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I'm another long-time winamp user. I got stuck on 2.91, never needed to update since it worked perfectly. The biggest reason why I never switched to another player (aside from all of them having zero features that interested me) is that the plugin system was extremely easy to use and had a community of devoted developers. I can reproduce like 20 or so different formats that the "naked" winamp cannot (mostly console chiptunes, like .vgm, .spc or .psf). I know that other players support those plugins, but for me, there's simply no need to switch. There's nothing I miss.

I strongly associate winamp with the early days of P2P, when I was just a teen and got fascinated by the possibility of, at last, getting (at 5k/s; way better than nothing) all those songs from a foreign music TV channel that never played in the local radios... and using Winamp to play them. But it's not just nostalgia: what makes Winamp such a great piece of software is that I still use it every day and it doesn't show its age.
I second the recommendation for Beyerdynamic's DT-770. They are standard equipment in recording studios because of their superb sound, good isolation (they are what's called a closed design) and ruggedness. You can also get a lot of replacement parts, should they break (I doubt that they will in normal office use). I wear glasses and the "part of the glasses that goes to the ear" [what's that called?] fits below the earpads easily.

One word of caution though: They are available with three distinct impedances (32Ω, 80Ω, 250Ω), and for usage with notebooks or an iPad I recommend the 32Ω version which is suitable for devices that have limited voltage available.

I own the 250Ω version and for comfortable listening levels on my mobile phone (Samsung G S2) I have to crank up the volume all to the maximum. Of course that could also be considered a hearing-saving pressure level limit ;-).
I am on this operations team; we are a Go consultancy. Glad to see someone is interested in what we are doing.
You have it completely backwards. Private property itself can't exist without the use of force and the state. If you abolish the state, you abolish private property.

Let's say you're renting a house from some landlord. You live in this house, so it should be yours, right? The landlord already has another house that they live in. But it's not yours, it's the landlord's. Why is it the landlord's? Because if you stop paying rent, they can kick you out. How? Ultimately, by using the force of the state to remove you. If you get abolish private property (i.e., the state), then there is no “force” that makes the house the landlord's. It simply becomes your house.

Abolishing private property doesn't mean getting individuals to “give up” their property, it means people can no longer use force to claim ownership over that which they do not use.
Can someone comment on how this compares with matplotlib?
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If you want something more recent, along with Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and Ericsson, they are one of the backers of Rockstar, which is currently suing Google using old Nortel software patents that claim the concept of matching internet search terms to advertising.
I installed it. The "forgot password" feature doesn't work, so after I finally guessed my password I noticed that it was showing the text I entered in the password field in plain text. I want to go back and see if I can reproduce this, but I can't find an option to sign out of the app anywhere.
Premium content my peep

If someone els is running software on your system, it's not your system anymore.
AOL shuts down Winamp
The troublesome thing is when unpredictable things happen far outside the boundaries of the expected battlespace.

Who would have guessed that a small band of Islamic fundamentalists would

- overstay their (legal) visas

- do some flight training

- hijack commercial aircraft to use as giant suicide bombs

In hindsight, it looks logical, but on Sept 10, 2001, who was thinking of this?
Interesting, this is for our second phase then (we're launching soon, you'll know about it). We'll definitely look into it if we can provide an interface for bokeh as well then. Currently we're transforming user provided sheets (csv etc.) into json and tying them into viz on client side.
Thanks for answer.
I agree with you about the state being given a free pass on violence and coercion, as well as some corporations having done the same. What you failed to mention is that unions have abused many of their members, used violence against replacement workers, and destroyed the property of their employers.

This is not an issue of unions vs. corporations vs. states; it is the fundamental problem with collectivism, which frequently uses coercion as a means to achieve power or theft.
+1 for MediaMonkey, been using it for 5+ years.
Sweet, finally a Hacker News post that features an actual engineer!
Winamp has pretty much been Adware since Nullsoft was bought by AOL. It takes time to get an old proprietary codebase into a state where it can be released publicly. It could contain poor written code, rude comments, adware, phoning home, GPL or patent violations, secret RIAA backdoors, etc.
I hate code interviews and hope that they won't exist in the future.
how naive. were it not for government, in the end monopolies would just resort to threats of violence to achieve the same result. as distasteful (and perhaps inevitable) regulatory capture is, at least it provides a non-violent outlet to squash the competition... until the revolution that is.
For those who are shaking their heads at the idea of their collection fitting on dropbox, or listening to single tracks of whatever is on Spotify, I recommend Subsonic. I stream my whole collection from my home connection to my phone.

http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
I'm perfectly happy to operate under a definition of "innovation" in which Facebook is considered innovative alongside Survivor and American Idol. But I don't think that was the operative definition of the person I was replying to, or the definition that is usually intended when talking about how patents are stifling innovation.
Mr. Newton. Why is that the question? What does who I am have to do with what I wrote?

Now, if you'd like to know who I am, I'll be glad to tell you. I've been writing code since 1970. I started on PDP/8s and PDP/11s. I have written BAL, COBOL, Fortran, PL/1, C, C++, Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Clojure, and a bunch of other language I can't remember. I spent many years writing embedded software in 8080 assembler, to control telecommunications micr-controllers. I spent a year and a half working at Rational with Grady Booch on the first two releases of Rose (for my sins). I have written five books on software development and have edited two more. I called the meeting that founded the Agile movement, and served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. I was the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report for three years. I am the creator of cleancoders.com, which offers software development video training. Nowadays I spend my time speaking, teaching, making videos, writing blogs, and writing Clojure and Java code.

Is there anything else you'd like to know?

(BTW, the term "uber-hacker" is not mine, and is incorrect. I shall endeavor to get that removed.)
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I use cmus too. For those who don't know it is a command line music player with a VIM-like command line interface ("/" to search, ":set x=x" to set various options).
I find it fascinating that such an old procedure has been revisited sucessfully (not completely unheard of in medicine either). Perhaps better materials (now a polymer mesh) than used previously (cellophane wrap!).
> Abolition of property rights is usually down through coercive means by some agent of the state, hence it is top-down.

No it's not? Property rights themselves can only be enforced through some agent of the state, hence they are top down. Abolition of private property means abolition of the state.

I mentioned this in another post in this thread, but take the example of a house you rent from a landlord. Under capitalism, it's not your house, even though you use it. It's the landlord's, because ultimately the landlord can use the coercive power of the state to remove you if you stop paying rent. If you abolish the state, then it simply becomes your house, and the landlord can no longer claim ownership over that which they do not use.
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Show me 1 product/service/platform that got acquired by AOL and got better/bigger at there.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL
Tablets are moving away from the "storage device as a directly accessible object" model, which is a good thing. The only downside is how do you handle heterogenous storage without making the user deal with it?
On a government project? Never.
Seems to be a risky approach, the signals (pupil dilation, heart rate, etc.) described are ones that are known to be influenced by age, gender, race and medical conditions (including pregnancy).

If large companies adopt it, there will almost certainly be lawsuits around it (there are people who will specifically apply for jobs at wealthy reputation-sensitive companies with the primary aim of suing them for discrimination when they get rejected; they often look out for things like this).

(for those curious in the US the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) describe the kind of validation tests you need to do on stuff like this to stay on the right side of the law)
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foobar2000 is great for Windows.
This isn't really on how to make fake data look meaningful, but rather how to make useless data look meaningful. If you can fake the data, then there's no need for these misleading analyses.
Show me one product/service/platform that got acquired by AOL and got better/bigger at there.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL
This is still a better alternative to code interviews by whiteboard though. (or worse, code interviews by phone).
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Well it is similar to open source. Just making a project open source doesn't automatically reduce the number of bugs. People need to be interested and capable of auditing it. However, even if only a small percentage of people do audit it, the gains from that apply to everybody.

I think it generally works out. More popular open source projects naturally have more eye-balls, which means more people auditing it. Similarly with sharing data, more controversial or interesting claims will naturally attract more attention and therefore more people who are capable and interested in verifying the claims.
I used Winamp heavily until the version where they added video support. That version was extremely buggy for me and I used the previous version for several years until I found Foobar2000.

It looks like 2.90 was when they added video support:

"added integrated full featured video support (NSV and DirectShow (AVI,ASf,MPEG,etc))" -- http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=130748
I wonder about the thought process that spawns articles like these.

I'm a novice but I think I do pretty well for myself. I also didn't write my first line of code when I was very young. I didn't get any thrills or anything from programming until I started in my 30s.

Obviously you need hordes of novices. What a preposterous, pretentious thing to say. It's the ultimate "first world problem" of career fields. "We have too many people who want to do this job because the pay is so good, career outlook is so bright, and job satisfaction is so high!"

Yes you'll probably have to work much harder on a good noise filter when hiring, and you will probably have to be ok with taking a chance on hiring "newbs", hoping to get a great one who trains up well.

This is a really geeky rant, and I don't mean that in a good way. I mean it as in totally socially tone deaf. It's like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons wrote this. I know the author is a well-known guy in the software world but that doesn't change my opinion at all.
I definitely recommend MediaMonkey Gold. It will keep your library organized, but however you want it, with no hassle at all. And if you're insane like me and keep a flac library, you can keep an mp3 mirror for your mp3 player/phone.
> Abolition of property rights is usually down through coercive means by some agent of the state, hence it is top-down.

Creation of property rights is always done through coercive means by the State. In the absence of such action, there are no property rights.
And I bet many people don't even know that after Winamp Justin Frenkel started making his hands dirty with digital audio workstation coding and made a fantastic one! http://www.reaper.fm/ with a unbelievable set of features for 4 Mb (yessir!) and super competitive licensing options (but you can still try the full software free with no limitations whatsoever!). If you make music with your Pc or Mac this will shock you on many levels, starting from filesize! This guy knows what he's doing! Thanks Justin! If winamp code will be made public there will be a lot to learn!
> Their developers did not know how to do this in a short amount of time. Their estimate may have been 2-3 months (because they would need to learn how to do it properly)

Eh, what? They're not idiots, they know how to change resolution. They just figured it wasn't possible to do a proper job in the time/budget for something low on the priority list, so they didn't do it. Game devs like to get paid for their work, too.
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And this power imbalance between workers and employers is terrible. Yeah, all pretty standard socialist stuff I’m a huge fanboy of. It’s of course not only gender roles that play a role here.

You reasons are pretty bullshitty, so I don’t think I ever want to talk to you again. Bye!
I was referring to long standing problem of tech interviewers of getting caught up in academic style programming questions as if they're representative of the work that's actually done in a company.

While the product looks awesome, I'm assuming it will be used to cargo cult bad coding questions instead of companies really trying to do something different with their interview process.
You haven't flown in a while. Boarding passes are tied to the flight and scanned on boarding. An invalid pass means no getting on the plane. Unless you can generate a valid pass without doing any special deal you've already been thwarted by the simplest part of the security mechanism.
Imagine they charged only $20 extra for each storage increase. Who, when buying a $400 device wouldn't just opt for the small price increase? Therefore they would be sitting on a stockpile of 16GB tablets. Segmentation needs to exist to allow various classes of buyers. For example, someone using a tablet for email, web browsing only would be fine with a 16GB, but someone downloading many large apps would benefit from the 128GB.
I'm curious to know the reasoning behind this reaction. How else do you suggest doing a technical interview?
The baby boomers are a major demographic event, and those will always have economic impact.
I love the .today domain.

Anyone knows which registrars are supporting these new domains?
The most extreme cases all fell within book 5. I wonder what happened with book 5?
Cheap movie promotion?
Do we know yet how browsers will be treating these tlds? Eg if I type "diamonds" into the Chrome omnibar will it take me to a Google search for "diamonds" or to http://diamonds
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On this page the author notes that none of the buildings she visited in the DPRK were heated, even during the freezing cold winter:

https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/home

Maybe it is to save on energy costs? I imagine most citizens are used to it. Furthermore, if they have never experienced indoor heating, they would not see anything odd about it being so cold indoors.
An employee granted 7bp is presumably also making market cash comp. That seems to be the presumption both in this post and in the Wealthfront post.

I have no doubt that there are cat-sharing companies trying to deploy single-digit basis points in lieu of 5-figure discounts to salary. In every market, there are abuses.

As someone who hires pretty regularly in SFBA, it is not my perception that the typical candidate in this market is having the wool pulled over their eyes. Salary expectations in the valley are high. We don't do equity comp at all, but when we did, 7+ years ago, it was typically met with a gimlet attitude.
well, unmentioned in the article is that this was partially offset by falling prices which allowed quality of life to continue improving. the ability for this offsetting to compensate may no longer be enough though.
That's awesome...I really like windows phone. I have had several Iphone's and used one android phone at work and WP is just hands down better...of course, I don't use as many apps as a lot of other people. I mainly use the web browser which is awesome.
My bad for conflating the meaning of reality in reference to the use of VR with the reality of my own experience.
Are you saying that the political left would be more effective if it never used violence ever?
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Look at the list posted above about the tiny amounts these huge companies spent "bribing" politicians: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6770059.

The fact of the matter is that Procter and Gamble doesn't need to "bribe" any politicians to get favorable legislation. They just have to call up a Congressman and say: "hey, we have tens of thousands of workers in your state, it would be a shame if anything happened to them."
There are ultimately two types of people in the comments right now: those that will miss Winamp and those laughing it was still around.

Winamp worked. It played all your MP3s without any of the other fluff. It played your music in a very lightweight program. What was also nice was this was before every program auto-updated; so you'd manually have to go update it; except, the newer versions were adding features, not fixing bugs. If you thought Winamp was fine, there was never a need to upgrade. I remember never upgrading Winamp until way into my college years.

People have mentioned it, but I didn't change to foobar because I always used Winamp. Even when they made the modern UI, you could (and can) still go Classic. Computer space and performance weren't issues because the extra bells and whistles are easy to never use.

Only a few weeks ago did I make the move from Winamp to foobar; and it was only to see the difference. Initial thoughts are I don't like how it displays my music; but I do like the shuffle since its playing songs I never hear.
I'm not sure how that's different from many other forms of engineering. For the example I gave, bump the temperature you hold it at after quenching by 20 degrees, and it will shatter because it hit the TME (Tempered Martensitic Embrittlement) stage. Hold it above that temperature by 80 degrees, and it won't hold an edge, although it will be ductile. Increase the amount of carbon by 0.5%, and it will be remarkably brittle and weak. Decrease it by 0.5%, and it will be extremely soft and won't hold an edge. etc, etc.

A knife is fairly unimportant, but make the wrong decisions of that sort on a plane, or on a bridge, and people will die.

Even more subtle decisions can have serious consequences. See, for example, the DeHavilland Comet, which crashed because the windows were too square.

The squareness was causing them to act as stress concentrators. With the cyclic loading from pressure changes, this caused metal fatigue, and the windows would fail after hundreds of flights. This could be fixed by rounding the corners of the windows, or by using alloys that don't fatigue as easily. And this is why modern jets have rounded portholes, instead of rectangular windows.
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> If you abolish the state, then it simply becomes your house, and the landlord can no longer claim ownership over that which they do not use.

If you abolish the state, anyone can claim ownership over anything they want, they'll just have to muster their own force to enforce the claim since there is no state to impose force on behalf of any claimant.
>all these major cloud player can just stop their service on their whim

If you are concerned with minimizing monetary loss rather than preserving working copies of your media [1] you can treat that as an argument for choosing a media provider that allows you to pay a monthly fee. If (when) their service gets discontinued you switch to another one; the only problem you would face is migrating your favorites, bookmark, playlists and the like [2].

[1] Which makes sense when the specific things you want to access (watch, listen to, read, play, etc.) are not rare and can be found elsewhere.

[2] Incidentally, this is something you could offer as SaaS. Edit: See http://resp.in/, http://www.getunify.com/, the FOSS project https://github.com/mauimauer/portify, etc.
Cool! I've used the Sumea skin for about 15 years and I'd like to keep it, so I'm glad that I can use it with other music players.
I could have sworn that they mentioned it in the trailer, as well. I'd have to watch it again to be sure.
Winamp! It really whips the llama's ass! :-(
No scandal, just don't buy their products, and tell all your friends to not buy their products.
This is incredibly interesting and extremely important. It has clear implications for infrastructure and security, particularly energy infrastructure which I am most interested in.

This is the future of war.
Inventing a new way to turn dog poop into coffee cups is, technically speaking, innovative. Thus, any discussion of innovativeness is not tremendously useful without also considering the value the invention brings to market.

Part of that is necessarily clever marketing, but some portion of Facebook's value has to be real, new tech that makes a lot of people's lives better. If you can't point to any single thing, maybe it's the packaging of a lot of single things that is innovative?
I'm surprised MPD[1] isn't favored a bit more on HN. I primarily use ncmpcpp on desktop, but fall back to ario when using gnome, and MPDroid from android.

The simplicity is great. I have a single NAS containing my entire collection connected to some speakers. In another room I have a rasp pi connected to a different set of speakers which streams the music being played via Icecast2. I can control the music in either room using pretty much any device connected to the network (PC, laptop, pi, tablet, phone), and also stream my collection when not at home.

I don't know of any particular client that's similar to winamp or itunes, but there's a lot to chose from[2], although many of those are a bit dated.

[1]:http://www.musicpd.org/
[2]:http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients
I agree with you, except for one part. I'd correct your closing sentence to

"It is a fundamental problem with humanity, which frequently uses coercion as a means to achieve power."

Collectivism is a slippery concept and seems to amount to "individuals working together to achieve some aim." So long as you have systems of interacting individuals, organizations will arise to achieve economies of scale, and violence will inherently be part of it because of the components that make up the system.
I'm not sure how I'd feel about doing some coding before I even went through other parts of the interview process or meeting the team I'd be working with. This sends me the message that I'm going to be a COG in some system.

Sending a potential candidate something like this might be a turn-off to a lot of candidates (especially in this marketplace).
It is not scandalous to have your pricing correlate to value and markets, rather than cost basis.

If it were, almost every software and saas company would be a scandal.