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I think you are misunderstanding something. And also assuming a lot more is going on than it actually is.

First of all, the songs are the main part. All of the rest is just secondary. You can not talk about anything related to Vocaloids without talking about the voice synthesis software, the voice banks and the songs using them.

Secondly, most animations that may or may not accompany songs are little more than slide shows with moving elements on the screen. Many songs don't even have that. Many only have a picture.

Thirdly, out of the songs that become very popular, some get fan made choreographies. In this process, motion capture using a Kinekt helps a lot, but you need to do fine tuning for a smooth result.

Each of these steps is within the realm of what a single very dedicated person can do.

Also, there is no such thing "the voice is synthesized from several people and effects" . Each voice bank has a single donor. And you can purchase the Vocaloid software and voice banks and use them without restrictions.

Sure, if you want to make a concert and charge for tickets, you might do the choreography part more professionally and use fancy projection technology, so people actually have a reason to pay for those tickets. Otherwise people can just compile a concert themselves and project it in their homes. I did just that for my family to explain the phenomenon to them.

As for your last paragraph, I don't think I can convince you something fictional is not "fake". You shouldn't expect animation to look real because that is not the point of animation. As for lacking emotion, I bet you have not heard songs that try to do just that instead of being gimmicky.
Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFvN-idN1s
This was made by just two people. One did the music and lyrics, the other the illustration and video.
The strange fate of a person falling into a black hole
I've been working on a similar python webserver + webview GUI from that used in this repo, but aren't there security concerns of just opening it up to the local network? Aren't you exposing your entire API to any app on the same computer?
Looks like this is the slide deck for a presentation. Unfortunately it's indecipherable without the words and context.
The idea that mental health information should be a part of background checks is a pretty tough row to hoe. With crimes at least there's an ostensibly fair trial that determines the guilt or innocence of the person; with mental health there may or may not be any kind of trial but the resulting embargo on your gun rights will be just as real.

Further that would incentivize people who might be struggling with mental illness NOT to seek help, lest they forever find themselves unable to own a gun. Is that what we want? Discouraging people from seeking help?

Finally, there's absolutely NO incentive for the people actually executing the background check system to "be reasonable" such that if you had a nervous breakdown in college at 20 years old from trying to take 21 credits so you could graduate before your scholarship ran out (as a totally contrived example) should that really prevent 40 year old you from owning a shotgun to shoot clays? I might argue "no" but the bureaucracy has NO incentive to allow it and EVERY incentive not to allow it. There are no real repercussions for taking someone's rights in a nebulous and opaque manner but large repercussions if anyone, anywhere ever who has any kind of mental health history ever gets a gun and uses it murderously.
This seems very one-sided, skewing towards type-theory and functional programming.

Is that what is taught these days? No wonder people think that's all there is. :-(
I think the reason people do gradient descent is that the datasets are too large to solve for all inputs simultaneously. It isn't impossible in theory, really.
Could anybody find the argument? I couldn't.
I use DDG on my non-work machines. Google is better at finding stuff for programming, particularly the random error messages.
Well, you're got a point, especially with modern retention holsters, but it's still a major issue, and those holsters also slow down the draw speed of officers (but one defeated the Boston bombers' after they murdered the MIT Campus Policeman, that murder was for naught).
It seems to me that pneumatic tires were the missing piece of the bicycle puzzle, and that required vulcanization to first be invented. The first bikes didn't have chains (rather they employed direct drive, ie pedals attached to the front wheel) so the author is pretty far off base in trying to draw that connection.
> which would make Gnome and its components impossible to run on systems without systemd.

This is my main complaint. Most programmers know that coupling separate components is a bad idea[0]. After a while, the two components merge; they will begin to interface to lower and lower levels of each other, with the result being a giant mass of interdependent spaghetti code.

Your choice of desktop manager should not, in any way, dictate which init system you use. And with system taking udev and everything else with it, it may be almost impossible to separate out systemd ever again.

[0] I was going to link to the Stevens paper, but even wikipedia has an article about the problems of coupling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_(computer_programming...
While at the same time they beg Congress to expand the cap on H1B's...
This article is an ignorant POS.

The NRA hates smartguns for at least 3 reasons. First is the government is trying to force an unreliable and complex feature onto a product that needs to work every time. Second is the government has no plans to use it themselves, which speaks volumes about what their LEOs and the US military thinks of the reliability this technology. Last is the government is trying to solve a people problem with technology. BTW, these people problems are the result of Democrat's policies in gun-free cities such as Chicago, St Louis, Oakland and Baltimore.
Ask HN: What steps to take to maximize hire-ability and salary as a PM?
I'm entering my senior year of undergrad in a non-CS STEM degree. When I graduate I will have several tech internships and two years working in a PM type role as well as a few Agile certifications.

What can I do now to maximize my value upon graduation? It seems that certifications are fairly divisive for PMs.
I've never worked on a successful smartphone SoC, so I couldn't tell you. I have worked on successful client parts (Haswell, Broadwell, Apollo Lake) that were similarly separate and we were able to divide the work sufficiently to make the multi-geo effort work.
When trying to find things in MSDN, it's often faster to Google it than it is to use the internal search. I can load and read a StackOverflow page before an MSDN page has even loaded.
Other appearances by the same author in HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11206649 (stealing books from a monastery via a secret passage)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350046 (policing by helicopter in Los Angeles)
The argument I have heard is that a universal background checks system would require the government to keep a registry of gun owners to be at all useful. You have to be able to go back and prove whether a seller performed the proper background check before selling a gun to a particular person.

A possible alternative I thought and have always wondered why it doesn't get used would be some sort of private public key cryptography where the seller would get a signed certificate proving they ran a background check and it's result, but the government wouldn't store anything.
The earlier offering was Azure Logic Apps, which is different than Microsoft Flow.

Logic Apps is offered as part of Azure and is targeted at developers and IT shops. Logic Apps are much more about heavy weight integration (e.g. business-to-business communications, back-office connectivity to SAP), akin to Biztalk. Details here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app...

On the other hand, Flow is aimed at business end users with light weight connectivity / automation needs (e.g. the examples in the video on the home page). It does not have support for a lot of things devs or IT need, like source control, monitoring, scripting, etc.

Disclaimer: did dev work for both. Hope that helps!
As far as I remember, the drama didn't start in 2010. I'm not sure if it started with the epic Debian tech-ctte discussion in late 2013 or earlier than that, but probably not much earlier. The blog post that first introduced it might not be the best place to look for reasons for all that drama.
I've never actually heard the Microsoft version.

The IBM version is well-known and I've heard it despite being young and startupy.
Right, so the issues that he seems to have - I see the main issue is that some software links directly against systemd libraries. That is indeed not very good.

However, his issues about the difficulties of swapping over packages - well, he has his own distro and he's actually worked out after a bit how to replace it with System V. Linking libraries is not very good, but that's surely more of an issue with developers making bad dependency choices? or perhaps they find it convenient. And he worked out how to get around it with a shim anyway, which obviously increases his workload, but then again he's the one who wants to diverge from what all the other distros are doing!

Of course, there is the other point in that it could be argued that the SystemV system doesn't have features that are provided by systemd... which would tend to indicate that perhaps it's lacking in a few areas.

He also belabours the point of parallelisation. I cannot understand why he just doesn't change the before or after directives in the unit config files. That's really not much different to the pain of reordering services in the existing System V-based systems!

So I'm really not convinced :-) Anyway, that was rather a fun talk, I liked how he was troubleshooting the issue, more power to him that he got his system in the way he likes it.
Udev (AFAIK a program that recognises and mounts plug-in devices, but I'm not sure) is developped by systemd guys and they recently told that they won't care about the case where it is used w/o systemd. It is an important part of GNU/Linux distros. Tho I used Arch for about two-three years I guess (since just before it switched to systemd as default til two monts ago), and I never had to fiddle with it, so I don't know how it affects people. Gentoo forked it to maintain a version that did not depend on systemd.
I usually pack up for the day when that happens.
Agreed! Political discussion regarding any topic is definitely off-topic. Lets go ahead and flag this as off-topic! Great job Dan!

Tangentially related(or maybe directly related): would you find it off-topic if I were to openly support Donald Trump?

That said(directly related to the above) If you do indeed think that nationalism is a bad thing can you please let us HN reader know why?

As a White Male you're saying that Harikari is bad? Please defend your stance.
You're right, I was unfairly snarky, but quite a few jobs on every month's post try and describe themselves with overly grandiose language without really saying what they do. I just think that job posts on this site reach a fairly narrow and high quality audience (certainly more so than most job sites), and in return it's not asking too much for a grounded, concrete description of what to expect both from the company, and the interview process.

The Javascipt framework part was purely a joke, and I think was probably recognized as such by most people, though again, was probably not helpful.
The idea that mental health information should be a part of background checks is a pretty tough row to hoe.

So tough that many states still absolutely refuse to supply their relevant mental health records to the NICS "instant" background check system. And then there's the screwups, the Virginia Tech shooter should have been stopped by the gun store (and who knows what would have happened after that), but Virginia hasn't forwarded his involuntary treatment order to the NICS due to their confusion and/or sloth.

Or take the Colorado theater shooter, he so alarmed his university psychiatrist that she reported him to its threat board, which she was also a member of. But he soon withdrew, and they washed their hands of any further responsibility WRT to him.
First off, fantastic reply, thanks for taking the time to write it. The typical US strategy is utter dominance of the sea, air, and night. I really do see drones + tomahawks taking out much of the AAA in addition to long range bombers like the B2. Even if stealth isn't effective, a hoard of Tomahawks is going to give any advanced adversary a hard time. The newer Block IV Tomahawks ones are smarter and quite a bit more lethal. The suckers can loiter for up to 30 minutes on station in a holding pattern and be set to all hit targets at the same time. Hitting 4-5 targets is cool, but hitting 20+ at the same time is quite devastating. In the opening of the war in Afghanistan if I recall they launched a cruise missile every 12 seconds on average for 48 hours. Also, they'll use drones (again like the RQ-170, or its classified and armed bigger brother) to find AAA, where it is worth sacrificing a few to sniff out the well hidden AAA. Hiding in the tree lines won't do much to hide from modern UAVs (as I can attest as a former UAV pilot). With the Shadow I could see footprints through wet grass at night with the thermals (as it detected a +/- 0.1 degree C temperature variation).

So in summary, I think you're entirely right. The A10 was meant to be survivable in contested airspace of yesteryear, but gen 5 and the coming gen 6 fighers along with modern AAA would obliterate it. Even not entirely modern but very advanced AAA like maybe the S400, which Iran has, would knock out an A10 no problem. But the US wouldn't willingly put boots on the ground without utter dominance of the air first. You only need CAS when you have boots on the ground, so I see it ultimately as a moot point. China isn't stupid enough to go toe to toe to war with the US, as we'd both suffer heavy heavy casualties. They're doing a better job of simply asserting their strength economically and through cyber means, which they're better at than us.
For pure sporting use, if I had an 800-1000yd range less than 2.5h away from me (sigh), I'd probably build/buy a Palma rifle in .308, at least as long as my eyesight supported it.
Google lets you prune already-solved parts of the search space. I have a deep understanding of the technologies I work with, but that doesn't mean I remember the three lines of code that you use to slurp a file into an STL string, for example. Stuff like that isn't worth the brain space.

I guess I'm just restating the Einstein quote more verbosely, but it's absolutely true.
I was thinking more like parties interested in sabotaging the line of research due to personal vendettas against the scientists who would gain from this success, or those who have ideological reasons to block what may be discovered using the technology. I realize this may be far-fetched conjecture, but I'm just sharing my thoughts.
> Right now an addon - with enough grease - can do anything that C code in the browser itself could.

Yes, and that is a bug that has blocked enormous improvements in Firefox's speed, stability, security, and fundamental architecture for years. This is going to be a painful transition, but I'm confident that the cure is better than the disease, and that the long-term cost to extensibility will be less than predicted.

Maybe I'm wrong, but this feels similar to how the Web itself lost many capabilities and existing projects with the move away from native plugins. We no longer have Java or Flash to circumvent limitations in the Web platform, but in my experience, the Web managed to sufficiently narrow that gap so that I don't miss them at all. I certainly wouldn't turn back the clock, given the chance.
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>>The solution is to make it extremely difficult/costly for them.

You realize that it's you who pays for it in the end, right? It's called taxation.
I enjoy audiobooks also, particularly when paired with the Kindle book. I can fairly seamlessly switch back and forth between reading and listening.

Interestingly - the price of a Kindle book on Amazon + adding audio to it (which comes from Audible) is frequently less than buying the audiobook from Audible.
So, one of the other things I hear people have issues with is the bloat of systemd, about how many other systems and services it has consumed and brought in under it's umbrella.

With that in mind, what would a better init system look like for you?
systemd-lite, with lots of the questionable feature creep removed and really brought back to it's PID1 beginnings?
Something back to sysvinit with it's configuration-as-code, but with modern languages and a general freshen up? Or something else entirely?

It's previously been very hard to get meaningful discussion about this (on both sides of the divide!) because each side is so highly polarised.
The argument I have heard is that a universal background checks system would require the government to keep a registry of gun owners to be at all useful.

Bingo, and the imposition of a registry would inevitably spark our next hot civil war. Best to avoid that....

where the seller would get a signed certificate proving they ran a background check and it's result, but the government wouldn't store anything

Unfortunately, a lot of people are really really bad about keeping records. It would also be open to abuse by the government seizing and disappearing the certificate of someone they wanted to persecute. Heck, the government sucks here, the BATFE's machine gun etc. registry is in horrible shape, and they sometimes abuse that.
Yeah, that's precisely what it does - it's a daemon that interacts with the kernel for hotplug devices, etc.

Is udevd used by anything other than the kernel though? If not, then I don't think it's a huge issue if those who want to use a different init system maintain their own version!
Reasons against smart guns - smart appliances don't work well, never have, never will. I prefer things simple, mechanical and working instead of praying that some Dilbert style company developed an usable software.

I live in a country that has very restrictive gun ownership regime - and yet every person knows instinctively about the gun safety rules:

1. Always assume loaded, unless proven otherwise
2. Don't point it at something you don't want to kill.

I am sure that people will appreciate when their gun starts firmware update or resets during a boar charging at you situation.
The £50 is not common in circulation, not given out by ATMs, and unpopular with retailers.
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Try installing syslogd then in journald.conf you just change storage to 1 and ForwardToSyslog to 1. That should hopefully get your old text based logs back.
Testing a big spacecraft is hard. With a cube sat, you can put it on an air beating and make sure something isn't catastrophically wrong, like the reaction wheels are backwards. You can't do that on a big spacecraft. So instead, there's lots of testing with flight software and a simulator. But what if someone made a mistake interpreting the wheel direction specification to the mechanical body frame, for example?
A little off-topic but this [1] screenshot from their homepage really shows how things are today with OS X running Windows 10 in a VM which is in turn running Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Haha

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/news/images/win10.png
> die a silent death as they don't have cheerleaders [...] I know one or two such extensions myself

Then name them! It is literally my job to help developers interface with and be heard within Mozilla.
The errors I need Google for are almost universally caused by third-party libraries. Back in the day, your software relied on significantly fewer third-party libraries, and/or you wrote the libraries yourself in-house. Languages had much smaller standard libraries. And, you always had direct access to the lowest levels of your system without OS interference, so you could work around or debug anything. So, I had no trouble without Internet just having K&R and manuals for whatever I was interfacing with.
If you X-rayed the cube with the card on top or bottom, I wonder if the card would be distinguishable? I imagine that, if the cube was on one of the sides, it'd be practically impossible to see.
In this article, I like that they talk about the plutocrats being the "0.1%" instead of the more common "1%".

The 1% is NOT plutocrats; they are lawyers, doctors, engineers, that pay high sums in taxes.

The 0.1%, instead, starts to become really "interesting". Glad that they used the right percentage amount.
Much like the sort algorithm that downloads and evals Stack Overflow answers until the list is sorted, someone should make a build tool that Googles any error output, installs possible patches, and restarts the build. It could even see if adding the patch caused a new error and decide whether to roll back or keep patching.
That's probably some component of the rubber/plastic. Maybe a plasticizer. Maybe endrogenic. Or maybe, as others have noted, peanut oil ;)
1 query for every 10 lines of code? 12 years in, and I'm closer to 10 query for every 1 line I write.
Or a question you had years ago. Couldn't find an answer. So you did a workaround and/or forgot about it.

Now you hit the same problem search -- and find you original question. But wait! Now there are half-a-dozen other people with the same problem! So you click on all of those links.

But none of them could find an answer either. Bonus points if there's a guy who comes in condescendingly and quotes a manual or some other standard piece of information -- which is also wrong. This is usually because they didn't pay enough attention to understand the question in the first place.
Do you mean "criminal shot by police/civilians", or shooting-by-criminals?

Pure negligent shootings which happen to damage property or injure/kill people happen at range all the time, and the shooter is by definition a criminal. Celebratory fire, particularly at a 30-45 degree angle, is going to have serious range, even if inaccurate, and is guaranteed to hit something.

Most of the fear of .50 was anti-armor, not so much pure range.

The "DC Beltway sniper" fucktards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks) were under 200m shots, but that's still solidly rifle distance.

Famously, Charles Whitman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman) had many shots resulting in injury or murder at 400-500m. He was firing from a tower, and high angle shooting rewards flat trajectory even more than the distance itself would indicate.

JFK was 81m, also well outside handgun range. I suspect there are a reasonably large number of 50-200m range shootings with rifles (there are very few shootings with rifles overall, but when they do happen); that's easily house-to-driveway-end in a lot of places.
What not neck that down to 6.5 mm, which I've heard works a lot better at those distances.

Ah, and, yeah, the eyesight is also getting to be an issue for me, I should be in bifocals but am putting that off as long as I can get away with it (I don't drive).