skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at MusicBrainz Picard. They have a massive community database with audio fingerprinting.

It's not %100 though so you do have to do a quick verification that it got the right one (some tracks can end up on compilation discs). Normally a normal lookup is better/quicker than the fingerprinting.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard
The State is the one that must have no expectations of privacy and in fact be held to rigorous transparency an independent audit, not the other way around.

Like in software, security that relies on closed source is in fact more vulnerable.
I'm wondering how RRDNS compares to Unbound (unbound.net) ?
Almost every country is covered, very interesting data, You can follow up who is connected to what.
And timetable provides very interesting picture how countries under imminent treat imports arms.
It's an attempt, but I suspect one which moves it in the opposite direction to what he intends.
My first move would be to work towards a niche. Smaller but more loyal user base. I've only used Albumatic myself and loved to use it with a couple of nights out with my friends. I'd still consider setting up an Albumatic album instead of Facebook because the standalone app was a great experience.

Second would be to focus on other social networks rather than Facebook, probably Social Networks in Asia and other parts in the world.
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http://skunk.marcus-povey.co.uk/debogotron/?url=http://www.t...

:)
"Some really exciting stuff I have come aware of: Timesharing, the internet, Smalltalk, Lisp, designing hardware for software, different methods of programming, tools to enhance our understanding of science."

On the timescale of human endeavor, those ideas, like the idea of computer science itself, are all new. But even though old on a relative scale, there is nothing wrong with pursuing an interest in them - lambda calculus, information theory, etc. don't rust as they age. Indeed, what makes many of those computer science ideas interesting is that they are still applicable and relevant today.
One of the reasons they originally chose PowerDNS was that "it seamlessly allowed us to add new records without rebooting."

Can someone explain? What DNS server requires a reboot (or even restart) instead of a simple reload?
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Ask HN: Anyone out there using Developer Anarchy / Micro-services?
I am interested in this "post-agile" methodology. Well idea rather than methodology.
And I am wondering if anyone here has experience, good or bad, of the idea of, well, putting developers in charge?
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> What decisions have been overturned by community feedback?

A few, AFAICS.

E.g. Gnome 3.10 is returning to a conventional multi-option power dialogue box[1], after the merging of 'suspend' & 'power off' into one menu item was roundly rejected by everyone (the extension giving them back as separate options is the 3rd most downloaded of all time on extensions.gnome.org).

Most obviously, Gnome 3.8's 'classic mode' (which is just a collection of extensions which replicate gnome 2 interaction models) wouldn't exist without community feedback (possibly combined with pressure from RH with an eye on conservative RHEL customers).

[1] https://raw.github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/maste... (feature page: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features/SystemStatusM... )
The benefits of meditation (and any potential problems) do not result in permanent physiological changes. It's like makeup that purports to reduce the signs of aging - it only works if you keep applying it.
hm, why not just

"+P

?
Ah, the beta presupposition:
SQLite version 3.8.0 is actually one of the most heavily tested SQLite releases ever. Thousands and thousands of beta copies have be downloaded, and presumably tested...
If you haven't reached traction already then you might as well pivot. FB has a huge advantage hete
Title is misleading. The article clearly states that you cannot add any washing solution. So you cannot clean your plates, at the same time.
I did not put any links in the text as I think HN Bot blitzed it the last time I asked. But if you google Fred George you should see a couple of good YouTube introductions
Actually, I rather like Gnome as evident in the version that came with Gnome Ubuntu 13.04, but that is besides the point.

RHEL 7 will ship with a Gnome desktop on desktop clients, and whatever Red Hat release will be cloned into CentOS, Scientific Linux and Springfield Linux. That, I gather, in total, is rather a large number of screens. The users of those screens in various organisations will not be able to install a different DE as they (may) not have admin rights and (may) not have access to repositories with alternative DEs available. Red Hat have already suggested that they will be releasing the RHEL 7 desktop with gnome classic as the default to minimise training costs.

If anyone here knows of a RHEL type managed system with a large number of screens, it would be interesting to see how RHEL 7 is accepted over the next few years (of course, they may decide not to upgrade until RHEL6 is EoL).
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First, I would focus on privacy. Second, on specific photo tools that Facebook isn't going to offer. Make sure that people can easily sign up during a party or an event at which a group of people is taking pictures and want to share them (afterwards). Make 'joining' an album free and let the 'album owner' pay.
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On first sight it resembled Python, while a second look revealed lots of Pascal legacy... Really what's the deal-maker?
Maybe I'm lost on the service, but why would anyone expect privacy from Twitter? After all, any company can open their wallets and get the firehose from Twitter in realtime. Why would the NSA be barred from that?
No. A work around would have to entirely remove the need for secret information.
Transparent top bar is very annoying :(
And I find these "innovation" mostly solving problems that didn't have to exist.
If you continue to read, though:

Instead of using aluminum foil, as many websites recommend, you should put the food into airtight canning jars or food vacuum bags. Then the hot water doesn't touch the food. So you can add soap to the cycle and really clean your dishes while poaching dinner.
A Chargen-based DDoS? Chargen is still a thing?
Here's the comment by the judge's former convict:

http://herculesandtheumpire.com/2013/08/08/shon-hopwood-and-...

I feel like I'm in some fantasy alternate reality, where prison rehabilitation really works, and where the Internet is used for polite, intelligent, and uplifting discussion.
We know we have a problem when transparency is largely demonized. Allegations of "terrorism" seems to be bringing much benefit to government. I saw a movie recently from the 1980's called "They Live!" I noticed that in the movie the word terrorism, allegations of terrorism or terrorists toward those who opposed them, was the weapon of control of the disguised, camelion totalitarian regime in power. Only those with special glasses could see them. It would seem as if this would be the playbook in protecting criminal government activity done under the auspices of law. Al Capone would have drooled for such type of power.

Top Secret should not be an excuse to undermine the law, the rights of individuals, and the Constitution of the United States. Those who witness such crimes have the duty to come forward to the public. By keeping quiet and turning a blind eye to crime, one partners with it.

Crime grows in the dark while the light of day exposes it. Freedom requires transparency. A war on whistle-blowers is really a type of barometer as to the amount of freedom that we really have.
Makes you wonder if any politicians data was part of Snowden's haul.

It's safe to assume that most (every?) politicians data is part of NSA's haul. Add journalists.

I find the debate about surveillance terribly naive. Politicians get corrupted as soon as there's no one closely looking.

Creating such a surveillance and secret-keeping mammoth is calling for massive corruption. And this thing has been running for years.
You're probably thinking of NSD, not unbound. RRDNS is an authoritative DNS server.

http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/
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I liked spatial nautilus, it endorsed KISS. Other operating systems that had the same basic interface include classic Mac OS and Windows 95. Both of them were easy to use as well (until they crashed) though the latter messed up by having a virtual desktop folder become the root of a tree with more virtual folders that didn't have anything to do with filesystems (they kept going downhill ever since).
> Elon proposed vertical/wing doors on the pods, however, if there were an emergency evacuation of the pod while still in the tube, these doors would not be able to open. So I propose using sliding doors on the pods.

Yes but then once the door is open, where would you go ?
Thoughts on adding secondary or tertiary color selector?
Reduce the noise. You will be able to work on your ideas more effectively. Scan HN a few times a day. Try it out.
Yes, that the NSA has it is fairly obvious at this point but the question is whether or not Snowden took it. Is there any indication that he did?
At Huddle, in the UK, we don't even need this (NHS. No, I don't want to argue about this.) but we have both health insurance and death-in-service coverage for families.

It's made a big difference to our general peace-of-mind, and there are a bunch of other things that go along with it to encourage fitness. We're all a lot fitter than we were before, and since the team is more family-oriented than we were when the company started, death-in-service coverage is very welcome.
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Well, oversight might lead to a restriction of unchecked governmental power, which would reduce their ability to combat terrorism.
yes you are right, I have unconsiuosly narrowed my thinking here (considered only Prism related situations).
To be fair, even the comment by Hopwood reenforces the point
(...which is why the national recidivism rate hovers at 66%....It’s very difficult to “seize the day” in prison and use every day to prepare for release when you staring at a 10- or 20-year sentence in the face) that prison rehab doesnt really work.

The internet is more likely to be used for polite, intelligent, and uplifting discussion than for the American prison systems to be used justly.
Perhaps.

Ironically I have previously raised the Iran coup on HN, but someone appeared to disagree that it was sponsored by the CIA (this was prior to the release of documents proving it though): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779374
And then spend the rest of the day configuring it to match the habits acquired with whatever desktop environment that was used before installing Xfce.
Back in the sands in the time Sun also did this with Java. IIRC the associated license was a great cause of pain for open implementations of the JVM, since without passing the suite you couldn't call yourself Java, and with passing the suite (insert some horrible restriction here I forget)
I was soooo tempted to troll that comment :-)

I am struck however by the agreement by the judge and the ex-robber that 5 years is about the max you should give if hoping to reform someone.

> In the “for what it is worth” category, I have thought
> for a long time that 60 months was about the maximum
> sentence one should impose if you were were solely hoping
> to make a positive impact on the prisoner.

It would be interesting if we genuinely tried prison as a reform institution. Stop the violence, stop the drugs, provide real meaningful work, and ... err.
I'm not happy hearing the unqualified statement "we need secrecy" being banded around without any opposition.
That's not the title.

The title is "Shon Hopwood and Kopf's terrible sentencing instincts".

Choice quote: "Hopwood proves that my sentencing instincts suck. When I sent him to prison, I would have bet the farm and all the animals that Hopwood would fail miserably as a productive citizen when he finally got out of prison. My gut told me that Hopwood was a punk–all mouth, and very little else. My viscera was wrong."

That's quite a stand-up thing to write.
What do you mean "not that secure either"? 8 random upper-lower-numeric characters are 47.6 bits of entropy, that is 47.8. I'd say that's decently secure, and the suggestion that you bcrypt your username with the site's domain for a salt is pretty much the definition of security through obscurity, like the other commenter said.

Please don't discourage good practices. Four random words is a lot better than "password123", though it would still take 1.5 day to crack it if it were stored as an MD5 hash. Six words would take 65 years at 1ghash/sec, which is pretty damn good, and better than a 12-char random password. 5 words would take 16 years, which seems like a pretty good compromise.

EDIT: Although, I don't like straight-up Shannon entropy as a measure of password strength.
This. The "need" for secret information frequently means covering up for whatever rotten thing the government is doing somewhere. Decades later, you get to see the declassified documents, and you can see why the criminals of the time wanted it all kept a "secret".
It also can't open two documents with the same filename in different directories, which comes up a lot more often in my experience...
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It doesn't work when the attacker knows you use this scheme, your username and the site's domain. There's no secret in that scheme, therefore it's pretty much the exact definition of security through obscurity. Add a password to it, though, and you pretty much have SuperGenPass.
"I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when somebody possesses material which is secret without having authority."

I think there is going to have to be a look at what happens when someone with a huge blindspot implies we should make a law about something they clearly don't understand.
It is not a buffer as such. Once the application holding the primary selection quits, you can't get the selected text, it doesn't exist anymore in any way. It doesn't get stored. In fact, you're just telling your application which content should it provide, when asked for the selection (not that it couldn't provide anything it likes).

Clipboard selection gets copied to a clipboard application and is accessible as long as you don't overwrite it (or even then, if you have more sophisticated clipboard app).
I worked in two different restaurants in the early 90s where this was the method used to bake potatoes. I have no idea if it was ever common.
http://technical.io/ even managed to run Node.JS on a Cortex-M3, but in the deeply-embedded world where performance/$ and real-time constraints matters, having a always-GC system like Golang (especially considering it's designed for cached cores) doesn't sound very promising.

However I did look Golang because it makes concurrency (quite important in embedded programming) easy. Now with Rust...
Your interpretation is what I meant.
I'm surprised they don't use App.net as a base.
So how about PHP having two separate error handling mechanisms for no good reason?
I don't think I've ever had my rights routinely violated by prostitutes or newspaper editorialists.
Wow. That's pretty ignorant. I didn't even think anybody would still try to support that side of the issue, the horse was beaten to death and buried long ago. Trying to revive it likely won't work :)
Look ma, no mouse Social media keyboard shortcuts you should know
2 doesn't really matter because other desktops might not want this at all. If they do, someone should make an effort to create a freedesktop.org standard codifying the (shared) behaviour in an agnostic manner. Can happen, but if you want to run a KDE program in Gnome you're bound to see inconsistencies all over the place. Both of them think their way is best.
Imagine, if you will, that Gnome developers had control over keyboards. The first key to be removed would be sysreq, then scroll-lock, and break. And it was dubbed Keyboard 2.0

In Keyboard 2.1, the caps lock key was removed as you can use the shift key. The Windows key was surplus to requirements, there's a perfectly good alt key.

Fast forward to Keyboard 3.0. There is no longer a control key (hold down alt for 2 seconds!), numlock is gone (the top row has numbers), cursor keys gone (you can use a mouse to move around).

In Keyboard 3.1 they removed the shift key as stylistically capitals aren't necessary.

in keyboard 3.2 they removed the comma and semicolon. these really aren't necessary as you don't need to pause when reading.

in keyboard 3.3 there is no need for single quotes because you should not use contractions. that just causes confusion and besides the amount of debates and derision around it were getting ridiculous. justification: world peace and an end to grammar nazis.

in keyboard 35 they are seriously considering removing the enter key the exclamation mark and any characters that require umlauts also they have removed the full stop because ideas dont exist in a vacuum so why should sentences as these are constructs of a narrow mind not to mention this will help with a cleaner text rendering codebase
Shared Albums for everyone, not just for Facebook user.
Reasons for why Moot is a hosted solution: https://moot.it/docs/technology.html#distributed-service
How about replacing it with 'privacy'? We all need privacy and politicians are not an exception.
Everybody got excited about the foreign accent thing, but my favorite quote was actually "it's easier to be an investor than it is to start a company". So very true. I just launched an incubator, and I've been telling VCs to drop the attitude.
Most mice I've used require a substantial amount of pressure on the scroll wheel in order to depress it and count as a click. Additionally, there's a noticeable (both tactile and audible) response when a click on the scroll wheel happens.

If the mice you're trying don't have those, and it's very easy for you to inadvertently press the middle button, then that does seem like a pretty major design flaw. If you're always buying mice from the same manufacturer, perhaps investigating a different brand is in order?

If getting better-designed hardware isn't an option, then I guess the alternatives would be improving your finger control so that you don't accidentally click the button while scrolling, or disabling it in software so that it doesn't matter. Honestly though disabling it and missing out on that functionality entirely seems like the worst of those choices.
The root cause of all of this is really simple - our definition of terrorism, and the fact that we are at war with it. The solution is unfavorably not simple.

First thing's first, we need to redefine what constitutes terrorism, otherwise this situation will only get worse.
You really think that average users use the keyboard shortcuts? I'd wager they use the menus or icons. Chorded keyboard shortcuts are not that easy, especially for novices.

I wonder how you copy and paste with a touch device? And how easy it is.
I believe the title is highlighting something most folk will miss. Hopwood and Kopf have a fascinating back-and-forth in the comments section.

Whilst the article itself is a good read, the comments (which I would have otherwise skipped) are fascinating.
The title refers to the bank robber and judge both appearing in the comments section.
> some fantasy alternate reality, where prison rehabilitation really works

Hopwood specifically notes — in his second paragraph — that in his experience prison (in the US where he was) does not rehabilitate and that the longer the sentence the lower the chances:

> And to answer Russ’s question, as far as the length of sentencing, I think it had little effect on my rehabilitation. Prison is not the place for personal growth. Very few people come out of it for the better. From my experience, sentences over 5 years do little to help society or the prisoner. Five years is about the maximum amount of time for someone to “get it” and change and create a different life. More than that, and prisoners feel hopelessness and they think “why bother, I just need to get through this and go home.” It’s very difficult to “seize the day” in prison and use every day to prepare for release when you staring at a 10- or 20-year sentence in the face. And like I said, prisons are not designed with rehabilitation in mind. It’s almost solely about incapacitation, which is why the national recidivism rate hovers at 66%.

(emphasis mine)

As far as he's concerned, his rehabilitation are thanks to personal maturation/growth and an excellent support network (family and now-wife), which he was able to use thanks to a "fairly short" sentence. He also links to an article putting his sentence in perspective: he got 12 years (which I don't find short) but notes an other guy sentenced for similar crimes at a similar age got 213 years (the main difference being the other guy was armed, and got hit by the related minimum sentences).
He is right about one thing: times are changing and our institutions need to change too.

There are things considered to be "tenants of democracy." Press freedoms (independence, access, source anonymity) political rights (secret ballots, right to organize, rights to protest). People actively claiming those rights is seen as a sign of health for democracy. If a government is harassing journalists, finding out people's vote or preventing political protests we immediately see this as an attack on democracy. These are protected by public opinion (formed over generations), courts and basic/fundamental/constitutional laws, usually old ones. They are not protected by governments.

If the definition of "leak" or whistleblower is left to governments (pretty much any current government in the world), they will define them as some variant of "traitor" or "terrorist."

In order for a distinction to be made between someone who makes information available to The People and someone who make information available to The Enemy, courts need to be involved. They need to have basic laws to lean on.

BTW, I think that distinction is incredibly clear. All the cases under discussion made information available to the US public (and in some cases the subjects of other governments). They were primarily of interest to the US public. I believe independent courts would be able to make that distinction easily.
I think the title was submitted as it was to draw light to the fact that Shon Hopwood and Kopf actually have a debate in the comments section underneath the main article. Something most people would gloss over.
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For me it's one of Linux's killer features. When I program I use it a lot. It's much more comfortable than selecting with the mouse, pressing Ctrl+C, clicking on the destination and pressing Ctrl+V.
Geez, I use it all the time. I use it so much it's like breathing, I don't even think about it. In fact it's such a part of my way of working that I didn't realize that's what the article was talking about.

Double left-click and it's immediately in the buffer, because why else would you double click text? Middle click and you're done. Easy peasy, and I would hoist the black flag and start slitting throats if it disappeared.

Fortunately for me I use LXDE, where they seem to have resisted making a career out of churn. I really don't care what's in front of me except for what I'm working on, and I don't want to be aware of my DE. To me it's like adding features to a coffee cup. Once you're drinking coffee why would you care at all, as long as the handle still worked.
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Wasn't he running around with his bag in that airport full of people before he got to the security check?