prevented Mom from seeing drunk photos; in fact back in the day people were trying to get me to use facebook because it allowed more privacy and no internet stalkers could creep you unless you let them compared to myspace and others.

Strange how the world changes.
Wow.. if I were an aging C programmer I would laugh about C++, Ruby, Java programmers
That is an 'excerpt'.
> merely to get their music distributed

That is correct. Distribution is such a small part of what a good record label does for you. Even if you want to believe that an artist can do all of the things a label can do for them, that's not to say that they want to, or that they can do those things while successfully continuing to do what they do best - which is make music. Just because a handful of artists have achieved success without a label does not negate that the most successful artists today are still using them.

Take it from someone who works with hundreds of labels - the best ones still add tremendous value. The RIAA fights for the rights of labels, and by default, some of those rights are shared by artists.
Another three.js globe project, pulling from the site's Google Analytics:

http://superfad.com/missioncontrol/
It doesn't matter. They fight for a strikes rule on copyright, it affects and benefits those artists who would like their copyrights protected and enforced. As an artist, if you want people to pay for your music and not take it illegally, the RIAA is one of the only organizations working in your corner.
Well, to be fair they are talking about sea water, which has an approximate average salinity of 35g/L [1]. Gatorade (reading off the label from the bottle sitting on my desk) has 110mg of sodium and 30mg of potassium per 240mL, so about 600mg of 'salt' per liter. There's ~60 times more salt in sea water than Gatorade.

We are actually pretty good at maintaining homeostatis. But it's really hard to deal with the amount of salt in sea water. In addition, you and the article are not actually going over the same thing. The stated problem is not during absorption (which you deal with), but what happens after you absorb the salt water.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawater
My sense is that that was definitely a factor, but it wasn't as much the ISVs screaming but the distributors like Dell. IIRC the things MS agreed to as part of the settlement had more to do with their "get a reasonable discount on Windows at the pleasure of the King" contracts. I.e., MS was insisting that a license be paid for every PC the vendor shipped, regardless of whether or not it was shipped with Windows.
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I love that this comes up regularly in this community. It's one of those things that everyone seems to discover at some point.
I'll also point out that the people who have achieved the greatest results without a label, NIN, Radiohead, etc., were already famous, due in no small part to their prior labels.
> They claim a 200 line TCP, 800 line graphics system (apparently comparable to Cairo)

That's impressive (and hard to believe). Are more informations about this available somewhere?
This startup helps you compile wisdom in a book.
...feed them alka seltzer?
While Google may not currently arbitrarily remove a site/app from its index, it is obvious that they could do that at any time.
This is fantastic - I loved the ant simulation!

It was a bit cryptic to get some of the content; perhaps you could have an alternative and more straight forward navigation system.
Ok that is stunning but as far as the functionality it seems totally lacking... like they could do so much more with such a beautiful platform.
No. I favor not kidding yourself.

Almost no software of any significant size has been written in the last 10 years that can honestly claim to gracefully and reliably handle out-of-memory conditions.

Programming regimes that ostensibly cover out-of-memory cases are usually delusive; they provide for some superficial handling of out-of-memory issues (which usually just devolves to exiting the program anyways), but do nothing to address the myriad instances of malloc calls happening behind their backs in libraries or temporary allocations.

Fuck that. These people are going through extra work which (a) provides no greater user experience and (b) actually harms their program by creating opportunities for missed checks that propagate NULL pointers (which, when offset against, are actually exploitable!) through the rest of their code.

Just have malloc terminate your program for you when it fails and be done with it. You seriously aren't going to get anything else right, and it's silly to waste your time trying anyways.
1. I'm disappointed that the Government is working so closely with special interests like the RIAA to set legislation.

2. I'm glad that it is possible to FOIA it.

People do lots of things to cover up unpopular news. It seems that for whatever reason, the people in charge wanted to brush this under the rug. If the government does this and we don't like that, let's exercise our right and vote them out.

That there is no one who you'd actually want to vote in to public office to replace the scoundrels that screw the people over and over again is another issue.
Why do you say so? Aside from sound (HTML5 audio is a poor fit for in-game sounds) what is not good about it? Especially with canvas getting hardware accelerated in IE9, Firefox and Chrome and WebGL getting ground in more browsers (Chrome, Firefox and now Opera Alpha).

EDIT: to be clear, it's genuine question, I'm really interested in high-performant graphics in HTML5.
What is your opinion on other trade associations?
http://www.artima.com/cppsource/top_cpp_books.html

" I have not written production software in over 20 years, and I have never written production software in C++. Nope, not ever. Furthermore, I’ve never even tried to write production software in C++, so not only am I not a real C++ developer, I’m not even a wannabe. Counterbalancing this slightly is the fact that I did write research software in C++ during my graduate school years (1985-1993), but even that was small (a few thousand lines) single-developer to-be-thrown-away-quickly stuff. And since striking out as a consultant over a dozen years ago, my C++ programming has been limited to toy “let’s see how this works” (or, sometimes, “let’s see how many compilers this breaks”) programs, typically programs that fit in a single file. (make? Who needs stinkin’ make?) My living is based on C++, but it’s not by virtue of the programs I write in it."
What an odd comment.

The difference between a restaurant and a technology startup is that a startup is "an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model" - http://steveblank.com/2010/01/25/whats-a-startup-first-princ...

As for your static IP address example... a company that is serving 38 pages a seconds with 3 ads and a $1 CPM isn't exactly a trivial thing to build. If you do build that without taking any investment, good for you! You've bootstrapped your company. I imagine you'll find that you need a lot more than a static IP address and 15 Mbps upload bandwidth to get there though.
I think this too will fade with time as gaming moves to the tablet/other platforms. My prognosis is that the only people using desktop machines in the future will be scientists, professions performing heavy computing and programmers/developers.
I down voted because you give a dangerous advice. The concentration of salt in sea water is higher than in urine. Drinking sea water rises the level of sodium in blood very quickly which sends signal to your kidneys to get rid of that salt. But as kidneys can't produce urine with the concentration of salt higher than certain level you need more body water to excrete the amount of salt you consumed with sea water. Roughly speaking you need 1.5 liters of fresh water to excrete the salt you got with 1 liter of sea water. Eventually the concentration of salt will become dangerously high in you blood and you will die of heart failure or seizure. So I would say that drinking sea water will actually DEPRIVE you of extra day of survival which may be lifesaving.

Modern survival guides consistently advice against drinking sea water.

Speaking of Alain Bombard. The most likely explanation here is that he consumed enough FRESH water (with fish and rain water) to dilute sea water he drank to safe levels for his body.

So if you are on a boat in the middle of the sea NEVER drink sea water. This can save your life.
Cool - worked great in Firefox 8 Beta on my Ubuntu laptop.
From http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/ppc.html

"IBM officials often tried to accomodate Apple and vice versa so that both could comfortably work in unison. One popular anecdote talks of one of the first meetings between the two computer giants. IBM engineers dressed in blue jeans for the meeting, while Apple engineers dressed in suits. They both tried to make each other feel compfortable by conforming to what they thought the other was like."

But I wouldn't be surprised if it happened a lot.
That video seems to be the exact opposite of a single convincing slide. I watched it and have no idea what SoundCloud is supposed to do. In the context of social media platforms, I would think that sound, for the most part, would be music. The video hardly mentions music and talks about generic "sounds", which may be interesting from some perspectives, but I don't have the faintest clue why it would be a be the basis of a missing youtube/twitter/flikr/whatever as the slide mentioned implies.
Investors bet on that kind of pitch all the time. There's a reason it's such a common way of describing a company: it's really, really effective. If you can capture the essence of your startup in just three words you'll find it a lot easier to explain to people what it is that you do.
I guess you've never heard of patents.
In-house, fairly straightforward, plus jQuery.
I submit to you this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_industry_trade_groups_i...

"They're in it for lawsuit money, and they could care less about anything else. And I doubt the artists' contracts stipulate anything about royalties on payouts from the industry's legal adventures."

Huh? Where is the shred of research that the RIAA (or any trade group) is in it for lawsuits? Lawsuits are EXPENSIVE. I'm no fan of the RIAA (I think that they've done a horrible job at their mandate and don't like the tactics), but lawsuits were a demand from their members.

And regarding artist contracts, I suggest you read this front to back to see a typical one:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12630971/bbcd_fin.pdf
Take a look at http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/soundcloud - someone tweets a link to SoundCloud about once every 3-5 seconds. There's clearly a LOT of demand for what they've built.
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> (the worm has sex inside the duck)

So this theory explains why the snails have sex, but it doesn't so clearly explain why the worms have sex -- since they are the parasites in question.

I don't know why there has to be just one reason that organisms have sex. If there's anything we know about biological systems, it's that most structures serve multiple functions.
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As I have just installed it today, here is one of the repos for the node.js chat app: http://bit.ly/ogzmMk and the live app is at http://chat.cloudno.de
Background noise is really a soundscape
No, the reason for the anti-trust suit was that it was impossible for the government to look past a monopoly provider of software every computer user needed using their market influence to (a) lock up the distribution channels for all personal computers and (b) use their market influence and their control of distribution channels to attempt to obtain a monopoly in the browser market.

"Angry developers" enter into this in no meaningful sense. To the players actually involved in that fight, on all sides, developers were simply cogs.

Apple doesn't hold a monopoly on mobile operating systems and, even if it did, it would take more than simply putting someone out of business with a new offering to put it on the wrong side of the law. It's easy to see that once a company gets as big as Apple, any new feature it builds is going to put someone out of business somewhere.

(Instapaper will be fine, by the way).
> Lock-down? Open?

Linux doesn't have the concept of 'jailbreak'. That's what I mean.
Agreed... very cool looking rendering but the response time is so slow I'm not convinced I'm doing anything until it appears like 30 seconds later.
Yea it doesn't seem possible to edit the default dash page, even using ccsm - its a shame, I dont think I've ever or will ever use 3/4 of the huge shortcuts there (view photos, check e-mail, listen to music) since I really only use web services for all of those.

I dont think the dock is editable (if you mean the bar along the top) - you can add applications via ubuntu software center (I added weather), but I don't know if you can add application shortcuts like in previous versions.
There's a good Stanford iOS course on itunes.
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"Call me nuts, but whenever I play a game, I'm at least having fun playing it. "

It's not that you're nuts, it's that you're mistakenly assuming the other people don't enjoy these games. It's us who don't like the games they play, not them.
I had an experience similar to what you describe (waking up and thinking "What the fuck am I doing with my life?"), but it predates these games.

I was in college (can't remember which year, probably my junior year) and my roommates and I were all hooked on Diablo II. So were our friends across the hall. We'd often play together as a group on the LAN, but we also enjoyed playing independently. We all played on headphones so as to not have the sounds of several simultaneous games clashing.

One afternoon, we were all playing simultaneously but independently. I decided to take a break, paused my game, removed my headphones, and stood up. Then I heard it: the sounds of rapid clicking coming from my roommates' mouses (and the mouses of the guys across the hall--we usually kept our doors open). I had decided to take a break right then because I had just leveled up, and that fact combined with the sound of the clicking gave me a moment of clarity: the whole game consisted of me clicking a mouse as fast as I could in order to make an arbitrary number (experience points) go up. Everything else is just embellishment. The fundamentals are: you click the mouse, the number goes up.

I felt like one of those lab rats or monkeys that has two buttons: one that delivers a serving of food, and another that stimulates its pleasure centers. They starve to death because they neglect the food button in favor of the pleasure button. Except I was worse, in a way: I wasn't getting a jolt to my pleasure centers, I was just watching a meaningless number get higher. Of course, I wasn't completely neglecting my well-being, either, but I was wasting a lot of time that could have been spent on more rewarding pursuits.

I uninstalled the game immediately and gave it away as fast as I could. I didn't give up video games, because not all games are such complete wastes of time, but ever since then I have set the bar very high for any game I play (similar to the post by snprbob86 about strict selection criteria). I'm especially watchful for signs that a game is just an exercise in "repeat simple task, increment arbitrary number."
Because the point of SSH is that it's encrypted and secure, thus not eavesdroppable my any intermediaries.

Edit: To put it other way, this feels like using telnet to connect to a server where you can then ssh where you were going to. And the telnet server recording all traffic that goes through it.
I'd never heard of this until now. Just played it for the past half hour and its an incredibly fun game! Thanks for sharing!

For the first section or so, I didn't think it was all that fun, but after you get into it a bit, it gets pretty good.
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"The stated problem is... what happens after you absorb the salt water" — other comments about this paragraph notwithstanding, it's just not true that simple osmosis from blood to cells is the operative factor in hydration, so the article is totally off-base. You can't talk about hydration without talking about intestinal absorption and concentration of urine in the kidneys.
After I got in a fender bender doing exactly that, I now only look down at my phone when fully stopped at a red light.
The Stalinist Soviet Union that website evokes was in fact a genocidal regime. I don't know what specifically you're talking about; maybe it's some other government.

It would probably be better not to hash this out on HN, though, so I've downmodded the root comment on this thread.