skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to evaluate without a description of what the service offers. I recommend that you update the teaser page to tease visitors about some of the proposed features.

Generally in a personalized fashion site I'd like to see the following:

* an up-to-date sense of fashion

* An appeal to cosmopolitan styles

* Accessibility to the fashions offered (Amazon, target, AE, Aritzia, etc... links at least) I'd say it's best if you offered a deal finder and had your reviews tell people what is hot and cheap right now.

Fashion is closely linked with afford-ability.
NASA & WPI Team up for $1.5M Robot Challenge
I really like how he delivered this free course. I have to check out Socrated now. Have you tried it Socrated before?
Cannot be upvoted enough.
Try cutting scope until you get down to a thing you feel like you can do right then. This might be more like "gutting scope".

You'll end up with a tiny unusable thing, but it's something you can add to. Some people have an easier time "improving" than "starting".
The comments of "It's hard to be really secure, so don't make people mad" are very short-sighted.

As society becomes increasingly reliant upon network infrastructure, those who oppose society will increasingly target that infrastructure.

When terrorists can cause billions of dollars of losses by hacking the airlines, why bother trying to smuggle weapons on planes?

When opposing nations can cripple military and economic infrastructure through computers, why bother developing nuclear weapons?

We are rapidly entering a world where our computing infrastructure is both our most critical and our most vulnerable asset.

"Speak softly" is completely insufficient without the "carry a big stick" part.

kb
> skeuomorphic design principles

That's going on my list of oxymora.
Finally: Facebook Co-Founder Opens the Curtain on Two-Year Old Asana
(from a woman who shops a LOT): mens shirt and pants sizes are fairly standard - thats a good thing for this business. As long as you collect ppl's sizes, most things should fit. I would also consider having a style-determinant upfront. Like: do you want to look like mark zuckerberg, larry ellison, or sergey brin for example if geeks are your target audience (if not, use celebs.) at least this will generally put the clothes you send in the right ballpark of what that guy dresses like. although if he dresses like larry ellison he probably has his personal shopper and a wardrobe of armani and wouldnt be using this service! :)

my biggest concern with this business is that if its successful you actually make yourself redundant. meaning if ppl really like the shirts you send them, and say they're H&M - well they just decide to shop in H&M from then on and stop paying for you. Your retention rate is inversely proportional to how good your product is - thats bad business.
Google I/O 2011 completely sold-out in 55 mins! Tech conferences are like rock concerts now?
There are still significant parts of New York City where these sights are common.

[edit] By "these sights", I am responding to the question on where "Drug Addicted People" go. "These sights" = "Drug Addicted People" not the specific content of these pictures.
There are better ways to show signal path than a bunch of droopy patch cables.
Google I/O 2011 sells out in 59 minutes
Not to the best of my knowledge; certainly, no such thing is running on my system.

The point is, most people would have absolutely no idea of how to even begin answering that question. If you teach them that 'VOID is Bad' and then your legitimate images have 'VOID' on them, it's going to cause problems and you're not going to be able to educate them well enough, fast enough.
Rich in '73 is such an obvious choice...
I also had relied (a bit) on female friends to buy clothing. But they know how I look like and, to some extent, my tastes (no rainbow-unicorn-shirts, please).

Maybe if you could describe (somewhat) your tastes (like casual, modern, etc.) and send a picture. But I think your idea has potential.
I have always said this: "You show me a kid who knows how to create with Lego and I will show you a kid I can turn into a great programmer"

Lego is the best coder test I know. You have to be able to envision the final goal, you have to know how to assemble that vision using the limited component pieces available, you have to know how to work around the tool's limitations, and above all you have love to create.
It is impossible for chrome to make UIs functionally better. That's the definition of chrome.
Here is the other link!

http://www.hei.org/research/aip/audiodemos.htm

Has the music through the implant.
There are few people today with the insight, hindsight, and foresight of David Patterson, author of this article. Nice find.
That's true, but we just wanted to convey the sense that this service would offer clothing that helps you appear more attractive.
I loved this book when i read it. I liked it mostly because it was able to explain to me what i already "knew" but couldn't explain. I now had the vocabulary and a road map to figure myself out. Its not so much that the ideas in the book were life changing, they were interesting to think about, but what i got out of it is that the book sparked a process in my mind to turn myself from a depressed cynical high-schooler, into a pragmatic adult, who enjoys his work, his studies, and his art, yet is not blinded by idealism or plagued by cynicism.

I guess its a lot about timing, had i read it at any other point in my life, i might have not liked it.
The rate at which it is being generated might.

Edit: if you think of the logistic function as modeling the rate we create information, this is one possible "story": initially there's slow growth due to technology. Then the technology picks up, and there's the exponential phase we're seeing right now. That settles into a nice linear trend as the tech matures. Finally, we hit either natural (e.g., satiation) or technological limitations and that slows the rate of growth. At the very limit, we're still creating information, but at a constant rate. The rate of growth might be near 0, but the rate of production is still bloody high.
Two things that could help:

- Zappos-esque customer friendly return policy, if it doesn't bankrupt you.

- If a return is required, make it easy to report why - for example, on a pants return, have a picture of the pants, and sliders for the waist, length, inseam, etc. that go from "too small" to "too large".

- use past fit information to tweak what kind of clothes are sent out to that person in the future.

- Another random option - for things that are too big, offer to mail in and tailor them (an inch off the leg, for example).

- Also, people might REALLY like an item, and want more of it. I know I'm attached to certain bits of clothing, and often have trouble finding another to replace them when I go looking (other than stock items like jeans/etc.).
not a bad idea..what is stopping you?
Also, to add, Google News picks up new content on our site within a few minutes, and our new content is still indexed relatively quickly (within an hour of publishing), however, SERPs for our content have plummeted.

We are a highly reputable site, with over 380,000 members, and over 170,000 pages indexed. http://goo.gl/IYgrx, and this drop in Google traffic is perplexing. Any feedback appreciated.

Thanks.
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Interesting, thanks for sharing hadn't heard of them before. We're planning a subscription-based model where you would regularly receive a shirt or pair of pants every month, so more "passive" consumption over time to keep your wardrobe reasonably up to date going forward.

I think depends on the type of guy you are, myself and a number of guys I know aren't really into fashion and aren't super-fussy, but do want to dress reasonably well - just without effort. Trying to test now whether there's enough guys with that same attitude :)
Ah, so you want the Queer Eye version?
Ooh, I really like this logic. (:
I like this idea. I agree with derekdahmer that it'll be hard to know what will look good on us without first knowing what we look like. What if you had some sort of "paper doll" type system. You upload a full body pic of yourself, and then the female approved outfits can be virtually tried on.
hope you get better Andrew
Abusing Ruby 1.9 & JSON for fun
In the film industry we would often say, "Cheaper, Faster, Better... Pick Two."

Using a rifle shot vs. shotgun approach can be a great thing provided of course that the rifle is aimed at a viable target.
This sentence exactly got me in. I read some czech blog about fashion written by a women about how Czech men dress terribly themselves. You should have seen the discussions under the articles.

I'm ordinary man and a hacker. I personally don't care what I wear. I prefer comfortable clothing. I don't care and I don't have problem with it. But women care and they see it as a big issue. I'm reading the blog just from curiosity to see how it looks from the other side.
Chromium to Feature in Pwn2Own Contest
I don't think Anonymous has ever been concerned about crossing lines. In fact, you could say that crossing lines is their default mode of operation.

Their goal in this case is to discourage people from messing with them. I'd say that their actions may have achieved exactly that.
Google I/O 2011 Event Sells Out in 59 Minutes
Good answer! However, "they'll be smiling" - you weren't, unless you smile when you swear profusely, so that makes you weird. :-)
Using godaddy for shared hosting is bad, their dns/domain hosting and dedicated hosting is good. Basically shared hosting is bad just about everywhere, especially with .NET because it is so tied to the OS.

Crappy shared hosting is a big reason that PHP is still as big as it is as you need a specialized provider or server control when you want to run python, ruby, .net, java.

Just buy a dedicated server or slices next time that are either virtual or dedicated servers that you can configure yourself.
Did any of you think you were going to get real tech support for a GoDaddy shared hosting account? Well, uh, now you know.
That's not true. American economic disparity is at its worst point since the 1930s. It made a slight recovery in the 1980s, but has been slipping ever since.

The rich are getting richer, and the poor poorer. This is not unique to New York city.
But not everything is a button. Designers need to be extra careful when displaying non-interactive fields on the same page as buttons if they are going to remove UI chrome.

Twitter for Android is an example of how nonintuitive a flat interface can be. When viewing user profiles, you are presented with a list of information (name, bio, tweets, lists, etc). Clicking Name or Bio does nothing, but they are the first items listed and look exactly the same as every other item. (Actually, clicking them causes the item to highlight as if you were clicking a button, but there is not any associated action, so nothing happens.) When looking to see a user's tweets, it always takes a moment to remember that "Oh right, some of these words are interactive."

The Settings menu in Android attempts to solve this by greying out fields which do nothing (e.g., the Model field in About Phone). It works there, but the same technique could fail if your app also has potentially disabled buttons or important static information that shouldn't be grayed out.
btw. this is her blog called "Fashion Hell":
http://modnipeklo.cz/2011/02/muz-muze-taky/
information is not all equal. recording from /dev/random is not valuable information even though it fills up disk space.
the value of information depends very much on the context.
Or, have an agreement that all password resets will be silently ROT13'd against what is requested.

So if you say "Can you reset my password to foobar" then your admin knows to actually set it to "sbbone."

They can then just send a normal reply saying "ok your password has been set to 'foobar'" and then as long as both parties remember the secret protocol, you are OK.

You could then also watch for login attempts using "foobar" to warn you of foul play.
Sorry, that is what I (obviously?) meant. It would have been trivial to state that information will continue to be generated.
MobiSocial taps smart phone technology
Tell us more! I'm always interested in the stories gathered by Urban Explorers...
Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology.
What Did George Washington Really Look Like?
Thanks for the feedback! Great idea.

Our thought is that there's value-add in having a fashion-aware person pick out clothes for you - so in your H&M example, for someone like me simply knowing the brand isn't enough, I would appreciate someone picking out specific shirts or pants from H&M. I also typically only go shopping once a year, so not having to shop would be a big convenience.
But once you have access to a person's email, you could just go back through the history and look for past communications like this and mimic them. That's my guess about how they were able to ask specific questions about the root password.

Some method of verifying the requester's identity out of band (e.g. 'call me for the password') is really the only way to go.
Effective Search Terms Yield the Right Information
This definitely weakens the transparency argument, though I wouldn't go so far as to say it eliminates it.

The problem is, it can actually be very difficult to evaluate the contribution of the courts and the military to the stabilization of international trade. A resident of Monaco could certainly stump me by asking "well, if the US or French military is so essential for my protection, then who is it who would be attacking me?"

I suppose I could try to come up with an answer (probably easier during the cold war), but the unsatisfying response is "who knows, but a rueful glance through history suggests it would probably be someone."

You probably believe that the rich need the US and allied military to the extend to which you agree with that answer. Same kind of goes for the courts - rather than point to a particular need fulfilled, a lot of people would say that without a system for resolving crimes, torts and even contracts, a modern economy simply couldn't exist.
I should have mentioned: it's good to get your take. I kept thinking, "I wonder how Matasano deals with these issues?", while reading the article.
Physicists prove quantum cryptography is not picky
Interesting idea, but a lot of open ended questions and returns galore. My friend tried to do a tailor made shirt business with the stuff made in China - failed too many returns and touch-ups.

I am doing something a bit similar, but we do more data gathering. http://www.makeyourgirlfriendhappy.com

My friend runs a shop where they take a photo of you in front of a standardized grid, which allows them to know your size automatically - this could probably be done with your site.
Men's shirt and pants sizes aren't really that standard - in the UK at least, all we have is waist size and inside leg for pants, and neck size for shirts (or S/M/L/XL for T-shirts).

The actual cut of men's clothes can vary a lot, and as a programmer who has recently become a lot more interested in clothing and style, I can tell you right now the number one thing that makes clothes look good is fit.

Anyone here who is wanting to improve their wardrobe, you don't need to buy anything fancy, any special materials or designer labels, just get something that fits. This doesn't just mean that it's big enough to put on without squeezing you, or small enough that it's not draping like a tent, but that it is the right size in all dimensions. Check for things like how wide the shoulders are, how tight the sleeves, length of the sleeve, length of the body, and any tapering.

Just comparing something like a plain-black Tee from various high street retailers in the UK, some will fit you much better than others, dependent on your body shape.
If this is this the website: http://www.hbgary.com/ then it is even funnier.
good comparison and analogies.... hey what about women founded startups !! what wud the title be then ...
Do I die in 1974?
I'd love one! My company applied after the deadline to now my only hope is luck!
Is there any other way to read this article other than a recipe to obtain goods for no cost? If there is, I am curious, because I couldn't see it.

And, BTW, the fact your first post was killed should make you think whether this is the right place to promote your site.
I don't think the lesson has anything to do with how hard you work. I think the lesson is that you can build and validate an idea in 2-3 days.

We often have ideas for products and think to ourselves that we'll just add a few more features or fix a few more bugs, then maybe put it on the market and see what happens and all of this takes weeks or months. In large corporations this can take years.

The idea here is to state an assumption about your product, figure a way to test your assumption and do that in 2-3 days. There are 15 of these "weekends" in a month. You could be pivoting 15 times in one month, and if you have to pivot that often, at least you're only investing a few days instead of a few weeks into the setup.

It's all about building a lean startup and the mentality you need to have. This article is not actually working 30 days a month as if you were on a 48-hour hackathon clock.
The Google I/O freebie I'm hoping for: Nothing
You can't buy stolen stuff. If the FBI wants to use the stuff they may still have to pay for it.

Besides deals at that level are all political and given to their buddies. The person who gave the deal to HBGary is going to still fork over the money since what is a few $M between friends esp when they are not your $M.
Is this a "modest proposal" or an actual argument against usability?
This should be called the weekly link, every week it gets to the first page.
Using shitload as a unit of data: sarcasm or serious?
Trip Advisor acquires Palo Alto based EveryTrail
Rich in 1900 is my choice. I'll bet the food then rocked - I'll just take one year's income at face value and the house I'm living in now, without 111 years of intervening decay. The rich industrialist who lived here in 1900 will have to find new digs.

But no contest. I'd turn back that clock right now.
>'call me for the password' is really the only way to go.

Nope.

"From what I hear - yes... My friends who worked for whitehat security companies would first try to hack staff before hacking servers.
Best was to call up the ceo on his personal homephone every night at 3am, until they knew what he sounded like raving mad. Then they called up the admins doing a very good impression of the irate ceo demanding his passwords were reset there and then. Worked a stupid amount of times apparently..."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2067063
I agree that it's definitely not about doing 2-day coding binges 30 days per month. February would be tough, for one. In my mind it's about mindset management. It's about not letting that the validation of your idea be pushed off until you've added "just one more feature," and instead about learning to rapidly iterate on the hypothesize, test, validate cycle.
Apparently I'm the only one interested in these URLs, but somebody on Twitter just suggested that you can use URLs with a PK id to purchase multiple tickets.
I know two people who work for GoDaddy. In their training for Tech Support they stress the upsell. This is why the web page control panel for their shared hosting is so horrible from a usability perspective. So that people will become confused, have to call in and then GoDaddy has an opportunity to upsell them. This is why I always advise "anyone but GoDaddy", even though my friends could get commision from my referral.
Awesome - thanks for the suggestions!

We are planning to offer Zappos-style return policy, as long as it doesn't bankrupt us :)

Meaning you want the exact same article of clothing once it wears out?
i definitely see value in someone else picking clothes out for ppl who either hate to go shopping or dont have any sense of style. one other idea for you - you should combine this with a secret shopper business. brands will actually pay people to shop as "customers" in their stores so they collect feedback on how their employees behave, if the store was organized etc. i used to do this in college. your shoppers could also be secret shoppers - thats an extra revenue channel for you while they are out buying geeks their clothes! we should talk btw if you want to do this for real: mitalip AT gmail
His first argument is a functional one: surely computers can give us a better way to manipulate audio than dragging around virtual patch cables. I totally agree with that.

However, then he tries to pivot the argument towards modernistic design sensibilities. Modern can be beautiful, but it can also be cold. And, like tactile interfaces, it's not immune from the eventual fatigue of seeing it everywhere.

In the end, the classic rule of form following function still applies. Make it work, then make it beautiful. As long as they don't impede function, I welcome the different looks and my occasional dose of nostalgia.
Harjeet Taggar: Start Fund is bad news for bad investors
Dijkstra was not insane
This is great! I was wondering if you could read data from RFID chips using the NFC since the protocols are nearly identical. I wonder if you could create an app that just indiscriminately reads data raw from the NFC chip?
> I'm dinging him for suggesting that bill rates have anything at all to do with full-time rates; the two are only partially related.

Huh? You just said you are dinging him for making a relationship but then admitting that there is a relationship (albeit partially).

Let's pretend a consultancy is the equivalent of rent-a-center and an individual consultant is a rented out TV. I'm a consumer and I want to rent the TV. I know the TV cost (I searched it on Amazon) and I know I'm just renting it for x amount of days. I know exactly what I'm getting for the price I pay; I get to watch TV for a certain period of time. When building a consulting practice this concept is a bit harder to achieve because the customer has no idea what they will get for $150/hr or $400/hr. They may get a TV that only works for half of the day or for a quarter of the day or half the screen only works sometimes. If it was that easy to assess a person's talent then the customer would just hire single contractors out.

I don't think Jason articulated what he meant by "worth" correctly. You're right in saying there are other values (hence worth) attributed to paying for consultants. However, I think what he is addressing is the fact that potential customers have a very hard time deciding what value your second, or third or fourth consultant is in your newly established consultancy practice. Who are you (as the consulting director) to tell the potential customer that your employee is worth $X/hr? Doesn't the customer ultimately assess the value of what they are buying?
LoL, okay so they will go back to IE8 for infinity.

Do Chrome major version number changes break their plugins?

I don't understand this rush to double-digit version numbers.

Do they think because IE is at version 9 that newbie users will also want their other browser to be at version 9 ?
I recommend this book to young engineers all of the time for the side messages on debugging, motivation and quality.

When I run into burnout problems I often use his simple advice to get out of slumps: usually) actively recharge with rest/sleep, when under the gun) coffee.
Yes. It should be said that this is not a philosophical book. It is a book about a man struggling with his sanity and parenthood and he does that in terms of his philosophy.

Because of this struggle, and because of the personal and warm way he does it, this book has a philosophical impact: it makes you think about philosophy and understand how philosophy affects people. But it's not a philosophical text by any means.