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I feel like motion and facial expressions will be a much bigger hurdle than raw graphics. The answer to when graphics is not good enough is to get closer and model the physical material more accurately and with more detail. Not necessarily easy but relatively straightforward. Then it's just optimizations like this article describes (bump mapping doesn't add something that 100x sampling couldn't get, but it does it 100x faster).

But body motion and facial expressions are entirely different. It's not like an optimization problem where you could just throw more computation at it and it could go away, it's just not possible to do perfectly at all. The best we've been able to do is track the motion of real humans and map that to a digital model; we can't generate it from scratch. We don't even have a general and convincing model of how motion should work. With graphics we've been through half a dozen models, and now here we are with PBR+extensions and the result is fantastic.

Believable body and facial expressions are going to be a much bigger hurdle than we've seen with graphics.
One thing that shocked me when going to the US, that still shocks me now, are those adds: "Injured? Cellino & Barnes".

Apparently, when you're injured in the US, the first thing to do is not go to the hospital, but call your lawyer. I'm not sure what to think of it, but it does make me feel uneasy.
What's actually stored on the ledger? Like if I make a blog post with title "Hello world" and body "1234", would those two strings be on the ledger?
Generally I'd agree that it's better to just let the government subsidise it (or just run it) and accept the cost in exchange for the economic benefits.

However, there is one way to make it work privately, and that's to capture some of those economic benefits by buying the land around stations. If someone buys some relatively cheap land near a city and then builds a train line from there to the centre, the value of that land increases and so they can charge higher rents on any housing, offices or shop units built there.
Yes you've identified the key difference which is one of the tests used in UK courts to determine if someone is really a contractor or actually a disguised employee and ability to set price matters.

If Uber did let drivers set price then it wouldn't be facing these issues and would just be an arbitrage marketplace. Of course if they did that their prices wouldn't be low and they wouldn't be as popular since currently they subsidise pricing.
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This invention is supposedly possible through the use of something called a 'directed-acyclic-graph'

Before I bought a single IOTA, I read this whitepaper and it's pretty indecipherable. I'm a pretty technical person myself, but this paper was not written in a way that anyone can easily understand.

That Code Suppository "article" (blog post) is complete rubbish.

The issues in 2nd article have been fixed.
Ok, but his specific complaint was that planning for reasonable failure scenarios makes you labeled not "a team player" or "being negative". And I have seen this happen, it is true problem. Someone else refactoring badly does not cancel that systemic problem out.
Serious question: what about PayPal?
IOTA is being attacked with FUD from all sides, some people really don't want it to succeed.

There's a pretty complete thread on reddit with most FUD in it and why it's not valid:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7j81tq/fud_copy_pasta...

Here's an article by one of the IOTA founders addressing your second article:

https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18...
Every cryptocurrency have had their vulnerabilities at some time in the history, I don't see how this is relevant to the topic. Also he claims have been debunked by the IOTA team - https://blog.iota.org/curl-disclosure-beyond-the-headline-18....
Consider Anne Frank. Her family were identified as Jews by a census by the somewhat benevolent Dutch state in the 1930's. The disclosure of these records cost Anne her life, and cost the lives of tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of others.

Consider homosexuality, disclosures of sexual preference in 1950's England or in modern Saudi Arabia were, and are, fatal. Cf. Alan Turing!

Privacy breeches can, and do, kill. We should take this very seriously.
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There is no such thing as Language X ABI, rather OS ABI or compiler ABIs.

COM is built on top of C++ VTBL implementation on Windows, UWP extends COM by supporting generics as well.

As for the other OSes, it is irrelevant where they are used, the fact is that they are exposing C++ APIs not C ones.

As matter of fact, had GNU/Linux not taken over the OS world and FOSS projects, and C would be pretty much history by now.

Mac OS, BeOS, Symbian, OS/2, Windows were all adopting C++ APIs when GNU/Linux started to gain adoption, with its manifesto to focus on C for GNU software.
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Perhaps the extra experience is not worth 50% more? I'd be wary about calling an entire industry irrational when they're spending their own money.
LOL that's the reason that I gave up trying to subscribe to the WSJ digital edition, even after as much Imliked heir Theranos investigation.
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Yeah, the hard thing about commenting on the US is that it's really 50 separate countries which do a lot of regulation locally. Cannabis being the obvious example today - in some of the country, you can smoke it in front of the police station, in other parts, you can get jail terms of years...
Reminds me of an article shared a while ago on HN where someone deleted / and ended up with all binaries gone but still had a working bash session and the /proc fs. Can't find the link, sadly.
The project is known as DARE. Interesting classifier but not really that great. Try it out, it is open source so far.
Just like many proof of concept it starts to rapidly fail when trained on too much data and otherwise generalize only so so.

This is essentially some feature engineering thrown at an SVM / GNN.
What makes the results even tougher to reproduce is that the training set is not provided, only resulting matrices.

It is telling when different classifiers work best for supervised and auto cases...
It's interesting especially with the background that the workforce will be composed of more older rather than younger people in the coming years.

Also, is your first sentence a Buckaroo Banzai quote?
Is there any price, any price at all, where you would say “bitcoin is not worth this much, I should cash in before it goes down”?

Σ(all bitcoin) = 0.1% world money supply? 1%? 10%? 100%? Even more? At some point it will go down. If you have a rational model for what value is too high, great! But if you don’t, you’ll gamble yourself into poverty, like so many other speculators over so many centuries.
Without wanting to guess at your financial circumstances, I don't think that the problem is not being able to afford subscriptions in most cases, it's that subscriptions are way more than the £0 people are used to paying, so they feel really expensive.

The way I look at it is that the £5 I pay the Economist (for example) per week pays for the hundreds of hours of writing and editorial time (not to mention everything else) that enables this thing to be in front of me. If I didn't pay it, it couldn't exist, so I don't really see it as a choice. If I only read one article once in a while, I would feel differently, but I regularly read: The Economist, the New Statesman, The Grauniad, The FT Weekend, Nautilus and I just choose how to allocate my resources to support them (otherwise I don't really feel comfortable consuming their work without compensation). Yes, it cuts into other spending money, but one has to make a choice. I don't take coffee from a coffee shop every day without paying for it (also, compared to the price of a coffee in London, these subscriptions really aren't _that_ expensive).

> if that's what the solution turns out to be – I'll go back to buying print media

I mostly consume the print versions of these things anyway.

> Is there no halfway house by which my browsing/consuming could be subsidized by responsible advertising thus increasing readership?

I think a good halfway-house would be having a model like the one Brave was trying (I think) where you pay for content in small blocks every time you consume something. So when I read an article in my browser, a small amount of value is transferred, automatically, to the publisher. This is a model I like to an extent, but I think the problem is that you end up biasing things on popularity, rather than actual value (imagine how much money clickbait will make). Publications are really just bundles of contributors and topics, and paying for them as a bundle allows less popular (but still important and interesting) content to be created. This is one of the nice things about the BBC, the decreased commercial pressure allows them to make some really amazing programmes that no commercial house could, because everything is bundled into a single budget.
> I was regularly getting eight or nine magazines a month, on student money.

How much are you spending monthly now may I ask?

The difference is this. If I buy a CD or DVD then I can make copies, consume them on the device of my choice (with suitable transcoding and loading), I theoretically have them forever.

With the new model once I unsubscribe from my movie or music cloud service I no longer have access. All I'm doing is renting. For that I don't expect to pay as much, I get no physical media, I no artwork. Totally different model.

I would be prepared to pay a reasonable amount every month for one each of journalism / movies / music – I think that's fair. I'll purchase the physical media of the bands I love, the directors/actors/franchises I love, the print/journalism I love† – there's not a hope in hell given my current situation that I could subscribe to six or seven or more print outlets.

† I forgot to mention The TLS – I guess if push came to shove I'd subscribe to The TLS, The Economist, and one other, perhaps it might even be Nautilus.
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> I'm not sure if I'd want to hire someone who is unable to point out valid criticisms of the technology stack I'm using.

I only interviewed a few of candidates for developer roles a couple of times and this was one of the questions I asked, managed to get some interesting, constructive responses as well as some well-crafted bullshit.
Hey, one of the authors here. Short answer - yes. Together with some meta data, the published content is signed by the author, encrypted (read more here on how exactly https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messa...) and stored on the Tangle.

Fog CMS helps with the content publishing and is one of the ways on how to read and display the content from the Tangle.
When I did firewall/network support for managed hosting customers, the number of customers' custom/vendor apps that were vulnerable (and exploited!) by SQL injection attacks was astounding. Of course the very first thing they said was "but we have a firewall, why can't you ACL it?" Sorry, your Cisco ASA doesn't work that way. It's like people never expected their code to run in a hostile world.
I don't know what happened at scale, but here in Germany what happened is that you are legally responsible for what happens via your router, so better take care you are the only one using it.
> Complete diversion: One of Corel's favourite tricks in the past (though not now, I think -- everything changed after they were sold) was to overfill the sales channel in first quarter. Basically they would "sell" the software to dealers, but would provide "refunds" for software that wasn't sold by the end of 4th quarter. So 1st quarter was always massively positive, while they were always massively (and somehow unexpectedly) in the red by 4th quarter.

More or less OT, but maybe interesting: This was the strategy that killed West End Games (once one of the biggest publishers of pen & paper games). They would print as many books as they could and send them out to shops, but the shops had the option of sending them back when they couldn't sell them. Then in 1998 for some reason almost all of the books came back and WEG was bankrupt. Seems it worked far better for Corel. Not sure if this is good or bad.
I guess it’s all relative. I too feel like the US is a surveillance state on some level, but nothing compares to the UK - arriving at Heathrow feels downright dystopian. I guess it’s just what you are used to.
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I couldn't find any English language source. I am thus linking to Google Translate.

The E-mailprovider Posteo has corporated with the Mozilla SOS Fund to set up a security audit. It turns out that there are/were some serious bugs in Enigmail and Thunderbird. A new version of Enigmail is available (1.9.9) that should fix all the problems identified. Thunderbird will get fixed little by little.

One of the most serious issues they found in Thunderbird is that there is a grave vulnerability in the rss reader. They recommend to not use the RSS feature anymore at all until it is fixed!!
Oops, missed your question until just now. The impression I got from my friend/colleague is that nursing in the NHS is an innately conservative and rigid culture (as it is in other areas of healthcare), which goes to the heart of nursing's governing body in setting policy. Whilst nursing has expanded the scope of roles available in recent years (taking on prescribing responsibilities and increased specialisation), it perhaps might not have been at quite the pace or breadth as circumstances require. Consequently, some of the supporting roles that are more flexible, like technicians and healthcare assistants, have started to take on more routine tasks like simple obs and assessment; this makes sense because in most cases, taking blood, measuring lung function and hearing etc. are easy to do - the actual assessment and signing off of work is still done by a (more expensive and better utilised elsewhere) clinician.
I highly doubt that this mysterious "company with a large proportion of the search engine market" is filled with 65yo white males.

In fact it would actually make them significantly more diverse if they were to hire some 65yo white males.
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The Netherlands, Danmark and, to a lesser extent, Sweden are seriously rethinking the automobile tyranny. I live in Sweden, and have no real need to own a car, since public transportation and a bicycle solve pretty much all my transportation needs.
These discussions tend to assume in-house development though.

I've spent far too much time around organisations where "more time with bums on seats" = "direct correlation to billing more", which = "better work" if you ask the right people. That leads to an unfortunately different scenario.
I think most of those drawbacks will go away in the next years after we have:

- a standard function packaging and manifest that each vendor will support

- cheaper + easier tracing, logging, graphs
Wonder why you only post the old negative articles. There are maybe 5 articles that claim they found something negative, but 20 that are positive or directly debunking the negative articles using credible professional sources.

The nonsense about the 'vulnerability' neha found got destroyed in multiple answers. either directly from the devs or from independent sources.

Just yesterday one of the core devs answered (again) to the claim by narula: https://medium.com/@comefrombeyond/cfbs-comments-on-https-ww...

Your post shows the classical signs of a FUD-Attack. Excellent explained in this article:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201.... Here is IOTA as Victim of ongoing targeted FUD-Campains identified.
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It's pretty much a collaborative and social experiment where I wanted to explore the concept of using in-browser cryptocurrency mining as a monetization and bot fighting method (something I had a problem with in the original Ludum Dare entry it's based on). That's a different discussion though. (You need to manually start the mining and you can explore the map without doing it. It's only when digging and chatting it's required.)

I'm actually planning on rewriting the whole backend in a more traditional Node.js + WebSockets stack so no, I probably wouldn't do it again for this type of application. However, I will probably use it again for other things.
pretty interesting.
I agree with the rest of your points, but that "shitty" high school hacker managed to hide his identity from CIA. You're underestimating him. Majority of wannabe hackers would screw up some detail and get discovered.
Because he's not invested in iota like you clearly are.
So this John Ratcliff is actually crying because he can't reuse his address after sending from it. Please do know that Iota uses Winternitz one-time signature. Iota team discussed already the pros and cons of this choice. And not reusable address is a known and conscious decision from the devs.
I think one of the core issues is the very heavy unionisation of the staff, much more extreme than anywhere else.

Apparently union labor rates are 3-5x more expensive in transit than Europe. Considering how labor heavy it is to do repair work on old subway lines it means you need an insane budget to do any more work. And guess what, as soon as the budget gets raised the union notice and want a larger slice.

So many examples of this. Another is the way NY subway cars have 3 staff minimum. Whereas London, Paris, Berlin have one. Assume they make 3x the money and you need 3x more than other cities and you have a 10x cost increase in operational labor costs. Plus the complexity of ensuring you always have 3 people there with no sickness etc, as if you lose one you can't run the train at all.

It's really insane and will take a mayor with serious backbone to fight.
So, potentially, an OS could just be the browser and it would suffice for running apps like Android, iOS etc. already do?
You don't have to be invested in something to be unbiased.
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Why does such a troubled metro still run 24/7? Most of the best-performing metros in the world (HK, SG, Tokyo) close at midnight.
Some may not need it short-term as much as others?
Funny you should say that. I grew up in the UK (Central London, Cambridge) and found most interactions with the government difficult in their bureaucracy and sometimes sheer unpleasantness (airports being at the top of the list, until the merciful arrival of auto-gates).

But it is true that smaller towns are almost a different country. British big government has always been oppressive in nature, and rather unconcerned with the collateral damage to the average citizen - see the current NHS restructuring, or how the trains were privatised into the laughing stock of Europe, or remember how you felt when you received your first TV tax letter making you feel like a suspect about to have a SWAT team enter your bedroom... there is this assumption that the citizen is naughty, a feeling of nanny state in a 1984 way. I don't know if that's a recent phenomenon, but it is part of the reason I left for good. Love the Brits though.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is quite an accurate representation, I think, of how I felt about government there at the time. A recent letter from my empty, but extant Lloyd's account intimating me to surrender a ton of private information to HMRC just reinforced the feeling - meanwhile, the Singapore government auto-calculates my (low) taxes and thanks me for "contributing to nation building" with a heart warming picture of a child at school.

My point, which I admittedly did not make very clear, is that it is not about the CCTV but the government behind them. What is the relationship between the government and the people? Is it one of trust? Are words like "necessary evil" used? How do people feel when they see a cop, or a border agent?

The US was built on the idea that politicians are inherently untrustworthy, and the government should be weak and decentralised, with states having the freedom to do what they like (with some exceptions, c.f. the Civil War, eventually leading to the current strong Federal government situation) and competing with each other for residents and businesses. This sort of acts as a balancing mechanism avoiding the most egregious abuses of individual rights in the very long term, whilst leaving room for experimentation on what those rights actually mean in practice.

Singapore is the polar opposite - Lee Kuan Yew structured an immensely powerful and centralised government to solve a number of problems ranging from being invaded by neighbours and Mao's attempts at subversion, to opium gangs and a country so poor hawkers slept on the street behind their cart. However unlike most other new nations at the time, he specifically built a ton of safeguards and structurally made the government as impervious to corruption and meritocratically oriented to customer service as possible. The PAP walked in the streets dressed all in white to symbolise that philosophy when they were first elected. Whether it will last is an interesting question, but today, the government is trusted, so people don't mind seeing CCTV or a police patrol...
It was all super impressive until the last photo of the sunset shot over the bridge, there seems something artificial about that. Possibly the blur of the car on the far side, but it's more than that. Just not sure what.
Not really deep into this, and haven't even read the whitepaper, but looking from the outside there are a lot of red flags around this project:

- Use of ternary logic [1]

- Writing their own hash function [1]

- Claiming that the flaws in the hash function were 'copy protection' [2]

- The Github issues page for their wallet client [3]

I've heard that the DAG approach has merit, but from what I've seen I would not trust this team to execute on it.

[EDIT]: Almost forgot the black-box closed source 'central coordinator' [4]

[1]: https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...

[2]: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Come-from-Beyond/a84ab861...

[3]: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues

[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7c3qu8/coordinator_ex...
This reply seems to be a good illustration of the attitude described by its parent. The word they is telling.

I live in a city with one of the most cost-effective public transport systems. People in Tokyo tend to think of the railways as an extension of themself / their home / their city. Whereas I imagine most Americans tend to look at such systems from an external perspective: hence "they".