skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to use basic html, css, and js, you can use the flag --basic to the end of a roots new command : )

But yeah I'm thinking some option for custom default templates might be nice to add, now that you bring this up. Also, try coffeescript! It's great, promise
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How guys, what was the worst thing that happened to you when you neglected someone?

For me, I lost a few potential dates back in the day
Loading the page that this story links to will show you at least several small things.
How's it a bait and switch? Should free things be provided to you forever? If something is being given to you for free, shouldn't you realize that at some point money has to enter the equation?

“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
After all that, I can't comment on the piece with OpenID or any other service I actually use. Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL? Really?

The way out of this mess is for people with loud voices to support efforts like Tent.io, open, decentralized, standardized protocols that don't lock us into corporate silos: https://tent.io/
Even more poignant given the beginning, where he wrote how his dad "had an entire life to live before I even existed".
This reminds me that I should start asking Therac-25 questions in interviews.
Maybe I have changed, or maybe the Internet has changed, but I used to meet people on the internet. I used to make friends online, and some of these friendships gradually mutated into "offline" friendships. There used to be message boards, IRC and web chats where people would talk, form groups, become friends or enemies.

People used to have blogs on livejournal or other services, some were trying to create content, write interesting posts. I met a lot of new people through that medium too.

But now everybody is locked inside the narrow bubble of their own social network. People don't become friends on facebook - they usually "friend" their IRL friends. You can't fit a good meaningful post into a tweet. And you can't have a normal discussion without sane comment threads like on livejournal - and I haven't seen that on any of the popular social sites.

That's also a part of the web we lost.
I saw it and immediately thought "Bootstrap". The large width top item, followed by three columns with graphics followed by text, is like the Bootstrap site itself[1] and many others which use Bootstrap. I do like the new homepage, whereas I felt that the old one was overwhelming.

[1] http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
This is a very good point. If your loved one told you he had a broken leg, you wouldn't try and fix it yourself, you would seek a professional.
I don't know what you're talking about - the kind of backup I'm talking about isn't a built-in Android feature, as far as I'm aware. There's no "who knows where" - if you back it up, you know where you're putting that backup.

Furthermore, Titanium Backup (and the like) provide you with the option to encrypt your backups.

Finally, Android ICS and later also provides full-disk encryption of the application storage area (which iOS does not).
Well, this explains why MBA types are so bad at creative thinking: they are not selected for it!
And what would you answer to the same question?

"So, when you have your 4 months old kid, you will stay at home to take care of it if your wife is rich enough for that?"
No, at least for Tim Cook, he said he tested both Surface and Galaxy (second question from top of the page) http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-06/tim-cooks-fr...
Apparently they aren't accepting any more new users. I have since moved on to Spotify for all my music needs, so I couldn't give you an updated take on AG. It's an interesting platform, but with stuff like Spotify (that quite literally gives you access to every single recorded song in the world), AG kind of loses relevance.
Font size on my Nexus 7 is still too small for me, does not seem to obey the global Android OS "large" setting like other apps do (or provide a font size slider control)…
I grew up in Michigan, and now live in Wisconsin. I've never considered Kansas City, or Missouri/Kansas as part of the Midwest.

Do most people in KC identify with the Midwest?

*Edit:
Now that I think about it, I guess I've always kind of considered the Midwest to be the Great Lakes Region, and from the Dakotas on South to be the Plains (with Missouri being more in the South than anywhere else).
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Yes we haven't had a "World war" and your intention isn't to minimise things but you've just minimised things - those wars are not simple conflicts. The second Congo war alone took more than 5 million lives. Although officially over, lives are still being lost everyday from its aftermath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War - more recently, not even a month ago, there was another fight that saw a city fall in rebel arms and thousands of people flee from their homes.
> if during the war Hitler was person of the year

It was before the war, but whatever... your point is still good.
Looks like the author is wearing rose-tinted glasses to me.

While much of the observations may be true, the web is still a far richer and more valuable resource than it was five or ten years ago.
Did you read the article? The entire thing is about how Instagram has NOT said they're adding ads, and likely, based on the VP's response, actively trying to stay away from them.
Since seed investments continue at a breakneck pace, and since instagram sold at many multiples of any revenue stream their existing service could have provided, I don't see much chance of startups realizing they have to change.

Likewise, user complaints are a tempest in a teapot. Does it matter to anyone how angry you are about the downward spiral of your favorite service? I actually think people enjoy their righteous indignation and are nowhere near being mad enough to consider not using the next cool free service.
You know something that's easy to unsubscribe from? RSS.
> First: if an inventor comes up with some idea but decides that instead of producing products based on their invention waits for other people to come up with the same idea and get money from them (or has someone do it by proxity), then is that actually something we want to encourage?

The idea is that the original inventor publishes the secret sauce via the required public disclosures and people either license the technology from him, he sues people who copy the technology without licensing, or he just cashes out and sells his whole interest to some other entity that does any of the above.

If someone else independently comes up with the same idea within a relatively short time frame, well in that case I don't think the patent should be granted. I think the legally sensible thing to do is to move patents in the direction of being an unfair competition type claim (unfair because you simply copy someone else's technology instead of developing your own).
Q: "Have you played with the Surface or Galaxy?"

Cook: "I have, yes. Both of those—and some others. What I see, for me, is that some of these are confusing, multiple OSs with multiple UIs [user interfaces]. They steer away from simplicity. ..."

Source: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/85550-tim-cooks...
I think I did mention that in the piece, but I deliberately keep the Facebook comments even on articles where I'm critical of Facebook to show that I'm not some extremist zealot. I'm just a normal person who happens to love the web.
It's $500/month only if you host it yourself, if you host with them it goes up to $3750/month.
Twitter's original "sidebar" implementation of inline media used OEmbed, actually.
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One avenue would be a non-profit organization that takes membership fees from software firms and uses the pooled money to fight these legal battles, or make collective licensing agreements.

The shakedown side of the troll business model relies on their being able to absorb more in legal fees than their targets. If their targets could actually force them to follow-through on their legal threats, the profitability of this method might drop to a level where they don't bother.

It would, unfortunately, do nothing about the cases where trolls are confident enough to take their shots at Google, Apple, Microsoft, et al.
The part that doesn't explicitly spell out the possibility of this, to make it seem like consumer demand can rise out of the mere market itself, without educational programs and the like...
>If someone wants to do this and has the means to do so, is there a problem? //

For the child it would seem so.

I don't really understand why people who don't want to - or aren't willing to - love and care for a child choose to have children.
I didn't get even that far, the page never loaded for me. I just got that universal "loading" spinner with some very light text in the background.

I suspect that either Ghostery or AdBlock Plus is nuking it. After reading the comments here I guess I won't bother disabling them to read the article.
Sorry, "The". Swype kills me sometimes and I never notice.
I'm honestly not seeing that people are giving up Facebook or the like because of any limits imposed by Facebook.

The worst I saw was some of the more technical minded go to Google+, which is basically the same thing all over again.
Whoa, there are some nice improvements here. The general look is more of the same, but photos, comments, Likes are all a much better experience. Cool!
Wikipedia says "'Illinois' is the modern spelling for the early French missionaries and explorers' name for the Illinois people, a name that was spelled in many different ways in the early records." and references http://www.illinoisprairie.info/Eriniouaj.htm
As far as I am aware, children living with both parents do much better in life in a variety of metrics (income, criminality, academics, child poverty, and etc.). While easier divorce may have led to an increase in equality for women, it has also had an immense negative impact on children.

Trade-offs exist, whether or not we choose to ignore them for ideological reasons. You are free to believe that the modern world is better off, despite the costs. But you should be aware of the costs.
I agree with your broader point, so I don't mean to nitpick but: the majority (maybe all? I'm not sure nowadays) of iTunes track are DRM-free.
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Hacker News has exponential delay time on comments based on depth. So the deeper a comment is, the longer you have to wait to reply to it. It's supposed to help cool off flamewars.
At least on iOS it performed better, at least before they introduced the more performant one a few months back.
Is the closed area already working? I tried resetting my password and logging in, and got "Invalid email or password."..
Indeed. Arrogant people get their requests fulfilled more often than humble people because they push for it, and many people who have the power to give that stuff are either arrogant and depise humble people or humble and intimidated.

It's pretty sad.
Dude, as a good cdn will set cache headers to make browsers store the items forever, without even re-validating content.

Definitely not very useable for tracking purposes, they will only know about first visit of a user. Even more if sites a and b use the same js library and version, they will only know about the first that a user visit.

Anyway is a bad technical decision not to use a different domain to ensure clients don't need to send extra cookies in the headers.
Seems like you haven't tried Google Now.
Android is quite more attractive now than iOS, if you are willing to forgive consistency and quality of third party application. Most of Google's own app are absolutely fantastic in quality, and often are better or equal to iOS offering. Where Android actually shines is in how things get integrated to each other. There is no concept of preferred apps as such, and you can make any app default for any function. Share functionality is also awesome, and leads to interesting applications (Like sharing from a Reddit app to Read-it-later app, etc).

I would say if you are not too locked into iOS (having bought tons of iOS apps or something), you should try Android on a Nexus for sometime. Your only downside would be finding good, niche apps. In iOS store, even the smallest developers pay attention to be consistent with Apple's guideline and look good. It also helps that iOS design language has remained mostly the same throughout 5 years. Android finally got a design language last year, but not all developers have been keen to adopt it.
Only the clever people are scared into being careful :)
Does anyone know if the rates are different based on whether you get a town car or a taxi?
I don't have an issue with signing in with my Google Creds because I get direct benefit. It saves all my searches, and can quickly pull up previous searches (unsure if the App does this already). and can auto fill the fields. When typing on a virtual keyboard (which cripples me compared to a slide out), things that allow me to reduce typing make me happy.
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Not true. The company site/blog may be the responsibility of a non-technical marketing person, for example. $500/month hosting plus some chunk of that person's time is much, much cheaper than hiring a PHP developer who must then work with the marketing person to implement the changes.
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Will you stay home with your 4 month old if your wife is rich enough?

By your definition, if you answer no, then you are "self-centered", to the point where you wouldn't consider yourself a good partner to have children with.

On the other hand if you answer yes, then you have solved your problem. Doesn't matter how "self-centered" your spouse is, you will take care of the kids either way.

So, assuming a rich wife (or rather a wife with high income) is easier to find than one that's willing to give up her career, if you want the greatest chance that your children will have a full time caregiver that's one of their parents, you should look for a rich "self-centered" woman, not a selfless one :)
Google wins, Apple wins, users win (not right after the release of iOS 6, but still). In general, the decision to remove the old Maps app was good.
> Thats a very strong claim which you provide no basis for, in that comment or in your follow-ups. Maybe replication at the level of neurons, as opposed to atoms, would work? Or maybe at an even higher level? We don't know yet.

Actually, worded correctly, it's a reasonable claim (assuming pure materialism). If there is nothing but matter and energy and their interaction, then a perfect simulation of all of your cells would undeniably be a perfect simulation of you.

The strong and unsubstantiated claim for which no basis is provided is that simply replacing the neurons in your brain would be "enough." There are good reasons to believe that the neurons in your skull are not sufficient (are you still you absent sensory input?) and apart from a lot of philosophical navel-gazing there's no proof forthcoming. Even pure materialism is an assumption--a good and reasonable one when it comes to doing science, but not something I'm willing to gamble my consciousness on.
It's not even that complicated, they just want to use the existing pay-TV business models that businesspeople have studied for decades. It's highly inconvenient for established businesspeople to have to invent new business and revenue models, so a power grab and an encircling legal framework comes as no surprise. These are the people who hire lobbyists, and current internet freedoms are anathema to (the current form of) capitalism.
Slightly off topic...however, the University of Chicago is also known for its quirky Scav Hunt (or Scavenger Hunt). So an Indiana Jones package is not altogether out of place.

http://www.uchicago.edu/features/20110501_scav/

On what other campus could students be summoned to
assemble (in various iterations) a live elephant, a
nuclear breeder reactor, a life-sized battleship, a bust
of Abraham Lincoln made out of pennies, a book printed in
the American colonies before 1776, and the official
exorcist of the Archdiocese of Chicago?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Scavenger...

There was even a documentary on it:

http://www.periphrastic.com/about.html
On the event bus, there is also the support library's LocalBroadcastManager which uses the Intent API but removes the overhead of the interprocess system.

On rewriting the ListView recycler, I'm doubtful how much improvement they could get considering that code works fine for thousands of apps including Google's. If there were any gains to be had google's engineer's would have found them.
It is hard to quantify the value of noise, trash etc. which is one of the many reasons we have zoning over just people suing each other.

On the risk side, you are exposing people to the potential threat of physical harm which money cannot replace. Risks like rape, murder etc. while low are definitely increased when you open apartment buildings to random people.

I'm an AirBnB user, but their business model isn't as neatly disruptive as Uber's IMO.
Isn't a language just a framework for abstracting machine code?
Ask HN: Universal price tracking tool?
I'm looking for a webapp that each day it track some field inside of a html page ( it could be a product price). And then you can make a graph with the evolution of that price. I'm sure that I read something similar here in HN, but I can't find it.
You realize that 2-3 years ago, the IPhone was 10+ times better than Android yet people still bought Android phones?
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There haven't been any very public apologies over Podcasts though have there?
Plenty of industries are subject to local and federal government regulation, but that doesn't mean they should be protected from competition. Where does the motivation to provide good service at competitive rates come from if you are protected from competition? Such an agreement, in my opinion, is inherently bad for progress and for consumers in general.
Because nothing is perfect, like everything else.
Terrible Apple products
I'm holding final judgement till I see if it reflects reality well, but it's really promising.
P-adic arithmetic makes division easy
Shipping Google chrome with a pre-downloaded static cache for all this popular js hosting services urls+contents will probably help the most and be really easy to implement.
I think this happens due to the way the App Store time-weights many metrics. expect it to be top tomorrow.
They don't really need 'ads', just corporate accounts, right?

When someone creates an account they could immediately be following a Coca Cola, BMW and Apple instagram account.

They could even make it a requirement to follow a small number of brands.

I for one wouldn't be too pissed if an occasional cool picture of an apple store or BMW came up in my feed...
I'm using 6.14.1.

I answered all the relevant replies individually because I thought that would make those people more likely to see it. Sorry for annoying you.
More Pythonic APIs using Metaclasses
One of the most honest, deep, meaningful and moving posts I've seen here in my short history in HN. I wish you'll never know sorrow again, my deepest condolences.
I'm curious how one of google's self driving cars would fare on this.
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What about Wordpress? (snark about technical messes aside)

It's as easy as it can possibly be to get a hosted blog up and running -- even with your own domain -- via their forms.

But, unlike Facebook, if you don't like their service, or need more, or don't like some ToS change or version 'update', you can wrap it up with a bow and take it elsewhere.

And businesses exist that will even make that as easy as filling out a form.

There's nothing about making the web of 2005 easier that required things be built as monolithic products instead of protocols and platforms.

And it's that distinction, products vs protocols, that's being lamented.
It is the dependence on the Google ecosystem.

Knowing what places you go to will help Google improve its search results and serve you better ads on all Google sites.
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Agreed. The only losers here are the sub-par map app developers who will now see much fewer downloads.
I guess I can give it a try, after all, I am tired of writing those 'function's all the time ^^
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/12/13/ios_google_ma...
Works offline.
I think it's more about how they sold the company while the application was still not making any money. People expected to have to pay one day, of course, but by selling the users without the business model, Instagram showed it didn't care about the users.

Letting another company figure out how to make money with your product does sound odd, particularly when the product is the users and not some kind of resource.
Okay. I suspected that but I didn't know how much that is the case. Thanks.
BI are masters of click-bait. Which makes them masters of spreading untrue statements.
Surprised to see this make the front page...

The basic fact is that only half of the 45,000 or so law graduates each year will even get jobs as lawyers. I disagree with many that the ABA should clamp down on accreditation. The AMA did that in the last few decades, and while that guaranteed solid employment prospects for medical school graduates, it also led to skyrocketing salaries and medical costs. I think the medical profession has more goodwill capital to spend with the public in this regard than the legal profession, and any such move would be a very bad idea.

However, I do support measures to increase transparency and make educational loans harder to get. In-state tuition at the University of Michigan in 1990 was $6,830 per year (about $11,700 in today's dollars). It is now over $48,000/year.

Now, the teaching of law has not changed since Harvard Law School was founded in 1817. You get a bunch of students in a room. You make them read cases from a casebook. You grill them in front of the class on their comprehension of the cases. It's not a high-tech process, but it works, and can be extremely cheap. There is no reason tuitions need to be 4x higher than they were just 20 years ago. The soaring cost of legal education is really the perfect example of how incredibly dysfunctional our higher education system has become. At least with engineering or medical school tuitions you can point to the expense of lab equipment, etc. Not so with a segment of academia where students are taught the same way they have been for two centuries.
Thank you for the feedback brendanchua.

There are a few key differentiators in my mind but I agree it isn't clearly communicated to the end user yet. As for the content, I thought that among what's posted so far there would be something that peaked someone's interest, enough to sign up. obviously a bad assumption and I'll rework that part.

All comments have been very helpful. Appreciate everyone making the time.
This isn't so much bait-and-switch as it is a car dealership forgetting to put a price tag on a car and people getting mad that it isn't free to buy.