skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that has kept me away from Man Packs is that I have no idea how often I need new socks, underwear, or shaving cream. I'd love to have them sent to me automatically when I'm in need, but it's hard to put that on a schedule. It's probably close to once a year - but it's far enough apart that I don't really know how often I really need them.

Dress.me sounds like a better execution for my preferences - I need a new shirt and some new jeans, so I go to the website and it finds exactly the right items for me with minimal effort or decision making on my part.
I kinda miss PFE on windows. I've been looking for something on OS X that would let me create macros and templates as easily. It didn't really have many features but it was a good workhorse.
And a huge time sinkhole for me. I have a few tshirts that don't fit very well and didn't bother returning because I didn't want to take the time to go to the post office and wait for the package to come back.
I've used/loved http://chris.photobooks.com/json/default.htm since the beginning of time for debugging. It isn't embeddable, though I find that it's more readable.
Sorry for the juvenile humor here, but this looks like I would have to pronounce it "C-nutz". Glad there are no release plans to send this into the wild.
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See also: A Quick Web Design Case Study - Apple Macbook Air Call to Action

http://voltagecreative.com/articles/web-design-case-study-ap...
I've got to say, I used to think this too, but I've found that Swype is really good for entering data. Try it out sometime, you will be surprised.

I bought an Epic 4G thinking that I absolutely needed the keyboard, and now I barely use it.
As a black woman .... I have to agree
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I know those guys. I think they're doing pretty well (have a number of decent sized deals, etc)

http;//shoefitr.com/
Clothes shopping has remained one of those areas dominated by brick-and-mortar stores. I see three reasons for this:

1. Looking at photos is not the same as looking at the real thing;

2. Clothes are more than just the look. How they feel is also important;

3. You obviously can't try clothes on online. You can (and really need to) in a store. I have clothes that fit ranging from M to XL depending on the brand and style.

So there are those barriers to overcome. There are additional issues.

First, I read the dress.me blurb and it says that when you signup it asks you several "this or that" questions. A theoretically reasonable approach but one doomed to failure.

The reason is that people (men in particular) don't know what suits them. When someone says they like something, it means they're accustomed to it. This is a key point service providers like this need to understand.

It's why you see people seemingly trapped 10, 20, 30+ years ago with their haircuts, shoes and clothes. Typically this is how they looked and what they wore when they were teenagers and in their 20s. That sort of thing sticks because it's what they knew growing up (much like musical tastes tend to be) or even it's just the nostalgic angle: that style takes them back to probably what were more easygoing days.

Second, there are an awful lot of men--we geeks are particularly guilty of this--who have a completely utilitarian view to pretty much everything, including clothes. There's a reason the programmer stereotype is t-shirts and jeans. These clothes are comfortable, require very little maintenance, are cheap and require very little thought.

Clothes, like many things, are a statement about who you are as a person. Pretty much everything we do is some form of expression of who we are. This is even true of things like programming language choice.

So the problem we geeks have in particular is that we don't generally care about what kind of statement our clothes make, which in and of itself is a statement.

Anyway, watch any of the makeover shows that are on TV. Whether they be for men or women you will see the first thing the self-appointed style gurus will do is beat them out of their old habits into things that actually suit them. Asking them what they like would get you nowhere.

This is also why the cliche exists of women shopping for men. I think women are probably more naturally inclined to the "group" aspect of pretty much all forms of self-expression, clothes being just one. Just watch a woman--particularly a young woman--get dressed for anything and you'll quickly realize it's a group not a solo activity deciding what to wear.

Sites like this I think are seductive to those who start them, much like dating sites are. It seems like it should be easy, right? I think the reality has proven and will continue to prove otherwise, at least until these fundamental problems are somehow addressed.

The true meaning of "I hate shopping" is more likely to be "I hate making decisions about things I don't know about, care about or both." The "knowing" part can probably be fixed. The "caring" part is a much bigger problem.
Another application for Kinect? Not that I think its the same thing but might be an interesting experiment.
Or, paraphrasing Saramago: In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is a monster.
I followed the last Google AI challenge pretty closely, and enjoyed it, but how does the organizer Jeff Cameron keep getting away with invoking Google in the competition's name? He has basically zero affiliation to Google, and the last round of the competition had some pretty embarrassing snafus. (For instance, registration was broken for quite a while because he was using the Google SMTP server to send out messages, and when the competition opened and his registration script starting sending out huge numbers of registration emails, Google shut him down as a probable spammer.)
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I wouldn't call ASP.NET a 'language'. Framework yes, language no.
Thanks for the info! So if someone calls my current Google voice number which gets forwarded to my Sprint number it would not be AMA, but if I switch my Sprint number to Google Voice control and they call that it is still AMA, yes?

Sounds like a winner!
I think, in general, that there are likely a bunch of unmet needs that are fairly obvious to women, and less so to men. Because of this, I think that women entrepreneurs have an advantage in seeing these earlier.

When you see a dominant hegemony (as in male-dominated technical startups), it's useful to imagine yourself as the minority and try to see what your hegemony is missing.

It's hard to put yourself outside your range of experience, but it's a useful exercise anyway.
It really doesn't bother me at all because it makes sense why the low numbers exists in the first place. Basically the black community doesn't lend itself to hacking in general. When I hang with my friends I switch from geeky to a more hip hop style, they are simply not interested in what i am into and talk more about sport/entertainment topics. The few black friends I have that are in tech only do it for work. To have a Hacker/YC mind you usually have to fully immerse yourself into hacking, eg.. hacking at home,IRC etc.. So I believe the disproportion just reflects the type of people who simply interested. Believe me if you have the next million dollar idea in your hands then your set. The only color that really matters in this tech entrepreneurial space is green.
Great idea, and well stated. I'll add a plus-one for filtering based on shipping territories.

It ties in with other peoples' comments regarding personal shoppers, but once you get past the initial mvp stage, I think there's an opening for adding the ability to ping my clothing-savvy (female) friends to say "what do you think of this?" There's possibly an exploitable network effect in there.
A friend of mine does custom dress shirts (http://propercloth.com/) and one of his solutions (besides the detailed measurements option) was to get base measurements from a whole range of retail shirts and let people pick a shirt that they already owned that fits them well and tweak from there (too long/short, tight in the chest, etc.) and then have a very liberal return policy (at least on the first shirt). It's definitely labor intensive to get started (both building up the measurements database plus learning how to tweak them based on the comments), but it seems to work well.
I'm using PHP for almost 10 years now. I'm going to try out Ruby though just to test it out.
If they have access to your computer at any time they might as well install a evil maid

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_atta...
I think the question is not about racism during the funding process, but how much of a minority black people are in this situations.
I had an idea similar to this a few years ago when my brother was diagnosed with diabetes. I thought it would be a good way for diabetics and anyone else that needs to track what and how much they eat.

It could analyze eating habits and recommend healthier meals...man that would be cool
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At the risk of stating the obvious: Have you considered looking for outside funding? The site looks pretty slick, and I could see it having some potential, depending on where you go with a few things. This general notion of "social search" is a fairly hot topic right now, from what I've seen. With a track record of actually having delivered something useful, you might be able to raise funding to hire a team to move the project forward.

Have you applied to YC, or considered applying to YC? Or seeking angel/VC money at all?

Regardless of what you wind up doing, I'd love to chat with you about it sometime, as some of your ideas probably overlap with some stuff I'm working on. Shoot me an email if you'd like to talk.
Chinese has only one transcription for each word? I guess you've never been to Taiwan. It only seems that way for Chinese because PRC is so much bigger. Taiwan uses a different romanization system.

I imagine the difficulty for Arabic would lie in the fact that there is no major player like China in the Arabic world.
I don't even know the email address of any of my friends. We also very rarely talk on the phone. I communicate with my buddies back home 95% of the time via Facebook and txt.
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Why aren't we fighting against religious-hated as well? Both are acts of free speech. I should be able to hate anyone I want to hate and I shouldn't be censored because it hurts someone's feelings.
Online clothes shopping works when you want to buy something that you already know, know how it fits and maybe want an extra color or style. I usually shop for pants online, from brands that I know will have a good fit and cuts that I already have at home.
No 15% bonus, text messaging is twice the cost, and I don't see any way to purchase just a SIM card a la T-Mobile:

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/Phones/cell-phone-detail.aspx?c...

It looks like the cheapest you can get in is with the $15 R225.

But, it's a lot better than what they had when I last shopped for prepaid.
yep, that's my understanding. If you actually sign up for GV as your Sprint number, it acts just like your Sprint number. No forwarding involved.

Also, you get to keep your GV number for..I believe 6 months is the plan. It behaves the same way as your Sprint number during that time. That's my understanding right now anyway.
SQL-style queries of any social network? Where do I sign up?
I agree with you completely that the most likely chance of success comes from knowing the rules before breaking them. But I don't think it's unheard of for someone to bypass the rule-learning and figure out some new way of looking at things. Granted, maybe had they been forced to learn the rules they would have ended up breaking them anyway. Many people are content to just learn the rules. But given two works of art, can you actually say "that one is amazing because the artist learned the rules and that one is not because the artist was making up his/her own new rules or merely guessing" ?

And quite a bit is possible given infinite monkeys. :)
As a hetrosexual male, I would like to say I really don't hate having to shop.

I'd actually say that it's media culture propping up this idea, intimidating guys to not shop because "yo dawg, that's what chix do," and then "ohmygawsh jack's belt doesn't match his shoes teeheee what a dweeb." And lastly, the environment for the most part is targeted against them, not towards them.

I'd say those are the reasons men say they don't like to shop: they're called homos by bullies, made fun of by prissy schoolgirls, and they don't want to accidentally walk into a wall of bras. Men are way too emotional when it comes to picking out pants, so they throw up their arms and scream "I hate shopping, that's a chick's thing."
Yes, and that's what the answer to my question will illustrate.
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Best check with 9fans mailing list [1] and cat-v.org [2]; both are quite active.

There are two main branches of Plan 9: the official, Bell Labs one [3], which is somewhat conservative (nonetheless the install iso is updated frequently),
and 9atom [4], maintained by Erik Quanstrom, which has some more experimental features.

The core of the OS seems to be mostly established; both the 9P protocol (current version called `9P2000') that binds everything, several important fileservers and baseline libraries.

Probably the best is to look through contrib [5], which is where the userspace stuff is brewing.

Aside of the P9 proper, there is plan9port [6] maintained by Russ Cox -- collection of most of P9 utilities ported to generic POSIX environment (Linux, MacOS X etc.)
[[and that's what I am using daily]]
and 9vx [7] -- P9 ported to run in vx32 virtual machine.

In general, both classics like LaTeX and the newest, like Google's Go are ported to Plan 9 -- either natively, or, in some cases, through APE.

----

[1] http://9fans.net/archive/

[2] http://cat-v.org/

[3] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

[4] http://www.quanstro.net/plan9/9atom/

[5] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib/index.html and http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.ht...

[6] http://swtch.com/plan9port/

[7] http://swtch.com/9vx/
The same is true of doctors, accountants and lawyers but they're not running around calling themselves superheroes, ninjas or rockstars like a bunch of thirteen year old boys.

It's not about false modesty, it's about being vaguely adult once you get into your twenties.

[Goes back to playing video games and ordering D&D manuals on eBay.]
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I've used Sublime when I haven't felt like setting up Vim or Emacs on Windows. are there major benefits to Sublime 2 over the original?
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I got kind of lucky here because my company grew out of the failure of my old employer. They basically ran out of money and sold themselves to a very large company. That company didn't want a subset of the users, so we offered to purchase them. I just used the same pricing scheme as my old employer did to make the transition for the old users as palatable as possible to increase the amount of people that stayed on through the migration from my old company to my new company. It worked fairly well as close to 80% stayed on.
What's NLP? Google didn't help - unless it stands for 'Neuro-Linguistic Programming'...
Every single time a new Firefox version is about to come out, someone jumps the gun and writes a blog post like this, linking directly to a single Mozilla FTP server. Usually, they're actually linking to a release candidate anyway, but as a matter of practice, you should use the links that Mozilla provides on the Firefox download page in order to take advantage of their system of mirrors (e.g., http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefo...).
Swype transformed my on screen keyboard experience. The stock android keyboard is lackluster, even frustrating. Swype beta made text messaging actually useful for me.
And everybody will have conflicting (even inconsistent) opinions about those decisions.
Sprint adds Google Voice
That is an outrageous price. Still not as expensive as SMS (per bit of data), but still...
more tech savvy guys don't want to waste time with interviews

Piaw Na wrote a great explanation of how Google gets this wrong last year. Choice quotes:

"I had all sorts of perverse incentives to not interview people."

"If you wanted to get promoted for these non-engineering tasks, move into management."

The HN thread was exellent as well with 135 comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865099
(G310|K310|Q310)

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

I wouldn't expect too many false positives.
I already want to use this site.
I like the spirit of what's being said. It's close to something I've been telling a few folks recently which is this...

Being a software developer in this day and age is like being a magician (wizard?). Sure those of us that know this voodoo magic find it commonplace but to those outside it really is magical. I mean to be able interact with people around the world with technology and have so much automated in finance, retail, search, manufacturing, etc. is truly amazing if you stop and think what we can do today that we couldn't do 20 or even 10 years ago.

I don't feel like a super hero, more like a accomplished wizard with some tricks up his sleeves, but willing to help others learn the ways to control information. Maybe a little corny, but I hope you all get the general understanding.
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Why isn't higher education more like online dating?
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Guys don't hate to shop. It's just that women are constantly repeating this idiotic maxim, and in the cultural discourse, you joke with the material at hand.
Do you have programming skills? If you do, just start building small things like your own CMS or a simple social news site. This will help get the creative juices flowing and pretty soon you'll be thinking of other cool things to add to these small projects.

I can't find the quote at the moment but I saw one along the lines of: Ansel Adams took maybe 100 photographs for every 1 that turned out decent.

Basically.....build a lot of small apps/programs/websites and eventually you'll come across one that you can't stop thinking about it's potential (a good indicator is how many sleepless nights you have because you can't stop brainstorming about an idea).
Thank you! We'll do something about it. May be we'll have a more universal console, where git will be only one of the commands.
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Nitpick: You can hide that fact when its inconvenient.

I've found it rarely even comes up, unless you're talking about family with coworkers or something, and by that point you're probably already hired/funded/'in' and will have already overcome any potential stereotypes that someone might otherwise have had about you.
AFAIK it supports contentEditable, but just doesn't show the keyboard for those elements. So theoretically formatting commands and such work.
What if one cofounder is more valuable than another?
I wonder if voice integration will change while keeping an existing sprint cell number. I know at times I am not impressed with how the google voice service integrates with my sprint number, to the point where I am considering not using it anymore for business stuff.
Well we thought IRC doesn't offer logs by default and it's fine, we offer them for a week. You can get unlimited logs with the $15/mo plan, so if you want to use it for business, you can.
Assuming the setup and interface is solid; this can only mean good things for Sprint and Google Voice in general.

Sprint needs to focus more on disrupting the marketplace. Their differences on price/offerings is good however - now more than ever - Sprint will need to create additional benefits to remain a player in the mobile arena.

If the AT&T/TMobile deal moves forward, consumers will need Sprint to keep the playing field somewhat fair.
Yes, a custom keyboard for this kind of app should include the necessary buttons for JavaScript. Curly braces, etc.
Sadly it would be fairly trivial to do that if social networks standardized on something like FOAF; which would make it possible to just use SPARQL for queries. Of course figuring out how to deal with the privacy implications would be an impediment, but the basic querying would not be a big deal. Mapping identify across domains would also be a challenge without some sort of common identifier, or explicit mapping declaration(s), but it could be done.

Nobody (well, almost nobody) does it though. FOAFspace is practically a barren wasteland compared to what it could be. All the social networks hide whatever access they do allow, behind proprietary APIs at best. :-(
As read on the IRC channel (#aichallenge on freenode) some time ago, someone involved worked at Google and managed to get an OK to use the name, even though Google has nothing to do with it. Don't ask me how that happened.

Go to the IRC channel for a while and you are sure to hear this story, since new people constantly ask why Google doesn't put more resources into the challenge.
We can bitch and moan all we want, but the truth is that this deal will absolutely go through. If there's enough outcry, expect a dog-and-pony show on C-SPAN; in the end, they'll approve the merger with a "stern warning." Count on it.
Haha, I was in this exact situation once and it worked out awesomely. "I hate my clothes and I could really use your help" can be great first date conversation.

Besides, it shows that you're clued in. She will definitely recognize that you need new clothes before you do.
I don't think it's anything we need to "fix". Racism is still around to a small degree, but It's not what's keeping black men and women out of IT. It's culture. The culture needs to change for the problem to go away (if it should be considered a problem) and no amount of money and government intervention is going to change it.

Why aren't there more male nurses? Why aren't there more female mechanics?

I also don't know where you are working, but I've only worked on 10 teams (I'm in software development) and there were at least a few black guys on each of my teams. But, I tend not to look at color. I look at the person.
Thanks for the link. I tried it a couple of times for a couple of different fits and I wish they had more refinement options .. like options to tell what fits to avoid and more than 1 recommendation, stability/pronation et al. for running shoes, etc.

Also sucks that for all my fits, it always showed an Asics product, a brand which I personally don't like as their fits / soles are the worst for me.
Looks very slick. I signed up but doubt my city will be the debut one. Good luck anyway.