skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You'll be hard-pressed to find an engineer in a commercial studio doing tracking or mixing in anything other than Pro Tools (though they certainly exist)

In the US, maybe. In Europe Cubase and Logic are very prominent in studios.

And even in the US studios, Logic is used a lot alonside Pro Tools, for it's MIDI editing.
What's the purpose of being human, if not to believe your species is morally superior to all others? ;-)

On a serious note, though, I would like to see the human race reach the level of modeling and engineering sophistication to be able to eradicate mosquitoes with no harm to ourselves or the species we depend on. We've basically eradicated numerous microscopic species, and accidentally driven some very large species to extinction; we might as well do it to mosquitoes. Think of how great it would be to eliminate malaria and all other mosquito-borne illnesses.
Julian Assange Film - THE FIFTH ESTATE Movie Trailer Is Now Out
Less than 70 years ago, within the lifetime of a person, the industrialized powers of the world fought a war that killed 60 million people. Absolutely nothing has changed about human nature in that evolutionary blink of an eye. The relative peace of today is just circumstances. That is the reason we have a department of defense rather than a department of peace. At any given moment we are just a set of circumstances away from cataclysm. It's not like the coming century isn't ripe for conflict. Water resources are stretched thin. Development outstrips oil production. Capital is shifting from western countries to Asia. If we don't see a major war between western powers and India/china over access to middle eastern oil I'll be shocked (pleasantly).
Filling a Search Engine Blind Spot
> I'd like to see a C based toolkit, that's made specifically for wrapping it up for other languages (in C++, Ruby, Python, Go etc) and has niceties to help with this.

This is exactly, why GTK+ and essentially the whole GNOME stack is now introspected with GObjectIntrospection. So, there you have it.
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/amendment-re...

Keep an eye on the date of these articles.

Lets be frank here: Wyden has been _ignored_. He's been writing and trying to get the word out publicly for a very long time. The only shame is on you for not knowing Politics, and not supporting Wyden's cause sooner.

It is not too late however to support Wyden or his proposals, if thats what you want. But your bastardized claims of Wyden only demonstrate how ignorant you are of American Politics.

But whatever, you can just go ahead and ignore me. Or perhaps you can listen up to what politicians in Washington say for once.

But if you decide to ignore politicians, and pass judgement upon them anyway, well... that just makes you an ignorant dumbass. So go on and assume everyone is against you on all matters, I'm sure that will play well for your sanity.
i.e. it won't disable the existing pages?
This is my belief.

Spread the password and access details to two people without keeping it yourself. Those two people split their in half without keeping it themselves. The four people who now have the password are the 'kill switch' required to monitor Snowden's location. Snowden has no idea who they are.

Should he be tortured, all he can do is reveal his first two contacts. The torturer will now have to abduct those two people to get the key.

All these second level people know is the two people THEY spoke to. So you need BOTH of the second level to get all four of the third level people.

And then you'll have to abduct another FOUR people to get the key. All before these four people realize Snoden has disappeared.

He knows he can't resist torture. But he doesn't have to. He LITERALLY cannot be coerced.
I'm one of those people who learns by making mistakes (as many of us are), and I make much faster progress if people tell me things are screwed up sooner rather than later.

Granted, not sure I'd tell someone they did a shitty job, but certainly "this work product is not acceptable" is a reasonable thing to say :)
Never ending demand, and practically limitless budget - sounds like the perfect customer.
According to Richard Fisher, the fertility specialist who gave a presentation to my workplace 4x per month is average. According to the chart in the below link, the answer isn't quite so simple. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html
Fisher: http://www.fertilityassociates.co.nz/about-fertility-associa...
Where all ipsums come together: Meet the Ipsums
Words Apple doesn't want you to type
Over at @ http://curvechat.com/ we have are developing custom communication protocols using vetted cryptography practices and collaboration from http://cryptocode.com/about.html

Right now we focus on private solutions but may make the transition to more public options soon.
No less over the top than being called a 'traitor' among other things by the media.
I don't see any contradiction.

Checking if the new features matter to you, and your workflow is not "ego massage".

It's simply being honest about your needs and pragmatic.

The "ego massage" which the parent complaints about is a different thing, namely the: "I'm so pro, but Apple made it easier for amateurs, not 1337 like me, this sucks" kind of drivel.

Notice there was nothing about how it hampers HIS workflow, only high level, zero-content, judgements about it being easier for amateurs, the Drummer feature being toy like, the Garageband-pro meme, etc.

Not to mention that from the whole comment, one can easily deduce he hasn't even tried the software in person.
>but that selfsame centralisation is dangerous and must be closely and jealously guarded.

How exactly?
When it comes to economics, true free markets almost never work.

Not that it proves they work, but when was a true free market ever even tried? Regulation (by public and private institutions), for good and bad, is pervasive; I don't see how could one even set up a free market, regardless of its consequences.
You need to change the legislative branch. If you don't have vague or broad laws it is hard to be interpreted in secret.

Every government program should have precise mission statement, realistic expectation and measurements. And limited lifespan.
Nice initiative...
I think "much better DAW" is sort of glossing over the differences between the two. I wouldn't want to stare at Ableton all day when composing (but I have) because their interface is kind of a mess; I don't really dig the clip metaphor for that. On the other hand, the clip metaphor is great for screwing around, seeing what meshes well, and (obviously) playing live.

Both are very good at only somewhat related tasks. But fanboyism always sucks.
"One reason why one goes to college is to learn how to learn social acclimation around people wealthier than you are, because this is a useful skill in convincing them to give you things that you want."

This is probably one of the hardest (and most valuable) lessons I have learned in college. If you don't take the time to develop your social skills, life is going to kick you in the teeth. Repeatedly.
is there a landing page to follow?

will it work on every device out there?
Curious, what sort of clicks do you get to Live Chat? It seems like a natural progression for mobile devices, but wouldn't most people also want a "Click to Call", since it's a mobile device?
What kind of modules do you mean - there are so many kinds in Javascript?
At latakoo (http://latakoo.com) we're building video codecs with built-in strong encryption, for enterprise use.
Sorry, was on Windows at the time (not on it now), with Chrome.

Sorry for the vagueness!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
Cancer Face - by Paul Wayne-Chambers - Newsvine
Is this a relevant line of argument?

Well, let's refer to your initial claim:

"However, government is a special case: it reserves to itself a monopoly on violence and the ability to set the rules."

Now, either you're tautalogically defining any organization which sets rules and exacts violence in pursuit of its ends as a government (which is a meaningless distinction), or you're making a nonsense argument. Actually, both are nonsense arguments. Note too that I've included a number of other organizations other than state-registered corporations, though I include those.

Yes, historically, companies have acted violently

Sure. Where historically was:

July 6 when Montreal Maine & Atlantic declared total war on the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/15/us-train-lawsuit-i...

April 17, when West Fertilizer Company declared war on West, Texas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...

Ongoing corporate war through the 2000s carried out by the Gulf Cartel subsidiary Los Zetas in Neuvo Lardo, Mexico, with death tolls running to the 100s annually:
http://www.pro8news.com/news/96625619.html

Ongoing petro-religious corporate warfare in Iraq, with a death toll in the 10s to 100s of thousands:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/15/police-a...

May 15,2 2013, Wells Fargo's war against individuals who were not even its mortgage holders:
https://livinglies.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/wells-fargo-wron...

November 25, 2012, war on behalf of American and other clothing manufacturers and retailers against Bangladeshi garment workers:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/asia/bangladesh-factory-...

December 2-3, 1984, war by Union Carbide against the citizens of Bhopal, India:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

All of these are cases in which violence was used by companies directly or through conscious and deliberate disregard for human safety and consequences in the aim of profit. The use of force to secure control or direct gains.

Or perhaps you'd like to address companies such as Blackwater (now Xe), armed affiliates of oil, gas, mineral, and diamond operations, forestry operators, and others, who transact directly in death and force?

The distinction you're drawing simply doesn't exist.
Michael Hastings Cremated, Family Never Requested It
Patterns, random, fast, short, whatever. Most packaged arpeggiators have all sorts of knobs to twist.
History of Emacs ＆ vi Keys (Keyboard Influence on Keybinding Design) (2010)
Please recall what "key thought leaders" were thinking about cholesterol for previous 50 years.
i think most people are unwilling to acknowledge such a problem with their business strategy exists, and if they do acknowledge it, are unwilling or unable to grasp the full extent of the problem. google, like many large organizations, hides malicious actions behind a veil of complexity. "don't be evil" is certainly a matter of perspective.

i will refrain from citing other examples of hiding behind the veil of complexity since i don't want to "poke the bear" :)
I'd happily have nothing germinate near my router if it would just route properly. It updates new firmware every time I reset it. Turns out this can cause problems. Who'd have thought? Thanks Orcon, New Zealand.
That's why I keep advocating that Google, Microsoft, Facebook and the other big companies need to implement end to end encryption/client side encryption for their services - so it can be much easier for hundreds of millions of people to use the services that way, instead of a few of us looking for other services that barely anyone uses.

But even this should be a short term solution. The main solution should be a policy one - repeal the Patriot Act and FAA, and fire the people involved in this.
I'm sort of pissed, as I bought Logic (a personal copy, used to use ones at school when I attended) about six months ago. Spending another $200 now, despite really liking the new features, sucks--I'm an amateur, that double-dip hurts my hobby funds.
No, but maybe your Apple GeForce 5500 graphics drivers and the drivers for the ansible network haven't been backported, so you'd have to run headless and offline. Or in another layer of VM, or two if the VM's virtual hardware is still too new for the old kernel. At some point, you'd just start to believe unseen that the paper's authors were probably right.
I am not saying they are right. I was just adding comments on what the experts in the field are thinking about. Besides, there are some clinical trials ongoing to treat "Brain Diabetes" as a way to fight Al Zheimer but nobody expects much from them, including investors. It's probably not that simple.
There are 10 steps in total: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/ten-steps-to-close-...
Are you familiar with Blackwater?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Baghdad_shootings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
It's not the U.S. Government you really have to worry about. It's Transnational corporations. You pass a law saying that the U.S. Government can't do the NSA firehouse drinking, it stops.

To stop a corporation you have to consider it's relationship with other companies. Can it get the same info by having a subsidiary or partner elsewhere? So then you ban it from receiving such information in the US. So it moves outside the US, and still does it.

And all the time that their vast databases are generating revenue they have a firehouse. Not of data, but of money for lobbyists, campaign contributions, think tanks, advisers to NGOs and international trade groups, and so on.

And it's not enough for you to say no, even if all the above is true. Your friends want to post a pic of you to facebook. Metadata about everyone you know is also metadata about your interactions with them.

Or heck, maybe you want to say no, but you can't. Your company says you have to friend them as part of your contract.

And I am sure that isn't all the scenarios.

Protection from corporations is where the privacy boom is going to be. Privacy will be something you have to afford. There will be free, targeted ad supported services, perhaps even locked down proprietary devices, and they will be lauded for how they help the poor get online.

Oh and once that data is out there, saying it's anonymous but being about to identify you from your browser profile or whatever, it's never going to be deleted.
Never. When i saw the unity interface on couple of years ago, its truel impressive and new kind of UI.
People would change M$ to Ubuntu its quite useful( unity UI)..
I realy love the interface...
Most of the hardcore linux geeks doesn't like that environment.in
future it would be occupied any other interface..
If you just say "intern" the inference is high school or college student. So it is an indirect attack on her credibility. She may not be an authority, but by quoting more of her bio, it at least gives better perspective.
Doesn't this beg the question about larger issues, e.g. NSA man-in-the-middle attacks? I think rsync.net's warrant canary is top-notch and a leading example of a good privacy / transparency policy put into practice, but it's just one piece of a much larger set of strategies, no?

Anyone presenting a silver bullet, much less circumstances where trust of another entity is required, is somewhat dubious.

I think answers to said larger strategies are largely missing and the OP's question is probably speaking to these as of yet outstanding issues.
I'd just like to add that pointing out seemingly mundane things like these are what allowed me to move from engineering into the consulting team at my company (which is what I wanted).

It's worth testing the waters a few times. You'll know pretty quickly if they value your input, and if not you can decide if you want to continue working for them.
I suspect pure methodological one. Theoretical test for biological diagnosis seems very, very weak evidence to me. They are basically comparing two differently educated societies, not two sets of bodies.
An email list is a great idea, but please don't open links in a new tab. Opening a new tab breaks the "back" button, which makes it harder to get back to your page, not easier. If people want to come back to your site they'll come back; trying to force them to keep your site open will not work and will not sell your product.

On a more positive note I liked the excerpts (especially the part on interviewing) and will likely buy the book!
I see. I didn't read it as a back door attack but an injection attack against bad code.
I am talking about wars from one country to another country. Not local wars. You know, the wars that kill vast amounts of people ? Those are not led by corporations. The Real Machine of War is governmental. Look at all the casualties of war around the world and separate the ones linked to private corporations ONLY and the ones linked to political actions. You will find out the later largely outweighs the first.
Just for your information then, "Alzheimer" is a simple name, not a compound one and "Al" here is not a prefix (if anything, it should be broken down into "alz heimer").
Google Maps Finally Lands on the iPad
Ask HN: Best programming analogies?
Sometimes I struggle to understand aspects of a language or even programming principals and, whilst there are lots of great answers on Stack Overflow (and throughout the web), I find the best ones that help me understand are the analogies used.

Here are some that I have found most useful:

* Understanding (C++) pointers with a hotel room, a keycard, a book and a broken contract. - http://stackoverflow.com/a/6445794/1401034

* Branch prediction using a railway junction. - http://stackoverflow.com/a/11227902/1401034

* [Im]mutable objects in Python with pretty ASCII drawings. - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2001-February/003787.html

What are your favorite analogies?
> Read a little history. HE came with a single example, because you ASKED for an example. Read history books on the issue, and you'll find tons of other examples.

You have WAY MORE examples of States leading wars than corporations. Even in recent history. Proves my point.
Perhaps a set of carefully thought out assertions/documentation that suppliers are required to sign to guarantee their services are not monitored. Maybe there is a commercial opportunity in facilitating that.
I'd also love to see some source to get an idea of how this works and what the binding code you end up writing looks like.
How to print PDF Document in C#?
Since Heroku's Ugly Secret I don't trust this company.

http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-l...
Stop using RMagick!
Sad to see the negative comments. The ban on general solicitation was a very serious violation of free speech.

Yes there are frauds and "exploiters" out there, but they are there no matter what. FundersClub is one startup that acts to reduce fraud and exploitation by curating the best startups. Were I an investor, I'd trust that any FC startup has had serious due diligence, not only because the founders are good guys, but because it's good for their business.

PS: congrats Alex and Boris .. "refer" is a brilliant idea.
I would like this as a bumper sticker/answering machine message.

>Ring....

>Ring...

[pickup]

>"Adversary profile precludes this vector"

[/hangup]
That's awesome to hear! I have had to fall back to PayPal for our new US store. Loving the Stripe UK beta!
In order to hire a small team of expert programmers:

1. Your recruiter/interviewer must determine the difference between an expert programmer and a mediocre one

2. The org budget for the position must be banded/capped high enough to attract talent

3. There must be a supply of expert programmers in your locality, who are ALSO interested in working on your project

None of these three are a given for a MegaCorp.
a couple quotes come to mind:

- 1984 - "War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength ,Freedom is Slavery"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
As a Yukon resident, I can safely say the only way to avoid the mosquitos is to hole up in your house, and utilize your arctic entrance as an airlock for when you need to refill your groceries.

This is a guide to entering your house with the airlock system:

Step 0: Open outside door to arctic entrance

Step 1: Run inside with your groceries/supplies

Step 2: Close outside entrance

Step 3: Nuke the arctic entrance, RAID Wasp Killer is the recommended chemical

Step 4: Open inside door and walk the through ``Magic Mesh''[1] to reduce amount of nuke-immune mosquitos entering your house.

Step 5: Go take a shower to ensure your skin won't corrode

I've been using this system for 8 years now, and love it.

Another method I see my neighbours employ, is beekeeping suits laced with uranium. This method is great, because the mosquitos that attempt to land on the suit become fertile 8 out of 10 times.
The suits can be purchased for around $10 outside the local Canadian Tire.

__________

[1] http://img.hisupplier.com/var/userImages/2012-03/23/16422286...
A "snoop free alternative" demands a transparent implementation that can be verified. Otherwise, how can we trust the claims of being "snoop free"?

The extent that we can verify a system is the extent to which we can trust it.

This makes me think that free/open source software solutions are going to become an integral piece of whatever solution such companies are attempting to offer.

Going a bit further on the idea of verification, I'm curious why there aren't any organizations or companies I'm aware of which are dedicated to providing this sort of verification of open source systems out in the wild. Is it just that most of the talent for this capability is sequestered into the infosec consulting market, for example, or does it have to do with the difficulty of actually verifying said systems? Are all of these entities instead focusing on the offensive and just selling off 0day exploits?
Not sure about this. 20% time put some boundaries, and marks that you should be doing something different. It can be typically abused (hey, I'm supposed to have 20% for "other projects", but I have a deadline, so I'll use it for the "regular work"), but at least there is a line in the sand saying: "This is clearly time for OTHER STUFF". Your manager can say to you "hey, it's friday so you should be leaving this alone and do alternative projects"

100% sounds great, but does not define anything, so it's extremely easy to fall into "I have a lot of work, I can move to other stuff when the workload goes down". Of course, workload never goes down...
Dick Cheney was chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company for five years. They made billions of dollars off of the Iraq war alone. A war that we started under fall pretenses. The public was lied to by the Bush administration in order to line the pocket books of major multi-national corporations. You are absolutely delusional if you don't think that corporations sway the government into starting wars.

You should watch the documentary Hubris : Selling the Iraq War. It's on YouTube for free.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmN9VOnXR4
Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance -

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/20/we_do_not_live_in_a
but the best conflicts to get involved in are the ones where nobody will ever win, as evidenced by arguing with stupid people on the internet.
The foolish expend a great deal of energy and time trying to do everything and end up achieving nothing. On the other end of the spectrum, the truly wise don't seem to do much at all and yet achieve whatever they want. This magic is possible, indeed unavoidable, when one is in tune with the Tao and acts without attachments.

From here: http://www.taoism.net/articles/what_tao.htm
If nature is so great, why do I have -2 vision and bad teeth?

I would take the risk to make sure my children do not inherit known bugs.
We have been working on HushTunnel since SOPA.
Then again not such a good idea. The NSA monitors the cloud hosting that the startup's servers are hosted on so they get all the data for free anyway. :-(
True, but for me the issue is that with += I have to double check that it is only adding one (and not skipping any) to understand the loop, where as ++ is something I have seen so many times that my brain reads it in a different way.
As the US is the only country to actually use a nuclear weapon against another, the long-view of the empire's historical narrative would be interesting to see.