skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Review from a girl on this business:

I went to see how the site was, found it more or less friendly and designed well enough to keep me on the page. Wanted to know how much the bras cost - they won't tell you until you login. Easy, quick login not requiring email confirmation so they kept me hooked. I was provided with some well drawn pictures of women's shapes and asked to choose - I clicked through a few questions and felt they understood my exact problems and concerns when buying bras (I usually go to an expensive professional fitter so the questions were welcome and relevant). Along the way they kept telling me I was normal and gave some comforting stats about women. Made me feel like I was in the right place to keep buying. Finally got to the buy page, prices are good compared to the high-end shops though they don't have the really good hand-made items I look for, nor the higher-end makers like La Perla (surprised at that).

Now did I sign up for the 5 bras they'll send me to try, and free to send back what I don't want? No, because a) I'm not in the U.S. and b) I'm spoilt with my personal fitter who has my card on file and knows my fit really well. But that's because I have access to her shop, in a huge city where they can afford this luxury. If I was living in a smaller city, definitely would sign up, no questions. It's Zappos for bras, and I don't see why they can't easily apply this model to other clothing types like shoes and shirts (also hard to fit).

I wish them luck, great service in my opinion.

>Where are the panties in True & Co.’s business model?

You can't ship and return these items safely.

Further: I went back to see what happened on checkout. They do something clever here: you choose 3 bras and they choose 2. This is another reason I go to a store: I ask the expert to choose me something from the rack that she thinks will work well on me, after learning about my tastes. I badly want to order those 5 bras now just to find out what the other 2 are, and they just take a deposit of $45. I think they have some quite brilliant ideas here that will work very well on their target market.
Regarding your 'onleave' idea; go has a similar construct called defer [1], it is exactly what you are talking about and (imo) is a really elegant way of dealing with cleanup.

[1]http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#defer
I agree with this in general, but there are exceptions. For example, it would be nice to know immediately if a new change has caused your conversion rate to drop precipitously for some reason, so that you can turn it back off and take a minute to see if you can figure out why before you lose a full day's worth of revenue.
Hi, I'm the creator of Cascade. Thanks for posting. Happy to answer any questions.
I think a raw feature comparison wouldn't quite capture it, because nearly all micro-frameworks have essentially the same features on a list or comparison grid. I think the real "magic" of Bullet requires using it a bit to fully understand why it is a fundamentally better and more flexible approach. I have thought about making a screencast series or a nice tutorial with an example app I made with it. I am leaning towards a screencast or two because I feel a lot of the niceties of this functional approach have to be explained since most people are used to the more typical flat approach.
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> A suitable algorithm, based on Kinect 3D models

I can see poorly researched headlines now: "Nerds trick women into showing them their breasts via video games"
Doesn't look like fair-use to me.

The rebelliouspixels version, with its extensive on-screen critique is fair-use since it appears to be a critique. But if the original YouTube version lacked that, then the video devolves into little more than a fanfic video by a Buffy-loving Twilight-hater.

Even the rebelliouspixels version appears to contain far more "quoting" of the original material than is needed for its critique.
Or investing in things they don't understand. Which seems like a pretty good sign of dumb money to me.
But this is your opinion. I love the one he linked to and did not know about that they are so cheap at Costco.

What he and you prove as a point is that to him Costco deal is perfect while your "thick hair" it too thick to save money with Costco. So the Dollar Shave Club will be perfect for you (to save money) and useless to him. Therefore, the DSC will never scale well enough because people like me or OP will never have a thick hair :)
I have long wanted a bank that offered this, but I haven't found one. You might be able to hack something together with the Intuit API (Mint.com data) when it is available. http://developer.intuit.com/agg-cat/index.html
"For every bra a woman buys, she probably buys at least 5 pairs of panties."

I beg to differ. I'm a man, and have never bought either bra or panties for my wife, but I have watched at least 100 hours of QVC and HSN (competitor home shopping networks).

I have seen MANY presentations of various bras, and virtually none for panties. I'm quite certain that's no accident.
When I worked at a medium sized American public university 2 years ago, and a small public school district 5 years ago, the desktop Windows PCs they purchased were around $800 each without a monitor, so I doubt that the price difference is very significant unless there is a big difference in the lifetime cost due to different failure rates and warranty terms.
Try webbit.
Yet another attempt/excuse for learning Haskell!
I pass a pile of human feces at least once a week on my walk to work, and the street in front of my office smells like urine 24x7.

I'm curious as to why the office building property managers don't hose down the sidewalks in front of their properties every morning. This seems to be a common practice back East.
It's very often that investors get wrapped up in the hot business method rather than taking the time to think about how that might actually apply to the specific industry. They've seen how subscriptions and algorithms are going gangbusters for companies like Amazon, why not expand to an industry they know nothing about?
Most of these VCs are likely not coming from the garment industry, so they might know absolutely nothing about manufacturing or consumer experience. They try to pick based on things they know, and what companies they think might be similar. Much of the time, that's a very poor model for investment and they would be better of sticking to what they understand. At the same time, how many original investors actually understood what Facebook or Google were all about?
This is indeed a pretty sweet deal. In the US anything outside of teeth cleaning might result in personal bankruptcy, depending on employment situation.
I'm excited to not have to have my apps look like every other Twitter Bootstrap app out there. I love where Twitter Bootstrap starts me, just that I tend to end there as well. Having some assistance with developing good design assets will take me a long way.
Great work so far. I like the organization. Any plans to release video lectures?
I'm not a fan of slides presented sans context, but these are very nicely done.
I had discussed a Kinect idea with some fellow employees when I worked at VS and they scoffed at the idea.

I think the issue is that breasts are more complex than just external shape with internal density and natural placement being just the tip of the iceberg. All the factors involved rule out a cheap modeling method such as Kinect or webcams and in the end, make visiting a store, to be measured properly and try for fit, the more economic choice.
None. I'm guessing the biggest post-2005 company would be Twitter.
While a remix, it is also commentary on the work itself.
How SignNow Signed Up to Delight Their Customers and Improve Their App
I think you misunderstand the author. It sounds to me like he meant that it doesn't matter which one you happen to prefer, as long as there is some meaningful number of users which would prefer to switch from GIMP to CS2 for free.
Sindhya raises some very valid points that help illustrate that a large portion of the investment community simply can't tell the difference between startups that are truly innovative and those simply clothed in the accouterments of innovation. Tacking on the terms algorithm, social, mobile, patentable, etc. seems to fool quite a few people.
Taxi drivers are mainly worried about People being sick in their cab , people who don't pay or people who assault them.

All taxi drivers I have known have met all kinds of somewhat crazy/scary people I would really have a hard time believing that a gay person would be the slightest bit controversial.

Of course there is always some risk but if it is large enough that you are seriously concerned about being randomly assaulted just for being gay you have probably chosen a bad place to live.
Ok, what did I miss? I ran that whole rant through my "What are they trying to say" filter twice and the best it could come up with was "Those poopie-heads won't fund my great idea."

Paragraph by paragraph here are the thesis statements:

VC's funded a bra company with an algorithm VC's didn't fund my idea/company based on things I think are important

That other, funded company, really has no idea, consumers are idiots and clueless companies benefit.

Companies I don't understand, think poorly of, and aren't me are getting more money thrown at them.

Funding is all back channels and who you know because companies that are horrible are getting funding while mine is not.

If VCs would just wake up and see what was going on I'd get funding and those crappy companies wouldn't.

I've got a great idea in a really big market, if only those stupid VCs would take their blinders off and fund it we could all be happy.

It is pretty clear that Sindhya doesn't agree with the way various VC's are investing their funds because she spends a lot of ink complaining about what she thinks they want to hear vs what is really important in her space (the whole boob algorithm concept), but skims right over the whole "they have money and you don't" market reality thing. It isn't easy but you have to ask yourself, what is going on here that I don't understand? And work through that, rather than call an industry that has been pretty damn successful creating companies over the last century a bunch of idiots.
They got OLPCed.
Basically, yes, that's the point. Publishing the source code of the client allows the users to be sure that FileRock (Client) isn't "secretly uploading encryption keys to the servers". But please note that the server is not just an abstracted hard disk: it has a role in efficiently checking the integrity of your data, which goes beyond the encryption. For instance, FileRock is able to efficiently detect whether the data has been tampered by deleting a file. Although some of the work is done on the server, the client can counter-check its answers.
You aren't annoyed when someone acts 'matter of fact' especially about things that haven't even happened yet? It's the ultimate in arrogance.
What makes this interesting is the fact that Microsoft is actually releasing and promoting Linux images with open source software... They know they need to push Linux in order to effectively compete with AWS and they are acting on it
GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld
Well, maybe. The "wrong size" problem is only part of the story. Another is that many bras are generally poorly constructed, lose their shape after continued use, and sizing is not the only issue (fabric tolerance, flop etc).

But more than anything else, the problem is price. A "good" workhorse bra (workwear, not lingerie fantasy stuff) will set you back on average, oh, say about $65 ($100 is not uncommon). You probably need half a dozen. I have no idea what the economics are and why they are so expensive, but I can't imagine what price a "Kinect 3D" custom bra would come in at.

And the other aspect of "a good bra is hard to find" is that once you find one, there's a huge lock-in factor. Women will re-order the same model for years.

So yeah, while there is certainly a non-zero market for something like this, it's probably not huge. Witness the fact that it is quite easy and even not too pricey to get custom jeans made to measure, and yet the majority of the population doesn't.
Making money doesn't mean "not fair use." Just like not making money doesn't mean "fair use."
Indian Health Service is the currently running, government health care for a small fraction of the population. If they cannot get that right, they cannot get it right for the rest.

Adding a few more rules is the dictionary definition of loosing freedom. Adding the wrong rules will.
Mawson's Antarctic Trek: The Greatest Survival Story
> People who want a the government to control health care

No one wants the government to control healthcare. Many people want the government to run healthcare, and accept that as a result it will be government controlled . You might consider this a distinction without difference, but it paints supporters of public health care in a light they do not deserve. An analogy:

You seem to want my health care to be controlled by people whose own profit is their motive -- in fact, by corporations who are required by law to maximize shareholder profit at the expense of my health.

> "Look that isn't working well, we must need more government."

Most are saying "look, that isn't working well. But e.g. NHS in England is working extremely well. Let's copy that". And after looking at the NHS, it turns out that you need more (and especially, a very different kind) of government involvement.

Can you point to a working example of a system that you believe in? Because if you can't, I think the NHS and government involvement carry a LOT more weight as arguments.
I see your point. Fair enough :)

Though I'd argue those other methods really boil down to testing. Code review is a peer "test" of code. Design review is a peer test.
> everyone else here is calling me a smartass and you're telling me i'm an idiot.

This is pure gold :D
Is it an outrageous price to ask? Please send your feedback.
I got round to thinking about offsetting my hosting/infrastructure costs for Criticue.com -- a feedback exchange online app I launched with your help exactly one month ago.

I intend to keep the core offering free but do need a revenue source. Don't we all. :)

Here's my first stab at the beast:
http://i.imgur.com/yfjXb.png

My questions:

Is the offer clear and understandable?

Is this the amount you'd pay for the service?

This is a pretty obvious route to take and has been suggested by many users but I do have backup plans in case it doesn't work at all. :)

Thank you so much everyone for your excellent feedback so far!

EDIT: Link to the service (not everyone knows what it does haha): www.criticue.com
The parts you mention are largely in Alexandria, Fairfax County, not The City of Alexandria, and they are quite different too. In any case because of its huge Korean influence, I don't know of any place in the area that is at all like Annandale.
You sure? I don't know if VS will by default, but (at least on my machine) it's installed under ${VS11}/VC/crt/src so I'm sure it's possible - not sure if it's the complete sources, though.

Eclipse or IntelliJ will for Java if you install the JDK, though, and I'm pretty sure you can install the libc++ sources for XCode and go through them if you want (don't quite me on that though).
How Google Sees Freemium
"Boobs" + "Algorithm" = HN frontpage. Savvy marketing there.
The pop-up video played fine (without the popups) on my iPad.
Tonx really does provide a product that is passion driven though. Most people are not passionate about new razors or underwear or toilet paper. You're glad to have it but you have little emotional attachment in the way of something like coffee.
Also, CS2 is PowerPC only on OS X.
It depends for what you want the images. In most cases, mainstream users don't care how the images are set up internally. They just want a Dokuwiki or Redmine instance and images like this allow them to quickly have one up and running that they can use right away, without having to read a lot of documentation or tinker with scripts.
Such large raises generally do not continue after one has 3-5 years of experience.
>>Where are the panties in True & Co.’s business model?

>You can't ship and return these items safely.

Also it's not as though panties are as difficult as bras to purchase. T&C is trying to do the hard work; doing relatively unrelated easy work alongside that might be a distraction.

TFA is a woman and all, but it's still tempting to consider her one of those 'old boy' industry stalwarts who are so afraid of disruption from outside that they can't imagine what it would look like. If she can find one, she should ask a travel agent what he thinks of "algorithms".

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Actually, that cartoon is part of an elaborate book (landoflisp.com) meant to school beginners on Lisp.
Indeed it would.
Filewave or JAMF Casper for updates, I'm sure.
For those looking for complete control of their hardware platform, the following link is a great place to start. Ever wonder how ARM Cortex chips work at a lower level? Afaik, this is the only available open source hypervisor.

http://www.openvirtualization.org/open-source-arm-trustzone....

More information on the "opensource-ness" of Raspberry Pi:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/all-co...
Dreamhost, etc. use Fantastico-style scripts for shared hosting setup of apps. The Bitnami apps there are kept up to date and setup with best security practices in mind. BitNami also offers Windows and OS X apps at bitnami.org, but the focus of the VM Depot is on Linux (Disclaimer, I am one of the Bitnami developers :)
Infact hacking new things , customizing product as per my needs brings me joy.
Creating a sub network of approved bitcoins who's ownership/lineage could be verified. Perhaps by forcing companies to register their wallet addresses and the details of anyone buying through their bank using a credit card (this is assuming that the company doesn't want to break the law). A 3rd party (government) signed hash could be required for all transaction to prove legality.

Deep packet inspection could be used to locate people who send bitcoin transactions (by default transactions are far from anonymous).
Offline seizure could be used to prove large wallets illegality (e.g. if they tracked down silk road owners). There are plenty of algorithms that can infer people you might know based on your FB friends friends, I'm sure they can be easily applied to transactions.
I've got both a mac and windows machine. I never really got into the mac thing. I find I do most of my non-ios development in a ubuntu virtual machine on my windows laptop.

I got a 11" MacBook air, and aside from the small drive space, I think it is fine for coding, assuming you'll regularly be hooking it up to an external monitor and keyboard. I actually code on the machine without external tools, but like I said, it isn't my main machine.

On the other side, with Windows laptops now having touch screens, I'd struggle to recommend a mac until they do to.
It's not hard to be honest with people when I don't look down on them because they're not as educated as I am...

If an officer is being disrespectful and you dislike him, that's fine. If he's being disrespectful and you immediately think "Look at this idiot, if only he knew what kind of degrees I had" you've likely got a problem.
Ruby like any other high level language is great if the wizard supports your objective.

If it turns out your authentication needs don't match the wizard's expectation, good luck attempting to ram it into place.

In general, I find scafolding (and migration) is a a great trick used by captaucular developers to impress pointy haired bosses.
Not everyone reacts that way, which suggests to me it's not "natural".
So you are saying if they mine 10 tons of Iron, and bring it to earth, sans the rest of the asteroid, it'll blow up and cause destruction on earth? I think I missed that part in physics.

Otherwise I don't see your point.
While your comment is going to get downvoted, appropriately I might add, I still would like to thank you for voicing my similarly juvenile humour.
Dos anybody knows if AWS has some special arrangement with Microsoft? For example do they collect licensing fees on behalf of Microsoft when you run the WM and thereby are except from the normal licensing rules?

Or can I also make public available Windows WM images and publish them legally from my website?
Can you send me an email? I'll take a look at it to figure out what's going on.
I'm doing mainly embedded C/C++ development nowadays, but did some Java/J2EE work a couple years back too, and Debian GNU/Linux has been and still is my OS of choice, but Ubuntu is probably an easier entry point to the Debian ecosystem. You can easily try it with e.g. Wubi or booting from a USB stick, but if you like it you will get better performance with a native installation. I'm currently running Debian on a Dell M4500 with a first-gen i7 and 8GB RAM, and full HD matte display. It has been an excellent machine for the last couple of years. The current M4700 looks nice too.

From 2006 to 2008 I did everything except development (only some web dev stuff) on an Apple Macbook. It was a really good product, excellent font rendering at the time, stuff just worked. Well there was some pain with using fink/darwinports and rails etc. back in the day, but I think that is a solved problem today with Homebrew.

During 2011 I also had a contract where I did C# development in Windows 7 on a high-end Dell Inspiron with an i5 and 8GB RAM and a 160 GB Intel SSD. This worked fine too even though Visual Studio was still slow on our rather big project.

For a general purpose development machine today I'd look at lots of RAM, i.e. at least 8GB, at least a good i5 cpu, and an excellent screen with at least 1920x1080 and I prefer matte displays for development. Good full-size keyboard too. SSD is nice too, but at least on Dells it probably cheaper to replace the disk yourself.

If a laptop, some people like to have a docking station that is able to drive two external displays. I don't, mainly because my M4500 display is so much better than the glossy cheap external displays I have access to at work.

If you can afford it the 15" Macbook Pro with a Retina display is pretty sweet.

Having used Linux+Mac+Windows the last couple of years has given me the knowledge to be able to get work done on all of these platforms, and debunk FUD about why a specific plaform sucks/rules. I think that is an argument to switch platform every now and then.
To be cynical: they're soon launching a new product. As of late, they've ramped up the blog from almost standing still.
Suddenly I can clearly see what must be one of Github's long-term goals: to make git usable end-to-end in the browser, and in a way where that is preferable for certain situations.

We're going to continue spending more and more of our computer time in the browser. It's the universal platform.
Yup. In Canada, hard-core health care is quick, cheap and amazingly efficient. Any thing that can seriously screw with you is covered 100%. People with a cancer diagnosis get started on treatment within days. Pregnancies are smooth and straightforward, even more so if there are complications. Trauma is just the same as an American hospital.

The Canadian system slips a little when it comes to non life threatening issues that could be considered "quality of life" concerns. Knee and hip surgeries, elective procedures, chronic conditions, non serious specialist procedures (dependent on field)

There is a movement here to expand private health care into these areas. Personally, I support such a move but in Canada we have a group as pig headed about "no private health care" as you do about "no public health care" which makes things a little difficult.