skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that planning any project financially is important if it doesn't want to go bust in the middle, especially if it's big enough and isn't a "one man production". Still, more than often publishers simply reject something that doesn't fit the mass market mentality. Not because it's necessarily years ahead of time, and not because it can't be profitable. They just don't want to go to bigger length to achieve more, if they can profit with less.

A current example - inXile Entertainment (an independent gaming studio now) are still working on their major project Wasteland 2. It's already in beta access for a while, and they plan the release in the end of this summer. They said that what beta has now is only around 50% of the game (i.e. they'll add a lot more still). They took their time developing it and getting feedback and improving things (and they work in parallel on Torment - Tides of Numenera by the way). They said many times, that if their work would be managed by publishers, they'd never be able to develop Wasteland 2 so thoroughly and with their own pace as they do now. I.e. perfection is not something that publishers often appreciate (since it requires more resources). They prefer more projects in less time, than more better projects with more time.
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As I said, my use of the term "equal" was poetic exaggeration.

India is a perfectly good example, since it illustrates that a relatively smooth wealth distribution doesn't mean you get a flush toilet. The caste system is still here, though nowadays it's more a social problem than an economic one.

Your discussion of harmonization sounds like countries need to harmonize to avoid competing with each other. What's wrong with competition, and allowing the better countries to get more workers?
ZeniMax was working on VR technologies before Carmack began interacting with Oculus, and has a reasonable claim to the fruits of his work on that (being that it was an assigned R&D project).

Do you really think I should (for example) be allowed to develop a new plastic in an R&D position as part of my duties at a chemical company, and then simply give the research over to a competitor because it strikes my fancy?

If Carmack wanted to retain control over his IP, or not work under the (pretty reasonable) IP assignment clause, he should have not sold the company or not stayed working there.

The fact is ZeniMax has several good claims: Oculus used id IP to promote their product (games), used products of id's (under ZeniMax) research in to VR, and so on.
Does the technique still work if you don't have an existing system for it (I'm guessing this is like a mapping of some sort?). Like, replace the Ace of Diamonds with the word "gopher" and replace the Queen of Hearts with this sound?
Probably a better source is this:

http://www.france24.com/en/20140521-french-trains-wide-old-s...

a) This only applies to very old platforms, build by standards over 50 years ago.
b) If the trains were ordered by the older standards, i can imagine an issue that newer platforms would need to be widened (modern trains try to provide gapless entry).

So, all in all, the problem was found late (unfortunate), but the real problem is: platforms following different standards which should probably be unified anyways.
If it were anything else, I wouldn't care, and would actually encourage you to forgo whatever medical treatment it is you have this irrational aversion to, with a view to improving the overall genetic health of our species.

However, this is herd immunity we're talking about, and unfortunately you and your unvaccinated progeny make everyone else more likely to get sick. This is why I support forced, universal, vaccinations.

At any rate, did you know they make soda cans out of aluminum, too? And formaldehyde is used in such a wide variety of products that focusing on vaccines in particular make me pretty sure you have an ulterior motive.
Ask HN: I'm looking for new ways to serve museum visitors with content
I work at a small museum, and we're currently looking for new ways to serve our visitors with extra content. In the past we've used QR codes that link to webpages. These webpages receive more traffic from google searches than they do from QR redirects, however. I'm curious if anyone has experience with serving up auxiliary content using iBeacons, local network homepage overrides, or something different. Suggestions greatly appreciated.
I originally thought (based on the text of the agreement between Zenimax & Luckey, but absent the other details in the complaint) that Zenimax had a poor case and would see the agreement voided on technicalities. But these new details seem to show Luckey acted in rather bad faith from early on, which makes for a very different case. Now I'm wondering if Facebook bought a pig in a poke.
"Call a meeting only when all other channels of communication aren't suitable for a specific issue."

The page addresses "necessary meetings" further down.
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Title says it all: who does your hosting?
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art makes available almost 400,000 images
Not sure if your comment is tongue in cheek, but if not, or for others that do actually have the same thought there are options.

SteamOS http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/ and http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/ will allow for building your own box and they've got third parties working on a "broad range" of hardware options that will come pre-installed with the OS.
I remember the Amiga version would flash a light in the direction you were supposed to go, or in the case of the sword, make the sword glow. It was enough of a clue to get through many scenes, but often required too quick of a reaction to pass on the first go.
hi bigredtech, we whipped together something for ourselves: http://www.panabee.com/show-hn. it lists "show hn" posts from the last 24 hours and also offers a daily email. mind trying it? thanks!
Try running the reduced code through clang-format.
Holy crap, someone who loves LA public transport? Admittedly SF's is...odd, but I'd say it's much better than LA's.

They're both got nothing on NY or Chicago though, obviously.

Edit: This is from a tourist perspective to all four cities, so I only have a little experience with each of them.
Cellular coverage for rural NZ is quite a competitive scene. Did you check your facts on those "Family farms"?
No, it was branding for when they started showing skateboarding, snowboarding, and freestyle motocross on television.
Australia has an awesome tax incentive program for R&D that most startups will qualify for. We've recovered about 30% of our initial seed money from this:

http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/programs/innovation-rd/rd-taxi...

This incentive has been reduced by 1.5% under the 2014-15 budget.
DigitalOcean currently, previously A Small Orange.
Very nice - modest gains, but almost no cost. As an experiment, this quiz-with-funny-pictures is great. "Games" offer a new medium of expression, and are probably the "right tool for the job" for some problems. As this article shows, games might be particularly useful in education, if we can figure out creative ways to use them.

If you're interested in the idea of games-in-education, ExtraCredits has been running a very interesting (and fun) overview/exploration of this idea over the last few weeks:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5BIUqSDPmfBuKjTN2QBv9wI
>"The application gets the full power of the unmediated hardware, through an application-specific library linked into the application address space."

This is pretty concerning, actually. I don't think I want or trust shady companies like Adobe to be running DRM-laden code directly on my hardware.

Vendor lock-in is an increasingly common phenomenon and I'm picturing a really alarming future if this sort of OS takes off. I like that the linux kernel sits between my software and my hardware.

Want to watch a Sony DVD? Better hope you have a webcam so that the media player application can directly access your facial reactions to the media being played and upload it to Sony's servers.
So, your examples show an issue that recurs elsewhere in that document:

> 45. Luckey used ZeniMax’s VR Technology that he acquired through the FTP site
and otherwise to create and promote the modified Rift headset.

> 46. Around the same time, ZeniMax also sent cables and customized sensors to
Luckey and disclosed – pursuant to the Non-Disclosure Agreement – additional hardware design
improvements regarding optics calibration and sensor mounting.

I keep seeing Zenimax used (presumably) in place of Carmack--probably because their arrangement was more "let the father of desktop gaming graphics do whatever he wants", and it looks really good in this filing if it isn't him but Zenimax and Zenimax employees.

My issue with your excerpt of 26 is that how to "developm combine, and optimize hardware, firmware, and software...for virtual reality" is a completely broad description which can apply to any sort of 3D work whatsoever. It sounds impressive as hell, sure, but the fact is that tweaking a shader on Ogre3D would fall under that category. It's stupidly broad.

By conveniently switching around when they refer to what--in other words, by being lawyers--they manage to sound really damning when pretty much anything would fall under their claimed work.
The Shield is actually better than The Wire:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/dec/27/tv-drama-davi...
Congratulations on launching. I've been following your development on tumblr and it's been great seeing your process.
I pretty much exactly agree on this. I've been buying far more games (both quantity and $ spent) since I got into the indie-er crowd, and have been enjoying them more.

Also, I don't buy "X dollars / Y devs" and "X is fixed". If anything, the massive rise in casual (and mobile) gaming disproves it solidly. New markets exist, and you can eat from external markets too (I find more and more people watching (and wanting!) less TV - dropping cable gives you quite a large gaming budget).
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Are there any recommendations what font size and font family to use for technical blogging taking in an account the tendency for bigger font sizes (like on medium.com)? After doing small research, I found advices that serif types of Times New Roman, Garamond and Baskerville are the perfect fit for technical writing. Can someone confirm that and share some thoughts re font size of an article body and a headline ?
While Oculus surely shouldn't have used ZeniMax's stuff in their demo, and should definitely pay some kind of damages for it, it seems like a small part of what's at play.

Or is it supposed to show how fast-and-loose Oculus was with other people's stuff?

Edit At least reading through the rest, and taking ZeniMax at their word, it looks like ZeniMax has a credible claim that it's their software that got the Rift working. But if true, it feels like there should be some discrete evidence of that by looking at what's running on the Rift.
Did you read the complaint, or at least the first few pages of it? I'm as big a fan of the Rift as anyone, but as another commenter said, it is "pretty damning" if you look at it objectively.
> But modern games are full of Quick Time Events (QTE)s which are spiritually the exact same thing.

And it's a terrible, terrible thing.
Lawyers lol
BudgetVM. The price is right. I have had a couple of downs over the past two years. One was several hours. Not for mission critical 100% up time cases. But great for casual sites/ web apps. Did I mention the price is right?
You know how I know you didn't read the complaint? Because John Carmack modified Palmer Luckey's Rift prototype and made it better. He is not the origin of "the tech."

Would you like to elaborate on this, or just look like a jerk?
I ask because of down time at CloudAtCost, some people's servers have been down 10+ days now. Mine's been down for three so far.
I don't know about superiority complex, if anything, a lot of Singaporeans view Australia as an attractive immigration destination because they feel cities there have a better quality of life.
We provide phone service as well/primarily.
Sounds like a long term win anyway, now all future trains can be wider.
To clarify. The lifetime value of a customer shown in the post is based on an average after churn and cancellations are taken into account. So it is based on actual paying customers who have stayed beyond 2 paid cycles after the 30-day trial.

Do I think this will be an everlasting impact? That's hard to say, results fluctuate over time for a variety of reasons.

My hypothesis, after listening to 1,700 instances of visitor feedback, was that by demonstrating the context of use, we would be able to provide an experience that told an accurate story.

It did, and it worked exceptionally well.

Am I in any way implying that million dollar tests are a dime a dozen? Of course not. I'm trying to illustrate that business value is another way to look at conversion lift.

Most tests are just a flat line zero impact.
Some lose, and some win. But yes, the vast majority do nothing. I wrote about this because it was an exception.

Perhaps there wasn't enough clarity in the write up of the test. Hopefully this extra info helps that.

Thanks for discussing!
Cheers
Oli
I remember being a kid, and playing that game at a local pizza place. It was the only game that ever gave me nightmares. The voice was just so evil :)
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That's not entirely true, but the majority of them do.
Brackets IDE adds always on Js Debugger
That is what we were using.

But the plans are either ripoffs, 100GB cap with 10c per MB over quota - which resulted in a $500 over charge and a cancellation right away - or the service is terrible when the university students get out of classes.

On our current plan during 3pm-1am we are lucky to get 50 _kilobytes_ per second. This is utterly unacceptable as that is when our clients in Europe need us to be responsive. Getting an email with attachments send is an uphill battle, forget video conferencing. We have to do ridiculous things like plan do major deployments on cloud servers between 2am and 10am because that is the only times we actually get broadband speeds. And we are stuck like this for another two weeks because of "problems with infrastructure".
The anti-reform group is basically people who make a living licensing patents. Everyone else (Google, Cisco, Amazon... pretty much anyone doing anything over the internet, anyone using computers or networks, all three auto makers, the app developers, anyone in phones) mostly was pro reform.

What made the coalition for reform though, was the non tech industry. Retail, the Chamber of Commerce, banks, grocers, restauranteurs, hoteliers, gaming, insurance, venture capital... Basically everyone else. The pro-reform group was called the big tent for a reason.

This was about a smallish number of companies wanting to extract profits from other companies, and using the brokenness of the patent system to do so.

No one would have objected of there was a sense that the allegations were fair or well-founded. The problem is that courts would by statute try to uphold claims that were ridiculous.

Patent suits are the spam of the court system - spam you have to pay to delete.
Small bit of feedback: I'd love to see pricing for Goread before I go ahead and sign up. From the landing page, it's not even clear the project is active or that it costs any money.

That might be a good way to increase revenue.
Thx for the basic theory of energy and chemistry. That clears up a lot of things in my head. So in terms of Chemistry and Physics goes, we are already reaching near the fundamental limits of energy storage?
Yes, you can, through third party HBO partners like Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents.

It has many benefits over Amazon offering:

1) It's available worldwide
2) Price is good even for starving students
3) For older seasons, you can choose between 720p/1080i streams and high quality ~30Mbps streams (also known as untouched blu rays)
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Let's not do personal attacks here on HN.
Go through this screen and you can paste. Just did, but no pic here because I don't want to reset the password yet again.

http://imgur.com/M2NTNpd
Godzilla made me want to kill some Olthoi...
Agreed -- looking at the player data[1], IMO the format type is unrecognizable:

## GK / Goalkeepers

Kawashima|Eiji Kawashima, 20 Mar 1983
Nishikawa|Shusaku Nishikawa, 18 Jun 1986
Gonda|Shūichi Gonda, 3 Mar 1989

## DF / Defenders

Inoha|Masahiko Inoha, 28 Aug 1985
G. Sakai|Gōtoku Sakai, 14 Mar 1991
Nagatomo|Yuto Nagatomo, 12 Sep 1986
Uchida|Atsuto Uchida, 27 Mar 1988
Konno|Yasuyuki Konno, 25 Jan 1983
Kurihara|Yuzo Kurihara, 18 Sep 1983
H. Sakai|Hiroki Sakai, 12 Apr 1990
Yoshida|Maya Yoshida, 24 Aug 1988
Masato Morishige, 21 May 1987 ## Japan F.C. Tokyo

Comments as a double-hash, key fields are either player last name or occasionally first initial-space-last name, then three different delimiters of pipe, then comma, then tab. Choosing either a consistently delimited format or a more verbose JSON/YAML structure with clear metadata would seem to be a better approach.

[1] https://github.com/openfootball/players/blob/master/asia/jp-...
Post Hackathon: Great framework. Really interested to see where it goes.
The point of my quotation is merely to show that as part of work activities, research on VR was being done at id (ZeniMax) prior to contact with Oculus, and that Carmack's work on the subject would thus fall under the IP assignment clause from page 8.

Do you disagree with that analysis?
And let's not forget RJ Mical, one of the programmers of Sinistar, who eventually helped design the Amiga computer and the Atari Lynx.
They haven't been bad at all. I have had maybe 5 instances with them over the past two years and have 3 now. The speed is good in Dallas, not so good on the one instance I had in LA. I have one important VM for clients (have complained a few times over the past couple of years). They appear to know which one this is and have it on a fast node. It hasn't been down except reboots in nearly a year.

I'm happy with their customer service and response times also. But probably I wouldn't use them for high level mission critical stuff.
The trains are too wide or the platforms are too narrow. One of those problems needs to be addressed.
> Beware expiration times

I'll never get bitten by this again, but alas the advice comes too late.

TLDR, I left a hardcoded beta expiration date in a product that was submitted to NMCI for certification (it's a DoD thing, they ended up taking nine months to approve the new version of a product that's been in use for 20 years). I know, I should be shot, but hey, I was the only developer, I had nine months to port the entire application to a new platform (64-bit thing), and we'd just had a baby.

Silver lining, I could not find any way to work around it, even as an administrator with knowledge of the source code (other than changing the system date). We managed to sneak in a new build somehow, but they had to "restart the testing process" (and what that is I still don't know).
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Belkin/Linksys claimed that the WRT1900AC has OpenWRT support, but this does not seem to be the case: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=50173

"Members of the OpenWrt team have been in contact with Linksys for a while, discussing collaboration on device support in OpenWrt.
There had been no technical collaboration on device support until Belkin engineers posted a few incomplete patches in early April. These patches are currently being cleaned up, as they do not meet our quality standards.

The most important part that is still missing is a usable driver for the Marvell 802.11ac wireless chipset. Belkin is working on fixing this, but they have not given us an estimation on when such a driver will be provided.

The default firmware for this device seems to be using a proprietary driver provided by Marvell, which uses non-standard APIs for configuration. We don't know if Marvell will open source this driver, or will work on an alternative Linux driver. We believe that both approaches require a considerable amount of effort and time."
Richard alston the worlds biggest luddite
From the discussion on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2655hh/zenimax_sues_o...

Throwaway because zenimax is sue-happy and I work
at id Software, and I don't want to lose my job.

A while back there was an artist here who made
some artwork for Valve's Team Fotress 2 Hat
contest in their spare time. This artist ended up
winning and received a large amount of money from
royalties. Zenimax got pissed off that this person
was earning money from what they felt like was
"Their property". The rumor was that they were
about to sue them, but ended up backing off. I'm
not sure why.

This individual left the company shortly after. I
don't blame them.

We've been loosing top-notch talent left and right
ever since the Zenimax purchase, but more so after
RAGE didn't do too well. We're alright now, but I
really believe that this is no longer the place
that it was when I started years ago. The office
culture sucks ass, and unless you're keen to
sticking your nose up certain people's asses, or
have been here since the days when we could
actually ship games, then you're not going to get
very far.

I think Zenimax is mostly to blame for this. Fuck
them.

The moderators of /r/Games verified that the above comment is from a current Id employee. The reason I'm crossposting it here is because it's an interesting datapoint about the mindset of the people at Zenimax.
Yeah. And as a guy with tastes that run awry from the "mainstream FPS" genres, I've been getting a lot of my gaming enjoyment from indies over the past few years. And the games with sticking power have always been the ones that are pushing the boundaries or trying something different.

Braid: Platformer where you can (and must) rewind time.

FTL: A roguelike where you command a ship instead of an RPG hero.

Monaco: A heist movie, as a top-down game.

Fez: Side-scrolling 2d platformer... in 3D! (where perspective changes are actually part of the platforming)

On the other hand, the ones I've enjoyed the least have wound up being less innovation, and more derivation. At least, according to my Steam library.
Ian, I'm trying to save your content to Instapaper so I can refer to the article offline on my mobile device, but your canonical URL meta tag is incorrect.

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> The demand for funding is best looked at by seeing what actually has been funded by Commercialisation Australia grants

Is the list of what has been funded available online?
Actually, Dr. Summers does implicitly mention the Fed, when he says

"Probably the two most important steps that public policy can take with respect to wealth inequality are the strengthening of financial regulation to more fully eliminate implicit and explicit subsidies to financial activity, and ..."

When he refers to implicit subsidies, I believe he is referring to some actions of the Fed in bailing out banks. Apart from direct bailouts, the monetary policy of the Fed was a bailout of a financial sector that was "too big to fail". So I don't think Dr. Summers is skirting around this issue.

I would further guess that the author would advocate a return to more conventional neo-Keynsian monetary policy, as opposed to the highly interventionist policies pre and post financial crisis. Which might still not satisfy your desire for "true market forces", depending on what you meant.