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>> Light simulation isn't the issue, motion simulation is. Movement and model and texture complexity all have a long way to go.

> FWIW I completely agree, and this is a key observation. DaVinci devoted several chapters to the problem of motion in art, and it will always be with us.

Now we are getting somewhere! Let's talk about those things instead of rendering! Which parts of motion are killing realism? Fluids and rigid body dynamics are pretty good these days. Facial animation is still in the uncanny valley. Why?

> Graphics are improving, but if you diff 2018 to 2013, it's nothing like 2013 to 2008. The fundamental leaps we've been accustomed to seeing are simply not happening anymore. The rate of progress is very clearly slowing down.

The rate of progress of rendering is slowing down, that goes right to my point that rendering isn't the main problem anymore, it's approaching good enough for realism. Movement and model and texture complexity progress is increasing. Papers on fluid simulation and facial animation and foliage and texture synthesis and multi-dimensional textures are on the rise.

> The quality issues stem largely from light transport -- the colors are all wrong!

No. The way we handle colors and light transport is fine, those pieces of human knowledge are ready for the jump to realism. You've already acknowledged that by refusing to consider still photos, because they already look realistic. One bad example from a game engine doesn't prove anything. I can show you lots of bad examples from game engines.

You would have a stronger argument if you gathered the very best examples on earth and we talked about those. By pointing at known bad examples and claiming that they say something about the state of the art, it makes me feel like you either don't know what the state of the art is, or you're taking cheap shots.
You can also do it using a pair of Vise-grips. Just adjust the tool so that the closed mouth is slightly smaller than the ring. The ring will break but not hurt the finger.
> Check out License Zero. It helps open source software stay free for use and modification for non-commercial purposes, while commercial users can be required to pay after a trial period.

I would delete the words "open source" from this sentence. License Zero is not an open source license, as open source licenses cannot discriminate against commercial uses. See the Open Source Definition by the OSI.
I'm not advocating DU as a part of a healthy diet. It's more than 100 times as radioactive as bananas, after all. I am saying that the primary danger from DU is not its radioactivity, but the fact that it's a heavy metal. That still true (possibly even more true) in an area with excessive DU contamination.

The fissibility of Uranium isotopes is critically important in weapon design and storage. With regard to biological danger, it's the radioactivity that is important (unless you happen to be near a prompt critical event, of course). DU is about half as radioactive as natural Uranium, so I think my "significantly" was justified.

Body burden and biological half-life are better indicators of a given radioactive substance's danger to living creatures, especially in the case of alpha emitters. That's why proactive measures like prophylactic iodine and showers are effective in contaminated areas. Of course accumulating more doses of an agent is always going to be more dangerous---what's important in comparisons is how dangerous one dose is.

Your Th-234 argument is misleading, and you know it. Yes it's nasty, but U-238 decays to Th-234 with a half-life of 4 billion years. That event would occur in a human body so rarely as to be completely immeasurable unless the human was contaminated with so much U-238 they'd die instantly from the toxic exposure and whatever horrific event deposited that much.

We ingest alpha-emitters with every meal, and while we should avoid ingesting more than we have to, at the small rates we do even in the presence of U-238 (or a diet rich in Bananas and Brazil Nuts, for that matter), there's no statistical impact on lifespan.
I live in California, and I travel to Mexico occasionally. It is not uncommon, in my experience, to find vendors selling bottles of water that are simply bottles fished out of the trash and filled with tap water. As a tourist, I try to avoid this scam by drinking liquids that are easier to recognize as genuine. I'm not sure how much this contributes to a general societal influence towards non-water beverages though.
Surprisingly enough, the keyboard on the Toshiba is really good. I think I even type faster on it than my desktop keyboard.

Trackpad is a different story (I guess it's average but I suck with trackpads in general because I rarely use it). I feel like it takes me 10 seconds to select text with a trackpad when I could do it in like 1 second with a mouse. Watching me use a trackpad is easily comparable to an ape trying to use hand tools.
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the concept of acceptable and fashionable colors, per season, per fad, etc is highly feminine. Men, often, can wear any color in any season and not have it bother them or have other men criticize them for it. Nor have women consider it unattractive.

That the fashionable seasonable colors is associated with the feminine gender is true, but it says nothing about whether it's an inherent trait, as you imply, or something created by society.

I have to say I'm quite suspicious of inherent genetic traits that only reveal themselves when the textile industry appears and has to find ways to get people to buy more product.
I don't think that was his point, which you can verify by his subsequent reply to my post. To me it looked like he was saying that since we can't make the entire planet 100% accessible (including the wilderness), why should we even bother with the urban cores of our cities? Meanwhile, he overlooked the fact that we've already made many more places accessible by roads than by sidewalks, even though roads are much more expensive and have higher maintenance burdens.
Strip & Flip Bain loads their acquisitions up with debt to pay themselves off, and then runs for the hills. Like with Toys-R-Us now going bankrupt. Recall Mitt Romney was CEO of Bain. This is the GOP business modus operandi.
These are new (enough) sidewalks in an area that is highly developed.
The nameservers seem to be returning correct results for our domain again :) (getstream.io). However, the issue is still there for crates.io, so this seems the outage is still partially ongoing.
But the name Google implies a mind-boggling large number of results or websites that it's processing or searching for you. Maybe the name has a degree of playfulness, but it's not named after a children's game that revolves around the arbitrary choice of an unlucky child.

They also had the luxury of entering the market before there was a dominant player. Not to mention the brilliance of the pagerank algorithm.
Project Treble and Kernel – Linux Plumbers Conference 2017
What is going to happen on Sept. 23? Is it really 'END OF WORLD'
I understand that many of the Core developers oppose a block size increase because it would make it more costly to run a full node. Right now a full node can be run on practically any computer. I got a pruned node running in less than a month this year using some 10-year-old hardware I had sitting in my basement.

At this point, though, I see it as little more than a highly politicized flame war. Years of having the same arguments tend to make people grow bitter. The interesting thing (to me) is how little this debate seems to affect the price and adoption of Bitcoin.
> original code is barely recognizable

Will the original authors still have copyright over it?

If yes: Then clearly in the mind of the law the original work is still present.

If no: Then the license choice of the original authors is not longer relevant.
That is one of the most interesting things you can do if you're interested in biology, embryology tells an incredible story.
This is a brilliant idea. Let's work on that. Seriously. Do you want to work on this together?
Slides available here: https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw//system/presentat...
the whole world was eagerly looking for "a new hipster safety language because Haskell was too hard"

There. Fixed it for you.
>Tungsten's only rival for this kind of application is the radioactive element uranium. Depleted uranium is (almost) as dense as tungsten and has an added advantage - from a military perspective - that it burns at the extreme temperatures generated as you punch your way through steel tank armour.

It's also self-sharpening (ie rather than smooshing like plastic on contact, parts break off and leave a sharp edge behind like flint), and because it's effectively subsidized by power generation and the nuclear program it's extremely cheap compared to Tungsten. Tungsten alloys are tougher[1] (actually, some of the toughest materials period) but penetration depends heavily on the armor type.

Hell, tungsten is toxic too and the military's biggest motivation is probably just as a really effective PR move. Uranium is definitely worse though, and I'm glad the US doesn't use it in munitions much. Uranium forms oxides that are very bioavailable (and even absorbed as gas through the lungs), and are really bad for you and even worse if you get pregnant.

[1]: http://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.cam.ac.uk/files/news/research...
Ask HN: Employer 'Outside work' agreements
Hi there - we have a lot of developers in our company and we would like to come up with a reasonable employee 'outside work' agreement. We're open to devs moonlighting on their own stuff and getting paid for their own stuff, but not on company time.

Is there a good example agreement out there that is reasonable for both the employer and the employee? We'd love for employees that invent things OUTSIDE of work time and they should OWN them.
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This is why you should choose a frontend framework with a LTS (long-term support) program. (For example, Angular 4 or Ember.) You don't have to upgrade to the latest version of the framework, just the latest LTS version which will have all the relevant bug/security fixes. Only when the framework starts to drop support for the LTS version do you have to deal with upgrading and learning whatever new features they have added since then.
"Mother nature" also wants you dead and your component atoms spread across the planet. Are you going to get with the program or keep going for as long as you can?
Interesting concept. I like the overlay idea, but I think simply having that as a standalone map would not be useful in other areas where distance as the crow flies ≠ time traveled. Areas with large bodies of water (like adjacent peninsulas), mountainous areas or areas with strange road infrastructure (Some parts of Virginia).

Nonetheless, an interesting concept!
Could somebody attach their own copyright notice and pretend to be the author of your work?
I've been using an Asus Chromebook. I don't have the specs, but it's ~ a year old and was at the higher end of sub $500 pack at the time.

I've pretty much given up on using it. I liked to use it for ssh over to my real computer (over wifi) to get work done; but this was always noticeably laggy. Trying to use basic tools on it (zoom, slack) is painfully slow - and if you run two bandwidth-hungry things at once, forget it. I have to jump through hoops to get a decent shell for ssh that Just Works - which sorta means it doesn't Just Work after all. Running anything heavier than the shell is slow.

I don't know the specs on the one, but I think I'm done with ARM on anything but phones. At least when them, I don't have any expectation of good performance from applications/sites to begin with.
http://multicians.org/mepap.html

This actually appeared on Hackernews a couple of times, which is how I found it. Money quotes:

"It was soon found that Emacs could be taught within minutes or an hour to those with no technical experience at all." (referring to TECO Emacs actually but applicable to Multics Emacs)

"Non-technical personnel have been observed to acquire enough knowledge of Lisp to extend Emacs for only this purpose."

"While ITS TECO code is quite baroque, and accessible to only a few experts, the extension language of Multics Emacs is sufficiently natural and simple to learn that non-technical personnel have successfully written and debugged non-trivial extensions."
Honestly I love the Javascript Eco system. I love change and js is only getting better and better. Learning a new framework is fun. On top of that it keeps js development marketable. The wages for front end development have sky rocketed which imo is amazing.
You would be correct. Our current implementation of those are fairly bare bones, but still encompass the main needs of the businesses we are targeting.
There are no guarantees, but if they're not currently amassing data trails then they won't be an attractive acquisition target for a data aggregator. If they ever change their privacy policy, you just stop using it.
We're definitely writing past each other.

> I never felt typing speed or special text transformation shortcuts being my limiting factor.
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> Speed of navigating between files (which is even better in ST than in Vim, vim, at least on the Mac, takes more 100s of ms to open a file, and NerdTree is crap) and finding the stuff I want matters more to me.

I wasn't making any claims about the benefits of Vim bindings for my job as a whole. But why stop there? It's probably also not the "limiting factor" for me as human being.

But it's definitely a limiting factor when I'm writing and editing text.

> I also don't buy the "but doing it with a shortcut/motor skills frees my mind from having to think about editing etc". As I've said, I've used Vim for 15+ years (still do, a decade after every time I'm in a shell). I've known all these shortcuts, used them, etc. Haven't seen it make any great difference in that respect. I'd take better code navigation, linting support, etc over text wrangling features any day.
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> (Besides I can do it just fine in ST anyway with Vintageous/Six/etc).

Above is even more that's besides the point I was making. I'd take good code navigation over Vim key bindings too. I wasn't saying Vim key bindings are better than anything other than not having them.

And then you basically make my point for me:

> (Besides I can do it just fine in ST anyway with Vintageous/Six/etc).

I do that too; not in ST, but in the IDEs, etc. that I use (e.g. Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Google Chrome). I assume you do for the same reason I do, i.e. you like the keybindings. I also find the keybindings generally useful and faster than not having them.

I do agree with the gist of your comment that Vim itself isn't particularly great compared to tools with features like code navigation. I don't use any Vim plugins for example tho I've tried a few.
It seems to me that gender (at the extremes: XX v XY) is the byproduct of a mutation (read: variation). In that context, it makes sense that there are degrees of variation (if you will). That is, it's in the best interest of the species to experiment (if you will) with other (genetic) possibles. The fact that people identify as something non-binary is natural, and (imho) expected.

There's likely more variation than we've previously realized due to social constructs.
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This is not a situation where Oxford commas are needed to disambiguate. The way you see it, I think an Oxford comma would force you to do even more things at the same time. But that's silly; this statement is granting you rights, and it's your choice on whether you want to exercise them or not. If some rights can be exercised only conditionally, the text needs to make that clear.
Unfortunately, I've been conditioned by the scary stories 'DannyBee tells here to worry about new license language that doesn't come directly from lawyers.

It sounds like you've actually had lawyers look at it. A blurb anywhere on this page indicating that it's been vetted this would be pretty powerful!
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>First off - no one has been dragged off

China is known for it, here's just one story from the other month https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/china-enforced... you can find plenty more if you look.

Chinese baby factories: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/shocking-pictures-sh...

Citizens are also disappeared to provide transplants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...

China is not a nice place, look at their internet crackdown as well.
You're right that there are android apps for some of the software I mentioned, but my experience always feels like they are some compromise of the real thing (formatting issues, some problems with commenting involving multiple people...) and image editing software doesn't compare with adobe. My point is this type of compromise is acceptable at a lower price range but not when you're paying 1200 or more.
Be careful with rings made out of hard materials.

if you ever get into trouble it'll be your finger that comes off, not it.
Well than I would say automated detection is the better of the two options.
I read the paper quickly, but Jackson was really really fast. Note that their charts are measuring throughput, so a larger bar is better.
I wonder how it would look if you directly distorted the map by travel time.
Boston is better about accessibility in general, but it is much worse during the winter. Sidewalk snow and ice removal is left as the responsibility of the abutting property owner. The result is a patchwork of pedestrian connectivity that varies meter-by-meter. Wheelchair users and even fully-able people are often seen walking off of the sidewalk, alongside motor traffic. In theory, the property owners should be kept in line by fines, but enforcement is lacking, and the fines are insignificant relative to the value of property in Boston.

The roads, though? Promptly plowed and salted by the city on a continuous basis.
According to https://www.noppanit.com/how-to-index-all-wikipedia-english-... a search index for wikipedia's english site comes in at around 40GB.

Laptops generally come in 128GB or 256GB capacities. So we're talking roughly 20-50% of an average laptop's storage just to hold the search index for wikipedia alone.

Meaning it is not feasible to store a useful index of the web today on a laptop unless you want to dedicate that laptop to pretty much exclusively searching wikipedia's english content.

You're not searching that database in milliseconds on average laptop hardware, either, but you probably could get it to be "fast enough" for practical usages if you could somehow solve the harder parts like storage size, freshness, and indexing more than just wikipedia's english content.
Beginners frequently trip over `&str` vs `String`, but other than that I agree w/ you
AFAIK all major browsers have converged on the parsing algorithm described in the HTML5 spec.

It‘s super lenient and very messy but at least it‘s consistent.

IMHO this was one of the biggest benefits coming out of the HTML5 efforts.
They boned :-/

In this case, think of it as if the guy who made your maps is giving you the wrong country's maps. It's well made, clear, concise and wrong. There's no 'greater' authority then the map maker, so unless you can reconfigure your users to believe in a different map (change hosts/dns), there's nothing that can be done.

Patience :(
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It often comes off as offensive or ignorant when used to describe people. E.g., "gays", "blacks".
Haven't been in the industry long enough to do what? Ask questions? It appears you have been working in the industry too long to answer them, which is much worse.
It's not. Many addresses are single use
Siri has been smart enough to do that for a long while now.

Source: that’s my primary use of her.
DDG is really great! I use it on all my devices since January. I've tried it before to by changing the default to DDG on my iOS devices. However, I've always switched back to google after a couple of weeks. Not this time.

Every now and then when I'm not happy with the search results, I use the "g!" Shortcut to get the google results, but the occasions I'm doing this is definitely decreasing.
Because being able to dual boot Windows or even Linux is a serious consideration for important segments of the market. Companies that buy computers for their employees are going to be more hesitant to blanket approve Macs for their employees if they can't easily be repurposed to support their Windows (or Linux) need.

Getting all software developers on board to do another architecture transition is also a massive undertaking. Apple has lots of experience in this area. Steve Jobs was asked how long the PowerPC to Intel transition would take and he said 7 years. That's because current Macs still need to be supported and some key vendors like Microsoft and Adobe were extremely slow at transitioning their products.

LLVM bitcode is not architecture agnostic. You still need different builds for ARM vs Intel.
No. Apache 2.0 indemnifies you only in relation to the patents held by contributors to that project.

In more concrete terms, if you see some project is licensed under Apache 2.0, then you can still be sued for using it, because while you may have a guarantee that its contributors won't sue you, it doesn't make anybody else's patents go away.

In slightly more concrete terms than that, if Project X causes Facebook to be sued by Corp Y because Facebook is using that project, then Facebook has no protection if it is not a Corp Y project nor have they ever contributed to it.

In real life, Corp Y is Yahoo, who sued Facebook several years ago on a bunch of patent-related matters. Facebook then went on a tear building up a war chest and crafting the PATENTS text so that it could never happen again.
Exchanges can't operate on a fractional reserve principle. Fractional reserve works for banks because:

Cash on hand + Money people owe the bank >= Cash bank owes its customers.

If an exchange is operating in such a manner, this means that:

Cash + BTC on hand < Cash + BTC exchange owes its customers.

We don't call that a fractional reserve. We call it insolvency (And knowingly accepting new deposits in such an exchange is called 'Fraud.')
> * plugging into USB (to charge) does not mean I want to switch audio over--I use a cigarette lighter USB adapter to get rid of this confusion

This is the biggest issue for me with so many cars. Why can't I just deactivate USB interfaces? I use USB to charge but only use Bluetooth for audio (tends to work much better for Spotify). Bluetooth is very reliable in most cars but whenever I start charging I have to switch back. A simple setting to set USB to charge-only mode wouldn't be hard to implement and a great win.
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We're copping the same at https://elev.io as well...

Timing couldn't be worse, we did a product release on ProductHunt earlier today :(
They identify with a sex that isn't the one assigned at birth. That's the definition of transgender.

Definition: "denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex."
But that doesn't mean they don't just repackage Bing's results (with some of their own thrown in).
You're paying a premium for good linux and coreboot support. A macbook isn't that unique, and quite a sink of money since it can't run any other OS too well. It certainly can't run linux, and windows isn't too good either. A good linux laptop that ships with coreboot is rare. You can also run windows on these things generally.