skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of trade associations (MPAA, RIAA, IFPI, ESA, CRIA, AJA, BSA, etc) is to avoid collusion while protecting the interest of associated members.

They vary in just how much they really have that aim, though. In some cases they really are organized as a way of protecting collective interests (e.g. the interests of the whole sector) without crossing over into collusion; with other organizations, it comes closer to attempting to collude without being caught. For example, is the purpose of the organization to expand the pie for music sales in general, or is the purpose to keep up profit margins by reducing competition among its members? The RIAA in particular has been caught doing that on numerous occasions. It's lost cases over pretty overt things like price-fixing, and I wouldn't be surprised if it does a lot of less overt things as well (various kinds of signaling and informal agreements to structure operations and campaigns in mutually beneficial ways).

Professional organizations that represent a sector, like the IEEE or ACM, seem to have a somewhat "cleaner" record on really promoting the sector rather than mainly aiming at reducing intra-sector competition.
Actually, it's not. GitLab is self-hosted; GitHub paid plans are not. The self-hosted version of GitHub costs $5000 per year.
I've used Linux, Windows, and Mac laptops over the years. The thing that sells me on getting only Mac Laptops from now on isn't the design, it's the value retention. The retention of value is driven by the design and the demand from Apple fanatics of course, but it means that I can get most of the cost of a new Mac by selling my old one. A new one may be 1300.00, but I can get 700-900.00 for my old one. I am getting a new laptop every three years for 400-600.00.
Re RIAA: I agree. I'm no fan.

But what I said was that the point of trade organizations was to ensure collective rights while avoiding collusion. That is the POINT, that isn't what they always do.

Sometimes they just hide collusion under the guise of avoiding it: hence lobbying.

Also any time you have an organization speaking for many, there are never any "clean" records. IEEE, IETF, ACM all have had their controversies.
Also, camera shake - just look at the screws. I'm amazed that Scoble didn't take the time to use a tripod - the main comparison on display is how steadily he held each phone!
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Haha, that was actually my first thought too when I looked at my pic, which I took months ago. I do now :)
You might want to check your facts. id Software is owned by ZeniMax, which also owns Bethesda.
Citizens' Testing Finds 20 Radioactivity Hot Spots Around Tokyo
Not sure how that link helps, this one might: http://jamesladdcode.com/2011/10/14/playup-tips-for-ios-deve...
I don't understand why you didn't google before your comment. For the search "iPhone private api" we get:

http://fajkowski.com/blog/2009/05/21/clicker-app-rejected-fo...

https://github.com/kennytm/iphone-private-frameworks

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/12/private-iphone-api...

http://www.tipb.com/2010/04/06/ibooks-private-apis/

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/15/apple-relents-and-is-now-allo...

http://gigaom.com/apple/cut-the-drama-people-private-apis-th...
I don't really understand why so many people expects a billion dollar service to be given away free to customers who didn't even know it was a possibility when they bought their equipment.

Why shouldn't all software anyone writes be given away free to anyone who has hardware that can run it?

However, from my experience so far, I suspect there are a number of technical reasons:

1. The microphone quality and position of the user relative to the mic.

2. Service Scaling - it is only just keeping up with the current user load.

3. Optimization - it's only just good enough as it is. I'm pretty sure Apple will be working hard to make it more responsive and more capable. More platforms would divide their resources. If SIRI was mature, this wouldn't be such an issue, but it most certainly is for now.

4. Integration - this is related to point 3. Siri is integrated into the phone well enough to be useful. It's good for reminders, notes, and meetings, plus the odd calculation and find my friends request. It works well enough to make a genuine difference to these kinds of task, but it has a long way to go before it is a universal UI.

Since more people have phones with them all the time, it makes sense that much more of this kind of assistant functionality will be accessible on the phone platform. Therefore, Apple will be focussing on maximizing it's utility for phone use cases first. See my earlier comment on divided resources.
Good enough, thanks. As long as it just works and there are no showstopping bugs I couldn't care less about the eyecandy.
horrible analogy and horrible fanboism
Ask HN: How to get a partner for a startup at a garage project phase?
I work on a private project, a set of tests for polyglots. I plan to commercialize it in the future, but right now it's unclear when this happens. Right now it's a website with a minimum-viable thing almost working. I need someone to work together and give a competent feedback, but this is the most tricky problem for me. I'm turning 30 soon, in the past I had good and not so good projects done ALONE, but those made together have been rare.

I show this thing to my fellow language enthusiasts, they like it, but nobody jumps in to suggest something. I'm writing an email to one of them to ask her for an opinion from the user-perspective.

But it feels quite frustrating that it's so hard to make anyone suggest anything. This has been an issue few years ago when I led a discussion club. Social skills are a hard thing, though, I've read the descriptions of various disorders, but however bad I felt and however much I wanted to have such an excuse, they do not apply to me. Asperger for instance? No. I'm agile (do sports) and see social cues well enough.

Still it seems that I don't give others some kind of value. No matter how long I learn social skills. It's just almost impossible to get people interested unless our interests and intentions are identical.

I need a less technical person, better with design skills or one that would use it heavily.

Who has ever made a non-technical person join a web project?

What do people need to join a project? Do I have to praise their insights? (Well, few do say anything rather than 'cool'.) Offer them something? Ask for an opinion beforehand or pretend to show it spontaneously? Talking about the chances of commercializing it? I'm pretty sure of only one thing: they don't care of programming languages and of what's under the hood.

I'll appreciate if you share your experiences.
The surprising part is that the RIAA is involved in setting copyright law. The surprising part is that the government was working with the RIAA to hide the outcome from public scrutiny.
And you can build such a thing on the sea beach with a plastic bag (which are a plenty on the beaches everywhere in the world, imho).
Yes, and? Pretty much all the 'non-software' stuff you create with some form of electronic device requires software to make it. If there are fewer software writers, there are fewer kinds of software, and less non-software-cration stuff you can do with it.
C'mon.. you have to start somewhere. Do you honestly think that when you reverse engineer a product you end up with a 100% compatible clone on the first release/iteration. Give it some time.

There's no reason to be so negative.
Comment threads where 'pg talks about how he or others decide to make equity investments seem to draw out responses like this one, which all seem to amount to "nuh-uh, it's super hard to get funding".

Well, respectfully, no shit. None of these firms are charities. Every new founding team in the world --- I think literally every one of them --- discovers the seeming chicken/egg problem of traction and money. Think about it; if that problem didn't exist, everyone on HN would have a funded startup.

VC firms will make speculate on a new team if that team has impossible-to-ignore traction. They'll speculate on an unproven business model if the team has an impossible-to-ignore track record. Where are the instances where successful VC has ever speculated on both at the same time?

You lay out a scenario here illustrating that by the time you have enough traction to (you think) satisfy Wilson or Graham, you won't need them anymore. Bully for you! The same thing happened to us, and hundreds of other startups; it's called bootstrapping. If you can bootstrap, you should; you'll keep more control and ownership.

But I should point out that lots and lots of companies that bootstrap themselves to a comfortably thrumming business end up taking VC in the long term, for the same reason a conservative poker player is eventually going to bet heavily on pocket aces. Eventually you come across an opportunity that begs you to scale up quickly and buy market share. Part of the point of bootstrapping is to allow you to be choosy about the hands you play.

In the meantime, stop complaining about investors not giving you the time of day. It's silly. There are things to complain about regarding investors, but not handing free money out to unproven businesses isn't one of them. Investment firms are themselves businesses (they aren't investing their own money!) and their responsibility isn't to you or even the startup system; it's to their LPs.
I agree. Definitely interested in this, but Lynda is generally pretty good. Not always. But I'll be checking them out first.
I thought the same thing. I guess the confusion comes from thinking of the inverse of the function square root instead of the multiplicative inverse of the value of the square root function. Technically I suppose the terminology is a bit hand-wavy, since you could have also been referring to the additive inverse, but I think it's fairly common to talk about "inverses" of members of a field and assume that people know you mean multiplicative inverses. But that's exactly what isn't a safe assumption here, since you could be thinking about a function (which seems like the more natural interpretation), as opposed to a number.
Is online selling broken? ebay doesn't work no more
Is online selling broken? I'm trying to sell my brand-new Toshiba Treca 4gb, 320hd intel i3(2.4ghz)for $750(actual price 1249) on ebay. but i'm getting a lot of suspicious activity, any websites. any ideas.<p>I needed it for a project but the project was scrapped, i have no idea what to do with the two of them.
Any ideas HN???
Because they said the 6 strike plan was "voluntary" on the part of the ISP's, and the Government more than likely forced their hands to accept the deal.
We're working on it

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If you really want to have this argument with me: lets do it privately, my email address is in the profile. I will even invite some economists into the midst for some discussions, and you are welcome to invite whoever you want. I always appreciate counter points, and counter arguments. So I think it will be a very interesting debate. Lets keep it civil.
Then it sounds like someone who was just featured on the TV show 'Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives" and has significant 'traction' growing rapidly would get a VC investment?

In New York, they probably would.
Ubuntu Linux 11.10: Unity comes of age (Review)
This should be part of the #OccupyWallStreet movement, too.
Padfone MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I love it how you linked to beej's guide, nehe and physx. Except for the PhysX link its like its 1999 all over again!

To avoid getting down voted here are what I would call modern, or at least more comprehensive versions of those links.

http://www.unity3d.com
http://www.udk.com
http://mycryengine.com

If you really want to role your own engine then...

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/directx/
http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
http://www.jenkinssoftware.com/
http://bulletphysics.org

Although a handful of links can't sum up the amount of work, knowledge and tech required to build something resembling a modern 3D game engine.
Does this mean the community can finally add support to epub books?
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You're just redefining terms without adding anything new.

Parent's question is: what if people are stated, and like OP, they don't want different kinds of food, or anything else? What if, like OP, they're happy consuming only a small part of what can be produced by all those entrepreneurs?
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If you haven't played them, the Uncharted series fits your criteria rather well.
But you still need "enough to get by", and OP's living might not reach that if everyone was following it. What then?
Nice writeup and valuable experience. Just curious why no extra money was spent? Spinning up more EC2 instances costs money, right?
You have successfully argued that the data is too valuable to purge. You haven't argued that it's not worth backing up. In this case, it sounds like it should be stored in Documents and backed up.

(Are you the original article's author? If so, sorry I misunderstood the lifetime of your mapping data.)
Did you bother reading the article?

> Alas, this article is not remotely accurate.

I'd like you to qualify this. "Not remotely accurate." Do you suggest sea water is a remedy for dehydration. Or are you suggesting osmosis doesn't occur across cell membranes. Or maybe you're disputing the process of osmosis altogether and the transfer between varying salinities. Which one is it exactly?

The article is talking about the dangers of drinking sea water when severely dehydrated if stranded on the coast or at sea. You can't extrapolate the sodium in Gatorade to drinking straight sea water. That's not only haphazard, but completely irresponsible considering we're discussing health and survival.

Also, the images depict cells all over the body; not just in the small intestine and certainly not villi.

Sure, this isn't the most robust explanation of a bodily function. This is an expedition travel website. It's not the Journal of Medical Science. The purpose of the article is to stop people drinking sea water as a remedy for dehydration. As some people have mentioned, small controlled quantities may help. But when you're that delirious, I can't help but think even having that thought in your mind would cause more harm than good.
The default should be max intensity, spawn, exposure, noise, and fuzz. Then it is pretty obvious and immediate something is happening.
Ask HN: What would happen if someone gave every American $1 million
This question came up at lunch with my wife. We were talking about the redistribution of wealth, and she wondered aloud what would happen if someone were to give every American $1 million. I'm not sure if there is even that amount of money available in the entire economy, but if it were possible, I figured that a few would save it, a few would pay off debt, but the vast majority would go on a spending spree. With the median salary being $50,000, that is enough money for most people to quit their jobs for the next 20 years, at least in theory. Then, they would have plenty of time to spend their newfound wealth acquiring things. However, with so much money floating around in the economy, inflation would get out of control, so prices would rise to consume that money as fast as people could spend it. At the same time, salaries would have to rise because with everyone having, in effect, FU money, no one would want to do most jobs unless they paid very well or provided some other sense of satisfaction (I can't picture janitors or dishwashers wanting to work if they didn't have to). Eventually, however, with inflation having eaten up most of the value of all that easy money, people would have to go back to work (even at the higher salaries) to pay for everything (at the higher prices). I think in the end, after a period of chaos, we'd be back where we started. How do you think things would play out?
Go find a copy of Thinking in C++ by bruce eckel. He has a free version of it online (also volume two about the standard library).

The book is getting old but I still find it valuable and he builds up from C and teaches a whole lot more of the gotchas than this article does.
> I'm disappointed that the Government is working so closely with special interests like the RIAA to set legislation.

If you're disappointed about the above just wait until you read about the blank CD tax which you pay every time you buy a blank CD. A federally mandated tax that goes directly to a private corporation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
Call of Duty is pretty good and also idtech3 based ;) Of course the IW engine has had years of work put into it to the point where it could be considered a different engine, even though the core code base is still the same.
It was absolutely the case in the 1990s that much of the government actively retarded crypto deployment. The whole ITAR/export control thing (40 bit as a compromise) was a HUGE factor in keeping crypto out by default. Then there was the clipper thing and proposals for key escrow. And, A5 on GSM being weak.

Outside of payments, where the government and industry have pushed for strong integrity and authentication (although not really confidentiality), government and big corps have hindered the deployment of crypto.

There has been some improvement in the past decade or so, at least in other regulated areas, both in regulation and in industry self-regulation/compliance standards.

I think the majority of the reason cryptography isn't more widely deployed is that it's 1) hard to do well and 2) most people writing applications have a hard enough time getting a non-encrypted form working and 3) few people make it a requirement as a customer. However, government has definitely hindered ubiquitous crypto deployment.
The other thing to do is to specify your canonical page so search engines know to use the www subdomain:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-y...
I agree, we'd be back where we started.
The 4S is was entirely a software update from a features perspective. The article definitely lends more credence to this argument, because Apple said that the Siri was a 4S only feature. The biggest announcement that Apple made, in my mind, is the fact that the iPhone 3 is now free with contract.
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There's a book for that:

http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/084...

Well, this book is actually about the idea of giving government payments (annual "welfare") to ALL Americans, and what that might involve. The author points out that the total cost of all transfer payments in the United States economy is coming closer and closer to providing basic subsistence to every American.
Microsoft Security Essentials basically kills an entire industry (antivirus), however you can't really claim that scalp as it's really patching a hole in their OS security, something they should be doing for a professional product.

Recently on HN there was a post saying that you shouldn't chase anything obvious and generic without expecting it to get 'filled in'. A cloud service for audio? Yep, when the big players get around to it, you're out. An imaging collation app for dentists? The big players are not going to do that.
The casino industry has proven that wasting one's life on stupid parasitic games can be an enduring pastime.
Tor is effectively blocked in China. I use SSH tunnel to bypass the firewall, it seems like the best option available to do that: it's fast and easy to setup (at least on my linux pc). Also, it doesn't require 15k$ to go :-D
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Their attitude towards the game industry in general. They have awesome developers who continue to make some of my favorite games. Unfortunately the people who manage the company don't understand the industry. They routinely make stupid trollish decisions. Here are a few examples.

- They signed a contract with Interplay, allowing the original creators of Fallout to make an MMO based on the Fallout franchise. As soon as the deal was inked, Bethesda regretted it and proceeded to do everything they could to delay the game's release. Then they cited the fact that Interplay promised to have the game finished by a certain date and used this as a basis for suing them.

- They tried to claim in court that the original creators of Fallout entered into a licensing agreement with the new owners not to make a game based on Fallout, but a completely different game having nothing to do with the franchise that just so happens to use the exact same name.

- As stated above, they are not allowing Id software to license their engine to anyone that doesn't publish their game through Bethesda. This is idiotic because as I stated above, the only thing that Id software is known for these days is for creating awesome 3d engines. Their games just aren't as good as they used to be.

- They are trying to claim that any games using the words "elder", or "scrolls" are deliberate violations of their intellectual property rights. Notch's game "scrolls" isn't even a competitor to anything Bethesda is working on, yet they are trying to sue a small developer out of existence.

- They claim that their game "The Elder Scrolls" is commonly known by it's fan base as "scrolls." This is a load of crap and I'm pretty sure that practically no one is referring to any of their games as "scrolls." The PC community commonly refers to the franchise as TES (The Elder Scrolls) and if they ever refer to it as anything else, it is normally by the episode's name (Daggerfall, Skyrim, etc.)

Disclaimer: I don't play Minecraft and I could care less about Scrolls. I just dislike it when software companies adopt selfish, cowardly practices in order to stifle innovation.
Wrong I am. Clicking and dragging as others hint at above DOES work with this configuration.

Nice.
Please stop blogging and start reading about how to construct an application properly.
http://pragmaticlab.com/trainers/

Portfolio is pretty impressive.
Who buys CDs? I think you're stuck in another decade.
The next step after ensuring you're doing the basics (cdn, minimizing data over the wire, etc) for us was to throw the entire site behind varnish. Set a "don't cache" cookie if users login, add a comment, etc. so that their changes are visible immediately.

We took a slow site running on hardware, put it on EC2 (slower hardware obviously), and with varnish are saving about 60% cost of hosting, and decreased page load time on some of the popular pages by upwards of 50%, all for minimal engineering effort.
Most organisms play multiple roles, too.
It's just that the title implies that it's been ported in a working fashion.
Have you ever lost your code before?
1. It's not just CDs. While the specific laws vary Country-by-Country, the gist of it is that anything that can store music is open to this tax.

2. The crimes committed so far should not be forgiven/forgotten just because we now have cloud storage and CD sales are going down.

In Canada alone they've already collected a cool quarter billion due to this: http://cpcc.ca/english/finHighlights.htm
If you champion a theory and it gets disproved, you have some explaining to do.

Actually, it's okay to have a theory that gets disproved. That's how the process is supposed to work.
Sitting in tents and blocking traffic doesn't help here.