skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. No arguments, just option.

2. Herd-mind might apply for Chrome-Hipsters, but Opera is far from being mainstream. Sadly.

3. I'd love to have Opera as my default browser everywhere, but it just doesn't work that easily for me. Maybe you can share me your weird/unusual insights on how to apply a default browser for the entires win7 system, including all applications?

4. You must be doing something horribly wrong. I DO MISSION CRITICAL WORK WITH OPERA - all day long - for many many years.

5. Shame on you for creating a fake account. You deserve to be downvoted.

6. tl;dr is supposed to be _above_ the content.
This is a major change in Belarus! http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/why-is...
>Either you agree that Opera implemented standards as strictly as possible (really the only way when you your own rendering engine with such a small market share) while aiming for compatibility at the same time

Noble aim but that doesn't work in the consumer world. I am pretty open-minded, so I am seriously trying to use Opera every 2 or 3 years. And each time I really start to enjoy using it but after one or two days I get horribly disappointed: a significant number of websites I like just doesn't work. Not just loss in function, they are completely unusuable, for instance I get a white page.

Last time I did this try is probably 2 years ago. Last time I observed this behaviour with another non-IE-browser: at least 5 years ago, probably more like 8.

There was a time when certain websites only worked with IE. Somehow Mozilla and friends adapted... but what happened to Opera? I cannot stop thinking that Opera somehow got stuck in the 90s. They are certainly innovative, they were the CSS pioneers, everybody copied tabs and other cool features.

But still... When your rendering is incompatible to the real world, nobody will use you. So I can only agree: smart move. Maybe this will make Opera a serious competitor in the Browser market again.

Anyway, I also agree, Opera still has a user base. I work on an in-house tool and we have users using Opera, so I test against it.
Doing this would mean being forever stuck in single-threaded land for rendering (e.g. nothing like Mozilla's Servo project could ever happen).

People have tried to parallelize WebKit and failed: too entangled, too much code making too many assumptions... Parallelism is one of those things that's just incredibly hard to bolt on after the fact.

So if you want browsers to never really scale well to large number of cores, by all means try to get them to all switch to WebKit.
I'm not saying it's without merit, but my blood pressure raises a little every time I hear this argument. It comes across as, "STFU and don't buy if you don't want it!"

When in reality, the original consumer considered this but would rather pursue a more active response than to sulkily and more important silently use something else.

Yes "voting with one's wallet" is certainly an option. But it should not be the sole option as you seem to suggest.
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This thread feels like people didn't learn from all the best viewed in netscape or best viewed in IE terrible sites from early 2000s.

[BEST VIEWED IN WEBKIT] or [BEST VIEWED IN GECKO] would suck.
This whole series looks fantastic. Just subscribed, looking forward to the lessons and learning your approach. Thanks for doing this!
I am in Connecticut and there was an article on gizmodo[1] that said Connecticut was the safest place in the US due to Google's analysis. When everyone then started to search for "flu connecticut" on Google, we became the worst! To me, that showed the flaw of using google searches to determine flu outbreaks

[1]http://gizmodo.com/5974671/you-will-not-be-able-to-escape-th...
Interesting also to note that Chrome OS inventor Jeff Nelson is currently CTO of a "stealth startup". http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonjeffrey
The problem with evolution is that it's slow and can never reach parts of the problem space that require too large a leap.

In the case of web rendering engines, for example, I don't see "evolution" getting us to a rendering engine that can usefully parallelize over, say, 64 cores starting from the engines we have right now. And monoculture would ensure that we never get there.
My girlfriend is very into nostalgia and a few months ago put DuckTales on her Netflix queue... At first I laughed at her but quickly realized that the show holds up surprisingly well as an adult - as the article mentioned, the stories are top notch, the animation is of shockingly high quality and its pretty funny to boot. I'm glad I'm not the only person to pick up on how entertaining this show really was.
Hey, thanks for the support. I admit I don't know enough about what was going on in that vid to make it exciting, but the thought of being able to make a website do whatever I want to sounds incredibly fulfilling.
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The Burden of iOS
Amazon Beats Apple As Most Trusted Company in U.S.
The point is that a WebKit monoculture would make the Servo project impossible.
Bedrock
Hey Paradigm...zoowar is ignorant about distro and apps, and not just an idiot. Your bedrock is awesome and not like anything else...keep up the breakthru capability.
Gotta Buy Em All! Pokemon!
Clang based documentation generator for C and C++
Chromebook Pixel?
Top Lessons I Learned As A Newbie Entrepreneur in Tech
"Store" makes it sound like I should be buying something. Perhaps change the name to "Upload"
Hmmm, I'm beginning to think that maybe you should formulate WHAT you want to do before you get to the HOW. Maybe it'll turn out coding may only be a small part of it. Building a start-up goes way beyond coding. Jeff Bezos never coded yet look at where Amazon is today...Just a thought
Here's the actual graph image of the last 3 years:

http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8976.1360689365!/image/F...

The data is there, it's correct, it accurately measures how much people are talking about the flu. The fact that it's lined up with past flu seasons is simply a good sign of correlation in the past.

The area between the inflated google trend and the real number of cases is the amount of hype. It's been talked about in the media and online like it was an epidemic of 10 times the size that it actually was, and this likely had a positive effect on vaccination rates and conscientiousness.

The google data is still extremely useful as a measure of our collective attention, but the article really fails to give it credit and seems to think that it's failed somehow. It could be further refined, sure, but it's still extremely useful and extremely true. It shows that this year, the flu went viral, and the attention was amplified.

Maybe we need a Google Flu Tracker Tracker? (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Otk-knCm-nw/ShT1qAUsWiI/AAAAAAAAAQ...)
PunkSpider
Yogis and spiritual guides in India seem mostly to be conmen.

The idea that they have some sort of key to advanced spiritual knowledge is popular in the west but thoroughly misguided.
then just try make it do ;)

Does not have to be something big. Perhaps just playing tic-tac-toe with your web app can be a start. or not even that. You don;t have to build a web app from the beginning. Try building a simple console app first. It's much easier.
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> it was never constrained because of compatibility concerns over non-standard features.

Seriously? You should go read the www-style archives or public-html archives or the relevant W3C bug databases sometimes for all the things the WebKit folks refused to implement (and still do) precisely because of such concerns.

> accelerate innovation?

Innovation and feature addition are not the same thing.

Please explain to me how building a rendering engine that scales well to 64 cores would be accelerated by starting with WebKit as a base, for example.
Heroku is now mainstream. You can even get trained in it.
SVG Path Animation with jQuery and Illustrator
Zero-Day vulnerability in Adobe Reader
Or even cheaper, just use a mail forwarding service to send it from the US to Australia.
I'd much rather those questions be documented in the documentation. I don't know how I'd have learned much of what I know now if StackOverflow had been the top 8 search results instead of various manpages and TLDP references that were deeply useful.

It's also very annoying when the top Google result for a query is a StackOverflow thread that has been closed as a duplicate. They should put up a <link rel="canonical"> or something so Google doesn't lead people to the dirty, dirty duplicate.

While the griping's good, let me throw a jab at discussion forums that lock old, unanswered threads. These old, unanswered threads are very frequently in the top 10 Google results for something I'm trying to learn. It's incredibly frustrating to read through a dozen "me too" posts to find that the last one says, "This thread has been closed. If you want to ask a question, start a new thread." AAAARRRGH! New rule: if you close an unanswered thread, delete it from Google. Better yet, understand the part your forum is playing in the information world and let someone who knows the answer to an ancient question post that answer.
you can start with Ruby Koans: http://rubykoans.com
This issue: http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gmail/ugBCu8...

Also: http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gmail/jCukq7...

It's pretty easy to reproduce. Create a filter for your emails, any filter at all. In the rules section, have the filter forward to a forwarding address. Now receive an email that matches the filter, and watch the forwarding not work.
Hip Hop song about poverty in Iran...
Right here, right now, what is Buddha?

The Zen "approach" cannot be explained, much like the teachings of Krishnamurti or Ramana Maharshi, or, as in the case of this thread, the psychedelic experience, or, as in the case of this life, oneself.
Tips for smooth scrolling web pages
This is a fine idea. I would expand it a bit more to include native UI controls. I wish Apple would figure out a way to allow on the fly code changes without having to push an update. THAT would be nice.
Accomplishing your goals. Chapter 1
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of cloud?
WebKit is the jQuery of Browser Engines
> "LSD is a direct message from God. Period."

> "I feel high all the time still and it's been years."

Reason to avoid large doses right there.
EU and US free-trade talks launched
I hear he also picks his nose!

I don't care if the guy smuggles cocaine on the side, this specific thing he's doing seems like a really useful service.
I watched the video and still have no real idea what this is or indeed what it is meant to achieve.

Some written information, even just a general background would be useful.
Awesome idea! I'll experiment with it in my projects. Doxygen is horrible, and looking at your example I can see it's far superior than Doxygen.
Information awareness - the unconscious choice
It's a bit confusing that the site (ThePaperBay.com) has the same theme as your blog.
It's nice to see OR get some love on HN. I think one of the biggest problems with OR practitioners is that we have a hard time articulating what we bring to the table. My job title is "suitability analyst," but that doesn't tell the whole picture. We have slogans like "The Science of Better," but most people still don't understand what we do. OR is overshadowed by larger but not necessarily better "brands" like systems engineering and MBAs spouting words like "lean." I can't tell people that I do OR because people ask "what's that?" and don't have time for me to give them a five minute explanation. I might just point them to this page and say if you really want to know then read this. Otherwise just go ahead and think of me as an industrial engineer/computer scientist/mathematician/statistician/economist all rolled into one.
"SSDBEAR20" without the quotes (from the serverbear.com site).
Wow, a whole article full of analogies to argue about. Not to mention...

>Exhaust systems need to be replaced every 20,000 miles.

Wha?

>And all this after 80 years of research and development.

I thought this was supposed to a new-fangled petrol car.
It's not just amateurs.

The "mobile" sites out there are overwhelmingly WebKit-only. We're talking sites from Google, Disney, Apple, various news sites, etc, not sites done by amateurs.

And they're not accidentally WebKit-only in many cases, but deliberately so.
thank god for people like you who spread the word about how you can't make money on the web in those markets :) all I can say that you did not try hard enough :)
Agree completely. I'd extend that to say that if you're relying on Lifehacker to help you set up Git/Github, this statement is probably false:

"Nevertheless, it's good to learn the old-fashioned way otherwise your options in the simplified software won't make sense."

The Github app goes to great lengths to make the interaction with Github more intuitive than the CLI Git client. Yes, your options are more limited, but I work with several pseudo-technical users who use solely the Github app. You can switch branches, checkout, publish, delete, and merge through the Github app. The Github app even stashes automagically if you switch branches with uncommitted changes. The only area that gets sketchy are conflicts, but many of the people at whom this article is targeted will never encounter a conflict, because they're the sole developer.

In any case, I can see absolutely no reason that a casual developer should move past the Github client to the Git CLI client if they have no specific need.
Tiny Core (distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/) is another Linux distro that runs from ram, and you can install general software easier than in Chrome OS. Worth a look if you're interested in speed but not web apps.
Which of your friends are using "Bang with Friends"? (No graph search needed)
I don't understand what this means. If you want to use evolution as an analogy, you should accept the fact the those that get extinguished were simply inferior to adapt and LESS "hope for the future".

Not at all, it's a phenomenon called "getting stuck in a local optimum" (as opposed to the global one).

Contrary to what you claim, evolution doesn't play well with standards -- then you wouldn't have competition, just some committee deciding what the spec should be and several implementations. Implementing the same predetermined spec is hardly "evolutionary".

You seem to have an incorrect understanding of how W3C standards appear. Browsers implement a new feature (through prefixing), often competitively, and if it's considered generally useful the browser vendors get together and try to agree on a common API that is most useful and sane. After a while the prefix goes away and the standardized API is used. There's been some complaints about WebKit refusing to do the latter, which surely is a contributing factor to Opera's decision.

Without this common API, you'd have no chance in implementing the same features independently. Without vendor competition, there's no incentive to standardize the API, which precludes future competition.

The current web and especially WebKit itself thank their existence to such a spec.
All you need to do is look where the big money is invested. Of all the major publishers bar Nintendo, the majority is pumped towards the 360/PS3.
> Noble aim but that doesn't work in the consumer world. I am pretty open-minded, so I am seriously trying to use Opera every 2 or 3 years. And each time I really start to enjoy using it but after one or two days I get horribly disappointed: a significant number of websites I like just doesn't work. Not just loss in function, they are completely unusuable, for instance I get a white page.

You're saying that's the fault of Opera when it's possibly the fault of lazy devs.

You used to (still have?) devs testing for Opera and then preventing users going any further. Users would spoof the agent id string. So then devs started doing more tests, and rejecting Opera.

(https://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/tree/b...)
Pocketknives for Game Developers
I think it would be better if Chrome OS were more like Lotus Notes, where a group of individuals can remotely collaborate on a document in the cloud or work offline and replicate their changes overnight for later editorial adjustment.
A big thanks to @compay for stepping forward as the new maintainer!
IE does not exist on mobile (though they're trying).

Firefox is working on it, but it's an uphill battle.

"mobile" sites are overwhelmingly coded to be WebKit-only.
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(it seems hat I may have found a kindred spirit -- so I hope to keep the conversation going)

Lets go back to where you said people expect open source to be low priced . I am assuming you want to "ride that position" but the questions that arise are (a)is that position exclusive to your company or is someone else also riding that low cost bandwagon (b) is that will that position translate to sales. I work as a consultant in the banking industry ; all managers I have worked with are wary of opensource thanks to a lot of misleading propaganda. So your position of low-cost wont work in this segment of the market; this segment of market wanst SLAs and support and extensive hand holding. Have you done surveys or had customer interviews to validate your position in your target market before deciding your position.

I came across this hurdle and tried using some surveys based on Amazon Turk but I ended up asking questions that were either leading or poorly phrased and got responses that did not clarify my dilemma.
No, it just doesn't work. Electric cars aren't facing challenges because they're just too darned new and people just can't deal with the change, they face issues because on all the metrics that people really care about, electric cars eke out a small win on a couple of them at the cost of major losses on quite a few more of them. They really are inferior solutions for many car use cases, perhaps even the majority of them.

Hopefully that will change, and there's good reasons to believe that's a very plausible outcome (though not guaranteed), but you won't convince people by trying to essentially argue the problem is in the people and not the cars, because frankly, that's obviously not true, to the point of being insulting. Insulting your listeners is not a good argument technique.
Inject code into functions in JavaScript
A small javascript and jQuery plugin that will allow you to inject custom code within existing JavaScript functions.

Handy for bookmarkelts.
Implementing Retina-Ready Images on the Web
Good news. Comix Editor will work on Opera soon. And without my work :-)

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...
Interesting. I assumed it'd be mostly accounting.
I think if someone wants to use that excuse, they should produce a substantially different adaptation of the source material, like some of the crazier variations of Shakespeare.

LOTR was mostly well done (yes please, cut Tom Bombadil and that whole pointless detour), but they also made changes for no apparent reason.

The Harry Potter movies were perhaps the worst offender, substituting perfectly decent dialogue from the books with cringeworthy kids movie crap. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Property bubble has been predicted in Australia for years now. I was waiting for a market crash for years too, but now I'm not entirely convinced. With high urban sprawl, poor transport options, growing population and generally high income, I'm not surprised property costs as much as it does now.
I love writing RESTful services in Flask, but I'm thinking about switching to Django solely because of Django Rest Framework, which seems to be the closest of all Python REST projects to Fielding's original idea, or what is now being called HATEOAS. It's also extraordinarily well-documented and designed.

Has anyone here used SQLAlchemy with Django Rest Framework? I know it's possible to use SQLAlchemy with Django, but I'm curious if this will cause any issues with Django Rest Framework. I probably won't switch if I can't use SQLAlchemy.
Is it a trap, though?

We, in the HN-sphere, have this irritating tendency to take outlier successes and people as indicative. Since no social-proof system on earth (university education, or investor affirmation) can identify excellence beyond the 98th percentile or so, we assume (correctly) that those systems are functionally ineffectual, and (perhaps incorrectly) conclude that people can safely tell those systems to fuck off. Most people can't. Most people need to exploit those systems, no matter how painful the level-grinding may be, in order to get food on their tables.

I think it's ridiculous that most people spend 3 times as much time proving they're capable of doing work than actually doing it. (Most corporate work is evaluative, not functional or important. See: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/01/01/fourth-quadra...) However, very few people have the power to get out of that nonsense.
All of my side projects inevitably circle back and help me with my primary tasks (either through practice/learning something I didn't know already/keeping me focused). I don't see why an employer would ever discourage this.
That's a bit of an abstract point though.

I don't know how many private repos I will be using in a year, so I pay for what I'm currently using. It may go up or down, and my plan will be adjusted accordingly.

If the problem isn't the on-my-credit-card-statement cost for the service that you'd use, and is instead a philosophical disagreement with how the cost is calculated... that's just a little bonkers.
Bill to make California Code of Regulations have a creative commons license
Who is the "actual inventor" for parallel inventions which is what this change concerns.
> but consider the advantage enjoyed by US domestic pickup truck manufacturers...

Look up the "chicken tax" sometime.
Was asked to slow down our servers today...
And I don't think anything should be more like Lotus Notes, including Lotus Notes.

shudder
I must disagree. While technology has certainly enabled remote working I do not believe that is the future. Google, for all of it's whimsy, is on the right track.

Though many dot-com and ad agencies may make their offices look like adult day-care, I think the underlying ideas at play are the future:

* Physically and emotionally warm environments
* huddle spaces for face-to-face collaboration
* low ceilings create a quiet conference and intimacy

Google has made multiple living rooms in the building. They've taken what you love at home and brought it into a professional settings. In many ways the Silicon Valley startup houses have done the opposite to equally great effect. They brought the office into the home.
Better examples are Woonerf or Drachten, Holland and Bohmte, Germany. These are first world cities where traffic signs were removed and streets designed along the shared space philosophy. The now dated analysis (I don't know of recent numbers) says that they are safer now than before this change.

There are a few reasons for why it can work. One is the idea that drivers on a well delimited road become complacent. If it's a road designed for cars, then drivers go faster, believe they have priority, and pay less attention to non-drivers.

You can't just get rid of signs and expect things to work, because signs are the only signifier. For example, the curb is a physical indicator of the boundary between the place for cars and the place for non-cars. Also, if there are more non-drivers often near the streets (cyclists, walkers, people sitting at a cafe table) then drivers will be more attuned to events which are currently rather low.

It also depends on a relatively slow speed. That video for Saigon shows that the traffic is about that of a jog. At that speed, it's easy for drivers to slow down, and easily within the normal reaction time for humans.

If you go this route then you can't have broad, open, clear avenues since that encourages drivers to go a lot faster, which makes things more dangerous.