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Are you comfortable with Auto-Tune in music, not the t-pain / etc exaggerated style... the nearly universal application of Auto-Tune to recording and live performance to ensure a "consistent product", and "save on expensive studio time"?

Because the market appears to have spoken on that one and it said "meh, I don't care" with an solid shrug of indifference.

By the same logic, one can see artificially produced vocal performance combined with artificial overlaying of photorealistic 3d reproduction as a way to cost effectively maximise the performer and crew expenses, and ensure the consistency of a performance. The results may even be better than what they could have done with the real performer in the case of some attractive actors who are not very good at the acting part of being an actor/modern celebrity.

That said, I'll definitely miss the days people had to actually be able to act, but then again I also miss the days people used to actually be able to play an instrument well and or sing well if they wanted to be a famous musician.
He probably won't be able to claim the game is "voiced by", but maybe he can get away with saying it features "voices of"?
Did you even listen to OP voices and compare them with for example the article Spanish generated voice?
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> You haven't been a crazy cookoo conspiracy theorists since the Snowden dropped his info.

neh, the world was calling for them to stop trying putting backdoors in security software for a while. To my generation it was the 2007 ecc curve primes. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...

to the previous generation it was the clipper.

Snowden really raised awarenes outside the security circles, but this has been an issue long time prior
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Largely because the management gravy train is yielding fewer returns year after year for a while.

There are people, especially who can't play the poisonous political game for too far that their mileage is limited to a point. These people have to retrain themselves with some hard hands on skills, or will suffer at the next purge.
Throw some hard compression on it to get additional distortion, and I feel you could get away with claiming it was a recording done by a low-power bug.
The paper is not about computational neuroscience, but about the brain in general. For those interested, there is a great book actually titled "Principles of computational neuroscience"[1]. Also, the free "Book of Genesis"[2] has an excellent short introduction to computational neuroscience.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Computational-Modelling-Ne...

2. http://www.genesis-sim.org/iBoG/iBoGpdf/index.html
We also tried to create a super simple time tracking app. We will give it for free (also biz version) very soon.

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Is there a short summary anywhere of recommendations for life style changes that do benefit the fight against dementia? I don't have it currently, but I must admit the older I get the more the prospect concerns me.
Scammers have much more success phoning Granny and claiming that they are Windows Support or "The Internet" and simply asking for what they want. There are far easier ways to con than this, and for very sensitive scams where you need spear phishing of this order, then this will fall flat on its face. "Good enough" doesn't quite cut it when it comes to this.

And fwiw, I think the intonations are actually impressively learned and not random. Trump's odd yet distinct intonations are capture quite well in their samples.
"[Leaders] Are Right, A Lot"

How is this even a principle ?

Just "be right", a lot ?
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When dealing with sites where high trust is required I think people would much rather see an independent audit or compliance with a (legit) security accreditation than a Norton badge, however, most of the time this is not offered, so we make do with the crappy badge, a recommendation, or gut instinct.

Having said that, I deal with independent audits in my job, and they're not all that reassuring.
What exactly groundbreaking stuff the product-based companies are doing in India? I know that some of them are good ore average. Rest of the people who work in these product based companies do similar work as these service companies except that they are highly paid and have much less politics.
I know little about either or, but there's a micro masters course (five courses in total) on cyber security over at edx which started five weeks ago, give or take. You could audit the class to check it out. With your experience and what we've seen so far, shouldnt take you much to catch up. That is, if your time permits it.
I have always been wondering whether there are actually people preferring alt over super as mod. Now I know. :)
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This one:

https://support.sugarcrm.com/Documentation/Sugar_Versions/7....
This.

Pocket is the best solution for me. It also offers the ability to add tags to each item in your list, which helps a lot. Moreover, it recommends articles that you might be interested! I really like this feature.

Also, I have a Kobo Aura H2O, which has integration with Pocket. It is amazing. I bought the e-reader for reading books, but most of the time I read the saved articles (especially the long ones). The list is endless and keeps growing.

Every few months I perform a clean-up in order to keep things manageable.
Sure, but this just rephrases the question as "Why don't they implement hardware-accelerated WebM?".
> a class like CSafeInt should cover all integer overflow bugs with run-time checks

If that's all you want it's easy to do that in any language? What's so special about C++? The reason this gets talked about more in C++ is that the consequences of integer overflow in C++ are dreadful (undefined behaviour i.e. instant security bug) whereas in most languages adding two integers will evaluate to an integer.
Great. I religiously visit BBC news throughout the day. This definitely loads quicker than before.

That said, there is performance and then there is perceived performance. Why introduce an arbitrary fade-in animation on the images (aka a delay)? Just show them as soon as they are available from the lazy-loader. This makes it feel slower for me.
it would be interesting to see the Venn diagram of coffee enthusiasts and nespresso drinkers. I'm picking that it would be like two widely spaced eyeballs, one sad and one happy.
Wo-hoo... what's this name calling! Are you seriously accusing the latest American spin to socialism as xenophobic racists?! You serious?

So let's hear from you, what are we supposed to do? Respectfully defer to the pundits endlessly quibbling about the differences between D and R? That is also part of the problem, in case you hadn't noticed...
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Does that apply to companies located outside the EU?
"GIF" on web forums these days usually (thanks to gfycat and friends) means "WebM". So just do that: send me a WebM of that live photo.

Oh, that's right, iOS doesn't even support WebM let alone let you export Live Photos as WebM (or MP4 for that matter). That you need a third-party app to share Live Photos with anything other than another iOS device is pretty shameful.
You can send it as a gif in whatsapp.
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In the 1900s, people used to think the mind (and body, in a way) worked like a steam engine. In part, the steam engine was used as the analogy because that was the nearest and most technologically advanced input/output closed system that was available. (And, importantly, that most people could grasp and talk about.)

Hence colloquialisms like I need to "let off steam" or "I am under so much pressure".

It turned out to be an analogy that was so far removed from reality, it was useless.

I wonder if we are making the same mistake with computers as we know them today?

"I really just need to reset and reboot, y'know."
(% change var A)/(% change var B). Are you saying this proves or disproves something? Please elaborate.
> It is like junk food.

Junk food usually makes you feel good, at least briefly.
Perhaps it would be better titled "Call for Haskell success stories".
Couldn't the juiced fruit be preserved just as well as the unjuiced fruit in the packet?
With your suggestion, you wouldn't be able to see the content at all. It would have been deleted.
Bah, just grinding some beans and using fresh milk gives you more enjoyable coffee for a lot less money AND it gives you the option to experiment with different kinds of beans and milk. (AND it makes you not dependent on a specific brand of coffee machine and cups (DRM basically).)

Seriously, this is something everyone can do for little investment of time (1 hour) to learn it.
Note that there is a link to the rest of the story (1950-) at the bottom. A worthy read.
It's a tradeoff between safety and convenience. It's swinging toward safety now and it will swing back towards convenience again. At best we're living in a damped harmonic oscillator. Maybe type inference is the equilibrium point.
I think there are strict laws against ragging in India and it's definitely not socially accepted at all. Where are you getting your information from?
Most of them are extremely mechanic, to the point where it's almost impossible to understand, but others are actually quite convincing.

I think it primarily needs to learn to respect punctuation, and to translate them to a breathing pause that matches the target voice ("President having speech"-style long pauses vs. "Politician having their ass handed to them by journalist on TV"-no-air-needed pauses).
If nothing else the source material you use would likely be recordings that others made, so you will not own the copyright on the source material and with how copyright works the synthesized recordings might be considered derivative works of the source material. IANAL, TINLA.
I changed my mind and just bought a license. Bringing multi-cursor editing into the world is easily worth $70 (I think Sublime was the first?). And it's not just Sublime Users that benefited from this.

I just exported a text file that looked like this:

Col1 title|Col2 title|Col3 title|...
1||asdf|...

With multi-cursor editing it almost trivial to transform it into this:

Col1 title: 1
Col2 title:
Col3 title: asdf
...

That may be possible in VIM using macros, but would require way more fiddling.
<lowhangingfruit>Just switch on CNN</lowhangingfruit>
The special effects are impressive!
"But you just went out the door 10 minutes ago, and we live in France! How did it happen?! I'll wire it right away!"
I think it's way too late for media companies to regain any ground from platforms like Facebook, Snapchat etc. Their models need such a fundamental rethink and I'm not sure any of the execs in charge have to the stomach to do so.
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For example, December 25th might be Christmas

Except in countries where "Christmas" tends to refer December 24th and December 25th is "Christmas Day".
Javascript seems to have many (if not all) of the same issues. I learnt this firsthand a while ago when I knew nothing about these issues and just assumed that getting the Date of a particular time instant would be an easy task. See rant below:

https://github.com/jonhoo/wp2ghost/pull/8#discussion_r847977...
There was an advert on TV in the UK and Ireland for an insurance company called MoreThan. They had a Morgan Freeman impersonator who ended the ad by saying "I'm Morethan Freeman". I seem to recall a legal kerfuffle but I can't find anything online about it.

One of the ads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPzcAseU8E
I wouldn't try it without heavy modification of the voice. Since for example a Morgan Freeman earns money with his voice, you've effectively robbed him of income (even though there's virtually no chance that he'd have participated).
I find that BBC News is one of the best sites on the entire web for browsing with NoScript.

EDIT: This is what I get: http://imgur.com/a/Cg9sD
It is common to attribute the fall to decadence of Rome.

(It's probably historically wrong, but still a popular belief.)
Ah, you see, a HTML5 video tag with a webm and `poster` image doesn't have the blurry transition when switching between the still image and the video as well as when looping the video. Also of course iOS doesn't support WebM and HTML5 video on iOS is not intended to be used for anything other than full-screen videos because Apple knows best and actually supporting HTML5 media properly would ruin performance (as would supporting WebM without the same optimisations Apple made for H.264).

Also of course Live Photos are totally different because they're from Apple, not based on any of those cruddy and boring "open standards".

--

But to be serious for a moment: the main difference is that iOS treats them as a thing (unlike a plain "video plus image" combo), so the entire user experience surrounding them is different from recording to sharing them. And technically the still image is higher res whereas the video is lower res (with video+image the image is generally a still frame so res tends to be the same).
When you mentioned Frank Sinatra it made me wonder what would this AI make of uploading singing instead of speaking?
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Depends if you want to fool a person or a computer.
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Principles is something that you keep regardless if there is money on the table. If money plays any role in the decision process - it's called a contract.
I played around with this, but had some trouble removing the audio stream from the MOV file using ffmpeg.
There's a third data stream in the file, and ffmpeg doesn't know how to handle it, so it either gets removed or replaced with dummy data. The javascript framework seems to need this third stream to work, which is pretty annoying...

I'd love to do something with this, but without a simple (and preferably scriptable) way to remove the audio I probably won't...
Quite true. Analogous things happen in print, though: people often read only the sections of papers which interest them (and, at the extreme, consciously skip those op-ed columnists which raise their blood pressure).
Very impressive I velt -- though there were robotic artifacts here and there (well every several seconds), much of it was fairly natural and reasonably lo-fi quality convincing. There was a HN post a few weeks ago from Google of their most TTS algorithm which was the best I've heard I think, quite quite human (whose techniques were published and could be integrated into Lyrebird).
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I couldn't agree more. I will not go as far as saying that India is the last place which values meritocracy, but it would be a wrong assessment that the general populace values meritocracy and hard work. The power structures in place give very little incentive to hard work and smarts. The managers, at least in IT services, are, to put it mildly, incompetent. The pay-offs of being a good developer are extremely small.
The crabs in a bucket mentality drags everyone down. The odds are totally stacked against a competent software engineer.
Only because gifs got a headstart in a time content creators mostly weren't aware of the patent situation. There was a huge push for a replacement once the situation became widely known. Gifs only had a massive renaissance _after_ the patent expired.
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> there are still chances for both authenticated (CVE-2012-0694) and unauthenticated (KIS-2016-07) attackers to exploit PHP internal memory corruption vulnerabilities which do not require objects declarations, like this ten years old vulnerability which requires just an array definition or this one which relies on references and arrays declarations

The two bugs linked were both fixed around 10 years ago. If you're running PHP v4.4, your problems are basically infinite. It would be nice to make a clearer distinction between PHP problems and SugarCRM problems.
Not even our shaders went unscathed - no rectangular matrix support (mat4x3? nope!), mandatory precision specifiers (lowp-highp), no Uniform Buffer Objects. Can't even call glTexImage2D on ES 2 without perfectly fine OpenGL code failing - because format !== internalFormat is forbidden (read: documented "must be the same"), and you were a good explicit OpenGL citizen and asked for something as horrifically complicated as format=GL_RGBA and internalFormat==GL_RGBA8. Multiple render targets? Are you out of your mind? We can't have that - goodbye deferred rendering, hello old school forward rendering!

Even your bread and butter - functions like glUniformMatrix3fv do things like just outright ignore the transpose parameter. This is extremely well documented: "Specifies whether to transpose the matrix as the values are loaded into the uniform variable. Must be GL_FALSE." ( https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL-Refpages/es2.0/xhtml... )

I swear I've reused more code between D3D11 and PS4 codepaths than between OpenGL ES and OpenGL codepaths, and the d3d11 and ps4 APIs don't share a single common function name betwixt them!

I must assume going from OpenGL ES 2 to real OpenGL a bit easier - even if you're probably giving all the fast paths in the latter a wide berth in doing so. Or maybe OpenGL ES 3 is a bit closer to real OpenGL. But OpenGL ES 2 vs desktop OpenGL? They both render triangles, but beyond that, it's a crap-shot, and a lot of #ifdefs in my experience. Separate files, even. Not just a few.

EDIT: s/codepaths/apis/, finish summarizing my thoughts.
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The current witch hunters on words seem to fail to understand that language is designed for communication between humans. It's a communication protocol.

Taking offence to a communication protocol, is like saying TCP/IP is offensive because there aren't enough of the number 7 used in the TCP/IP protocol, and it's discriminating against the equality of all numbers.

No. It's a protocol optimized for communication, not some sort of emotional playground.

To try to alter the communication protocol based on personal emotions degrades its usefulness and diminishes the ability to communicate effectively.

So now the TCP/IP packet header needs to be extended 25%, and the driver needs to ensure equal distribution of all numbers during communication, further increasing overhead by another 75%.

This is where we are headed with our language, when we allow PC politics to dictate how words should be used.
Whoever dumped these on imgur should show a little respect for the original artists and attach proper credits.
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Never seen the Thomas the Tank Engine is sexist because Percy got covered in pink paint and didn't like it one then?
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I don't give a shit about anything except cheap rides. Google is anyway tracking my every single phone activity and more. If I cared about it, I'd use a nokia 3310. Since I am using a smartphone, might as well get the cheapest ride.
I'm a numpty. Can you explain why this is bad?
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Theoretically you are obliged to buy a TV license if you watch iPlayer.
The least this man deserves is deportation. Being here is not a right, but a privilege - one he's grossly abused.
That makes total sense, I look forward to 1.0!
Delete their email address, name, or any other identifying information. That's it.

To me, the troubling factor is that the EU hasn't clarified the law so seeks to apply it to individuals who are not in the EU and never intended​ to do business with EU residents.
It makes Americans uncomfortable, because many of them subconsciously associate the word 'slave' with black people.
I agree. This leads to an interesting question: can the estate of a deceased person sell or license their voice rights for new future performances? I suspect the law has some catching up to do.
Can you think of a case where it would be helpful to store XSS in the database until removed by clicking this button?

What happens if we view the admin panel and trigger one of these malicious scripts, because I haven't clicked this button recently enough? Oh, maybe someone should click it very frequently!

Or... Hmm, maybe rather than storing data that may be mass deleted by a script, with no review, after possibly compromising our security, we should just reject it in the first place and log a security incident for that user.
(a) It's clearly such a persistent problem that they explicitly added such a button.

(b) If* the button really performs as advertised, why on earth should it be a manual step? Do it automatically.

(c) Best practice here is to escape-on-output, negating the need to remove in-DB XSS, so the fact that this button exists strongly implies they aren't doing that

* I would guess that the button is very unlikely to perform comprehensively as advertised
How about this recent opinion piece: "Robots are racist and sexist. Just like the people who created them" [0]. Basically if you're one of those "white, straight men" building software you're racist and sexist. I wouldn't call that moderate feminism.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/robots...
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I don't see anything in trurl's comment that makes any reference to java.util.Date. A more charitable reading would be to assume he is discussing the abstract concept of a date as it was mentioned upthread.
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Supporting http/2 will improve performance too!
I used to use Pocket. I would save articles there, but never read them. I have saved over 10,000 links to Pocket.

Now I keep interesting articles in a new browser tab. It doesn't seem to work too well, as I have over 1000 tabs open on just my phone.

I wish Pocket (or it's alternatives) had a way to automatically group similar links together, include relevant saved links at the top of my Google search results, sort links by time-relevance (i.e., links to information that expires or become less relevant as time goes), sort links by time to consume (to create some kind of snowball effect, like paying the smallest debts first), etc.
Yep - I admit that the first thing I did was to middle-drag the window to the right edge expecting it to create a new 1/3 box on the right side of screen.
That's precisely what's being done in curl. Generally when people say "stack allocation" as an alternative to "malloc" they mean alloca/VLA, so you'll forgive my confusion.
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I am starting to play around with:
https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/syntaxnet

I expect that I will be able to match capabilities of this service and customize it to my needs:
https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/
It's the same with graphical arts. People will talk more about the tools used, the message or the concept, than the raw shapes and composition which in most cases are the core of the work and what the artist spends the major part of his time working on.

I believe that being able to talk about the core stuff means you understand it well and somewhat match the artist's skills on some level, so it's no wonder people will rather talk about more approachable stuff.
They mention using a write-ahead-log, which should be sufficient for durability if implemented correctly.
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Python: incompatibility between 2 & 3, especially next( )
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