skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iraq war 10th anniversary: A dark mark for news media
I couldn't agree with you more, that's why I linked the paper.
America's immigration rules are the opposite of what it needs
I'm impressed. I thought it much more likely that somebody carelessly pasted a bunch of addresses into a "To" box instead of "Bcc".
Right, so that's a conveniently pragmatic approach to the issue.

Most of us nerds are fighting the idea of diamonds signifying social standing. The practice, and culture of giving expensive rings is objectively wacky. You're right that in your social circle taking an odd position will cost you your reputation, but consider that in the past many morally reprehensible practices were the norm and being an odd one out would cost you your reputation. If you operate on a framework so rigidly tied to social standing you might make pretty wacky decisions down the line. Ultimately, decisions made on this framework may not always be the wisest decisions.
Quite obvious that it has to do with trademark infringement.
Minecraft Realms hopes to make an increasingly complex game more family-friendly
That's a good point; in fact, it's even stronger in a way, because the majority opinion is the "official" one that becomes effectively law, so it not only has to be agreeable to a majority of the justices, it has to be agreeable enough to become part of the law of the land indefinitely.
Unclear on why you are explaining the internet to me.
You can easily spend $3000 on just a photographer for your wedding. Which is actually many photographers' primary source of income.
Y Combinator-Backed Terascore Launches To Help Teachers Bring Testing Online
It was tptacek who touted CISPA as "specifically restricted from applying to Aaron Swartz-style ToS violations". That claim is false -- CISPA could and would be used to hoover up evidence that leads to Swartz-style Computer Fraud and Abuse Act prosecutions. So no citizen will be charged for a 'CISPA violation'... but they might be arrested, searched, or convicted based on data hoovered-up via CISPA.

(And here, 'hoover' refers to both the vacuum cleaner and the abusive 20th-century FBI director.)
Yep, nothing to do with the original bill. Arizona legislators have the ability to introduce "strike everything" amendments (first sentence of the amendment identifies this as what it is), which completely discard the text of an existing bill being considered and replace it with something else. This is usually done because (I believe) the process of replacing the text doesn't change where it is in the actual legislative process, allowing controversial bills to bypass parts of the process, or allowing legislators to reintroduce bills that were killed by previous votes.

I'm glad I like living in Arizona for plenty of other reasons.
It might as _well_ be fake, just like the value of the diamond she procures.

After all, it's just a matter of her social standing, not the importance of the relationship and a marriage between two human people. I hesitate to use the word soul, but maybe here it applies.

Diamonds are _so dehumanizing_ and this thread would have me thoroughly depressed if so many people weren't arguing against DeBeers.
We were hoping that they wouldn't mind since we made it very clear that we were not affiliated with them.

Yes, it's true, they probably would not have cared as much if we weren't using their name and referring to their logo. But ultimately we were a service that sold Amazon gift cards, so it was always going to be up to them if they wanted to let us continue to exist or not. We decided to give it a shot and see what happened.
On the list of things that could be wrong in a relationship, wanting a diamond engagement ring is probably pretty low on the things to worry about.

They're not marrying the ring, they're marrying you, but the ring is a signal about your relationship.
Thanks for the information, I think I'll be in touch about an account in the next few weeks for a marketplace I'm developing.

Perfect timing too, I just started looking at our options for developing something similar internally.

Would love to see the systems that Etsy / Ebay for handling this type of fraud.
That is why in Los Angeles there are many who drive very expensive cars but live in tiny apts.
>Why?

Because I advocate relationships where contributions are granulated and distributed according to participant interest, not participant gender. Monolithic roles like "provider" (and the concomitant role of "consumer/sex object") of are inherently coercive. Because they're monolithic and tied to gender. I think that kind of coercion is perverse.

> That are very pragmatic reasons to invest in signals of social standing

I don't think those signals are meaningfully connected to anything real, they're just signals of standing. They are power begetting power, and I think willfully engaging that system is perverse.
First sale doctrine survives Supreme Court
What do you mean?

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/cons

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/first

http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/rest
TL;DW It's Louie Gohmert, a GOP Congressman from Texas. If you follow US politics in the slightest manner, you can safely extrapolate from there.
I could be wrong, but this looks like an ASIC fueled bubble to me.

Avalon, the first ASIC producer to market, require payment in bitcoin. I believe BFL require payment in bitcoin for orders outside of the US.

This created demand for bitcoin, which raised the price against the dollar. Others saw the rise and were encouraged to buy in or order ASICS, rinse and repeat.

As far as I know the only service that is turning over serious numbers is Silk Road. I guess you could also count Satoshi Dice, but I am sceptical about their long term future.

Due to the nature of bitcoin, it's entirely possible that the black market and wealth transfer functions of bitcoin have grown to support the current value, but the arrival of ASICS is too big of a coincidence for me.
I don't see anything similar to what I proposed. All of those companies cost far more to run since they have their own inventory. Hopefully not being ignorant.
> so they just leave De Beers to run around gouging consumers

That's kind of missing the point. If diamonds were 5 bucks a piece, women would no longer be interested in receiving rings bejeweled by them.

A woman wants a man who is financially secure. If you can't afford a shiny rock, you can't afford what's coming after it either, so there's no point.
Maybe there should be conflict of interest rules in universities.

Where I studied (undergrad, at least), there were conflict of interest rules -- professors were not allowed to collect royalties on books they use in their classes.
Hats off to the freenode folks. I feel a bit disrespectful speaking ill of the departed, but some history would provide context. Before he passed away, Rob Levin set up PDPC (and OPN before that) to essentially operate as his own piggy bank, while being tasked with 'administering' freenode.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/29/buy_a_piece_of_net/

The reality was that volunteers already provided the servers and most of the IT admin duties, and the donation solicitations over IRC were incessant -- to the point that I actually ignored all global messages coming from lilo (Mr. Levin's nick name).

The individuals that took over from Mr. Levin are to be commended for doing away with the full time position, the overzealous calls for donations, and instead relying on volunteers and the community that had always been ready and willing to chip in.

In that regard, the PDPC shutting down seems neither surprising, unwarranted, or sad. Many thanks to the folks that keep Freenode running.
It is designed to be attack resistant. Having to validate transactions across many nodes in the network, and having to maintain a valid transaction history amongst the network, makes it really hard to be fraudulent. You can register as many sources as you want in wallets, and you can give away your wallet.dat, so in practice wallets are tied even less to people than IPs are.
I'm not even sure how you would show this. Would you look at total spending by a gender? But that could reflect income-earning differences. Would you look at percentage spent on advertising by a industry targeting a particular gender? But advertising is an arms race which one must engage in as long as the marginal return is >0, and there are all sorts of things affecting this unrelated to gullibility. Would you look at marginal return on advertising dollar split by gender? But this ought to be ~0 for both genders regardless of effectiveness, per previous.
I am not sure what you guys buy in the US as engaging rings, but I think one can safely assume a ring is not worth even a tenth of an house?
I was just kidding.
In what way does any of that invalidate his point ?
Or with some Machine Learning: Identifying Players in Broadcast Sports Videos using Conditional Random Fields, CVPR 2011.
I didn't say they are mentally ill, I said they have low self esteem and therapy might help them.
See my comment below about what we were expecting
Just in case this hasn't already been driven home: what you've demonstrated here is absolutely disgusting to a growing number of people.

1. Adherence to social convention for its own sake

2. Submission to a multinational construed as something positive

3. Imbalanced monogamous relationships based on opportunity cost and trading status for reproductive capacity

4. Spending money and life on creating more humans

Probably a few more but I don't really want to dig through it any more.
You wrote a post about VCs in general. VCs in general raise money to create the fund and then manage it. When you invest your own money, you are typically considered an "angel" investor. It might be semantics, but I'm sure you're aware of those definitions.

And if you have enough money to start a real VC fund by yourself, chances are that you don't really need a salary... as opposed to bootstrapped startups that are just barely scraping by.
How were unaccredited investors able to invest in Wefunder even though it is not legal yet?
If your wife could choose any rock for a ring (cultural expectations aside), which would it be?
I love the military analysis of it too:

“Most Americans don’t realize that each PlayStation
unit contains a CPU — every bit as powerful as
the processor found in most desktop and laptop
computers,” said one military intelligence officer who
declined to be identified. “Beyond that, the graphics
capabilities of a PlayStation are staggering — five
times more powerful than that of a typical graphics
workstation, and roughly 15 times more powerful
than the graphics cards found in most PCs.”

and

“Applications for this system are potentially frightening,” said an
intelligence source. “One expert I spoke with estimated that an
integrated bundle of 12-15 PlayStations could provide enough computer
power to control an Iraqi unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV — a pilotless
aircraft.”

Just hilarious.
Webvan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
It must be nice to spend $600M of taxpayer money without having to tell them what you're spending it on.
> My wife wanted a ruby ring, not diamond, for our engagement.

I consider this an amazing social signal: She is verifying that you have a proper amount of resources to burn, but does not want her girlfriends to easily calibrate how many you have. Therefore, she leaves them a little bit in the dark about what a great catch you are (because most women can't calibrate ruby pricing by just looking.)

My compliments to you sir. Simultaneously, my condolences to your bank balance.
Firstly, that eHow article you cite is hardly reputable, and it basically contradicts itself. It states that in neoclassical economics, value is a function of supply AND demand, yet it goes on to state that value = utility. That value=utility argument is what is I am trying to say. Utility has nothing to do with supply.

The other article only prove my point. Neoclassical economics is the "mainstream," "standard" economic theory, for both conservative and liberal economists alike. It mentions classical economics only for the sake of historical context (it was prevalent in the 19th century but is now outdated).

You don't even properly state my argument. I never said value = demand. I said value is what makes up demand. That is an important distinction, and it is one that makes sense (if you don't value something, you don't demand it. If you value something, you do demand it.)

Lastly, you ignored my response to your thought experiment.
I'm really sorry to tell you this, but you are deluded, no question. Spend more time thinking about "real" things, you'll be happier for it I promise.
Just because you can provide some flimsy after-the-fact-rationalizations* doesn't mean that it's reasonable.

That's ok though, desires/hobbies/cultural practices/etc are generally not based in reason.

/* For example, it's very doubtful that today you would gain any real insight into a persons ability to "provide" from them giving you a diamond...in fact it's more likely to deceive you (they could purchase on credit, buy a stolen/fake one, etc). You'd learn much more about that from simply dating/courting them - knowing about their spending/saving habits, profession, etc.
I am from the UK. :P

"We" spend on average three months worth of salary. Around £5k I guess. Certainly not enough for a house, but a good amount of money to put towards your first family home when you get married. Houses need furniture and all that fancy stuff. :)
Three Letter Agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc)
Do a ROI from the business's perspective. Look at how much it would cost them to have a delivery guy. I think you'd have to guarantee too much business for it to work.
I see people talking about various things like the (1) (2) (3) arguments for a women to evaluate a man : (1) is the ability to provide; 2) is the willingness to forgo other things (opportunity costs to talk economics) (3) "is demonstrating to the woman's peers her husband's social standing." (signalling)

Raynier posted this deep down in a reply which might be lost to you if you don't read all the comments. It would be a shame to miss it. Read it, along with the reasoning where he says such criterias would be perfectly valid for his own daughter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404423

It seems perfectly valid, yet I could not disagree more. We are forgetting a important (4) : you fund atrocious wars and dictatorships. That's a strong negative externality.

When you see a diamonds, instead of seeing a shiny rock, you should see part of a human soul instead, a fraction of a person who died in vain for this worthless piece of rock you want for your wives or daughters to "sustain the tradition".

If social convention required 1 pound of flesh taken by the knife on a living human, would you insist on it, for the sake of the tradition? (I fear many would - after all, it matches the 1,2,3 requirements)

If social convention requires a diamond, which you know very well will cause war, death and misery, and if you did not say yes to the previous question, why are you insisting on it?

It strikes me as illogical, inconsistent. Either you believe that human life is more important than tradition, or you don't. I can understand diverging opinions, I can hardly understand inconsistency in a system of belief, so I'm very sad to see intelligent replies advocating this 1,2,3 argument while missing the huge downside #4 is.

Maybe someday the sale of things containing "natural diamonds" will be banned - just like the sale of things containing bald eagles feathers.

IHMO, it should: as much as I love the market and freedom, sometimes externalities are just too big to be ignored - especially when there is also a monopolist in action, and perfect substitutes like man made diamonds.
They don't? Apple early on blocked alternative Mail clients and Google Voice or other apps which "duplicate" functionality builtin apps provide. They relaxed those rules now, but under the original rules, Google Maps would have been banned.
Twitter Now Lets Its Self-Service Advertisers Access Advanced Campaign Tools
Do you know of any good resources that talk about using multiple canvases as layers? I have tried searching for some good examples, but I have been coming up empty.

Thanks
If Startup=Growth, as PG said, then VCs are not startups, apart from YC and possibly 500 Startups.

Cool portfolio of Companies though!
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172373123/older-tech-workers-o... somewhat casually mentions the stagnation according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's remarkably difficult to find wages by year.
I don't know if I can think of any major software company, that is not purely consumer focused, that doesn't have some sort of professional services group (Amazon AWS may be an exception - but they did have some talented "advocates" or "champions" early on that must have supported early customers).

Enterprise software lives and dies by the quality of the professional services teams working on it. They will typically custom implement v1 and v2 of any new features that should go into the product, as there will usually be customer willing to pay for those features ahead of the product road map. This is where you can get solid gold. Product managers/owners who ignore this will end up writing useless features that don't work the way the customers need them to.
Amber with fossilized critters. It's lifeforms, and they're extinct. Even when we have nanotech, nobody is going to be making new ones.
Looking for a technical Co-Founder
Hi everyone,
I am 25 years old and I’ve just dropped out of one of the top MBA programs in the world. I know most of you think business backgrounds don’t mean shit, but there is value in them if you are trying to develop, grow and sustain a profitable business.

For the past 1.5 years, I have been working on a project none stop that is in the sports space. Essentially I’m building a community marketplace for sports lessons “www.Trainersvault.com.” If you want to teach someone sports lessons list information about yourself, your availability and rates, and let people book appointments with you online.

So far I have spent my time, having a prototype built, conducting market research in multiple continents, outsourcing the building, pivoting, speaking with investors and speaking directly with potential customers. I’ve learned a lot over the past 1.5 years and I became so confident in my idea that I left my school program. I already have businesses and individuals committed to paying for the service, so I’m ready to take this concept to the next level and find a technical – co founder. Right now we are in between finishing the second prototype and launching.

I’m looking for a technical co-founder that has a passion for sports or fitness and startups. I’m a very humble person that is ready to do everything possible to make this startup a success. I’m not looking to exploit anyone; I wouldn’t ask anyone to worker any harder than I know I currently am. I simply know my strengths and weaknesses. I am however taking classes every day to learn how to program. I just believe in “founder market fit” as Drew Houston put it and more importantly, someone that believes in the company’s mission to “make the world healthier through sports and fitness”

So if anyone is interested please shoot me an email to CWoodruff at Trainersvault.com
Meritocracy - the big myth
That wasn't the point of the article -- you introduced it right after telling him (s)he's missing the point.

It's a valid point, yes -- but kyrra couldn't have missed it, because no one had made it before you did.
my point is: how many people even let the popupunder load?

i visit a few forums that have popunders for the first sessio n click. it's almost a knee jerk reaction to close the window while i wait for the forum index to load.

He is making the assumption that 100% of the visits translates to a popunder being able to do it's thing. I just want to know if the real world the number is 99% or 10%.
(You can't pay any million dollars for all bitcoins because unknown scores of thousands have been lost or otherwise become inaccessible.)
Gabile Script
This is bad - real bad. Goes to show you if the 'golden boys' can make mistakes such as these, what about the other 96% of companies handling your info?
There's no question that great people working together w/ clarity and harmony can do amazing things. But selling yourself as a 10x anything to someone you don't know isn't very useful. A "10x" developer working for a "10x" boss with different priorities & values is not going to end well.
Our customers send examples of users that they've banned from their site or who have caused a credit card chargeback -- these are the $label events in our API and quickstart.

Those $label events let us do two really important things.

First, we can learn patterns that are unique to a particular site. Every site is a little different, so that has a big impact. Patterns that catch fraud accurately for an auction site may not work at all on a travel site.

Two, if a user gets banned from one site in our network, we can identify when they attack another site. That means as more sites join the network, the system gets more accurate for everybody.
Eh, it's not that unusual. It is rational and well-accepted that men also pick suitable women for mates by whether or not they have child-bearing hips and are good cooks.
"TL;DR - Beer, rather than being an evil byproduct of civilization, may be what gave us both agriculture and civilization! Beer is good."

Similarly, cheese is probably what allowed the lactose-intolerant humans to transition into lactose tolerance:

http://www.nature.com/news/art-of-cheese-making-is-7-500-yea...
Three Letter Agency. It's a generic term to refer to CIA, FBI and NSA. Though these days it can probably refer to many other members of Homeland Security.
There is no guarantee against this, which is part of what keeps web advertising prices low. Fraud is essentially priced into the product. The title is misleading, as it assumes all cost is bared by the advertisers. In truth part of the cost is implicitly payed for by legitimate website owners/the ad network who must price impressions lower to offset this kind of fraud
> As much as you don't need it, a $2000 60" HDTV is still more functional than a purse that costs the same amount of money.

Are you serious? Is this a joke?

A purse actually serves a useful function. It doesn't serve $2000 of function, but it's useful in that it lets you carry around important items.

A TV serves no useful purpose whatsoever. None. Zero. There is nothing useful in your life that the TV lets you do.

I think your bias might be showing here just a little bit.
your screenshots are far from un-readable. I'd suggest to remove them. We know there were emails leaked in the 'To' field. We don't need screenshots of them.
Maybe the Red Cross can start making some sort of low-cost jewelry (perhaps similar to those yellow rubber wristbands?) that, while cheap in material cost, signify that the wearer donated a very large sum of money to the organization (or someone did so in their name).
Wow, someone flag this please.
Bad incident, great transparency and handling. Just don't do it again please... :)