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It's a little weird that he spends so much time criticizing others and doesn't even once acknowledge that his art style (proportions, anatomy) look definitely weird. (Downright ugly and off-putting to me.) Part of the reason his art gets put down by others might be that they also feel it's ugly, but don't quite know how to express it and pin it on the pixels.

Further, as someone who works on games, the decision as to what kind of art style is used, most often is not a decision to aim for something specific, but a question of money. Art doesn't happen on its own, you either have to make it yourself, or find someone else to make it (who makes something that looks good) AND then pay them, often also for many many revisions and additions. For a small team simple sprites that remain appealing and consistent even when scaled up can be the choice simply because anything else is prohibitively expensive.
"fan-fucking-tastic protocol". I agree completely. it's time for our systems to centralize email as a first-class citizen and treat it as among the main ways to interact with the system.

Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com if you agree. I'm organizing something and I want to have people who think email is still underused onboard.
It worked fine, actually. Considering that was a good 5 years ago and phones were a fraction as fast as the ones today, you could watch videos and play games (Kongregrate had a section for touch flash games that worked very well). Adobe abandoned it simply because the effort required to maintain it was too high considering they were never going to be on iOS.
Yes, and it has changed my life. I take Focalin and I no longer spend 4 out of 5 days trying and failing to do the things I know I have to do to function in life. It was a really large source of anxiety in my life that is now gone.

When I first started taking ADHD medications, there was definitely an amphetamine phase. I felt like I could do anything, super-motivated to do new projects. That has gone now, but now it is dramatically less of a fight to do what I need to do. I still get burned out on things like everybody else and then a project feels like "work", but I can get through it.

I wish I'd had this in college, maybe I wouldn't have crashed and burned. I wasn't diagnosed until my 40's.
Unless that's a refillable bottle that you don't throw away that would add a huge amount of waste and cost to every product.
Yeah, I cannot believe the article didn't mention the security implications.
Driving my car to work seems inherently much more dangerous than operating this drone, and we've found reasonable ways to insure against those accidents.

Life is inherently dangerous, and almost every technical innovation is first met with objections with how it will cause loss of life. The danger of accidental personal injury from drone is probably an order of magnitude lower than the danger of accidental personal injury from discarded banana peels.

> I want 99.9999% reliability and strong safety guarantees as a feature.

Then you want the technology not to exist, which I think is a terrible shame. It's like crying "fire hazard" around a Tesla. If you want a hobby device to rant against, try scooters, those things are much more deadly and rightly deserve to be taxed and regulated. [1]

The Lily drone if it actually performs anything like that video, is pure awesome, and absolutely the future. If it can be made quiet enough and compact enough it replaces everything from the cinematographer at your wedding, to the selfie.

It also probably looks good in black with a nice white pin-stripe, with the letters N-Y-P-D, floating around Times Square, and running no-knock warrants. 10 - 15 generations along actually, this thing is quite terrifying, for completely different reasons than 'OMG it will fall on me'.

[1] - http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/the-most-dangerou...
One problem with this article (that does not invalidate the main point that you should not reuse keys for different protocols) is using SSH authentication as an example.

In SSH what gets signed in publickey (and hostkey) authentication is not controlled by server (client). Instead of some random value provided by other side, signed data include session id that is derived from result of first DH key exchange and thus unpredictable to either side of connection.
Are you pursuing your idea? I am organizing a team focused on building a system that centralizes email as an essential mode of interaction.

Ping me at sethjgore@gmail.com if interested.
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The new Rayman games are absolutely a joy to behold. The majority of the visuals in the game are 2D, though the engine also supports 3D models, and I'm not certain if the 2D assets are sprites or vector illustrations. There's a pretty neat demonstration of the engine here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLpPw864eA
yes, they bring it up in the article several times.
Why not? If driverless taxis are cheap enough, even a small town or rural area could have some. Wheras public transportation is available only in very large cities.
I don't follow. Would using the plugin be less acceptable if the paywall were harder to get around?
"its hard to argue that society as a whole bears a significant cost as a result of people not wearing seat belts. "

Its easy to argue. Society spends 10's of thousands of dollars trying to rescue and heal those that don't wear seat belts.
Yeah, but at least we managed to get that hateful bigot out of the company! That's important, right? </sarcasm>

More seriously, we really do have a problem, but it looks like the users just don't want to be free.
I've paid money for Windows updates as well but I know I'm in the minority. The vast majority of consumers don't do it. The vast majority of businesses have their own licensing agreements.
I don't think this is actually true. The software supports a very rudimentary type of "pressure sensitivity" that (i think) is based on the capacitive area of the rubber tip. Maybe this can still be considered "active?" Perhaps. It is my understanding that the ability to determine the size of a touch (a radius?) is a system-wide thing that was added for iOS 8.

In practice, there is a huge difference between a true pressure sensitive stylus, i.e. a wacom stylus, with, say 1024 real levels of sensitivity, versus this more kludgy solution. The Wacom solution is far closer to real media performance. Paper, when used with Pencil seems to support 2 size variables. The first (mentioned above) is based on the new iOS 8 size of the rubber tip deal. The second size variant is based on the velocity that you use to draw your line. The faster you draw, the fatter the line gets. Amusingly, this is somewhat backwards of the way a real artist would use a brush loaded with, say, India ink (like an inker would use). In that scenario, the faster you move your brush, the thinner your line is (generally -- artists can vary this greatly with practice and technique)

Anyway, this Paper and Pencil deal has vastly improved since the first version. The tracking, the connection to the Pencil -- all have improved dramatically. Highly recommended for iPad artists and non-artists.

One thing to note is that a newer iPad will be much better at tracking than an older one (obviously!).
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And here I am heading towards Firefox from Chrome specifically because I can't watch DRM content in Chrome anymore (need silverlight to be able to watch GoT and Comedy central)
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If you're running Chrom(e|ium) with developer tools open then you can right click the refresh button and it gives you a few refresh options (eg clear cache and reload).

That tends to be my fall back whenever I'm specifically fussed about the "freshness" of a page. That or curl
Wait, what happened to sync?
> A while back I envisioned an open-source Facebook app. Updates would be sent through email. The email client would recognize such a message and forward it to the app.

I would have to replace my email client to use your social networking app? That's a problem.
Or do we bear less cost because these people die, which saves heath care costs over their lives?

Similarly, you could also argue than lack of sunscreen use leads to massive costs to society, so why not mandate that we all wear sunscreen at the beach and fine those who don't?
Also, if you do visit a site that uses DRM and your browser doesn't support it, it will show up in the server logs, so just using it is sending a message.
"Personalized learning is, somewhat ironically, far more socialist than it may first appear. You can’t “personalize” technology without building models that are deeply dependent on others. In other words, it is all about creating networks of people in a hyper-individualized world. It’s a strange hybrid of neoliberal and socialist ideologies."

This is off the main point of the article, but I really dislike the equating of creating networks of people with socialism. I am a fan of free markets/capitalism. Markets are all about people working together, building organizations, and trading with each other. Somehow not wanting to allocate resources via a top-down government mechanism has been equated with favoring ulta-individualism, which is not the case for most free marketers I know.
Inconsistency implies falsity
There are a few games that really nail the pixel art, but they are the exception among the flood of poorly done graphics. Those titles usually look different than most other pixel art games and don't fall into the lookalike pattern I mentioned before. I tend to generalize negatively in regards of pixel art because of the vast majority of the bad titles.
To be honest, I found neither impressive, both are pretty standard level animations in their domains.
My take on it: http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/robotics/aeria...

and a few test flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP8SnZ0A8S8
These little quads use much smaller propellers and they run on smallish batteries. I've got a cheap quad and it's so light you can chuck it at someone as hard as you can and would only hurt them if it hit them in the eye. When I'm flying it anywhere that has even a chance of other people being around, I use the prop guards on it (at the expense of weight/flight time) so nobody would get smacked by a spinning rotor if it somehow ended up near them.

For the most part, these little ones can probably hurt you as much as being hit with a rogue frisbee in the park. No decapitations. The bigger ones (Phantoms and the like) are more autonomous and better at avoiding crashes. Still, it's always a possibility and if you think you have any business flying one, you will know not to do so in a manner that makes it likely to hit anyone.

I think of it like riding a bike or a motorcycle. When you ride a bike you are supposed to stay on the road but a lot of people (especially kids with smaller bikes) will sometimes ride on the sidewalk or through the park anyway. This isn't usually a big deal because they won't do any major damage in the unlikely event of a crash.

But an adult on a large bike or a motorbike will get a ticket for riding on the sidewalk because you can do a lot more damage and you're probably moving a lot faster. As an adult on a big bicycle or motorcycle, you're obligated to only ride it in such a way that you don't put people at unnecessary risk.

I think of the little toy quads as the equivalent of kids' bikes and the Phantoms and larger video-centric copters like motorcycles. Sure, fly the toy in the house or in the park but if you're carrying cameras and gimbals and big battery packs and larger rotors, you really need to plan your shoots and locations to avoid the greater risk (IMO). It's a fair tradeoff for a fun hobby.
You'll still have to wear seatbelts in a driverless car.

In fact it probably will refuse to go anywhere unless you do.

I think the seatbelt laws are to get federal funding, while motorcycles have little political persuasion.
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It would be a compile-time error saying (in essence) "multiple applicable methods in scope" and giving you a list of the available methods.
Comcast owns NBC, another content provider. I don't think there are any unfair advantages there.
I fall into camp 3. I have a DJI Phantom that I crashed into my neighbor's yard due to my own incompetence and inexperience.

I'm not arguing for draconian policy measures. I just want manufacturers to focus on and market reliability and safety features. It's a win-win for users and manufacturers.

Manufacturers are clearly aiming for these drones to be everywhere and for everyone to own one. With many, many people flying for the first time everyday there are going to be accidents. If manufacturers can reduce the harm caused by these accidents then they'll have a much easier path for FAA regulations and public acceptance.

For users, they get the ease of mind that crashes won't be catastrophic for their drone and a reduced chance that they'll inadvertently hurt someone.
but it looks like the users just don't want to be free.

The users don't care. I have never been able to convince a layperson why DRM should matter at all to them, have you?.
I work for MS, right now we're working on win10. Some of the UI is written in html/js now, so I'm not surprised by this at all. I'm guessing we'll see some native node.js apps on windows in the future.
Some of the Fire Emblem sprites were breathtakingly fluid, and you can't deny that they often look better than the jaggy polygons of the modern DS titles (similar to how the OP contrasts Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Diablo).

My favorites were always the sprites for the "hero" unit:

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/3/38/F...
I would like a reverse-bs plugin so that when i'm trying to write punchy copy and don't feel very enthused about it i can have the freedom of using some very cathartic verbiage instead.
A lot of this also applies to rendering fonts at small point sizes.
That is the attitude that enabled players like Netfucks to subvert the web into a servile sterile content consume only platform.

It may surprise, but some of us don't want DRM, don't want endless binary blobs, and frankly, will walk an extra mile instead of opting for convenience, if said convenience removes a freedom or bites us in the arse later.

Still, plenty are happy to throw freedom overboard, ooh wait, shiny on netfucks - what were was saying again?
I suffer from allergies compounded by an injury. This has led to a varying degree of obstructed breathing and discomfort.

Warmer weather tends to bring greater allergic and perhaps other factors influencing this condition. I notice a significant cognitive decline under these conditions.

When I work in air conditioned environments, I perceive my cognitive ability to increase as the cooler, drier, and filtered air gradually mitigates the symptoms of congestion and discomfort.

In my experience, there is a lot that medicine and formal study do not recognize nor study. For lack of a better word, a "hollistic" perspective that looks beyond easily reducible and isolated factors is significantly absent and is so particularly with respect to acknowledging and addressing current conditions as opposed to promoting one particular theory or product.

So, it's anecdotal, but for me, I have little difficulty believing such a correlation is possible. One might think that populations would adapt to warmer environments to not be cognitively challenged by them. But we've been moving around a lot, and changing our environment a lot, in recent decades. As just one possible reason why not.
Humans are not logically consistent animals.
"The values of these new condos are being assessed at just a fraction of what they're worth. And buyers are paying only a fraction of that fraction in property taxes."

This is true in every state that I have lived in. The tax-assessed value is lower than the market value, and the tax rate is a small portion of the tax-assessed value.

The tax-assessed value is lower because the assessors use a historical comparative market analysis, which looks to the past to determine a current price. Free market buyers who assess the property for the purchase of making a purchase offer look at comparative historical values, but they also look to what the future market will be. A rising market will command a higher price than a sinking market. The same is true of the stock markets.

This effect is especially true for unique locations or other outlier properties that can have grossly higher market values than tax-assessed values. I am not surprised then that this is a problem in a place like Manhattan, New York.

Also, some states limit the annual increase of the tax-assessed value. In California it is 1%. If the market increase is 8%, the difference is going to be large quickly.
How do they handle wind?
Yep - when they asked why the online service that they bought DRM ridden content from closed, and now their purchases were lost (they were asking what to do/how to do it).
Silverlight is needed just to add attachments to Outlook in the browser. I don't understand why there isn't a 64-bit version for chrome on mac.
Is the 'hands-off' recovery not good on the DJI platform? I've always used OpenPilot FCs so have no idea how well the DJI FC works, but the OP hardware will fully recover from stupidity if you let go of the controls (while not in acro mode).
That doesn't sound sensible to me. Land use controls don't force families who want better school districts to pay for housing. It's the differences in schools that make families to seek housing in the most-wanted areas, and most-wanted areas are naturally more expensive.

So, people don't pay for housing or land use, they pay for school district.

Perhaps, in the US, there are indirect ways that land use impacts school quality, but it wouldn't have to be that way.
The scheme you outline still allows trivial impersonation attacks.
The reason that print+web packages don't cost significantly more than web-only is because print advertising is still a lucrative business. NYT can a a absolutely justify giving away the paper to subscribers on that basis.
The issue is really what has been eliminated from the API. This is one of the ways they prevent you from generating your own executable code. See, e.g. this (closed) V8 bug for adding Windows Phone support: https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2427
What states, outside of New Hampshire, don't require wearing a seat belt?

Live Free or Die, motherfucker :-)
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Guess it is answered... yes... this breaks your auth flow... It is now mentioned on: https://developer.linkedin.com/support/developer-program-tra... as well, don't remember reading that before.
Right on it. Most users use the things they do because they're either easy or there is no other feasible choice. Will a user download a plugin when a browser can now "guarantee" most forms of content to play without one? I know I probably wouldn't.

Adobe just became an unwritten standard... again.
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> you paid something like $20/mo for 15 hours (it's been a long time)

I don't think it was that much, because when AOL first came out with their "$20/month unlimited plan" (years after the regular ISPs did), I remember thinking "this is great for people like me, but I kinda feel bad for people who only use their connection for an hour a week". I think it was more like $7/month for your X free hours (and I remember they kept bumping the X as more and more people began integrating AOL into their daily lives until they finally said "fuck it, we're going unlimited").

Also, people would get around it by using the crapflood of AOL CDs they got everywhere to register new accounts every month. They really started ramping up the free hours on those... when you got to "100 free hours", it made more sense to just make a new account and use a new AOL CD every month.
The target market is vloggers. They would love a device that automatically videotapes what they're saying as they're walking around Boston Common or somewhere else.
Shared on Facebook and sadly showed up as "Home page - Lily" with no meta description. If you're looking for more people to share and click, try fixing your meta tags so when people share it shows full a good teaser of the product is.
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How could they not block this?! Has the world gone mad?
The problem is these drones often have prop guards that would make them a lot safer to fly, but you almost never see the prop guards on a drone do you? Any other safety gear would be stripped by operators just like that. It hurts their flight time and performance after all.
Windows apparently has > 90% of the desktop market share. http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
Also, if seatbelts weren't mandatory, it's conceivable that, in the event of a collision, you could be found liable for injuries that would have been prevented if the person wore a seatbelt. So yes, depending on the law, you could be personally affected by someone else's decision not to wear a seatbelt.
I think the next iteration is (or should be) a Dash button with an e-ink screen built in that can order any item and the screen changes to display the brand and name of the item it's setup to order.

Trying to add a changing ad screen to this would kill the battery life because of the check-ins to fetch the next ad. I also don't see that generating many sales because the customer would still need to change their set order, I think few people would accept Amazon outright changing what the button ordered based on the current ad.
I understand they are taxed under the code as a "condo" but isn't the point of the article that they are not taxed at the rate of a normal condo vis-a-vis their sales price?

Since the sales price is 6 sigma to the right on the bell curve, it doesn't surprise me at all that the tax rate as a percentage of sales price would be similarly offset to the left. I think it would have made the analysis better to have also ranked the dollar value of tax revenue per dwelling unit, and you would see they are paying an extremely high share under that metric. But then the title of the article would have to be "Why Billionaires Pay the Most Per Capita Property Taxes in New York".

Another way to look at it, is if the tax rate were 1.7% instead of 0.017% then the building could not have been built. If the rate were 0.17% the sales price would have been closer to $10 million than $100 million. I think there is no scenario where the city gets the tower, the condo sells for $100 million, AND the city takes even .17% each year in property taxes.

The article reads like the city paid to build the tower and is giving the units away rent-free. It just seems like such a distorted view of the full macroeconomic impact, when in fact NYC is getting exactly what Bloomberg meant when he said he hoped the billionaires to move in.
I think a better measure of whether housing policy has succeeded in New York is a measure of the cost of housing. In that case, New York's housing policy has not stopped housing prices from increasing. You could argue that the situation would be worse without it though.

> Because you say so?

I'm not the commenter, but I think cash is better precisely because I don't know what would be better for the recipient. It's pretty arrogant to assume that you know what is right for someone. To say that a $4,000 transfer should be used on housing and housing alone is an insult to the person receiving the benefit, as though that person cannot think or make decisions for themselves.