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Unfortunately they are protecting the name of the software company. It is sad that they could not extend the same courtesy to their student.
Well, without going into too much detail, once you start curve-fitting, you kinda have to do it on a per-bone basis, so your animation poses aren't going to be sequentially placed in the data-stream. That means that your poses have to be re-formed before they can be blended into the higher parts of the animation system.

When all your keys are aligned, your keys are effectively poses themselves, so blending them together can be done as you do the inter-animation blending, which is a lot more efficient.

Again, it's totally worth it, especially if you have memory contraints, but not what I'd have tackled, given what they described.

Edit: in the context of this article, compression and data-reduction are interchangeable terms. Converting a quantized value into 4 floats isn't free and constitutes the "decompression cost", same goes ith interpolation.
So they could just register *.com.othercompany.com.
WTF?

The student was wrong. He had access to a legal copy through CERN, but instead, he used a pirated copy. Not only is that legally wrong, it is bizarre.

The company was wrong. They are not a law enforcement agency. They have no right to demand a fine of CHF30000 be paid. At best, they can send a cease and desist. If they believe significant damages have occurred, they can sue.

CERN was wrong to pay the fine and pass it on to the student. For one, they had a site license. For another, after investigating, they found it to be the stupid act of a naive student who, I am sure, has learned his lesson by now. However, it was no skin off their back to pay up and pass it on. They should have refused to pay the fine and participated in coming to an amicable settlement between all parties involved.
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You're right, I am, but pretty much every developer will use the browser's built-in dev tools to query the source these days, so the trick worked.
They've been issuing them since at least 2013: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm....
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True, that could well be the software they're refering to. The reason I suspected that it may be Allegro AMS Simulator was a combination of it being listed on the CERN Engineering Software DB[1] and the product name.

[1] http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/services/software
> I find the behavior of the software manufacturer rude and unacceptable.

I've seen many photographers who ended up with the exact same behaviour because any other is a good way to get steamrolled. Infringement = infringement invoice, period, end of the story.

> 30kCHF is an outrageous claim.

Depending how the original license cost (for a roaming license too) is, not necessarily. An infringement invoice must be significantly higher than a regular license or there's no point to getting a license, you can just wait to be caught. Considering the kind of products we're talking about, licenses are probably in the 5k~10k range. A 3~5x infringement surcharge isn't outrageous.

> On the other hand, AllSIM didn't suffer any damages.

Somebody used their product unlicensed in a way not allowed by the licenses they had access to, that sounds like damages.

> Also, there are probably not that many potential customers in the world for AllSIM(TM).

On the other hand, there probably aren't that many potential replacements in the world for AllSIM.

> Maybe CERN should have used their power to make clear that this was the act of a naive student, and that a ridiculous fine could seriously impede the future business relation with CERN…

Why? CERN suffered no damages, they forwarded the invoice to the student.
The problem with usenet is that its usenet. It will never change. The poor experience, the slow updating, the almost non-existant moderation, the impossible spam filtering, endless abuse, nothing to stop stuff like alt.tasteless invading alt.cats - again, the difficulty of searching it well, etc.

I think a lot of people were seeing what web forums were doing (look at Slashdot or Metafilter from that era) and decided that supporting usenet was betting on the wrong horse. I don't really blame them. What we can do with completely controlled systems on our own software and on our own servers vastly surpasses what usenet was capable of.
Yeah, it seems like it's the natural dynamic. The government could probably do something about it, I guess.
If you ever wonder why companies prefer younger employees this story explains a lot. After you've been taken advantage of enough you just don't accept it anymore.
I think this is very subjective. I am living on less than a thousand Swiss-Francs per month in one of the most expensive cities in the world (Zurich) and I do not feel that I am missing anything. I know, things will be very different when I have kids, but still.
The real reason you won’t sell domain validated X.509 certificates is that the Let’s Encrypt project¹ will give them away for free (by automatic means) come November, which will wipe out the market for them.

This is just the “sour grapes” rationalization from CertSimple.

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They don't need to charge the student (and I would recommend the student just walk away) for future people to learn not to do this. The post by itself is clearly a warning not to be the one who thinks it's cool to download and run random software. They aren't going to give him any kind of recommendation.

They didn't name him, but people within CERN certainly know his identity. People care about reputation.
Lessons to learn from this:

1 CERN will fuck you over, do not count on them, and definitely do not go above and beyond to finish a job assigned by them

2 Use outbound firewall when using pirated software. Download said pirated software only from connections that cant be traced back to you. Learn about output files watermarking (for example IDA Pro watermarks everything).

Good job CERN, prime blog post there, people skills so stronk!
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> then they have no right to enforce their terms with anyone.

As long as the infraction is corrected, enforcement has happened, so there is no loss of rights anywhere.

Despite what some people say, being a dick is not a legal requirement.
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Angular 2 looks way easier to understand. That is from the perspective of someone just starting out. Although note alot of things changes in Angular 2. So some tutorials may be out of date.
The point is this leak exposes the "good" cheaters, the "bad" cheaters, and the... gray? cheaters alike. It also probably exposes a ton of people who never cheated, but in some dark moment went on the site to gawk or fantasize. Given there are only 9 million credit card transactions to 35 million emails, it makes me think they are probably the majority.

In any case, this leak makes no distinction between people who are doing wrong and people who aren't, and it hurts all of them. Since when was it ok to smear a million people who weren't doing anything wrong, just to blow up the lives of other people who were?
Original author of the article here.

I will answer questions to the best of my knowledge. Please be nice.

The BRP was enacted earlier this year. I have had two passports since my ILR visa was issued (it's currently affixed in an old passport). So I do have a current passport, it's just that the visa is in an old one.

I do qualify for citizenship, and it did cross my mind. But it's quite expensive for me. And to add insult to injury, I would still need the BRP (£1000~ citizenship + £660 BRP). For me that's not an amount I have readily available.

Maybe I took my visa for granted, but I was awarded it when I was a teenager. I called up immigration a few years back, and asked about whether I should get my visa transferred to a newer passport, or whether I should apply for a citizenship, and was told that unless I really wanted to vote then I shouldn't worry about it (the only thing denied to residents with an ILR, apparently).

It just didn't occur to me that one of my responsibilities (?) would be to keep up with current immigration legislation, just in case the rights I was initially awarded indefinitely would suddenly be changed in a way which is disruptive to my life. It kind of scares me to think that things like this can be changed on a whim. I don't really know what to think.
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He used it only under the scope of his work and the company contracting the work had the necessary seat in pool to cover for the student license.

So the student is only technically at fault in the same way as you are technically trespassing when you sneaked behind your colleague that day your forgot your badge.

The reason the company was able to extort ( I think that's the only appropriate term here ) 30K is because of the enormous B2B corporate administration will process this issue routinely rather than using common sense.

As a European tax payer that is not the behavior of a company I want my tax money to fund.
A website that recently rekindled my love of boardgames is http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/

I'm not affiliated in any way - I just really enjoyed it as an entity that is created out of a genuine passion for the medium mixed with a great "nuts & bolts" discussion of the mechanics of the games they review.

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Yeah, I would imagine CERN uses a lot of different packages. Indeed, they'd probably be mad not to run serious simulations across multiple systems to sanity check.. :)
Based on the comment above it seems that this is a good thing.

The system with a visa attached to a passport was stupid, and having a separate document that lives independently from the passport makes much more sense. It looks like they changed the rules to make it easier, now unfortunately previous immigrants have to be made aware of this and comply. In the end, it is making everyone life easier I think.
I think there are three questions here.

Is it legal.

Is it moral.

Should it be legal.

The last is quite complex and I won't get to it here because of the vast differences in moral theories as to what should and should not be legal.

As to the first, is it legal? Hacking isn't. The end.

But the middle question is interesting, and I dare say that many people have views such as my own, where morality is not dependent on legality but on morality. And I would also dare to say that most people do not have an issue exposing people who are using websites to commit very immoral actions. So the question becomes one of if the action of cheating is immoral enough to cross this threshold. That question is a really deep moral one and you probably have as much ability to change as most any deeply held moral view.

In short, most everyone agrees the right to privacy has limits based on extremely immoral actions. The difference is only in what counts as immoral enough, which is far less a distinction than 'right to privacy means hacking is wrong'.
> Your passport, for example, doesn't prove that you're a
> nice person. Communicating this to end users is a
> challenge: even network engineers have been confused by this.

This just seems like a straw man argument. I can't say that I've encountered either a network engineer or even an end user (s/EV/green icon) who thinks that an EV says anything about the quality of the company they're working with. End users accept that it means 'more secure'. Network engineers of average ability or above do, in fact, know better.
Safari / Webkit used to be the leader and get all the new features: CSS Animations, transitions etc.

Since Google started developing Blink for Chrome, it is now getting all the new features, such as CSS will-change, http2, shadow dom, css motion paths, ...

Safari / Webkit isn't anymore the leader. Occasionally, it receives some odd Apple specific features, like masked favicons [1] or force touch events [2].

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/2...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/documenta...
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I've built an app called Pagehop (https://pagehopapp.com), which is a launcher app, targeting the web (and currently only for OS X).

Pagehop's core is cross-platform and I am thinking about pivoting to a new, not-so-distant idea - a cross-platform launcher. :)
I'll definitely rebrand, if I go in this direction, since the app will no longer be the "launcher app for the web".

This time the idea is to have default tools such as the ones that Spotlight and Alfred provide on OS X (calculator, clipboard management, browse the FS etc.), combined with Pagehop's web plugins (Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, Stackoverflow and bunch of other searches) AND a support for Teams with auto-sync of plugins between team members.

So if you have a team of 30 people and they use PC's & Macs, you can have a team account for the app and everyone on the team can have the same set of productivity tools, specific for the team, available on a globally-assigned key shortcut. And whenever you need to implement a simple new graphic representing some data of your business - you can have a developer build a simple Node.js plugin, upload it in the team account and everyone would automatically get it. Same goes for updating tools. And when a new team member comes along, they only need to install Pagehop and login to get their productivity tool-belt installed.

What do you think? Does that seem like a good idea? Would you use it for your team?

Thanks in advance for all answers.
Was the company in question legally right? Probably (I'm not a lawyer). Was this a dick move? Totally. Did this move makes them any long term benefit? I don't think so. I think they lose this short term 30k CHF in long term by harmed reputation. So in the end everybody loses.
This is just a guess, but maybe -- just maybe -- the people who have been living and breathing this business for years understand it better than someone who learned about it 5 minutes ago on a web board.
Like many others here, I am not persuaded by these arguments.

A even better reason for CertSimple to not support DV certs is that it is simply impossible to complete on price with the big guys. And will be even more difficult once Let's Encrypt launches.
Ha, did you mean to reply to the parent comment? You basically repeated everything I said :) (agreed on all points, though)
Yes, there are these two completely fascinating posts from a guy wandering around on one of these servers. The original posts are on imgur but there's good context in the reddit comments.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/xcpit/exploring_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/xodzv/exploring_...
Seems like the issue there is that these are replacing the old system and now people start to demand them.
Fun fact: PayPal owns Venmo. They've tried to keep it quiet because the Venmo brand is much stronger independent from the various screw-ups and annoyances of PayPal.

The big difference: PayPal is for the computer, Venmo is for the smartphone.
Also I'm an American citizen, since some people were asking.
Show her these:

https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/633988534546796546

https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/633988845483126785

https://twitter.com/iron_spike/status/633989126639849474
Similar to the retail experience - find kids who are ok with selling warranties/pre-orders each week and if they fail to do so then bring in someone else from the stack of applications in the back.
"There is a grain of truth to this but I think this article implies causation when it's merely a correlation."

Even a correlation is very interesting!

In fact I tend to disagree, I don't think anyone is proposing that the causation must be direct, because there are still intelligent people who are not bipolar or depressive and there are bipolar and depressed people who are not intelligent. But the correlation, which I think everybody assuming is some third factor behind the mental illness and intelligence/creativity, is still interesting.

... of course, it's an interesting correlation in a sea of interesting correlations, and it's hard to tell which of them are genuinely interesting and which are just "throw enough variables together and you'll get all sorts of spurious correlations". But I'd submit that this is an unusally strong signal, as evidenced by the fact that humans have been making this observation for centuries now. Even if it is spurious, I suspect the proof of that would itself have something interesting in it.
> One of the reasons why Google has consistently released new innovative project is because of their 20% time policy, which gives many of their employees one day a week to experiment with new concepts and ideas.

Is this still true? I thought they got rid of the 20% time policy years ago.
Related (but not identical):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10061700
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My theory as to Amazon's valuation is that investors assume at some point Amazon will get a stranglehold on retail (giving it both monopoly and monopsony positions in many markets) and then extract rents on a staggering scale until regulators eventually deal with it (which might be never).

But Amazon's experiments with treating workers as commodity parts in a machine -- which we discover also applies to the white-collar folks (so now we care?) -- is a whole other angle. Instead of merely planning to cash in on a prospective illegal monopoly, it's also working on making life miserable for all workers. So there's that too.
well you have to fight for what you want. Non-competes should be illegal for example -_-'
No, it's the student. He is an adult and he has made a conscious decision. It was knowingly dishonest.
Right, they did not successfully rewrite the properties of matter and energy.
Photoshop didn't become #1 by fining pirates. A heat model simulator is such a niche tool that the market for licenses outside of the institutions and companies who pay mega $$$ for it is surely miniscule(?)

It'd make more sense for Microsoft and Adobe to chase millions of license violators over Office and Photoshop. Maybe they do, but I've not heard of it happening in personal cases, just businesses. It sounds like this vendor is chasing CERN though, despite it being the fault of an individual not employed by them.
> Yet they passed the cost to the university, which passed the fine to the student?

CERN had a license pool available which the student didn't use, and the student most likely broke CERN's rules wrt licensed software. Why would CERN pay for a student's breach of their rules?
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You don't take a binary blob from a dubious website and install it onto a company machine, and if it was his own laptop, then you don't use such a blob to produce another blob and install that on your company's machine. That's such a damn stupid thing to to in so many ways. The IT security department has all the reasons to be angry, much worse could have happened than triggering some company's license monitoring system.

Having said that, I hope they are going to let go on the student with that 30k.
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English isn't my first language, and I don't live in America so it's not like this matters to me, but now I'm curious. How is editing a source file you're meant to be editing "transmitting" anything?
I really, really hope that our society's not so far gone that 98% of folks on Twitter think that marital infidelity is unproblematic.

You're probably correct in your implication that folks are not posting and tweeting with glee because they care about infidelity, but because they want to humiliate and vilify.
> If it's O.K. to hack into someone else's server and mass-out people for having profiles on a dating site because you suspect most of them might be "guilty" of the crime of "marital infidelity"

I think you've misunderstood. "you" are the people judging that the hacking was OK and outing the victims, not the people who did the hacking. I'm pretty sure Thomas is making no claim about the intent of the hackers themselves.
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I stumbled upon the Github issue and then found the HN reference. I commented with some additional thoughts and keyword options. I don't think 'comprises' would be the best choice here; it has quite a stricter meaning than 'includes' and its synonyms.
> CERN is not doing the right thing.

What would "the right thing" be exactly? Nor enforcing their own rules, eating the costs of a student fucking up (when they didn't have to) and gaining the enmity of a software vendor?
yeah, but this argument quickly becomes a slippery slope. If you start questioning whether or not they should have released their private information in the first place, then you can just as easily start questioning whether the countries should be physically punishing these people for that same information. So, what's the real issue? It depends where you draw the line.
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Is there a feature where it lets me meet random strangers and get an uber ride home as well.
I read her description as saying "I do have a new passport, but my visa is in my older, expired passport, and I never had to duplicate it to my new passport because it's still valid".

Not knowing anything about visa's, is it normal for your visa status not to be copied over to a new passport on renewal?
Because of course you would write some software that CERN, with 100's of engineers and scientists, finds not cost-effective to build its own version of, on a sunday afternoon...

The naivete and total absence of awareness of how things work in the Real World in this thread make me shake my head. 'Hey all, someone should write an open source version!' - sure, and in the mean while, those same people gush over some guy raising 300k for "the next generation code editor" who then barely manages to build something that works at all, let alone is an actual improvement.

Software is hard and expensive, especially software that has actual domain knowledge embedded, unlike the 1000th 'micro js framework for single page apps' and fads like that. All the hate on people and companies who make a living selling software (gasp!) is... well, there is no other word for it - plain dumb.

(yes, I make (part of) my living from selling software)
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There is a beach at the end of Neromancer that seems to have a city in the distance, but if you walk toward it, you just end up where you started. It's a bit sparse though, I see your point.
Infidelity harms some, unless we aren't counting emotional harm.
It's literally bragging. The story's provocative lead ends with the words "Here is my story." as though told by the student, about an organization from hell.

But it's not his story!

The author is actually the bad guy! The thing that makes the experience hell is...him. He's just being a jerk, for numerous reasons. I hope he has $1 million lying around to contribute to cern's recruitment budget, because that's what his behavior costs as words of stories like this get around.

Just read the comments here at HN. In what possible universe is a public blog post like this an appropriate reaction? The only one damaging CERN's reputation is this guy.
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The student chose to use unlicensed software. Not CERN.