skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our app worth algorithm valued Supercell on iOS as worth $1,486,676,112: https://sensortower.com/ios/publisher/supercell/488106216

1B of that being in Clash of Clans

Interesting to see them exit -- Clash of Clans hadn't showed signs of slowing down, especially given that they recently released on Android.
Burberry has been showing technology adaptation consistently in the past few years, and also took part in the music promotion with their Burberry Acoustic department, which is close to what Apple is doing with iTunes and iTunes Festival. I think this relates to the Apple culture deeply, not to mention their deep link to aesthetics and fashion. I see it as a great evolution for Apple retail and Angela.
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Yes, this article is a disgrace. Putin has built a relatively successful and stable economy, which worst of all for the NYT is both pursuing an independent path and is rich in natural resources. If they weren't able to defend themselves Russia would fulfil all 3 of Chomskys criteria for Western Intervention, however they have a capable defence and cannot be "Iraq'd" or "Libya'd", so instead of missiles they have to settle for black propaganda instead.
Ask HN: Web Game featured here a while ago to Evade Taxes
There was a web game that made it to the HN frontpage a couple of months ago, where you had to set up companies and try to get as much clean profit by (ab)using international tax treaties.

For the life of me, I can no longer find it. Is anyone here able to help me out?

Thanks.
It's possible that, as enlightened as you may justifiably feel you are, your grandchildren will find you embarrassingly ignorant and closed-minded about something, too.
Fair enough. I chose Ruby based on the fact that most immigrants tend to focus on the major cities.
The idea of registered landing platforms is actually pretty good.
They don't even have to be on private property, but maybe a platform every ~100m or so would be enough. If you order something you get a code or maybe can use your phone to get the delivery from the drone.

That would make the "where to land" and "how to drop the payload" much easier.
Yes, the goal is to provide a ciphersuite that can be copied directly. But instead of stopping after the first paragraph, we explain why we think this ciphersuite is best. The guideline is not just a ciphersuite, it's a study of the state-of-the-art of SSL/TLS.

At the end of the day, it's not realistic to imagine that everyone will spend days researching this to come up with a proper ciphersuite. There is a strong need for guidance.

You are correct about SSLv3: it is up to each organization to stop supporting it. But do know that it is still widely used, if not in browser, in client libraries. I wouldn't turn it off on a corporation site if I were you.
I would be more optimistic about this than when they hired John Browett from DSG (Dixons Store Group - Currys, PC World, Pixmania...)
As far as the major cities are concerned, I couldn't disagree more. Ruby is in huge demand and is directly reflected in the salaries and contracting rates on offer. Some of the more notable Ruby shops in London are comprised almost entirely of developers sourced from abroad.
So now you have to have an email account somewhere that allows anything and everything to be sent to it (no spam filtering), and you need a system to send emails and correlate that with received emails. This is all certainly possible and not necessarily that difficult, but compared to seeing if a service is running on port 25 it's about a hojillion times more hassle.
You do know that Burberry was originally worn by the upper class?

It's only worn by chavs because they signed rights to the pattern and it was recreated on the cheap. Something like that anyway.
I didn't know the FBX SDK loads Collada. Thanks Daredevildave. We've had our own Collada pipeline for http://Clara.io, but maybe we can replace that.

I have to say that I don't seen Pixar's USD being useful to PlayCanvas as PlayCanvas is focused on real-time, where as USD is focused on huge complex scene transfers. Maybe you could take a USD and bake it to static assets but that would be about it. I say this because our Alembic tool set (which is related to USD) is barely used in the games industry (and never used as a run-time format), although it is incredibly popular in the films/animation industry.
Humans certainly are "at the top of evolution". Though it depends greatly how you define "top of evolution". I mean in terms that we might go on to populate entire galaxies and survive long, long after the Earth has burned to a crisp and every other species is long dead. Or maybe you could define it in terms that we are capable of far, far more than any other animal.

If you define it as "merely manages to survive and reproduce in the present" then yes, everything alive is at "the top of evolution", since that is actually part of the definition of "alive".

Anyways I'm not sure it matters. How I came to exist doesn't change any of my goals. I'm still the same person whether I was put here by God or by random chance or by an evolutionary process.
It seems so simple and straight forward to do this attack, and the $5k pay day is a nice bonus too. But finding things like this must take a lot of time to discover. I would love to know about methodologies on how you can start to do penetration testing.

Does anyone have any recommended resources ? TIA !
glTF seems nice. We are currently adding export support for glTF it to our tool - http://clara.io. glTF is very similar to the run-time format used by both http://Verold.com and http://Sketchfab.com but it is standardized.

glTF is basd on Collada pretty closely I understand.
Re-thinking how we code for legacy browsers in SASS
> Is this a US thing?

South African here. I shower daily, no matter the season (as does everyone I know). Sometimes another quick shower just before bed on a hot day.

I just don't feel clean otherwise. Climate accounts for the seasons, but we do it in cold-ish Winters as well.
An Example of Upgrade Pricing for iOS
Readable s-expressions for Lisp-based languages
curious. how do you estimate how much an app is worth? Are you discounting future cash flows? If the total networth of Supercell is at 1.5B then selling it at 1.5B for 51% is not a bad deal (assuming that its value does not increase)

Big contrast to Gungho (the purchaser) and Rovio, which is worth $455,438,581 and $145,714,888.
SOMEONE GIVE ME MONEY TO MAKE MY PET FERRET-TUMBLR APP PLEASE

seriously.
I am a citizen of a country near Russia and have a rather good knowledge about Russia internal politics and economics.
Black propaganda, you say? That's adorable.
This is sheer awesomeness, not just with regards to what they are doing but how they are doing it. ISRO is operating at a near throw away budget, almost a near rounding error in India's national budget. And these people have delivered at a whole new level.

I remember when chandrayaan-1 was launched, that morning I was traveling early morning to office. It was a big moment in the history of Indian space research, we were so excited we were hardly able to work the whole day. ISRO is just redefining how government run institutions must function.

On a side note, I went to ISRO as a part of our college's industrial tour. Many of my classmates just dismissed the whole thing and never showed up for the tour as they wanted to go to IBM, Microsoft and Google etc. Of the few of us who went there, we had a humbling experience as to what we saw. There were no AC rooms, plush cubicles, carpets and other perks we have in our large Indian IT companies.

These people were working on ordinary steel tables, with a near dying fan over their had, windows open and sipping tea in a steel cup for 50 paise. And these guys were writing the control system software that would run on the moon mission. It was an humbling experience.
I wouldn't call it an "addition" exactly.... It could be used in conjunction with it, as the overview points out, with the Abc files being used as the leaf nodes for the actual geometry representation.

But the SceneGraph representation (USD) will need to be the starting point, as Alembic doesn't (yet) provide a nice way of doing overrides or referencing other external files which is what this spec provides.
Trivializing her position to accessory-driven conclusions is misleading the $26MM/year salary she was receiving at Burberry. Clearly her role was something bigger like strategy and making the brand memorable. I would hope that is the plan, rather than creating iphone cases, as you suggested.
Munda has tentacles even in her first (voiced) appearance: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hEtstZ7Ka2A/TwtZrM89ZPI/AAAAAAAAAH...

Though I will grant you that the design of her tentacles has altered slightly.
This makes me more relieved that Jeri Ellsworth managed to make transistors (in a kiln starting with a plain silicon wafer) after interviewing retired Fairchild engineers about some details. At least we probably won't lose that, assuming someone survives who watched her videos.
On a personal note, I need to lose weight. I've done it before: I lost 74 lbs, but now several years later I've gained back just over 90 lbs. I reached my goal, and lost all motivation for eating healthy, and steadily gained it all back and more.

You already have a system - you need to change it. Take a look at your eating habits.

Systems are habits

For weight loss, that's the key. Exercise will help, but the input calories is a much bigger factor.

If you are like most people I suspect you will find you snack a lot, and possibly drink softdrinks.

Monitor your calories (see the MyFitnessPal app/website) for 2 days, and I bet you'll find if you change your eating system to avoid those snacks and softdrinks you will lose weight.
I meant "addition" in the sense of a complimentary tool set to Alembic. :) But you are right that it can be misinterpreted.
You can say the name was inappropriate, to suggest it was sexist is ridiculous though. And the world is moving beyond the whole "porn is a sin" garbage.
Appreciate the feedback. What do you think of the idea of a job site which allows you to view a variety of different roles relevant to your skills rather than 10s of the same job?
$1.5 billion investment in gaming company SuperCell
I want my own. I wouldn't want the curry and the rice noodle soup to go cold, or worse, end up in someone else's belly.
Even if that were the case: making (and disposing of) cars, gadgets, etc. causes lots of pollution that is not related to the consumed energy.
Are there any LGBT scholarships you could apply for?
We are having this very same debate internally now at https://starthq.com

I'm thinking that individual users should be put on a free trial without the CC being asked up front. However, group plans that will be paid for by IT managers will be CC up front.

The reasoning behind this is that by asking for the CC up front from managers, we will 1) make them value the service more 2) retain more of them as customers.

What do you think?
The answer does depend on where I am heading but in my experience I usually exchange a smaller amount at home (at a forex company) and later just withdraw from ATMs. This is especially convenient if you got a debit/credit card with no extra charge (beyond exchange rates) for withdrawing outside your country.

Exchanging at airports is usually a bad deal, worse rates than else where in my experience.

Forex is a rather regulated field, some countries more than others. There are always concerns about risk (robbery, fraud and so forth). For the most part you can pay with your card, so you no longer have to carry around very large sums of cash.
With stop and frisk out the door along with other proactive policing strategies on the side lines now it will be very interesting to see if that crime rate stays low.
Much worse in terms of nanoparticulates, yes - I'm not disagreeing with that - but with wood you're releasing carbon that was currently extant in the biosphere, rather than carbon which was sequestered hundreds of millions of years ago.
They use a URL Scheme to check for the existence of previous versions on the device, and depending on the result, offer one of three in-app purchase prices for the same result: activating the new version. See also http://www.macdrifter.com/2013/10/an-interesting-ios-app-sto...
How to do discount pricing for App Upgrades in the App Store
I'm interested as well, my brother in law is in the business of dating/friendship and maybe we can partner up =)

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When Angela Ahrendts became CEO of Burberry, one of the first thing she did was cancelling all of those licensing agreements, which diluted the brand's value. She successfully repositioned the company from a forgotten brand with little control over its product, to a high luxury, highly profitable company. Kudos to her.

... and Burberry's share price is -5% after this was announced. This says a lot.
We have models about revenue, user growth, user amounts, etc -- all valued per country, etc that we combine to make the estimation. Larger apps make this estimation a lot easier than indie apps, too. You can click through on each app and see more detailed info.

Rovio hasn't been a major player in terms of being a top grossing app recently -- they get good downloads and have brand presence, but in the age of IAP based free to play revenue (24 top grossing apps out of top 25 are free: https://sensortower.com/ios/rankings/top/iphone/us/all-categ...) Rovio's app based model isn't as sticky as long term freemium titles with long term progression. Not to say that Rovio isn't doing great in other parts of it's business!
A drone that delivers can also spy on you and then use for commercial reasons. Film everything around your house, backyard, inside the house unless you have the blinds on and store it...forever. Multiply it by hundreds of drones that pass each day and you have a nightmare in your hands. F that.

Keep the drones limited to just killing people from 10000 feet up.
The extent to which retro-reflective material reflects light back is actually quite incredible. I got a new bike light which for weeks I thought was REALLY REALLY BRIGHT until I realised that although it was making street signs 200m away flash brightly, it was only making them flash for me. Even a few degrees out and the reflectivity dropped remarkably.
Convenience, safety and lower costs. When you're cooking and you forgot some ingredients, push a few buttons and 10 minutes later your order arrives, sans humans and hassle. Like pizza delivery, but for everything and with fewer costs. Lower costs mean smaller transactions become economical. No flying bladed helicopters mean reduced risks and requirements for landing spots.

We have grocery delivery in my area, but it's such a hassle because I have to be home within their time window and I have to book it a couple days in advance. Why can't I just hit a "now" button and it arrives via drone, at 2am if I so desire, when most delivery people are sleeping? Or in a rainstorm, because the drone doesn't care?
>with no extra charge (beyond exchange rates)

Be aware that the rate is the charge. At the end of the day, everything you pay from mid is a charge and although you're always going to have to pay something, credit cards and some bank networks can be particularly egregious.
> The answer does depend on where I am heading but in my experience I usually exchange a smaller amount at home (at a forex company) and later just withdraw from ATMs.

Yeah, that's what I do. I'm guessing you use online banking for the forex? or a dedicated forex company e.g travelex?

I've never worked in forex or know anyone in the business - I never knew it was regulated. I assume that kiosk type fx companies use banks for money supply? and that as long as currencies were pegged to global rates, they are free to charge whatever they like?

I do hear lots of people complaining about commission, that's what I guess makes Bitcoin and other P2P options attractive. Maybe forex companies have little choice, especially when you consider airport rents, staff etc.
You keep moving the goal post. ISRO delivered some fantastic stuff on a very low budget, this is not about whether ISRO will be able to compete in future or not. Infact going by the current prices posted on SpaceX website and the amount it took for this orbiter mission, it is indeed very competitive
The performance aspect will definitely be included in the next version. It's a valuable lesson (in human behaviour) I learned from the current version.

People love getting higher and higher scores and, before, when the overall numerical score was included in the results, I observed many pushing their scores up with no good reason, impacting performance. One example was using 4096-bit RSA keys, which are an overkill for virtually everyone.
Tweets Have Become Shorter Since 2009, Say Computer Scientists
Just noted that there is a WordPress to Ghost plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/ghost/ and that you can export a JSON dump of your Ghost blog from e.g. http://localhost:2368/ghost/debug/ (not otherwise linked from the admin).
AppCode 2.5 final release is here
Whether this anecdote is a true reflection of the wider system or not - this made me smile. Thanks for sharing :)

I have been exposed to a similar situation (though not from a US university, I was lucky enough to attend a private school in the UK. The tuition fees are roughly comparable): My best friend's Dad worked as a Vet until he had a heart attack. He lived, but couldn't work for a long time.

The school waived the final year of fees for my friend (~$52,000) - to my knowledge they have never requested it since.
Same here. Ramanujan, Taxi, Hardy, Erdos, "The man who loved only numbers" but couldn't recall it's importance.
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> we might go on to populate entire galaxies and survive long

At the moment, we "might" only in Sci-Fi movies. The reality is completely different. Better look at how we really handle global warming or control nuclear weapons. Civilization we know is much more fragile that those who believe to be "chosen by deity" are able to recognize.
Most places I visit, I change a small amount of cash, enough for a cab from the airport at the other end and a meal/coffee - usually at the airport on the way out. Apart from that, I rely on credit cards and ATMs. That's worked fine for me over the last 10-15 years travelling from Australia to the US, UK, Thailand (mostly Bankok), Singapore, Hong Kong, & New Zealand. I've occasionally had one of my credit cards (Visa, Visa debit, and Amex) or one of my ATM cards (St George and ANZ) fail to work for me - but get that here in Australia too.
Sure: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5b171420-22d7-11e0-ad0b-00144feab4... (digital strategy first tested in China, 30% growth there), http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d33bbd4a-c1f2-11e2-ab66-00144feab7... (sales slowing, still making up a large percentage). ((sorry for the FT links, they should hopefully work!))

So it's an interesting one, Burberry is moving into new countries for their retail areas because it's fashion and it gets old. Burberry has had it's day in China and they're starting to move on (a similar thing is happening with LV and another but I can't remember off the top of my head). That doesn't mean China as a market is done, just that the taste has moved on. It's still fresh in new developing markets, so they're moving their focus there, but it was one of the primary business focuses for a number of years.
> How much of that trust fund - which Gates never asked for and had nothing to do with - did Bill Gates invest into starting Microsoft?

Would he have dropped out of university to work on Microsoft full-time if he hadn't had the trust fund to fall back on?
SP 3 is free (Service Packs) and it's just because the .Net framework requires SP3.

So actually, XP = XP SP3.
Yup, makes perfect sense to me why that design doesn't go over for a public accustomed to seeing the password mask. It would be neat if that could be a preference set in the OS for power users, but I can see that being abused and I see it no way compatible with legacy sites and applications. You couldn't make it the default, because it drops a degree of security for all users of the OS. And it wouldn't get adopted widely enough for it to be worth the effort, being more expensive to support for developers.
Apart from the push to improve the brand image as a luxury brand, she also spearheaded heavy use of social media and technology for marketing.

I had the chance to watch a presentation she gave with some people from my old company and she was really good
What does Mr. Son see here that I don't?

Supercell is a rockstar game development house right now. But history has shown time and time again that App development houses have a shelf life.
To a lay person such as me, the averages tend to show an invariable downward spiral of DAUs with the chance of a new hit game seemingly minimal.

So why go plunk such a gargantuan amount???
Nowhere does gp say that China will be a future growth market for Burberry. But even so, how can you conclude that the article says the opposite based on this one sentence? Most of the article is about Burberry's success in China, and it even mentions sales growth percentage expected.

I read the article as saying that China is going well for Burberry and is expected to continue to go well. Additional growth on top of that will also come from other countries. This is likely because China's been penetrated pretty well by Burberry, whereas those other countries haven't yet.

Live in China, and my anecdotal experience is that the Burberry advertising and store presence is on par with a lot of luxury brands here. They've done well.
Markets "decide" what is best by responding to price signals. If you buy a cheap T-shirt then you are saying to the market that you value low price over an ethical supply chain.

Buyers from first world countries do not (in general) deal first-hand with the labourers, they deal with factory owners who have the capital equipment necessary to do the manufacturing at the required scale. All the while that there is price pressure from the market (from you), the buyers will be pushing that price pressure onto the factory owners. As long as there is one factory owner who is willing to take that low price then all factory owners who want the same (or similar) contracts have to take that price, otherwise they are out-competed in the free market. They, in turn, push that price pressure onto their workers, preventing increases in wages.

The rest of what you said is correct: the workers take the jobs not because they want to work for such low wages, but because they are the best wages they can obtain given their skill levels. Buying cheap clothes almost directly contributes to the continuation of poverty.

As an aside, you mentioned child labour. A not uncommon strand to discussions on these issues is that people should "act more responsibly" and "choose" to get educated when they are young rather than waste their time for the short-term benefits of working. People send their children to work because they can't bring in enough money themselves, for reasons like disability (there are a lot more workplace accidents in countries with poor labour protections!) or plain poverty. How does the hypothetical 9 year old improve their lot if the best thing they can do at the age of 9 is get a job manufacturing clothes?
Understanding India's China policy (or lack there of)
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The rates are always terrible, they have to make money. It probably equals out over time but having the freedom to withdraw smaller amounts without an extra charge is convenient. I am not a great fan of carrying around a lot of cash.
Really interesting thought around theft. Since there is already anti-collision software included, maybe anti-theft software is next to be developed?