skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are enough teenagers like me, that dreamed of making there own game and researched game engines only to find that there weren't really any available for (almost) free, that could potentially be a nice enough additional revenue stream. I.e. amateur programmers, that want to play with an engine and probably will never release a commercial game.
I don't know what you're trying to say here, but feeding 256 bits to a CSPRNG and then pulling 4096 bits of output from that CSPRNG is not "cryptographically completely wrong".
They're undoubtably more honorable than the guys running one of finance’s leading law firms – Dewey & LeBoeuf.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2014/03/dealbook-misunderstands...

Not to mention the scum like Angelo Mozillo who gave us the financial crisis.
Yes everyone uses ฿ already. Just do a google image search for Bitcoin and you'll see.
CRM Service Base Raises $15M Series B To Take On Salesforce
Sorry, but this looks like a poorly placed commercial...
This is a great book. Highly recommended.
Why not? Advances in materials, energy, batteries, would be right up Boeing's alley. Diagnostics, communications for planes? What if YC funded a company that had a novel method to make petroleum extraction 20% faster, cleaner or more efficient? Or could help scale lotus-effect paints to mass production? Or could bring big data/ machine-learning to health care to crunch through our habits and health history to find strange correlations and insights that we wouldn't think of?

YC now (publicly) looks like it's working on the ideas and types of companies that the world needs more of. If this shift is real, it opens up YC to smart people without CS degrees. (I know it was before, but it's perception as well) And there are exits, they're just outside of SV. GE, Philips, Exxon, GSK, Pfizer, Bombardier...
If you want the best graphics, you're still better off with CryEngine, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8u4NbDRxI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGCkgaCZM0

I think Frosbite 2 beats Cryengine in terms of realistic graphics, but too bad they're not licensing that to 3rd parties. Frostbite 2's color seems a little off/too light in those demos, though, but UE4's color is way off. Why does everything look like it was put through an orange filter?
His comment is dead (?), he answered with a link to maratis3d.org
Paste this snippet into your dev console, then mouseover the colours to get a preview.

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$("td[bgcolor]").setAttribute("bgcolor", td.parentNode.children[1].getAttribute("bgcolor"));
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well, that escalated... logarithmically.
Geometric is the same as exponential. It is just a geometric interpretation instead of algebraic.
Thanks. I recently read Drive, which was an eye opening book, especially when I can attest to the negative consequences of bonus based ruining of intrinsically motivated people.
> It's like a religion.

A bit. But the Church only makes you confess once a week.
50% complete: http://doge2048.com/
Cheaper rocket launches.
I don't think bzudo was being entirely serious
Ask HN: When has X startup in "X is like Y for Z" done better than Y?
Dropbox might be one example (from their YC app):"Dropbox is kind of like taking the best elements of subversion, trac and rsync and making them 'just work' for the average individual or team."
I got approached twice. One of them was for YPlan. Would have loved it but wasn't ready to leave the current company by then...
By not starting with spaceships, but instead with something that can evolve into spaceships.

Here's the first product of Boeing, which built the bottom stage of the Saturn V:

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history/boeing/bw.page
A History of Bitcoin Hacks
I wouldn't say so, you can probably use the tool to your hearts content.

Obviously the tools are useful for debugging purposes, testing tls connections, dumping cert information and asn1.

I've now been made aware that tools wrap the openssl cli instead of using it's programmatic API.

Once I tried to use the ca functions of the tool, found the whole tool entirely too cumbersome and wrote my own using libopenssl.

What do you use it for extensively if I might ask?
And yet another smart person who calls "no rules" a "libertarian paradise" without even bothering to check what libertarians are actually talking about (hint: not the same thing as anarchists, and even anarchists are not the same as misanthropes) complete with unfunny picture. Sigh. This guy is not some troll, he is smart, he is educated, he writes about responsible behavior - and he doesn't even bother to behave responsible himself by getting basic facts he uses as the argument straight. How depressing is that?
I understand your point and agree that it would be hard to lose the expected longer lifespan. Right now I live in such a way that I expect to reach a certain age and have modern conveniences available to me. When safety, freedom from pain, fresh water, food, sewers, transportation, access to information, and so on, are denied, I get grumpy. But that's my expectation because I wake up to that reality every day.

But what if I lived without that expectation? Maybe I would be happier? Maybe take better care of myself, my communities, my surroundings, the things I currently have instead of pining for the things I want? I don't know. Maybe not. Maybe live more in the present instead of fretting about the distant future and things I have no control over? Maybe not.

There are an awful lot of people on the Earth who live without the resources I have and, I could argue, are happier than me, have less overall stress, have more leisure time, are in better physical shape, and so on. And I'm not trying to romanticize it. I also understand that many people in that condition are miserable.

But overall life satisfaction is relative, isn't it, and largely a state of mind?
Haha, this is surprisingly easier to get to 2048 than the original 2048.
Yeah, quite successfully actually.

http://blog.gosquadron.com/use-tls
Are Credit Monitoring Services Worth It?
The idea of cancelling until right before launch day came to mind. :-)
Trying to buy each feed indvidually will set you back MORE than $20k. For example, you want stock feeds? Do you want the NASDAQ feed or the NYSE feed? What about the CDNs? And if you want the RAW feed you're also going to hire someone to parse it for you.
I don't think most people with a blog want to build a community

I suspect that different people have different motives, which is why we see so many different philosophies on comments (mine, FWIW, is here: https://jseliger.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/commenting-on-comm... ).

In addition, some blogs are popular enough to become quasi communities and some aren't. My blog is the latter though I wouldn't mind if it were the former, and it serves a variety of purposes; solidifying and sharing my thoughts are two but not the only two.
John Carmack will not be speaking at Quakecon this year
And it happened even only with bitcoin-core. Anyhow the 50/50% scenario across implementations is unlikely to happen if everyone seeing a new one cries forking wolf.

I do empathize with the need of solutions for today though. I was just thinking about tomorrow.
Well it's all about the options one has right? I personally am looking to be able as much as a person can do.

If you chose to not live with money, you can be happy, but you are only very very restricted in what you do.

You can live in the woods for sure, but you will never be able to have a family except they all want to live in the woods, you will never be able to give you child an education if it wants to, you'll never be able to be a scientist again, nor solving problems for other people, you can only solve problems for yourself.

For me personally, that's not something to strive for.
DARPA's Newest X-Plane Concepts Are All Robots
No source code
When I say that Apple laptops are damn comfortable, it has nothing to do with the brand. I can't speak for other people though. If Sony were making these, I'd own a Sony. But the fact of the matter is that it is Apple that has the lion's share of the laptop market because they've got a killer combination of hardware and software(being a closed platform and all). They've sunk untold amounts of money into ergonomics, the "little things", and it's paid off with a superior laptop experience. If you ever sit on a couch with a laptop all day, you'd quickly notice the difference between an Apple laptop and most OEM offerings out there. That's not to say that some OEMs aren't getting pretty close though. I have my eye on the Lenovo X1 Carbon lineup, maybe next year they'll have something superior at a better price point.
Seems you are right:

"When releasing a product using UE4, you're signing up to pay Epic 5% of gross product revenue from users, regardless of what company collects the revenue. That means: If your game makes $10 on the App Store, Apple may pay you $7, but you'd pay Epic $0.50 (5% of $10)."

Still, you'd have to legally define end customer because you could have, as I pointed out, much more complex cases. I didn't search much, but couldn't find the actual fine print license to see how they did it, but they probably did it well and ironclad and don't need legal advice from a guy with no formal legal education. I stand humbled.
It's not an exhaustive list. Maybe it just shows that they feel they've funded enough realtime location-based social pizza-sharing apps.
The value of YC is the connections, expertise, and support it provides. In terms of these things, what does it bring to the table in oil extraction or aerospace? You're not showing how to get from point A to point B.
I think the answer is to move away from monopolies and centralized systems, or systems that depend on exclusive information or technologies.

And I think it has been shown that can happen. The most obvious example is the personal computer. For many years, computers were only available through large organizations. Eventually hobbyists found ways to make them affordable and distribute them to many homes.

I believe that the designs for some type of Intel processor and single board computer must be out there being used by quite a few people, say in certain areas of China. So they aren't really secret.

What we need is open source hardware, and personal fabrication systems.

Another example: move away from centralized ISPs to meshnets. If meshnets don't provide adequate latency etc., we just have to start coming up with our own alternatives to ISPs. Maybe just laying fiber strands on the street with some kind of glue or something crazy-sounding like that.
How wealthy were your parents and neighbors?
Feedback on our zero budget explainer video
We're bootstrapping Carscout (we all have full time jobs and have collectively invested less than $1k). We've just finished an MVP and are slowly getting customers on board. I put together a 60 second explainer video walking through our app.

I built it using Screenflow, and some free stock video from http://www.xstockvideo.com/

My hope is that it quickly explains what Carscout is. We're getting a voice-over from fiverr.com and still debating on the music choice (thus the pond5 watermark), but I wanted to get HN's feedback on the general structure of the video. Does it properly convey what we do? Any advice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42rbCws6uRc&feature=youtu.be
After around 4096 it starts tapering off, hence logarithmic.
That is all just hand holding so you didn't go back to your boss and say the words "bloomberg didn't have the data", which is their version of a nightmare.

The value is really only in the data and delivering it to you. The server side software might be wizardry as mentioned here but the client software is a joke. Want to render a chart or read a story? It uses internet explorer in as the rendering engine for you and is slower than molasses.
...I guess I'll never get the chance to try as I cancelled my TiVo subscription. Why in the world wouldn't the back button take you... back? Up? WTF?

Anyway, that was just one annoyance out of many. TiVo is garbage, slightly better smelling garbage than the cable providers give you, but still garbage, and at a higher price. No thanks; my HTPC is outperforming any DVR I have ever had.
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
Plus technically e could be random (PGP used to do this, now ~everyone uses a fixed value as far as I know).
Study Suggests That You Will Obey Your Future Robot Boss
tl;dr version:

The author lacks sufficient self discipline to not set himself up for distraction by running "Twitter, email, chatting" on the second monitor, and finds that by having only one monitor, with no room for windows for "Twitter, email, chatting" along with work, that he can focus better.

I.e.: Removing distractions enhances focus. (really short tl;dr)

Nothing at all revolutionary here.
I have to assume he threw in the libertarian stuff as a tongue-in-cheek jab at an ideology he rejects. I find it extremely hard to believe that he is truly that ignorant, but easy to believe that he is that unhumorous.
That's fine, I never said anything about Coinbase.
Mystery Tech Company Moving Into San Jose's Largest Office Space
For all the arguments against the algorithmic type questions - i would add that in my ~16000 hours of professional programming, i have had to worry about O(n) to choosing Hash tables, quiet a lot of times.

Although not too often (compared to factors mentioned already), but it depends upon the domain too. I worked in embedded for the most part where the liberty of using frameworks, libraries - is far scarce, so it matters which area / programming environment are we talking about in general.

Also, i am yet to run into a good interviewer + programmer (whether more experienced or junior) who doesn't value these things as a good predictor of some one's coding ability.

And we are not talking about only scale of companies like Google or Facebook and in my humble opinion, those might get a bit tooo algorithmic as well.

But you should be able to recognize that a design you did won't scale when you have say 100k or more packets (instances) of inputs thrown at it. It won't be a problem ONLY UNTIL your list of traversal, get big enough, and frankly any software worth being discussed - gets big enough at some point.

Or that your linear traversal should dramatically improve if you could code and use a hash table instead.

Ah - and yes, loved the idea of 'can do serious work for at t least four hours a day', but wonder if there is a way to determine that.
Tangentially, can someone remind me why people who pay 20K/y to have their IM chats be spied upon by journalists are the right persons to be managing other people's money?
Great idea. I can probably whip up an iOS app for that. Sounds like a weekend project :)Thanks!
I got it playing Tetris at work and Lode Runner at home (hey, it was 1994). Those were weird dreams.
"Selling Space with Neil Tyson"
At the time of 6502 you were truly on command. I didn't do as much Z80 but I guess it was similar in this particular respect.

Things got really out of hand from AT on (80286). IMO that's not Personal Computing anymore, but rather Home Computer. You are mostly a consumer, even if you develop in ASM. You delegate control of your hardware completely.

I'd recommend anyone to learn Commodore 64 coding inside out. Or maybe Spectrum 48K. These are not the simplest machines of their time but they allow you to do a lot and were popular enough that almost everything that truly matters in computing exists for these architectures. And you can fathomably grok them inside out to such a level it will blow your mind.
Wow, i think Diaspora is cool. Is there any HN related thread about Diaspora?
The Rise of Videogame Economies [video]
Parents: Upper-class

Neighbours: Upper-class

That being said, I went to a no-name high school and no-name college. I worked my way into startups through connections in college and living abroad.
Doge seems like a good idea. I have reached out to that community on Reddit to see what they think and they seem very enthusiastic.

The problem with Dogecoin is that I can't find anything relatively close to coinbase.com as a wallet.
The Power Algorithm
Sure. They're more honorable than mass murderers too.
Very cool. Are you concerned at all about Angular 2.0 and potentially having to rewrite major parts?
I noticed this too. Plus they're using a bad example. Looping an array with "for..in" in JavaScript is one of the most known antipatterns.
That is all just value-added services that protect their reputation and deepen their relationship with customers. That's all.
No, I know you to be wrong about that. It's also worth remembering that many of the smartest people in the '90s hack scene came from the virus scene.

What I don't understand is how someone who was around in the 90s could manage to mythologize a bunch of teenagers using semicolons and pipe filters to pop shells on boxes and dump mail spools.

Here's the part where you tell me that you once knew a hacker who never rm'd a box. Why am I meant to care about that? There was zero correlation in the 90s between skill and care for other people's data.

Your opening comment was, "sounds like someone wasn't in the cool kids group". Now you've moved the goalposts; turns out you weren't talking about the "cool kids" at all. But it doesn't matter whether we're talking specifics or the broader issue of whether hackers were more or less moral in the 1990s: you're comprehensively wrong. Consider resetting the "tptacek is always full of shit" bit that is obviously stuck in your brain.
I hate the whole "don't read the comments" crap. It's like burying your head in the sand and saying "I don't want to hear anything that I may not like."

I get it. Anonymous people on the internet are assholes. What I don't get is how letting anonymous assholes typing things you've seen hundreds of times keep you from finding some signal in the noise is a good idea. There are some great insights to be found out there. Not everyone has enough insight to write an entire fresh blog post, or maybe someone's blog post was the spark needed to light the thoughts.

It's like saying we shouldn't eat potatoes and carrots because they grow in the dirt and the dirt is gross and nasty. Missing out on smart comments, extra contributions, corrections or anything related to the article because a mean person said some bad words that made you feel bad is pretty immature.
London 'draining life' from rest of UK economy
Apparently you've never heard of a "conscientious objector"?
The "replies" button appears to be some sort of appeasement for those who do not like the one true way of showing comments linearly.

I don't really get why discourse (apparently) does so much work to show 40 comments. I guess it might work fine on a fast enough machine, but I at least think I'd rather wait a few hundred extra milliseconds at the beginning and not have things clunking into place the whole time I'm looking through the comments.

(one true way: http://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/ )
Implementing Actors – Guild Internals.
IBM Watson Takes on the Genetics of Brain Cancer
Woman charged $787.33 for two-mile cab ride
According To A Nasa Funded Study, We're Pretty Much Screwed
I wonder if a better analogy might be a carpenter or general contractor. License requirements in most states have little to do skill or experience, but rather with carrying liability insurance and conforming to consumer protection codes.
For primes of current acceptable size (>= 1024 bits), you might as well drop those extra checks. The elliptic curve method gives you around 2^512 attempts at doing the exact same thing, each one with the same probability of having a smooth p-1 or p+1. The paper you link to reaches essentially the same conclusion.
Are you talking about multisig? That doesn't have adequate properties for use in an exchange. I assume that you are requiring that the user sign off on any transfer of their coins, because otherwise the chance of theft would still exist. If so, then (1) you are requiring that all transfers hit the block chain (immediate non-starter simply due to scaling issues), (2) the exchange is not effective as people can DoS by dropping out and refusing to sign if the market moves or they otherwise have second thoughts, and (3) you're ignoring the fiat side of the exchange.

Trustless exchanges can work, but they generally need much more infrastructure and possible changes to bitcoin (or a side chain).
solidify my own thoughts

By refusing to listen to commentary that disagrees with you?
Thanks for the comment. At least someone played it.
Most of the submitted article is spent acknowledging just how impractical the premise of the question is. Don't take it on it's own terms (I thought it was a dumb post for different reasons) but at least recognize it knows it's daydreaming.

Check your privilege.

Is this sentence used as anything other than a snub anymore?

Your point isn't worthless, but it reads like "wake up sheeple" posts of yesteryear. The writing is emotionally charged and confrontational as if you have something new to say. You're just reminding everyone of a world incongruity they came to grips with by adolescence. I'm not saying they are (or should be) fine with it, I'm saying your post is cliche and not helping.

You don't have to stop fighting the good fight, just consider how you're doing it. Or ignore me and post a link to a wiki page titled "tone argument" because your self-satisfaction for participating in a cause is more important to you than your efficacy at it.
There's also a possibly-not-completly-wrong table on that other TLS library's website (http://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#Selecting-cryptogra...) that takes a stab at estimating the relative security levels of (correctly-used) public key algorithms.