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OK, fair enough: HE-AAC had been out-performing the leading open source audio codec for a while. Easy to forget primarily because even after many platforms supported HE-AAC, it wasn't necessarily common across all media. I really saw it explode on the internet around the time DASH streaming became more common, since adding new audio formats was much less expensive.

That being said, I still think Opus is better now, since it is more versatile. I've yet to see anyone use HE-AAC in a real-time context, unless they're using it under a different name.
Service to others. Gratitude. Exploration of the edges of discomfort. Surrender to this experience.
Heh, well, it's (mostly) optional. You can buy a new bike off the showroom floor and ride it for years without ever updating anything or, really, even using any of that new-fangled techno-electro-logical crap. :-)

Modern Harleys, however, have a lot of electronics available, if you want to take advantage of them. I've got a touch-screen unit that includes GPS (including turn-by-turn navigation), SiriusXM satellite radio, Bluetooth (for phone calls or playing the music on my iPhone through the bike's very well-equipped "Infotainment" system), a USB port (for updates and playing MP3s), a security system, a garage door opener, and so on. Other models might have CD players, CB radios, etc. The lower end/cheaper models typically don't have much more than a speedometer. Some of these are, easily, $50,000 bikes, though.

The software updates are dead simple, too. Download a file to a USB stick, plug it in, turn the ignition to accessory, and... wait. It shows the progress/status on the screen and takes maybe 10 minutes from start to finish. Someone like me (more "tech-y") usually gets the USB flash drive set up when an update comes out and then we all just pass it around when we get together for a ride or something. Others don't care and don't bother ever updating.

Even the "grumpy old-timey bikers" like their tunes. :-)
So nobody should ever vacation in or visit China?

Even if you were to avoid explicitly giving money to Chinese businesses, it's probably impossible to buy any moderately complicated manufactured good without indirectly supporting China's economy.

Why do new accounts pop up to shittalk China every single time someone writes a piece like this. Paid Taiwanese shills?
I wasn't referring to you specifically.
So, how many of your devices are devoid of components sourced in China?
Here's one of the stronger models we've gone through.

https://github.com/tensorflow/minigo/releases/tag/v199
I've been having similar issue. But mine has been locked for about a month now. Coinbase people. If you're reading. Please help!
> business domain experts (seemingly now called 'product managers)

I wish they were called product managers. It's been my experience that what starts as product management slides in to project management, as the product managers are not interfacing with customers or crossing department lines for requirements gathering.
Moral superiority is a huge myth, usually its use is coupled with what aboutism fallacies anyways.

There is much that China can improve irrespective of the situation in other countries. Besides, when someone criticizes the USA, no one ever points out that China is worse, even when it obviously is. It isn't relevant.
reciprocity is also social pressure. nobody said that social pressure is bad.
So you own nothing made in China?

Question: What did you type this on?
Huh, food for thought. I may end up writing a blog post about this whole ordeal, and I think that's an interesting takeaway from it. "Training humans to act like software bugs" in particular is an interesting turn of phrase. Thanks.

Anyway, to be honest -- and this reflects not so much my unfamiliarity with the law but my quasi-familiarity with it, having worked as a legal assistant -- I was actually afraid of bringing lawyers into the mix. At some level, I feared that this newly monopolistic, venture-backed company would be more than willing to see me in court and would somehow manage to win, leaving me with crazy lawyer fees.

It's sad that this was my train of thought, but in retrospect, it's why I took such a weirdly friendly, almost abject tone with them throughout the whole process. I have known and worked for enough lawyers to know that once you open that Pandora's box with a well-funded adversary, things can get unpredictable.
It was Open Whisper Systems. My bad.
Ignoring the fact that undeveloped land in PA is going for about $3mm an acre, What you’re talking about is commonly known as a subdivision. You need to account for roads, utilities, zoning, etc. im also fairly certain you would run into nimby problems even just by trying to subdivide and sell individual lots.

You would also have no way (that I know of) of only selling to people like teachers, firefighters, etc because of fair housing laws. There’s may be an exception for military.
HK is a Special Administrative Region (the HK SAR). To be honest, all these acronyms are confusing anyways (an SEZ, a SAR, the TAR)...
Unfortunately that's not where the licensing ends - HEVC pools also charge for content distribution. Hence why you see companies like Netflix in AOM, despite them not having to pay fees for the hardware itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding#P...
cough Tim Ferriss cough
Spend some time contemplating all of the ways that the modern surveillance state oppresses minorities, all of the drivers of income inequality (both domestically and globally), how few people actually benefit meaningfully from automation, and get back to me about how my "pessimism" is unwarranted. FFS, software has lowered the barrier to warfare so far we're bombing somewhere between five and ten (I can't even keep up) countries currently, and it isn't even generating column inches in the local paper.
On servers, you're already booting a Linux kernel. IMO, it's simpler to boot an older version of Linux that ultimately shares almost all the relevant code with your production version of Linux than to have two entirely separate codebases.

For example, if you fix a bug in an upstream Linux driver needed at boot time, then both your production system and your bootloader will automatically get it (once you rebuild and reflash). With the traditional UEFI setup, you have two separate codebases, each with their own sets of bugs. I don't see how that is simpler.
But it has blockchain and AI. Blockchain. And. A. I.
I don't understand, you seem to be drawing a false equivalence between any sorts of government action.

Claim: "Campaign lobbyists are giving coal an extra advantage by helping coal dodge regulations."
Your response: "We would have more wind farms if it weren't for bad regulations."

These two claims seem like two ships passing in the night. I agree with both of them.
the web didn't. But your point about arrows is well taken. Today, the gravity arrow points toward the money. But I don't think that's some immutable law of nature, i think it's a local maxima (a very deep maxima)
I'd have to disagree with your point about CEO's having rare skills. CEOs appear to not be rated against anything. you have giant failures like Yahoo under Mayer or the executives at Toys R Us giving themselves bonuses as they are going through bankruptcy. Instead of not getting compensated for their failure they are getting amounts of money that most Americans could retire in.

When the business does well people say it's due to the CEO, but when they fail people argue about how bad it might have been. There's no way to know. It seems more like a scam vs investors or employees than some measurements skill that actually merits compensation
This excerpt is interesting:

"One thing I found problematic with WeChat is that unlike Hangout, for example, it doesn't store any of the conversations on the backend. There's apparently a “we're not spying on you” angle to this with regards to Tencent providing this service to users."

Yeah, but then just a couple of paragraphs before, they were mentioning how WeChat provides translation services inside the app. I highly doubt that this is being handled in the device itself.
This is an urban myth, unfortunately amplified by the ACLU, that will never, ever die.

The following link will take you to a multiplicity of HN posts describing why the "100 mile Constitution-free zone" is false:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Almeida-Sanchez&sort=byDate&pr...

The short summary is: in order to be searched under the border search exemption, law enforcement either needs probable cause (like in any other search), or a demonstrable nexus to an actual border crossing. If you happen to live 5 miles from the Mexico border, the police cannot in fact search you at random, nor can CBP or ICE.
I faced this too, my coins were locked by Coinbase for more than 3 months (due to mismatch in name and my ID) and I could not reach out to anyone in support, although I submitted requests and placed calls. Their ID verification is fubar, I really don't know how it was deployed.

Their phone lines were always busy and the person on the phone was unhelpful and actually gave me false information that my account would be enabled. It took another couple weeks after the call, for it to be enabled. I will not do business with them again, and urge everyone I know to do the same.

When there are threads about finding their HQ in meatspace [https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/comments/7majpn/this_is_co...] to confront them, you know you're dealing with a really shitty business. IIRC their correct address is 13+ Floor, 1 Front St, SF for folks in the Bay Area.
I don't know about other people, but my DAS keyboard was made in Taiwan, which some consider not to be a part of Mainland China politically, at least.
If you have cash in your account rather than just various coin, you may be able to file a complaint with the FDIC.
You're right, I don't live there.
By visiting Silicon Valley am I supporting the US government's covert wars, extrajudicial drone strikes and interference in the affairs of other countries? Not in any meaningful way. This is an absurd argument.
Exactly. And that is why you won't see small or even mid-sized companies arranging their taxes like this: it's just too expensive.

Only big companies -- Apple, Nike, Amazon, Google -- can afford to save international taxes like this.

IMO, the better solution is 100% sales tax (ala the US FairTax proposal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax). Companies avoid paying corporate income taxes far easier than avoiding sales tax.
I like the show. With that said, I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and the show (i.e., the character Chidi) mentions philosophers and concisely recounts their views in broad strokes, but I can't recall an instance where it invites the audience to understand an argument as such; more like, "Kant thought X, so maybe we should X."
Closest I know of is https://www.enigma.co/#catalyst. Which is built on top of Quantopians Zipline
Or maybe certain professions have a limited number of openings, which tend to go to people with connections, and cooincidentally these professions deal with large amounts of money, so taking 1% commission on a hundred million dollar deal for very little work seems reasonable.
I almost wish we could forget for a moment that health care in USA is expensive, and pay attention instead to how quickly it is getting so much more expensive. Let's just stop the worst of the bleeding, and worry about solving all the problems later.
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I always thought it a design flaw in OSes that always keep EFI partitions mounted (and writeable).

I also read horror stories where someone bricks their pc/laptop by corrupting the UEFI (not the EFI partition, the actual firmware).
Are you aware that the Linux Foundation employs Linus Torvalds? And that a very vast majority of Linux (and most other) open source development is done by developers who are paid employees of major corporations like Red Hat, IBM, Oracle, etc? Some people seem to have the idea that it’s developed by hippie volunteers living in a commune, but the fact is, open source development is done by interested parties who are typically employees of corporations who stand to benefit from their work. And that’s okay.

As a donor to the Linux Foundation, I don’t find it creepy. Same goes for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Free software addresses a fairly limited universe of software, and often is bankrolled by some other monopoly or quasi monopoly. Where would web standards be without the trio of Google (advertising monopoly), Microsoft (operating system monopoly), and Apple (brand-marketing driven fashion company)?

The value of the patent system is that it permits decoupling. Compare the Wintel monopoly to the decoupled ARM ecosystem. It wouldn’t be better if mobile chip R&D had been bankrolled by Google’s say search business or Apple’s cell phone business instead.
I agree that this is a drawback or a common gotcha for the Unix behavior which would be more user visible with the NT behavior, but to anyone advocating the Windows way I would ask: is it worth getting this fringe detail "right" by making every unlink(x); open(x, O_CREAT ...); into a risky behavior that may randomly fail depending on what another process is doing to x? On Windows, I have seen this type of pattern, a common one because most people aren't aware of this corner case, be the cause of seemingly random failures that would be rather inexplicable to most programmers. (Often the program holding x open is an AV product scanning it for viruses, meaning that any given user system might have a flurry of race condition causing filesystem activities that may or may not conflict with your process.)
There isn't really another way to fund Fraunhofer institutes — they're supposed to turn theoretical research into something that can be directly applied ny corporations, so they have to have an incentive to create something like that. With funding through patent fees, exactly this happens.

The alternatives are government funded research, or companies like Google doing it all internally, but then Google will keep some of it as trade secrets, which is also undesirable.

I don't think there's an alternative if your goal is go keep all research publicly available and in a way that any company can easily license it.
Lots of people in public works construction would support such logic!
So this is where you change things.

You get a company out of this service, and then you tell your employer to actually pay your company. The good thing is that they save on various payroll taxes, so they should actually kind of be ok with it, right?

Again, this is all kinds of rotten, but I don't know how else we can raise the attention of lawmakers _around the world_, but put the tax-planning power of billion dollar corporations in the hands of individuals.
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Agreed. As a user (and developer) it's always so obvious when an app uses a JS framework stuffed full of AJAX calls because it always takes a few moments for the elements on the page to start to appear. It always just makes me think that the app has crashed.
I get your point but where do you draw the line? It seems pretty subjective. Who truly starts off with nothing?

EDIT: spelling
> They could have done the same for the Apple //e.

Well, actually, they did, there was Gus (for the IIgs, but that would run IIe stuff, of course). In fairness this didn't have wide distribution and is best described as unofficial, but it existed. http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=14109&keywords=gus

Anyway, I actually do agree the 5K iMac is a nice computer for the right person. I don't like high-end AIOs because I rarely upgrade all the components simultaneously, but I can't deny it's slick.
You could color the 1s and 0s - so the image is more obvious and enhanced.
It's amazing how many people buy his story, given he grew up in Hamptons, went to boarding schools all his life, went to Princeton with no student loans, etc
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All work is of equal cost. Not all work is of equal value.
Yes, I should have made that clear. And I agree with your comments.
I participated in at the time a no name incubator on the east coast(decade ago). Only one of the ten companies got funding and its founder had offers already going into the incubator. Offers all from his rich VC father’s other wealthy friends.

I’d love to see a list of all the successful founders who came from extreme poverty. Middle class startuppers have one or two shots at it if they live at home with a relative. The rich kids can keep trying and learning from their mistakes until well they become richer.

Such is life.
This is a tale as old as Coinbase. No response until the customer calls them out publicly.
Thus proving he was correct, lol!
The result of printing too much money.
The US (along with the democratic free world) may have its own problems but it absolutely can claim some sort of moral superiority in many areas.

You cite Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Well, you can freely support, advocate, demonstrate or petition for their cause, in the open.
Let me know how it goes for you if you were to try defending political dissidents in Russia, China or North Korea.

The fact that we can debate these things in a public forum is proof of our moral superiority.

This does not mean there aren't plenty of things we need to learn from these non-democratic societies.

We just don't need to reject our moral beliefs to do so.
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It gets better: the manufacturer is likely charging for that cable because integrating with MirrorLink requires you to undergo certification, which requires you to be a member of a consortium, which is not remotely affordable for the average person.

Apologies if my memory’s rusty; I may be getting some of the facts slightly off. But at one point (2012/13-ish) I wanted to build my own in-car entertainment system. ML seemed like a great way to build the part I wanted to build while still having an amp and basic FM for when that didn’t work correctly. It all came to a grinding halt when I found out only certified stuff would interoperate.
Governments are not going to be able to stop this from happening without massively invasive laws against what software people can run on their computers, public access to encrypted communication and private exchange.

Governments will hopefully be forward thinking about this and accept the changes that technology brings. Ultimately it's government's responsibility to accommodate social and technological trends, not vice versa.

Some of the worst chapters in human history came about when political authorities tried to resist the tide of change, like President Franklin Pierce who pushed back against the abolitionist movement pre-Civil-War by approving the expansion of slavery westward, and thus setting the stage for the war to come.

In recent decades Western governments have been reasonably enlightened when it comes to technological change, as in the case of abandoning export control laws barring wide dissemination of strong cryptography in the 1990s, and the institution of safe harbor laws, both of which facilitated the growth of the internet. I hope they carry that philosophy toward cryptocurrency.
The joke at the end of the article was really inappropriate. Shame on CNET.
The alternative is... honest business practices.
>For example, if you fix a bug in an upstream Linux driver needed at boot time

Or, for example, if there's a bug in a Linux driver, neither linux nor the bootloader (which is also linux) will work.

>With the traditional UEFI setup, you have two separate codebases, each with their own sets of bugs.

Except Linux is a multi-megabyte-clusterfuck, and the bootloader likely is simple and easy to understand/debug, and will keep working as long as the hardware it needs to boot remains the same, which is usually the case.
Julia's flexibility in the numerical space is why it's my daily driver language for prototyping and implementation nowadays. Truly a fantastic language.
Makes you wonder how different the world might be if society provided a similar safety net for aspiring entrepreneurs (at least psychologically) as coming from a wealthy family.
CEO pay has been skyrocketing not because they have gotten more important, but because they're all sitting on each others' boards giving each other pay raises and because CEO pay is public knowledge, they just go back to their board and say "look what I'm now worth." It is a regulatory problem and a power problem.

It is laughable to think people have that much extra value. Those are teachable skills, and the cost of that education is not nearly as much as is being spent.
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Many if those posts are written by your favorite authority on this topic: you.
Personally for me, if I had some basic income, I'd be more willing to take a risk and potentially create hundreds of new jobs.
The truly poor do.

Although even they have, at least, access to the public infrastructure of the nations that they live in. France, Kenya, China, Argentina, the US etc.

It's not much... but it's something.
> JS will be "mature" and infinitely more productive once basics like modules are implemented in all servers and clients. It will get better eventually.

JS is in a really weird and unique place as the only programming language available for browsers (assuming you want it to work on all browsers). Think about that, when's the last time you've been constrained to a single language outside of the web? Since everyone has to use it, changes in the language itself have to be extremely slow, otherwise it breaks existing stuff.

Any discussion of JS is inherently phenomenological because there's nothing to compare it to. I personally would love it if we simply started from scratch and slowly phased JS out. I'm sure attempts have been made :/
Conveniently avoided the first question!
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I feel really sorry for all of these people caught up in the Bitcoin craze and relying on it for income to survive. With a small percentage of people owning large percentages of Bitcoin, it will only take a few of them selling to drop the overall price and the people in this article will lose money.

Not to mention all of the exchanges that have gotten hacked in the last year.
That's your team's problem. Optimizing single developers for "getting their part over" is not contributing. Software delivery is not like taking tests in school. It's team delivery over multiple release. The only wins are group delivery.
They all cite my second favorite authority: the United States Supreme Court. The Court heard cases --- more than one --- directly about this question.
you don't even have to shame Microsoft Azure. Tweeting @azure is legitimately more useful than a Premier Support agreement.
I've come to realize that hard work is not what we get paid to do from 9-5 each working day, but what we choose to do with our spare time that either improves or degrades our position in life.

And it is the thousands of choices from early years through middle age that separate those with rarified skills and high wages from those with common skills and envy for their higher paid, lesser working (now) friends.

It does not matter where you start. When you spend most of your life studying or smoking dope, the end is predictable.