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I've used the skeletal animation API (exporting from Blender). It's very cool, but the documentation isn't great (or at least wasn't last time I checked).

Key points:

* if you use the JSON loader, the animation data is in an "animations" array hanging off the geometry object

* you need to create an AnimationMixer and pass the elements of the animations array into its "clipAction" method to register these animations with it

* to animate a mesh, you need to construct a SkinnedMesh rather than a regular Mesh

* you then also need to call the AnimationMixer's "clipAction" method again (for a different purpose this time), giving it the name of the animation and the mesh you want to animate

* every frame, you need to call your AnimationMixer's "update()" method.

(I used this as part of my last couple of Ludum Dare entries - https://github.com/matt-williams/ld36/ and https://github.com/matt-williams/ld37/.)

Feel free to ask if you hit any problems and I'll try to answer, although I wouldn't call myself an expert on this!
I'm not confused about your meaning, but disputing such characterization of the situation. A vote for a candidate is a vote for that candidate, an endorsement of their subsequent actions. Don't get tricked by subjectively slightly "less worse" candidates.
Everyone knows how to fix the problem in the short/medium term. The solution is money. Specifically, money from the Federal Government.

The real behind-the-scenes debate in DC this month is about, first, the best mechanism to transfer funds (direct subsidies, state subsidies, Federal reinsurance pool for the sickest cases, etc ... each of which create distinct winners and losers whose lobbyists are currently out in force), and second, how much of an annual budget deficit the fiscal-hawk Republicans (now led by Rand Paul) are willing to tolerate.

The longer-term solutions have much more to do with diet, lifestyle management, and other behavioral health issues than with access to providers and drugs (e.g. look up how much of last year's medicaid/medicare budget was spent on type 2 diabetes treatment alone). Unfortunately it doesn't seem like we can tackle these issues at scale until after the current debate on affordable universal access to care is settled.
I collected stamps as a kid too, though I did eventually quit. And I still have binders of my old CDs and some of my truly ancient video games. I should probably ditch the lot of it, but we haven't moved in quite a long time and probably won't for years, so the total impact is a few bookshelves and a couple of boxes in the storage room. Not so bad.

I keep my music in my computer which I regularly back up to two different external drives in a rotating manner.

Not because I'm specifically worried about losing my music, but because I just do regular backups in case any of my drives fail and/or I finally get stung by a ransomware trojan (thus TWO external drives; they're never both plugged in at the same time).
Come on, you really behave differently and put yourself at risk if you have insurance? That's at least thinking backward but I think it's stupid. I don't do things when the risk of getting hurt is not acceptable for me no matter if I would have insurance or not. Also it's mostly for disasters so you don't go broke, but if you scratch your knee or something, who cares?
Exactly. There are a number of maps racing for world domination, Apple isn't one of them.
Except that in the context of the discussion it impeaches the WMD example. Specifically 'natch' presents the argument that the government had bad data about WMD development and presented it as fact, so this action presented as fact might be just as fabricated. And my response was (and still is) that unlike the WMD allegations where no WMDs were ever discovered nor precursor laboratories, that some 'actor' (and again could be an individual, could be a group, could be a state actor) "meddled", and that term is imprecise but adequately conveys the difficulty of quantification, in the 2016 presidential elections of the United States.

My claim was simply that the two assertions, WMD development and election interference, had fundamental differences in terms of the factual basis. Which for me makes it an invalid comparison.

Now, had their actually been a WMD of some type and we got wrong whether it had been Iraq, Iran, or Saudi Arabia that had done the development. That would make it more similar to documented interference in an election by one or more actors.

Interesting to come back to this now as even the President Elect agrees with the Assessment that it was Russia that ordered the interference.
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Signal Desktop is pretty bad, but their Android client is top-notch. One of the best messaging apps I've ever used. It integrates with SMS seamlessly, does inline replies directly from the notification, smartwatch support, Giphy support, etc
GWB upped the age of coverage to 25 and the ACA only moved it a bit but gets all the credit. DJT wants to keep the preexisting conditions part and do away with the fines for not having insurance and increased costs of forcing insurers into the ACA by repealing it and replacing it with interstate insurance competition without the bureaucracy of a government managed program. Too bad everyone thinks Obama was a holy man for putting together the garbage that is the ACA, and thinks of any improved solution as an assault on his legacy.
You seem to keep saying the same old thing, but don't really say anything notable.

It's disingenuous of you to imply that GP is talking about a majority other than the scientific community, who know way more than you or me (or GP) about climate change and its possible anthropogenic causes.

[edit: the causes aren't doing impressions of humans]
Well, because it's the best scientific explanation we have. You're not actually debating, just complaining.
If I start a fire insurance company, and I have a policy that you can sign up even if your house is currently on fire, I'm unlikely to stay in business.

Anyone worried about house fires could simply wait and, if they did have a house fire, sign up for my insurance after the fact.

This is why pre-existing conditions are "special" - they are fundamentally incompatible with a free market insurance system. And it is, partially, why American insurance was cheaper previously - insurance companies could simply deny expensive customers and let them die to keep premiums low for the healthier subset of the population they covered.

Republicans were elected to get rid of the "bad part" of ACA - mainly the individual mandate. Saying you want to get rid of that is the exact same thing as saying you want to re-introduce pre-existing conditions, they go hand-in-hand.

Either we deny coverage to those that are already ill, or we force everyone to have insurance (ACA, single payer, public option, whatever).
Thank you. I added your options to the repo and thanked you there too.
Ever heard of an HSA?
Why should religious belief get any privileged position in this matter?
> AT&T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

I thought maybe after the last decade's revelations about the security apparatus, we might be beyond calling people who are a bit paranoid about their security "conspiracy theorists".
>If they start pulling away Healthcare for millions of Americans ... and Americans start dying because of this - well, there will be a revolution of sorts.

Which should be a very strong indication that's not going to happen.

Despite the endless propaganda, Republican lawmakers are neither stupid nor evil.

People are not going to be left uncared for, that's just political fearmongering, and we don't have to fall for it.
Seeing as we're on the topic of encrypted comms, anyone have an analysis/critique of SpiderOak's "Semaphor"?

https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor
Deductibles have shot up as well. Long details short, I have a $30,000 deductible when a pre-ACA plan had a 3-digit deductible. I'm covered, but the ceiling is unreachably high.

Costs have gone way up; they've just re-arranged where the money comes from, and punish you for not putting more money into the system.

Ensuring everyone is covered by making it illegal to not be covered is not an acceptable solution.
This is brilliant! I can't wait to play it on my IIe at home!
First and foremost it feels better.

Wayland is smoother, does not have graphical glitches and everything performs consistently.

Take this (slightly contrived) example: In Gnome 3 you can "zoom" out to panarama view all your running applications, while you have a HTML5 video running in your browser and everything just runs flawlessly, with almost no system-load, and no tearing or any nonsense. All this while you zoom in and out on whatever app or desktop or workspace you want to focus on.

A less contrived example: Vertically scrolling a document in your browser or whatever should never ever tear. Ever. On X11 it often does. On Wayland it doesn't.

My best simple comparison would be iOS vs Android. There's something about that extra little bit of responsiveness on iOS, that jerkyness you immediately notice on Android when you've gotten used to consistently smooth 60fps interfaces... That difference is something you feel.

After using Wayland for a while, you'll notice that feeling yourself on your desktop too.
Seconded. ACA puts a cap on the profits of insurers. They are not just increasing the premiums and pocketing the difference. Most, if not all of the difference is going towards medical care by law.

"MLR measures the share of health care premium dollars spent on medical benefits, as opposed to company expenses such as overhead or profits. For example, if an insurer collects $100,000 in premiums and spends $85,000 on medical care, the MLR is 85%. In general, the higher the MLR, the more value a policyholder receives for his or her premium dollar. The ACA requires an annual, minimum 80% MLR for individual and small
group insurance plans, and an annual, minimum 85% MLR for large group plans." [1]

Source: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42735.pdf
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The GOP essentially came up with the ACA in the first place.
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Because they are in fact living off the backs of their parents. They are in fact living off the money that was funded to them by people who earned that money. Either ask for more money, or work your way through it. Its not too hard.
> I have observed it to be a successful stratagem so far.

On a short time, yes, seems to be very successful. Over a few generations, a less greed "leave some money on the table" approach seems to beat it every time.
The danger is that the mandates can be repealed budget reconciliation, but banning denials based on pre-existing conditions can't. So if the mandate gets repealed before Obamacare is replaced the ACA health insurance market will probably collapse.
I am sorry but your plan would result in people with preexisting conditions not being able to get coverage. The premium increase would make preexisting conditions insurance unaffordable for most people. Also realize that the system ends up bearing part of the cost any way because they would ultimately end up in the ER without insurance. Does the Republican tenant then support throwing people out on the streets without even emergency care? I only ask because most Republicans seem to think the poor are poor out of choice and should suffer the consequences of being poor.
No one seems to understand that preexisting coverage without universal mandate is infeasible.
>>Furthermore, premiums have gone up year-over-year every year almost every year since I've been paying for my own insurance -- and that's well before ACA.

Not only that, but they were increasing at a much faster rate before the ACA. Of course, most people didn't notice, because those who were employed were covered by their employer, and the unemployed were uninsured.
If I were campaigning for something similar to what you describe, I might sell it as a refundable tax credit, which would be no change for people with employer-provided healthcare, and a benefit for the unemployed or self-employed.
I grant that this is particular to ski towns, but it is still a good example of risk pool size [1]. I think the costs will go down when the whole nation is the risk pool, rather than state or smaller pools. To me this makes sense in that, as a Union, Americans migrate for pleasure throughout the States. This means that fundamentally the pool should be the whole country under the Commerce Clause (interstate trading definitionally going on).

I know that adding infirmed people increases costs. The trouble is that the health insurance system of the US is not focused on individuals managing their own health insurance costs. Most Americans get their health insurance from their employers. This makes the ACA markets problematic because the limited risk pools above are further limited by the people utilizing the markets.

Does this mean that the US should ban company sponsored health insurance? Maybe. I don't know. What I do know is that the Democrats tried to stifle debate and thought on the bill. It went so far as Pelosi saying you can only know what's in the bill once you pass it [2].

Overhauling the risk pool will be huge. That's probably in the realm of repeal and replace. What I doubt we'll see, since it would probably destroy the Republicans in two years, is the total gutting of the ACA and the meaningful, unstable gap. The people wouldn't like it, nor would the business community.

1 - http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/05/05/30982695...

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV-05TLiiLU
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That doesn't make sense, are you sure you're not being scammed?

Maximum out of pocket for a family on an ACA bronze plan is $14,300, including drug costs.
You completely missed my point and somehow turned yourself into a hero for supposedly caring about all these little harms that no one else cares about (while still having to earn a living, of course). Thanks for putting words into my mouth that I never said. Classic empty virtue signaling.

(I should follow my own rule of never replying to my own thread outside of simple questions. It always bites me. Especially ironic how all the points in OP and my original comment applies to this thread.)
Or maybe he got bored and had a great offer from Tesla?
Had ACA existed when I graduated from college, I would've been able to remain on my parent's health insurance plan until 26 (5 extra years). This would have allowed me to take a job with a startup company that could not offer health insurance instead of joining a large multi-national corporation that offered good health coverage. Wow...thinking how different my path could have been with that opportunity. I heard about YC two years out of college (it started the year I graduated), all I wanted to do was apply and talked myself out every time as I am unable to go without health coverage and would not have qualified for an individual plan due to past health history.
Well strictly speaking, if Obama could have passed single payer, he would have. He went with a compromise based on a republican idea and negotiated with the insurers to get their support. The thing is, expensive as it is, you have the ability to get health coverage. The ACA made health care affordable to people who previously couldn't afford it at all, particularly the working poor through medicaid expansions.
That, of course, is way more effective when there are more than 2 viable parties.
That's a pity american people have to think about healthcare that much and as far as i can see not long time ago didn't even have a backup plan in case their employment goes wrong.
Post soviet countries all enjoy pretty affordable health care, free in most cases. Govermment pays all the salaries so it is pretty simple. Of course it is overused, as every public good is, but maybe that is not actually the problem. Sick people with huge debts because ot their sickness looks far worse in comparison.
Long-distance telepathy if you do it over a phone.

I think IMs on smartphones are closest we are to sci-fi long-range telepathic connection from practical standpoint though.
I am always impressed with the different angles Bruce introduces.
A lot of people consider Bayonetta 2 to be a console-seller (though personally, I've only tried it for a few minutes and the intro to that game is super confusing). There's also some other great games that, while aren't exclusive, do have unique features on Wii U (e.g. leveraging the gamepad), such as Rayman Legends. As for RPGs, there's Xenoblade Chronicles X.
I have borderline high cholesterol and family history of heart disease. Before ACA, health insurance companies quoted me minimum $1200/month for basic coverage even though I am in my 30s and healthy and rarely visit doctors office.
I suppose the difference is that the bystander effect has a connotation with the person stepping in not getting any real benefit personally (e.g. breaking up a fight) vs. here where you would get some name recognition for calling out Signal (for example)
Ah, obviously you are a Russian troll trying to hack the US telecoms industry.
As a young, healthy male in my 20's pursuing entrepreneurship, the best health insurance for me is the ability to declare bankruptcy. I have chosen to go uninsured and pay the ACA penalty because it's so much cheaper than paying for a catastrophic health insurance plan. Why would I pay $4000 per year for a $6000 deductible? I do not see any benefit from that except in the case of catastrophe. It's just flushing money (that I don't have) down the toilet.

If I have to go to the ER and have a hospital bill so high that I literally cannot afford it, I will just declare bankruptcy. After all, it's not like I have any money to lose. And bankruptcy will disappear after 7 years.

This is selfish, but I really don't give a shit. The healthcare system is so messed up and overpriced that I feel no social obligation to it.
> but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself.

I graduated just before 25, and my first job didn't have benefits because although I was working 40 hours they called it casual.

> Birth Control, yes and no. We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does, but I won't stop others from opting in and paying for it.

No, you shouldn't have the right to decide what your employees get to do with their health care. You don't have the right to decide who they sleep with and how. This is the theocratic, forcing my bullshit voodoo beliefs onto others crap that makes the republican party so repugnant.
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Whenever I see people talk about their costs going up, I wonder if they realize that health care costs were projected to go up even without the ACA. There's plenty of Government reports and private company reports on this topic and most reports I've read show that ACA is helping. I wonder if people have spent time reading up on quantitative assessments before basing their views on personal observations.
> If there was a way to fix it, don't you think it would already be implemented?

No...

The way to "fix" the exorbitant cost of healthcare is to allow young and/or healthy people to sign up for the bare minimum: a dirt-cheap catastrophic plan that covers the absolute basics and prevents personal bankruptcy. Unfortunately, this hasn't been done.
The part that really got me was that after I had this terrible impression from reading the source, the developer wrote on the bug report:

"We have a largely undocumented, untested, and not well-understood code base of about 19 ksloc (C)."

Oh lord. Then another zinger from the same author:

"Tox provides some strong security guarantees. We haven't got to the point where we can enumerate them properly, given the general lack of understanding of the code and specification."

Stay away!
And all of the performance improvements are in the GPU space. A 2 or 3 year old CPU is not that big a deal but a 2 or 3 year old GPU? I believe it's an order of magnitude slower (or more).

Here is an example of GPU improvements vs. CPU (although this is an older article)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/...
His 2 biggest accomplishments are:

1. Gay marriage/rights
1.5 Pulling out of Iraq (half an accomplishment, because the US had no business being there in the first place)

ACA is a dud, because it does nothing to address the artificially inflated costs.

So, in 8 years, we traded gay marriage for insane massive surveillance and a 'recovery' in job growth in the gig economy. Is that a fair exchange? Maybe, for the LGBT community. To be fair, he did inherit a giant pile of shit in 2008, but to think of him as some accomplished or revolutionary leader is a mistake.

In the end, he's just another centrist status quo "liberal".
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> on the same PC I run Skyrim on. I don't really see how that game is still supposed to be a selling point.

It seems embarrassing for Nintendo:

"We finally have the game you've been playing on every other console for literally 6 years!"

But it's a huge boost for Bethesda:

"Skyrim's so goddamned popular that Nintendo approached us about putting it on their new console 6 years after it came out!"
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There's some stuff here: http://www.nationalreview.com/critical-condition/245118/gosp...

>... Arrow’s paper, which endorses the view that “the laissez-faire solution for medicine is intolerable,” is widely considered to have founded the field of health care economics, and continues to be celebrated, especially by those to the left of center.
> There may be threats that are unsafe to discuss

Fear porn. Point to the scary unknown as a justification for X.

I tend to think our math teachers were right. If you can't show your work, then didn't do any. (Not an absolute but I lean heavily that way.)

> once they get security clearance

Or it could be that once they get authority, the intelligence community tries harder to scare the shit out of them. There's no way to know if Obama, for example, is getting more legitimate info. I don't buy off on it being safe to assume that he is. If you listened to the intelligence community they'd have you believing that everyone on your block is a lone wolf, bomb wielding, child porn collector. Or that the only reason we haven't had another 9/11 was because of the NSA's phenomenal cosmic power.

Is Obama getting more honesty from the NSA or is he getting more bullshit? We don't know. We only know that he's getting more something. Do you expect the NSA to say something other than "Boss, I'm doing good work"? Are they going to say "um, yeah, so, that big spy network we built... um... it basically doesn't do shit for us"?

The TL;DR is that it's not just the scary details he's getting access to but the high level political shenanigans too.
> Apple, on the other hand... I've never once met a Safari dev.

Don Melton (creator of WebKit and Safari) is super cool -- if you run into him at a conf he is full of amazing lore and wisdom.
> how expensive it would be to build out these datasets?

Assuming you have the expertise necessary to design and run the process in-house, the major expense is going to be compensating the humans in the loop, which can add up quickly.

This is why organizations that already have access to large datasets have such a huge advantage.

I think that one of the reasons we're seeing such a rush to deploy chatbots is that even a minimally-useful bot will quickly start accumulating extremely useful (and very clean) training data.

There is a lot of noise being made about "democratizing AI", but as long as the best results require a lot of training and huge amounts of training data it will remain the bottleneck.

Look for progress on 1-shot and 0-shot learning to get a better feel for how much progress is made on real democratization.