skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about this exact idea for the past month or so and still love it. I recently tried Trunk Club, which is a similar service but they actually select the clothes for you and you only pay for what you keep and send the rest back. The inherent ownership problem still remains, though--there's yet one more pair of pants or shirt taking up space in your closet that you'll eventually get sick of (that and it was really expensive--like $175 for a button-down expensive).

I like the idea of having a somewhat curated selection of some top brands like Banana Republic, J.Crew, Gap, etc. and being able to choose a certain number of items to take out at one time. I'd pay upwards of $200/mo if it meant I had an endless rotation of new clothes to try on without having to keep. And if you like the garment? Feel free to keep it and pay retail.

The collaborative consumption model is disrupting industry after industry, and it's only a matter of time before someone gets it right in fashion. I would honestly consider starting this myself, but I just left a startup and joined the Goog less than a month ago--need some stability for awhile.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away," is beginning to sound a lot more plausible.

How could there not be a few Death Stars inhabited by English-speaking humans somewhere in one of those galaxies?
I personally theorize BBS's, which got popular in the mid 1980s, and later the Internet, gave spiteful and poorly socialized men a anonymous veil. Reddit keeps the legacy of woman-hostility alive and well with comments like "tits or gtfo".

Well, women chose to get the fuck out. The hostile behavior experienced online would never be tolerated in a face to face setting.

Of course it's only a theory and I was too young to remember any first hand experience of the 1980s.
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it wouldn't take a huge amount of skill to extract your client keys from an Android / iOS app: but as long as you've designed your ACL (access control list) correctly, it won't matter as your user will have to be logged in and authenticated to access sensitive objects.

But it's possible to edit the ACL from a client. Isn't that a potential weakness?

https://www.parse.com/docs/ios_guide#users-acls
But - if you create an infinitely large closet, it will collapse into a black hole of infinite mass and pull the rest of the universe in on itself! Not only that, if you start with a completely full closet with numbered hangers and reach in for a shirt, all of the shirts will move forward one place, creating a new empty hanger even though the closet contains the same number of shirts and hangers! Which violates Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signaling -

What? They're trying to create a large finite closet? The universe is in no danger? Curse you, TechCrunch! Fooled again!
Solaris 11 currently does not run on any of the Solaris workstations (e.g blades).
Why not an app tied to the mic that recognises your ringtone and mutes everything? That means I reach for my phone rather than have to make any gestures first.
I have read about relevant studies where people had an easier time surrendering things that symbolized money, even though they were perfectly equivalent, just as soon as they were removed from the actual physical currency:

"Dear Mark,
Why is it that casinos use chips versus real money on most of their games? Dave M.

Because most players do not equate casino chips with real money. It is far too easy, Dave, to be caught up in the game and forget what you are actually betting. Chips possess none of the qualities of real money. A dollar has a more palpable feeling and is more difficult to surrender than parting with a casino chip. Real dollars evoke those hours of employment, mortgages, and dry cleaning bills. But once purchased, chips seem like fun tokens found at the fair, not a medium of exchange. That is why casinos prefer pit employees to "change color" or upgrade your chips. They are not being courteous, just trying to induce larger play."

source(down):http://www.markpilarski.com/column14-2.html
Seriously, Jezebel is the absolute last thing that belongs on HN. Are we going to get some freeper posts on the front page next?
I'm not convinced it doesn't, but either way, this is pedantry of the most unproductive sort.
Yup, I agree. Also it would add extra CPU usage at all times. Of course, you could make it like Siri in that you have to press some key to turn it on. That solves all 3 problems, though I wonder if the webcam activates fast enough for the intended immediately-stop-the-music use.
OP here - my proposal is that we might benefit from women-only support groups where we can share the frustrations and experiences of being in the minority, not women-only workplaces.

That said, there's some research that single-sex education leads to better student outcomes, especially for girls. I wonder if similar research has been done for work environments.

I'm also very grateful to Katie and Shanley for being brave enough to stand up and write about their experiences.
according to my partner who used the aussie version of 99dresses, this is indeed the case towards the end
I forsee a near future where employers offer Exec/TaskRabbit credits or dollars alongside other standard benefits such as healthcare, 401k, etc. Good work guys!
we're turning into a security state

This kind of thinking is dangerously misguided. You're not "turning into" a security state, you are a security state. "Freedom of speech zones" and all the other newspeak bullshit, the OWS crackdown, SOPA, ACTA, etc., to name but a few, are not stepping stones on the path to tyranny. They are tyranny. You guys have already arrived. You're there. And your society will not be able to do anything about it until it realizes this.

So quit talking as though it's something that's going to happen if you're not really careful, and start talking as though it has already happened and something needs to be done about it.
I read this quote...

But each student will learn how to think like a coder -- an education that will develop students’ mathematical, logic and reasoning abilities, all skills that software engineering relies upon.

... and I think - "Problem Solving" for me that is the number one skill coders have/learn and you can apply it to anything.
Would you volunteer?
Dude, it's not about the attitude, it's about the numbers. The closest galaxy is four million light years away. Unless there is a major scientific breakthrough in the eons to come that will allow us to travel at speeds 100 times the speed of light there is practical no way to make such a trip. Even with a speed like that and taking under consideration the special relativity which says that time for those traveling will be passing a lot slower than for the rest of use, you'd need at least a millennium to do such a trip.
Both of these are basically introductory Programming Languages classes (with a capital P and L, in other words the study of programming languages themselves). I'm not really sure how you could create your own language without learning about different languages.
That's basically Kinect for Windows, but using your built-in webcam, right? And targeting gesture controls for apps, vs. games.

I can't find system requirements on their web page, but the demo video shows it running on a Mac.
Couldn't the system learn quickly? Like person A and B both wear a dress from person C. Now the system knows that person A could also exchange dresses directly.
I currently have allstate and pay around $315 per 6 months. True I get discounts it didn't ask about here such as a discount for having home owners insurance with them as well but they quoted allstate at double what I pay, $629.97. The cheapest they quoted was Geico at $434.55. Cool idea but with quotes like this I don't exactly think I'll ever use it. One thing I will say though is they said they don't officially support my area and the quotes would be estimates.. but still.
Note that BLAKE, another SHA-3 finalist, is based on DJB's ChaCha permutation.
Another practical use of the technology in Shazam! Just gotta make it fast enough, which you probably could considering you just check it against one song vs. every song.
"Single-sex education results in better student outcomes."

According to whom?

Personally, I'm not even convinced that age segregation in education is a good idea.
Migrating living documents to a public source-control repository is fantastic. I can now subscribe to changes in policies (and maybe even propose my own).
The idea of "intellectual property" has been so ingrained in many people that they simply cannot or will not recognize any difference between copying/distributing an idea (or a digital work) and stealing physical property. Generally, their (faulty) logic is that putting time and effort into creating something necessarily gives you absolute ownership of that thing, even if it's just an idea or a string of bytes.
Checkout my post from yesterday to see why I think solutions like this are a bad idea: http://www.projectorpm.com/blog/2012/03/25/rails-is-more-tha...

(Hint: Don't trust clients)
When tumblr pushed their terms-of-use updates on users by displaying it in a modal lightbox over all the content, it had a link to the commit at the bottom.

https://github.com/tumblr/policy/commit/ebf3666dffc80af7122c...

There's now some confused kids with github accounts that didn't have one before, I hope they found their way back to tumblr again. :(
Once the bug strikes you can't avoid it. One way to view it is that it will actually much more valuable as an employee since you will develop skills much faster and it a much wider capacity.
Ok, I agree with this now, but it's different to what you originally stated; "Don't tell people what you are working on until you finish it."

I'd say "Don't tell people what you are working on until you start it."
Because their UI being innovative and one of a kind might well be a corner stone of their product marketing plan. You and I copy it, and they can't market, sell and recoup the expenses as planned. Though in this case I suspect this is one of a "valuation booster / acquisition facilitator" patents rather than anything else.
> "Intellectual property" is an oxymoron.

Do you also disagree with the other types of intellectual property rights such as trademarks & copyrights, or are you just talking in the context of patents?
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Ok, so I went to the site expecting to get some "buttons" as part of onboarding new users, but instead I started out with 0 buttons and no idea how to get these buttons to actually get a dress. After digging around the FAQ section, it says that I can purchase the buttons for $1 or upload my own dress. I don't have a dress to upload, and buying a used dress for $40 - $110 just doesn't make sense - I can buy a brand new dress for that much. Also, even if I were to upload a dress, I wouldn't get any "buttons" until I actually sell the dress. Not coming back to this site again.
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Patents don't exist to protect people's work, per se, they exist to "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Protecting people's work is a means to that end.

In this case it seems obvious, to me, that this is not promoting innovation at all. Would this technique never have been developed were it not for the fact that it could be patented? Would other people copying the technique in any way dilute its benefit to Twitter?
Sure, but there is still something to be said for bound finite numbers. The universe is somewhere between 26 billion light years wide and infinity. From what we can observe it might be reasonable to guess that it's smaller than grahm's number of light years wide, but for all our hubris that's still just a reasonable guess.
> Once in a blue moon, someone will use BitTorrent to transfer a Linux kernel

I use it a lot to download ISO images of operating systems (Linux, *BSDs, OpenSolaris-derived - no Windows) for testing and/or deployment. Very handy and helps conserve bandwidth on the file servers.
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I absolutely agree that the hackish (you know what I mean) aspect of this feat makes it impressive, but I'd really like to see him work without the handicap.

Given his/her choice of tools, most people would probably be more expressive with Photoshop/GIMP than MS Paint, or AutoCAD/Blender/Poser/HDL/etc./etc. than Minecraft.

Programmers debate the expressivity of programming languages all the time. We're impressed when some genius kid re-implements Doom in TI-BASIC, but at the same time, I want to see that genius applied with the full leverage of the most expressive tools available.

Minecraft doesn't quite pass the Arc challenge. :)
This is really cool! Congrats on starting!

There are some really good resources now. Perhaps find out what technologies they'll have you use at your uncle's company. If you'll be using Ruby, it might be good to start with Code School (http://tryruby.org/levels/1/challenges/0). CodeAcademy.com is doing their instruction in Javascript. For Python, I've been using Udacity.com and Learn Python the Hard Way.

Good luck!
I would still say OWA is underwhelming.
Practice, practice, practice. Come up with ideas - build them. Improve upon them. Build more projects. Build new things with different technologies, or in a different way.

Look back on your old code, and marvel at how _wrong_ it was. Rewrite it better.

Read through open source code. I learned things from reading the Linux kernel source that made me absolutely destroy my C classes. I've learned dirty hacks from Rails' source that I use all the time.

But seriously. Hack lots of code and write lots of experiments.
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Start kids on an empty Fluxbox, let them learn to add all the bells and whistles they can. Eye candy can motivate creativity pretty well, and Fluxbox can get pretty cool with the right addons. Some of the menu-making is almost like coding; it's almost an introduction to formal languages.

Actually, Openbox might be the thing these days. I'm not sure. Definitely not LXDE -- that's preconfigured.
Most of the women I know who are serious about their fashion are pretty certain when it comes to their size at a particular store. Sure a six isn't always a six. But a six at Forever 21 is usually consistent with other sixes at Forever 21. And they know their size at each particular store.
The best thing to do is to take a look at the Cython docs (http://cython.org/) and check out some of the whitepapers they have posted. There is also a bunch of cython code on github. If you search "cdef extern" you should find examples where other people have wrapped external c libraries.
My initial reaction is "I already have an infinite closet, it's called the thrift store four blocks away whose buyer's tastes match mine". On the other hand if I lived in the burbs, this might be more appealing.

It also reminds me that I've been meaning to clean out my closet, maybe I'll try putting whatever the thrift store won't take up here.
Consider this, when it comes to breaking the cycle of poverty a teen is better of being being one grade level behind in reading and avoid pregnancy than reading at grade level and becoming pregnant. Sex education is something that most schools teach and they have various levels of success.

You can also track where a school systems switch to abstinence only education and the rate increases. Now granted it's not supposed to be the most useful thing teenagers get from public schools, but it is a vary important part of their job and we have fairly good data on it as well.
> "Single-sex education results in better student outcomes"

Um, citation needed. See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6050/1706.full for a counter-citation from Science.

Single-sex anything does not provide long-term benefits, but instead just pushes the problem out of sight.
I would hear more about 'moved on'?

Unless the kid becomes a programmer, the experience won't be relevant. Now, you could argue it improves thinking skills etc etc, but bare hardware is really only one layer of the abstraction chain- the layer you are probably most fond of. Every other layer- wiring, circuit design, device engineering, physics, and so on- are no less valid, but you probably can't do all of them. This is because we have to pick and choose which layers of abstraction to spend our time in- which gives the most bang for our buck; which is most relevant. For most people, "how to use a computer" in the office appliance sense is the most valuable.
"Google was never good at making new things" - uhm, what???

I suppose if you want to you could accuse everything and everybody of that, as everything anybody invents builds on things that have existed before it (yes, even the iPhone). But to accuse Google of that really seems an enourmous stretch. What about street view and Google earth? Google Wave? Self driving cars? Container based data centers? Map Reduce? And so on... I am not a Google fanboy and haven't memorized their achievements, but seriously, they introduced a lot of "new" things.
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Oops, that should be meditation, not mediation!
This should be an example of what we need in the US as a whole to compete in the global economy. The lessons of logic and reasoning taught from coding are applicable in so many different ways. Thinking like a hacker can help our youth realize that everything is within their grasp.
was a star? :)
A strain of academic literature suggests that single-sex higher education may be problematic in that it accentuates separateness. Separateness can build confidence, but in my experience it's local confidence, pertaining only to the controlled environment that produced it. Otherwise, separateness is simply different, contributing to a sense of being an outsider. And I think that this is a bad thing.
Another option is sending me an email ;)

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You can ask all you want, but I didn't claim to have a solution to that problem. It's a fundamental flaw with democratically-based governments.

My droning on about federalism was related, though. Individual Liberty allows people to succeed or fail based upon the decisions they make in life. Economic frameworks built upon individual Liberty like capitalism reward good decisions about how to use your labor and capital while punishing poor decisions.

The best the government can do is to go back to a more Constitutionally supported mandate, taking care of foreign policy, regulating interstate commerce in the sense that the founders wished, and only providing the barest of frameworks within which the free market could operate.
Your comparison has quite literally nothing to do with this patent, beyond beyond a method of touch interface. It is not simply rotated 90 degrees.

Further it's interesting how people could claim the obviousness of this despite the fact that there isn't a single known use before twitter started doing it (where it was then picked up by others). That's a pretty remarkably clear indication that it isn't obvious.

99% of software patents are bullshit that should never have been granted, with this patent being among them. However this patent is no worse, and is arguably better, than most that so many actually defend on here (hyperlinking phone numbers, for instance).
Amazing find there, thanks! Who would have thought one Minecraft world was so huge.
1) Not every person wants the same kind of fit(snug,slim,skinny,relaxed,classic,natural, etc) or drape.

2) Look at this image to see the difference between different brands and their size 8 measurements.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2011/04/24/business/201104...
via http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/tag/womens-size-...

There's many variables to sizing. It wouldn't be impossible to create a database of measurements for every single piece of clothing.

And then there's the issue of shrinkage.
I have been unemployed for some period of time--- six months. After which I decided that the best course of action was to become self-employed.

I can completely understand why someone would hand over their passwords to a prospective employer when asked. There is a huge power differential as you point out. However it is no less stupid.

Here's a basic rule I try to keep in mind, and I think it is extremely important in a hard job market as well, and that is to keep options open and work on ensuring you aren't on the bad end of such a bad exchange. The way you do this is by doing what odd jobs you can to put food on the table, so that even if you need the job you don't need it so badly to take a shit deal.
My mistake -- my wording was a little poor. Minecraft is an environment that allows people to be very creative, but it isn't efficient in that process. When I say "meaningful" I meant it more as a comment that I wish a development environment would exist that was as engaging as Minecraft (like a game!) but as efficient as a programming language like Python.

Because Minecraft is purely a game, it limits what a kid can accomplish from the start. A kid can only interact with their creations through the game itself, which is fine, but could it be better?
Amazing kid, wonderful invention.
Is this a good place for feedback? Please emphasize that you're only currently offering service for people in the US.
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I mean it this way (and the way I worded my comment was really poor, and the miscommunication is completely my fault!): Minecraft allows for very creative outcomes, but it isn't a very efficient tool for developing something complicated. Is it possible to create a more efficient tool that is equally engaging?
Much better name and not just because of the naming collision. Tesseract was really smart but you had to have a dictionary and know the company is Square to get it. Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.
My biggest gripe with youtube: why are comment almost always repeated? Yea i realize that most you tube comments are relatively worthless but I do tend to speed through them to get a feel for what the response is to a particular video. Inevitably I get through 20 comments and then the same 20 are repeated over again, often they are repeated several times. Perhaps they are trying to give the illusion of lots of comments or assuming the comments don't matter. Personally I find it extremely annoying, I'd rather them block to load more than repeat.
Apple already uses 'pull to refresh' in loads of their internal iOS apps.
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> Crossfire has a huge potential audience of not just ubernerds.

You apparently misread the name. That can't be a good sign. :)
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Which functional programming language do you recommend to become expert at ?
Issuing a DMCA takedown notice without having a valid claim to the questioned copyright is perjury. What MU offered was a tool for other parties to delete files directly without having to issue DMCA takedowns - in other words, it allowed them to delete files they didn't have the right to delete without facing the consequences of doing so.

This tool was limited to prevent abuse. Simple as that.
READ THE INDICTMENT.

Jiminy.

:)
All that's missing is a couple of code monkeys to fix the bugs ;-)
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Who else is excited to finish Summer '12 applications?
I've been tinkering with my application for the past month or so, now I'm a little anxious that it's finally coming to an end! How has everyone else been doing with the process? What are you applying with? I'm using my app Amazing Grocery List (Android) as the base for my application. Best of luck to everyone.