skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And with about 15 minutes of reading you'd know there's no WS1. Or VS3. At least not according to the GIA scale, which is the most common in Northern America. VS3 is a marketing term to make an SI1 sound better. I'd assume WS1 is really VVS1

I did far, far, far more than 15 minutes of reading. I think this just underscores my point ;)

While I was able to easily identify higher quality stones compared to others under the lens, I was wholly unable to rate them other than comparatively to each other. Unfortunately for consumers of these products, we don't have access to 6 months of time and a slew of 'practice diamonds' to check out.

I wonder what the variance in ratings for a typical gem is if you were to have it independently appraised many times over?
Confessions Of A Young Banker - The Day I Snapped
I think he might be right.
...and even more impressive, they did it before the terms 'LTV', 'network effect' and 'virality' had even been coined.
Welcome to my inbox recruiter. Would you like tea?
Sour.Grapes.
No, the font is huge compared to a book. Yes, I did held a book infront of my face at reading distance to compare. The font here at HN is pretty much what a book is like. I use a 1680x1050 22 inch screen.
Triggit's hiring theory
http://blog.triggit.com/join-triggit/
Ah, but that's where the best hacks can occur usually where legal or socio-political issues keep the best solution from occuring. Unlike a real marketplace, a co-op is an agreed marketplace, so it won't allow new entrants unless they join. To fix the undeveloped country problem, you just limit to the US first. The perspective should be that individuals who want to contribute their organs to the co-op can, but are also allowed to partake in it later as well.
Thank you much. I didn't know they implemented that yet! AWESOME.
I wonder if the makerbot clone will follow suit? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08/24/makerbot-clon...
Could Fasting Cause Flow?
A blatant criminal should face the heat. Make an example of him.
Mathjax is pretty cool but it's also pretty slow if you have many formulas. While it's loading the page keeps rescrolling up and down because the document grows and shrinks. I started noticing the load after already ~30 formulas, quite big formulas though.

Also the distribution is a bit bulky, it consists of over 30000 files. You can remove many of them but then you also loose a big part of the compatibility. While speaking of compatibility, some formulas look kinda weird, but those are very few
Well, I guess there wouldn't be anything wrong with sending back wine, if wine tasters were at all consistent rather than just trying to show off their refinement.

Also, of all the times you've eaten the food in a fancy restaurant, what fraction of the time have you wanted to send it back (whether or not you sent it back)? I'm guessing a lot less than a hundred percent. So what are the odds that the writer happened to hit precisely that fraction of times when the restaurant actually did a substandard job (and only for one and the same guest) on two dine-outs in a row?

Both of these suggest that the guy just likes making people do more work for him because it can. Sick.
Smart to offer cheapest electric car
You could also try to train some statistical model and see whether you can find some common ground in commits that introduce bugs.

And then fire that person. (Or rather, see if big commits introduce more bugs than short ones, or whatever else you might find.)
Groupon Debuts Credit-Card Payments Service for Merchants
I'm pretty sure that was Richard Branson.
I think the problem with FPS is that you have so many players who all have a completely different view of the game at any time. That makes it difficult to follow on one screen because you would have to keep switching between player's viewpoints which would disorient you to what is actually going on and make it difficult to see the state of play at a glance.

You might be able to fix this by showing a zoomed out overhead map and zooming in on parts that look like they are about to get interesting. Problem with this would be predicting which parts will be interesting to see, because you never know if someone is about to get sniped or whatever. With something like soccer there is only one ball so wherever the ball is will probably be where the most interesting play is happening.

I guess F1 would suffer from the same problem, but in that case there is just something exhilarating about watching a car take a corner at those kinds of speeds.
How Makerbots Replicator2 Will Launch an Era of Desktop Manufacturing
"The problem is that books that try and sell me based on promising some improvement in my lifestyle usually set my BS radar off."

Luckily for saturnflyer, nathanbarry, bdunn, and me, plus many others, that problem isn't a generalized one. A few folks obviously agree with you, but it doesn't seem to be impacting our sales or our customers' happiness.

That opinion is a minority.
I know it's a movie and not necessarily based on actual events, but people like this always make me think of the line in the social network: "If you had invented Facebook. You would've invented Facebook."
I'll back up Brennan 100% on his claims. I've _successfully_ raised my rates +30/hr after reading his ebook. The advice was relevant, pointed, and easy to implement. The book paid for itself in the first week I owned it.
I can't understand why ANYONE is still using Linode after their disgraceful behaviour at the start of this year.

For those that don't remember they were hacked and a sizeable sum of Bitcoins were stolen from a number of VPSs after their customer service app was hacked.

The problem is that (a) customers were the last to hear about it having to find out the news from Reddit, (b) we still don't know exactly what happened, (c) we don't know whether it affected other VPS or whether it is still an issue, (d) what they've learnt/changed.

Compare this to Cloudflare which was transparent and open with everyone and clearly learnt a lot of lessons. Trying to hide your mistakes at every turn is NOT how you run a service company.
Just noticed another one at (28) “get rich quick” schemes; (28) gambling
You are jumping around a bit. We were talking about TOS and now we're in a court room and using the words "judge" and "dumb" in the same sentence. I was kidding about doing research. Humor. We all know what he was doing. But the truth is I'm serious about these types of TOS. And I'm looking at this mainlly from the end user's perspective. You see the same type of ambiguous TOS language everywhere on the web. Let's stay focused on TOS for a moment, and leave aside the Swartz case. Do you think ambiguous contracts (TOS) are "better"[1] than unambiguous ones? For example, would reducing ambiguity lower the probability of (costly) disputes?

1. better for who?
What, no Gandalf chasing a Balrog down the hole?!
> Apple is grabbing up all they can, but they're in competition with a lot of other companies with sizable war chests.

Why not start a price war for developers? Presumably Apple has plenty of funds to start offering developers, say, double what they're offering now. If developer skill and/or quality is really a primary concern for Apple, what is stopping them from simply offering more compensation? (Obviously, I'm not suggesting that this would be a quick fix to their maps project.)
A lot of what I see people use youtube for is to show each other funny clips of shows from TV.
"Stuck in a moment."

And once again, in Greenspan's own transcripts, Zuckerberg comes off better -- more focused, more observant, more strategic, seeing opportunities rather than obsessing on risks, and even more generous with offers of collaboration -- than Greenspan himself.
A person kicking down and licking up is too blinded by fear, and that fear robs them of the awareness of how counterproductive the strategy they are using is. In their haste to move away from what they hate, they take the shortcut which is to not look at it; to act what they feel is the opposite of what they hate.

What would be most beneficial for these people is to confront themselves head on and examine why they don't feel comfortable and deconstruct their history, their reactions, their thoughts and their actions. But it's the strength of the fear they feel that stops them doing precisely this.

A natural protection system no? Move away from what you don't like? Counterproductive to force yourself to move towards it and know it, but I personally find the more I do it, the more I benefit. Of course sometimes it can take time for the penny to drop. That's why I meditate. The pennies drop faster, and as the noise drops away you slowly start to pay more attention to yourself, and can move away from destructive behaviour.
For a long time, TTYs didn't have very consistent keyboard handling across platforms (the web today seems better standardized than the mess of terminals curses was developed to deal with). I certainly make no claim we are done replacing it, and I'm not at all certain I think it's a good idea, it just seems to be what is happening in a haphazard way.
Still better than Fb ads right now.
Couldn't agree more. I think this actually already occurring. I have funded 13 projects since January, 2012 and in the 9 months since I have funded those I have only received 2 of them. This already makes me hesitant to fund more projects. I think that the slow production cycle and constant push backs will cause people to fall off from funding lots of projects.
Every time I read something from Russ Cox he impresses me a bit more. That guy is amazing.
David, it's a pleasure to be one of the insane people that you've invested into. Thank you!

p.s. Give us a few years to IPO and maybe then we could start a company together? :)
Thanks. I have had a similar experience: when I was a teenager I helped with stock-take at a warehouse - once a year, for several years. I saw ladies doing data entry to terminals that were hooked up to an application running from another city on an IBM System/36 mini. They'd get ahead of the screen refreshes, but the UART diligently remembered each keystroke, and they'd power through. When I started out in my career I forgot all of this. I had to convert an existing 4D application a business loved for a multi-user application. I built an intricate system that was web only, with some javascript caching, accessed over a latent connection. The staff had a horrible time with this for several years. It was ultimately abandoned, and they moved to a paper system. I was uncomfortable with the memory but the penny didn't drop until I got into roguelike development. Huge regret - I should have remembered my time in the warehouse. If I had my time again I'd design most of the interaction in a termal as described above. The web is a toy.
I'm guessing data portability and privacy stuff can be reframed as stealing IP, anti-business, etc.
On a side note, I wish private schools (specifically like SAC, UCC, Crescent and others) would start showing the importance of programming at a young age.
It's all about the headline. I think it has to sound authentic and not like an advertisement at all. More like the start of a discussion.

And don't use memes. I've noticed that the advertisers that screwed up the meme, even it's a slight mistake, get roasted for it.
> They're late for the tablet game too, but an enterprise centric tactile surface (which is portable too) sounds like a good idea [Sheesh! Given away the idea, but the world would be a better place with it ;) ].

This is what killed RIM - they bet on an enterprise tablet over their phone market, and failed. The whole "enterprise tablet" market is either ripe for the picking or no-man's land - and I don't think Nokia could have done better than RIM.

When failing, you need to cut back on unprofitable side-ventures, double-down on your core profitable offerings, execute, then re-invest that into new markets.
Great thanks, I've signed up for the uk and await the email!
Lick up works. I would assume people kick down not because it is useful, but because they get a perverse sense of enjoyment out of it.
And in general, if one is in a position where they have little experience but integrity, it might not even occur to them that someone would be doing this. You'd never do it to someone else and you project your attitudes on to them. If you strive to see the good in people it can take your attention away from the bad and leave you in such nasty situations.
"So I used to have the same drug dealer as the guy who invented Kickstarter"
Sorry...link changed, so I am resubmitting. Cheers!
This website is hard to look at. It feels like someone was just throwing cool features together without any sort of continuity.

http://internetassociation.org/
Like art is also isn't terribly practical.
leverbak
Also, here are a bunch more free bad startup ideas from the same magazine:

http://megazinemagazine.com/free-business-ideas-miracle-jone...
http://xkcd.com/1110/ for those that don't have a clue what this is about (like me).
He looks and sounds a bit like Eric Wareheim from Tim & Eric.
An Open Letter To The OpenStack Community
Don't forget Firefly!
The regulations here don't seem to be a "racket" nor relating to trivialities like color of parking spaces (if that were the problem, it'd be easy). As the article notes, the two "big ticket" problems, which are real problems but expensive to correct, are: 1) the facility doesn't meet fire code for a structure that's going to be filled with people regularly, as opposed to storing inanimate goods as a warehouse; and 2) there are no wheelchair-accessible bathrooms. If a building is going to regularly host gatherings of hundreds of people, sometimes 24/7, imo it's not a particularly bad idea that it should follow fire code and be disabled-accessible.
Anecdotally, I've had the same experience. Interac money transfers from person to person on the other hand is very common
You probably just need better buzzwords (and ideally the background to back it up) -- NoSQL, big data, MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.

I consulted for a client that used those technologies, updated my LinkedIn profile afterwards, and the amount of incoming requests from recruiters and principals has been nothing short of phenomenal. (Anecdotally, 20 InMails in 10 days, of which 14 of them converted into a phone interview with the principal.)
Syndicate and PewDiePie are insanely impressive, they're literally generating millions of dollars in advertising revenue. Syndicate specifically has just bought a house (at 19).
Any reason why? OpenJDK is the reference implementation of Java 7, so if you are targeting Java 7 why not use it?
FWIW my firm uses a set of standard terms drawn up by our lawyer. They're very carefully thought through and it means we know exactly what we're getting into with each client.

Doing this once wasn't that expensive. We try and avoid renegotiating with each client on anything important, because it tends to be an expensive, time consuming process and nevertheless changes are never in your favours:(

Where we've done work without a contract it has a much higher probability of problems arising.
How would such an example be visible to you?
diet diet diet diet diet diet diet.

diet. Abs are made in the kitchen!

The reason programs like P90X (and Starting Strength, the official internet fanboy routine, which I do support!) are so effective is because they're __comprehensive__. Most people need a program that covers all the loose ends for them, particularly the nutrition. Going on a carrots only diet doesn't really work.

When your nutrition ties directly to your fitness, assuming you're rigorous with both, you really see the benefits. I agree that 'the best workout/diet is the one you stick to' to some extent, but there's certainly wiggle room there. Weight lifting on a linear progression program is extremely rewarding and gives some of that instant gratification people want from exercise. Having taken a few friends from couch-to-starting strength, the joy on their face the first time they squat 45s on each side is always the same.

In addition to the diet, you have to overcome the "but I'm not Ahnold!" Nobody starts out like the Governator. Getting a buddy to eat that piece of humble pie and going into the gym benching only the bar can be damn near impossible.
I was actually thrilled that for transit directions in NYC, Maps just gave me a button to the Embark app

I don't understand how you can be thrilled about that. It's a link to the App Store, and represents one less option available to you.
Really? Remember how much most computers used to cost?
Freemium is almost always a losing model for small businesses. A trial would be nice, though.
IMHO HN stories should always be posted in this format.
I doubt that creating a graph of "tainted" addresses would be very difficult.
apart from the javascript part, how was this drawn? by hand? software, using tools?
JavaScript Closures: A Newbie's First Coding Headache
There are 1v1 FPS titles, namely Duel games like Quake, Unreal Tournament, etc. which don't have this problem.

For team FPS games it's certainly an issue, but not necessarily an insurmountable one. For starters, we've already seen that there are plenty of people happy to watch it (a Counter Strike tournament earlier this year saw 77k concurrent unique viewers for its final match).

Good commentators play a big part in this, it's their job to help viewers understand the big picture and understand what's going on all over the map, not just where they're looking.

One option, that hasn't often been used but is certainly a potential solution, is to have a slight delay on the broadcast, just 30-90 seconds to allow the cameraman/men to know what action is about to happen and show it appropriately.

Generally speaking, the view on esports streams is usually controlled by a single person, often one of the commentators, but with a slightly bigger budget there are other ways to play around to get the best footage. For example there was a league called the Championship Gaming Series a few years ago, they were News Corp. owned and had $50m in funding (there's a whole long story here that I won't go into) - one of the games they used was Counter-Strike: Source, and rather than the usual production standard of taking a feed from one client which changed views repeatedly, they had one client spectating each player, and a number of other camera angles set up, then did standard TV production to switch between them, which was a big improvement. But hey, those shows were produced by 13 (if I remember the number correctly) time Emmy-award-winning sports producer Mike Burks who had experience from NFL and a bunch of other sports.
That's a solved problem in professional sports broadcasting. They have dozens of cameras, and if something interesting happens away from the current camera they just do an instant replay from the camera that caught it best.
How much is $500 worth to you in terms of productivity, though? Depends on how much you earn per hour, but for a lot of people, $500 isn't much in the big scheme of things.
Ask HN: Who has influenced you the most as a programmer/ professional?
Hi HN, I thought that it'd be fun to see who has been of great influence to you when it comes to programming/ your professional career, and why.

I'll give it a go first - for me it was David (he's currently building thunderclap.it). I met David about a year ago in a coffee shop and he introduced me to "the world of programming". I had dabbled in HTML and CSS before but never actually worked on a backend or a terminal.

David and I got the chance to meet about once or twice a week and we'd work on some cool Ruby/ RoR stuff. I can't express how much having his help during the first few weeks/ months made a difference. He helped me get over the initial "frustrations" that come when you're a beginner. He took the time to share his knowledge - and that made all the difference.

Note: To those looking to learn how to program I would HIGHLY recommend going to meetup groups and potentially finding a mentor/ code buddy. Once you get over the initial frustrations, the rest is pure learning and fun!
They took several years to become affordable, too. What exactly are you disputing?
Yes, that is a much better link, and its fascinating.

I interpret the data to be that global expansion of advertising 'inventory', bloggers can try to take credit but the credit rests solely on Google, and more specifically on Google's AdSense for Content program.

Advertisers want reach to get to as many people as possible and Google could offer longer reach for the same amount of money, so advertisers started switching. And they are a herd, it works for Proctor and Gamble it will work for Macys or Safeway. When I can put my advertisment on a billion blog pages and only pay when someone actually cares enough to click on it? Win! No need for the customer to say "Oh I saw your ad in the Tribune" or special phone numbers to know where the lead came from. More analytics than you could shake a stick at, better targeting, and visible results. What's not to like?

Google has been strangling the newspaper business by taking away their advertising revenue. Newspapers don't have a model yet where they can live off their subscriptions. That much is true. But even if the papers die and are reborn into something that is more like the Economist than the Daily Mail, amateur journalist bloggers will be no less successful at displacing professional journalists than amateur photographers have displaced professional ones.
Scientists develop method for fabricating individual magnetic quantum dots
I posted products I know, and I happen to be a developer. If you google (space) SaaS, you'll find bootstrapped companies serving many other parts of the enterprise.
"Perhaps the lesson here is that competing with and using your 'friends' in serial fashion until you totally and completely ravage each relationship is key to achieving financial success—but then it's certainly no way to define friendship."

That's certainly not the lesson. In fact what's always made me believe these sort of attacks against Zuckerberg's character is the fact that you don't see this happen with really any of the other startups that got big. Nobody is accusing Larry and Sergey of these sorts of shenanigans.

I'd say if anything, being a moral person is more blessing than curse when it comes to amassing wealth. It's obviously not a requirement though.
ToS might be interesting in some cases, but not in this one. JSTOR and MIT kept on denying access to Swartz and he kept on working around their defenses.
It's not quite the same in team FPS games, as most sports (that I can think of) tend to have one area of action at any one time, for example in soccer there may be 22 players on the pitch but there's only one ball - so replays to show what they missed are more to show better angles or other tactical plays, rather than missed action. But yes, this is still a useful (and currently often underused) tool in esports broadcasts too.
cough I think you mean DotA 2 cough ;)

But in all seriousness, I think the MOBA genre may be just what it needs, whether that be LoL, DotA, HoN, or otherwise.
If that's not a joke, then you seriously need to look to other than 2 feet around you and and your own opinions to analyze a market.
> see, cheap and functions as well appeals to a certain demographic. by that mindset you would never by a BMW (to stay out of mobile) - which is perfectly fine, you can argue that this brand of car does not add anything useful to the table. a prius gets you from A to B as well, as a commuter you never use all that horsepower anyway.

Wrong analogy - these two brands have very high resale values. For every non-BMW Prius-class vehicle there are 10+ Ford Focus (gets job done, but loses resale fast).
"Adds an option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As"

Well, that solves one problem that everyone here on HN was complaining about.
That's a bit of an antifeature. You grow to loathe the song you set as your alarm ringtone.