skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't really check out. Surely, if they were forum-shopping, they would have brought it in the Eastern District, which has a 57.5% success rate, instead of the Northern District, which has a 40.6% success rate. (The national average is 32.4%.)
As soon as I run out of television shows that don't have horrible first episodes, I'll give The Wire another chance.
Don't forget those who could barely even make it through the first episode.
As an operating system for a dedicated, single purpose server this may be okay. As an operating system for mobile phones, this may one day be alright (when phones get about 12 cores). As an operating system for workstations and desktops, this is probably the worst idea I have heard in a long time. It sounds like a hipster version of multidos. At one application per core (or at least I think that's the idea), you are severely limiting the ability to multitask. So, on an 8 core system I have one core running the exokernel (1), another core running a gui (2), another core running an audio application (3), another running my web browser (4), another with my editor (5), another with git (6), another with a torrent going (7), and another with email (8). Due to the description, I am hoping that the GUI using a core and other applications having access to it is possible. I also hope that audio services don't need a core, or else the audio application developer will need to reimpelement OSS4 and/or ALSA in his/her application. That's just about idiotic... oh well...
"Make me choose a new password next time I login. Quick and easy."

If your l/p was leaked, that means it could be changed by someone malicious first (especially if it's a service you don't log into regularly). Email w/ a token in the URL sounds like a safer option to me--I understand he doesn't care about these accounts.

I do wonder why there isn't more onus (legally) on the website for dealing with more of this. Especially with Heartbleed, there were a lot of third-party tools to find out if a website you use was affected, but only a handful of websites actually alerted users and suggested they change their password.

I also agree that many people overvalue a lot of these online accounts.
"I would."

Then you're a sellout, and an enemy of labor. Enjoy your pieces of silver.

Had the tech come from a line employee, maybe--but it came from somebody with a long history of helping others in the community, of developing technology as a default idle process, and who basically invented the field.

That you'd honor Zenimax's position here is very unfortunate, least of all because you'd be supporting the position that anything you do while employed belongs to your employer, especially after a precedent is set to the contrary.

I'm not shocked that Zenimax is suing, because they're a bunch of money-grubbing assholes and probably sad they missed out on the cash from the Facebook acquisition. That said, I don't pretend for a minute that what they're doing is anything other than that: being money-grubbing assholes.
> Their behavior is not unreasonable, but it is only possible because a prolific developer was not concerned about nuances of copyright law while collaborating with multiple companies.

I expect that Facebook is going to tell Oculus to suck it up, pay a settlement, and everyone will go home and move on with their lives.

Carmac worked on Oculus at id's office, during work hours, using id resources. Oculus promoted their product using id games. At every step, id (and hence ZeniMax) provided technical assistance.

Oculus didn't want to pay for it by reaching a deal as they moved forward to commercializing, so now they're going to reach one as part of a settlement resolving a lawsuit.

Really, this doesn't strike me as a particularly bad case, and reading their lawsuit filing, not inappropriate for them to file a lawsuit after failing to have a settlement reached with Oculus to pay for the technology.

(As an aside, there is other IP than just copyright involved.)
http://mixergy.com without a doubt.
I didn't make it past the first episode because I thought the first episode was one of the cheesiest ridiculous plots with the most comical over the top stereotypical acting I've ever seen. There are very few shows that I have been excited to start yet couldn't make it past one episode, but The Wire is one of them.
So I wonder if they will re-do the stations or re-do the trains. It seems the older stations which are too narrow would probably benefit from an upgrade, but I could imagine they might not have the space to make them any wider than they are now.
If you miss arcades you should visit Japan (especially Tokyo) there are still a few living arcade with very decent collections. But you better hurry, every year one of the old ones ends up shutting down, I'm not sure how many will be left 5 years down the road...
I went from dd-wrt on a WRT54G to a TP-LINK TL-WR841NR with OpenWRT and it feels almost exactly the same. I even setup my network with the exact same SSID and password and my devices acted like nothing changed.
> Trolls, Universities, Bio, PHrMA, old line industry, and folks like Qualcomm)

That encompasses like 90% of the broader tech/engineering/R&D sector. If so much of the sector opposes reform, then reform won't be possible without getting more of these folks to switch sides. I think sensible reform is possible without prejudicing the interests of most of those folks. Its a matter of conveying that to them.
It's literally a four line article, and one of them is "Construction work has begun on widening hundreds of platforms."
> we're going to have a more attractive policy than our opponents

Going to have? In 2 1/2 years it's going to be much, much too late.

I am astonished at how little scrutiny the coalition are getting as they take a wrecking ball to the most important infrastructure program in the country. Labor is giving them a free pass, as are the media, even the ABC! I am beginning to feel like a lone nutcase raving on a street corner that hey, maybe we shouldn't take $40B, give half to Telstra, then set the other half on fire, which we can watch in shuddering low-res on our 25mbps connections.

I had 100Mbps VDSL2 in japan seven years ago.
id was originally based in Mesquite, Tx. That's why there's a lot of dev houses (well, were, at any rate) in the Dallas area for game development.

Oculus opened a branch office there (surprise!), probably for Carmack.
It's unlikely that such an order would hold up to a challenge, since the government can't generally compel you to deliver speech you don't agree with.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/compell...
TP-Link WDR3600/4300 are both solid routers with Atheros chipsets (which means they have full open source support) that are also fairly cheap.
Starting on page 20:

57. On July 26, 2012, Luckey again asked for
ZeniMax’s help with the Kickstarter video,
specifically asking Carmack to provide a clip
“talking about the Rift/VR in general/whatever
else you think would be a great thing to have.”
Luckey further acknowledged: “Your reputation has
really helped the credibility of this project, and
having that credibility in the video would make a
big difference for alot [sic] of people.” Carmack
declined Luckey’s request to appear in the
Kickstarter video.

58. At about that same time, Carmack advised
Luckey: “It is very important that you NOT use
anything that could be construed as Zenimax
property in the promotion of your product. Showing
my R&D testbed with the Rage media would be bad,
for instance.”

59. Luckey replied, “I will make
sure we do not show the Rage demo in the
Kickstarter, but is there any chance we can
mention support/show a quick clip from Doom 3/BFG
Edition?” ZeniMax turned down Luckey’s request,
instructing that Luckey rely on publicly-available
information for Kickstarter promotional material.

60. On August 1, 2012, Luckey launched the Oculus
Kickstarter campaign. The funding target was set
at $250,000. The Kickstarter page featured a
five-minute video describing the modified Rift
headset.

61. In blatant disregard of ZeniMax’s rights,
Defendants used ZeniMax’s intellectual property in
the Kickstarter video. The video features multiple
clips showing “DOOM 3: BFG Edition,” displayed on
the modified Rift headset. The video also used
“DOOM 3: BFG Edition” to promote the modified Rift
by displaying, without authorization, ZeniMax’s
logo for “DOOM 3: BFG Edition” as the first
Oculus-Rift ready game. Further, despite the lack
of any commercial agreement with ZeniMax,
Defendants promised that certain backers of the
Kickstarter campaign would receive copies of
ZeniMax’s game “DOOM 3: BFG Edition” with support
for the modified Rift.

Context: at this point, Luckey has executed an NDA with Zenimax, in writing, with a "proper use" clause. Carmack has demoed the Rift at E3 to thunderous response. Luckey subsequently, Zenimax alleges, shifted from planning to offer "$500 worth of optics as a hobbyist package" to "launching a commercial product". Zenimax has, it alleges, made overtures to Luckey for a joint venture, but Luckey has ignored them. Then, after being warned by Carmack not to do it, Luckey creates a Kickstarter that prominently features id games.

Could be ugly.
If you believe people have not ended up better in absolute terms, what good or service do they have less of today than in the past?
Ah, the SNCF... they are professionals in wasting public money and slackers in everything. I can't remember the number of times my train was delayed, cancelled, or stopped in the middle of the countryside for no reason. And when shit happens, there's one thing you can expect from them: zero communication and zero responsibilities.
I'm really interested to see how this plays out. Zenimax definitely has a case when you read the filing. So who knows, they may have some grounds.
They're going to first spend €400m upgrading their train station platforms by widening the space for train tracks, and then later we'll find out on Hacker News: "200 Upgraded French Train Platforms 'too thin for pedestrian traffic'".
More interesting than the article is this tidbit at the bottom.

"Comments for this thread are now closed."

How often are comments turned off on Atlantic articles?
The article makes it sound horrible, but I wonder how bad it really is.

For instance, they've "only" spent $50m so far compensating. That's only 0.33% of the total $15bn budget for the trains.

Even if they end up spending a whole $1bn widening platforms - that's "only" a 6.66% cost blowout.

In the context of infrastructure projects, a <10% budget blowout doesn't sound so bad :P
What a great story. Dragon's Lair and the other early Laser Disc games
were an interesting advancement; the gameplay was infuriating but the
graphics were amazing. For the price of bad gameplay (and a lot of
quarters), we got a glimpse of the kind of graphics work we would find
in future games.

A lot of the (currently 30) comments here are about the audience factor
in video games. There's nothing quite like drawing a crowd in an arcade.
The arcades may be mostly gone, but the effects of an audience in video
games is still being studied. I spotted some related work in the ACM CHI
2014 proceedings:

ACM CHI 2014:
"Audience Experience in Social Videogaming: Effects of Turn Expectation
and Game Physicality"

Thirty Second Demo Video with paper Abstract:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuQkCfjWZzc

ACM CHI 2014 Citation (Paper Paywall):
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2556965

Paper:
http://static.squarespace.com/static/52455e03e4b0804b7e27b03...
I hope everybody who comments on this story reads the complaint. There's some really damning stuff in there and some of the more damning claims come with evidence, including Oculus demanding exclusive licensing of IP "shared by Carmack" during negotiations (paragraph 77). That stands in contrast to public statements from Oculus that ZeniMax contributed nothing.

ZeniMax knows that Oculus holds the stronger public opinion, for two reasons: (1) people love Oculus, and (2) Minecraft fans are still stinging from ZeniMax's trademark claims against Mojang re: Scrolls. Very good play on ZeniMax's part, dropping a release and an extremely well-written complaint at once. They want to control the narrative.
Engineers blamed as France orders 1,860 trains the wrong size
It is not the best layout. They included the results of GitStats. If you used it, you'd see the Activity tab, with commit histogram, comes before Lines tag. So they just copied and pasted them in order I bet.

And to their credit they didn't make any explicit judgement statement about it. They didn't criticize or say it is good or bad. Yes it is there implicitly. In defense of it, systemd replaces init, logging, dhcp, talks to dbus and so on. But some might see it as a disturbing trend in this one critical piece of software.
Audience Experience in Social Videogaming [pdf]
A polygon-based game engine still sounds like a great idea. Are there any similar, modern examples?
>Carmac worked on Oculus at id's office, during work hours, using id resources. Oculus promoted their product using id games. At every step, id (and hence ZeniMax) provided technical assistance.

He also worked from home, on weekends, and from hotel, when he wants to be uninterrupted. Who knows if he billed (his own, historically) company for that? The point is, he really didn't have to, and ZeniMax is playing a 'gotcha' game.

>Really, this doesn't strike me as a particularly bad case, and reading their lawsuit filing, not inappropriate for them to file a lawsuit after failing to have a settlement reached with Oculus to pay for the technology.

I agree, they probably have a decent case, but it's not any less sad to see.
Nest’s Tony Fadell: No Ads on Thermostats
If it's a free car, I'm ok with seeing ads. Otherwise, no.
I feel like Silicon Valley is filled with million dollar ideas. I'm interested in the next billion dollar idea(s), and I think they are AI and sustainable energy.
According to the lawsuit filing (page 8 of the PDF linked above), Carmac was researching VR at id under ZeniMax.

So yes, I think projects you undertake at work for money belong to your employer, and that this is a reasonable standard.

> least of all because you'd be supporting the position that anything you do while employed belongs to your employer

My position is that work you do for hire belongs to the person paying, not anything to do with side projects.

> 25. In 2011, ZeniMax actively pursued that research, including experiments with various off-the-shelf headsets. However, none provided an experience sufficiently immersive
and responsive to be commercially successful. A significant limitation was “latency” – the delay between a user’s movement and the corresponding change in the displayed image.

> 26. By 2012, ZeniMax employees, including Carmack, had amassed valuable and confidential know-how and trade secret information about how to develop, combine, and optimize hardware, firmware, and software for an improved and competitively advantageous virtual reality experience (the “VR Technology”).

> 27. ZeniMax planned to demonstrate its VR Technology at the E3 Convention in June 2012, using one of its leading brands, “DOOM 3: BFG Edition.” On or about March 7, 2012 – a
month before ZeniMax obtained a prototype Rift or had any contact with Luckey – id Software’s Creative Director tested a virtual reality headset in ZeniMax’s offices using ZeniMax’s VR Technology, as shown in this photograph posted online by id Software at that time: [Photo Omitted in Quote]

(Pages 9-10 of lawsuit PDF)

As can be seen, ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR outside of Carmac's work with Oculus, and hence his work on the Oculus project would fall under rather reasonable IP assignments - see the inserted image of the contract clause from page 8 of the lawsuit.
I sense a multi-billion dollar acquisition of zenimax coming if the case has merit
Waterproof 360-Degree HD Camera Adds a World of Depth to Oculus Rift
"Product owners can replace planning meetings by simply filing issues in the issue tracker, assigning priority, assigning them to people, and setting a release milestone. People will know what to work on by simply working on whatever the highest priority issue is in their queue."

I hate useless meetings as much as the next developer, but there are certain issues that can be much more efficiently resolved if you have all the parties sitting around the same table (or video conference, for remote workers). Especially if you're working on a complex product where it's not immediately obvious how something should be designed or implemented.

For the record, I'm not a fan of daily stand-up meetings. Most of the stuff I work on is complex enough that there isn't that much measurable progress to report after one day. Day to day status can be posted in an issue tracking system. My theory is that the daily meetings were designed to instill an artificial "sense of urgency" in workers.
The whole complaint is interesting. The tricky thing about citing claims about ZeniMax's IP is that those claims hinge on the IP actually belonging to ZeniMax. Oculus and Carmack may be able to make a case that the VR work Carmack did isn't bound up in Carmack's work-for-hire agreement with ZeniMax.

But directly using ZeniMax properties to promote the thing while working under a cloud of IP ownership uncertainty was probably not a great move.
21st century software development, early 90s web design.
Construction work has begun on widening hundreds of platforms.

I hope he means narrowing them, otherwise the problem is just going to get worse :)
So, there's a whole host of problems with this line of reasoning.

What we do as engineers, especially in software development, shouldn't be treated with the same reasoning as you'd seen in an assembly line.

First, note that Carmack was a cofounder of id; a good chunk of his precedent and history was doing exactly this sort of research work. Does Zenimax want to go back and claim ownership of his contributions to graphics cards manufacturers for his help with their drivers and APIs?

Second, note that at a high level, it simply doesn't make sense to have an engineer not working on R&D in fields outside of what the current core line of business is. Especially in a AAA studio, a lot of that work is either art or scripting or quashing bugs--a workload which is honestly a total waste of senior engineer talent. They enjoyed the fruits of this labor; consider the extra sales of Doom 3 BFG whose improvements were driven partially by this work with Oculus.

Third, Zenimax wasn't and isn't in the business of making hardware, and only now seemed to give a shit following the Facebook acquisition. This is so transparently a cash-grab that I'm kind of surprised you are being generous at all on this.

~

Look, I don't know about you, but I'd rather not live in a world where my employer effectively owns everything I do while drawing a salary there, and can make a claim on everything I work on hence, regardless of whether it makes any logical sense or not.

Further, I don't think it's good that you can spend twenty years building a business (industry, more honestly) and then have some asshole suits screw you out of what should by right be a fun working semi-retirement. It's like spitting in the face of engineering's American Dream.
I find it a little funny imgur is in there and not MediaCrush (https://mediacru.sh/), when the latter has had HSTS as long as I can remember and has been a huge proponent of privacy in the field of image sharing, much unlike the former.
Here's another similar article.
http://rense.com/general88/cold.htm
Compared to the clusterfuck of extending the San Francisco subway system, it sounds like a bargain. By contrast, I've grown to love the subway system in LA to the point that I look forward to visiting so I can ride it.
See my other reply for page cites and details, but it seems that ZeniMax was actively pursuing VR technology and that Carmac was part of that project prior to his work on Oculus.

If I work for money developing a certain kind of technology, it's reasonable for my employer to think I won't give my work project over to another company and that they have some claim to that technology.
Picture-to-Identity linking through social network accounts [pdf]
The party responsible for the blunder is actually the RFF, the railway system provider, which provided the SNCF with false data.

http://www.france24.com/en/20140521-french-trains-wide-old-s...
I disagree. I work at Google, and I can't imagine getting in trouble for making an unambiguous improvement to someone's code.

There is, of course, some politics. It's just not at the level where people could openly be pissed off just because someone made them look bad by doing better. Politics happens over much more ambiguous things, like what length people from one team should go to to fix bugs affecting another team. These are areas where there are legitimate differences of opinion, so it's only natural that people's biases affect their work.
The translation that my friends have recommended is the Hays translation, which seems to be a good one from my reading.
Passive listening will soon be a feature for Facebook app during status updates
After reading, I was reminded of ConnectU LLC v. Mark Zuckerberg and The Facebook, Inc. Which, given recent events around the ownership of Oculus, is hilarious.
I'm going to throw out your entire argument here and simply point out that Terry doesn't get a "free pass". Every account he's created here, and there have been a few, get insta-banned. Only people with showdead turned on can even see what he writes.

The original comment was about not being able to "see past" Terry's comments. Somehow this has devolved into an attempted debate about antisocial behavior. But, you have to take people as entire individuals, the good with the bad. Orson Scott Card is a talented writer, and a bigot. Tom Cruise is an amazing actor, and a prominent member of a worldwide cult. Terry is a respectable programmer, and mentally ill.

We all have different boundaries. If you really find it impossible to consider Terry's work because of his behavior, then so be it; it's not up to me to convince you otherwise. But, a lot of other people are quite capable of discussing his work, respectfully, without getting hung up on his illness.
Adblock already has proxy (that's how Adblock for Android works, for example). Making it into a device would not be hard.
- Avoid "unrevertable" changes if you can:
* Don't submit (commit) code that can't be easily reverted - e.g. don't introduce code that if ran dozen or more times on production systems, then reverting it would require other files to be reverted/recreated/rewritten from scratch apart from itself. (Someone decides to go from XML->JSON, or JSON->XML, or one scripting language to another - that is a very drastic change, because people would've picked on the new system, and few weeks later if it turns out it's not working, not only you have to go back to the original state, you have to rewrite whatever was changed into the scripting/etc. files back into the old one - and sometimes that's not straightforward).
And it's actually to improve old train stations so not that bad if we can get larger train.