skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey jseliger, I'm the director of marketing at mytriorings (been on hn since my last startup!). Are there any questions in particular you have about diamond buying? Happy to shed some light on any questions! We're a company started by young folks, I myself am only 25! We're disrupting the industry by making wholesale prices accessible for the everyday consumer who otherwise only has access to high end and big box retailers which overprice their products exorbitantly based on social "norms" (marketing funded by debeers in the past few decades) around diamonds. Hope you find some great feedback here, we also have a great deal of reviews on our website and on our amazon store!

Thanks and good luck!
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This is a contributor article. Forbes is pretty lax in terms of who they'll let write for them as a contributor - it's more like getting an article in HuffPo than in NYTimes.
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I thought the same thing as Jason....then I started using SnapChat. Sure, it could enable sexting, but I've sent and received hundreds of snapchats and most of it is just sharing funny things that happen during the day between friends.
Yes, Jobs had all of these qualities to varying degrees.

The list is bullshit. It doesn't make a bad CEO, it makes an aggressive, ambitious CEO.

I would say that all of these traits are good to have in a CEO. Provided you have a CFO or COO who keeps his eyes on the numbers, keeps the company solvent and keeps the CEO in the realm of sanity.

Jobs had Tim Cook and his predecessors Fred Anderson and Peter Oppenheimer who managed to keep 30 billion cash in the bank even when Apple were at their lowest ebb and turn an operating profit in all but 4 quarters.
Punk's Not Dead
They are comparing growth from 1750-2012. I'm not sure how relevant the one productive decade (or two) NASA and a few other agencies had during the cold war is to the discussion of macro-economic growth.

Also do you have a source on the reduction in R&D investment in the economy from the cold war until now (for the entire economy)?
My perspective is that you are using that person's processor time, so it's okay to have anonymous opt-out if they know what is happening, otherwise I don't think it's appropriate.
People are shocked that it's not about time.
I think he meant that, if you're not careful, you'll lapse into going through the motions without pushing yourself. In other words, you need to push yourself. And he says being in a group will help you actually push yourself.
Quick Office HD Pro for iOS (the only productivity app I bought)

A bunch of iOS games including GTA: Vice City

Also bought CoD: Black Ops Zombies on iOS today but trying to get a refund as online multiplayer doesn't work and apparently hasn't worked for months. Apple should never have approved the most recent app update.

A couple of XBLA games

Spotify, does Xbox Live count?

So, yeah. Mostly games.
Which CrossFit gym in SOMA are you referring to? (Mine is awesome, too. Just wondering if it's the same one.)
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213
An important corollary (learned painfully) is: Never take a counter-offer.

There are reasons you went out into the world, found an alternative and decided to take it. Even if money was part of the motivation, it's not the sole reason. Money can paper over those issues for a while, but they will come back.
I think the biggest insight here is "Clearly, such a technology would remove all limits on per capita GDP, as long as you don’t count robots among the capitas." You could make the same point about slaves. I'm not opposed to the idea of robot workers, but I suspect that a robot-driven economy will look a lot like a slave-driven economy. Poor and unskilled workers will strongly resent that their jobs are going to robots, just as they did during slave times. Those fortunate enough to own robots will essentially live a life of leisure. The profitability of robots will be heavily reliant on exports, as robots can produce significantly more than they and their owners could consume.
What I took away from this idea is that reddit never did really change, they just "became". The entire site was curated from the beginning, but once the community took over, they changed it for themselves to what they wanted. The original people are there, but there's an overarching "new" crowd.

So, in curating a community, it's important to realize that people will change the landscape for themselves, and without strict curating and moderation, people will create their own community. It wasn't very obvious when I thought about it.
That's correct, hence my point. I'm not comparing to anything else, I'm thinking of the Flex Fuel engines that can use E85 and regular gasoline.
This may be the factor behind the success of Shark Tank. By backing CEOs who are gill-endowed, they remove air from the equation. OTOH, it does open them up to accusations of fishiness behind the scenes.
How good of a display are you expecting? With the exception of some IPS options and the 15" TN panels, ThinkPad displays are often average to below-average. If you have an external monitor you'll be using for your graphic design, then this isn't as important.
I was a crossfitter for about 2 years at the South Bay Crossfit gym (Jason Khalipa's).

My big takeaway from that was that olympic lifting is much more fun and rewarding than CF for me. (Note to HN pedants: for me.) The only problem is that it's hard to find a big box with a barbell, let alone two or three.

This article has fired me up again.
I found Java Concurrency in Practice to be a pretty solid read.

http://www.amazon.com/Java-Concurrency-Practice-Brian-Goetz/...
Well thanks for confirming the impression I got from my one and only ever experience at a gym: Not only is it boring but its also a huge waste of time. I remember it took me 2 hours until I felt like I had done something - and the best machine seemed to be the chin-up bar. I dont need a gym for that?!

I think for general body health, any exercise is better than none but some are more effective than others. Top to bottom:
- Yoga ( ermm... The serious kind. Lots of bs out there)
- Strength exercises like in the article
- Competitive sports. (I used to fight Tae Kwon Do tournaments)
- Casual sports
- Biking to work
- The Gym

I know some Yogis and they're overall the healthiest, best-shape people I know. Little wonder as Yoga was developed over thousands of years and specifically to heal the body. Maximizing the - amazing - self healing powers of your body. Those basic strength exercises are IMO just the western version of it, a slightly less advanced form. And it'll work better for some, no doubt.
This story was cross-posted under an alternative headline, via the International Herald Tribune.[1]

The video game company Electronic Arts has created a Web site that promotes the manufacturers of guns, knives and combat-style gear...[linked to those used in the game]

== Per the IHT article.

________

[1] http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/warfighter-vi...
This strangely parallels the exact experience my friend and I had making a website for the families in Newtown [1]. Especially the part about being ignored on HN ;)

The author kind of discounts the power of "the press" though. From our experience, if there's even one good article out there about your cause, other reporters will contact you about it, and you'll get the word out much faster.

[1] www.letterstosandyhook.com
And SS is mentioned (along with Practical Programming) in the essential fitness library graphic from the article: http://archive.mensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/picture-72...
I always thought someone should start a reddit-style site for adults, say over 40.
No Linux support? Aww.
Well I knew that machines are extremely ineffective. I also knew they have them there for their impressive looks. What I did not realize is the second reason gyms like machines: Liability.
Agreed, optimizing your environment can be non-trivial however. I edited the index.php of my WP installs to try and get a page entirely from Memcached for users who aren't logged in, it works incredibly well (much less CPU load than using Wordpress plugins to do the same job). In theory one could probably reduce that further by using APC instead of Memcached, but it was certainly enough to get my measly EC2 micro instance through some very tough times.
This is weasel words:

> Also, it is often in the contract between the hotel and the OTA that the hotel will always advertise the lowest rate available through that OTA. ... If you contact the hotel and ask for a room directly, and they offer you a lower rate, there is a chance that they are in breach of contract.

You're scare mongering. A hotel can charge a customer anything they like. They can give them the room for free. Your contract with them MIGHT preclude them ADVERTISING a lower rate, but it doesn't preclude them offering a lower rate when asked for a room directly. Even if it did, the only remedy I can imagine would be ending the contract.

When I want a room today or tomorrow, I find the best rates I can via OTAs, then phone the hotel and ask for the manager. I then ask for and GET a cheaper rate because they don't have to take the 25% OTA hit.

Until the web is flooded with "would you believe the extra value this OTA provided?" I'll continue to avoid them.
Atlassian are hiring (http://atlassian.com/company/careers/jobs/?tab=sydney).

You could also try looking at some of the smaller job boards that aren't Seek (e.g. http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=&locati... or http://whirlpool.net.au/jobs/?state=NSW).

Maybe use this list of incubators and accelerators (http://blog.thefetch.com/startup-incubators-and-accelerators...) and google out from there?

I'm in Melbourne so unfortunately I can't help you past there.
My favourites, not in order:

Cabin in the Woods

Looper

The Hobbit

House at the End of the Street

Can't remember much else really. Also seen Twilight but I'd only really recommend that as a date movie.
Growth in the developed world is over.
Apple Patents a Method for Bending Glass
Which is exactly what I said in my comment. Treat the need for a counter offer as a failure, but don't just rule it out because the situation shouldn't have happened.
I don't think it should be any different for coding. I probably wasn't too clear in my question. I spend a lot of time designing and putting together systems, but I just don't write code any more. As in actually opening up an editor and just plain writing code. Like a writer, shouldn't I be able to code whatever pops into my head too? For example, sit down and write a small program that will maybe take a bunch of employee schedules (in xml) and find openings and or conflicts in the schedules.
Isn't levels of abstraction the way technology works? Look at the evolution of the computer and programming languages.

What is the alternative? Buy hardware, rent colo space and manage your own machines that die in the middle of the night? The next level up is dedicated servers managed by a hosting provider. The next level up is a virtual machine on the hardware managed by the hosting provider. The next level up is a service provider letting you run processes on a platform they built. These layers of abstraction are needed so that we on a multitude of levels can do what we need to.

Does it make sense? Yes but it makes it all too easy to become reliant on the cloud provider for resilient fault tolerant systems rather than understanding how to fulfil the need yourself.
I keep asking Jeff Bezos to visit me so I can show him my credit card information in person, but he continues to ignore me. :-(
I've been seeing a lot about code golf recently, sounds interesting.
Read the pragmatic programmer. For starters.
The Second Realm:Crypto-Anarchy, Tradecraft, TAZ and Counterculture
Amateur marathoner here. Those lying side leg raises with toes pointed down are THE BOMB!
Here's a great vid by Strength Running that illustrates that exercise and several more: http://strengthrunning.com/2011/02/the-itb-rehab-routine-vid...
Thanks. Any recent examples for the exceptions?

PS: Looking forward to this book - http://woodegg.com/in
My personal best/favorite use of Objective C++ was using it for code reuse between an iOS app and a WPF Windows desktop app. I was building a horribly boring CRUD app that used google Maps (basically a work order management program) and doing something a little outside of the normal helped make the project fun.
Jeff Berwick, in Acapulco, Mexico, talks with Smuggler, the author of The Second Realm:

http://anarchast.com/storage/podcasts/Anarchast_Ep.50.mp3
Great succinct list to use with the Business Model Canvas.
"Your W2 is your review"
It's an interesting reflection on the Hacker News community that a not-insignificant portion of these comments are about circumventing the paywall. (I count 13 of 53 as I write this.) There are a number of conclusions to draw from that, some of them thin, some of them interesting, some of them depressing.

I pay $20/month to read the Times in bed on my iPad. I mean, it's five trips to Starbucks/Peet's/whatever, guys. The majority of you are programmers clearing high-five or even six figures for, in the grand scheme of things, easy work (not exactly breaking rocks, are we?). Don't forget, those of us who even know how to edit cookies or alter referrers are a small minority; the Times doesn't care if you bypass it because they know you will no matter what.
And Law 46: never appear too perfect.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3549384
I'm trying to work out if this article is intended to be ironic or humorous. The list is basically a description of the Apple corporate culture (and to a lesser extent some of their rivals), and then it ends with "[Jackson was long AAPL at time of writing]".
Nor is it my first thought. But, nobody's asking me to pay to use the lawn in that case, so I don't find it a particularly compelling analogy. If the sign said something like "Please pay $1 to use the lawn" I might find it similarly insulting, or at the very least, I would question the intelligence of the person who put it up.

The paywall is not much of a deterrent and circumventing it isn't terribly annoying, either. While I am sure there are plenty of people who pay for a subscription because they feel the content is worth the money, I would guess that there are far more who pay because they lack the computer literacy to know how to edit the address bar in their browser. I find it distasteful to make money off of others' ignorance, and i find it insulting because the success of the business model hinges on the hope that we are all that ignorant.
On Lisps
If you want to set up a quick way to make any article readable, you can make a bookmarklet (Javascript bookmark that runs on the current page) for it here: http://readable-app.appspot.com/setup.html

Not affiliated.
Great stuff!

I have a wireless scale from Withings that logs my weight for me, and I try to stand on it every day or two. I think I should get a tape measure and start tracking that too.
I find that I am reading too many great programming books at the moment. I never get to the writing better code after part, as I find an even better book to read. the simple metric is meant to only be useful in that it gets me coding. I am working on something interesting at the moment, (TAOCP) but the learning I need to do to complete the books is going to keep me (happily) tied up for years - as I am trying to make sure I completely understand everything I those books. I am just looking for something to kept me coding while I go through the process.
This is a great article (even as a repeat), and well-timed for the annual influx of "resolutionists" at the gym come January 1.

If you haven't lifted or trained seriously before, and have been looking for a solid guide and starting point, you could well do worse. If you're looking for further reading, the suggested library (Rippetoe's Starting Strength and Practical Programming, Zatsiorsky's Science and Practice of Strength Training, Schmitz's Olympic-Style Weightlifting and Gambetta's Athletic Development: The Art & Science of Functional Sports Conditioning) is solid. I'd add Schuler & Cosgrove's The New Rules of Lifting* more for its fitness and nutritional background than its training program, though that too is good.

For community, Reddit's /r/fitness, /r/advancedfitness, and /r/weightroom are good.

The one significant omission from Duane's "Men's Journal" article is of HIIT (high intensity interval training) and Tabata intervals (http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/tabataintervals.html). As with strength work, it's amazing how little a time investment can provide returns. Your work sets for both lifting and high-intensity cardio training can be completed in a very few minutes.

The other key point is that consistency over time, rather than instantaneous effort, is what pays dividends. Lift for a week and you'll be sore. Lift for a month and you'll start feeling things. Lift for a year and you'll see results. Lift for 5 years, and it will be obvious to even the most oblivious. And you can look forward to benefits throughout most of your life, not just your 20s and 30s.
His claim at that point is that raw strength is more useful for general fitness and injury prevention than what he was doing before (which was stability ball training).

While his poor squat performance shows that his stability ball workout wasn't building raw strength, it's quite possible that doing squats wouldn't improve his balance. So which has the biggest benefits for injury prevention?

The article presents no evidence one way or the other. You (and I) may think raw strength is more important. But then we are agreeing with the author only because he's saying things we already thought.

So the article promises to show us why our beliefs are wrong. But we have no reason to accept the author's claims, except that they reinforce our current beliefs.
48fps: how we accidentally invented Impressionist filmmaking
This is lame. Just do it®.

Why does a certain time of year matter? Start whenever. Finish whenever.
it's a well known fact by anyone who has cared to read the internet re:fitness since 2009

Or anybody who picked up an issue of IronMan magazine, dating back to at least the late 80's or early 90's.
I think beyond anything else, it reflects a community which is interested in tinkering with systems and figuring out how they work. I don't think it's because the community is fundamentally interested in stealing access. Most people on HN are extremely well compensated (or could be, if they weren't doing a startup), and $20 isn't going to break the bank for most of us.
Flat kitchen sinks work mostly because the facuet in kitchens usually swivel, so that you can move the flow of water to flush things out of the corners.

In my own apartment I have a directional, tilting head [1] attachment. It lets you point the water stream anywhere within the sink, and it has a secondary mode that turns the stream into a wider shower-style spray.

I have a flat sink in my bathroom. It's slighty sloped, but that doesn't help much against gunk collecting in the corners; it's awful precisely because the faucet doesn't swivel, and the faucet is one of those low, short bathroom types, so adding that same attachment would not help much.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/XKdED.jpg
"and now they can't have them..."

Actually they can. Print the board games on silk, and package the game in the board/silk.
The price advertised at a hotel is called the "Rack Rate". Never pay that. Phone the hotel and get a real price from them. It's a weird system, but you'll get the same price as an OTA is offering. Often less, if you ask and quote the OTA price.
The unfortunate inevitability when welfare turns into negative income tax.

What's the difference? One acts like it's supposed to help you when you happen to not have a job. The other treats not having a job as an inevitability of the increasing incentive for automation.

See: 'Player Piano' by Kurt Vonnegut
Carnegie Mellon wins record $1.17B verdict against Marvell Semiconductor
There are alternatives to cardio machines that are far less expensive. A jump rope or kettlebell can provide ample and safe workouts for most. The advantage of activities (basketball, cycling, Ultimate) is that they're engaging, getting past the "but it's sooooo boring" issue of just grinding out your 20 minutes.

And at the high end of the out-of-shape scale, just getting out of the house and walking would be a great start.
Great stuff mate! SL says do front, back, side photos every 2 weeks, which I've been doing, but haven't been doing measurements. Think I'll start on that too.

One of the fun things about working out is it appeals to my love of keeping and viewing personal statistics :)
Its in fact a ridiculously dumb statement.

I live in SE Asia and one of my workers here is about Bruce Lee sized but he can lift more, and for longer, than anybody I know. No wonder as he has been doing hard manual labor since he was a child. You think youre going to be stronger if you go to the gym 3 times a week?
Tiffany & Co. Yes, I paid a premium.
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You can make a (stretch) claim at correlation just like you did, sure. But correlation (stretch or otherwise) is not the same as causation.
Homeland and Game of Thrones
Ah, OK. Better than a remote attack for sure.
Well Objective-C was influenced by Smalltalk, and nearly every modern OOP language was also heavily influenced by Smalltalk. And of course there has been over the years a lot of cross-pollination between Smalltalk and Java. Hotspot was written by the team that had originally marketed a Smalltalk VM, Gilad Bracha co-authored the JVM 2.0 specification and was also involved in the Strongtalk Smalltalk implementation, and of course one of the key developers of Hotspot, Lars Bak, is now working on Dart which is basically Smalltalk with Javascript syntax.
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My first thought was Steve Jobs, but I guess this could apply to a lot of tech CEOs both successful and unsuccessful. Or to put it another way - the article is complete nonsense.
Why 2012 was the best year ever – and how 2013 can be even better
All those stupid Indians aren't even competing with me for making the next app for sharing niche musical tastes. What suckers!
Beats it in how easy it is to create, yes. But HTML5 is cross platform, and if done properly, the speed differences are not noticeable to the human eye.

In fact, "Fastbook" is proof that an HTML5 app can be FASTER than it's iOS counterpart. http://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-l...

Check out their video. They literally duplicated the iOS functionality, and made it faster, with HTML5.
"I pay $20/month to read the Times in bed on my iPad. I mean, it's five trips to Starbucks"

If I have ever read a comment that summed up HN perfectly, that was it.
The analogy isn't between "flat" and "flat." It's between "different and worse" and "different and worse."
It's hard to get those numbers, because of questions regarding how R&D is defined, but:

* Decent academic jobs have become extremely rare in the past 30 years.
* Blue-sky corporate R&D has been slashed.
* Worker autonomy is decreasing in most companies, resulting in low job satisfaction.

No one in the R&D world debates the contention that this contraction has been going on for 30+ years and that it's immensely destructive.
Few things you touch outside the bathroom will be as dirty as the sink faucet. But even so, I don't always wash my hands this way. I do in sensitive situations, though -- at the office where someone's always sick, when I'm preparing food, or when wounds / orifices are involved.

That's why I prefaced with "If your goal is to get clean." Sometimes it's just to satisfy a taboo. That's okay.
It's the most applicable comparison I could drum up. You could also say it's one typical lunch for two people.

It only keyed in my memory because I watch people pay $4 for coffee every work day but balk at something that's $80/month, or even $20/month (in this case). Perspective is strange.