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That is why I say they would offer them as NQSO stock options. Not ISO stock options. I would never need to actually exercise the stock options if I can never sell the things profitably anyway. I can even wait a while until after an IPO theoretically to wait and avoid a dot com bubble AMT nightmare that happened in the early 2000s.

When I can actually sell the options, then the price of about %5 extra in taxes (short term vs long term capital gains) is small compared to the taxation paperwork and paying for stock that has a good chance of being worthless.

If a company is liquid or soon to be liquid when I start working for them, then the extra bonus treatment of ISOs is fine and I understand putting that limit inside there, because the stock isn't worthless and I can sell it when I leave the company.
Right now gasoline-powered vehicles are a problem along with burning coal and natural gas. At least by replacing gasoline-powered vehicles with electric we solve one issue and focus can be directed to how we generate that electricity.
Still use it and prefer it to VLC or Foobar. I hope they opensource it, but I suspect it's unlikely? Would be cool to see all old versions too.
Just in time for me to download and get my latest skin.
Can you use pastebin or a github gist for the code?
If you want a nice, cross-platform, sane, fast alternative, including streaming between users, you should have a look at the open source Tomahawk. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
You know, there are some places where at least two of those things don't involve any advertising, thankfully.
Does this affect SHOUTcast?
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long live all patents (software or hardware)! they fuel invention/innovation. Edison, Bell Graham, Nikolai Tesla, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, they were inventors/innovators that deserve to be highly credited for the contributions that they made to the society, and yet so many people are trying to view a few of them as "evil" just because they made their ideas into reality before anyone else did.
> IBM...these are old dying giants who will never budge in the name of innovation.

> IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.[15] Its employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.[16] Notable inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk, the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM
JWARS was an amazing simulation system that the US defense department had in the 1990s. They could simulate entire theaters of war down to individual soldiers at 10000x speed.

The problem with good, accurate simulations in the defense department, is that higher-ups who do not like the results that come out of them will have them killed politically. This is what happened to JWARS. (This is also what happened to the war game where a 3rd rate power sank a US aircraft carrier. http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3793 )
Wow, the end of an era.

Maybe it's just that it's what I learned to use first, but for a scattered library of downloaded music across multiple languages, etc., I still haven't found a clearly better solution. It was trivial and fast to find the songs I was looking for, either by filename or by ID3 data, and get them playing.

I suppose that it turns out the world has changed and this isn't how most people consume music anymore, and the writing's been on the wall for a while. But it's incredibly sad to see that model of media consumption finally dying with a whimper. I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality.
Monopolies can arise, but typically are sustainable only when supported by governmental regulation and authorization.
Except it is mostly abandoned. It requires GTK1 and hasn't been updated since 2007.
Supposedly bitstamp with it's SEPA integration? I don't know if it's much easier or not. I just remember people talking about how nobody uses paper checks in Europe and everybody uses the free / cheap online wire transfer interface in their bank website to send money to other accounts in the country. They use it to pay rent, send money for split meals, etc.
Centralizing power production, even in a coal-burning plant, is better for the environment than burning fuel locally (and extremely inefficiently) in a helicopter.
I noticed that the first thing too. Well, early signs of the website completely shutting off ... sigh ...
very cool. I can imagine this will become particularly useful for SO questions in R. In fact, I wonder whether there's some interesting SO/fiddle hybrid for programming questions- being able to actually run the original question, the answers, etc....
There's also a certain amount of fear involved: I know some Apple employees online (not blogs), but does sharing information about it endanger that? Who knows...
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Was using Winamp 5 for the past year but recently switched back to v2.95, which is allegedly the best version out there.

Although it's 10 years old (!!), it's still the best music player available: lightweight, fast, responsive, and kept simple.

I had hopes for the Windows 7 Media Player. But it turned out to be a dreadful experience.

Me: Can't I pause that song by hitting space?
WMP: No, there are no keyboard shortcuts!
Me: I wanna play all the songs of this folder!
WMP: Ok, but I'll mess up the order! By the way, are you interested in purchasing
more songs from this artist? Cause I got a VirginMega link just right here!
Me: No thanks...
WMP: Why not? I mean, iTunes gets away with it, why can't I?
Me: I just want to play some music.
WMP: Really?? JUST that??
Me: I wish.
I always used Winamp on Windows, so when I switched to Linux I tried basically every single open-source alternative that worked with my workflow: Per-song ratings, a nested Genre/Artist/Album/Song library browser, global hotkeys, able to handle a collection of >100 GB and a useful playlist/queue system.

For anyone else looking for the same thing: the one that I ended up choosing was http://gmusicbrowser.org/. See http://gmusicbrowser.org/screenshots/ListsLibraryContext.png.
How come Winamp is shutting down and Real Player still around !?!?

Notwithstanding that Real Player was quite popular in Asia, a few years ago, during the portable media player years.
Ender's Game is 30 years old.

Additional spoilers for you:

* Vader is Luke's father

* Frodo makes it to Mt Doom

* Rosebud was the sled
A Buzz Lightyear RTS would sell. If it was done well, it would even continue to sell.
What is the significance of LLCs being on the list?
> I don't see what the incentive for NYT to overstate or mischaracterize things, unless just to cast Obama further into a negative light

Perhaps the NYT blogger's editorial goal is to counteract the blame aimed at OFA / Obama by pointing it at Mixlr instead.
Its a A(W)OL failed code.
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I might be wrong but I don't think that the problem is with those companies trying to help themselves. Like many, I think that politicians should not be allowed to accept bribes from companies and that it might just solve problems like this one.
"we don't deliver in your area from Dec 20 to Jan 2"

Um, what? That sounds like a WHOLE lot of pissed off holiday shoppers.
How difficult would it be to retrofit non-nullable references types to C#?
I have not seen a better music player.

Lightweight

Unobtrusive, customisable, highly functional UI

Fades out tracks when u stop (to not have a harsh cut off waveform)

Its what I currently use. Current build will probably run on windows for a loong loong time to come tho.
Did you ever try Foobar 2k - its arguably a better replacement for Winamp on windows
I remember as a teen talking to the developers on IRC, in one of the Windows development channels. I remember thinking they were crazy because they didn't want to use the standard Windows components to do the UI. I also remember wondering why anyone bother spending a half hour downloading 1 song over a 56k modem when you could just set your Sony Discman on top of your computer!

Then they started branching out and worked with skinnable UIs, then went totally crazy and built things like ShoutCast, streaming music over the internet was a crazy idea at the time. Amazing group of guys that built that and were willing to learn anything and put incredible amounts of time and effort into a project.
You'd be happy with a "competent" planner telling you where you could work, what you could earn, where you could live, how many kids you could have, etc?
Actually, that is the oddest part of the story, to my mind.

Is it really true that Merkel, or any other major political figure in any major country, believed that they weren't being watched by essentially every other country, allied or not?

I can see that the public at large does not understand that, but the only reason I can find for the issue to come up is Merkel using that lack of understanding to manipulate German public opinions.

If the shoe were on the other foot, and it came out that German intelligence were listening to Mr. Obama's phone calls, I would at worst chuckle and at best be impressed if they came up with a new way of doing it. And I'd view any outrage from U.S. government circles as the cynical attempt at manipulation that it would be.
Even though I moved to another player on my desktop long ago, I still use it on my Android device. Sad that it's going away :(. They should definitely open source it.
According to your link, world inequality as a whole is down. This article is about how inequality within a political system (say the USA) affects social stability. Within this context, it matters not whether or not millions of Chinese and Indians have been lifted out of absolute poverty, because those people are not part of our political system.

It's actually a pretty interesting article, you should read it, rather than dismissing it because of your political bias.
Sony did put rootkits on music cds tho. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
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I'm sorry, I don't follow what you're trying to ask or say here.
Relive the nostalgia through this Ars article that's not half bad:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...
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Please open source it. It is still best player around with classic skin.
Ask HN: Is there something like Codecademy for C++?
A friend of mine just started using Codecademy for Python and loves it. I vaguely remember seeing one or two similar sites for C++ either in the wild or here on HN. Do they exist? If so, could you please link me to them?
The author of that tweet could have eliminated "beacuse math" entirely.
I write about my experience without thinking of my products. My editorial team will typically go back through and add relevant links. Of course I think my products are relevant as that is what pays for me to give away a bunch of free advice and blog about my past experiences growing my web agency. But just to make sure you know, I don't have a product called "Online Business Ecosystem paradigm".
Which might be an indication of the type of community involvement an open source version of winamp would see. Although I would love to see it try.
Nothing will ever beat the joys of finding new "skins" for the Winamp player -- I had so many amazing ones lined up, and loved nothing more than switching them all out.

Sad to see it go...

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am i the only one who was expecting a Tony Stark photo ?
Presumably there's no semantic difference, though? Saying that, for any counting number n, there are at least n-1 consecutive composites is semantically no different than saying there are n consecutive composites. It just makes for a cleaner proof, no?
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I propose a scarlet letter "P" (for plaintext).
While we support what Mr. Goodlatte’s trying to do on trolls, if the CBM is included, we’d be forced to oppose the bill.

OK, so go on the record as opposing it.
You may have some specific conditions for what you consider innovation, but Facebook is a service that dramatically changes how a significant percentage of humans spend their free time, and the implications are huge. Connecting with people, sharing information, etc. The fact that the business model is backed by advertising isn't relevant. By your definition I wonder if TV, film, or even the printing press is innovative.

American Idol was also innovative, and whatever group created the spectacle of the Superbowl and the NFL were also likely innovators. Just because it isn't hardcore technology doesn't mean it isn't innovative.
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eed inappropriately called heaven and earth; and
so, that the universal creation, which God made in His Wisdom, that
is, in the Beginning, was comprehended under those two words?
Notwithstanding, since all things be made not of the substance of God,
but out of nothing (because they are not the same that God is, and
there is a mutable nature in them all, whether they abide, as doth the
eternal house of God, or be changed, as the soul and body of man are):
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I've posted this primarily as one of the chief sources of waste is the inability to accurately account for spending and inventory due to an abundance of incompatible data silos. The efforts to rectify the situation usually make it worse or simply cost a ton of money.

If anyone feels like losing their mind, making a good bit of coin and (potentially) saving US taxpayers a lot of money, try to win one of these contracts and apply a team in the tens rather than thousands of developers and testers to the task.
You just weren't meant for each other!
"However, a considerable advancement in battery technology is conceivable during the next few years, so that a multiplication of the energy capacity will occur within a short period of time. At present a battery flight time of 20 minutes is possible, but in the near future this will be extended to one hour or more."

What companies / people are working on new technology to make this true? We hear this with every new project, but it doesn't seem like enough people are choosing that as their goal.
I can believe that IBM does far more software patent lobbying than most of the firms whose core products are not directly software related

This is in part because they have a heavy patent culture, perhaps due to their legacy as a machines company.
> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality.

Foobar 2k works very, very well.
No system is perfect, because humans are not perfect, but capitalism has produced more and created a higher standard of living for more people than any other system we've tried. Socialism/communism has produced most of the worst humanitarian and economic situations that people have lived under.

Edit: spelling
Brings up a great question: What are the alternatives to Winamp? (No iTunes please)
I'm sure "over or next to a business" is a lot closer than the post office.
While I agree that a lot of it is cultural based, I do agree that there is some biological basis also. As a woman also, I can see myself in the points the author makes. While I had good grades (was in high school math club) I avoided risks in school and in career (went for 'easy' degree of history first). Only recently did I go back and get a degree in programming, requiring me having to learn differently than before. I tell my boss I don't a managerial position because I don't want the responsibility (no matter how much he throws it at me). I've also had everyone around me supporting me to do what I want be it STEM or not. In many ways I see the cultural changes are allowing women to use their biological strengths better (running a business isn't too different from running a household of a large family). EDIT:typo.
Just came across this article http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nchem... about an advance in silicon microparticle anodes for lithium ion batteries which claims a capacity of 3000 mA h/g, and retaining similar performance (~2000 mA h/g) over 100 discharge cycles. They don't mention the voltage, so it's a bit hard to compare energy density; at the 3.2 volts common to lithium ion batteries, that's 6400 watt hours per kilogram, but taking a look at some of the charts available (I can't look at the article itself due to the paywall) it looks like it may actually be .5 volts, which means 1000 watt hours per kilogram. Compare to Tesla's batteries, probably the best in the business, which give you ~130 watt hours per kilogram, and this could be a pretty big game changer. Obviously, they will have to improve past 100 discharge cycles, but it looks like substantial gains in battery technology may be coming within the next decade.
I'll remember that when it's 100 degrees outside.
I found the feedback valuable. The simple reminder is that revisiting how you present some basic information and interact with someone can make a huge difference, especially in rudimentary processes like the one mentioned. It doesn't just apply to the freelance scenario either.
Imagine if they opened the sources on this...
"every undoable action first needs to be represented by an object in your code. This is called the Command Pattern"

This is too OO for my taste. Having just seen a talk about MiniKanren, I wonder if you can implement undo effectively with a relational (logic) programming system. Is anyone aware of research (or practice) to that effect? My googling isn't turning up anything relevant.
Nostalgia. I remember the good old days just a decade ago when we would download any song we want (courtesy napster/kazaa) and the default music player would be: yep Winamp hands down. Keyboard shortcuts were so convenient. It just seems like we have headed in the wrong direction with how music is managed on our computers/devices etc. Not to mention the beautiful skins that we could apply for funkiness. RIP winamp and you will be missed.
I have died and I keep getting "session has ended" when I try to log in. Is this expected?
I liked the part about how lifestyle businesses disrupt the VC business model, and thus their negative perception.
Agreed, even though I've lots of respect for BG's humanitarian work. Also, it is much much easier to do good when one has insane amounts of money, than one doesn't.

Today, almost every company thinks their first (and only?) responsibility is to their shareholders, and hence profit. That affects every decision they make, and they somehow come up with rationalizations for their behavior. Until this line of thinking changes, how can we expect anything nice to happen (nice for the common good, but terrible for short term profits)?
Seconded, f2k works very well for super large complicated music collections. Prob not as easy to setup as winamp but you can more with f2k. Way more.
Heating a room with electricity technically is very efficient, it's just not very cost efficient.
Agreed. I hate "business speak" statements like this that just float on marketing terms.

From a consumer and tech perspective the first ipod was a godsend in the days of shitty AA-powered mp3 players with difficult controls, tiny screens, and usually with no library management software. I had a nomad that took 4 AA batteries and ate them like you wouldn't believe. So the cost of buying rechargables and chargers was passed on to me.

No, it didn't launch with universal love. The original was interesting, but it wasn't until later versions when they had USB support, itunes on Windows, and better price points that it really broke through.
Like others have said, this article is strictly about American inequality - as you can see, all the examples given, and all the points discussed, were purely American.

The reduction in global inequality actually relates to the rise in American inequality, as industries that previously drove the growth of the American middle class have off-shored and are now contributing to the growth of the middle class elsewhere.

Stagnant industries that used to be the bread and butter across the US are now major growth factors in China and India.
IBM comes to mind given that they like to sue you for patents out of the blue -- like when you're going IPO.
Reminds me of what I read about pre-WWI. The German army used to stage huge tactical mock battles. The only rule was the Kaiser's side had to always win.
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> I'm not sure if there are even any modern alternatives for Windows that still optimize for a large library of local music with poor ID3 data quality.

I've been off windows for a few years now but I used to use Media Monkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) for managing a very large collection of poorly tagged music I'd collected over the years, lots of live recordings and whatnot. It's definitely not as clean a player as winamp was but it did manage the library / tagging bits quite well. It seems to still be active so may be worth a look.
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You are thinking of splicing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_splicing

And, you are right. DNA => mRNA ≠ Protein, in a direct manner because of it.
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I hope not.. there's a ton of services out there relying on the Shoutcast directory.
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He made no claim to minimal or maximal anything. His technique does give you an edge, though.
In the article it stated that names and events were changed to protect people from the crimes committed.

Maybe he was breaking the law, maybe he was helping children, maybe he was the victim of a crime like the other fellow who had his face smashed in and had reasons not to go to the hospital.
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One of the best classes I had in college was "Reasoning and Critical Thinking", taught by the Philosophy department. A few friends and I took it to satisfy some degree requirement or other. Afterwards we reflected that wasn't enough -- we felt that a passing grade should be required for graduation for every single student.

Why? Because it was inoculation against bogus argument. It covered basic logic, logical fallacies, and gave students a solid footing in resisting and debunking nonsense in argument, advertising, and other communication. Really an invaluable life skill.
Why is this the title of the page?

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this sucks, let's start a form to keep WinAmp alive :)
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I think there are few areas where the barriers you mention do not exist. I also mention the scenario where technological change renders monopolies irrelevant and address it by stating that smart winners spend a lot of time dealing with these threats.
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It is "green" because the emissions are out of sight out of mind..

Just ignore the coal plant in the background.
The article mentions "U.S." nine times and "world" only once in "World War II". I'm confused as to how you could have interpreted it to be about world inequality.
Ars had a really nice article about the history of Winamp and of what went wrong: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/winamp-how-greatest-...