skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Ok, it was not obvious to me from first reading of this. The content was copied and not the code. So there are many copycat versions of your app in the store.

- Copying is an issue everywhere (Zynga games, dating apps, camera apps, texting apps, twitter clones anyone?) Maybe not as blatant as your case. Your idea is easily copyable and I've learned elsewhere on HN that if the uniqueness of your idea is the only selling point of your product then you will not succeed against competitors. And you should expect competitors. Maybe complaining to Apple will help.

- Yeah, pirating is an issue everywhere (thepiratebay.org anyone?) and not just in China

- I'm just getting the impression that some areas of app development are not profitable. If you're trying to sell to consumers it could be a huge uphill battle on many fronts. Crowded app store, race to the bottom on pricing, copycat products (not just from the Chinese)...

[Edit]
- I recall reading a success story on HN about an app developer that created a better version of another app (iphone app of a talking elf or something) and made a profit on it. He was celebrated too. So that's the flip side of your situation. The developer was from Silicon Valley and not China.
Agreed. And it doesn't have to be ugly, either.
I've always hated relative dates. Glad people are finally coming to their senses. The only case I see for relative dates are that they are more user friendly. But is it really that hard to parse "Wednesday, August 22nd at 8:22PM"? While I believe in easy to use interfaces, we don't have to act like our users are total bafoons either.

In the long run relative dates are more confusing for screenshots, leaving a page open, etc as stated in the post.
It's a nice list. I would add C# In A Nutshell, it's a pretty good reference book for both beginners (in the language, not in programming) and experienced developers.

But this list is outdated. Last C#/CLR edition came with some new features, like await/async that literally blew my mind, and it would be pretty nice to have a good reference and explanation on them.
I gave you my email address before coming here and reading the comments. Now I regret it.

I feel like the representatives of GoScale here are not doing themselves much good. They offer vague answers and hand-wavy descriptions. We all get that you have trade secrets. But If your business is jeopardized by just describing how your infrastructure works, that should worry you.

This is your "Show HN." You chose to do this. You should be generating excitement and buzz. I suggest taking a look at how Dropbox or even Tarsnap have talked about infrastructure in comparison to how you're doing it here. Talk about what you've built. It will spark respect and excitement around your brand. Lots of people have a real affection for Dropbox. That doesn't happen on accident.

I'm sure my advice here isn't unequivocally good. But it's a counterpoint I think you should consider.
Another site I've seen in the wild Built with Bootstrap that was quite difficult to tell at first pass was Bright Nest. http://brightnest.com/

The Missouri Department of Conservation's E-Testing service for Hunter's Education also uses a customized version of Bootstrap, but it's pretty easy to tell it's Bootstrap. http://www.hunter-ed.com/missouri/
There was a nursing home in my home town that had a rural American analogue: a car that didn't start in the nursing home's back yard.

The anecdotes I heard weren't about rushing home to their families, but rather, using the car for things like getting groceries. Apparently it was a very successful tool.
I own that this probably won't be a popular idea, since it generally doesn't appeal to people outside a certain age-group (not that I know what age group you're in), but a longboard sounds like a pretty good option for you, depending on the situation. It's easy to carry around wherever you go, I often ride to a bus-stop and take the bus with it. They're lots of fun to ride, and in my opinion better and safer then bikes (it's a lot easier to bail). The only real reason I would be questionable about riding is if you're in a hilly area; uphill is about as much fun as it is on a bike, though you can just get off and walk, and downhill can be dicey depending.

If you wanna check out some nice cruising boards I've been loving my Kahuna, and they come at a really good price for what they are.
To release on iOS (which is not the major market any more btw) outside of the App Store consider Cydia.
There's millions of jailbroken devices now and the Cydia store app is included in the process.
Good point. I'll probably add in some background textures, images next time. Perhaps also a next / back buttons along with a current page indicator. Any other suggestions towards how it'll signify a scroll action towards more content would be welcome.

I did on purposely have the 'pages' resize directly to the user's viewport using javascript as a visual style of design.
I have been bike commuting for nine years. The biggest things that change since the initial rush of delight?

First, as time goes on, you care a lot more about safety. Newbies may write about how they can meditate or listen to music while riding, but experienced riders know they must always stay alert. You shouldn't be meditating, you should be focused on potential dangers.

Second, the weight loss? Not as big a deal as time goes on. Don't ask me the medical reason why, maybe it's the same phenomenon as when people who haven't worked out for years start a program and quickly lose 10 pounds of water weight but then find the rest is harder to lose. Commuting usually doesn't involve the intense aerobic activity associated with road racing.

The 300 dollar bike you are satisfied with? I didn't stay satisfied after a few months. After trying many options (too many) I took Sheldon Brown's advice and ride a touring bike, with disc brakes, fenders, rack, and panniers.
I agree (with the tone point) - it was a very good article, made some good points, but I felt like it was shouting at me. Given that I agreed with the points that rubbed me the wrong way a little.

It's nice to see people achieving visual differentiation with Bootstrap and a little bit of effort!
And how much risk you want the people around you to assume on your behalf. I sometimes commute (40mi) home from work, mostly on an off-road rails to trails paved bike trail. One of the few complaints I have about this trek is the people who are completely oblivious when I say "on your left" and ring my bell. I wind up having to stay behind them, yell, or just go around them, which sometimes startles them. It's imperative that you're present enough to both send and receive communications from people around you.
I think perhaps he is confusing best practices for public interfaces with general-purpose best practices.

It is a good idea to prefer ToList()ing any data you're passing out of a library. An 'open' LINQ query might represent a whole lot of work, and that work will get repeated every time someone re-enumerates the query. And the query might be holding on to any number of resources that the end-user can't know about. Returning a data structure instead of an unexecuted query makes it much easier for people who are working with your library to know what they're working with, because what they're working with is simply the contents of the data structure. To that end, it's preferable according to the "pit of success" principle.

But that flip-flops when you're only dealing with the inside an assembly. None of the concerns listed above really apply in that case, so it's generally preferable to avoid petrifying your LINQ expressions unless you absolutely have to.
I agree with you and moreover I don't see a problem with default Bootstrap sites.

I know a few dozen restaurant sites alone that I could only dream of being remotely as pleasant to look at as a default Bootstrap site.

The internet has come a long way since the era of Geocities, faux 3D gifs and blink tags, and I am very thankful that there are tools to make a site look passably pleasing with very little effort. I will gladly get used to them.
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That'd be an improvement in HN, imo. Times like "12 minutes ago" or "3 hours ago" or even "9 days ago" are fine, but "1612 days ago" requires me to mentally convert to figure out when that actually was.
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After trying several fountain pens and having less than pleasant experiences, I have for years now used felt-tip pens almost exclusively. It approximates the look and feel of a fountain pen close enough for my tastes, and requires much less wrist pressure than ballpoint pens.
I do like the idea of making it into a game somehow!

A few people have already posted that they will pay a high reward, however I've not included the $ figure they mentioned.

Part of me thinks people should help out, out of generosity - plus I wonder if putting such a high reward for returning treasured photographs, it makes stealing cameras all the more lucrative.
I see you got getmefast to design your website, how much of that design is left in the current version, and how was the overall experience with that company? Thanks
Well, in the developed world we depend on people having children in order for our economy to be sustainable. This is not just for things such as Social Security and Medicare. In general, parents spend more money on their children (generally a lot more) than they receive in subsidies. In terms of GDP, it's a net win. That does not even include the benefits from avoiding the productivity loss (especially at the high end) that an economy experiences by putting serious obstacles in the way of half of its population when it comes to advancing their career.
And this is different to any other services, like GAE, AWS, etc, how?
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Whilst your statement (don't wear headphones when riding on the road) is correct, you should probably be looking over your shoulder before entering the car lane.
It might also help a little that Mozilla depends mostly on Google for revenue :-) ...but google has stated before that basically "anyone in favor of improving the web is on our side"
Thank you sir. SexyMap was one of my must-have add-ons in World of Warcraft.
I haven´t used Bootstrap, but Hacker News Community always impulse to test the "new" ways and technologies for solve the "problems". So get one's hands dirty!
An efficient way is to learn less, work with it on the client side and compile it from the command line to css, this can be a pain on windows, I'm going to make a youtube video describing it!
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> Please anyone reading this don't wear headphones, you've removed one of the most useful senses for knowing where there's a potential problem.

That's nonsense. If a person is listening to headphones so loud that they can't hear approaching cars and/or problems with their bike, then they'll still probably ruin their ears long before biking with headphones causes them a problem.
Thanks a lot for your comments. I love seeing anything FreeBSD related on HN these days as it's something I am newly interested in. I too run OS X locally (for years) but have been a Linux guy for as long as I can remember.

Do you have a suggestion on a solid FreeBSD VPS host? I really love Linode for my linux boxes and have been using them for years. That being said, I am very interested in moving towards FreeBSD for my personal servers. I'm so amped to learn more about it.
>* The reason why SV is the scene for startups is simply because of the people here. It's expensive in SV, the traffic sucks, nightlife is mediocre, etc, but nobody cares about that stuff when they need to create a company. They only care about talented individuals, investors, and other existing startup companies. Getting free rent is just not enough of a motivator for moving to KC.*

Not all startups care about VC money or hiring outside talent to work in site. Imagine a 5 person team working on some web service or a mobile app, with external people telecommuting if needed.

Why does everybody assume that startup = Facebook, Twitter, Groupon etc wannabes?
I know it's a bit late to suggest this but for future reference you could have always followed the VBulletin model of sending DMCA/Legal threats to people who purchase the bootlegged software.

I realize this doesn't make you any friends but if enough of those customers disputed the charges with the person who had stolen your software you may have been able to put him out of business.
> 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.

It's also the case that most people using Bootstrap are using it because they can't design anything of comparative quality, so most people using it are not in a position to make it better even if they wanted to.

(also hi, I work for Curse :D)
@jashkenas Those sites use their own custom libraries that do about the equivalent of what the libraries I suggested use. I say this not out of any disrespect, I love backbone, but backbone doesn't provide enough to build a complex app. Does it have memory management? No. Does it provide a pub/sub pattern? No. Does it handle views/nesting subviews and layout management? No.

You can roll your own library, of course, it's not that hard. But you can also not reinvent the wheel and use an existing open source solution.

If you read the complaints in this thread it's mostly *backbone doesn't do enough. Backbone is great as 1 layer of abstraction, but you need more layers in order to code effectively.
Meh, I'm currently guilty of using straight bootstrap styles with www.kangacruise.com

I also hate the UI, but I don't think these kinds of changes would be worth the marginal improvement. I know I'll never get what I really want with these subtle changes, so I think I'm better off waiting until I can hire a designer.
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I can envision future nursing homes with roaring fake Humvees and other SUVs. Fake tube stations where it may apply.

I find it very endearing to be honest. I know how it feels to be lost and confused, wanting to be home. When you're extremely tired, when you've lost a loved one... I feel for these frail older people.
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Actually the Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) owns the Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), the corporation handles all the development.

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/reorganization/

In some ways it is about money, Google pays Mozilla about $300 million a year for search engine placement and click-through ads. That accounts for the vast majority of all of Mozilla's revenue (in 2010, Google paid $115 million and that was 85% of Mozilla's revenue).
What would it take to get an iOS device to talk to an arduino?

(Over USB, specifically. Though WiFi might be workable for a game controller.)
"...my dirty laundry...the whites."

http://youtu.be/dQbpx5Be5rI
We use Bootswatch and are really pleased with the results (www.milelogr.com). It appears to be broken with BS 2.1, but i haven't taken the time to see what broke.
I've been using FreeBSD as a primary workstation since '04 or so. Virtualbox works pretty well, as does Firefox 14, Chromium 20, and Opera 12. Flash and Java work fine on all 3. This is on FreeBSD 9.0/amd64.

What necessitates your need for VMWare over vbox?
I've had FastSpring recommended by others as well and I am planning to use that service. Having dealt with accepting payment via PayPal I can only say: never again - they still owe me money, but I eventually gave up after I spent days trying to chase it down.
They are another sign of consumerism gone insane. It's largely a marketing thing - blank "pods" are easier to sell. You have (until now) complete control over the supply of the pods. It's a marketers wet dream.

My thoughts have as ever been accurately summed up by the inestimably amusing Mr Brooker:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/26/drink.co...
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They need to open this damn box already.
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Your example is too specific in terms of context. Add-ons in WoW are usually minimal in design, out of the way and not attract attention to itself (besides the info it is displaying). Unless your default skin has blinking lights, rainbow colors, detracting the user from actually gleaming the info the addon is displaying, a user has no reason to mess with it.

Bottomline, UI Addons in WoW are meant to be minimal in design (just look at all the popular unit frames, action bars addons, even yours - all minimal and functional). There's no reason to ever jazz up the UI for WoW - that'd be self defeating.

But Bootstrapping is different - it will depend on the function, which stage of the product is at and purpose of the site. Each scenario is different.
I wonder if the people who say to not do this have ever actually worn headphones while riding? I used to wear headphone on my commute but just found them uncomfortable so I stopped after a few weeks.

I very rarely ride on MUPs (Multiple Use Pathways - jogging trails) so I'm riding in the street with vehicles. When I'm not climbing all I hear is wind noise, and the sound of cars behind me. There is absolutely nothing that my sense of sound has done for me to keep me any safer. I can't tell which lane a car is in, or how close they are until I can see it. Headphone will at least cut down some of the wind noise, and in areas that have less tolerant people yelling out the window you may not hear them as easily - both increasing safety and enjoyment.

If you're really concerned about safety use a rear view mirror.
I'm really really glad so many developers who are starting out are using bootstrap. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to get people up to speed when they join my team. It's awesome to have someone start learning your codebase and have an easy command of the templates out of the box because they've worked with that framework before.

Now, my company Artsicle.com has a bootstrap foundation but you'd never guess it. However, whining about a good UI that works on many browsers out of the box and provides easy responsiveness? Get over yourself.
Off topic, but that phrase "before the really mild winters" just gives me the worst feeling.
And both are about communicating with other human beings effectively. I could spell out everything phonetically or use text shorthand as well, but that makes it generally harder for a wide audience to enjoyably consume my writing. Humans do a large part of reading via gestalt comprehension, changing the "shape" of words stymies this process.
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>>... there is no way to know how many glaciers there are on earth ...<<

Because...?
The problem is that most people use their headphones with absurdly loud volume. I know this because when you pass them you can hear their music, which means they are probably damaging their hearing. I always keep the volume as low as possible, such that it's not louder than the traffic around.
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very cool - love me some internet of things.

A side note: crowd-funding platforms are really sparking a renaissance in hardware startups. VCs have stopped betting on these companies, because software companies have a much cheaper and faster to scale. But the really interesting advancements are going to happen on the open-source hardware side, and consumers are willing to fund that in exchange for early access and involvement in the creative process.
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Example of not bootstrappy bootstrap.

Here is a quick and simple site I did this weekend. I used bootstrap because of it's responsive design support. It makes it easy to create content that looks nice on desktops and mobile/tablet devices.

http://patriciafreymd.com/

It is pretty simple to make bootstrap not so bootstrappy, just view source and take a look at my inc.css file.
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Don't depend on your ears to find out where another vehicle is located, use your eyes.
Hi MrDOS, thanks for pointing that out. I fixed it yesterday.
Transcripts would be cool.
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I know this is an uncool thing to say, but I hated biking to work in downtown DC. DC has done a great job adding bike lanes, but they aren't everywhere. I found it to be quite the opposite of meditative and I arrived at work sweaty and uncomfortable.
As a Chinese, I feel ashamed about these people. They said on their [forum][0] that "The controversy is inevitable. We offer services only for China so that Chinese customers can buy the same product with a low price."

But please believe me there are a lot of good guys, contributors in China and many of them are so reclusive that you cannot recognize they are Chinese.

[0]: http://www.kilofox.net/forum/forum.php?mod=viewthread&ti...
Why?

It's a great oportunity for joyous ocassion and natural attractor for romantics.

Savour it.
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You do just that. When setting your .htaccess to route all URLs through Toro, use a snippet like:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
Man, how could you assemble all those models and pictures and skip the dashboard on the Tesla Model S?
according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428159 it is identical.
It depends on what the capsule is replacing. They're absolutely worse than brewing coffee grounds, but they're better than visiting the coffee shop and throwing out a big, styrofoam cup.
It's a finished solution and a framework, it can be picked on what you need from it. Not being trying obtuse, I just see a lot of criticism levelled at Bootstrap for creating similar looking pages, but for most of those pages they're primarily focussed around displaying content in a nice way (documentation for example).
Fair enough. I can see your point. We'll try and do that.

Rather than talk much, at this stage, about what we've built we decided to make it a priority to make the service available sooner, rather than later, so people can test it, break it and benchmark it.

Our purpose is not generate buzz but more, right now, to engage with people who want to try out the technology at this early stage.
I am bike commuting to work for more than 6 years now. I do this through the whole year, summer and winter, everyday.

Always have a set of water proof clothes in your backpack. My experience is, if it rains it usually starts 10 minutes after you left home.

I had chronic pain in my knees probably from sitting before monitors the whole day. After one week of bike commuting to work the pain was gone.
It's a nice idea.

And yet, in the 1980s and early 1990s, when there was absolutely no patent protection for software, the software industry flourished.

And yet, Google, a small upstart, was able to rise well above all the other search engines, despite being (at the beginning) much less funded, and using an algorithm that -- while patented by them in 95 or so -- had been known for 40 years, and even used in exactly the same way with respect to academic references (who have, for all intents and purposes, "links" in the printed paper world).

So, even though everyone who had a lot of resources could do that, it doesn't happen in practice - and in fact, the existing patent regime seems to be useless in this regard.

Patents and copyrights are a very nice idea, but the existing implementations are so horrible, that it is not clear to me we're better off than without them.