skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like maybe that company didn't do the upfront work required to make sure - or at least increase the likelihood - that they were making a good hire in the first place. Or maybe they didn't have good employee development in place once the employees are hired. Having said that though, my knee-jerk reaction is to be skeptical of no-hire policies. For the company in the article it seems to work. I'm just skeptical that most companies would have the will/capability to truly make it work.
| If the ring is more important to the
| woman than I am, then she's not marrying
| me, she's marrying the ring

From some women's perspectives the diamond ring is 'proof' of your love.
Does Chart.JS provide any labeling solution for pie charts like Highcharts does?

What I'm talking about: http://jsfiddle.net/mgbNb/3/embedded/result/
I was thinking the same thing. Its odd that clicking on a bookmark brings this odd popup instead of loading the content I was trying to reach.
The way I would see a hypothetical solution work is to target price stability directly through some kind of supply/demand mechanism - that is, add a way to create currency units at a few percent above some target rate and a way to destroy them at a few percent below it. Somehow integrating computer power rental into the network is as close as I can think of, although that does give you a very high inflation rate of Moore's law. Another possibility might be velocity - look at the average age of unspent outputs (or, better yet, something like the sum of the inverse of the age over all coins, so lost coins automatically approach value zero) and add more currency units if it looks like things are going too slowly, but you would have to think long and hard to ensure that that's not gamable. It's an interesting unsolved problem, I admit.
Ask HN: Where do you find a good UI designers?
Is there a centralized place for finding good UI designers? A Yelp/Angie's List would be awesome. How did you find the UI designer at your startup?
I'd rather have someone convince zillions of single women that they'll be the first generation in living memory not to get duped by JP Morgan in 1938.
94% of the lifetime of the law itself, and inspired by British practices, is pretty close to "always" for me.

I went looking for a history of USC Title 1 Section 1, but I couldn't find anything, and I think that numbering system was only set up in 1920 anyways.

Again, I'm not an expert in this field. I could totally be wrong. But you're going to have to be a little more convincing than "No it's not" to overrule Wikipedia.
see http://pycon.blogspot.com/2013/03/pycons-response-to-inaprop...
I haven't seen anyone that simply quits and leaves a startups because they didn't get into YC. Most just apply to TS, 500S, FF or try to contact angels on their own.
I doubt the agency is going to Amazon because they can't build and/or afford their own setup

I can build and I can afford my own versions of a great many things. I still buy from vendors.

Anyway, AWS is heavily segregated. Simply having consumer instances is not going to enable them to snoop your traffic, and simply having consumer instances is not going to enable them to make Amazon give them your traffic if they couldn't make Amazon give it to them before.
Show HN: Posterous to Octopress import script
Eh we hit a bug here with WCF discovery when we had the machines run 4.0 code and had 4.5 installed.

I think the official fix has been out, but man did it cause some headaches.
While I think this is an interesting point, at the same time, it looks like it may have been more difficult technically and brand-wise for google to migrate notebook to drive (which I think is the goal). It probably made more sense for them to discontinue notebook, which had a relatively small userbase, and relaunch it as a new product/brand under the drive suite.
Well, there are things like proofreading, and having an editor.
Well, I think it probably wouldn't be a stretch to say that strong communication abilities correlate to business acumen. If I'm going to be reading a piece of writing that keeps on getting these basic things wrong I'm going to get distracted in a bad way.
Ebook Released: Email Pass Hacking Guide
Word.

For the record, not all women insist on a diamond, except reflexively... I actually know few couples that have bought diamond rings (for many reasons - some financial planning (a young couple should be worried about a house, insurance and retirement before a shiny ring) and some ethical (if you buy a new diamond, there is absolutely metaphorical blood on it - terrible juju to kick off a lifetime commitment of love))

Self-interest/selfish alert: if you're rolling in it and get that $30k ring for your spouse-to-be, don't give it to them on their birthday, Christmas or any other gifting occasion, because they don't have to give it back if they decide to ditch you Pre-nuptuals.

In my mind if a marriage isn't a lifetime commitment, then forget any of the other traditions.
Stop bitching about reader please.
A five day TDD master class online by Roy Osherove (not free)
Shameless plug? yep.
Effectiveness? Like click-through rate? It's irrelevant in this model, really.

The popunder loads the page that loads all of the other ad-clicking domain pages, and since it's a popunder it's probably not noticed until the browser has loaded the entire contents.

It's damn brilliant. Paying $3k for low-end $500k? That's a great ROI.
VC fundraising is very similar to startup fundraising at least. Lots and lots of rejection, continuous pitching and substitute "traction" for "track record".
Even a perfect hiring process won't completely eliminate bad employees. Just because someone was good when you hired them doesn't mean they'll continue to be. Maybe your needs change and they are unwilling to cope effectively. Maybe they develop a drug problem. Maybe they burn out. Maybe they just stop caring. Sadly, a good employee is not necessarily good forever.
A commitment to spend one's life with the other person isn't proof of love?
The carbon is a proxy (which is missed in the article, among other things.)

It's social signaling. Or to put it another way: How many $$ can your man throw away without incurring pauperhood?
Sometimes it's more about understanding what is real and then making a pragmatic choice due to the pain of having to explain one self constantly. A woman could fully understand that a ring is worthless but deal in circles where the public perception is such that having one anyway is beneficial.
I feel glad and sad in the same time. Glad because first sale doctrine survived, and sad because it could very well not. The whole matter that first sale doctrine disappears as soon as you cross borders sounds ridiculous - the practice of manufacturing goods cheaply at one place and sell them in another is an extremely common practice, and there's absolutely zero reason for books to be except from it.
Why are most Google glass memes about porn?
Start early maybe? My fiancee had 2 years of knowing I wouldn't buy a diamond before I popped the question so she knew way out and it wasn't a surprise. If she was the type that would demand a diamond she would have left a long time ago.
I'm interested in hearing more of her perspective. Does she agree because she is a jewelers daughter and has a better view of the industry?
I'm of the opinion that it's easier to lead people toward something better, rather than away from something bad. So instead of overpriced compressed carbon, how about paying for unique designs with rationally priced materials instead?
Diamonds aren't even forever. The conversion of diamond to graphite at room temperature is a spontaneous process, albeit a slow one.
Completely agree. I've been using Kippt for a few months as well and it's already become my favorite news discovery engine.
The blog says that gold jewelry is also a terrible investment, but it's a much better investment than diamonds.

Depending on how expensive the jewelry would be, it might be cheaper to buy your own lumps of gold and have someone craft them into jewelry.
Why not the command line? One look at that UI and I cannot fathom why it needs all those buttons.

push, pull, checkout, add, commit. I can go days just using those five commands.
I remember reading an article about a guy who stole a lot of money, then used it to buy diamonds. He got caught. The people he stole from thought "oh, not too bad then. We'll just sell the diamonds to recoup the money." But apparently no diamond vendors would buy them at anywhere near the price the thief did because diamonds are already marked up so much.
Marriage is bullshit.
Agreed. English is already just a mash up, I could care less about grammar so long as what you are trying to say is getting across to me. Certain areas require a comma or period otherwise can be read wrong but I have never had a problem with their, your, its, or any other such words confusing me into not understanding what the writer is trying to say...

Reminds me of growing up "Ain't ain't a word!"
Does history allow women to be given 20% more latitude than a man? 50%? Is there any harassing behavior that would be unacceptable coming from a woman? How much worse would it have to be?
Not only is it linked in the article, it is very much a replay of the original Atlantic article. I didn't see a lot of added value in the article posted here, so just go read the Atlantic's.
Freenode FTW! Keep up the good job, guys!
Priceonomics can't seem to keep their blog up whenever they get a new update. Can someone post a cache?
There is no reason to be ethnocentric here. There are plenty of world cultures in which a woman wears a simple gold ring after marriage. On the other hand, if you want to get into a serious discussion with your significant other, try violating cultural assumptions about who should pay for the wedding--it isn't necessarily the father of the bride, as it historically was in Anglo-American culture. Sometimes what the groom saves in buying jewelry for the bride is spent on the groom hosting a wedding banquet for all of the bride's relatives and friends.
Its worth pointing out I'm not Alex, he had no part in this situation and is still employed. The gesture is kind none the less.
PG Jokes
Sometimes complaining does some good. From the Pharo mailing list, directly addressing your comment:

"yep, I'm already addressing some of the good observations this guy made. In particular, I'm a long time enemy of the one-click images, so I'm killing them (and replacing it for more suitable platform specific builds)."
...
"The new scripts produces structures that can fit better into the platforms where they will run.

You can check them here: http://files.pharo.org/platform/

Maybe have another go?
So true. I spent more money on my marriage than on my masters degree. Fuc.

My wife has more gold and diamonds than money my family ever owned otherwise. All that stuff doesn't suite her, is locked up in locker rooms of some bank 364 days a year. (And yeah I pay for that fucking locker as well).

Any discussion of selling it would lead to a WWII like situation in the home. The cost of Gold might be skyrocketing but when you actually try to sell gold ornaments or diamonds it is a different game altogether because when I walk to sell the gold not one wants to buy it unless they know me or I pester them. So this is what happens when I met a jeweler to sell a gold chain my mother had made for me when I was 2 years old. Gold typically 15 times most costlier than that time. so I was expecting at least 1000% ROI.

1. I need to first determine if this is real Gold and how pure it is. For that you will have to pay me X.
2. This chain is old and I cant sell it the way it is, it needs to be melted and converted into something else so I will lose Y value in the process.
3. Making a new ornament out of this will lead to more loss of metal during melting and hence I will lose Z.

Then later he tells me that the gold is not "as pure" as I thought it to be. So eventually I make only 200% profit over period of around 12 years. (not to mention the feeling of getting cheated).

Scenario of diamond seems to be lot more similar to that of Gold.

Only if women had little brains.
The brand value of diamonds are very high. So it is valuable. Like coca-cola.
So this becomes a social competition to see who can waste the most resources?

It sounds like it has barbaric roots -- who can provide the most food / kill the biggest animal / lift the heaviest rock / travel the fastest / find the rarest material / pay someone else the most money to do so.

You'll never find an end to the people who are willing to provide the same product for a higher price.
Head of US Copyright Office wants to shorten terms, just barely
I don't agree. Having specific words in these cases reduces the cognitive load associated with reading - a simple find-and-retrieve in your brain for what the word means, rather than a context-sensitive compare with the last sentence or next few words to determine which form of its/it's is being used.
I think its more specifically a case of senior legislators and policymakers hatefearing the internet. They're supposed to be the rulemakers.
My wife was obsessed with not spending much money on the wedding or ring. She's a keeper.
There have been some interesting discussions about disrupting the diamond market as well e.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4522922

It's funny to see how that article recirculates. One of my first comments on HN was a link to the same The Atlantic article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523063)
Like coloured feathers on a bird. Could you imagine if the story was just slightly changed:

"Let's admit that women buying sports cars for their fiancé-to-be is bullshit."

Hmmmm... Now I want a Z4 Zagato.

But in all seriousness this would have ended in the 70s when feminist protests started.
No, the problem sets weren't graded. I suppose had they been, I would have used one book to read from and the other to do problems out of!
I applaud your initiative. I am doing something similar, but textual. I also believe that http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does graphing of data.
Its worth noting I'm not Alex. He was not involved and still employed.
What is it about being charged constantly that makes it worse?
I don't know about your last three questions, but my wife and I did forgo the expense. Our entire wedding and honeymoon, including reception decorations, food, flowers (lots of flowers...), photos, dress (with alterations), and rings cost around $3000.

I don't even know how some people are capable of spending as much money as I've heard of them spending $20,000+ for a wedding? What in the world are you spending it on? It would've been easy to spend a couple thousand more, but it wasn't that hard to keep costs down. You just have to realize that it is OK to comparison shop, and you don't have to go with the high-status, first-advertised options for everything; if you look at more than just billboards and TV ads, you can still put together a really nice event for far less money.

When we went ring shopping, we decided on a budget ahead of time, and it turned out that our budget wasn't even the determining factor in which vendor we ended up buying from- it was who had the rings we liked the best. Tip, though- don't tell the salesmen that you're looking for a wedding ring; if you do, they will only show you a small, high-priced fraction of their total selection. My fiancee also decided ahead of time that she didn't want a diamond (diamonds are boring, green amethyst is much prettier), so it was very amusing when we found a genuine diamond ring on sale for only $90- much less than what we ended up spending on the rings we liked!
This article is interesting. I remember in Geology class when our teacher explained that you could make synthetic diamonds for a fraction of the price of a real diamond. He then asked all the women if they would rather have a natural diamond or a synthetic diamond, and almost all of them raised their hands. He then went on to explain that it was like the difference between natural ice and ice made in a freezer. He asked the question again and almost all the women still voted for natural.

That day I realized the power of the diamond marketing engine.
Sure, and we all know it. But from her perspective, you probably waste all kinds of time and money on other inane bullshit for yourself. So if you actually cared, you wouldn't mind spending a bit so she gets a shiny rock to wear around. Why shouldn't she get this one thing?

Also, how is this any different from fashion? Both are nearly useless raw materials that have been transformed and shaped into something people will pay money to own and wear (signaling). For diamonds, you get conflict in Africa. For fashion, you get sweatshops in Asia.
> The poor are doomed to work all their lives because they can't get above the magic level of wealth where they don't have to, meanwhile those with the piles of wealth dispense tiny fractions to them to buy necessities.

A historical example of how bad a too-valuable currency can be was the situation surrounding the Free Silver Movement, a Populist-Progressive plan to make the gold-based late-19th-Century American currency inflationary by increasing the amount of cheaper silver in circulation. This was popular because it would help deeply indebted farmers pay back their loans. William Jennings Bryan made a wonderful speech, the Cross Of Gold speech, on the issue: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver

In the extreme limiting case, the money economy based on the deflationary currency freezes to death: The rich are left holding money nobody else wants when the majority of society goes to some other currency that actually meets their needs.

In the non-Bitcoin world, the majority usually moves to another currency (a 'hard currency' like USD or Euros) when the local currency is hyper-inflationary toilet paper, but hyper-deflationary Super-Gold (Super-Duper-Super-Gold!) is, as has been explained, just as bad, and so would provoke the same reaction.
This could definitely accelerate the move to non-resaleable ebooks to the detriment of students.
Codetriage looks like an awesome idea. Just signed up.

I also meant on MRI since the GVL exception for I/O works good enough for most web app requests.

If you can fit 7 Unicorn workers on a dyno, I bet you could run 6 puma workers each with 2-4 threads instead and get better results. But YMMV.

Though Unicorn's backlog tuning is nice.
Can this be the basis for a pure python fakes3? (https://github.com/jubos/fake-s3)
Eh. This woman just needs some deep fucking.
It doesn't just pertain to diamonds. It's the same thing with expensive clothes, bags, shoes, wines, cars, gadgets, etc. It's just a way to flaunt one's wealth. It's unfortunately a side effect of our consumption-oriented society.
I've been to a clothes factory in China. Probably nowhere near as bad as conflict can be.
My sister is still mad as hell at her husband for not having spent enough for their wedding (he spent about $25k), and I've heard her once or twice complain about the ring.

I'll occasionally take shots at my sister for this (because, well, she's my sister and she loves taking shots at me too so it's fair). But my God I don't dare challenge the issue of spending extravagantly on rings/weddings with another woman (I once did, it didn't go very nicely for me).

But... overtime here's how I've come to rationalize it: symbolism is a strong emotional asset. If it helps make the girl happy, then it's worth it -- because mental happiness is worth it; because mental health is a component of your overall state. And hey, afterall, I did spend $700 on my chair, $300 on my kinesis keyboard, $800 on my LCD monitor, etc. etc.
Agreed. It's also a massive red flag for the future of the relationship if you can't negotiate over something like this.
I wonder if it would be possible to use digital ocean as an ip pool. Create droplet, start warrior, if your banned kill droplet and create new one. thinking about writing a sunzi script.
Gah! I didn't come to Hacker News to read nitpicks about grammar.
Nobody does it "for the sake of tradition". It is a web of expectations where the cost of bucking the expectations is great enough that buckling often is the more attractive option.

It is also a well-entrenched example of costly signaling [1] in humans [2]

(For the lazy, costly signaling basically says, a costly empty gesture is a strong indicator of mate quality, because only a high-quality mate can afford to waste lots of resources on an empty gesture)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory#Costly_signal...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory#Human_honest_...
Probably, but that might have more to do with Africa (and what was done there) than diamonds.
What do people think about BlueNile? Diamond prices there are about 50% of retail -- perhaps a bit closer to the true "market" value?
Shelby Gem Factory, man. She'll never know the difference.
That much, I can agree with. The devil, of course, is always in the details.
This post just helps reinforce the opinion that most VCs don't really know what startups do. Yes, they both raise money and some even have a website. That's where the similarities end.

With some outliers, most VCs don't try to create new value, they just try to create new money. The risk they take is minimal compared to startups - it's not their money (it's their investors), and a nice cushy salary is all but assured for several years. Even when they fail (and they fail a lot - like most businesses do) - they barely feel each failure compared to how the startups feel it (I guess their reputation / pride takes a hit?).

If you want to self promote - as an entrepreneur, I would much rather read about how you are adding value instead of convincing me you don't know what I do either.
My wife and I didn't have a lot of money. She wanted an engagement ring and I wanted to get her one, but we weren't especially phased by the diamond cartel. Instead we had a ring made from a large pincushion citrine and two medium-sized peridots. The ring is huge, brightly colored, totally unique and extremely eye-catching, and cost me about $600, which was almost all for the gold setting and the labor. She gets compliments on it all the time. So I think things are loosening up, at least here in the southwest.
> So this becomes a social competition to see who can waste the most resources?

Slightly more subtle than that: Waste the resources without incurring financial hardship. That last part is important.

> It sounds like it has barbaric roots

Not unlike the mating ritual itself.

> You'll never find an end to the people who are willing to provide the same product for a higher price.

Again, it's more subtle: The social signal includes being able to discern and choose well among the competing alternatives.
Please don't remind me about this. I'm pretty sure every guy knows all this already and unless you have a super hippy / progressive girlfriend (and even then..) you will ultimately find out that even the most rational women could give a crap about the economic / social realities of the diamond market and still "need" a diamond of X carat in order to impress their family and friends.

DeBeer's wins. Either you get over it, or you end up heartbroken or with a very grumpy fiance.
Big data best practice: Shell drills deep with big data and makes big bucks.
Nit: "...mental happiness"

Emotion is all in your head after all. :-)
We stay pretty on top of things, and have a lot of data to look over for suspicious activity. Staying ahead of us means continually iterating methods, at which point, why not just get a job?

That said, it's nice to see this stuff separate the slick from the competent in the industry.