skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most Georgia bridges have fifty years before rebuild or replacement. We had our 1000 year flood not to long ago and some were replaced quicker. It is not uncommon to be traveling country roads and come across a recently rebuilt or new bridge.

Now this I85 debacle is purely in the camp of mismanagement and vandalism. The vandalism of course being that a person set a fire sufficient to ignite supposed non flammable building materials that should never have been stored under a bridge. Doubtful anyone in the State will suffer consequences due to sovereign immunity.

What many of us who watched all this unfold is to find out exactly what was stored there and in what quantity. While not flammable doesn't mean it won't burn it should not have been this simple to ignite.

Credit the contractors rebuilding the bridges, damn they are fast when they need to be. Of course another contractor managed to buckle the I20 interstate by filling pipes improperly
All software can be reduced to mathematical formulae, which cannot be patented, so no. There should be no such thing as a software patent.
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Flying cars beyond the cool factor make me very uncomfortable, aside from his joke about a hubcap becoming a guillotine, how do you solve the problem of maintenance? If you require a regime like light aircraft they'd be ferociously expensive, current land cars are already showing remote capabilities that are worrying, shutting down a car remotely is bad enough, shutting down a flying car is catastrophic and then who controls them, if they are autonomous they become programmable aerial weapons and if you human operated they become both weapons and machines for screwups (and drunk drivers).

I just don't see a future for them outside of billionaires play things.
Thanks. I'll definitely give Migen a try. Looks like right up my creek.
AFAIK the secret sauce of ARC is supposed to be the ability to elide retain/release calls when the compiler can prove that they're not needed, which sounds analogous to the escape analysis used in many garbage collectors.
INTEL-SA-00075 Mitigation Guide [pdf]
Software patents are bullshit.

A patent on an invention that many people would easily develop independently of one another should not, it is argued, be granted since this impedes development. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent#Obviousness
The Post Office recently made a rule that all bulk mail needs to be validated through their address verification system. I run the mailing data for a fairly-large non-profit, and this was a fairly substantial change. A non-profit bulk letter costs $.17 or so, which is substantially cheaper than the first class letter rate.

We used to be able to include letters that failed address verification in our mailings, and a substantial portion would still get delivered. This was because the postmaster or the person sorting the mail would recognize errors the computer couldn't and put the letter in the correct bin.

Now if you want to get mail, you need to use your correct mailing address. I get a lot of angry calls because people aren't getting letters, but there isn't much we can do if the person put down their street address in a town where all the mail is delivered to a PO Box.

I'm not saying that is what happened to you, but it's ridiculous how many people stubbornly insist I put an address that is for all intents and purposes fake, when they have a perfectly valid mailing address. I'm not taking sides in these disputes, I just want to get the mail delivered.
MP3 is the worst performer of the lot, but is suddenly more attractive because it's free and AAC is decidedly not. If you don't need compatibility (like for bgm/sfx) it's still a worse choice than Vorbis or Opus because it compresses worse. For sfx and looping music in particular, mp3 is also a mess because there's no standard way to play back samples with zero delay and zero extra samples at the end.
Is .net core a second class citizen? Why dont you care c# clients (npgsql)
Would this add much overhead to a game that may already be taxing the system?
Fedora wiki says:

> However, as of 2016-11-10, Fedora is now able to include MP3 decoding functionality. MP3 encoding functionality is still not permissible, because it requires patented technologies and the patent holder has not provided licenses that are compatible with Fedora's requirements.

So it looks like there are some patents relevant to modern encoders.
That's what I said. But I also said that we have a LOT of people who we still need to do something for, because, as you agreed with me on, there are a lot fewer jobs.

Let's say the average factory before all this started took 100 people to run (making numbers easy). Now, after all of this, and the rise of automation, how many people do you think that factory is going to need? Probably about 10% of that. And for those people, it's great, and we should try to get more manufacturing here to encourage that. BUT, we still need to have a plan for the other 90% of people who aren't going to get those high-paid, high-skilled jobs. They haven't gone away. They still have families to take care of.
Sounds like YC was just another startup in the beginning. Doing a pitch for something that would change a bit later as often with creating new markets or segments. Started with small number of customers (founders). After some experimenting, you seemed to have scaled up.

Not much different than how I see startup process described here. Difference is yours creates other startups and will likely last a while. I've always thought of it as a combo of a fraternity style, boot camp, and mass production ideas all rolled into one thing. Also, you select for founders much like the fraternities at Yale, Harvard, etc select for and create business or political elites. Similar methods but opposite effect in innovation.
I think it's because async. means nothing if you don't specify how, where and when something is async. For starters you can't use languages that don't share memory between threads if you wish to see any improvements by adding async. threading to your non-blocking network code. So Python, Go, Ruby, Javascript, Erlang are all out of the argument when talking about async.

Only C (C++, etc.) and Java (C#, etc.) families of languages that share memory between threads can scale better with async. on multicore processors when it comes to network related performance.

Edit: Please comment if you downvote.

Edit: Now I can't comment, the site tells me I'm writing too fast.
We've certainly seen gunked up stages after landing -- and a lot of the gunk isn't charred paint (or thermal coating), but soot from the rocket exhaust in the re-entry burn, which they can just clean off.
A bit like not believing in the law, something you can scream while they drag you to prison.
> Theymos (Michael Marquardt) controls all the major bitcoin communication channels from r/bitcoin, to bitcointalks, as well as the core slack channel, and the bitcoin mailing list (being the person who sniped bitcoin.org).

Roger Ver, proponent of Bitcoin Unlimited, owns Bitcoin.com. He also runs r/btc. Not as many bullet points as Theymos, but pretty clear that the major channels of communication in Bitcoin are all controlled by parties with specific agendas.
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YC has YC Fellowship, which doesn't require startups to be located in SV. YC also used to maintain an official program in Cambridge, but they shut it down after a few years IIRC.

Everything YC does should be viewed through the reality that YC is an investor. Their interests are not necessarily aligned with the interests of founders, and as the party with the leverage, they can mandate that people move to SV solely based on their personal convenience.

I personally see starting in SV as more of a detriment than a benefit, but then, I'm not trying to start a company that depends on venture capital. In non-SV locations where I know some startup people, VC-backed startups would routinely fly out to SV for pitches and the like, and many had an easy time finding investors after being roundly rejected by the VCs in their particular area.

Investors really don't seem to realize the treasure trove that could be available to them if they broadened their horizons a little bit, but maybe that's because there's really no incentive for them to disrupt what they have going on now. Everything is quite convenient for them with SV as the nexus.
1) For one client who runs a business she sometimes takes a week to pay it. I don't think I've ever had trouble with a client paying except that one I mention.. she got busy and didn't see my invoice email but once I sent a reminder it was paid immediately.

2) I probably should do that but like I said you feel the client out and their needs. I have had to go back to a client and raise the amount I was charging telling them I had to be fair with my pricing and due to their needs was increasing it.. it was only about $300 or so.

Once I made the mistake of charging $500 to a client to do her website and she nitpicked everything to the point where it is now almost 4 years later and the website still has not gone live. I obviously made no money on it, but after reaching out several times, I can't even get a hold of her. I charged that little as a favor to my brother, who recommended her to me, and because she was looking for a "cheap" website -- this was a red flag. She runs a million dollar business but did not want to invest in her website, but wanted to nitpick like she paid thousands of dollars for one. So yeah.. it took me almost a year to get money from her... and when she paid.. she nitpicked even more and the website never even went live.

I always say to my clients: "if you are fair with me I will be fair with you." This statement here seems to make people understand that I am human trying to make a living just as they are. I'm not trying to rip anyone off or anything considering my client base is usually small business owners trying to make it as well.
For new products there isn't really any room for debate anymore, Opus is the clear winner.
The phone and post office allowed this as well, doesn't mean we need to keep with them on a daily basis.
The licensing money have probably helped the Fraunhofer Society do more research. Now whether that is the way you think research should be founded, and whether the net cost to society has been larger than the gain is another question.
I thought the "balance" was and continues to be that Vorbis delivers at least as good a quality as AAC at equivalent bitrates, if not better, better quality than MP3 at equivalent bitrates, and is FOSS which way tips the scale in its favor. I haven't seen and continue to not see any reason to MP3/MP4 in the manner you describe.

(And if Vorbis isn't on par w/ MP4, my impression is that it is certainly good enough at decent bitrates that it wouldn't matter.)
The Google Chrome website installs v58 when I press download, and when I try to install Canary:

"Chrome Canary is currently not available on the Linux platform."
Of course, the government can further intervene by e.g. imposing import tariffs on products that are manufactured in countries that don't have labor and/or environment laws that don't match or exceed the baseline provided by US.
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I worry that articles like this are driven by an unwillingness to grapple with how screwed up the whole system is.

Sure, opaque decisions made by software are creepy. But mostly, they faithfully reproduce the decisions humans (judges and legislators) were already making, and are in fact trained on those decisions. Algorithms are an easy no-guilt target to write about, but I worry that it obscures deeper sentencing issues.
If you'd like to see a few of the lesser-known Romance languages in action (especially from Italy, because that's apparently a strength of this company -- I think they're based there, judging by their motto Non solo parole 'not just words'), take a look around Logos Quotes, where they used to translate a different quotation every day into as many languages as they could manage. There are a LOT of Romance languages out there!

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From what they claim, no.

"Once trained, our system is also extremely fast and compact, requiring only milliseconds of execution time and a few megabytes of memory, even when trained on gigabytes of motion data."
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> Isn't it also possible that when you buy that plan from Yelp, they push your company more and that leads to more negative reviews along with positive ones? But as part of that agreement (they might not tell you they do it), they hide the negative ones (all or some, or maybe even only temporarily) so that your company thrives.

Sure, it's possible that perverse incentives would drive Yelp to such rationalized missteps, my argument is that it would be easy to prove if it's true. But none of the complaining businesses have offered proof, only conjecture.

I'm not "calling bullshit" here, I'm just asking for evidence in a scenario where evidence should be easily accessible if it exists. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.
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Boss: Still, he did something right.
Getting it out of the exhaust of that other rocket is probably job one...
Work - sorta (with enough thrust a brick will fly) - well absolutely not but it's also prevalent in just about every office I've ever worked near.
That looks pretty cool. You do have to make sure to back up your phone.
Are there really a lot more consumers that can afford an iPhone in China?
How Uber Lost Its Way in the Steel City
Is Carmel a place or a company? A quick google did not help me and I'm curious.
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At least you aren't being stupid and weighing the window/door risks backwards leading to installing a double-keyed knob or deadbolt. That's the insanity that happens from poor risk analysis.
I realize this is an argument from authority, but it still holds sway with me: My cell bio professor (M.D./Ph.D from Harvard) used to emphasize often the fact that 90% of vitamins end up in your toilet. Not a crowd-pleasing thought, apparently.
Assuming that what the author says is true and there is a local exploit for non-enterprise versions of the Intel ME, then yes.
Rewrite in Rust!
What if a restaurant gave away all its money?
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society#Notable_pro...
I've been here since ~2009, under my real name account that I don't use at all anymore. At this point, I find it nearly impossible to interact with this forum in any positive or useful way. IMO the quality went WAY down. Gradually at first, starting around 2011. Worse each year.
It probably hasn't been updated within the last two weeks...

Edit: The wiki page[0] links to the Fraunhofer page[1] saying that the licensing program has been terminated...

[0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia/MP3

[1]: http://www.mp3licensing.com/ which redirects to https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audi...
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How to install a custom plugin in Jekyll
Karlheinz Brandenburg at Fraunhofer invented MP3. (And AAC.)

(edit: not Stockhausen, thank you!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Brandenburg
I deleted all my reddit comments at one point, but not before saving an offline copy for myself!

The main difference with a personal diary and online comments is that the former is something only you and your closest companions have access too, versus the whole world for online comments in a public forum

No one knows all of the countless purposes those comments could be used for in future decades. The extent to which such mundane daily interactions are now preserved is a totally new dynamic in human society, and I don't think a bit of caution is unreasonable
While people still need to buy food and clothing, and pay rent/mortgages, yes, they should be.
I get the theory behind it and the syntax/API is fairly straight forward, but I just doesn't seem to be able to write async code :(
I love to be that person that hates on people that hate to be that person.

What I'm trying to say is simple, yet profound.

Mozilla is filled with losers. Literally, Mozilla came out of the ashes of a ridiculous state of affairs in the late '90s called Netscape. Their only contribution anymore is writing documentation.

Google is filled with winners. While everyone was waving their hands around so furiously at Netscape during the dotcom blowup, a mild-mannered young man named Lawrence Page was busy doing it the right way, filled with humility, wonder, and unlimited curiosity.

I can literally smell Mozilla types from a mile away in forums like this.

Thanks for the tabs idea, Mozilla.

Other than that, no... body... cares.
"Rent maybe? There are lots of good reasons to run a startup in SV, NYC, etc. "

Early on, I thought about doing one fairly close to MIT to get talent from over there. Many businesses come outbof that school. So, I figured a bunch of other people are doing it already.
I really like that you use the term "engineers". Columbus has way too many employers that use the term "IT".
Ahhh sure very nice...of course a "meta-selecting" system would almost surely outperform over time, but my experience seems to tell me that employers aren't really into "ebb-and-flow" productivity...they want consistency and dependable "X done in y time" workers.
Ok, fair enough! Though, has anyone ever analyzed this question rigorously with data? I.e. is there a Bill James equivalent in the ice hockey world?

The larger point is that individual stars definitely matter a lot in pro sports. And recruiting and retaining them with extremely disproportionate amounts of money doesn't seem to be irrational for most sports.