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"Too much" inequality. Admittedly, phrased that way it's tautological, but I'm not willing to stuff a precise definition into an HN message. I'm certainly willing to tolerate more than than your average liberal or communist, but no, I don't think a society divided into plutocrats and plebians is a good idea either, as it's actually bad for the market. Indeed, one of the major reasons I'm a libertarian and not an anarchist is that I believe one of the governments main duties is monopoly busting. Anything that gets too big should be sliced into pieces, government or corporation. (And yes, again, "too big" is itself tautological, but again, HN comment.) I believe that people who are only willing to accept one side of that statement don't realize that that "too bigness" will flock to where ever it is tolerated and in the end there's not that much practical difference between "too big" corporations and "too big" government.
If you're arguing for syntactical purity than yes, they are terrorists.

Semantically, terrorism is violence against the state/privileged public, and "the legitimate use of force" is violence by the state, to the individual/disenfranchised public.

Are poor mostly black neighborhoods not under the duress of terror from the "Stop and Frisk" police in NY? What about Operation Northwood? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

Also, just because you find certain actions morally reprehensible, doesn't mean they are. I'm sure we're all missing TONS of context. Also, to quote Nietzsche:

"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

If you can come up with a method for countering oppression that doesn't use force, but DOESN'T involve begging your oppressors, please let me in on the tactic.

Also, revolutionary anarchism is but a branch. You have many forms of anarchism. Most of which advocate peaceful coexistence without the use of force over individuals or communities.

I'd argue that dividing force into subsets of classifications is futile. You have force, you have coercion, and you have power. Anarchists inately believe that force/coercion is corrupting, which gives you a point, but many would agree that, "The war to end all wars is worth it."

So while the end may not justify the mean, The end that justifies all meaning - is something else entirely to look into.
oh, whoops! I had checked and didn't see him mention it - it's behind the link for 'other'. Good spot.
Not anymore than any other abbreviation.

.com = commerce

.gov = gov't

.net = network

.org = organization

These are simple terms associated with the language of those who invented the net, so it's no more specific than asking us to call "feta" cheese by its real name, even though it's not in our language.
I'd say Mozilla/Firefox somewhat counts. They acquired Netscape around 1998, and although they eventually ran Netscape itself into the ground AOL-style, they allowed the devs to work on Mozilla for quite some time. Long enough so they could create what would become the foundation of Firefox (Gecko and XUL, most notably).
On the non-tech side, give caustic soda a shot. The guys are hilarious and it's amazing fun.
Yeah, I bought the same exact set of ear protectors and ended up not using them at all - either my ears are of a weird shape or my tolerance for something pressing at antihelix is lower than average.

So keep in mind when buying these that if you have large or 'stick out' ears the protector might be very uncomfortable. Perhaps going to an industrial safety and trying them on (with your earplugs on! that's important as any pressure on the earplug is bad) is your best bet.
These rich, overeducated elites seem to all be Ivy League style Frankfurt School liberals.

Just sayin'
The nice thing about old, simple software is that the attack vectors are often known publicly and are easy to work around. In the instance of Winamp, older versions of 2.x have a buffer overflow exploit in the playlist parsing. So.. don't load playlists from untrusted sources, something most people never do anyway.
I also recently switched back to Winamp. It just works and it's easy to control.

There's also a plugin called Chipamp which ensures you have all the latest plugins required to play video game music files (nsf, rsn, usf, psf, etc.). This is the best PC tool for listening to video game music.
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TheNextWeb down.
You're confusing and wildy mixing basic human morality with politically/economically motivated laws.
yeah we tried that in the middle ages. It was called feudalism :)
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Why shutting down and not open-source?
In the short term, I'm not too worried: consumers not wanting to enter long/weird domains will probably cause most of these to fade into obscurity.

On the other hand: is ICANN completely broken? This could have more serious ramifications down the road...
UK or not is probably not too important. The surgeon mentioned (Tom Treasure) is at University College London (his surgery is likely based at Guy's Hospital, as mentioned in the OP). This was most likely the beneficiary of a grant for medical innovations, funded by either the NHS or one of the non-profits such as the Wellcome Trust or the British Heart Foundation.

[1] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/operational-research/the_team/TomTreasu...
I consider it an embarrassment that they didn't just increase the range across the board at the same prices, making 32-64-128 the new lineup. That seemed to be the modus operandi under Steve; quietly adding a 4th price point for the 128 felt like a strange move, especially considering that they have an incentive for users to fill up the space with apps, music, movies, etc.
It seems like this site is good for finding stuff that's similar to something that I already like. What I really want is something where I can say: "Here's everything that I like, now tell me something completely different that I will also like".
Exactly. People put the ownness for grassroot movements to legitimize their use of force, AND that of their loose affiliates, but point to the government and question it's actions, and "that's different" /s.

The article makes one great point thought: Many people die, INCLUDING rich people in collapses. They're either extremely confident about this time, or extremely ignorant with how revolutions and power structures usually mix.
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I recently fixed the id3 tags of all the mp3 music I own using MusicBrainz picard. Very useful software that uses a global database of music signatures.
Some mobile app does that on purpose because people tend to make typo when the password is masked. I think it is not a very bad practice considering you entered it a few times already. People who want your password can look at your fingers to guess it anyway.

It's worth noting that I'm not related in anyway to Instagram. I also haven't downloaded the app, yet. I was speaking in common sense.
I have brokered .com domains for many startups over the past few years, and I can say almost every time the domain was fairly priced and a deal was reached without too much negotiating or time wasted.

I really think a lot of startups shoot themselves in the foot by just saying "everything in .com is taken." Well maybe, but that doesn't mean you can't pay $2-5k and actually secure your domain.

What I am saying is shelling out a few grand now for the appropriate .com will save you loads of time and headaches than if you try to brand on non dot-com and eventually realize you can't live without it.
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YES! This.

This graph tells all: http://i.imgur.com/ZxBWh.png

And yes, we've simply learned to ignore it.

The gap of productivity and wealth that is no longer being earned by the working/middle class is being systematically extracted from the market by the powerful corporate class.

The craziest part of this I've heard is that one of the main methods of this market extraction is via the broad use of credit by the working/middle class, who, now that they aren't making enough money to afford basic life, need to borrow to afford it. They borrow from the upper class/bankers and pay interest, thereby funneling even more money into the top echelon of society, even though we're already being systematically squeezed out. All just because they can. Because it is possible to take the money, so they do, each individual entity at each point of decision chooses this lopsided power-extreme optimum, and it causes this extreme imbalance in turn.

And we act like this is all a normal part of society. Because we've been told so.

Why there is not extreme uproar about this is beyond me, but I think it has to do with the fact that the media is also owned by the powerful corporate class, as is the government.

It is sickening if you think about it hard enough. But we don't, because we're told we're powerless to change the society we're in. Which makes it even worse.
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Sounds like the AOL keyword days. :)
Can we just say online instead of 'the cloud'? That's what you mean, does it matter if it's only a single server or a virtualized XEN cluster? No.
I also use subsonic and love it. It's unfortunate that the author moved to a monthly/yearly subscription model. Luckily, I am grandfathered into a lifetime premium membership with a free dynamic DNS address, which is really nice.
Let's not forget his IRA stuffing where he put deliberately undervalued shares into his IRA to take advantage of no taxes on any capital gains inside an IRA (until the funds are removed).

And if anyone challenges the notion of whether or not Mitt took part in IRA stuffing, just look at the annual returns of his IRA versus the annual returns of any investment product offered by Bain.

http://open.salon.com/blog/steve_klingaman/2012/07/25/romney...
They also forgot to mention that at that time, the government branding them terrorists were killing them and their compatriots at many of the labour sit ins.

Usually it's the elite that's quick to justify thousands of death for security, so I'd argue that while deplorable in a moral sense, the acts themselves when taken in context are understandable, as it was war.
OK. Let's blame people who can't use apostrophes instead.
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Eventually these bogus titles will be a thing of the past and the successful tech companies will consist of 100% hackers.
I did not confuse anything, you left the type of right undefined. I assumed that the undefined right could be either moral or legal, whereas you interpret "right" to mean "legal right" unless explicitly stated otherwise. This has been an unfortunate misunderstanding.
end of an era, even though I haven't used it in years :(
It's worth noting that you reached back to 1919. Even though the Occupy movement was based in anarchist principles. From David Graeber's _The Democracy Project_ (an inside view into Occupy):

"It may well be the most nonviolent movement of its size in American history, and this despite the absence of peace codes, marshals, or official peace police. In the fall, there were at least five hundred occupations, with participants representing remarkably diverse philosophies, from evangelical Christians to revolutionary anarchists, and thousands of marches and actions—and yet the most "violent" acts attributed to protesters were four of five acts of window-breaking, basically less than one might expect in the wake of one not particularly rowdy Canadian hockey game. [...] there was virtually no discussion of the first OWS-associated window-breaking in New York itself, which occurred on March 17 [...] broken by an NYPD officer, using an activist's head."

If you don't feel like reading the book, you can read this article, where Occupy anarchists were more criticized for "all this anarchist nonsense - the consensus, the sparkly fingers..." (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111128728...)

(I mean, one must be honest about violence within anarchist history; there exist hawkish people who call themselves anarchists, as no one owns the term. But the image of anarchist bombers is propaganda, made by hyper-violent countries which bomb all the time.)
I agree, I've used foobar2000 [1] for over ten years when Winamp (my previous goto music player) started to get all crashy and hangy for no good reason. It's pretty solid, can handle massive playlists and has nice clean and simple UI with no cruft. My only wish is that they did foobar2000 for Android.

[1]: http://www.foobar2000.org/
>> The way to prevent this is to maximize the control of the people over the government

Oh? How do we do that? We all know a civilized discussion is much more persuasive than cursing and raging, right? -I guess we need to write respectful, eloquent letters to our "representatives", and ask them to pretty-please be less corrupt and keep their campaign promises?

>> make sure that no unaccountable-to-the-people entity gets too much power

An entity that's not accountable to the people, huh? -Such as, the government itself? Or how much sway do you hold over the secret FISA "courts"? What about how your tax money is spent?

>> the people must take an aggressive stance against rent-seeking monopolists

Oh? What about the ultimate monopoly, the government? Or is there some other entity that decides what happens in a country, what's allowed and what's forbidden?
There were also actually more women in computing back then...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/sites/computerworld.com/files...
Interesting to see the list that are still contested (like .corp and .inc )
Server. Cloud. If it's your personal music it's not going to matter whether you have a cluster of servers or your single VPS with a service running on it. This cloud buzz is like ajax of 5 years ago. Can we use the terms 'online' and 'hosted' rather than this vague cloud buzzwordry? It's a plague upon tech sites and tech marketing.
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This is actually a required course at CSU, Chico (my alma mater). I believe it is required at all CSUs and UCs [1]

[1]: https://secure.csumentor.edu/planning/transfer/ge_breadth.as... (Under Area A)
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This makes me really sad.
I learned to code while listening to music using Winamp.
And he wasn't? :p

To be more accurate, I'm simply pointing out that we all have the exact same rights regardless of what a government does/says, or whether one even exists at all.

Our rights manifest themselves in the way people naturally behave.
Sure, you'll hit an underlying platform bug, once in a few years, whether in the RTS or the OS..

But you'll prevent orders of magnitude more bugs that would waste your time debugging in the best case, or hit production in a slightly worse case.
mint.com is coming. I got an invite to the beta for WP8 and Win8.
If you miss Winamp and don't want itunes
At least with winamp, there weren't really any major changes since Justin Frankel left, and what made it amazing back then is still in the program now.
Started using Winamp 1.90 in 1998. Don't think I've ever played MP3s in any other application since. :(
still holding out for clownpenis.fart
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For those that are curious, this release is 3 years + 1 month after the initial iOS release, and 1 year + 8 months after Android.
Checkout the VM (http://code.google.com/p/rhythmote/wiki/RuckusDJ) solution, that is what I use since I have a windows box for my music.
0.07% seems around right for a high-growth company (twitter, pinterest, instagram, etc) in todays market multiples. All of those companies had the rocketship engines lit by employee #50. It took no effort to imagine any of those companies being worth a billion dollars, in which case your stock is worth $700k. The company hits $10B, which is less likely, and you start to encroach on FU money.

If you are joining a consumer company at number #50 that isn't a rocketship, I hope you negotiated your salary well, because there's a vanishingly small chance of the options mattering.
It's possible to make a USB device with a malicious HID (keyboard/mouse) payload, check out Hak.5's USB Rubby Duckie project for example.
It's not about titles, I edited to clear that out.
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The original report, of which the Foreign Policy Article is a summary, is here: http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill...
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There was also the issue of the balance in his retirement savings account. If I recall correctly, it was far beyond what the maximum amount expected from an "ordinary" person, contributing the maximum amounts allowable from even a 7-figure CEO salary for 50 continuous years--ten times as much, or more, in one third the time. The whole business simultaneously screamed "tax avoidance loophole" and "elite privilege".
Your missing the point.
Not that it's worth going on about ad infinitum, but no, I don't agree with "Their developers did not know how to do this [...]" and "they would need to learn how to do it properly".

In fact I assume the opposite - their developers knew EXACTLY how to do this in a short amount of time (i.e. massive overtime), and they would NOT need to learn how to do it properly, AT ALL, because they know what they're doing.
I have yet to see a Wikipedia article that's better written than a traditional encyclopedia entry. You can praise Wikipedia for the breadth of its knowledge, certainly, but the depth?
I think we need a HN corollary to Godwin's law to describe the near certainty that every HN thread will eventually have someone mentioning the NSA.
Although true, does not alter my point.

Also, I don't see that I claimed Rails was a language, but I can see how it can seem I implied that.
Perhaps you're unaware that new humans are added to the world every day. I sure wish I hadn't known the ending to Planet of the Apes, just because it was released before I was born.
Fortunately, 4.4 includes the ability to emulate the secure element, so if your device is fortunate enough to receive the update you might be able to without AT&T being able to intervene.
foobar2000, Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Add/select appropriate entry and check "Global hotkey".

I have Ctrl-Pause bound to Play/Pause, Ctrl-PgUp to Previous and Ctrl-PgDn to Next.
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How is this different from using NFC and tying your Wallet with your VISA card?

I see no tangible benefits here to the end user.
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Just because other people have different priorities does not mean they are naive.
You have to enable a setting to see [dead] posts, and you can't reply to them. That's why people post as siblings, hoping that the banned person will come back to the thread and see their name.
A lot of JS projects require jQuery as well, or include it in some way.

I'm thinking my confusion is because, to me anyway, the description seems to suggest one thing while their list suggests something different.
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There is simply not enough time for either NTHSA or Elon Musk's comments to be true bc there is not enough data to be able to compare him to say GM/Ford/etc in regards to whether or not Tesla's are the safest cars on the road or wether the battery pack makes it more/less safe than the gas powered vehicles that catch fire.
How would the vulnerability discovery work? Is the current code encrypted so that it can't be viewed?

My understanding of the process is that code is written in a language that must be compiled. After it is compiled, it is then "packaged" into an installer file, whose internals cannot be examined. After it is installed, it then consists of a directory full of files which help run the program, but these can still not be examined.

Is it true that the code cannot be seen at all these stages? No way to reverse engineer it?

And by open sourcing, an experienced person could see ways to break the code by causing infinite loops, creating false helper files, using a fake "mp3" file, etc?
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Indeed.

This, among many other things, can add a bit of a context of the period:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1918
How many sites have a like or share button, but don't automatically run javascript to report each visit?
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Because Discover makes far more than that on people who owe them credit and don't pay it off immediately, so it's in their interest to get more people to owe them credit in hopes that they'll keep a running balance.
On Windows, MusicBee is pretty good with lot of possibilites.
http://getmusicbee.com/
You also have to include the risk in your calculations. Let's say there's 5% (or whatever that is) chance for success, you have to divide $700K by 20 instantly. Nobody can guarantee you that any company with less than 100 employees is going to succeed and eventually be worth billions.
I think the major problem with services like this is that they have things at the far ends of the popularity bell curve fall off. Jcore being one of them. Kind of a chicken and the egg problem where people who like any of a number of niche generas come to the site, find it useless to them, and don't contribute. perhaps some incentive for adding new artists could break this cycle? or even just a link in the "Not Found" page tot he contribution suggesting if they like that band to leave their favorites for others.
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It can't, really. There's nothing remotely like web indexing in a crypto currency. Indexing websites is massively storage and bandwidth intensive, something which a distributed blockchain is not designed for. It's a nice idea to make a distributes search engine, but has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
There are emergency/after-the-fact warrants for just those occasions.
That only helps you spot outright fabrication though, doesn't it? I would assume that this only happens in the minority of cases.

The much bigger issue is people trying many different statistical tests until they find the one that "works", removing outliers to make the data look better or just neglecting to mention things like p-values or confidence intervals in the hope that nobody would notice.

Much harder to spot, but potentially as misleading as just making numbers up...
You're right, there it is. Although I see it at number 26.

I would be interested in more details how they came to that number as I'm somewhat confused by the list I see.
So is Snapchat...
(but probably don't fit it exactly)
trek.bike ?

Owning the TLD will probably ensure top ranking in that keyword's search results.
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What do you do at work, again?
"Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!"

My favourite mp3 player during internet 1.0. Good times.