skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it how the author is all about reapleaf "being creepy" for doing what they do, while publishing their results to get visits.
I alter FF to put the close button at the end of the tab bar in one fixed location. (it's an about:config option) I like that it doesn't move, mimics the OS Window-close mouse movement (in Windows) but MOST importantly, I think it's a complete waste of space to have an X on every tab.
"Militant" or "fundamentalist" atheism are pejorative and wildly inaccurate, but I definitely think "evangelistic" atheism aptly fits the "New Atheist" movement. The precise term is probably "anti-religion", though.

Most of the irreligious in these nine nations are probably more apathetic or agnostic than actually atheist, much less evangelistic atheist.
Also missing the Great Lakes in North America.
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Wow, that is a fat round. Nice job!
Whoa! This seems absolutely like my position. Great job! Would love to have a look at your website (if you'd care to share the link).

Thanks for the advice - hugely helpful!
And you're basing your claims of no evidence on...? I study evolution and genetic variability in populations of a certain algae, and have data from the last 20 years from across the country (not the person who took it 20 years ago though) to say that a population doesn't evolve would be absurd. What about genetic drift? What about species isolation? What about changes in a population that prevent sexual reproduction with the rest of the species? The truth of the matter is, there is a plethora of data supporting evolution.
zeteo Muslim immigration into France accounts for the high fertility.

The second development to note is that INED, France's National Institute of Demographic Studies, has done some detailed research and concluded that France's immigrant population is responsible for only 5 percent of the rise in the birthrate and that France's population would be rising anyway even without the immigrant population.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2008/04/30/Walke...
long (and some worthwhile) threads

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/g6k0p/paralleli...
Apple Claims Amazon Improperly Using ‘App Store’ Trademark
You can if it's a special "launch price" which will be increased after a given amount of time.
Right. Is it just me or does it seem that most (if not all) of the new features in this release were inspired by Chrome? What is Firefox doing to move the web browsing experience forward?
Care to show some numbers to support your argument?

Here:

Nation Total Fertility Rate
------------------------------------
Iceland 2.14
* Ireland 2.10
* New Zealand 2.10
USA 2.01
Norway 1.98
* Australia 1.97
France 1.97
UK 1.96
Turkey 1.92
* Finland 1.85
Denmark 1.74
Luxembourg 1.70
Sweden 1.67
* Netherlands 1.66
Belgium 1.65
Estonia 1.63
* Canada 1.58
Greece 1.50
* Czech Republic 1.49
Portugal 1.49
Spain 1.47
* Switzerland 1.46
Germany 1.42
* Austria 1.41
Italy 1.41
Hungary 1.33

The list is sorted. Those marked "*" are in the original list.

Where is the correlation?
At the risk of sounding ignorant, I ponder correlation or a relationship, but furthermore whether the relationship has something to do with intelligence.

In my observation, intelligent people breed less. Intelligent people are also less associated with religion.

Could we also be looking at a list of countries with highest intelligence per capita?
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On the swear blacklist leads to instant dead linking, even if the original has it?
Can you really trademark something generic like "App Store" in the US?
Maybe somebody should trademark a "Software Store".
A study which also attempted to model societies that weren't trending towards religious extinction be a lot more useful (the states were most likely chosen for readily available data rather than being selected due to being exceptional in their levels of religious disaffiliation). Right now I'm seeing a correlation between "nations which make detailed census data available in convenient form to academic researchers" and increasing levels of religious disaffiliation and low birth rates.

The same model would probably fit quite well to countries where there's a marked trend increase in a specific religious affiliation, like Indonesia where dominant and growing Islam may hypothetically be decades away from making other affiliations extinct. Does Indonesia have a correspondingly much higher fertility rate? Actually no (~2.28), especially not if you control for other variables like poverty and infant mortality that are known to be correlated with high fertility rates. And it's dropping.
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Tim wins for delightful (and insightful) quote of the day: "There have been many reports about the people fleeing Tokyo. None of these narratives have paused to consider whether the exodus constitutes chickenshit stupidity. I suggest it maybe does."
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I went ahead and put up a splash page for this. You are welcome to enter an email address if you want to receive email notifications:
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Wow - that's a total bummer.
Most customization points is the big win for me. I REALLY like to alter my browsers to fit my preferred layout and FF has done quite well at maintaining that capability for me. I get into Chrome and I find myself constantly going "Oh, there's no option for that... Oh, there's no option for that... Oh, there's no option for that... " to the point I close it in frustration yet again.
i concede your point in that my analysis is far from rigorous

my brief sample is walking around singapore you see many more people on a percentage basis with iphones in their hands and you go to coffee bean and tea leaf in singapore and you see that of those with computers out many more have MACs than their peer group in India at coffee shops with their laptops out - i am the first to say this is not the most rigorous argument
> Your own choice has no bearing on the last two comments except to voice your own feelings about silverlight.

You got that partly right. I have no need for Silverlight.

> A suggestion that your own feelings for Silverlight reflect the vast majority of broadband Internet users

Maybe you are reading too much in my comment. Anyway, Silverlight adoption is low, pointing out few people feel the need to install it.
Maximize as in what your OS allows you to do.

edit: Oh, Windows XP. You'll have to disable the menu bar to get it to work there, I think.
Ask HN: Live Analytics for a Webapp?
Howdy HN,

I'm looking for a live reporting analytics package for a webapp. Is chartbeat the bees knees for this or is there something better out there?
my guesses are
a. decreasing attention span
b. business - tabloid news sells better than investigative/informed journalism that presents both sides and a full set of arguments
c. cheaper/easier to be an echo chamber for mob sentiment than to be the voice of reason
Firefox 4 still has a huge number of UI issues on linux due to reliance on XUL for the UI

Does that mean that other platforms do not use XUL for UI?
The post says that the depth of quicksort is O(log^2 n). Blelloch's list of NESL algorithms gives a depth of O(log n) instead:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl/alg-sequence.html#quicks...

Or do I misunderstand something?
Isn't that mostly happening in the tribal regions that are pretty much part of Pakistan in name only?
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It might be relevant if he personally deleted that page.

I would say the exact same thing - totally irrelevant.
The Android Market has a similar problem. There is such a large proportion of reviews that are complaints about failed downloads, scare tactics from competitors ("This app installs malware!"), and feature requests ("3 stars. I'll give you four stars once you implement feature X") that it makes me wonder if people with close to 5-star ratings are just buying ratings from farms of people somehow.
Chrome (64-bit Ubuntu) is currently eating 934 GB with three tabs after being open just under five hours. It's been a big enough problem for me that I bit the bullet and upgraded my desktop to 8GB (to be fair, I was sort of looking for an excuse). Flash is more stable under Firefox, but... Flash will bring down Firefox occasionally. Flash doesn't bring down Chrome, but it also just about never works. On the other hand, Flash can burn in hell for all I care.
There's an investment saying, "buy when bloods are running on the street." Buffett certainly lived it to the fullest. Sigh.
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I was really looking forward to getting the 10.1, but the addition of TouchWiz onto the stock Android makes me very hesitant. I'm hoping it will feature the same unlockable bootloader found on the Nexus One, Nexus S, and Xoom; if so, then I can just reflash it with a stock image if I don't like TouchWiz. I refuse to be at the mercy of Samsung to get updates for my $500 devices...
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Nice! Don't spend it all in one place
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Press the little button in the titlebar that makes any window fill the screen.

Note that tabs will appear in the titlebar when maximized on Windows only, for Firefox 4, and only if you have the menu bar hidden. (It's hidden by default in Windows Vista and 7.) Tabs in the titlebar are planned for Mac and Linux too, but weren't ready for this release.
A recent post in Hacker News:

http://www.contrast.ie/blog/the-future-of-analytics-products...
>> carefully isolating your app from other apps in an application container. I.e., don't even try to solve the problem of sharing libraries between applications.

I would argue that this is the most reliable solution, if you can do it.
Point noted. :) We've already started working on it.
It seems reasonable - most folks at MS (at least in Redmond) only eat lunch here, and maybe order a pizza if they stay late.
You're getting downvoted because "Dude, WTF" doesn't add anything constructive to the conversation.
If I'm reading the article correctly, the author is saying that with parallelism, you can perform independent operations in parallel (like sorting both halves of a quicksort), whereas concurrency as people think about it deals more with parallel operations on a shared state?
With hardware acceleration, Windows DirectWrite is handling the text rendering. Unfortunately, there are bugs in many graphics drivers that interfere with this.
Nonsense. From an oil point of view, the US is better off if the dictator wins.
Firefox 4 Heats Up the Browser Wars
My first H&F event and it was really insightful. Thanks Jonathan
In Australia it might have something to do with the fact it's currently 3:35 am
Is the Internet as we know it coming apart?
Amen. Like "Once you had black, you never go back" (lol), once you've seen a movie in full HD, normal resolution just sucks...
You should never need to change the default encoding. If you have to it means the web page you are viewing is broken.
I like to study at the feet of masters.

30 years into this career, and I'm still doing that.

Also: Don't budget books (or reading time).
For me, search on the address bar is the most important feature that I love about Chrome. IE9 has the same thing now. I am not sure why Firefox 4 did not put search on the address bar. So for a Chrome user, you will greatly miss that feature. :( Until FF integrates that, I am back to using Chrome.
1. dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1798036

2. it's using Flash for the actual voice stuff
All pages link: http://hbr.org/2011/04/why-most-product-launches-fail/ar/pr (for Instapaper users)
Been using Code School for a while now (beta) and absolutely love it. Just posted my thoughts on it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2355091
"We also used the dating site HowAboutWe.com to go on dates so we had the undivided attention of a female for market research. No judgment; we paid for dinner."

Interesting way to go about collecting market research. Though I have to wonder if some of the ladies didn't resent having a date with your future app rather than you.
Keep downgrading the comment, superusers. Someday you'll end up keeping the place clean, the Digg way, after users just left.
I actually started working on something like this a week or two ago called falsifiable.org. My time is limited but I've thought about the project a lot. You seem to be doing what I want anyway, so please drop me an email for an exchange of ideas.
Thank you this is a really great starting point.
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As Jason pointed out in his reply, it’s not really just about reputation, but we do see the two things you mention as entirely related. ie: The primary problem in hiring developers is not in acquiring piles of resumes for the job, but actually in sourcing a handful of QUALIFIED candidates. In other words, it’s not about quantity, but the fit and quality of applicants feeding the hiring pipeline.

To get quality, you need good filters; filters in the form of what types of people who will even see the listings before applying and good filters for evaluating the applicants once they do apply. Most systems fail on both accounts because they target a mass audience of all job seekers (the dreamers, not just actual programmers) and the resumes they submit are easy to trump up and can be expensive to validate.

The cool thing about Stack Overflow is that the community is great for both types of filters. At the first level, basically everyone who is a programmer is coming to the site regularly and also conversely, for the most part, programmers are the only people coming to the site. Second, participation in Stack Overflow (to the extent that they actually contribute content) leaves behind a great peer reviewed bread crumb trail of their actual experience and programming knowledge. Therefore, this content is a great thing for programmers to be able to include and feature on their Stack Overflow Careers profiles and also good value add for prospective employers evaluating candidates.
These nations have always been prosperous and secularized- this doesn't exactly sound like startling use. The decline of religion as a social institution in these countries will not forestall the existence of bigotry, irrationality, and folly- those are all inevitable problems of human nature.
Amen - I forget the interview, but there was a great interview with Steve Jobs where he said that to make great things happen, you need a broad range of life experience. That tends not to apply to engineers who stay in front of the computer all day.
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I'm particularly interested in Java because I'm particularly interested in Android development.

Skip the books and jump straight into some tutorials for Android dev and build a few simple apps for your phone. You can go back to reference material as needed.
It should be noted that unlike the USSR disaster those who are manning the Japan Nuclear control efforts at the damaged plants are being closely monitored and taken off that duty before any level of getting ill is being reached. That not only includes nuclear workers but the emergency firemen, etc.
Ah! That clears things up quite a bit. I'm surprised they're not able to work at the NP-C set. Is it because the probability of a right answer is so small?
If you missed Naval this time, he'll be at the Founder Conference on May 3rd in Mountain View (with a bunch of other great guests). http://thefounderconference.com
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In other words, more confusion. Don't read if you don't understand words like "asymptotic efficiency" and "nondeterministic composition". Ugh.

Can someone put this in lay terms?
I've never seen log^2 x mean anything except (log x)^2; you're thinking of ^2log x.
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Accuracy of the data in question is a separate issue. My point was merely that the possibility of non-causation was covered. Inaccurate data is still not "correlation != causation" (it supercedes it).
Some of the best features in Firefox 4 are new web technologies like HTTP Strict Transport Security, WebGL, hardware acceleration, CSS3 calc() and any(), the HTML5 parser, and IndexedDB. Many of these are not yet in Chrome.

See http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/technology/ for a longer list.
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I'm impressed with it.

Its UI is clear and responsive, and overall is seems quicker. Plus it uses up around 40% less RAM (in my experiences).
Thank God!

(sorry, couldn't resist)
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France is an interesting and peculiar case, with lots of natalist policies and with laws impeding the collection of statistics based on religion and ethnic origin. I'd love to see the original INED study, though, if you have a link.
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To change the font in gVim, set guifont in your .vimrc file

ex. (from mine):
set guifont=Courier_New:h8:b:cANSI

However, if you are happy with your current setup, I'm not sure there's a reason to change things just for the gui.
Uh, you do know you can turn that off in chrome? I realize it's the default, but those of us who can switch browsers at the drop of a hat can handle it... I think. :-)
Yes, places.sqlite stores the history. The reason it grows by large increments (and does not shrink to very small sizes) is to prevent file fragmentation, which can have a big effect on the speed of the browser.
The iPad 2 Gets Well-Priced Competition
Not sure if they work on FF4 (yet), but there are add-ons for that, of course.

I don't mind losing the title bar, since I've long been in the habit of alt+dragging to move windows anyway.

(This is a linux-ism, but well worth installing 3rd party software on OSX/Windows for -- particularly for alt + middle/right-button resizing: no need to screw around landing your mouse on a corner of the window.)
I don't think it should be. Why should it be?? The target of the site is worldwide anyway.

Others have any point of view?
It's chewing up almost a terabyte of memory?
For graphics, yes, but not for fonts. If you scale text linearly, it just looks bad at smaller sizes, which is why vectorized fonts come with plenty of rendering hints. Add to that subpixel rendering and a lot of other typography rules, and font rendering is suddenly pretty difficult to get right.

Try it yourself, make an image of some text in 80px, shrink it 8 times, and compare that to the same text rendered as 10px. You'll notice that the shrunken image is harder to read than the actual text.
It's called introductory pricing. A groundbreaking idea.
I'm not seeing that. Do you have any add-ons or Greasemonkey scripts installed? Try safe mode: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+mode
noteleaf is awesome!
"To be exact, the U.S. has 44 million LinkedIn members, and there are 56 million members outside of the U.S. Brazil is seeing the highest growth rate, with new user adoption rising 428 percent year-over-year. Mexico is also seeing major growth, with membership growing by 178 percent year-over-year."

Fascinating. I had no idea of the global reach.
None of these issues are relevant to the typical use of a tablet. The fact that he leads with the lack of a CD drive shows little he understands the device's role. I would bet that he beat up Apple when they dropped the floppy.

The iPad is currently a companion computer. Not just as "your plastic pal who's fun to be with," but a companion to your real computer. Yes, you can't type that well on a screen. Yes, it doesn't have WIMP multitasking. But, how well can you balance a laptop in one hand? Tablets are meant to move with you, not just be set up. This is represented in the UI: you're interacting with a single multi-function object, not a collection of windows.

His friends don't understand the still-evolving definition of a tablet, and neither does he.
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He obviously doesn't have either. Although perhaps that was the joke behind your comment?
> Does this mean that if I distribute one of my applications through the Appstore, I'm legally required to distribute all of my applications that way?

That's not (quite) what it looks like to me: I think clause (iii) is just saying that you can't list an app on a competing service unless you list the same version on Amazon's app store. Effectively, it seems they get to sell any app that you want to sell on another app store -- but they're not asserting rights over all future Android apps you might write.

(This raises a question I don't know the answer to: is it possible to distribute Android applications without an app store, in the style of "download this bundle from our site and transfer it to your phone"? Or do the non-developer versions of Android out there require that apps be signed by a central authority before they'll execute them?)
This is awesome. I've been wanting to try ruby and get better at coding in general.
Anyone know when they come out of beta?
Amazon's Android app store is here...
Maybe it's only me but TabCandy/Panorama feels slow and clumsy, and there's too much mouse clicking/moving involved in operating it (or so it seems after 5 minute of trying it, maybe a matter of getting used to/discovering keyboard shortcuts). I like Opera's solution more (is less revolutionary, and thus easier to adapt to probably).
But other than that first impressions are good: feels faster and more responsive (at last!). Maybe I will give it some more tries to see if it will survive a stress test of a normal day-to-day use with tons of tabs opened, etc.
Whoops, I was wrong about the pings. It now uses canvas, not <div>s. For a while it was using a bunch of <div>s for performance reasons, but now it's using all canvas.
Is VIM integrated with your email client or do you just copy and paste?
A few other things I'd say are best to hear as an entrepreneur:

"We love your product. How can we buy it?"

"We just told everyone we know about your product."

"We'd like to acquire you for a ton of money. In cash. Up front."

"We've never had to deal with cust service since your product is so good." (my SaaS orientation shows there)
I sincerely hope they don't do a course on Website performance or page asset loading. Turn on Firebug and refresh the site, and you'll see no script/css combining, lots of un-minified js, and a total download of more than half a megabyte on the homepage. It feels slow too.
Forget this, the original article is much much better

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1367481/Appl...
You might want to try running in a fresh profile, to see if anything in your old profile is causing the problem:
http://limi.net/articles/firefox-preferences/

Sorry about your unanswered bug - it's pretty hard for us to address general performance bugs that don't have specific steps to reproduce. We have to focus on fixing what we can see or measure, and hope that it fixes what users are seeing too.
With a round that big, it looks like Dotcloud is going to buy their own hardware and become a full bore hosting company, which is fantastic, if it can convince people to move out of the EC2 slum.

Either that, or the founders took too much money and diluted themselves beyond reason.
View->Toolbars->Menu Bar

That gives you an Opera-style widget on the left side for menu functions and moves tabs to the top.

edit: And Alt will bring the normal menu into view if you need something not on the widget.