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Ask HN: Is Opera stagnating?
I feel if there was ever a time for Opera to break into the mainstream, it would have been these past few years. Internet Explorer's market share has gone nowhere but down since 2009, Chrome usage doubled in 2011, and Safari is always making steady gains. [1]

I ask because I am an Opera user. Over 2011 I have experienced imperfect support for Google+, Google Docs and Twitter. I've seen Unite, which I feel is still ahead of its time, fail to take off. The Widgets seem all but dead. The extensions development community seems much less robust than for other browsers. One would have expected Opera to benefit from the gains made by Firefox and Chrome in recent years. Yet Opera market share always seems to be just under 2%. In fact, their market share has been shrinking of late. [2]

Is Opera going to be forever stuck under 2%? If so, doesn't that mean Opera will never have success with features that depend on community involvement such as widgets, extensions, and Unite?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser_market_share

2: http://insights.chitika.com/2011/web-browser-market-share-november-2011/
One amendment to return our Government to "We the People"
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Show HN: Teaching my sister how to code by building "Food with a Friend"
My sister just graduated from college. She's working for a print design company but is more interested in the web. I'll be seeing her over the holidays and want to teach her how to code, so we came up with the idea for foodwithafriend.com. We'll try to build it over our vacation - hackathon style.

Here's the pitch:

It can be hard to keep up with all your friends.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to catch up with a different friend each week over some delicious food? Food with a Friend will automatically match you up with one of your friends each week for a tasty meal at a local establishment.

You tell us what days you're generally free and we'll match you up. Then all you have to do is pick a restaurant!

--

What do you think of the idea? Is it worth pursuing as strictly an educational project or do you think it would be a useful apart from my goal of teaching her web development?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344678
The iOSTO meetup is the first of its kind in Toronto – where people who are interested in iOS development gather together to SHARE, LEARN, CHANGE, and ACT. If you’re an iOS developer, game designer, marketeer, investor, UX/GUI Designer or active in the iOS community, we want to MEETUP and CONNECT with you.

This will be an informal and casual event and will be held downtown (date/location TBA).
This meetup is an opportunity to share iOS projects, ideas, business insight, prototypes and development experiences. Do you have an app store horror story? Or successes to share? What do you think Apple will do next? Let’s talk about Objective C Programming and User Experience

Let’s meet and connect in the world of iOS!

Note: for now we are using the Meetup.com platform.
Omni-Directional Spider Robot (And It Likes Teddy Bears) [video]
link to our launchrock page: http://launch.foodwithafriend.com/
T-Mobile to get 7 year 3G roaming deal, 128 markets of AWS spectrum from AT&T
Boston: Cradle of Liberty and Data Startups
Your assertion that employees are never under a moral or contractual obligation to their employers is simply wrong. An employee in a sensitive position, under a non-compete, cannot take trade secrets from his employer and give them to another company. This is both immoral and illegal, and contrary to your statement, sometimes the 'stick' is enforced.

Even if you were right about employees, as I noted above, the situation is very different for founders. It is morally (and in extreme cases legally) wrong to accept a payoff in order to circumvent the investors to whom you have a legal and ethical duty as corporate officers.

If I invest $10M in Startup X to develop and market Cool Service, and a year later the founders accept a $50M stock package from Company Y so that it can offer Cool Service, and I'm left with nothing, then "trying to claw ROI back" is absolutely a reasonable goal. (I'm not saying this was the situation with Gowalla, only that your position that it's never justified seems extreme.)
Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for
but I may want to try something new

Do you or don't you? We can't decide this for you.
Worker-Owners of America, Unite
The Twitter Timeline: Refocusing on Execution
It's worth noting that they did intervene the last time the North Koreans were the aggressors, that is, the Korean War.
I think it even won some award at Launch, 2011.
I'm puzzled by this cage match mentality: two enter, only one can leave.

I think that for the indefinite future, we will see co-existence and mutual co-opting of technologies. A nice arms race, with occasional routs and victories in particular areas, but no clear victor overall.

For one thing, discoverability difficulties are a temporary barrier to native app stores, it's not as though search engine technology can't work in controlled environments like app stores. Web apps also have discoverability issues (hence SEO) but no one freaks out too much about that.

The web will continue to grow and prosper, but native apps will also become ever richer as the frameworks created by Apple and Google grow in sophistication.

It isn't "either-or", it will be "both-and".
You could, but don't be too successful or its off with your head when political winds shift. Isreal has subconscious influence over this country. You might have heard the words "holy" and Isreal in a song played in the US in December... 50 million times and delivered as sermons in churches on every street corner in the US.
Did you see that cunning sleight of verbiage?

1Gbps is a single link speed.

10Gbps is an aggregate for all links in the data center.[1]

Even $99 low end consumer ethernet switches have an aggregate speed of 16Gbps.

For this to make any sense at all you have to have a switch in the rack aggregating traffic but still be using a 1Gbps ethernet back to a more central switch. The cost of a 10Gbps link isn't too bad when spread over a rack of equipment. Compare that to the cost of an RF system that has to be engineered for the exact physical installation, still needs a >1Gbps uplink port on the rack switch, and silently breaks if someone sets a cardboard box on top of a rack.

[1] Their number, not mine. The report talks about using the spatial restrictions of the links to make many "multiple Gbps" links in the same space.
My general observation has been that people who like to work in the (relative) dark like dark color schemes and people who like to have lights on like light color schemes.

I personally enjoy a black-on-white color scheme, but if I were in a dark room I'm sure I would find it very fatiguing on my eyes.
> The US can't save themselves. US never saved anyone,
> they only changed regimes

You're either incapable of understanding my post, or you're just trollin'. I'm not even going to bother continuing a conversation with you.

> You don't even slightly consider that you are
> disinformed by western media

This is the problem with your arguments. You're presenting counter-points (i.e. "western media is lies!") without anything to back it up. This has 'troll' written all over it. Why? You're not responding directly to anything that was actually said (e.g. what parts of my post are mistaken based on 'western media lies?'). You are also going out of your way to be as not specific as possible, just controversial (e.g. What is western media lying to me about? Everything? So when western media says that I need to eat to stay alive that's a lie too?).
Except patent lawyers :(
[ PDF ] Python Programming - Handout 4 - CEH - Saher Team
Error pages would be nice if handled correctly,
I type http://pen.io/show ?

You are running apache, I believe this should be a snap :)

Cheers,
Jose
Norman Kamaru
I think that his forgiveness isn't for the dictator, it's for himself.
Ah..Ok. I knew about this but didn't know it was a cashcow :)

This is pretty much like soundcloud? (I know you launched earlier)
And in the US, you have the choice to read things besides "commercially controlled mass media," or even to start your own newspaper if you'd like!

If people ignore protests, whose fault is that? The government or the people? And you know, there have been some very successful protests... the US didn't originally have things like the Civil Rights Act.

While perhaps your favored ideological points are not currently being heard by the people you think should hear them, that does not discount the fact that US citizens have pushed for all sorts of laws that have been enacted. To draw upon a recent example, a good number of Republicans voted against NDAA 2012 when they initially were going to vote for it, solely because of citizens contacting them and expressing their concerns. The very fact that that happened proves that, for all we might complain, representatives (and other citizens) do listen.

It might be hard to get people to listen sometimes, and we might see incidents like the misuse of pepper spray, but if you think that puts us on the level of China then frankly you're completely deluded! You do realize that in China you can be incarcerated for talking about democracy, and that they have their own party-appointed leaders for religions like Tibetan Buddhism and Catholicism?
Native Apps vs HTML is just a microcosm of proprietary vs open standards which is always turtle vs hare. In short, native apps can always be better as long as they stay ahead, but the progress of open standards is inexorable because it provides greater portability benefits than any one vendor can match. Furthermore, it's possible to slow open standards as Microsoft did in the early 00s, but it requires immense market power and sacrifice of the user experience which is why Apple chooses to simply stay ahead of standards rather than letting mobile safari rot on the vine.

There will always be things native apps can do that standards can't, but open standards will always be more accessible and they will just get better and better.
Unit testing to the rescue.
Thank HN: My part-time project is finally ready for the business
Hi HN,

Almost 11 months ago, while working on my day-job I launched this simple Voice Call reminder iPhone application - JustRemindIt (http://JustRemindIt.com) in my spare time. When it was launched, the app had only 1 feature i.e. send a Voice Call reminder to anyone from iPhone. There were no Web application, SMS or recurring reminders, message templates, stored contacts, etc features.

After launching the app, I spent very minimal time in marketing or new feature development. Even with my minimal involvement, it kept doing reasonably well. Nothing like huge downloads/day, but every day I kept getting decent signups (10-30/day). Every month, few users buy Reminder Packages and keep using the app actively. It kept making enough money to cover all service expenses (excluding my time value).

Over the period, apart from just the consumers, there were many small businesses started using the app for appointment reminders. Then they started requesting advanced features. After really long break I finally decided to work on it.

I spent last 2 months of my part-time to upgrade it with many requested features. Most notably, the business model so far was just consumer focused with “pay-as-you-go” pricing, but now I’ve added “recurring subscriptions” pricing focused on small businesses. Within 2 weeks after launching this new version, I already got few paying subscribers and it felt really good! I already had paying customers, but repeat paying customers is super awesome!

I finally received my Green Card, and quit my job last week, and now will be working on JustRemindIt’s future upgrades and sales/marketing activities actively along with my other startup project which also getting ready for real business soon. I’m excited that now I’ll be able to spend my entire time on growing my own businesses. I understand that it’s going to be a challenging ride, but I’m all ready and look forward to it.

Thanks HN for your support, learning and motivation along the way. This wasn’t possible without your inspirational stories.

In the end, all kinds of inputs/feedback on site’s landing page, features, and pricing will be helpful. Also, it will be super valuable if you could give some ideas, shout outs, or referrals for marketing and sales (that’s going to be my main focus now on - SEO, PPC, Content marketing and Cold Calling, etc.)

Fight on!
-Aditya
As i said, f() returns a generator object in this case. So you're calling list on a generator that yields None once, the result of which is a list that contains None. If you change the `yield` to `yield "foobar"`, list(f()) will get you `["foobar"]`.

Edit: Perhaps, to clear things up more, about where the value 7 went- your snippet can be expressed without using lambdas as

>>> def g(x):
... return 7
...
>>> def f():
... v = (yield)
... g(v)
...
>>> list(f())
[None]

Note that there's no return before g(v) because generators (at least in 2.7) can only yield, not return a value.
tester who sent the email here :)

For 'serious software' that is doing business, the first thing I now check is Plans and Pricing. if there is none, it is almost a guarantee I will not be using it seriously.

I will confess though, it was not always like this. I was once of the people that Googled "Free Basecamp Alternatives" but all that changed when I started understanding "if software owners do not make money, how can they survive?!"

We caused it by making people believe "delivering bits cost nothing" forgetting that money was needed to pay the bills. Of course I still believe services should have a free tier to allow non-power users test a service. But that in itself is pricing strategy which has the word 'pricing' in it.

A product/service that has a business model does not mean it will shut down but one that does not will certainly shut down.

Things things are turning around. The 37 Signal guys should get some sort of recognition for being in the front of this struggle.
Note to those who haven't read the article: the article agrees in a less-inflammatory way with mmahemoff.

However I think the article is worth reading because it appears that the talk brought up a new argument about why the "web is dead". It's interesting, but both mmahemoff and the article's author think it's wrong. So do I, but it was an interesting argument.
It's not that accessibility is something you should add, it's that you're actively mucking it up with about a hundred text links, glossy buttons, social junk on all sides, and the page splits. I'm guessing you're driving away enough visitors to hurt your apparent dedication to making money off page views.
There have been several issues with Sass (sass-rails) and the Asset Pipeline. Some of them involving Compass (https://github.com/chriseppstein/compass/issues/516#issuecom...), some of them due to Sprockets (https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets/pull/268#issuecomme...).

They have indeed been crippling for front-end development, and majorly under-reported since this summer. So if you're facing any of these issues, please participate in the GitHub Issues threads I linked above and help the relevant teams diagnose/improve the problems.
I like preserving my sight as much as possible, so dark (not black) with light (not white) pastel colors.
The primary reason to use R is the large number of stats packages, which are written in a mixture of C, Fortran, and R. I don't see mention of JNI anywhere, but hooking into Fortran and C seem like the most difficult but most essential piece of making this useful.
Saddam Hussein murdered most of the people who knew him growing up - one of his biographers figured this out and got out of the country first.
The Heliotrope House Automatically Follows The Sun Like A Plant
NYT: 45 neuroscientists say you're wrong. Can we have a correction?
How reCaptcha works. 100mil words per day = 2.5mil books per year [video]
My brother the paramedic, is well practiced in getting strangers to do what he needs. Only a few calls are dramatic or dangerous, but I guess a lot of his daily work involves getting people to move back or hold a door open, or stuff like that.

Being with him in his civilian clothes in, say, a crowded shopping mall and barking out "Excuse me! Coming through!" because people are blocking his route to the coffee shop or something, and seeing the sea of people just part in front of him is impressive. Having an authoritative voice and a lot of self-confidence does wonders, apparently.

I've tried doing the same. Doesn't work for me. :(
Stupid Bosses I've Had (Part 2 of 3)
That's an interesting editorializing of the headline. Here I was unsure if this meant that 'the cloud' was doomed or it was in for a massive increase in popularity.
"Generally I like Arel, but the changed behavior around default_scope is maddening. And I've found several pretty big bugs that have been annoying to work around."

Can you expand on this?
Chrome on Mac OS X
63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor
Clickable link - http://JustRemindIt.com
I'm pretty sure I saw that functionality in devices that existed long before the iPhone.. fucking patents.

But to be fair, an import blockade is a pretty solid victory. Unfortunately for Apple, HTC can release a software update to disable the "infringing" functionality and quite possibly reinvent it in a way that isn't infringing anything.
But the pink afterimage was always annoying - I much preferred the amber monochrome monitors that came available.

I still use a "wheat" on black for night-time reading on my iphone...
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5 tips to be a productive home worker
The "web is dead" motif of the talk itself, incidentally, is more inflammatory than anything in this thread.

- Sent from my web browser
Have you worked with the open source python library for it?
Can't wait for this! Here's hoping they don't make any silly mistakes with regard to terminal emulation.
Personally I found the movie "Children of the secret state"

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332

extremely moving. It is video shot inside N. Korea illegally and exported to China.

Be warned though, it is extremely horrific and shocking! I'm a grown adult and it reduced me to tears.
Regarding output? Any sufficently advanced SSG is indistinguishable from a dynamic site (cf. Movable Type). Regarding the software itself? Even default jekyll has quite a few dependencies, compared to something like blosxom or even simple dynamic blog engines (bet there are a few that aren't more than one page of PHP).

"Minimalist" gets thrown about a lot, too much, probably. Especially for software, but even for presentation/design, where "simple" would often fit better.

Never mind it's all bigger than just using "cat" for blogging and exposing your .plan over HTTP…
I'm thinking that the parent is expecting 'yield' to return 'None' into g(), and then for g() to return 7 since it doesn't do anything with the 'x' parameter, and is confused why that isn't the case.
Pharmacists lie to 17 year olds about whether they can get Plan B
Before 1996?
Your product is in the shape of a rectangle, we invented rectangle. Pay us money for our invention or we will sue you in 50 different nations. there needs to be a penalty for the attacking company when frivolous patent suits are shown to be ridiculous.
I haven't read a Xanth in years, so this was interesting to catch up; I hadn't even realized he was still alive. (Wikipedia says he's 77!)
I guess the value of that will depend on how those certificates are perceived. If you're hiring a coder who is entirely self taught, and you see a few of these certificates in the kind of basic CS areas that are often lacking among entirely self taught programmers, it might sway a hiring decision a bit one way or the other.
What People Look at on Facebook Brand Pages
Please keep these kinds of things off of Hacker News. We don't need HN turning into /r/politics. This isn't news. We don't need it here.
Opera still commands a large & growing market share of browsers on mobile phones with Opera Mini. This is evident in Asia / developing countries where partnerships with mobile operators are helping them stay relevant. But as these countries switch to mass adoption of smartphones, I sense they will struggle to keep up the momentum. See http://www.opera.com/smw/ for current growth story of Opera Mini.
"Just to be sure: You suggest to write interfaces ('extract' in my original post as that seems to be the refactoring name you'd use for this kind of stuff in my world) that define a contract for pre-existing characteristics of 3rd party types?"

No, in Go you can write new methods for pre-existing 3rd party types that you do not have the source for. It has the feel of monkey patching, but there is no classes in Go. A method is just a function that takes objects of certain type as a parameter. Knowing an object's type does not tell you what actions can be performed on it. To know that, you want to know what interfaces the object implements.

This is a one way to solve the so called expression problem, which cannot be solved by simple use of classes and interfaces in a language like Java.
FuelPHP - Moving to Pagoda Box (Corrected Link)
I haven't worked on it in a while, but you can still view the code here: https://github.com/ekosz/Personal-C-Assistant
It's always a good business model move to make your revenue from something that can't be pirated or copied. No-one's going to be torrenting the certificates, after all.
1 KB christmas tree using sprites and HTML5
Thanks ! My goal at the moment is to be able to keep the lights on.
I love this line '..just because it doesn't work on one street corner, doesn't mean it won't work on another - location, location, location! '
Nobody has bothered to mention the horrible name/logo combination?
Well, thank you for your violent reaction...
Depends a lot on the general setup. On my Mac, it's often a white(-ish) background, whereas on a shell-heavy Linux desktop I keep with a general dark look and feel.

But lately I surprisingly often turn to yellow on blue (TP-like), without syntax highlighting…
SOPA: So how much does it cost to buy off America's Internet freedom?
Book Recommendations: Amusing Ourselves To Death
I really enjoy the following cartoon:

"Amusing Ourselves To Death"
http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html

I printed it out on my office wall to remind myself not to be distracted by unproductive reality tv shows, endlessly checking news sites, youtube videos, etc. Like Steve Jobs advocated, it is important to focus on what is important and not get distracted.

I recently stumbled across this book:
"The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption"
http://www.amazon.ca/Information-Diet-Case-Conscious-Consumption/dp/1449304680/

I am looking for recommendations for similar books on focusing, limiting distracting, etc. Any suggestions you could provide?

Many thanks.
Sorry for the dumb question (I'm still inexperienced with python), but can someone explain why the yield needs to be enclosed in ()?
Speaking of very few paid MRI developers, does anyone know if the Ruby project takes donations to hire full-time paid developers? If yes, could you please point us to the donations page?
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Apple acquired Israeli flash memory firm Anobit for $400M-$500M
Your three choices (Windows, Mac, Linux) won't work. If you want to go that route, the question would be "what application do you use to transfer your files"? You can see what a rat's nest that can turn into. Maybe you can split it into 3 categories: file manager, photo manager, music/media manager and then have further instructions on a second screen.
HIV vaccine trials approved by FDA
HTC Faces Possible Ban in US