skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use Opera Mini (or is it mobile?) on my old phone - they have a system that routes request through their own caches that downscales/downsamples images, removes cruft, etc. before the pages hit the mobile device. I imagine that means they get under-represented in hit figures (but not by that much).

Looking at hits is doing it wrong - profit is where it's at, what proportion of profits come from Opera users.

[For example, hypothetically, they might be highly paid trend setters and amount for a disproportionately large profit share on a fashion site or such.]
This site seems overly designed. It's so badly overly designed that my eyes hurt. That is why sites like facebook and twitter do well, they have predictable design that prevents a lot of rapid eye movements from top to the bottom of a screen to take in content.

I'll pass.
Any XMPP/Jingle complaint client should work, but there can be rough edges in general.
Maybe they wanted to browse the web?
I'm showing Opera as 1.61%. Yeah, still not exactly massive.
About to post the exact same thing

http://i.imgur.com/DO5Kb.png

And what's with the condescending list? Excuse my vulgarity but the page managed to be insulting, clueless, and factually inaccurate all at the same time. Here's how it reads to me:

a) Fuck you.

b) Fuck you.

c) Yes I do, a big technology company where I can install whatever software I need working on harder technical problems than getting Myspace working cross-browser and I use Opera at home too so fuck you.
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This is one of the reasons that I built bidkat.com. With BidKat, scammers have to go through the trouble of making a valid offer (which can't be done with a screen scraper), verifying their offer, and then hoping that the seller contacts them before they can even start these conversations.

If the seller does happen to contact them, the conversation ends quickly once they aren't interested in paying since most sellers will have multiple offers to fall back on. While it doesn't solve the problem, we find that it raises the bar sufficiently to the point it currently isn't worth it for the scammers to bother.
I agree with this. Awesome service that you probably could scale up with properly with larger corporations while keeping the smaller individual projects/startups that use 3-10 tasks at lower costs or even free.

I know I could use this for 3 things on my own, but would probably rather just build it myself than pay $19/month. (although that is definitely more than reasonable if I wasn't using this for just independent projects)
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I noticed you have "web developer" on the 15th position of that first list, by the way...
You should be able to call any XMPP (Jabber) users if their server is federated (and they have a client with XMPP/Jingle support of course). I.e. not only to the users of Google's XMPP server.
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I was also rather put off by this condescending message. Excuse me for using a browser that provides an enjoyable Internet experience.
Reminds me of the old Black snake fireworks.
I like open floor plans, but I've never been subject to openly playing music.
Excuses, excuses ... Detecting required features by browser identification is not only so 90's, it's downright ridiculous.

All it takes to detect websockets is:

if ('WebSocket' in window) {
/* Web Sockets supported /
} else {
/ Web Sockets not supported */
}

Ironically, this was taken from:

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introducing-web-sockets/

Also, every web developer with half a brain can use https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js instead of locking out users unnecessarily by matching the User-Agent.
I deal with telemarketers the same way. I try to keep them on the line as long as possible, to ruin the caller's stats. (They always hang up first.)
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My thoughts exactly, this is something very refreshing/futuristic and after showing to friends who are both artists/non-artists they love the new UI. Congrats myspace.
Sorry, but no, there was no point to that rant. I'm no Adobe fan either, but your comment adds no value; it isn't a specific criticism, just being angry. If you dislike them, just don't use their products and move on.
I work on a team part of which is on-site. My experience is that it is easier to communicate with those that are on-site. I guess that's called collaboration.
Not to defend or in any way condone the actions of the scammers (which I certainly don't), but I wonder how many of the counter-scammers do so out of high-mindedness, and how many are just looking for a chance to humiliate a relatively easy target - particularly after seeing some of the photos in the 'Trophy Room'.

I also wonder how many of those initiating the scams are actually the vicious, heartless criminals that the site insists they are - for example, one of the exchanges [1] results in the scammer sending about 9 hours of (ostensibly) himself reading Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy on the promise of earning some money for it. Career criminal, or having trouble finding work? Of course, some are genuinely dangerous people but it seems to me that there is probably a spectrum.

As I said, I'm not trying to defend those who seek to profit at the expense of others, but the level of grandstanding present on that site leaves me thinking that some of the counter-scammers themselves are doing exactly that.

[1] www.419eater.com/html/booked.htm
And it's the same sick idea as Whatsapp - another walled and non interoperable IM network.
Agreed. There's only so much you can do with 2 people, and we've chosen to prioritize fixes to our platform over the UI. Difficult choice, but I don't think having a 1-page app affects it except positively.

The "Continuous Integration for Web Apps" flash is due to our Kissmetrics client-side A/B testing. An interesting point is that if we were doing server side A/B testing, we probably wouldn't see that. On the other hand, once I saw that for the first time, I realized it drew my eye to it, and figured it's not a bad thing. But maybe I'm compensating.
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I've always found Opera to be innovative and easy to use. They seem to get their default styling right too.

Personally I use Firefox as my main browser but that's because their web dev tools won me over first and now I'm entrenched.

Sync between a very good mobile and a desktop browser would seem to be a good reason - if their Android browser didn't force close on me so much I'd be tempted towards using Opera on the desktop for non-dev stuff.
This is how we do it at GitHub on a day-by-day basis. https://github.com/blog/1230-optimizing-sales-for-happiness

Its still sales in name, but in nature and application, it's similar to what cdixon spells out.
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> I don't believe very many would trade their jobs for tips from the fickle public.

someone has yet to work as a freelance contractor, apparently.

If your project is funded by recurring tips from 1000 different users, if the quality and/or relevance of your project began declining, you'd see those tips start to decline over time, sending you the message that it's time to change how you're doing things, or move onto a different source of income.

That hypothetical situation is far more secure than receiving one salary from one single employer who could fire you or go out of business at any time, more often than not with no warning whatsoever to the paid employees.

Also I'm not sure why one needs to have a beef with gittip at all. If you don't like it, you are free not to participate. Trying to figure out what the actual "beef" is:

> The other flaw is that this inevitably boils down to a popularity contest.

Which almost makes no sense. What in this world is not a popularity contest already? My only guess is that it sounds like he prefers a market where open source projects remain underfunded and undermaintained, perhaps making it easier for hobbyists to make a splash.

> Tips are not a replacement for passion.

The idea is that for once, those of us who are passionate enough that this is much more than a hobby for us, who don't just come up with handy tools on github but in fact provide large pieces of infrastructure for dozens or hundreds of money-making companies, can finally get some regular compensation for it, exactly without being "beholden" to anyone.
Yeah, 8 hours is only possible for short stretches on long term secure contracts. And usually that means lower fees. You need a certain amount of time for admin, marketing and maintenance work.

From previous experience, 80% productive time is considered high-acceptable and 60% is getting to the low end. Depends on your role as well.

Also as a general rule, cost multipliers are important. Standard multiplier of 2.3x of costs (then margin on top) seems to work out about right - longer term / safe / secure projects can go a little lower if you know we can bill consistently, a higher multiplier if the work is less certain / short term.
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We've had this all the time since the 90's with Flash being required, only we couldn't tell because it was duct-taped onto all major browsers all that time.

Turn off Flash and see how many sites require it (because of bad codec choice / lack of alternative ways of viewing embedded videos, because of crappy ads without fallback images so you get popups/warnings about missing plugins etc.).
I realize how this violates relativity, but I don't understand your counter example (if it was one?) because I wasn't talking about absolute time frames, I'm talking about going forward in time when going FTL. And at no point in my example could B reply before A sends a courier.
I just tried it out, and while it's not a bad font, I find it to be less scannable than Ubuntu Mono at similar font sizes.
I really shouldn't have to create an account just to figure out what your pricing looks like.
Yeah, most people don't bill enough to cover the cost. Remember you are paying your own medical, social security (both employee and employer portions), insurances (professional, worker comp, life), retirement, office, utility, etc.

A rough rule of thumb is to charge 2X of what you would be paid as an employee.
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I agree with you that opera should support web sprockets, and I sympathize with web developers making the decision to develop for new technology and browsers that don't support it be damned. But the actual message myspace displays is pretty needlessly snarky and stupidly insulting. I also have zero faith they'll be able to update their browser detection script often enough to avoid looking like dinosaurs themselves from time to time.
Interesting point but I'd like to see some feedback from real Chinese user(s). (although I am Chinese, I am not currently physically in China so cannot test it out).

The major difference between the two maps is that the Apple one has more POIs (and it looks even more cluttered because it contains Chinese characters). As noted by beering, the base map are essentially the same in this particular example. IOS6 maps are criticized for missing spatial features in the base map (i.e., road network, waterbodies, .etc), which largely due to the use of OSM instead of commercial database.

I am not seeing a counter example here. The comparison is even based on different map range (note the IOS6 map covers a larger region than the google map example).

What I've heard is that Google maps works really bad in some rural part of Europe, e.g., South France. Maybe look for some examples there.
Thanks _pius and d_p for your responses. I will talk to the folks of Google Ventures.

I have been following closely the development of Startup Weekend in Mexico, and wrote research paper on that. Gustavo and Melina are great :)
That's a healthy rate. I guess the company takes a cut as well.
Agreed. I don't think my company would use this at the moment until it's proven service that has a good track record and a SLA (what's your up-time guarantee?). That said, I'd use it for my personal projects but not for $19/month. I'd pay about $1/month per monitor.
Right. That was my point. I'm not happy with the path that Apple is taking here. The non-configurability/repairability of the newer laptops along with the ever-increasing closing of the platform gives me pause.

I was looking at the Lenovo Carbon X1 as a possible candidate to replace the Macbook Air I'm currently using but it's not all-the-way-there yet. At least, not for me.

I'm hoping that the other manufacturers catch up soon.
I believe the reason people bill at a significantly lower rate than they should is that they're worried that the difference will mean less work; I know that fear drove my prices down when I was doing freelance stuff heavily a few years back. At this point I know what my time is actually worth and bill at that rate, but it's taken me years to feel comfortable doing that. Channeling patio11 here: you should be charging more.
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I remember a time when MODEMs were just that and nothing else. I would be miserable if my ISP forced a router and wireless access point on me. Cheap routers that have to be reset once a week shouldn't be forced on anyone.

My $50 Linksys WRT54GL goes years between resets and then it is only because I am moving.
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Exactly, most likely Watson's stuff came from his ISP's cache.
Do you think the big bang has universes on both sides of it?
As a former MySpace employee I hope the redesign is worthwhile. As a former user I am not holding my breath. I certainly hope they threw out 100% of all the old code and started from scratch.
I noticed this over the summer when I was in Beijing/Shanghai with the iOS 6 beta. As soon as I got on the Chinese cell network, the maps suddenly changed to the AutoNavi maps, which although they turned out to be significantly more useful, they weren't vector-based maps and you couldn't rotate them like Apple maps. I also noticed a few other things like I no longer had access maps of any other country and after comparing the maps to the Google Maps in China on my locked iOS 5 phone, the AutoNavi maps were SIGNIFICANTLY more useful (and even saved me when I was lost one time).
Cool, thanks! Care to share how you created this?
You should avoid making technical decisions based on emotional impulses.

Technically Python 3 is superior, IMO, to Python 2.7 and barring any setbacks such as unported libraries (which are becoming increasingly scarce) I wouldn't start a new project in Python 2.7.

The reason libraries have been taking so long is because so many people are resistant to change that they hadn't begun making any serious efforts to port to Python 3 until 2011 by my estimation.

Python 2 is so ass-backwards and broken that I find it painful to use on large code bases. It conflates strings and byte streams, has pathetic Unicode support, and its libraries are rife with bit-rotting code. For the batteries to continue being useful they need to be updated once in a while. Have you seen urllib? It's atrocious by today's standards! Python needed an update and I think that the core team made the right choices.

The challenge has been porting and the core team knew that. They made some poor decisions in hind-sight such as 2to3 and dropping u"", but otherwise the porting story is not as painful as it seems. Cherrypy did it ages ago and Django is finally getting around to it. SQLAlchemy supports Python 3. There are fewer reasons not to switch than ever before and yet articles like this still come up to this day.

Python is only going to fall by the way-side if the developers of the language decide to stop using it. The language hasn't gotten worse by any stretch of the imagination. It needs more contributors to make it better. If you like it so much, port your libraries, contribute to python core, and stop complaining! It's been like five years people!
There's a burgeoning disenfranchisement with Facebook IMO. People for whom Facebook is getting tired and old and for whom the interface is a drag may well be perfectly placed to jump [back].

This does look like they've refocussed back to the roots (?) of MySpace and gone tailored things towards bands/music again.
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Zenst - it sounds like you have a lot of interest in cryptography, and your lack of familiarity with PBKDF2 and friends suggests that you have just entered this space.

I highly recommend https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto as a great introduction into some of the more interesting elements you are working through.
>>You're expanding on my point exactly. The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley.

Not literally, no. But most Internet scams can actually be avoided using common sense, which dictates that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
People who use "house money" are good clients because their job is to get the project done so it looks good on their portfolio. The house money is just a tool for them to get things done. As long as you deliver, they would love you.
Probably not when their cars start at $50,000. I would really love for it to happen though.

But perhaps I am just poor.
5.06% here (Austria) by IP addresses (10440 out of 206384 in 24h).

That's not counting those Opera users who switched their User-Agent string to MSIE or similar because of stupid JS detection like MySpace's.
In case you aren't aware, nostrademons is a Googler. He is pretty well-qualified to dismiss it in this particular case.
> I really really really want Tesla to succeed. But I cannot convince myself to buy a Model-S, it is just past my pain threshold. And for that I am sad.

I'm largely in the same boat. I'm planning on buying a car in the next year and while I think the Model S is downright beautiful, I can't do it. The base model is right in the price range I'd be willing to pay, but the problem is the range; even under optimal driving circumstances, it's quite a bit short of what I'd need to make the trips I'd like to make. One of the higher end models has the range I'd need, but I can't justify the extra $20k or whatever it is.

Hopefully in a couple years there'll be a car from them priced at the perfect level with the things I need, but it's just not there yet.
Will reply to both our conversations here!

I suppose I just think that not everybody needs, wants or cares about cool. I agree that often the average person will follow the tastemakers, but if you can't keep the tastemakers there, or it's just too out there for the average person (like crazy clothing trends, for instance), you limit yourself to just the fringe.

We may have to agree to disagree :-) It'll be interesting to follow it, though, right?
From their build/deployment process to their hiring experience, it's hard to think of a company more open than GitHub these days (not including all that open source code ;)!
My response isn't to say you can't make profitable consumer subscription businesses in other areas, just that if you're looking to make a large VC funded business then consumer subscriptions is a very hard space.

There are definitely small but profitable consumer saas businesses. For example fitness/weight loss apps, 23andme (although no longer), sleep management apps, pinboard, etc.
Beautiful and what a fantastic attitude for a company that size. Reminds me of the old HP.

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"The story of their collaboration—including Jobs’ attempt to lecture Weeks on the principles of glass and his insistence that such a feat could be accomplished—is well known."

It's not well known to everyone. This is the first I've heard of this, and a quick search didn't turn up anything beyond the details in this article.

Excellent article otherwise!
Same with the new Digg.
If we're talking about entrepreneurship and not pure CS, which is more Stanford-like anyways.
I am a cofounder of PIE, a startup accelerator that is part of the Google for Entrepreneurs program. If you have any questions about the program, please let me know. (And thanks to zacharycohn of Startup Weekend for the nudge.)
It's not about detecting features. It's about testing: When you're developing a web app, each new browser you choose to support increases your testing time: starting out developing for chrome, adding safari support usually is just a formality. adding firefox support means a couple extra hours of testing, but everything usually works. adding opera support means your tests are going to start failing, and a bunch more work.

I'm picking on websockets because that's what's been annoying me at work lately, but it's just an example. the myspace demo doesn't even use websockets, it's totally irrelevant, but websocket support is a good cursory indication of whether or not it is a modern browser, and therefore how much development time will be added by officially supporting it.
They are planning a $30k sedan.
Added a team page: https://www.seenbefore.com/pages/team . This had dropped off our list until launch. Sorry.
Daily billing is definitely the way to go. It is a great way to manage risk for both parties versus fixed-price (potential for abuse from the client's end) or hourly (potential for abuse* from the professional's end). Once you have a good idea of what you can complete in a day you can gather requirements and break them up into days resulting in more accurate scopes to work with.

From my experience it seems everyone is happy (especially if you throw in daily invoicing). It's easy to avoid deadbeat clients this way and you have more consistent cash flow this way. If not consistent then at the very least it is predictable since you can see how far into the future you can book days.

*: The abuse referred to here is for clients to keep requesting changes when they pay fixed-price. They are of the mentality that it is unlimited changes, and it is often difficult to draw the line on what is a billable change with this approach. Hourly can result in a professional delaying things to rack up hours.
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The song is oddly appropriate.

Who am I to say I want you back?
When you were never mine to give away.
I was waiting for a long, long time for you to feel the same.
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OP here, I would be interested to hear how others automate django project creation.
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To those complaining about the price - the level of technicality, like for MAILTO=user@domain.com in a crontab may not explain the price alone. Price != costs.

The right price is the price your target consumers are willing to pay. And if like another commenter you are doing to build it yourself instead of forking $19, you obviously are not the consumer. (and neither am I - I'll stick to cron :-) !)
It seems promising, but isn't Latest the unholy lovechild of Facebook's News Feed and the controversial Timeline format?
Bands was what MySpace did best. It'll be interesting to see if it can lure any back (or the audience for the bands - chicken, egg?).

Absolutely agree with the Facebook disenfranchisement. I often wonder if FB has just got too 'bitty' - would people prefer something like the super simple Facebook of yesteryear?!
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