skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"perfect fit" may be less of an issue than you think for high end fashion. If you asked them if they have trouble finding the perfect fit, I wonder what they would say. A lot of these women wear things like Lululemon, which fits really well, and makes their butt look good.

They don't necessarily wear high end fashion (heels, skirts, whatever) because it "fits". They wear it because they like how it looks, how it makes them feel, etc.

My wife is an independent high end fashion designer. Working on fit is incredibly hard and specialized, from a product and marketing perspective. Good patterns are the fashion equivalent of good software. They take a long time to get right and require a lot of work. They also don't necessarily translate to an online experience that well, for several reasons.

Any business in this space needs to overcome them:

High end designers usually target particular body types, and then market specifically to that group.

I worked on a project for Levi's in the 90s for getting the perfect fit for jeans. We had laser cutters, 3D body scanners, and more.

It failed. Getting the right fit wasn't a just a matter of measurements. It was a manufacturing issue too.

Even two garments that have the same measurements may not fit exactly the same because of manufacturing issues, fabric tolerances, even customer perception.

When a customer tries a garment on, it can stretch, alter or rip. So if they don't purchase it, the second person trying it on may not have the same experience.

A garment that "fits" someone may not actually look good, depending on their body type.

High end customers also have expectations of being able to return anything, for any reason (think of how Nordstrom's handles this for example) These things can really hurt margins.
What makes more money, mining bitcoins, or writing about bitcoins?
Petulant replies receive in kind.
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Oppose CISPA if you value any privacy in our digital world
Nonsense. Hacker News is about Hacking:

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(programmer_subculture)

"A hacker is someone who loves to program or who enjoys playful cleverness, or a combination of the two. The act of engaging in activities (such as programming or other media) in a spirit of playfulness and exploration is termed hacking."

What _why is doing definitely fits that definition.
IIRC there was a man in (I believe) Austria who recently got arrested for this exact reason and he was trying to scrounge up enough in donations to pay for his legal fees.

Edit: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/tor-operator-char...
What are the scope restrictions and privacy controls you feel the bill is missing? (If you think I'm about to hit you over the head, know that I think the bill is also missing controls.)
I've been working in a Scala shop for the last year. Once you've begun to take advantage of the type systems, monads, and writing in a functional manner, Scala becomes a extremely pleasant language to work with and significantly improves productivity.
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Ah ok, thanks. I guess the documentation is a little outdated then. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check pyres out when I get to that point in my project.
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One reason that software patents are so crappy is that the patent bar actively filters out the people who would be most knowledgeable about mathematics and algorithms.

The problem is that algorithms and math are not considered patentable. The guidelines for membership in the patent bar specifically exclude mathematics coursework as a valid educational background. The reasoning, I believe, is that abstract laws should not be patented.

However, with the rise of software patents, we clearly are allowing algorithms and mathematics to be patented. However, the patent bar actually specifically excludes the background that would be most useful in evaluating these patents.

It makes sense if you think of the patent system as a cartel. By allowing math to be patented, you expand your domain. By denying people with a mathematics background to sit for the patent bar, you restrict your competition.

Sometimes, when you're confused by a bad policy, just ask yourself: what would a person with no morals, plenty of power, and a single minded desire to enrich himself do? Usually, that will explain the policy.
the main point is not to isolate yourself from the external world, which is also why the display is so small and in the corner of your vision. the entire thing just gets out of the way when you're not actively using it
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But it has built-in scarcity which means it possesses a characteristic of a commodity. Maybe a bitcoin is currmodity?
Verizon added 677,000 subscribers, made a $1.95 billion profit in Q1 2013
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No. The most important principle of EVE is that someone can always kill you. Only having consensual PVP makes games boring, as it removes risk.

In some areas of space, killing people has consequences, specifically, losing your ship. Which just means that you should fit it for firepower/cost when you go shooting random people in highsec. Various parties have honed this to an art, for example: miniluv (Goonswarm Ministry of Love).

Their handiwork: http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/28640

Choice quote: "There’s just something special about building 15,000 spaceships and loading their guns with 1 round of ammo to shoot. And doing it right in front of the police."
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Clearly a lot of us care about it, so it should be here. If you don't like it, don't read it.

People care enough about half life and portal that their cryptic games are part of the fun. The same goes for _why. It isn't cocky, perhaps there are many people doing it right now, and none of us know because no one is paying attention to them.

But we value _why. You may not, that's your judgement to make.
i.e. a sequence of bytes
_why's site has a lot of stuff
That bit sounds pointless, but I'm guessing that it's not a core part of Jira?
My submission not showing in new section after submit :( Anyone can tell me why it is so?
100% agree. I'm really looking forward to it. They have a great service so far and it seems like they are improving it all the time.
If anyone's guilty of seeking attention, it's me (who posted this link) and all the people upvoting this. I posted the link. All _why has done is make changes to his website, and I and many others have been following the puzzles he's created.

There's nothing I've done that could command such attention. I suspect the same might be true for you.
Can someone explain me what the hell is that website?
I bet this became possible because of the recent progress in the past months with this great library: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/libvisio

Or they embed Libre Office directly in order to convert visio to svg.
So far there seems to be no documentation at all about the binary Visio file format and that library is the only thing out there!
We just launched OpenSignal for iOS
A breakdown of why CISPA is such a dangerous bill
I don't see much talk about Apple these days (dispute if you like, but it's not long since half the front page was dominated). The stock is down 33% over six months, with no sign of a turnaround.

I'm not sure what my thoughts are any more.

- I'm bored of the iPhone and I don't see where it's going to go next.

- I still think laptops will continue to grow significantly.

- iPads are more vulnerable to being commoditised than the iPhone. Most people use them as browsers, and they do not have the benefit of social lock-in that the iPhone enjoys through iMessage.

- An Apple watch might do well.

- I still want to see Apple produce a console-like device that is essentially a crossover between an Ouya, Sonos and the Apple TV. I think making a physical TV would be a mistake.
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Any control over the content on the web is inherently bad, regardless of what the media tells you.
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ex-TEST director reporting in. It is, indeed, supremely impressive when looking at the infrastructure required to support an alliance of 5000 people; in TEST, for example, we have our own software developers and an ops team that keeps systems like voice chat, forums, wikis, killboards, and more running 24/7.

And then there's the management / organizational side - juggling 20+ corporations, each with their own cultures, leadership, and focuses, and herding the cats towards battles. (BoB forced members to join battles, TEST incentivized battles, two methods with the same end goal.) In my tenure as Director of Training, we set up systems where brand-new characters could get free ships, equipment, and skill books and a channel for asking questions. It was nearly a full time job just managing the influx of new players. Ultimately, it fell to the wayside once I moved across the country, and come to think of it, I've been paying for a subscription I haven't actually used in many months...
You'll have to do some digging to see the history of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540796
Thank you for offering your thoughtful and constructive feedback. Your unbiased assessment of our content is valuable to the Hacker News community.
a jekyll based site hosted on github, and using prose.io to update the repository.

static html is the way to go these days.
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I've lived with amazing scenery for ~4 years, and I didn't have any issue with getting bored with it. Could have something to do with growing up in a mostly flat area, and then living with large hills and mountains.
Or, perhaps he simply finds it amusing to post his ever-odd thoughts and watch the reaction. Does that have to be cocky?

Or, perhaps I give him a pass for whatever he does, because I enjoy his personality. In any case, it doesn't seem to me that such vitriol is necessary toward another human being, and fellow hacker. If you find him so annoying, why are you paying so much attention?
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http basic auth is implemented in the server, not in the webapp, that's one fine reason.
redirecting from http to https is ALWAYS an issue, http basic auth or not.
now then again it'd be nice to have a "better auth" than basic auth that is still not part of the web app.. but yeah.
Well. That's obvious.

The question is if we need it, and if it won't be abused?

I think we were doing pretty fine without monitoring phone calls, so why do we want to monitor on-line services? Because it's simpler is not a good answer.
Can't imagine why _why might have left in the first place :P
How long did it take you to reach this milestone? If it's a short amount of time (< 1 year), I certainly think you need to evaluate Option 2 closely. If it took a long time to reach, then I'd opt for Option 1. But I'm not sure those are the only options.
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We expanded the utilty from teacups and donuts to now include bagels!
I think the distinction is meaningful. A rogue employee would not have the power to access your data (as we've seen at Google for example[1]) unless they were able to sneak some code into the application code (as, sadly, we've also seen at Google[2]). That seems like a significantly higher bar and also would require a great deal more premeditation. Not to mention the possibility you mentioned of them getting hacked (which would be a FAR bigger concern to me).

Now that I think about it, I never did move my stuff from Dropbox to SpiderOak, did I... hmmm, maybe today.

[1] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2010/09/rogue-goog...
[2] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/06/google-blames-wi-spy-...
Businesses want low transaction costs, but most business face competition and the customer decides the transaction medium. For instance, my company accepts paypal, not because I like it but rather my customers do.

Of course a company with monopoly power could force adoption. For instance Bitcoin would take off if your utility companies only accepted bitcoins, but I don't think that is likely.
Not sure but I think it ought to mean sth like "You are not supposed to use this bandwidth just for the sake of using up the quota, religiously".
What does this mean? What can Parse offer that a regular Facebook dev through the fb sdk can't?
Not sure it has anything to do with being expat, just living in a very remote area. I have no idea where exactly Tokushima is but perhaps you can join a club of some sort? I knew expats in Nagano prefecture who randomly became avid mountaineers/climbers just because it is the thing to do there if you want to build a huge local network. It can also be running, cycling, surfing whatever. Even living in a huge city in NA I find it very fun to be part of a club completely unrelated to programming/dev work. I also run just for myself that is kindof a mind defrag for me.

Judging from pictures I would love to just run there, that is one gorgeous place.
Closing port 80, great suggestion.

Until you can point me to an alternative authentication scheme that I can expect api consumers to generally have ready-made support for, it's pretty well the only good suggestion in this article.
Here's the text from /SPOOL/JERKS:

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Many, many years ago, so long ago that it's a real stretch to find anyone else who can remember this, on the old Oprah show, she did a feature on individuals who had left society and, in the process, had eliminated every trace of themselves. She had like three or four guests up on stage, if I recall correctly, and they had all gone back and diligently destroyed every little bit of information previously known about them. Burning birth certificates and ID cards, canceling bank accounts. Stealing photos out of family member's albums and destroying them. They had hired hackers to break into schools and erase their records. In fact, each of these persons had done such a bang-up job that all that was know about each of them was their social security numbers. (Although Oprah's researchers were unable to say which social belonged to which person; these numbers were only know because of the noticeable gaps that were left in the government's records.) On the program, these people sat in the dark, nameless and unsorted. No one know who the were.

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I bet in the end it was not really such a disadvantage for all the OnDemand customers: Imagine they had the two data centers: The log shipping Joel "sold" us would have had a nasty side effect: If someone makes the call to do the switch over, everyone would have lost the last few hours of work!! All customer mail, all bug events would be gone.

Well one could say that in the particular case it might have worked out: They knew about Sandy in advance and had a bit of time until the lights went out.
But if it happens unexpected, it's a tough call to make: Keep it running or keep the last data since the last log shipping?

If on the other hand they had gone with Sql mirroring, it's likely that there would have been quite some outage just because of the mirroring: If one of the two data centers went down, the whole system would be down, it's often like that with failover systems
The bill isn't about user data!

Even if you think it is, you're not addressing the concern, which is that regardless of what the situation is with user data, it is difficult for private companies to share operational intel with the USG, and even more difficult for the USG to share operational intel out.
One advantage is the Coursera class being taught by Martin Odersky[1] right now.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

(Though I suppose that is like saying you should only look for your lost keys under a street lamp)
Do you see the contradiction here? Google pulled out of China a few years ago because Chinese government was supposedly doing shits like this. Google followed its unofficial "Do not Evil" motto. That's cool. Then this time it is OK for the US to do the same?
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FAON Releases SearchOn for iPhone/iPod touch

One Search Box integrating 40+ Search Apps Now Available in Apple’s App Store

Palo Alto, CA – April 18, 2013 – FAON Mobile today announced that their new search application, SearchOn, is now available exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch. SearchOn is a search browser that makes search faster and easier by seamlessly integrating 40+ major search apps under one search box.

As search apps become more specialized, most of the users are using multiple apps to search on mobile. For example, Claire said in a recent NYTimes article that you might open Yelp for a nearby cafe and amazon.com for an espresso machine. With SearchOn, people can find all they want in one app, seamlessly searching across both Web (like Google, Amazon, Wiki, Twitter) and Native Apps (like Yelp, Maps, eBay, Gas Price).

“We are not trying to compete with Google or other search apps”, said Ariel Liu, Stanford graduate and founder of FAON, “instead, we help people better organize and search across web and existing search apps”. Particularly, SearchOn provides completely unique touch gestures that make search on multiple search apps fast, easy and mobile-friendly; it supports flexible search app organization (add, edit and sort search modules as you like); it has a super fast web browser, a customizable bookmark and instant query suggestion for fast typing. “We are trying to provide unique search experience on mobile”, said Ariel, “and our next target is to pick the best search app automatically to find what you want”.

SearchOn is now available for free. Download it from Apple’s App Store, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/searchon-redefine-way-to-search/id602353357?ls=1&mt=8 or through visiting: searchon.me

Please visit searchon.me for more information. We also have a short 1 minute video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIOye5xQ9MM

FAON, an independent mobile innovation company based out of Palo Alto, US, was formed in 2013 by Ariel Liu to make innovative mobile apps that make a difference.
I don't know, there are so many factors that go into SEO that assuming, "Oh, it's the hyphen in the domain name" seems a little anecdotal to me.
Here's the text from /SPOOL/WHATUPDOC:

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Dr. Pestus, good afternoon,

I am a fellow, a professor of sorts, who is doing work under an anonymous guise and I have just finished reading your book "Kill Yourself! The Terrible Things People Say and Do When They Aren't Themselves." Now, before you start to usher a reply, I am not writing to disagree with you.

My complaint is that my real name is very plain and I prefer to have a fictional one. You don't seem to suffer this problem, since your real name is quite fictional-sounding on its own.

I do realize that having a fictional name makes me a bad person, but how bad of a person does it make me? Please rate on the scale of John Q. Public to Mister X.

Also, is it too late to be real?

_why

His reply came in a few days:

Yes, it's true! I know your real name! I asked a few of my experts to trace back the little e-mail you sent and it lined up with the coordinates of one Pirate O's General Store in Draper, Utah. It seems that you composed the e-mail while you were plugged into their connection, enjoying a Sangria Senorial it seems. A quick call to store owner Chase McGuinn sorted all of this out. Now

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> For example, right now due to the lack of clear regulations concerning digital storage, a lot of law enforcement agencies believe that they can legally access people's personal email without a warrant.

CISPA has no intention of stopping this. Quite the opposite really. The vague wording and hush hush push to get this passed gives rise to the idea that CISPA is a tool to force more of this kind of behavior not stop it.

>The Internet absolutely does need more regulation

Really? That's a scary thought.
_why's site getting updated again (right on schedule)
How to propose to use arms to protect the other amendments? What would you do with a gun to protect us from CISPA?
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I was unaware that the distinction between marketing copy and journalism was still made.
To add to this, different market segments have different priorities. I once saw it explained with food. "Did you get enough to eat?", "Did you like how it tasted?", "Was the presentation good?"--these are very different questions, and the perfect restaurant for one person is not the same as the perfect restaurant for someone else. Knowing what your customers actually care about is the first step in selling to them.
That they can spend the time and effort to optimize each platform should surprise absolutely no one.

The first point is that you're doing this anyway with an app that has any complexity. Each mobile browser and device has its own quirks. If you're going to spend optimization time for each device you might as well go native and make the most of that time.

That this tiny team of six developers that apparently needed to fracture to start building iOS, Android, etc, clients. It was utter insanity, and of course LinkedIn and Facebook both appeared as if they were the benchmarks we should follow ("See, they abandoned HTML! So should we").

Our first mobile app was native iOS and built by 3 of us in about 8 weeks. One of the team had some iOS experience at the time. I prototyped the Android version in a weekend and we had a releasable version ~6 weeks later with 2 of us working on it. Neither of us had any prior Android experience and that other guy had never done Java.

My point is that iOS/Android apps are not hard to build natively. That time spent means you can get the best the device can offer. Of course if you're only showing a simple web page opposed to an app then html5 may make more sense, but the discussion here is about apps.
This makes me feel bad, I have a domain with a hyphen in it.
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> The video is clearly meant to be less than totally serious - it seems unlikely that Ohanian, himself a prominent figure in the tech world, would need to resort to trying to talk his way to Page through Google's public phone number...

I realize that the author probably meant that Ohanian would have connections who might have connections who would have Larry Page's phone number, but the wording of that briefly made me think that the author thought there was some secret phone book you get when you cash out your popular startup for a certain amount.