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> Oculus went from a gamer friendly company to what seems to be something run by a bunch of milquetoast MBA's with zero interest or experience in gaming

Oculus isn't a gaming company and Facebook didn't buy it for it to be one. Facebook sees VR as the next big social platform.

> Oculus's failures are proof of that

The Rift has outsold the Vive 10 to 1. And the Gear has sold over a million units.
What do you mean by it not being open source? The core CLR is MIT licensed and the compiler is Apache licensed.

This sounds like fud to me.
Stackoverflow to the rescue:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/3253/ctrl-o-behavio...

This turns out to be because on OSX the terminal driver defaults to throwing away control-O which is rather unhelpful of it. "stty discard undef" fixes it.
Steam, and GoG are the only companies who seem to make it stick.

On paper, GoG isn't doing things that differently than EA and Ubisoft (just the no-DRM bit, which is admittedly a pretty great selling point), but I think EA and Ubisoft's brands are just so toxic that people are loathe to use them for anything they aren't forced to use them for. I think Facebook runs into much the same problem nowadays. Their brand is just increasingly toxic outside their core business, and the network effect is strong enough that people don't really have much of a choice there.

Blizzard is also a player, but like EA and Ubi they only sell their own products through it.

Aside: EA has effectively wiped most knowledge of its existence from the Internet, but I remember when EA launched its first Origin platform back around the 2006 era, and then discontinued it a couple years later. I lost all my Battlefield 2 expansions, and I've been incredibly gunshy about them ever since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_2#Booster_packs
As far as I know, the last crisis wasn't heavily related to sub-prime mortgages. The primary predictors of default were the amount of money down and the numeracy of the borrower, not the borrower's credit score.

Plenty of people with excellent credit scores spent too much money on a house and ended up defaulting, and even people who could afford the payments ended up severely underwater; houses became very expensive very quickly, you couldn't buy one without spending too much.

Blaming subprime is largely a right-wing narrative. The worst thing that happened in subprime is that a lot of people (especially minorities) who could have qualified for mortgages on better terms were steered into subprime and ARMs because of their worth in high-growth (and ostensibly low-risk) CDOs.
What's high level? They're providing a message bus. That's not an IPC primitive. That's very high-level.

As for systemd, I gathered there was a connection to kdbus, which was Lennart's baby. Thusly, I gathered it needed init to cooperate, the same way kdbus did, and any non-bus1-aware init just wouldn't work with apps that used bus1.

As for portability, what other OS will implement this muck? None of them. It's portable the same way systemd is: "apps that depend on us are portable, so long as every os copies all our stuff, and re-implements all our APIs"

Forcing other OS's to implement your stuff isn't portability.
>A private sex tape shouldn't be newsworthy

What is often shouldn't be.

But that's precisely the question. Who gets to determine what is newsworthy and what isn't?

Can the government decide that independent footage of American soldiers committing crimes abroad is "not newsworthy" and suppress it, sue the organization, demand that it be pulled from the Internet?

Why or why not?
As a developer not in the Windows ecosystem, I would have definitely benefited from lobbying on behalf of an anti-trust action against Microsoft.
One specific market failure people can point at is government involvement.
If you set X gravity to 80, it's even cooler. :-D
There was some recent analysis indicating that, for psychology, the correlation between the first study of an effect and the eventful meta-analysis result was around zero, i.e.,such that an initial result conveys zero new information about an effect. That is fucking mind boggling.
Rikers is infamously horrible, but it's a jail, not a prison. It's run by NYC.

http://www.vice.com/read/the-feds-are-suing-new-york-city-be...
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Doubt it involved the oil pan. Motor oil is VERY hard to ignite and normally won't sustain itself once its on fire. ATF, p/s fluid (or other general purpose hydraulic fluids) is more flammable but there's a really wide range depending on the oil in question. Some ATF burns easy, other stuff not so much. I'd put my money on battery cables and shorts knocking stuff of its mounts could definitely pinch a cable and short.
And they're correct.

The law:

> Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech

Notice how "freedom of speech" is referenced as an external concept, not defined by the law? A right is a more general concept than an inherently narrow-scoped legal attempt to support it.
The official cmdlet documentation is versioned, though for some reason it only seems to have versions 3, 4, and 5. Which, agreed is very annoying, since Windows 7 has version 2 by default.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849971.aspx

(You should upgrade to at least 3. It has all sorts of useful stuff added! File hashing and web requests at the very least.)
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Reminder that left of center socialist views are considered extremist. As are right-wing libertarian values. Both espouse views that would upend the status quo and both groups are monitored / infiltrated.

A forum I kept tabs on for years adopted some of the former views (European style socialism) around the 2008 election. The admin was visited by the FBI and decided that keeping the forum up wasn't worth being hassled by the government. Violence was never promoted or glorified.

Martin Luther King was considered a communist threat, so much so that the FBI sent him a letter suggesting he take drastic measures (see: suicide) lest they out him as an adulterer. [0]

Occupy Wall St was heavily surveilled as a threat. The FBI worried that it was a front for a violent revolution. [1]

Centralization of discussion allows quick suppression of dissenting opinion.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
[1] http://bordc.org/news/the-fbi-and-occupy-the-surveillance-an...
Not really. Another instance of the principle that a purpose-built solution is often better than free ad-hoc scripts/nonstandard configuration that can do exactly the same thing.

And besides, this isn't "the same thing". I know of no MUA that offers the ability to sync only specified threads in realtime.
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> Twitter may think they are taking the oxygen out of the atmosphere by banning them, but in reality they are simply shifting the fire to someplace where it can burn hotter.

You've missed the sub-text surrounding this. This is not about Twitter taking oxygen away from Islamic Extremists.

This article is a public relations response to deflect recent accusations that for political reasons Twitter is banning alt-right figures it doesn't like (e.g. Milo Yiannopoulos), but aren't banning Islamic extremists who call for and say far worse things.

Those accusations have started to gain traction outside alt-right circles recently (to Twitter's detriment) hence the need to come out with news saying how many hundreds of thousands of extremist accounts they've also banned, and how they've been doing this for months.

I'd be surprised if the majority of these bans were the result of any sort of internal campaign designed to rid Twitter of Islamic extremism, as opposed to regular people just complaining about abusive/offensive accounts that also happen to involve Islamic extremists.
Algol60 lacked Algol-like syntax?

In one sense, that's almost tautologically impossible. I presume you mean "like the other Algols", which makes it a non-absurd statement, but... could you expand or clarify what you mean here?
> It's not meant to be a deterrent to criminals

This is tautological.
Same here. It would be very poor long term investment to put a chip into a car without a GPU.

But, I think the Qt changes are for IoT and not for cars.
Aha. Well, now we're approaching something more complex than /@/, aren't we? :)

I will fully agree with the claim that a regex is the wrong way to validity-check an email, and I will easily believe that implementing the check you describe takes 5 kilobytes of regex. But a rule like "Exactly one un-quoted @ sign" or "Exactly one un-quoted @ sign, and the string on the right needs to be a well-formed domain name" or something is pretty simple in normal code.

"Well-formed domain name" is an existing concept: one or more labels separated by dots, each of which contains only ASCII letters, digits, or hyphens, cannot start or end with a hyphen, and cannot be more than 63 characters long, and no more than 253 characters total. Again, not something I'd do with a regex, but a small number of lines of code.
I lay the blame completely on Twitter in this case. That account was reported multiple times by me and people I know on the service, and they sat on their hands for well over a year.

It shouldn't take a national/law enforcement influence for a company to not give platform to literal terrorists once brought to their attention.

Meanwhile, saying something not particularly nice is grounds for immediate suspension. Kind of screwed up that they take mean words (regardless of their content) more seriously than terrorism, you know?
> Judging each and every investment on its own merits is the only way to succeed.

True. And yet the world of investing (I'm not talking about market makers etc) is filled with funds whose composition is determined by everything except simply buying predictable cash flows for cheap, wherever you can find them.
They have acquired their way into credibility. They controversially hired the majority of the CMU robotics laboratory in order to start ATC. They also hired a number of Google self-driving engineers, including the former head of the self-driving effort. Today Uber announced their acquisition of Otto, a self-driving truck company.

The ATC is isolated from the rest of Uber.

Volvo has been working on self-driving cars for years; before the Uber ATC effort.

Regulatory work is one thing that Uber excels at.

To be fair, Google also hired/poached most of its self-driving experts from university robotics laboratories.
I'm really curious about the things you are saying since they are so different than what people regularly say on the subject. Especially the right-wing narrative part. Can you suggest any sources on all this?
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>that punished Gawker at Bollea's expense

That's for Bollea himself to decide, not us. Frankly, I see no evidence presented that he had any objection to the choices his attorney made.

> You can't be simultaneously in favor of the legality of what Thiel did and against this: http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vander...

[edited]

I can and rather easily, at that. Why? Because I can distinguish between cases that clearly have merit and cases that clearly don't.

This "underlying narrative" people are trying to build, as I said, is just an outright non-starter.
Yes, I'm still doing the CTO-for-hire thing. My current project in that category is an app called Blue which will launch in mid-Sept on iOS, with a beta on Android around the same time, or possibly shortly thereafter. (This is the project I'm doing a lot of C++ server development on currently.)

I'm also doing regular short-term software/hardware development projects in experiential marketing for major brands (Nike, BWW, Google, and Kellogg were my four most recent XM projects). Those are fun because you can do major tech-stack improvements on each project, and the projects are event-based and usually have really tight timelines, so they end relatively quickly. Pay is good too.
"Only Lisp" from my short list above. There are others.
> We’re excited about features like MIR becoming the default and the beginnings of incremental compilation, and the 1.11 release has laid the groundwork.

The changelog is silent about these two points, so does it mean that -Z orbit defaults to "on" in 1.11 and -Z incremental can be used in 1.11?
This is how Masayoshi Son's (Softbank) handled and sold his first patent. (book 'aiming high')

He approached many companies - most gave him a cold shoulder. So he found a patent lawyer/engineer who once worked for Sharp after meticulous search (he was interested in selling to electronics company). So after getting hold of patent person - he got an appointment with Sharp director of research. Demoed it. Nailed it. Rest is raise of Masa. Good luck.
UI Recorder-a UI test case recorder much powerful than Selenium IDE
No. Just the vast majority.
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My mistake; thank you for the correction.
This. Waiting will mean you have a choice of architectures and it is looking like this architecture may pull the Intel prices down too. Used to be Intel's top of the line desktop CPUs were all under $1k because of the amd competition. You can make a better price/power/performance decision with the new competition. At least I hope it is new competition. Unless you need more compute immediately I would wait. Intel's improvements price and performance wise have been lackluster the last couple of years since they are well ahead of AMD. Competition can only improve things.
>>sometimes you just reach a hurdle which requires a breakthrough.

When there are billions of $'s to be made. Generally there is way.

I understand from where you are coming. But if the trend grows, and one companies sees the billions coming. Others are forced to innovate. Also a whole new ecosystem is born.

See pre iPhone and post iPhone mobile industry. Sometimes you need one company to do something insane to drive others down the same path.
Or maybe the fact that RSS ever had any semblance of being alive demonstrates that journalism used to be terribly naive about business.

Lizard people or careless journalists, maybe we will never know.
I wonder what kinds of devices this is intended for?

This: http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/evaluation-tool... ARM Cortex M-4 architecture, 800 x 480 full color display, 16MB of RAM and 16MB of flash on this demo board and the part includes a 2D bitblit unit (ST calls is ChromArt(tm)) which can do fill from constant, memory to memory region copy, memory to memory copy with alpha blend, (and all three with pixel format conversion options)

Put a keyboard and a VGA monitor on it and you've got a PC that is at least as powerful as the ones from the late 80's early 90's.
Most users do not find awk trivial. Most people basically use it for {print $colnum} when simple columns are available.

PowerShell's integrated query syntax that you can patch into various things is a lot more consistent and reasonable. It is difficult to imagine volunteering people into a world of awk, sed and cut with good intentions in one's heart.
Did Microsoft go to jail?
You would have to be aware of that fact in order to write the command. The question is about relative advantage, not about what the tools do.
There is also "Second Week" released which I greatly recommend and the author is also very responsive via email.
Doesn't this upend Uber's whole model of non-ownership of vehicles and rejection of liability? Unless the driver is just there to be liable for having "allowed" the AI to intentionally hit something or someone!

Also, as a NYC driver, I wonder how aggressively a self-driving car could legally be programmed to defend its lane. I'm picturing Uberbots sitting still in traffic while streams of human drivers gleefully cut them off. City driving is basically a game of chicken every 10 seconds; winning at chicken depends on convincing your opponent that you are willing to have an accident.
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I may be naive but I do have some experience with isometric games and my solution was to set the index origin of each box as the top back corner (the top of the hexagon if flattened), and then order bottom-to-top, back-to-front. Then draw in order.

http://blog.efnx.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/fpsExample.s...
> Steam works

But does it still provide a great experience for gamers and creators? I'd wager so say they can do a lot better, but they're letting their success stagnate them. Buggy mobile apps, questionable revenue share on Workshop items, no strong answer to the discovery of good games ever since Greenlight came out, IMHO Valve isn't doing enough with their platform on their own. I'd welcome competition to get them to perk up their step a bit.
http://www.roadtovr.com/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-to-testify-i...

Carmack worked on the Rift while an employee of ZeniMax. A ZeniMax, Facebook, Rift share split then blew up, leaving ZeniMax with nothing, despite the fact that Carmack and ZeniMax were instrumental in the development of the Rift. Carmack then left ZeniMax for Facebook.
Maybe it's just me, but name collisions seem to be happening a lot lately. My association with "Otto" is Hashicorp's tool.[1] This announcement makes more sense than the one I expected to read.

[1]: https://www.ottoproject.io/
That was quick. Otto is a few months old?
Windows can have a neat-o shell all they want but when you open powershell on a windows computer you still get the following when you try to ssh... so, not really seeing the point here:

ssh : The term 'ssh' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
Is this a plan for uber to enter the trucking logistics market?
Wait for Zen, but evaluate benchmarks. You can probably still get a cheaper Intel then even if amd doesn't live up to the hype (because at least amd will be closer).
Booing happens everywhere. A lot of the people complaining on reddit are Americans, and American sports are quite partisan. Elite athletes competing for silver at the Olympics should be able to handle booing.
In addition to cloud VMs, I wonder what applications this might have on local systems. Systems that boot from encrypted partitions and can't have the keys recovered by cold boot attacks? Secure graphics acceleration of different guests in a Qubes system? etc.
A jury composed by citizens decided that.

I don't know you and I share a private sex tape of yours with my huge audience. We all agree that I should end up in jail, but somehow is "not that bad" because it was a company the one who did it? That's not a good example for the kids. Bullies should be punished wether they are a person or a company.

Videos of soldiers committing crimes are proof of a felony. A video of Hulk Hogan having sex or Thiel being gay is private life. Soldiers are funded by our taxes. Apples and Oranges.
Parent comment was talking about parsing the raw output from a database in stdout. That's what I was responding to, and I'm not wrong.
No. The well-known mature shell tools manage files and processes - neither of which are a focus of managing a Windows system. Windows revolves around services which you RPC to, which internally store their state - attempting to faff with their state from outside the service is almost always both undocumented and likely to cause failure.

Powershell allowed those services to standardise their RPCs in such a way that sysadmins could call them easily. Alternatively, you'd have COM or a variety of other RPC mechanisms, depending on the service, often undocumented themselves as they were only ever intended to be used by a GUI packaged with the service.
Have you tried adding to pocket and then using something like https://p2k.co/ or https://help.getpocket.com/article/911-how-to-configure-cali... to sync to Kindle?
I suppose shorts are easier to cause by physical breaching than fire by introduction of spark (e.g. you can puncture a gas tank and still not have it burst into flames without ignition).

But on the other hand, I'd assume the majority of car fires are caused by either fuel or oil lines into the engine being punctured and leaking around something hot enough to ignite them. Over a longer maintenance period (10 years+), I'd still bet on insulation over physical containment of a pumped liquid.
In a down market, an index ETF loses money.
That's not what I meant but you could totally take it that way given how I worded what I said.
Hate speech is absolutely protected under the US's First Amendment.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-colleges-hat...

Here's a quick summary of Supreme Court hate speech cases: http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freespeech/tp/Hate-Speech-C...
I think it's on in the 1.12 beta, which was also published today. The orbit switch was switched on during the cycle that just ended, so I'd be surprised if it was already on on the stable.
When these institutions were first created no one imagined the harm they would inevitably cause. Now that they exist they can't be killed, because they help some people. Like a lot of things, really.
Is it really possible to have an "observer" of a self driving vehicle step in to save it in the event of an emergency? If you trust the vehicle for thousands of hours, and it never has a problem, you would of course start sleeping, reading, watching movies, etc. while it drives. The act of driving keeps you engaged, watching a car drive itself would be beyond boring.
Still need something other than powershell to access a linux server from a windows machine, which seems ironic...

ssh : The term 'ssh' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the
spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
Server - client architecture, using IP addresses instead of using public/private keys, etc.
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Ask HN: Restricted stock when public company gets acquired by private company?
I couldn't find anything specific in the documents my employer gave me nor on the internet. The internet seems to just say "it depends", but most of the advice is given assuming both companies are public. Obviously when the acquirer is not publicly traded, conversion isn't an open.

Anybody have any experience with this situation or know what the options are?
Is that a modified Rocky Horror reference?
> We live in a sad country filled with sad, fearful, unforgiving people. Maybe a blanket statement, but one that I believe to be true.

I have personally found American people to be very cheerful and forgiving too. Land of second opportunities! But people are super insecure. They are not willing to stand up for the rights of criminals no matter what the crime is. It makes politician's life far more easier.
I certainly wouldn't like someone doing as focus demanding activity as studying while driving.

Seems like a perfect situation for an accident.
I stand corrected then, make the number 44.
It seems pretty clear Oculus is going to announce the ship date on the touch controllers at Oculus Connect (in October) and there are games launching that use them in November/December, so it seems safe to assume it is happening in the next few months.
PowerShell's object-passing approach ultimately is a heck of a lot more composable and reusable than the "blobs of text with AWK and SED magic" approach that its predecessors took.

It's somewhat surprising to see people here arguing that the pure text methodology is superior. It's difficult for me to imagine a technically motivated scenario that is improved by having everything dump out inconsistently formatted and specialized plain text.

Great example, ifconfig and netstat. Regular interfaces and an object model over these under the covers is a whole universe better than the ad hoc tabular formats they present.
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