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Our purpose this time being to consider the political meaning of Mr. Snowden and the future he has brought us, we must begin by discarding for immediate purposes pretty much everything said by the Presidents, the Premieres, the Chancellors, and the Senators. It has been a remarkable display of misdirection and misleading, and outright lying. We’ll come back to it, but it will not serve us at the outset.

What matters most—and what it has been the goal of the
Presidents, the Chancellors, the Premieres, and the Senators not to say—is how deeply the whole of the human race has been ensnared in this process of pervasive surveillance that destroys freedom.

The fastening of the procedures of totalitarianism on the human race is the political subject about which Mr. Snowden has summoned us to an urgent inquiry. And it is that inquiry which it has been the goal of pretty much every body responding on behalf of any Government or State not just to ignore but to obscure.

We begin therefore where they are determined not to end, with the question whether any form of democratic self-government, anywhere, is consistent with the kind of massive, pervasive, surveillance into which the Unites States government has led not only us but the world.

This should not actually be a complicated inquiry.

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/events.html
There is nothing evil in preventing people from migrating to MySQL.
The screenshots in the wiki are broken, looks like the URLs for them went bad. Going to give it a try regardless!
It has plenty of room to be perfected and I see no reason to discard the possibility that it could become a legitimate instrument in a concert hall.

There are plenty of possible variables in how you play it - the sharpness, speed and strength of hitting keys... the rate at which you spin the bow... and damping. It might be considered more complex than a piano.
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This is pretty cool for phone interviews, but I certainly do hope that people refrain from using this as their only method of interviewing candidates.
>it's very very cool, but i'm gonna be honest, i just want to pick it apart. as a string musician of many years, it sounds to me like a shitty viola that can play more notes at once.

And viola is a shitty bass violin by the same logic.

You have to appreciate it for what it is, not for how it compares with another DIFFERENT instrument.
Probably a joke.
We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again.

And you should fix it right now. I already got super-bad first impression. Currently your product is just marketing junk shit to me. And you have no way to fix my impression because I won't review your product ever again.
I agree. We originally started to simply deal with GIF compression (MediaCrush was previously known as gifquick) and we have less ground to stand on with respect to spectacular compression with support for more formats. I'll reprioritize the "rewrite the spiel" task thanks to feedback from HN.

As for selecting text on the home page, not much we can do about it. We force your focus into a contenteditable div to allow you to paste images/URLs directly into the page.

Regarding the icon, it just so happens that I had the sneaking suspicion that I had seen it before when the designer presented it to me. So I ran a reverse image search and looked at about a thousand similar icons. I didn't find Miro - if I had, I probably would have asked for it to be different. In any case, I think it's different enough that I'm not worried.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Stroustrup (the inventor of C++) also uses a proportional font. I've tried it a few times, but generally end up using a monospace font due to laziness - I update the software and can't be bothered to change :)
Limited partners keep putting money in because they understand that it is high risk, high reward. They can put a small amount in and be in on the next Twitter. Every investor should put a small portion of their investments into such an investment. Search "investment pyramid".
Specifically, "Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once"
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And now it's $124... HN will do that for ya ;)
I have also an old version of winamp because a melomane of my friends told me the transitions between songs was better in old winamp than in recent one.
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> We all know how H.264 is great. You don't need to explain it again.

You know that, but our intended audience isn't the HN crowd.

I'm sorry to hear that you got a bad impression of the site, but even without any fancy speed tricks (and there are fancy speed tricks), it's still an open-source, privacy-centric media hosting site that I think is pretty damn great.
There's similar ideas being thrown around in the Bitcoin community by using the network to create identities that is cheap for good users, but expensive for spammers, by sacrificing a portion of BTC to the miners of the network (and then showing verifiably proof). See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=140711.0
Nice, but these bug bounty programs must be one of the cheapest possible ways to "outsource" QA work. Paying a few thousand dollars for a critical security hole? That's extremely cheap compared to a regular QA department.

I'm of course not saying that it replaces the QA department, but even if they hire only 1 person less because of these programs it's already financially worth it for them.
He should just couple it to his backlog.

Set a Reserve ($A), and for every reserved hour, ad $B.

So, with a reserve of $50, and 40 backlogged hours (at $1 each), the rate gets $90. Once you have less work on the roster, the price drops. When more gets booked in advance, the price rises.
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Inconsolata for the win. From time to time I get my "change fonts frenzy", but in the end I always roll back to inconsolata.

Only drawback: 'W' and 'w', plus 'X' and 'x' are extremely similar. This is mostly not a problem, but sometimes it can be a hassle.
"If you are long Bitcoin for any appreciable amount of time, it seems you are betting that the Chinese economy will do poorly and capital controls will remain. Then more people will be increasingly desperate to get more money out of the country. Or you may be betting that the Chinese use of Bitcoin to launder money will increase due to the mere spread of the idea, through social contagion."

That's kind of silly. Bitcoin has many uses besides bypassing currency controls.
What's the pros of having Javascript game engine instead of converting existing C++ game engine using Emscripten?
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But it's not untraceable. There's a reason the LOVEINT cases at the NSA were found: because the NSA goes looking for them in a pretty draconian way.

The technical capability to do something doesn't mean you have the legal capability to use it or broadcast it and a good deal of your post is starting to hint at quasi-illegal activity in the first place.
Take a look at Windows Azure Mobile Services
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/tutorials/g...
Giving a break to Inconsolata, trying Cosmic Sans Neue for a change.
Total output volume may be a useful metric, since people may have used a Bitcoin transaction to move Bitcoin from one exchange to another. But a large amount of Bitcoin can be sent in a single transaction.

https://blockchain.info/charts/output-volume

Another popular metric, since output volume can be pumped up by sending the same coins over and over gain, is Bitcoin Days Destroyed.

https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed-cumula...

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/845/what-are-bitc...

Also transactions on the exchanges don't show up in the blockchain.
What evidence was there of this?
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I think the little cool details that make it stand out work really well for short code samples, but I am a little worried they might catch your eye too much and end up being counterproductive if you look at them all day while coding.
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Is this Stallman-humor?
Neat. Really. I really want to use emacs but I find it hard to justify learning all it's intricacies when I'm only going to use it at certain times while programming.

This kills two birds with one stone, gets me off MS Office and into keybind heaven
> A few generic responses to mundane and chauvinistic questions.

If you honestly expected any candid answers from a sitting President that diverged from preset soundbites, I have a bridge to sell you.
No, I don't think it is ok. I never said that, it's you who are putting words in my mouth.

What I'm saying is that mistreating millions is far worse than mistreating a few thousands.

Understand the difference.
Thanks! A much better video since you can see partly how the instrument works. I like his decoration of the instrument, including the text and year in latin; I guess he is planning for this reconstruction to survive the centuries where the others didn't.
Even if everybody were forced to be equally open with their data, this would serve to amplify power imbalances that already exist.

We have fancy technology for analyzing social graphs and sifting through messages, but using this technology requires access to big (or, equivalently, many) machines and the manpower of humans who know how to work the technology.

Hence, groups that are already powerful have an easier time acquiring even more power.

I agree that given a choice between two evils (no personal privacy, or not personal privacy for anyone) I would go with the evil you describe. But I wouldn't be too happy about it. So I think it's worth fighting back.
I does not make sense to interview persons in the US about why they will fly to US, so no.
Stallman-humor is what's happening now on csail-related

https://lists.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/csail-related/2013-Nov...
With inline LaTeX previews, we're already surprisingly close. In fact, I'd say that going all the way would be almost a step back. WYSIWYG is ultimately not an ideal editing paradigm: it wins in the short term, being easy to learn, but drags you down in the long term.

I've recently started using Quora a bit more. Unlike StackOverflow, they use a WYSIWYG editor. I've found this significantly less convenient than StackOverflow's markdown. Similarly, switching from Word to LaTeX was an improvement for most tasks once I got used to it.

Unfortunately, LaTeX has a bunch of its own shortcomings not related to it's non-WYSIWYG nature. For common tasks, I think going from markdown to LaTeX is ideal. Markdown itself is far from perfect, but it's the best compromise I've found especially with Pandoc's extensions.

So here's my idea for a great emacs-based document editor: markdown with inline math previews coupled with a full live preview to the side. All the necessary modes for this already exist (like whizzy TeX and AucTeX's previews), so it should be much easier to put together than a full WYSIWYG editor. More productive, too.
True. What I meant was, I'm just not sure which convention is commonly used when speaking of prime k-tuples.
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Love the idea. Potentially you could fund via a paid tier for business/enterprise use?

Rather than offering more features, you could have some sort of guarantee of length of hosting ie. Pay $299 a year and get x storage for x years? (Choosing suitably generous figures)

Then update your disclaimer on the about page to be free forever for personal use?

I don't know, but personally, this would be brilliant for the business I work at, but we could never use it for fear of hosting being unavailable if you go out of "business". I actually think you're doing a disservice to many organisations out there for not offering that — with the handy upside of having secured incoming funds.

...just a thought.
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Yes, but usually in the context of web development as these are common server side languages for web apps.

pjmpl just meant we don't see a lot of game developer content on here, which is largely a C++ dominated area (with Lua game scripting becoming a lot more common).
At 1/3 of a second to compute a single hash, brute forcing the entire space of possible addresses takes around 45 CPU-years. But computing the hash of every single IP address is ridiculously parallel, so it's trivial to spin up 2k machines on EC2 and brute force the entire thing in a week. Total cost, somewhere under $8k if you don't want to bother owning real machines, less for any organization that happens to need to do similar things on a regular or semi-regular basis.

It's not a trivial investment since that effort only gets you a single IP address, but it's easily within the reach of a vast number of organizations if they have real motivation (read: not a fishing expedition) to reverse it.
Maybe WYSIWYG emacs should use LaTeX on the backend?
This sounds very similar to Microsoft Research's concept 'Penny Black' - which, worth noting, was itself inspired by real postage history.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pennyblack/
Another one of my conspiracy posts: former FBI counterrorism agent Tim Clemente saying the "all digital communications are recorded and stored" and "no digital communication is secure" (he was trying to convince everyone that the government had the Boston Bombing investigation under control)

http://blog.rubbingalcoholic.com/post/52913031241/its-not-ju... (watch the video)
By "only you can delete" you mean "only user with your IP can delete"?

1. Open FF / upload some file, get https://mediacru.sh/<someid>

2. Open Chrome in private mode

3. Go https://mediacru.sh/api/<someid>/delete

4. File is gone!
The thing about "What You See Is What You Get" is that you have to define 'where you get it'. You have to define 'it'.

The implementation will look vastly different if you define 'where' as a printer, desktop, tablet, mobile phone, wearable device, etc. It sounds like RMS means his desktop/laptop computer. On the upside, you have a user archetype: Richard Stallman. A good product manager would start building up a list of user stories:

- As Richard Stallman, I want *goal* so that *benefit*.
I even checked the calendar- for a second I thought it's the first of April.
Unfortunately, recently they started messing with the design and the result is much worse than transition from Winamp 5.3x to better versions.

Multiple playlist tabs, though, are great. Fortunately Audacious has them too.
Are bug bounty programs really all that much less work? My impression is that the offer of money tends to attract a ton of hard-to-decipher half-baked submissions, and someone's got to dig through them all to separate the wheat from the chaff.

(I mean, I used to work on a product that was used exclusively by engineers, and some of the bug reports I got were nearly impossible to decipher. Open that to the general public, on a product used by bored teenagers who like to prank each other, and offer money on top of it, and it seems like hell on earth.)
I agree with this - yet BB programs are still very successful. Why? Because not everyone who knows about websec has a job in the field.
The second thing is, $500 as a minimum reward may seem small in 1st world countries, but in the rest it is close to the average monthly pay.
CampBX also transfers funds in and out via ACH, as well as money orders and domestic wires.

They're also a direct exchange, and if they started to run low on coins (thus driving the price higher), someone would happily provide more coins via arbitrage from elsewhere.
I love emacs, and although I have long tried switching to other editors (I am fairly determined to use web based applications only, brackets is getting close) I havent been able to replace it yet.

However its the only application I didnt know how to copy and paste in when I started using it, its still the only application I use that I dont know how to resize the text in.

It would be kinda nice to see people work on those type of things.
Yep. Basically you're telling an advertising company about everything you purchase.
I asked some colleagues (I am the only foreigner in a 500-sized web company in Beijing) and they were a bit doubful about the money laundry reason invoqued in the article.

Sure, there is a huge business in money laundering in China and, for example, contemporary art overvaluation is linked to this financial pressure. But still, this reason is not necessary to explain the hotness of BTC in China, because just summing the mass effect plus the Chinese appetence to play money-risking games is just enough.
Out of curiosity, what is Stallman a doctor of? Wikipedia says that he did not finish his Ph.D. Or is that one of the honorary doctorates he received?
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You're never the only one, I'm using it too! :)
You == your IP, in this case. We check the deleter's IP against the bcrypted one we store with the file before allowing them to delete it. There's an open GitHub issue discussing alternative methods [1] if you'd like to read some more about it.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/311
True, but Yelp would lose all credibility, so it wouldn't be used to determine anything than dining out.
Reading an updated cert revocation list will only make the player perform worse, i.e., not play some content. Is there any technical reason why a player should not simply discard the new revocation list, and only add any new keys that may be in the updated certificates?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1q41wq/the_bitcoin_...
As others have said, we still has AIMP [aimp.ru]. They're clearly losing on not having a good English website.
>With inline LaTeX previews, we're already surprisingly close. In fact, I'd say that going all the way would be almost a step back. WYSIWYG is ultimately not an ideal editing paradigm: it wins in the short term, being easy to learn, but drags you down in the long term.

That --in the extend that it happens-- is a byproduct of the limitations of current WYSIWYG editors, not something inherent in the idea of WYSIWYG editing.

It's not like we had a lot of brainstorming and innovating solutions competing in this area (in fact, there are only 3, all too similar, major products: Word, Pages and Open Office, of which one has 90% of the users).

Second, what's "inconvenient" and "distracting" for one user, is a must and an inspiration for another.

Not to mention there are several different use cases for WYSIWYG editing, and LaTeX style editing doesn't cover them all. For example it's dreadful for quick experimentation with placement and formatting of small, disparate elements (basically, anything not according to the "spec").

>I've recently started using Quora a bit more. Unlike StackOverflow, they use a WYSIWYG editor. I've found this significantly less convenient than StackOverflow's markdown.

WYSIWYG's strong point is not small website comments.
Yes, constant. For the most important feature it would require two 1k point FFT's and two 1k point IFFT's (possibly reducible to 512 pt) every 22 useconds and for an extended feature, 4k. I don't think Javascript is up to that which is why I mentioned somehow making calls to the native coded FFTW routines. If that can be done from Javscript there should be no problem.

It's actually filtering of the browser's output audio samples that remains a total mystery to me. I'm not sure that even can be done which is why I brought it up.
Is there anywhere to see the preview code?
note, these don't show up on mobile
Yeah. Technically, `foo varchar(n)` amounts to syntactic sugar for `foo varchar check(length(foo) <= n)`.

What the benchmarks show, if anything, is that while the `check` involves negligible overhead per row, the overhead can eventually be enough to make a measurable difference.

Not to mention, the Postgres actually manual says as much as the above, in its description of text types.
Last update 2 years ago ???

Is it a perfect Engine, that need no support, or did nobody use it.
If you're worried about it going away, you can always run your own instance! It is open-source, and the instructions are pretty straightforward if you have a look through the readme. You can always donate [1] to help ensure continued development. Even if it does go under, too, we'll keep the GitHub up and maintain it in our spare time, since we love the project and use it so much for our own needs.

You do have a good point, though. I don't want to force businesses to pay for hosting with us, but I am open to considering other means of monetization. Maybe we could set up and host private instances for people, plus support, for a fee?

[1] https://mediacru.sh/donate
>The implementation will look vastly different if you define 'where' as a printer, desktop, tablet, mobile phone, wearable device, etc.

Not since more than a decade ago, when we started using the same rendering infrastructure (e.g Display Postscript, Quartz, Cairo, what Windows uses etc) for both print and display.

In fact nowadays, with hidpi (retina) displays, you even get similar resolution between the average print and monitor.
C-x C-+ increases font size, C-x C-- decreases font size if that's what you were looking for.
The idea seams really nice, really.

Being easily cynical, I will say that those who currently own Bitcoins are those who would make a buck if it was adopted, so it's not surprising to see that kind of idea there. But that's just me being cynical.
I assume with a site the size of google, they serve a few 404 pages in a day. I'm surprised they don' automatically take the url path as a search term with a 'we couldn't find xyz, were you looking for...' message at the top.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_degree

Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation in the field of Information Technology, has been awarded nine honorary doctorates from various international educational institutions from 1996 through 2011 including the North American Lakehead University in 2009, and now refers to himself as "Dr. Richard Stallman" in speeches, talks, videos and email.
It's clear now. Nice job!
More and more off-chain transactions are happening as well: moving between accounts on exchanges, or moving between accounts on sites such as Coinbase.
Try this:

(defun set-font (font-family height)
(interactive "sFont family: \nnHeight: ")
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family font-family :height height)
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'unicode font-family))

Then, if you have the right font installed, the following will work:

(set-font "Monaco" 140) ; for 14-pt Monaco

or, e.g.,

(set-font "Anonymous" 120) ; for 12-pt Anonymous

(M-x set-font also works.)
I also use proportional fonts for Java to make the code look like it's taken from an algorithms textbook. Also, idiomatic Java as produced by IDEs usually doesn't align variables, so the code looks OK as long as the space characters themselves all are of the same width.

The C++ code I work with usually has more strenuous alignments which are only possible to get right in monospace fonts.
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Somehow his post doesn't inspire any trust.
It's like hearing a drug addict tripping...
Heh C-+ / C-- actually work, at least in my emacsforosx, have no idea when that started working, but nice, one complaint off my list, but its not hard to imagine many more to make emacs more user friendly