skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This method was abused last year (a submission with 3800+ upvotes): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
You don't have to test for it if you are in a market where it has 1.6% share. There are a lot of markets where Opera has 10, 20, or 30% share.

As for the second paragraph, Opera was actually strict pro-standard.. sometimes for their own bad.

Third paragraph is total bullshit. If anything, Chrome is the one copying from Opera. Webkit isn't "Chrome in a box" either. And pull of what this time?

As mentioned in my first paragraph, Opera has and had users, just not in your market probably. I written several times why Opera has users in certain markets, so just tl;dr: Opera was the best browser but was paid. Anything East from Germany didn't really care for paying for software (since it was insanely expensive), so they used the best browser out there. When FF was born, west switched to it (since it was better than IE). Opera went free too late, but managed to hold quite a big user-base in certain areas despite Google pouring billions into advertisement and producing chrome-only features. (another big contributor is Turbo and slow internet speeds, but I think it was a secondary factor).

ad EDIT: cry me a river. While I don't feel the need to downvote you, your comment did sound pricky enough to convince someone to do so.
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Please explain how I can patch webkit bugs on my iPhone.
I don't believe this, having observed it first hand on many occasions.
Working for one of the biggest sites in the netherlands: 0.31% is Opera's market share at our site. It's not on our supported browsers list
Google’s New Office In Dublin
Since webkit is opensource and largely a collaborative effort, I think the monoculture will be a good thing. Instead of having multiple vendors working on multiple competing products, they can now work on multiple competing features.
Features, their rendering and javascript engines were the reasons I left Opera for Chrome. They will get me back in a heartbeat if this works out well.
Thanks. Seems dwim is more for web apps or servers. And its pretty new. I have downloaded Modern Perl recently and do have a lot of books on perl bought (and read) in the early 2000's.

I am wary of generally downloading modules from CPAN since I have already earlier found some to be broken, or have dependencies that are abandoned. Which is why I sort of look for a curated list that is likely to be maintained. I;ve had the same issues with ruby and other languages as well, and am careful of what I depend on. Currently, I've been bitten by ruby's unicode issues (string functions crashing out of the blue in 1.9) and am thus considering going back to perl.
If you want to earn on a hourly basis rather then project basis you might want to look at http://peopleperhour.com and other similar site which specifically focus on hourly work.
Back in the day, Netscape did a full rewrite between major versions. There's a Spolsky blog post about it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Very interesting read.
Civil lawsuits use a balance of probabilities standard. If the IP theft was well conducted, and the patent holder forged a careful back story, then the true inventor loses almost automatically.
>It's a nice analogy. Please identify the fire, and tell me how to put it out. Your criticism is that I am behaving suboptimally if my goal is to fix discrimination, and the clearest way to demonstrate this is to explain how I can behave more optimally.

Target the major issues of discrimination?

From income inequality to the systemic wrongs that put a disproportionate number of black americans in prison.

Then you can worry about token BS issues like offending bikini slides in a tech conference where each man/woman attending makes $50000 or more and has paid like $2000 to attend.
What does that have to do with piracy?
In one sense, I'm glad they had the freedom to kill characters. Hearing that Optimus Prime had been killed was one of the more emotional moments of my childhood, even if they only did it to replace one truck with a bigger truck.
The very first thing I needed to know was

git pull

because I initialized a Git repo from GitHub, with a README.md file.
FnordMetric Framework for building beautiful real-time dashboards
The idea that Nintendo always sells at a profit is a long standing one, but with Wii U it's known to be false.

Nintendo themselves have confirmed it:

"With Wii U, we have taken a rather resolute stance in pricing it below its manufacturing cost, so we are not planning to perform a markdown."

1 - http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/130131/04.htm...
> Webkit isn't "Chrome in a box" either.

The Chromium Embedded Framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework) isn't too far from that. I'm not sure if Opera is using this project in particular, but they do mention using Chromium.
Its ability to configure basically anything from user interface is far above any other browser. Chrome is a browser that I recommend to parents. It has dumbed down interface, zero options - perfect for average majority. It is still powerful when combined with dozens of extensions, but it still can't compete with Opera in this area.

It's like KDE vs Gnome3 if that makes more sense for someone.
Um, the police already know all of this. If they use this information, they are not just going to rock up to court with (purportedly) your public transaction history and a subpoena showing that you got a pizza delivered using bitcoins and get a conviction.

They're going to use it to get a warrant to search your house.

And yeah, this trawler like approach will not catch everybody. But it could score a lot of convictions very quickly.
I think it's interesting that to note that the article stated a 60% YOY decline even though their stock price hasn't reflected this. For the past three years the stock has stayed relatively within the same levels.
But nonetheless a very interesting post.
...until differences in ideas about how a rendering engine /should/ work came up and webkit is forked.
I have friends who have employers that have beds. In my building, everyone sleeps at their desks. Either lean back in the chair or lean forward on the desk. A lot of people also have blankets. The girls like to hug big pillows.
Curious... have you seen /r/scholar? I've requested a few papers from /r/scholar (under throwaways usually), and they've always obliged
>Strangely, he never has any business cards on him (people always ask). So he asks them to give him their phone number instead.

Did you mean the "Strangely" here? What he's doing is, in fact, very clever. A business card is a passive, easy thing that will rarely lead to further action. Asking for the phone number is a much better gauge of how serious the person is.
Suppose you come up with a jig for drilling holes in engine blocks. To you it is just a cost of doing business, like stocking the bathrooms with toilet paper. Your competitor can "invent" it fraudulently, file a patent, and blow your factory out of the water.
Some of the stuff I enjoyed:

* Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

* BraveStarr

* Defenders of the Earth

* M.A.S.K.

* Thundercats

* Ulysses 31 (80s series but ran in the 90s here)

Fun anecdote:

I watched Ulysses 31 and the day before one of my Latin exams in school they aired the episode where he returns home and proves it's him via the bow.

The great thing was that the exam was an experimental one where instead of the usual translation+grammar we got a pretty long text and had to summarize it and answer questions about it. As soon as I recognized some key words (name of the hero, arcum tendere construct) I basically wrote down the stuff from the episode (-the space theme) and hoped they stayed true to the original story :D

Least painful Latin exam ever.
CEO Tim Cook Confirms First Store In Turkey Amidst Big International Retail Push
Thanks! I'll share what I can. I don't track site traffic (but I can tell you that I've bumped Heroku up to 4 dynos to keep response time solid) but I do track media traffic, since I pay for that separately. I've already served over twice the video bytes today as I did all day yesterday. Those are probably mostly the demo video. [1]

The main thing I track is subscriptions, and free trial conversions. Subscriptions are up an impressive amount--proportionally about the same as the media traffic, actually. It will be interesting to see if the conversion numbers change.

Credit for the site design goes to Primate in Scotland [2]. They did a beautiful job with the design as well as CSS coding, and I couldn't be happier with the result. Any remaining issues you see are my fault. :-)

[1] http://www.letscodejavascript.com/#demo

[2] http://primate.co.uk/
> Their rendering engine was a massive piece of original IP.

How can it be worth anything when the competition is free?
It might be nice to register on component(1) registry.
https://github.com/component/component/wiki/Components
The only worry here, as always, is that an implementation will come to define the standard rather than the other way around.

Note that coding to an implementation rather than a standard does stifle innovation, because when you code to target the implementation you inevitably rely on bugs in the implementation, without ever knowing or trying to. From the perspective of an implementor, would you fix a bug even if it meant breaking an unknowably large number of websites? If not, you've adopted that bug for the rest of time, and every subsequent implementation, ever, will be forced to implement the bug as well when they could be busy implementing new features. Now compound this by thousands of bugs, and reflect on all the time spent implementing Quirks Mode in every browser engine that exists today.

I do agree with you that in a perfect world we wouldn't need multiple implementations, because bugs would not exist and the lone implementation would track the standard perfectly, and because the standard would be controlled by neutral third-parties. But I think it's much too soon to declare the current era the browser endgame.
The sense of "inventor" usually used is the first person, not the subsequent duplicators.
I've found they're very useful for running scripts I wouldn't normally want to have an impact on my own production VPS. A few times I've had people asking to run a trial of a new webapp (forum system, blog, cms), and these work perfectly for the task.
Really? Where have you seen this? And what evidence do you have that Google's report isn't including Ireland in its "Rest of World" figures?

To include an entire country under the heading of another neighbouring country without making that explicit is a mistake, not an assumption, doubly so when Google have quite large (and distinct) corporate presences in both Ireland and the UK. It wouldn't be too far from Starbucks listing all Canadian and Mexican profits under "United States" when there's a perfectly normal term to describe the geographic region ("North America"), just as there is with the British Isles.
The codebase is pretty big... and I think you're right that someone can pop in and contribute to smaller projects much more easily. But I've poked around in it and it's not that bad. If you put a week into understanding it, it's not nearly as daunting.

It's about the same as when you start at a company with a large existing codebase. You're not going to get much done until you've read and understand the chunks of the code that relate to what you need to do. This spinup time is definitely bigger than the hour it can take to fix a bug in a small project that you previously had no experience with, but it's definitely within the realm of the possible.
If it is illegal is it not pirated?
Interesting. It would be much more useful if the papers in the 'store' would be visible to everyone to see and request.

I wonder though how this ' we will deliver the paper on behalf of that email address.' will be important to challenge any copyright violation claims...
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Interesting! Here's a bit from his blog that I thought was pretty spot on:

Acid is not like pot, or alcohol, or any other "mind-altering" drug. You don't know what mind altering means unless you've been on a hard core trip.13 It's like you suddenly realize you've been seeing the world in two dimensions and now you can see four. The rules change. People around you become perfectly comprehensible and beautiful creatures, instead of the average dicks they are most of the time. I reject completely that acid doesn't bring some insight about the universe; yes, it's all in your head, but so is the everyday, non-tripping, non-psychotic universe. You have one tool with which to experience the totality of your conscious life; if you make any deductions about the world around you with it, you have to reevaluate your deductions when you realize you can interpret the world in a completely alien way by rewiring your perceptions with half a gram of chemicals. Acid puts the whole meaning and being versus reality play you leave on the TV as background noise directly in front of you on an IMAX screen with surround sound and popcorn. Whatever experience of the universe there is to be unveiled by the modern human brain, a investment worthy percentage of it can be seen during a really good acid trip.
Designing for Retina Displays, Optimize Website for 2x Images
In the simplest of terms, Retina Displays mean a high definition display. I understand that not every image can be a SVG.
It is cheaper to fly to US than buy Adobe software in Australia
My guess would be the next major release, that is 13.00 for Desktop and Mobile.
> There are a lot of markets where Opera has 10, 20, or 30% share.

As there are so many would you mind listing a few?
Can someone give me a basic explanation/examples of the use cases of event emitters?
It's real. however, they became famous lately and they increased their fees.

It was my source of money when i was a student (it used to be getafreelancer.com)
Well, of course they are. You have an insurance based health system. Every time you go to your doctor they order every possible test so they can claim it, plus their mark up, against your insurance.

How did you think the USA manages to have simultaneously the most expensive and least efficacious health care in the first world?
It seems you are right, other comments mentioned using V8 as well.
Improving Parltracks impact
Mice are not a good model for trauma and infection studies
Please open source Carakan and Presto - we want to learn from you guys!
> I would think one vendor would be great for standards: it is the standard.

Well, IE6 was the standard. See how many sites were "optimized" for IE6 and getting them to render in a browser that supported these pesky underdog W3C standards was bound to fail.

> Out if curiosity, what IE6-ish things do you see WebKit doing?

Not quite the same, but the -webkit CSS prefix that people use without a fallback for other browsers: webkit browsers display the stuff and on e.g. Firefox or Opera it looks broken, because nobody cares to add a -moz or -o prefixed version, or even the non-prefixed version.
We can hope that someday IE will make the move too.
My experience with SO is this: Google for something, see a relevant SO link, click it. Page loads, question covers exactly what I'm looking for. First 3 comments on the question are about how the question doesn't belong on SO, or is too broad, or wrong, or whatever. The first answer contains the information I need.

I don't really contribute to SO for the same reason I don't really contribute to Wikipedia - the editors seem so hellbent on enforcing standards and rules that they throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Looks good, but do people really work on those "work pods" (for example, the red 'e' with the guy in a laptop)? Maybe a soft-skilled employee could (text writing, excel crunching, etc), but what about the developers at google? I couldn't let go some multi-monitor, confy chair setup to sit there...
Usage. Installed/downloaded is very high.
It's even worse. You're letting the standard be defined by a specific version of an implementation. It would impede progress for future versions of the same implementation.

For example today I just browsed my Internet provider's customer area. Their online invoicing page only works on Firefox and IE7, but not IE8, IE9, Opera and Chrome. Urgh.
Very good.

But I'd love to have just seen the pirate bay duplicate itself and to create a site exclusively for academic papers. Seeding of obscure papers might be an issue, but I'm sure that it would work quite well.
We're pretty early on, so we certainly aren't in a position to out feature-set sentry, but from what I've seen so far you're just starting to look at intelligent notification emails (sending on first sight, threshold changes, patterns etc) and you've begun work on the .NET provider while .NET was our starting platform (however we don't yet have Ruby for example which, correct me if I am wrong, was for Python initially?).

Not an exhaustive list, but a couple of points where I think we're doing pretty well in comparison for a new product :-)
Terrible news.

This means basically giving up on standards-based compatibility.

Not bad news for Opera - maybe good news for the browser - but an ominous sign on what the web is becoming.
London Stock Exchange announces new High Growth Segment
You can make it look even better by adding support for shutter (in)efficiency:
http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/Text/ShutterPresentation.pdf
resp.
http://www.dctsystems.co.uk/Text/shutter.pdf
I never knew that Aaron was in the lineage of the guy behind the Mark Williams C Compiler.
'mootools documentation is fine. It's just different and therefore "harder"'

I think I know what you mean, the docs are mostly a reference documentation from what it seems.

But the learning curve is steeper, especially with lack of documentation focused on the beginner.

I know, Django docs are similar (but less worse in this aspect). Still, when you finish the tutorial you don't know where to head.

That's where jQuery shines, it takes you through every step, not to mention it's easier to understand. Hence, more plugins and more users.

"It means you can't work a saw". At this day and age, "saw manufacturers" have to be concerned about the easy of use of the saw.

Of course this is an analogy, because js tools are "free", but it's still a nice idea to go for the better cost x benefit in terms of capabilities/community/libraries etc.
It's not one vendor it's just one (open source) implementation. I'd argue this is better for innovation as new features will be quickly ported between the vendor forks and spend more time improving the product than catching up to other implementations.
If you just want to protect yourself, just publish it somewhere. Prior art still exist with first-to-file, just not secret prior art. See Defensive publication[1], which isn't exactly a new concept, even in US patent history.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_publication
I fixed that, thanks :)
While I agree with the "manifesto", the solution seems to be not that much radical. There are many places where people can upload their papers.

Moreover, a web1.0 interface does not seems to be efficient.

In that line there is already:
http://www.pirateuniversity.org/

And... judging by it's name (i.e. The Paper Bay) I would expect something much more radical, actually aiming at getting 75TB of _any_ paper content...
That is nothing compared to the quantities described in the article, both in measurement and experience (as mentioned). This is assuming you meant to type micrograms, as no one would have a club for 700 mg as no one would bother to measure at that dose, considering it is 7,000x the normal dose.
Opera was actually strict pro-standard.. sometimes for their own bad.

Possibly. But they're also the only browser I'm aware of apart from IE that supports "document.all". And (at least as of 2007), they were still using IE's quirks mode box model if you didn't specify a doctype.

As I said, they did a good job of trying to please everybody. You could code for Firefox or IE and have a reasonable expectation that it would work on Opera too.

That's a good thing, by the way.
Russia. Was 20%+ last year, now 10%+ http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-RU-monthly-201201-201301
Or Belarus 30%+: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-BY-monthly-201201-201301
Awesome design. They even built a stylised Trinity Library room if I'm not mistaken.
the code for this site is open source: https://github.com/juliangruber/alrt.io
I remember accidently seeing My Little Pony on TV in the 90's while zapping for good cartoons. It was something with flying pink pony's with long hair that looked all girly to me.

Why do I hear so much about My Little Pony on the internet these days?
Moshers, Heavy Metal Bands and Emergent Behaviour
Pinterest is now registered-users only
> The idea that one can pop a pill and have a spiritual experience (instead of context-free noise) is ridiculous. LSD seems to be a magnifying glass, so people who use it as part of their spiritual practice seem to get real benefit, but those who use it as a "party drug" are just magnifying crap and polluting their minds.

This is so much pompous bullshit.
Ask HN: Apache RewriteCond with QueryString
hey there,

i have a little issue with an Apache Redirect.

old url: domain.com/q.php?q=test&enter=enter

what i want: domain.com/suche/test

what i currently use:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^q=(.)enter$	[NC]
RewriteRule ^q\.php$ /suche/%1?	[NC,L,R=301]

which results in: domain.com/suche/test&enter

why is "^q=(.)&$" not working as a condition?