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The reason you see made-to-measure more so with suits as opposed to more casual wear is because suits are highly structured garments. They have to fit correctly in a lot of different places, whereas knitwear like t-shirts and polos stretch and the same size can accomodate a wider variety of body types. There are lots of places that will do MTM casual button ups.

I have several MTM shirts and suits, and honestly I don't think it's really worth it. For a couple reasons, I'm much happier these days finding a brand that fits me off the rack and having it altered if necessary.

1. The grand promise of MTM is the perfect fit, but your first one or two attempts are almost certainly going to leave you with a garment that doesn't fit. At best, this requires more fittings, trips to the tailor, and time. At worst, you're stuck paying for a garment that you will never wear and cannot return.

2. MTM will always be more expensive. For example, Indochino suits are pretty cheap ($400), but for the same level of construction and fabric you're looking at a a $200 suit from Men's Warehouse. J. Crew sells $130 Thomas Mason shirts, and to get the same shirt MTM from my Hong Kong tailor costs me $200.
He has a solid command of English. I was in his (very difficult) class several years back. He was maybe a little quirky, but he was not a crackpot.

Not surprised to see his name on something--potentially--big like this.
0. What does the agency do? Which country? Which part of the industry? Remote or onsite?

1 why only some of the employees are salaried - is this a management divide, skills gap?

Usually hourly vs salaried indicates the divide between skills the company thinks are either not core or more easily measured and tracked. If you are salarying people doing the same job as hourly workers then yes expect tension

if you are hiring people in to work on well defined clearly measurable projects whilst salaried empoyees perform other tasks then the divide is understandable to everyone involved

your reasons as a company for this approach are your own, (I am guessing you run a small agency and are using a throwaway) - but your reasons need to be understood and accepted by your employyees - if you can explain the reasons here you will have a better chance of winning everyone over
So think of how conservative it is. Someone older, and more conservative could pull of a double breasted suit jacket where someone younger would look like they are wearing a costume. Where something like a single button jacket would is a bit flashier and would fit someone who is much more out going and confident. There are a lot of variations on the same thing. I can just think of styles that run the scales of traditional vs modern and flashy vs conservative, but with those 2 axises you can do a lot to find something to really accent someones personality and style.
You might find graphical programming languages like LabVIEW interesting; here's a little tutorial that shows what LabVIEW programs look like:

http://www.ee.buffalo.edu/faculty/paololiu/edtech/roaldi/tut...

"Wires" that carry values are color-coded according to their contents (integers are blue, floating point values are orange, booleans are green, etc.). Loops like FOR and WHILE are actual "loops" that encircle the repeated code. The flow of information along the wires determines the order of execution for the code, and you can debug your code by turning on a special mode that actually shows the information moving down the wires.
Compete by what standard? The article doesn't even define the premise it's referring to.
This is something Aaron Wall has been trying to expose for the past 3-4 years over at SEOBook.com (why oh why are these SO few comments compared to SEOMoz everytime I visit there? this guy is NEVER afraid to speak the truth), and it's just 1 of many disturbing trends happening. Google's mission is simple: they want you to rely less on organic search and more on Adwords for your traffic.

Nowadays, you can't even see what keywords are driving traffic to your site if users are logged in (50% of queries or so). Plus it's hard to even correlated your SEO efforts with rankings because Google does stuff like drop your rankings randomly so you don't know what works.
The Only Thing Lamer than Corporate VCs? International, Non-Tech Corporate VCs
It is entirely possible that I don't know what I'm talking about, but I don't understand how this plan could possibly work. If developers thought they could make money writing Blackberry apps, wouldn't they already be writing them? Since I don't think $10,000 can cover the cost of developing a native app, I don't see how RIM's bounty would influence a developer's decision to develop for their platform.

Am I missing something?
If anyone's wondering. This is Shin Mochizuki's page: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/news-japanese.html
PostgreSQL with sharding is called Postgres-XC.
that's actually a really interesting point and something which i had never really considered. googling 'computational linguistics' (for me anyhow) renders exactly zero ads, while googling 'computers' gives me almost an entire screenful.
If you're in Australia Vinspi.com.au are an online tailored/bespoke suit shop.

You provide the measurements and build a suit design online.
2 week turnaround.

They only ship to Australia at the moment and suits themselves are made in Bangkok.
Might we amend the headline slightly to clarify this is not the real Netflix.com domain at stake? I should have re-read the headline, but my detail-fu is always off at the end of the day and I just spent an hour thinking somebody at Netflix was going to get fired because they let the real domain name lapse. :)
Just like the sesame-seed hamburger bun: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/11.html

(Though, personally, in this case, I don't think Google's getting enough credit. The added space for search tools is designed to make search better for most users, and probably do, even if most of us don't need them.)
Thank goodness I'm more intelligent than to use Windows 8!

/end country bumpkin
In Vancouver it's hard enough to find french cuffs on shirts, or even a super 150.

No one wears suits anymore and those who do just want cheap garbage, that's pretty much the point of the article.

The bespoke suit is the new Mac Pro, cheap to those who value it and overpriced to those who have no use for it, hence virtually no bottom line. (Mac Pros aren't a $24B business, but to those who desire them there is no substitute).

Get your t-shirts tailored and you'll start to see the value tailors can provide if you're the sort of person willing to spend money to look better.
Have you checked out the handful of books listed on the YCombinator "Startup Library" page (http://ycombinator.com/lib.html)?:

Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters

Jessica Livingston: Founders at Work
Nobody really thought the FBI would admit to being hacked, right?

While there is no evidence that they did get hacked, they are incompetent enough that I find it very plausible.
Hey everyone, original author here. Thanks for the feature requests and issues on GitHub. I'm away from my dev box for a few days but I'll see to them soon.
But that's sort of my point; today's optimisation can be tomorrow's performance regression, security bug, or be outdone by an update by the OS vendor.

It's very rare that a program's performance is being held back by a standard library function (speaking of libc here). I remain highly skeptical that the algorithm isn't the real issue instead of the implementation of standard library functions.

It's just not worth it.
Michael Dell hopefully dumped enough shares to have sufficiently large warchest to buy back dell ...
Declare victory and come home. Leave nation building to the natives not the contractors.

Fix the tax code so that the rich pay taxes commensurate with the rest of us, so that corporations cant shift earnings offshore, so that resource extraction companies dont get depletion allowance, so that excessive earnings get put to productive use, on and on. Then we will have money to pay down our debt and to move forward.
Interesting. I wonder how the foreign suit makers affect this business. I have a few friends that visit Thailand regularly and get custom suits made (cost is <$200 USD). For the price of one of these suits in NY, you could fly to Bangkok (in Business Class!) AND get a few custom made suits.
Frew, who apprenticed with a Savile Row tailor, can — all by himself, and almost all by hand — create a pattern, cut fabric and expertly construct a suit that, for about $4,000, perfectly molds to its owner’s body. In a city filled with very rich people, he quickly had all the orders he could handle.

You don't have to be Wall Street to figure out the bleedingly obvious solution to being a starving artist who has so much work they have to turn work away. Raise the prices. Then raise the prices. Then when you're done with that, raise the prices.

At some point you'll be too expensive for the typical businessman, which will make you absolutely crack for a certain type of person common in New York, thus defeating all efforts at being less busy. So it goes. I guess you will have to raise prices.
It's well known that the FBI's IT infrastructure is an unparalleled disaster and its agents are tragically unskilled when it comes to technology, even the ones tasked with technology related investigations.

Therefore, there's no reason to believe the FBI even knows if they had that data, if they had stored that data on a particular laptop, or if their laptop had been compromised.
Kickstarter does not provide a way for projects to give refunds. (Or if they do, they've hidden it well.)

My kick-started Test-Driven Javascript screencast [1] was very successful and I'm actually delivering on my promises [2]. But I have had a few people complain about the videos, and one person took me up on my offer of a refund.

I offered to write him a check, but he's in England (I'm in the US) and the check-cashing and currency-conversion fees would be higher than the value of the check. So I went looking for a refund option. I couldn't find a way to do it in Kickstarter or Amazon Payments. I offered to send the backer the money through Amazon Payments (he'd have to sign up for it, though) or to transfer his account to someone else, but ultimately he decided he'd rather just keep his subscription.

Kickstarter rules say you're supposed to provide a refund if you don't deliver. But they don't provide a way to do so.
It's my only disappointment with them. If one of my customers is unhappy, I want to provide a refund.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/188988365/lets-code-test...

[2] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/188988365/lets-code-test...
More like evil genius… Variations of this trick are a common optimization in embedded systems for years. (Stuff like this is why “premature optimization” is considered such a bad thing.)

On that note, I find it interesting that the article writer wanted to see more languages support pointer arithmetic. Language mechanics like that have developed a reputation of being “unsafe” due to they enabling common programming errors like buffer overflows and the like. Depending on the level of abstraction between the language and underlying iron, it might not even be possible to do stuff like this anymore. (Some modern languages/VMs/compilers use the more abstract concept of “references” over “pointers.” Even Apple’s flavor of Objective C, which AFAICT is still using pointers as an implementation detail, prefers to couch documentation and API conventions in the more abstract convention to deter some of the direct memory access abuses that were discovered during the Classic-to-Carbon Mac migration way back when…)
My entry point to hacker news is actually on hckrnews.com and I took a few design pointers from that site when I made this. I very rarely actually see the front page but this extension improves the comments and other pages as well.
>>If a business can shut down a factory in Michigan and reopen in China for some perceived cost advantage...

In the vast majority of cases, the "perceived" cost advantage is real, and very significant.
And suppresses better and more on-topic answers to boot. Removing the grandstanding of this tangent would greatly improve this thread and give the focus to something that the vast majority of people visiting here would be interested in.
The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing.

Why do you think the suit is dead?

I wear a suit (not always, but often enough to have an opinion).

I've never bought an expensive suit, but I nor do I buy cheap suits. I guess I generally spend around $500.

I work with people who spend $2000 on suits though. These aren't bespoke, but are from nice fabrics and cut very well (eg, Hugo Boss etc). I'm no suit expert, but I can tell the difference.

I can't say I've seen any particular decrease in suit wearing over the past 15 years I've been working, although ties are less common that they used to be.

In my experience location and field of work makes a bigger difference to suit wearing than anything else.
My best friend from highschool has ended up in this world through his passion for all things sartorial (http://www.thearmourystore.com/).

He was involved in creating a wonderful documentary that follows suit makers of Naples called O'Mast (http://vimeo.com/16443611), which even for someone like me who knows nothing about suits was really interesting. I suggest checking it out as it'll give you an idea of the kind of skill required to make a custom made suit.

No matter what you may think about spending $4000 on a suit, it's a shame to see this kind of craftmanship dying out =(
The fact that the agent's name and position are already publicly available might suggest that AntiSec simply used his name to appear more credible.

Or they targeted him because he was publicly known.
(function() {
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My point is that I agree with grandparent, that they just allow ads to be shown, and it's not technically impossible to reload ads, or prevent page contents view, if no ads visible.
> But that's sort of my point; today's optimisation can be tomorrow's performance regression, security bug, or be outdone by an update by the OS vendor.

>It's very rare that a program's performance is being held back by a standard library function (speaking of libc here). I remain highly skeptical that the algorithm isn't the real issue instead of the implementation of standard library functions.

In the last year, we encountered a bug with Solaris Sun Studio 12 on x64 where memcpy wasn't automatically inlined, forcing a full function jump every time it was invoked. That was a major performance hit, and forced us to switch to an internal implementation(that normally is worse on Solaris). IIRC, we didn't have much luck getting a patch out of Oracle for the issue.

So no, this really isn't true. In an ideal world, it would be.
FWIW I didn't downvote. Another user already answered the question correctly, so a longer reply seemed redundant, but I wanted them to know which of the two answers was correct. I agree that wrong information does not necessarily merit a downvote, but it's to be expected.
I think it's more a matter of simple customer segmentation (same principle behind outlet malls: charge price-insensitive customers a premium, without losing the price-sensitive but hassle-insensitive customers who are willing to schlep to the outlet mall for a discount.)

AdBlock allows Google customers to self-segment the same way. Win-win.
whatis -s1 $(dpkg -L coreutils | grep "bin/" | sed 's,^.*\/,,')

Should work too (and be a lot faster).
not if it's defined in local context.
The real key is find Gtk themes that are compatible with both the Gtk2 and Gtk3 engines. Combine that with a good Gnome-Shell theme and a good font, and things actually look really nice.

I actually just found a couple new themes that are really great:

- Mediterranean Dark (Gtk+/Window themes): http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/MediterraneanNight?co...

- Delorean Dark (Shell theme): http://killhellokitty.deviantart.com/art/DeLorean-Dark-0-94-...
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I almost pathologically click on the ads. If I hold down CTRL and click I am giving back more than is enough to receive such an amazing, life changing?, history changing?, service. Here's that click.

The room that is taken up by the left and right columns also are welcome. I sometimes find exactly what I am looking for in the right column. I actually wish Google gave more information and less site links as results.
That's not applicable to this article.

It applies, if at all, to articles where the question mark is added because the author is trying to strengthen a weak article. For instance, if researchers discovered a new drug that helps with HIV, by writing the headline as "Has a cure for HIV been found?" it makes the article sound like it is reporting on a stronger result.

In this case, the article is about a group of people that are actually trying to answer the question "Can America Compete?". The title is appropriate.
Even the richest customer simply has to wait — sometimes months — before the new suit is finished. No wonder so many pass up a $4,000 bespoke suit for a ready-to-wear Kiton version at twice the price.

Isn't it pretty clear here that he should raise prices dramatically?

Clearly the demand is there (people spend twice the price on a inferior product).
anyone know the font used in the example images?
Related, I noticed a few days ago that google.com, which was once the most minimalistic page possible, was cluttered by (1) an ad for chrome on top, and (2) an ad for the Google tablet on the bottom. It felt messy.

Times have definitely changed.
On twitter the FBI stated:

"We never had info in question. Bottom Line: TOTALLY FALSE"
As I was reading the article I hoped I'd find a dose of common sense in the comments, and indeed, here it is. Good as always, Patrick.

Guys, take notes, this also applies for contracting.
With Zuckerberg pledging not to sell a single one of his shares during the next year (http://goo.gl/XkPk1) maybe some of Facebook's employees will be convinced to do the same?
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> Plus it's hard to even correlated your SEO efforts with rankings because Google does stuff like drop your rankings randomly

And therefore they would have to increase your rankings randomly as well?
For some reason I originally interpreted it as being a reference to Intel the chip manufacturer, but in retrospect that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
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Nice. I was trying to remember how to extract the summary lines by themselves. And yes, it's much faster (fewer execs, less manpage formatting and parsing).

Note that your solution skips chroot (man section 8). The fix:

whatis -s1,8 $(dpkg -L coreutils | grep "bin/" | sed 's,^.*\/,,')
or they are hoping apps that hit 1k will hit 10 (or close) on their own.
I suppose you would have an issue with MongoDB specifically if you were trying to rebalance from day one. But generally you wouldn't. I know Foursquare is using MongoDB's Auto Sharding in production and they would definitely have a lot of writes.

And the number of tables DOES matter for sharding if you are implementing it yourself.
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If you're looking for work in London and have experience in Tech. You may want to attend this event while they still have tickets.
"Only 18.5% of the screen is devoted to something that people are actually looking for."

Once again, people dismiss ads as simply spam or something that provides no value to the search query when in study after study, at least on Adwords and SEM, paid results often boost relevance vs. a page only of organic results. This will of course differ by query and category of query but Google has already done a lot of work to make sure ads don't show for queries that have little to no commercial value or do not have enough query volume to risk jeopardizing the search experience.

If you're shopping for something, the paid and Google shopping results are often more relevant than the organic results since a lot of them incorporate real time price feeds or promotion codes. These are driven by the recognition of your shopping intent

Advertisers do not bid on keywords that deliver no economic value so it's in their best interest to only show up when they are the most relevant to your query. Through quality score, AdWords also shows ads that have been engaged with most often and with strong landing pages so that you don't get spammy ads or irrelevant ads that are unrelated to your query.
I'm happy to say that this year we're moving to a bigger venue. Instead of Dinkelspiel we're going to be in Memorial Auditorium, which is more than 2x bigger. Many thanks to the Stanford administration for that.
Only tested with CentOS 5.4 and is at version 1.0 ?

Seems odd for PostgreSQL not to have made cluster features more of a priority given the more towards cloud based deployments.
Why is my program slow when looping over exactly 8192 elements?
What newspapers and other media could learn from Reddit
What do future products look like? Personal, sensual, intimate
Clearly he isn't a crank, and I didn't mean for a minute to imply that he was one. I just found the design aesthetics of his web page to be an... interesting coincidence.

But that said -- just trust your gut instincts here. There's a long history in mathematics of brilliant people going off into the dark for frighteningly long periods of time, and coming back with announcements of major results that turn out to be... interesting, but ultimately to contain irreparable gaps. And the fact that nobody -- not even people like Tao or Conrad -- seems to know what exactly he's talking about (even though they obviously respect the guy) doesn't sound too encouraging, either.
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Another comment, two days later... I will assume you're not a troll and try to educate you.

To rehash:

You deny all the documentation for widespread antisemitism in the Muslim world - like schoolbooks(!), TV programs, other official media, presidents(!), religious scholars, documented transfer of antisemitism from the 3rd Reich, etc, etc.

Your only counterargument is a claim about personal experience!

My pain limit was your conspiracy theory that 39% of Muslims in Sweden were antisemitic in 2006 because: The Swedes are Nazis and taught the immigrants antisemitism in less than a generation!.

Advice:

There are lots of facts I don't like, "batista". But I don't sell out my intellectual integrity and start lying to deny them. I have some f-ing dignity!

If you want to argue on this subject, instead note that racism were common in Europe until modern times -- it is a phase which hopefully the Muslim world will leave, when their dictators are gone.

Please stop both lying and being a drag on HN quality.
Tall poppy syndrome, really.
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0. Mostly, we do web game development in the US for larger corps. 98% of employees are onsite.

1. You are correct, currently we pay management salary and everyone else hourly. It was actually only recently that we even moved management to salary per my recommendation and preference to be moved to salary.

I'm pretty new to HN, this isn't a throwaway, should it be?

I'm considering making the suggestion to the owner to move everyone to salary so that our costs are a little more predictable. I understand that taking away time and a half could be a sticking point for some of the guys... We would obviously take this into consideration when figuring salaries.

Personally I feel it might make the work place a little more laid back.
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Ha! I find myself almost disappointed mine isn't in there.