skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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5-10m is too short. You need a good half hour to do some productive thinking. My current walk is about 45m which is fine too. The bus saves maybe 15m so I usually walk.
I'm bookmarking it and I'll feature it on my next post with the results from people :) thanks!

honestly, the forms, tables etc. those styles are okay with me. It's just that toolbar and buttons that goes against grain for me.
Correlation is not causation. I would much rather think that those people were distracted or something. Not giving attention to their environments.

I CAN hear fine with my volume setting. Believe me.

Listening so loud or with headphones that cut out other sounds is dangerous, of course. I was not talking about that and I thought I had made that clear.

Just don't tell me that I cannot listen to music while biking. Unless you want to argue about the possible distracting itself, then we could go on about car radios.
Totally agree. Sometimes I think bootstrap is moving us toward a more consistent UI across the web which means users benefit by not having to learn yet another set of interface metaphors. A fresh set of colors can keep things interesting, but people shouldn't be discouraged from using stock bootstrap.
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Yeah, you can do that too..
haha possibly :)
Anyone with experience starting with a Bootstrap theme then handing it over to a designer to see what they come up with?
I've wondered about this. In my mid-20s I decided upon a signal that I would send myself should I be stricken with a mental illness like Alzheimer's. I don't know if it'll work, but I remember it very strongly and wonder if I will be able to recall it should such a situation arise. I'm in my mid-30s now and have hopefully a long time to go before I should start letting people in on my plan.

The idea is that if I am aware that I am suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's, I will hopefully make life easier for those caring for me (e.g., stay calm when my son/daughter I do not recognize is attempting to care for me).
The article does a good job of exposing common pitfalls to those new to deferred execution and offers some solid advice. However, I agree that it's overly defensive to recommend ToList'ing almost every IEnumerable to avoid having to think about it, but this seems like a decent idea for more "software conservative" developers.
Agreed, on this one.

Think about the task of correlating online events with events from your memory.

Suppose you see a quote from you, saying something rude that seems out of character. Knowing that it was however many hundreds of days ago is useless; see that it was July 27, 2011, at 4am, and you'll say "oh, yeah, somewhere in late July we had X and Y over drinking into the wee hours... those #%#$%s must have been futzing with my computer after I fell asleep, and somehow I never noticed".

Most importantly -- you have to predict the reasons people will be looking at dates, and this varies. Gmail shows both because they can't guess; email can carry so much different stuff.

HN post/comment timestamps beyond a few days ago can be notated in number of days as far as I'm concerned; I don't need to know what year, even -- just "this is old".

The timestamp on a blood sugar reading should include time of day (and possibly day of week even) -- a full timestamp, minimum -- to be useful.

Etc..
Yeah, your hosting is already crumbling under the pressure it seems. Site is very slow.

That said, I might need a designer in the near-ish future. Email is in my profile.
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Yes, Eric Lippert, principal developer of C# compiler, has been drumming for a long time that query should never have a side effect. It should be about filtering and sorting the data. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2009/05/18/forea...
I found this a very helpful article. In particular the thing which scares me the most is always the thought of Having to deal with people's money, and so it is really nice to see someone talk about how they did it, and and how easy it was.
I don't know what your station is like but my wife and lots of others do this from Bristol to London (~235 mile round trip by road).

http://goo.gl/xscqD - image search for Bristol Temple Meads bike rack

Fortunately my trip between uni/childminder/home is quite short so I'm going to try running it when term starts again.
I came here to say this as well.

> I’m sick of seeing the same damn buttons. I’m sick of seeing that same damn toolbar up top. It’s driving me crazy.

Take this advice with a grain of salt. As much as I agree with this statement, the fact is, if your audience isn't a group of people familiar with bootstrap, then this probably won't be a problem.
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Oh yes, I did actually realise that. Thank you though.

I worded it badly. I should have been clearer in that I was following on from solutionyogi's argument about readability.

The compiler example is a bit on the ugly side, wouldn't you say? To then access 'keywords', it becomes

...
.Where(anon => anon.keywords[0] == "verybadexample")
.Select(anon => anon.post);

What I should have said was that I'm not sure how you would scope things in the same way as the 'let' clause when using extension methods with the same level of readability.
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Want to be on your VoiceOver registry can send wav files.
Now that's MARKETING!
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I came here to say exactly that. I stopped reading HN as often because it seems like every time I read a Show HN post, or, well, practically anything, someone is trying to crap on someone else's effort. Here's a guy who has a nice story to tell, and we get:

Seems like a massive mis-attribution error
I've thought about something like this. However, it just seems like too much trouble to be worth it.
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If Softlayer ignores the DMCA complaint, thats good news from a monetary standpoint, because now they have fallen out of the safe harbor and there is someone to collect money from. Then they get to do the hard work of collecting from "Long Yang."
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Yes! I used to live in Bernal Heights in San Francisco and commute to SOMA everyday, and this is how my commute options broke down, time and money-wise:

Bike to BART, BART to Powell - 30 min, $1.75

Bike straight to work - 30 min, free

Bus to BART, BART to Powell - 30 minutes, $3.50 (I think?)

Bus to work - 45-60 minutes, $1.75

Bum a ride to work - 30-45 minutes, free

AND biking adds many non-quantifiable benefits, as the OP states. It's the best way to clear your mind, other than maybe a long walk or hike.

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I visually recognise websites I visit, app-like stuff especially.

Everyone using bootstrap has made the internet a mostly unrecognizable hogwash of same-looking stuff that I have a hard time telling apart, let alone any sort of lasting impression being left.

Think about it, even Bootstrap's page itself doesn't look like a default Boostrap template.
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Because of the lack of generational GC. (Splay is a hard case for a generational GC.)
Confused... In your article you state: "Second, I need something that I can develop quickly in without having to write any styles, my current work focuses on results rather than prettiness and UI (for all I know, they wouldn’t mind straight HTML without CSS but that would make working on it hell for me)." Same reason people use the default Bootstrap theme.
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The link has a section that says "Inclusion of source code".

I am not an open source expert but I always understood that open source software comes with source code for anyone to view. I could be wrong but would like to confirm this.
The town band just arrived and we have a stage washed in purple and red.

Lots of people in traditional wear. Very little happening.

Right... a train beckons.
You make it sound like someone who doesn't immediately produce a Chinese translation deserves what they get when someone pirates their app and adds a + to the end. Also, like translation is the only reason someone's app gets ripped off.
Just did the same search in the UK with a similar result. Surprising barren prospects given the upbeat nature of the article.
I think the parent was talking about the screen shot with the big green rectangle in the center when he said "the end result". I, for one, thought the writing felt a bit rushed and perhaps overblown with the whole "you're lazy if you don't customize bootstrap" tone. But the tools you linked to seem like they're pretty useful, so I think you achieved your goal of raising awareness of how easy it is to customize bootstrap.
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It's an instruction manual.
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These two facts are not necessarily in contradiction. At this moment in the current Humble bundle, the average price paid by Linux and Mac users is significantly higher than the average price paid by Windows users, but the total income from Windows is still way higher than the income from Linux and Mac combined, just because of the raw numbers of users.

It looks to me like there are some Linux users who don't mind buying games (and do not mind paying premium for that), but the majority is not interested in buying games at all, regardless of the price.

Moreover, my own experience with buying games is that (digital distribution aside) it was practically impossible to get Linux versions of games (well, at least in Czech rep., where I used to live). And if there was a Linux version at all, using it meant buying a box with the Windows version and the patching it. So, even though I use Linux for work, I used to play games almost exclusively in Windows (and then on XBox, which made things even easier).
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If the page has made no impression, doesn't that speak more about the content than the presentation? I agree on the visual aspects of being able to determine a page, but Bootstrap just provides a clean way to display some content, I'm alright with that.

And no, Bootstraps page doesn't look like a default template, but they don't say 'you must customise it', it's left up to the developer/designer/implementor.
"It's been said here before, but I'm fairly sure the only people "disappointed" and "annoyed" at the many sites using Bootstrap are web developers. Of course we notice UI frameworks because it's our job to create websites."

Are you sure you meant Web Developers? It sounds like you meant Web Designers.

I wouldn't use Bootstrap for any client-facing website, but other agencies I know have tried it and those that work on the lower-end of the client scale have had trouble with clients not wanting to pay when the look of certain elements looks almost exactly like those on other sites they've been to.

Bootstrap is a decent tool, but it has been abused by non-developers and non-designers that cannot develop or design their own pages. It's hardly surprising, and it's a testament to how good Bootstrap can be. However, I hope that Twitter eventually scales back some of Bootstrap to allow people that use it for its intended use to get more out of it.
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what about that guy?
VMware player 5.0 released
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Regarding point 1, I would add there are also things that can be done using the query syntax that simply can't with the extension methods.

Quite the opposite. Everything in the query syntax gets translated into method calls, even if the way in which it is done so is sometimes non-obvious.[1] However, there are a lot of extension methods that don't have an equivalent in the query syntax - many of the aggregation functions, for example.

[1]:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1092687/code-equivalent-t...
I live in Middlesbrough so it's much smaller, the two concerns are a longish cycle home after an hour commute and the bike going walkies.
I have used many frameworks of the past, but Bootstrap is in a different league coupled with LESS. It just is.

I see Bootstrap as being not too dissimilar from iOS UI. In the early days, you saw a lot of UI's built on Apple's native guidelines without much deviation. It was just difficult, the SDKs weren't fully baked for it. If you wanted to maintain compatibility as Apple progressed rapidly, you stuck to the basics.

Now you're seeing all sorts of amazing UI's built upon a solid fountain for interacting with multi-touch mobile apps. Similarly, Bootstrap is an equally great foundation for building responsive web apps that just continues to get better.

As it becomes more of a standard, then more time becomes available for the veneer. After all, that's really the only thing people are complaining about — something rather superficial and has no real impact on value of the product. What is does to the user experience is an open debate (more graphics = slower on mobile). I'm on my 3rd project with Bootstrap, and finally feel like I have a grip on adding veneer programmatically after some trial and error.

Want to start a small-cap cash cow? Get some great designers together and go make the next WooThemes for Bootstrap.
I think it helps somewhat that, for different reasons, this is not really about the money for either one of them: Firefox is a nonprofit organization, and Chrome is not Google's main product.
Infact the familiarity of seeing a similar site before is a plus to get users comfortable on my site.
How? By constantly downloading the entire database of every application to your local drive? Where it would not only take up space, but could be modified to allow anything in?

Yes, and no.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4427416

(besides, if you can just tamper with the filesystem you're kinda in already)
Once upon a time, I wrote a World of Warcraft add-on called "SexyMap". Basically, it provided a bunch of functionality for your mini-map, and it made it skinnable in a crapload of interesting ways, so that people could build maps that thematically fit with the rest of their UIs.

As of right now, it is registering at 4,692,196 downloads.

Nobody customizes the damn thing. In every screenshot I've ever seen with someone using it, they're using the default skin. The really creative ones do a hue-shift on the default skin. It ships with a good dozen+ skins, and has an editor built into it to let people easily build more. The only time that functionality has apparently been used is when I was building the initial default skin set.

Default Bootstrap annoys the heck out of me, too, but I've learned that people just don't customize things even if you give them the tools to do it. If it's good enough out of the box, they just leave it alone. Bootstrap is good enough out of the box.

I expect years upon years of default Bootstrap websites. We'd best get used to them now.
Sorry, I live next door to work, the time to get the bike out I would already be there by foot :)
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Yes, I also iterate in the article that it's quite fine to develop in bootstrap default theme; however, I would appreciate if they could at least download one of the free themes or use a SLIGHTLY modified version of it. Cool thing is, (and I stated this) they can just drop the modified version in whenever they wish to once they're done with development.
Well, certainly some people are solely motivated by it being free, and don't care it's illegal. Not everyone thinks into it as much as people on HN do.
I'm afraid that advice is about 180 degrees away from the truth.

If you look at the kinds of large scale projects that people are building with Backbone:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

... or the new Hulu.com, from earlier this week -- I'm not aware of any of the sites on that list using any of the libraries you're recommending.
If a program's code (DNA) has bugs that cause the system to fail when running without expensive workarounds (medical intervention), would that not be called bugs in the code? Also called defects? Thus it is defective code that cannot run without expensive workarounds.

Your understanding of what is eugenics is flawed. What I am talking about is not eugenics. Eugenics is artificial selection for attempted good. What is happening is artificial selection that results in degeneration, which is bad. That is called dysgenics. I am against that, and thus you can only call my argument anti-dysgenic.

Anyways, it is your comment that is absurd, as demonstrated by the majority of it being an insult. Try to remain civil - it better facilitates enlightenment of all parties to the discussion.
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I really appreciate your comment. I'd upvote the hell out of it if I could.
Completely different scenario. In Hyperion, it's a constantly repeating process.

SPOLERS AHEAD

The girl tries to keep herself updated via a diary for years, but eventually the information about this life she lived but can't remember becomes overwhelming (requiring hours to digest and come to terms with, repeated every day) and too disconnected from what she does remember. She asks her parents to simply lie to her and act as if nothing had happened and it really were the day after the one she last remembers (i.e. one day earlier for every day that passes) and there's just some unexpected problem that prevents her from going to school, meeting her friends, have a birthday party, etc. (since it's SF, it's possible for the parents not to age).

The parents agree, since watching their daughter struggle with that mind-boggling revelation every day anew had been painful, but the resulting charade is in some ways worse, especially after the mother dies in an accident.
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On our blog (Medgadget.com) we embed lots of videos. Unfortunately, we don't have time to create transcripts under the videos. As everyone knows, transcripts are super useful: most people would rather read a transcript and then check the video, then watch a video to begin with. It would be nice to have a service that provides a convenient way to insert a code that generates a transcript just under the embedded YouTube.

Am I right or am I wrong?
In theory, yes. In practise, developers wouldn't like it since they can't deal with bugs in it or debug easily with it.
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And also to support the original developer and definitely receive good support and updates.
It's probably a video from Hari Seldon.
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I think that was OP's point though. Bootstrap is a framework, so please use it as a framework, not as a finished solution.

And I don't think lasting impressions are determined that much by content. I recognize pages by a sort of screenshot in my mind, it's a bit like recognizing faces. Happens too quickly for the content to come into play.
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Would love to know how this affects my bottom line! if my servers are basically running idle, it would be great if they use as little resources (and money) as possible. Then at any moment they can scale up when needed!
The benefit? You're not sending out the message that biking is dangerous. Would you send your kid out cycling if everyone is wearing helmets? When cyclists are called "road warriors"?

A helmet is necessary when road racing where there is a distinct risk of dropping over your handlebar: remember, a helmet only protects against hits directly on the top of your head.

Normal commuting? In the city? Biggest risk is getting hit in your soft side by a car or tipping over and hitting the road with your legs or hand or so. Where does the helmet help there?

Best protection: more cyclists on the road. Nobody in the Netherlands wears a helmet (apart from road racers) and you don't get 2000 killed cyclists per day :-)
Good luck! and welcome to the new world!
The blog's identical, by the way. No effort to translate it.
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Agreed. And the "Hero Unit". My buttons are blue (though I tried a darker blue than the standard look). They are still a dead giveaway.
Assuming you have a foreign key set up between customers and orders, your 'order' entity will automatically have a 'customer' property so you can avoid the 'join' syntax.

If your objective is to find orders that belong to male customers over 30:

filteredCustomers = orders.Where(o => o.IsPending && o.customer.IsMale && o.customer.Age > 30);

Some more about avoiding joins (which makes it easier to use the extension syntax):
http://blogs.teamb.com/craigstuntz/2010/01/13/38525/
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The OP wrote that "I prepared a DMCA and sent it via fax to Softlayer. I never heard back and finally gave up on the whole thing."

This is probably not the most effective way to handle a DMCA notice. While it would be nice if every company's compliance team was responsive and open, this task is often outsourced and because the DMCA is fundamentally a legal process, review and action can be very conservative. If you want to fast-track action, certified or registered mail beats facsimile every time. A follow-up letter including a copy the certified delivery receipt is very effective. This is even more true if it's on law firm letterhead or company letterhead and professional in tone.

Presumably, if this is a big enough issue to post on HN and if there's some lost revenue, it's probably worth the time to follow up on the DMCA takedown request(s). It may also be worth the time to ask an attorney to prepare a sample letter you can use for this and future takedown procedures.

I'd encourage the OP to not give up on the DMCA process, as it can be very effective with a little bit of followup.
I hope they open it and it's a secret decoder ring with a secret encoded message.

"Be... sure... to... drink... your... Ovaltine?"
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As a techie myself, printing and code lie on opposite sides of the spectrum. Printing source code screams "wrong" in the back of my head. And how would one deal with updates, esp nightly updates.
What do you do more often? Fall exactly on the top of your head or on your side? In the latter case, the helmet makes your head bigger and can cause your head to rotate. And swift rotation is worse for your brains than a head-on hit.

So only use a helmet when roadracing or mountainbiking, not for a simple city ride.