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What is Hacker News doing that makes it better than any other website with links and comments?

It's also said explicitly in the article that it was a bit of an act.

Don't lots of websites have links and comments? It's not about the capabilities (which are a little more nuanced than "hover over text and see explanations") it's about the quality and community which creates the content.

To be a little more helpful, they've partnered with Lloyd's of London to provide a nice insurance policy for all renters: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee

This is completely off-topic, but you don't have a bold weight of the body font you're using, so the browser is trying to fake it and it looks very fuzzy.

This is an interesting wiki article on an ice baron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor#The_ice_business

"solves problems" encompasses a vast space of decision making, some of which is arbitrary and stylistic. "That's it" is oversimplifying things.

"In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there's only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don't really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that's called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time." - Gert Dumbar

they don't

edit: they ask for it

If you wanted it to persist on a display, you could always airplay an iPad to a tv screen.

"And it never helps to get a boost from partner."

Would "200 students are better than none" be invalid? When you swap out the number with some other word i.e. "Some students is better than none", using "are" is the correct choice.

When I was there, all the American flags were just chasing Canada.

The app "Find my Friends" allows users to accept requests to be added to someone's FMF contact list, which allows the person who added them to ping their phone at any time to find their location. It's pretty privacy breaching, but I only have 3 people added who I trust very much, and to whom it is useful.

when was the dinner?

When you click to remove a post from your newsfeed, facebook prompts you with "unsubscribe from this page's updates" — there's also a tab in the top right of these stories (and of people's updates) that allows you to set the frequency you receive news from them.

Those are good point. I guess I was more curious about how the data is stored — say someone 100 years from now picks one of these up and wants to read the data. Will the format in which it's stored prevent them from doing so?

I believe it was noted in some older thread that the reason a lot of people use the web version, is because the native versions were so slow and unresponsive. So there are lots of web users, party because they were pushed away from native — not because they chose web.

Maybe the medium will last longer, but isn't "If you have a computer with the right software and an optical microscope hooked up to it" a big part of the data decay problem on floppy disks etc.? Even if the data is there, it's useless without the right software/hardware to read it.

Are you trying to tell me that Stargate has been lying this whole time?

It's not really online reading, but we have an iOS "trail map" at thoughtbot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/trail-map/blob/master/trails/i...

A good counter example to the pop art painter are Baroque painters, who used very dark colors very heavily in their pieces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_painting

I hadn't even thought of that. I wonder how this will effect the car insurance industry.

How is this HTML5

The main advantages are listed on the page. Being able to apply CSS styles is the biggest one.

Their site lists all the ways that it learns and adapts here http://www.nest.com/inside-and-out/#learns - one of the ways uses the weather