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But there was a wave of terrorism.

I am very partial to late 19th century anarchists, but 'propaganda by the deed' included both assassinations (which could be ethically justified as part of a larger war) and a small number of random acts of violence against the general public (which I see no serious ethical justification for (x)). While such acts were a fairly small part of 'Propaganda of the Deed', they are an early example of what would be later labeled terrorism (that is, NGOs using indiscriminate violence against civil populations for political ends).

For example:
"February 12, 1894 – Émile Henry, intending to avenge Auguste Vaillant, sets off a bomb in Café Terminus (a café near the Gare Saint-Lazare train station in Paris), killing one and injuring twenty. During his trial, when asked why he wanted to harm so many innocent people, he declared, "There is no innocent bourgeois." This act is one of the rare exceptions to the rule that propaganda of the deed targets only specific powerful individuals. Henry is convicted and executed by guillotine on May 21." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_deed

The small number of acts of terror carried out by anarchists likely didn't give us the 40 year work week (xx), anarchists and other radicals organizing did.

x - The fact that these acts of terror were carried out in reprisal for far worse state terror is no excuse. The ends do not justify the means.

xx - The value of assassination is debatable but clearly terrorism was both counter-productive and unethically unjustifiable.
Of course, let's blame the elite's for all our societal woes. Humans are rather good at blaming everyone for problems but themselves.
This sucks... winamp has been my go to media player, along with shoutcast services forever and a day... Their android player is imho one of the best ones available at that.

I honestly haven't been into any of the skin options since version 5.. but the player has been awesome. This is really a shame.
I don't think this can be understated. The media have a voracious appetite for controversy, because 24-hour news cycle.

I agree with the parent poster that the truth probably lies somewhere in between, but like you, I don't think we can give NYT much extra credit here.

I'm also surprised to see that more technologists aren't empathetic to the "tens of thousands of end users" matter. In a group of people over 100,000, we can begin to expect a fairly sizable number of users who have configuration issues that would cause their own host of problems. I'm not indemnifying Mixlr, but it's worth keeping in mind when finding the middle ground about what really happened.
Ctrl+P was the shortcut for Pause, if I remember correctly. WMP wasn't that bad, but Foobar fits my needs much better.

For a ten-year old Winamp I'd have my doubts about Unicode support at the very least.
> Trousseau is a gpg encrypted key-value store designed to be a simple, safe and relient place for your data.

Relient? I think he meant "reliant" but even that doesn't sound right. Reliant means "trustful", suggesting that the system trusts you. Maybe he meant "trustworthy". (Or just simply "reliable".)

("relient" is a French word meaning to connect, link, or join, and the author seems to be French. But that observation doesn't seem to help.)
>One of 6tag's features is supposedly 'hide sponsored posts (beta)' which really highlights the urgency as to why Instagram would need to build their own client.

It would take all of 10 minutes for Instagram to shut down 6tag if they decided to kill it because of the ad hiding feature.

All they would have to do is call Microsoft and tell them to shut it down, an OFFICIAL Instagram client has been one of the "must haves" for the platform and is often cited when tech pundits complain about the anemic Windows Phone app ecosystem. If Microsoft caved on their own WP Youtube app that hid ads they wouldn't hesitate to nuke an indie dev's app if it threatened the adoption of WP with a high profile service provider like Instagram.
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I think there's more ambiguity to a lot of events in that era. I mean take stuff like the Bisbee deportation... I doubt it gets called terrorism most of the time.
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foobar is a bit... bare bones imho... and neither it or VLC have the shoutcast stream listing services... which will be an issue without winamp. :-(
Haha, nice project - but it has some severe display issues on netbook screens (the font is far too big): https://www.dropbox.com/s/1i7dhe5u9t32l6u/Screenshot%202013-...
I'm surprised some other personal broadcast approach hasn't replaced it by now.

Lots of great online radio (and formerly video) was Shoutcast.
Sad! It really whipped the Llama's ass! It is still my music player on PC. I have saved the installer.
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I don't know if anyone else noticed but we owe DARPA's XDATA program a thank you note too for funding this project.
As others have said, foobar2000 for the minimalist, free approach with lots of configuration options, or MediaMonkey for a really good bit of paid software. The paid version of MM syncs perfectly well with iDevices and pretty much anything else too. Highly recommended. Also it doesn't force you into any particular directory structure in your music library so it'll take what you give it.
They sure are. They're being enlisted to fight aliens with a remote control starfleet, and somehow the space opera elements are least implausible part of the whole scenario :)
Best music player with all the customizations I need and manages all the external devices very well. Quite a shame that it has to shut down.
Another disappointment but not as large as Google reader, I will still be using my winamp.
I use instagram on android and I rarely use the camera that is within the instagram app. Not sure this is as big of an issue as its being made out to be.
Some people maximize their lives for money, other people for their surroundings.
I like the concept! Because you need friends who also have installed FrameParty, I think that an "invite friends" function right in the app would help. I was hoping to be able to send an app download link to a couple of Facebook friends. For now, I have to leave the app to tell them to search for it in the app store, download it, then tell me what their username is. If you could streamline this process somehow, I think that you'd see more signups.
Even as a libertarian, I agree that too much inequality in a society is a bad thing. However, I find myself quite suspicious of the solutions that are generally proposed, even here on HN, which are generally of the form "Give the elite more power", usually as "give the government more centralized power".

I agree that our elites are a problem, but I find it a bit sad/amusing that so many people are so ready to solve the problem in exactly the way the elite want you to want it solved.
Is that a meta-CSS-code-that-made-me-cry complaint? ;-)
I'll throw in my two cents for Audacious, see: http://audacious-dvb.sourceforge.net/screenshot.png

It probably lacks some of the advanced stuff you would want, but I use it as I still do with Winamp: setup keyboard hotkeys to execute audacious -[rft] (skip around in songs from any app), load a folder (or folders) of songs and play them. Throw on ProjectM and you have a poor man's substitute for Milkdrop. And there's Shoutcast support as well.

The UI runs in skinned mode (pictured above) or in a more traditional mode that doesn't look out of place on your desktop.
Isn't it cheaper to deliver a given list of packages in a more densely populated area? It looks like some of USPS' customers are getting screwed.
I bet even he would be unable to get GTAIV to run smoothly on a computer built today
> some people made up long reasons for why such a lock could be in place, I was irked. Someone was wrong on the internet, and it fell to me to set them straight.

The lock was in place because one reason: 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), and management decided against the effort.

This shows how valuable a well-rounded team of developers can be "as an asset". If you only have one or two developers for very specific languages or platforms, their skillset is going to be very limited, and you're going to miss out on big opportunities.
MediaMonkey http://www.mediamonkey.com/
Yeah ridiculous Tory.
Our society is fraying because folks like Mitt Romney think it's OK to not pay taxes for 10 years, and then run for President.
Basically what they found that software engineers who worked on the project were pressured to make progress, even at the sake of quality.
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There are plenty of scenarios where the term "conference call" is used to refer to one-to-many communications. For example, quarterly shareholder conference calls are usually one-to-many calls. You can dial in, but you can't speak.
I have used it for all these years because it "just works". I have 2 needs in a music player - play whatever I have locally, and stream me something different when I want to. Winamp did both of those, and I never had an issue with it.

It is hard to "surpass" something that meets my needs perfectly and has given me no issues for over 10 years.
Will be interesting to see how this scales with the server. I also have found R to have a LARGE foot print.
As an independent artist, I don't see any info on how you might get your own music into the site.

Services that rely on bigger services like Spotify (not sure where this site gets its music, that's just an example) create a bit of a barrier to entry for exactly the type of artist would would benefit most from a bit of extra exposure.

It seems that many new "discover new music" services I see these days have exactly this problem.
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For a multiplatform solution, I used a MusicBrainz Picard client for batch autoidentification and ID3 correction. However currently I feel that I wasted too many hours of my life hoarding and caring for a local mp3/soulseek library and nowadays only listen to online music.
Amen!
Winamp was not only whimsical, but also one of the first widely adopted catalysts to the rise of the digital economy.
Why do journalists call them 'escorts' ? why cant they just call them for what they are , prostitutes.
With HTML like this, I can see perhaps why folks aren't tuning in as much https://gist.github.com/editor/ed6339a732d6c7c06dd3
My first thought was: "Key value store... let's see if it's written in Go..." haha, glad I wasn't disappointed!
The original developers all departed in 2003/2004, winamp has been maintained / extended by whomever AOL could find to work on it for about a decade now. That doesn't bode terribly well for the current state of the code base.
That actually sounds logical to me, like Obama taking money from companies despite opposing the Citizen's United verdict. The rules are the same for all, and people take advantage of the rules.

It is also similar to Google warning about the patent issues with H.264 while pushing WebM and then later (through Motorola) asking for exorbitant licensing fees for H.264 patents, from Microsoft and Google. They got fined over the FRAND abuse by the courts.

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/06/apple-google-motorol...

Hate the game, not the players.
I think lack of autorotation would make this idea dead in the water. Very low altitude failures would also be dangerous, as parachutes are hard to deploy without a few hundred feet to spare. Also currently, all single engine helicopters must be able to complete an autorotation to get certified. I'm not sure where this would stand though, since it may end up as an experimental category aircraft.

A clarification for those who haven't seen one, an autorotation is less about falling than gliding. You have very good control, though you do only get one shot at the landing. A quick search brought up this video with a few landings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2a9H8Xw8Mo
First thing I do when setting up a fresh PC is installing Winamp 2.95. It's the perfect mp3 player for the simple use case of just dragging some files onto a window and hitting play.
If you want a fiddle-like environment for d3.js, try tributary: http://tributary.io.
Thanks for the Tomahawk recommendation - it was very nearly what I was looking for.

Unfortunately it does not support the Mac Play/Pause/etc keys. I'm staggered that such an otherwise well put together application lacks such basic functionality.
Google is not a monopoly. It has numerous competitors and only really remains in the lead because it is perceived to be the highest in quality.
I did the same thing, ended up with cmus: http://cmus.sourceforge.net/
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...unless it isn't actually ineffective. Then they're vindicated, conversation over. That's the ploy.
Does anyone know an encrypted database that allows for searches? E.g. implementing an algorithm similar to http://crypto.stanford.edu/~eujin/papers/secureindex/
There's already several comments on that story saying it's not correct. I don't have a Windows phone or Instagram to check, but maybe this isn't true.
Another vote for Clementine. Nice, clean audio player, with the right number of features.
It's actually getting uncommon for mobile unlimited data plans in Sweden again.

Almost all major carriers are now trying to squeeze out some cash for the mobile data plans. Some are succeeding very well, usually by packaging up calls, texts and a mobile data plan with 1-3GB/month for a fixed fee. {99, 149, 249, 299}SEK/month.

The 3G data network is very spotty in Stockholm, throughput-wise. I assume it's very congested. I have no idea about the 4G/LTE data network though.
This is (hopefully) a problem that platform owners can solve for us, and if they do I'll love them for it, but they very likely won't take it on.

Apple/Google/Microsoft can bake in cross-device syncing into the browser/OS and apply this sort of thing on form auto-fill.

It'll break down when:

a) Hashes don't meet site-specific password requirements (too long, missing special characters, etc.)

b) Sites store passwords in plaintext and you forgot your password and ask for them to email it to you (user: What the hell is this garbage of text, I didn't type this in!)

Unfortunately the above problems usually occur on sites where you need this most, and are very hard to solve, and so this problem is therefore unlikely to be solved "neatly" by anybody big.
What? No thanks to the thoroughly bribed government itself?
> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud

Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spotify "all-you-can-listen" model, but I have a bunch of MP3s that aren't on spotify that I seamlessly stream from dropbox (either to winamp or the spotify client, which allows you to sync local files).
Thanks for the feedback! That's definitely on the roadmap (probably the next thing I'll work on). Facebook for sure, maybe Twitter as well?
I still do that fairly often. Audacious can load Winamp skins. Sometimes its interface borks on my collection (35,000+ songs), but it's responsive enough.

My desktop still looks very much like it did in the 1990s...
Agreed. And Udacity's perceived failure doesn't necessarily correlate to Coursera or edX or other MOOC systems. I'm currently taking the Programming Languages course on Coursera with Dan Grossman and have found it to be on par or better than courses that I'd taken at university.
Yes, most people here make absurds amount of money and rage against this kind of thing but for some reason are super hesitant to actually donate to people fighting for things they believe in. If you're a developer, please consider making a monthly donation to the EFF. https://supporters.eff.org/donate
To be fair, people who get involved in developing green tech these days are fairly likely to have bought solar panels, especially given the price of them.
If anyone is looking for a replacement of Winamp, I highly recommend AIMP, I have been using it for about two years now.

http://www.aimp.ru/
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I don't find the segmentation a problem - having high-end models just makes the mid-range look like better value. Old and very common trick.

The problem is that in the age of Retina displays, apps that were a 50mb three years ago are 150mb nowadays. So those 16gb are filled in no time at all.

Compare the iPad to the Xbox 360: the 360 launched with a 20gb hard drive. A couple of years later, that was replaced with a 60gb drive - because system changes made that 20gb very small.

I expect that the real reason is that Apple's margins are under pressure from cheap Androids, and a Retina display + uber CPU/GPU are better competition points than touching the Golden Goose..
foobar2000 has all of those features
I believe AOL owns Winamp now. I hope they open source the code!
You're not completely in the clear if you still use the same username throughout the web or as the start of your email address. If your account gets compromised on a site that allows users to make public posts (comments, articles, whatever) your online identity is now linked to whatever crap the compromiser posts under your username.
One of the best strategies for creating long-term competitive advantage is to use the profits from your early lead to do something that is expensive to replicate.

Here's an example close to my heart (and please note that I'm just a cog and this is not a statement on official strategy -- just my personal observation): In Google Chrome, we decided to do native beautiful polished UI on every platform - Windows, OS X, iOS, Android -- even Linux!! This is a very expensive way to build a piece of client-side software, and some might say the result is only a few percent better than what could be achieved using a cross-platform UI toolkit. But it's a very expensive couple percent to duplicate.

Same thing with multiprocess. Only makes the software a little bit better, but again, extremely difficult to replicate.

If you look closely, I believe you will see this strategy being used by the leaders of many industries that would at first glance appear to have low barriers to entry.
Snaphack's already available on iOS and Android, doing a WP release would just be bringing it up to parity.
I think the author was trying to convey that it was an actual rifle in his/her hands, and not a plastic toy/digital.
Las Vegas rolling out streetlights with audio/video recording capabilities
I've had pretty good experience with AIMP. Very similar to WinAmp in most regards. (http://www.aimp.ru/)
How's Panama, by the way?
> ... democratic countries, where the government is the vehicle for the popular will

Ideally.
One could argue that it's at least a bit of cherry-picking.
Furthermore I would not agree with the statement that those incidents is a major contributor to the stigmatization of the political left - the socialist. That I would think is caused by massive propaganda and scare mongering throughout the 20th century.
there are fps games with more people in the same area as mmos...
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I don't know if there's such a site, but for C++, I had an awesome time with C++ Primer Plus by Stephen Prata. I love coding books with lots of exercises to do at the end of each chapter and this book has tons of them. Try it out!

It's moderately easy for beginners to dive right in but I recommend already knowing some amount of C beforehand.
Aorta wrapping was actually pioneered in the 1950's, before the graft replacements that the article mentions, but generally the wrapping had a poor result and was abandonded as a technique. (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802172/pdf/anns...)

Generally the trend in vascular surgery these days is to less invasive procedures such as a stent graft.
I guess the Llama got sick of its ass being whipped.:/
Nooo... This is a bad, bad day! It would really interesting to learn more about this company and how it survived for 15 years in a very competitive market.
I loved WinAmp - now I'm using Vox on Mac. It is much more basic but it's very polished and is the best of the players I tried http://coppertino.com/vox/
I still mostly don't know what happened when Obama used Mixlr.

Yup. Huge opportunity missed - they should have hired a real writer to tell the story, instead of "this happened, then this happened, then ..."
Whoops. I'm not so sure a Robin Williams based RTS would sell. (Though he's been in enough movies, you could probably have 3 entire factions based on his characters.)
like Obama taking money from companies despite opposing the Citizen's United verdict

It's still illegal for corporations and unions to give money to political candidates' campaigns, or coordinate their own spending with those campaigns. They are free to give money to advocacy groups to run ads with a political message, or run their own ads, but that's not the same thing.
In college that happened to me when an author came and spoke about their work and when we asked them about all of the meanings and "hidden truths" we had been debated we were told they were all unintentional and had no deeper meaning.

Really took a lot of the magic out of reading books for me when I started meta analysing the discussions and the probability that there was no intentional hidden meaning in many of the stories we were reading.
You should read about MC02. When the wrong side wins, they just change the rules and start over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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You think all of the benefit money wasn't in equity markets before 401ks came about? You are taking one potential impact and over exaggerating in every case, but especially in your housing bubble theory.
My thoughts exactly. It would be great if they would open-source the code.
Well, for one nothing lasts forever and there's no such thing as "the long run", so it's true that monopolies can't be sustainable. But the idea that they need a government to prop them up seems to lack a factual basis. De Beers seems to have lasted a pretty long time -- did they need the government in order to last as long as they have? Does the fact that they will collapse "eventually" (which, of course, all things must) make acceptable the massive rent that they've taken?

Power is power. As soon as one actor gets it in one domain, it spreads to another domain. Even if we had some completely laissez-faire economy in which there were no monopolies, as soon as one arose it would begin to get the laws changed to favor its persistence. It would then look as though it was government regulation that was propping it up, but the causal force was the monopolist, not the government.

The way to prevent this is to maximize the control of the people over the government, and make sure that no unaccountable-to-the-people entity gets too much power. I.e., the people must take an aggressive stance against rent-seeking monopolists in order to maximize competition, progress, and the overall growth of wealth.
Some CSS issue. Fixing it.
What's the closest thing to Hacker School in SF?
Does anyone have experience going through alternative coding education programs (as opposed to colleges, books, self-study)?
No reason to use a proprietary music player.
Not refuting what you're saying but also... they could just kill the API keys.
No need, the NSA is already archiving them for us.