skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are discussing two ways to promote progress.

The straight forward way is to give a financial incentive for inventors to tinker and come up with new ideas.

The way you're suggesting is to give inventors (that are already inventing without need of incentive) an incentive to disclose their invention and then that will promote other inventors to build on top of the invention even though they will have pay the original inventor for the privilege.

My point is that neither of these methods are effective at promoting progress in software.
Tny: A simple data serializer in C
I'd be fascinated to see what they spent 260 million dollars on producing this.

I'm sure their graphics engine is pretty amazing, but it's not like they revolutionized anything that I'm aware of. Where did that money go?
When I'm not letting _your_ friends in _my_ house, this is OK, since my house is my property.

When _my_ friends cannot visit me in _my_ house, however, because they are lacking a piece of paper called visa, the world is really messed up.
> There is a vast difference between someone who cares about doing their job well and someone who does their job.

I like this as a definition of cultural fit. I have worked a place where I felt like the only guy who cared about his job, and it was suffocating, similarly, I have seen the one guy who is just doing his job in a team of those to love to do their job well, and he was like a ball and chain.

Perhaps we need to stop using "cultural fit", as a replacement for "professionalism". When I think about "cultural fit", I think, "what do I like, and does this person like it too?" When I ask myself and others, "is this person a professional", I think, "do they exhibit: passion, discipline, dedication, drive, and care in their work, skills, and interactions with everyone?" I would rather tell HR, "not as professional about his craft as we like to see", than a wishy-washy, "not a good cultural fit". The first sounds like we are professionals who treat ourselves, our craft, and others with respect, the second like a frat house blackballing a pledge because he doesn't like the same beer we all do.
Did you look inside #habla_beta_container_do_not_rely_on_div_classes_or_names ?
GTA V is already more profitable than Minecraft, even though Minecraft has sold more units across all platforms (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/03/minecraft-pc-sales-at...).

33 Million units at ~$20 is $660 million in revenue. This isn't including development costs, which are low for Minecraft but not zero (I'm guessing $5-$10 million over its lifetime.) Subtracting GTAV's combined development and marketing budget of $265 million still puts it ahead of Minecraft at $735 million, and it still has a lot more runway left.
The development costs went mostly to content. (Like most games, GTA5 is not unique in this.) There was also a lot of advertising.
How much energy is yielded by "fusion" secondaries ([1st]fission - [2nd]fusion-fission) varies by design, but secondary's fusion is used for more efficient (eg more complete) fission. Only huge bombs have tertiary fusion stages that contribute much more yield than fission stages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller-Ulam_design
Ask HN: Why is iTunes not in the App Store?
Why is iTunes not on the Mac App Store? I believe it is pre-installed on Macs but what if the user deletes it but still needs it?

I know you can download it online here:
https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

but wouldn't it be much easier if it was just in the app store?

http://cl.ly/image/3R352W101M3b
I probably have a few years until I have to start dying it for anything, but I guess I could see where that would make sense eventually. Thanks the ideas - I think with the suggestions here that it might be enough to get me started on trying to redefine these interviews in the future.
I was under the impression that a third of that figure was spent on marketing
Example output, US Pledge of Allegiance:

Blastar Paraphase:

Here is your original text:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Here is your text paraphrased:

manes consign good faith so the white referring to the concurrent States speaking of America, and for the monarchy since which her stands, gross toparchy dependent God, indivisible, linked to unfettered and cardinal virtues as proxy for all.
They don't have some big name apps like Audible yet (there are substitutes) but the app selection is decent. There are even some gems for BlackBerry you won't find anywhere else.
We all know software is something that doesn't necessary get better the more people you throw at it.
This is quite beneficial if you want all of your pushes deployed instantly (as is the case in the post).

This was just a little post using pull as the simplest example possible. It's a part of a toy project I'm working on and I didn't want to go in too deep...
Did you read his comment? He referred to your "C-level execs" comment, which was in normal font about half way into the article. I didn't really have a problem with your original article, but responding like this doesn't make you look good.
I've been a big advocate of things like PBKDF2 and such to slow things down where appropriate. But except for very specialized circumstances (and an RNG isn't one of them), we want cryptographic operations to be fast. In general, we want RNGs (and most things) to be fast and efficient.

And in particular, TW Cryptocards analysis never had to run the RNG. Just had to look at 2 million public keys already out there.
In that case, I definitely want to add a loading bar so I can do a subsequent performance release by just removing them. ;)
The only difference between a staff post and a contributor is that one line by their name. If Forbes didn't want me to associate their name with the content they would have distinguished it better.
One guy writing the internals of git: conceptual integrity. One thousand guys writing the so-called "porcelain" of git: conceptual dyslexiphrenia. Open source may be great for fixing bugs. It's apparently not so great for designing interfaces.
The causation is that sports originated in "elite" schools with "elite" academics. Other schools imitated the elite schools, and introduced sports as a result. If the quality of schools associated with sports has declined, that is a function of this second-order process. It would be interesting if sports made the originating schools were performers academically, but that is not the case. The British Public schools that made sport central to their programs remained among the most elite academically for 150 years after there introduction.

Sports are good, but I agree: get them the fuck out of academic institutions. They have no place there.

To simplify this point, sports were created by students. That is the origin of their place in schools.

These schools, were british colleges (ie, high schools), not universities.

Your contention that they have "no place" in high school is historically mis-guided.

The theory that sports are only identified with sub-par academic performance is also mis-guided.

Sports originated in the highest-tier of Academic performance institutions.

The reputations of those institutions onlly increased, as did those of their graduates, for a long time after the introduction of sports.

Under your theory, their performance should have declined.
Actually, 115M was spent on development.

155M+ was spent on marketing.

link: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-18/grand-theft-...
Humanize: A simple utility library for making the web more human
Smolniy Park Interior
Why does it take 10-15 minutes to make Turkish coffee? It takes about 2 minutes to make the kind of turkish coffee we drink here in Slovenia ...

Unless you're roasting your own beans, but that's supposed to take hours, not 15 minutes.
Putting a thin progress bar at the top of your page is competing with Mobile Safari's thin progress bar at the top of your page.

Aside from the whole Department of Redundancy Department feel, they both display progress at different rates.

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."
That includes a massive marketing budget.
RIght but as jamesaguilar above said, content does. I imagine it's linear, as the increasing marginal communication cost of a large team is probably canceled out by increasing efficiency of toolchain and reuse of sub-components.
ha, nice will add this to the lsit of tpyos
If the piece was edited after the fact, I'd eat my hat. Gruber is biased, not a complete hypocrite.
The original claim was that patents exist "in order to encourage people to invent". You claim that that is wrong, and they exist in order to "encourage inventors to make their inventions public knowledge". Someone responds and says that they actually exist in order "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". You then say:

> Correct, the goal: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", i.e. make trade secrets public

I could just as easily say:

Correct, the goal: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts", i.e. encourage people to invent.

My point is that it was left up to us as a society to interpret those words, and just claiming that your interpretation is the correct one does not make it so.
I think there's been a binge in photo sharing. I don't know if it's at the point where it'll take a turn and slow down though.

The problem with most photo sharing apps are that they don't tend to introduce much that is new. To be completely honest, I haven't talked to a single person that's said "I wish it were easier to share photos".

It's a non-problem. Not that this means people shouldn't be working to make it better. The issue is that most startups are going after the same pie. That pie is to get as many people sharing photos and to treat this all as very ephemeral experiences.

There's huge untapped potential with photos. We start to see this when Google begins to stitch together user generated photos to create 3D views.

Yes, there are a lot of problems to be solved and perhaps we shouldn't have so many photo startups. But go back 15 years and ask someone if they thought it'd be possible to reconstruct a 3d view of a point of interest by crowdsourcing photos? Or ask them about street view.

I'm sure there are others in addition to Google doing interesting things. But my point is this stuff takes a lot of time to come to fruition. And 15 years to get to street view is immensely fast paced innovation.

Disclaimer: I'm 2 years into founding a photo startup.
The water should be on low-medium heat, which by necessity takes a little while to get to a boil. High heat will get it done in 2 minutes, but the grounds won't mix as well and it sometimes will be burnt-tasting.

For reference, here is how I was taught to make it:

1. Put water in cezve equal to number of cups you'd like

2. Put cezve on stove at low-medium heat

3. Add in one teaspoon of coffee per cup

4. Add in sugar (if desired)

5. Keep on low heat until foam and small bubbles appear.

6. Pour a little bit of coffee into each cup, then return to heat. Repeat 2-3x until cups are full.

7. Let each cup sit for a minute to let the grounds settle.

8. Enjoy!
As others have mentioned, 50% of it is marketing. I am curious though, have you played it? The reason I ask is if you have, it may be fairly obvious where the money has been spent.
The majority of whom? Do you think the majority of the world would vote that they need a visa to travel to, say, the US?

Also, there's no need to protect me from anarchy, since the exact meaning of the word "anarchy" is "no rulers". I'd rather be protected from _rulers, than from lack of rulers.
And that's distributed between 3500 developers last time I heard that worked on GTAv ?
I think that many of the founders would probably be more upset by our reflexive resort to suppositions about what the founders would think in discussions of public policy than they would be upset (or supportive) of any particular policy that we find controversial.
Besides a massive marketing budget (which obviously paid off), I have to imagine it took a small army of modellers and artists to actually make that game world. From what I have seen it blows other 'large world' games out of the water. Much smaller than Just Cause 2's for instance, but in another fucking solar system in terms of detail and limited repetition.
Seems like that's markup generated by a third party tool their site uses for chat.
Always wondered what sl was... now I know!

$ sl

The program 'sl' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install sl
Make Non-Obvious Hires
Green peace free our activists 
At least 15 armed Russian Coast Guards have just illegally boarded and taken over our ship the Arctic Sunrise.
I think they just flat-out missed the shift of gravity from carriers to consumers.

I think BlackBerry considered their customers to be (a) the carriers and (b) IT departments. End users weren't considered their customers until it was too late.
Louis CK: "Why I hate smartphones"
Hmm... Then I have no idea what Gruber meant when he said: More on the very-wrong Peter Misek....

Not just wrong.... but very-wrong.
The Star Wars traceroute looks like an extravagant waste of IPv4 addresses. Am I missing something?
I think it's considered 'OK' to hate hipsters. You won't be considered racist, sexist, agist or anything. So I guess it's an outlet of sorts.
Same problem with TED's TEDx conferences. Why do so many brands want to throw away their cachet by stamping their name on random contributors' content?
You know, it's sad to see a well-thought out and researched document that makes many excellent points be totally ruined by a never-ending series of rants and name-calling against the opposition that also predictably ignores a few inconvenient facts.

I was dissecting the problems but it was turning into a wall of text. I'll sum it up easily enough in a smaller wall of text:

Since the 1930s:

- All bad things that have happened are because of the evil Republicans going out of their way to screw the little guy. After all, Republicans never do good and only make mistakes.

- All good things that have happened are because of the courageous and saintly Democrats cleaning up the messes of the Republicans. After all, Democrats always do good and never make mistakes.

- If a Republican President spends an incredible amount of money to win a war, it was bad. If a Democrat President spends an incredible amount of money to win a war, it was good. Never mind the fact that Congress spends the money, not the President who only presents a wish-list.

- If something bad happens: Republican is President means mention it, Democrat is President means ignore it. Republicans control Congress means mention it, Democrats control Congress means ignore it. If something good happens: swap first set of rules.

- If something bad happens: Republican President and Democrat Congress, blame President. Democrat President and Republican Congress, blame Congress. Republican President and Republican Congress, blame Republicans. Democrat President and Democrat Congress, blame Republicans. If something good happens: swap first set of rules.

For the problems we see in today's world created by government, I blame the Republicans and Democrats involved. For the good things created by government, I credit the Republicans and Democrats involved. Only a fool goes with the us-vs-them mentality.
It's not a matter of needing each other. As long as there's a positive NPV on working together, they'll do it. They each might say, "We benefit X, but there's a risk that costs Y." As long as X is greater than Y, they'll work together. They don't have to, but as long as they're the best partners for a given transaction, why not?
I'll take you up on that.

Here's Schneier on ECC:

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9911.html#EllipticCurve...

He wrote this in 1999; ECC was at the time sort of a novelty, it's headline being "a way to do cryptography with smaller key sizes", as if ECC was mostly a way to fit crypto into smaller memory software.

Schneier and Ferguson wrote _Practical Cryptography_ in 2003. It has virtually no mention whatsoever of ECC cryptography, despite ECC's already significantly increased importance by then.

In 2013, I think it's fair to say that the balance of expert opinion on ECC vs. RSA is sharply against Schneier's take on ECC. RSA is on the way out, and ECC is what's going to replace it. Equally significantly, crypto constructions that use signing and key agreement but not public-key encryption/decryption operations are modern designs; designs where a long-lived RSA key is used to wrap and unwrap secrets are dated. ECC is useful for the modern constructions and less so for the dated ones.

I don't think Schneier's writing has tracked these shifts well. I think his books are very light on, for instance, forward secrecy or deterministic signing. His research results never focused on public key encryption and never touched ECC (it's worth noting that much of his best known research was also done with John Kelsey, who is at NIST --- coincidentally, one of Schneier's best-known designs, with Kelsey, was the Yarrow CSPRNG).

Also: Schneier has a close working relationship with Niels Ferguson, who was one of the researchers that spotted the weirdness in Dual_EC. So it's possible that Schneier's concerns over the "constants" in ECC all stem from that. (It's hard to say; he could also be referring to the random seed in the P-224 and P-256 curves).

I don't think readers have any particular reason to believe that Bruce Schneier is an authority on ECC.

Cryptography is not one topic. It's actually a little silly to suggest anyone like Schneier could be authoritative on all crypto concepts. Look at the research output of famous cryptographic researchers (Schneier has some research, but is not really a top-tier researcher) --- it tends to specialize!
Excellent. I can assure you that I wasn't including you in the set of people whose prejudice doesn't come from experience.
Ah, that's probably why we usually add the coffee when water is done boiling. Then bring it to a boil one more time. Or up to four times, depending on taste.

shrug Still won't take 10 minutes even if you're boiling slowly at low heat. Unless you're making a super large pot, but making more than two turkish coffees at once is far out. 2 is the number you shall make.

Your description sounds a little different than how we make it. Guess the recipe changed in the ~1000km journey up to us.
Time is your biggest constraint. Work accordingly. Choose a project that you think you'll be able to implement in a quarter of the time allotted. You'll be grateful when you run into snags during development and you'll have some extra time for polish and presentation.
And how well did that work out for the Wright brothers?

While they were busy trying to enforce their patent, they stopped innovating, and their competitors kept moving forward, exploiting the market the Wright brothers created.
“It’s about four watts, if you just have one USB device that’s not suspended,” said Sharp.

How does that 4W number break down? Is the CPU forced to poll USB devices at 125Hz, preventing it from entering deeper sleep states?
Yeah, fair point. My reasoning was that introverted people, being more introspective, will just have seen less reactions and so be generally less able to interpret them. But, this could be balanced by other traits - for example, greater stimulus sensitivity might mean introspective people place more importance on people's reactions to them
TogetherJS + Firebase
Problem could be easily solved by simply requiring a meal order for coffee, although perhaps they were afraid they'd anger the other patrons. Still, margins on coffee can be quite high.
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Advertising is not usually included in development costs; the total expense was probably higher.
Apple's system records the sale with the hardware serial number of the phone and unlocks it when iTunes sees it and checks w/ Apple.
I think given the volume of software out there now it's a lot easier to replicate than it used to be. You'd have to be pretty clever to achieve some of the things that were done before the 90s but now most products can be copied pretty easily - not necessarily scaled though.
Your house is yours because of an agreement with the country you live in.
It doesn't really matter if margins are lower as long they have positive return (NPV) on every additional dollar spend
Good stuff! I personally don't have a use for it, but I think other's need to see this.

If anyone is looking for a front-end job, look in the right place. Look in the source.
Sounds about right. 200+ people for 4-5 years, pretty much all highly specialized + all other expenses.
I may be wrong as I'm no security researcher, but I was under the impression that combining things like this (and rolling your own crypto in general) could potentially make things weaker. Is this the case here?

Edit: Reading it more, I'm more convinced. It looks like there was a discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6401057
Well, in this case, it's been published that the 250 million included the advertising, as you can read from several other comments in this thread.
The iOS 7 Design Cheat Sheet
You seem to have already addressed it in another comment:

>Thanks for the link. I would have just gone on confirming my own biases without it.

This is incredibly evident in your comments on Dual_EC and sometimes happens on other comments as well. You draw a line in the sand and argue around it constantly, eventually bleeding into passive-aggressive attacks on the knowledge of others.

I find it valuable to hear from others outside of my industry (which is not crypto) who have no expertise in that field. They often have a fresh and agnostic look at something. Do you think all these comments slinging mud at you - however inaccurate they may be - were born from nothing?
Do you think it can be only a marketing strategy from DG? Seems pretty genuine.
I think it depends on what you mean by "level of profitability". In absolute terms (i.e. how many coins could you put in a money bin), it should be achievable; but as a percentage (i.e. how you would measure it as an investor) it likely won't get there simply because the expenses for creating Minecraft were relatively low.
A thesaurus isn't sufficient for automated paraphrasing, because words have multiple meanings and you need to be able to know which sense of a word you are using to find equivalents.

Automatic paraphrasing is essentially machine translation with the same source and destination language (but excluding the one approach that makes this trivial, where the output text is exactly the input text), and would seem to be an AI problem of equal difficulty to machine translation more generally [1].

[1] That is, quite high difficulty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete#Machine_translation
Perhaps they needed to do some "applied research" to make the game more realistic? You know, like method acting except for developers?
RabbitMQ can easily do 25,000 messages per second on a single machine using the Java client. (One producer/ One Consumer)
But that's not the reason. The most frustrating part of bad code isn't that it's bad, it's that writing better code pays off even in the short term. Tests often earn their keep before you've even finished the feature they're testing, as do more basic things like sensible variable names. We're not talking about pragmatic sacrifices for business reasons; that can lead to well-written code that doesn't scale or makes dubious assumptions about its data. But plain unreadable code is never the result of anything except ignorance.