skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet that Zenimax will claim that due to the issues surrounding the Oculus case Carmack failed the covenants required to collect his 50% earn out mentioned in Carmack's complaint.

EDIT - Another commentor posted the original complaint and this is exactly why Zenimax is not paying "ZeniMax’s stated basis for its failure to comply with the Convertible Promissory Note is a series of allegations regarding claimed violations of Mr. Carmack’s Employment Agreement and ZeniMax’s alleged intellectual property rights."(1)

A jury of "peers" found Oculus at fault in several key areas in Zenimax's last complaint, and Carmack was central in that story.

When Zenimax sued Oculus - the VR community responded with overwhelming support for Oculus, casting Zenimax as the greedy corporation trying to get a slice.

Zenimax's original complaint - of which a Jury saw enough truth in to award $500m to Zenimax - is more or less as follows:

- Zenimax bought ID software for >$100m on June 24, 2009.

- Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an earn-out / golden-handcuffs agreement that ended in June of 2013.

- Carmack was enthralled with VR.

- Carmack found Palmer via an internet forum, reached out to get a rift to try.

- Carmack tinkered with the Rift, adding sensors, building calibration, etc. while on the clock / using hardware from zenimax.

- Carmack brought a prototype of the Rift working on Doom 3 to E3 with him providing Oculus with their early press.

- Zenimax realized the extent to which Carmack was enabling Oculus and worked to negotiate equity with Brendan Iribe.

- Oculus sent Zenimax a proposal to discuss a partnership Sept 21, 2012 but never followed up / followed through.

- Carmack quit Zenimax the day his contract was up in June 2013, joined Oculus as CTO a few months later and took his 5 best guys with him.

- FB bought Oculus March 2014, Zenmix got pissed and sued.

When Zenimax responds to this new complaint from Carmack it's a foregone conclusion that they will re-raise this "bad behavior" and likely point to non-competitive clauses attached to the "earn out" as non-performing.

I love Carmack and his contributions to our world, I am concerned that Zenimax may out lawyer him.

PS - Fun fact - two of Zenimax's board members are Cal Ripken, Jr. (hall of fame baseball player) and Robert S. Trump - brother to our current president.

EDIT - Changed first sentence for clarity of my point.

(1) https://www.scribd.com/document/341420632/John-Carmack-vs-Ze...
Python 3 does pretty good.
What's the minimum bar for convicting a sitting president again?

...asking for a friend.
Thrashing would be my guess. Somewhere along the line the product vision was lost; the people who had it moved on to other companies. Windows 7 had some flaws, but it was at least trustworthy. Things like forced updates and having to turn off other annoying features makes me doubt the OS as a whole. Microsoft doesn't know how to fix it, so they are doing anything they can. These are their throes.
NASA Just Found a Lost Spacecraft Orbiting the Moon
Yea! It's awesome. We have a kubernetes chart for it available here: https://github.com/cloudposse/charts/tree/master/incubator/o...
This appears to be a rehash of what Mathias Bynens was talking about a few years ago.

http://vimeo.com/76597193

https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode
At least her ending is not the same as her father.
Don't tell me you're not looking forward to seeing

public static Dictionary<(long id, string firstName, string lastName), (string shippingAddress, DateTime date, List<(long itemId, string itemName, decimal price)> items)> LoadCustomerOrders()
{
// ...
}

in your codebase :)
> There a number of guides

Yeah, that's the problem. You might miss some.
This is huge. Early analysis is that this is a net positive for Korean democracy since the entire process, from protests to ouster was relatively peaceful and the people involved in the ouster tried to follow the rule of law as much as possible. It's exercised for the first time a part of the legal system that's never been explored in the country.

At each stage of the very complex process, the government figured out what to do without too much fuss, even operating as a temporary parliamentary democracy.

It wasn't too long ago that this could have gone very differently: seizure of power, military occupation, coups, violence and corruption.

This is Korea's Nixon moment.

edit
There's some very serious discussion regarding criminal charges they may now be brought now that she's freed from Presidential immunity.

edit2
For folks who want more background on what this is all about, "Ask a Korean" has done a magnificent job of writing the charges up.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-ultimate-choi-soo...

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-ultimate-choi-soo...
> The nation now must hold a presidential election within 60 days, making it likely to fall on May 9.

This is different from how it works in USG where Congress elects a new President themselves from within Congress. At least that's what my understanding is from googling around, no President has been convicted in an impeachment trial.

Edit: As later comments have pointed out I'm wrong here, instead the normal line of succession applies.
Ain't that the truth.

It's been about 10 years or so since I did any web development. And yesterday we had a thread here about CSS minifying, and one of the CSS files were ~250KB. What the hell kind of abominations are people making that need 250KB of CSS?
The difference to me about this is that it seems PEP308 was explicitly created to spite those wanting a conditional operator, whereas many other "incredibly poor design decisions" like e.g. PHP's conditional operator having the wrong/unintuitive associativity happened more accidentally/without explicit intent.
Carmack is suing them over a compensation issue. None of the '-'s and fun facts appear directly related.
Something something, you are the product.
What is USG?
Perl has the same type of syntax:

print "true" if (a < b);

I recall seeing dialects of BASIC back in the 70s which supported it as well. Who knows, maybe this is where Perl got it from.

I use the post conditional most often in perl in this way:

foreach my $foo (@collection) {
next if (I-dont-care-about-this-$foo);
next if (another-reason-for-ignoring-$foo);
do_something($foo);
}
A BIG Start-Up Opportunity in Politics?
No, if the sitting President is impeached, succession proceeds as if the President had resigned, and the Vice President assumes the office.
If people are used to Seattle or Portland OR weather, they'll be used to Vancouver weather. I must say though, getting used to the Winter gloom takes some getting used to.
Isn't this how magic leap got started? Low valuation at first then bigger and bigger..
Can you point to some specific parts of the article that made it sound like it was general 3rd party ads, because I couldn't see any?
I do use Google Compute Engine, but the pricing on the page is extremely confusing...This is for developers who understand how things work so it shouldn't be that confusing. The page you mention has a 'Try it for free' but brings me back to the sign up page and it only mentions the $300 credit for 12 months.

So it's unclear what I'm signing up for...and I need a credit card so Google can confirm I'm not a bot? I have the same problem with using the Cloud platform...I have to search google to find anything like the firewall/networking/billing etc...
The founder, Luis von Ahn, later went on to found Duolingo. Duolingo uses a similar "twofer" crowdsourcing strategy.
LG phones have this optional feature to scramble the digits on the software touchpad so they aren't in the regular order (but a random one). This would be a start I feel; they would need to also actually get a picture of the software keypad instead of just an IR picture your screen however long after
The trailing if can sometimes be confusing in Ruby but the else clause is the thing that's just blatantly anti-intuitive about the Python syntax at issue. Ruby doesn't allow else there because that would be insane. Python chose the insane convoluted and confusing syntax over a well understood and accepted ternary operator.
Looks like it's only for HTTP pages with credit card or password inputs in 56:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/avoid-not-...

Did they remove it for those cases too?
United States Government
It would be great to move as a home owner and be able to avoid the 5-6% realtor cost on both ends (10-12% total). This could enable millions of people choose better living arrangements. Unfortunately for people in California, Prop 13 will still create huge costs to moving.
> http://pokerduel.herokuapp.com

Doesn't seem to work with the latest Firefox version on Mac. It loads, but clicking does nothing.
Yeah, this has nothing to do with FP. No idea what the parent was going for...
Why should it? Other than for explaining why the abomination of surrogate pairs came into existence.
US Government
Using the example I have worked with, BigQuery, it appears Google is building platforms specifically for the cloud. BQ does not use the context of an instance, whereas RedShift is simply a column store hosted on specific VM sizes. It takes time to build new solutions compared to simply moving the hosting location.

I don't expect this is universal across all products, but one example.
The only reason AAA games target Windows is because you rely on Windows for that.

It's a very stable economic arrangement /s.
>
They do limit the jobs they're willing to take on, and you'd be amazed at the work you can do with a good set of socket wrenches, a nice hydraulic jack, and maybe one of those ODB2 readers to talk to the computer.

Second this. In Sri Lanka, quite a few of us depend on some mechanics we know to come home to do repairs for us. My car's been saved quite a bit this way (one particular time was when the coolant stopped flowing through the radiator due to a jammed thermo). Quite often the work involved taking out most of the pieces sitting under the hood.

The most difficult part was the reliability of bringing the mechanic down. So it's pretty cool to see this service here. I'd gladly pay for something like it in SL.
Upvoted but sadly you can't take YC prodigy and downvote. It's a lose-lose propositon kinda like staying in an airbnb. Say something nice about YC or don't say something at all.
It does better than most, though Python 3 lacks grapheme support in the standard library, requiring developers to use a library like uniseg. I.e. it "lacks an effective way to deal with text that doesn't involve dragging in third-party libraries", and is thus evidently not a "high-level language".
I feel like we should first define 'empowerment' first. There is gender empowerment, economic empowerment, workplace empowerment, personal empowerment, legal empowerment etc.

Also..one would imagine that a gay person is also less empowered than a heterosexual person. But you can't empower them by 'granting them education' or 'opening job markets'. A child is less empowered than an adult.

A handicapped person is less empowered than a relatively healthier and whole individual.

A child's empowerment comes from growing up. Etc.

So when you say that women's empowerment comes from education and job prospects, I have to conclude that you meant economic empowerment of women that would bring down population.

Which is a little confusing to me... How is giving women more access to wealth and taking them to economic parity with men going to make them want to procreate less?

In fact, it has only empowered more women to become single parents. Which has increased global population. Social nets have only encouraged people to want to increase the number of offsprings.

So there is a fundamental logical disconnect here. Staring down the abyss that is a resource constrained future world, we are only making things worse.

I am only even more convinced now that those who refrain from proceating should be incentivized and those who do have children should be facing the economic consequences of their choices.
Major flaw with democracy, 50% of electorate has below average IQ.
Please do, I would be very interested in this!
They haven't paid Carmack 50% of his earn out.

My point above is that Zenimax will claim that due to the issues surrounding the Oculus case Carmack failed the covenants required to collect his earn out.

EDIT - See updates to my comment, this is exactly right - Zenimax has stated that Carmack broke his covenants due to the battle vs. Oculus -=>

"ZeniMax’s stated basis for its failure to comply with the Convertible Promissory Note is a series of allegations regarding claimed violations of Mr. Carmack’s Employment Agreement and ZeniMax’s alleged intellectual property rights. Those allegations were recently put to trial in ZeniMax Media Inc. v. Oculus VR, LLC , Case No. 3:14-CV-01849-K (N.D. Tex.). Mr. Carmack was a Defendant in that case, and there was extensive testimony and evidence about the alleged conduct that ZeniMax now asserts as the basis for its current refusal to comply with its contracts."

https://www.scribd.com/document/341420632/John-Carmack-vs-Ze...
Good Guinness
Most of my transcoding usage in Plex isn't for a target codec or target resolution, but for a target bitrate.
Don't say that until she dies, KCIA could still assassinate her
The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corruption mentioned in the article, there are credible reports swirling of a "8 Goddesses" cabal and various occult practices.

http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-irrational-downfa...

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915/...

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/76...

https://medium.com/@thepenningtonlens/the-south-korean-puppe...
But you can't use a normal ternary operator...
The points are that working for a competitor (in the manner outlined) while employed likely violated the terms of his contract, which might entail not having to pay him as originally agreed because he didn't work as originally agreed, even if it didn't entitle them to damages.
Agreed, completely. Slack is very much an inappropriate tool for most communities that aren't using a paid plan. That was in fact the point of my post- for lots of people using the freemium version to manage communities does not actually make any sense.
Exactly, thank you.
The US Congress does not choose a new president if the current president is removed. The normal line of succession applies: Vice President, then Speaker of the House, then President Pro Tem of the Senate, etc. This was clarified in the 25th amendment.

No US president has been convicted in an impeachment trial, but when Nixon resigned, the normal rules of succession applied. Congress did appoint Gerald Ford as VP before Nixon resigned, but they were only able to do that because Nixon's previous VP had himself resigned, because he was a crook too. That is probably a source of confusion for a lot of people.
> Husmer is unlikely to change at this point, and may in fact remain a good-natured and highly fulfilled layabout for the rest of his life.

Great link. The Onion rarely disappoints.
Does the author even read the article after copying and pasting the press release?

> Instead Carmack is suing Zenimax Media for $22.5 million that he says has not been paid to him for the 2009 sale of his game studio, id Software, known for such pioneering video game classics as Doom and Quake.

> The lawsuit reveals that ZeniMax Media paid $150 million for the game studio behind such pioneering video gaming classics as Doom and Quake.

Subsequent sentences. FFS.
Actually, 50% of electorate has below median IQ.
Short, interesting, and relevant: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Presidential_line_of_...
Same here.

Plus RDS was the only reasonable option at that price tier (with high availability and multi-AZ). I think competition was sorely needed.

RDS was pretty much becoming a monopoly on this front.
You can't just say you love Microsoft, except for this part though. Putting malware and spyware into their paid products after the fact is part of the cash machine that keeps the more attractive products afloat.
It took a familiar UI and improved it. It added features in an intuitive way. And many of the features of windows 10 could've easily been added to 7.

> Windows 10 has a 5 second boot up time

Man, I wish. My 10 system never boots up that fast. Meanwhile my Windows 7 desktop takes 15 seconds to boot up on SSD. Those 10 seconds just aren't that much of a feature for me-especially since my laptop/desktop are typically in sleep mode anyway.

> most all annoyances anyone has online can be configured away,

Yes, because we should have to do work to eliminate baked in ads and processes that share my information with who knows who.

Also, you can't even intuitively FIND settings. The Control Panel has some settings the Settings app doesn't have and vice versa. It's a mess. Why can't they all be in one place? Mac? one place.

I can't even get Windows 10 to update. Instead I have to constantly kill a rogue update process that decimates resources because I can't get a basic update to download and install properly.
Original article which contains a copy of the complaint is available here [0].

Direct link to the complaint here [1].

[0] http://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2017/03/09/leg...

[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/341420632/John-Carmack-vs-Ze...
And yet somehow the Innovator's Dilemma exists.
So back to only educated people or people owning property again; are we proposing education testing before casting a vote? Besides, it's not like smart people don't have biases.

That does not seem like an alternative most people -even educated or above median IQ would favor.
Any self-respecting person should have 47 Lamborghinis in one's Lamborghini account.
Sprint demos gigabit LTE
For micro scale self-managed Postgres, what's difference? Keep in mind that GCP doesn't support HA (ye)t and has not guaranteed anything.
True, JS is a pain in the butt. But I think it's fun: it feels fluid and that you can do almost "anything" with it (for better or worse). In Python, I feel that I'm fighting against arbitrary goalposts or that I'm wracking my brain parsing some logical puzzle (like in the PEP example).
"whom" is wrong in 3 different ways in my opinion:

(1) It should be "who", not "whom". I find that hypercorrection immensely annoying.

(2) But actually, since Lily is a company, it should be "which", not "who".

(3) But even "which despite raising […] has filed" is wrong. It actually should just be "Lily, despite raising […], has filed" or "Lily, which raised […], has filed". "which despite raising" subordinates "has filed […]", so the whole sentence turns into a noun phrase missing its verb phrase.
The borrowing kinda goes in circles. The terse syntax of ES6 lambdas is straight from C#, for example.
You don't usually own 100% of a game studio that is that old when it is sold.
Thanks!

Regarding food vs jobs, I think it's not a very good analogy because

a) almost every job has a lot to it that could be interesting for anyone

We are not limiting all jobs to "Wordpress site template maintainer for small e-commerce sites" or "MySQL DB engineer specializing in scaling and indexing databases with mostly JSON-based tables". If you are a front-end web dev, you could choose to end up specializing in front-end driven analytics or SVG drawing or something higher-level like d3 plotting or anything in HTML5 games or photoshop-to-code conversion or migrate to photoshop-based design etc etc

B) The goal is not to maximize diversity of food or diversity of jobs. I am not implying avoiding increasing specialization.
A multi node , 100gb postgres cluster can be had for 260$ per month if you choose yearly prepaid on RDS.

The price to performance ratio is fairly unbeatable.
I switched away from ms some time ago. I almost left Ubuntu because of the one Amazon link that comes in the default install.

Operating systems are abundant nowadays. Something has to be really good to not switch away from based purely on its own merit.

The real problem is compatibility with applications. I bet the real thing holding most to a single OS is that availability of their applications on a given OS.
1) Get a media figure* that commands the utmost respect of the population to report on corruption.

2) Get 2% of the population participating in a peaceful protest & demonstration to put pressure on congress.

3) ???

4) profit!!

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohn_Suk-hee
Bad wording on my part, point taken.
How to get top comment on HN: condescendingly dictate the importance:

SK pres impeached: "This is huge"
Gmail add ons: "This is a really big deal"
I never got to Carmack level of technical seniority but in recent past I got hired (this was my first experience in America) in a level-2 engineering permanent position (assuming level-1 is for fresh BS graduates) and the contract essentially stated that, unless I declare any prior obligations (I didn't), all my creative work while I'm employed (including that on evenings and weekends, related or unrelated to my job) is copyrighted (or owned, or something similar, I don't remember the exact words) by my employer. I was seriously taken aback but I didn't know what to do.

A few questions:

- Is this standard practice?

- How can you enjoy your weekend creative activities, and/or, use them for your potential future startups, copyrights, patents, whatever, if you work full-time under such a stringent condition? (can you even write a novel and sell it, while you work full-time as a software engineer? or should you always ask permission first?)

- Is it likely that Carmack had similar obligations while he was at Zenimax? In which case he very carelessly ignored them when he indulged in Oculus work. (but then he also has his rocket hobby going on so I don't know how that panned out in relationship to his employers, Zenimax, or FB).

- This raises an important concern. As a typical employed engineer, we don't pay much attention to the legal repurcussions of our employment. May be we (or I) should not carry out any undertaking without consulting a lawyer (specializing in these matters) first?
Weird, it feels like they've been around longer... too many transpilers.
As a Korean, I feel bittersweet for my mother country. It's embarrassing that this is happening, yet I feel relieved now that people of Korea can move forward - here's hoping for electing a more qualified president next.
"I am far more disturbed by someone who claims to be in the opposition but rather than publicly opposing continues to give every sign of being in fact a quiet supporter of the administration. Why should I have to worry that that's true?"

- tptacek, 2017

Sam Altman single handedly started the tech industry's opposition to Trump with one blog post. And here you are accusing him of being a quiet supporter.

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness… Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Joseph Welch, 1954
It started its life as full fledged pattern matching, but there were just too many things there to cram it in a single release. If you look at proposals and discussions on Roslyn GitHub issue tracker, you'll see the backstory.

So, what we're seeing here is not necessarily the final stage. It's what we get in this release of the language, but more will likely follow.
I found myself in a similar situation back in 2011. The .NET ecosystem went stagnant as resources were shifted towards the upcoming Windows 8 release, and that in turn made everything weird. That weirdness continues today in the form of UWP.

I'm glad I extricated myself from their ecosystem when I did. As much as I loved C# and wanted Microsoft to succeed, it felt very much like being on board a sinking ship.