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To me it sounds as if the reason for the music not sounding like total crap is, that the author uses pentatonic scales, which are also used in improvisations. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentatonic_scale)

Every time I read about the X-th "clone with Dropbox's functionality" I wonder where it will store its files. How many of the potential users have access to online storage they really control themselves? Instead of having the files on Dropbox they end up on AWS or the like. Thats because they try to copy Dropbox down to the flaw, that it doesn't encrypt files on the serverside.

For me, any solution would have to include the capability to upload only encrypted files to the server. I know of the duplicity project, which does that for simple, manually triggered backups, but which once caused me headaches to get the data back from partially corrupted files.

Chris: Y U no tell the idea?

For me, this issue again shows the devastating state in which the whole SSL system is in. My browser (and therefore myself) has to trust unknown agencies with totally intransparent policies. The current state of google and mozilla releasing patches and fixes to the already broken system makes it only look worse to me.

For Ubuntu (and probably most of the other distros) theres a keyboard layout switcher. I'm sure there's something similar for windows and almost every browser. You can use those extensions to rapidly switch to qwerty layout when needed.

Hehe... honestly I'm even less sneaky and didn't realize that comment upvotes give you karma as well. Now I'll have to craft more submissions of this kind (e.g. "Should larelli get the karma? Yes/No?").

Hah, indeed. I thought of that fact myself as soon as I had created the vote. However I remembered that there have been votes about the upvote-count being reimplemented since it has been turned of, so I hoped there would be a upvote-count for topics starting with "Ask HN". Obviously not. :(

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What are those crazy characters under your comment?

What he wanted to point to with the twitter stats is the concept of exponential growth of economic (and most other complex) systems.

The so called "lobby organization" says on their website "we are the web" - a statement which usually pretty much disqualifies one from speaking for anyone but themselves.

I knew most of them but not all. However as he targets OSX users, I suspect many of the programs are unknown to them.

Y U no cache the results?

I didn't know that as well, but it's a nice feature. More than once i later wished i had kept some bookmark of stories i found via HN. Now i'll just upvote more and save all the precious bits.

A login box on the frontpage. When submitting a login-protected request like an upvote, I get redirected. If there was a (potentially hidden) login box somewhere on the page (connected via AJAX), then I could just hit the SecureLogin extension's button on my firefox and be logged in.

(See: I typed this, clicked "add" and was redirected to the login page. :))

I tried running the code on Pigeon Hole Problems, but it crashed. :(

And it wasn't incorrect either. -um is the ending for neutrums (actually neutra) and -a is the plural thereof.

I added the file to my torrent tool, but the only seeder online (you) somehow won't start to transfer the file.

I've thought about that as well. Could you give some details on the topology used? Did you run unison in automatic mode via cron?