skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but so what? "Correlation != causation" != "no relationship so we can all just stop thinking about it". Whether it's causative, reverse causative, or two things caused by a shared third factor that may also have other effects, there's a there there that can't be waved away by a trite, fashionable two words and a math symbol. Careful reading of the "bottom line" winestock posted will show that (s)he actually understands this.
The only GSM carrier left in the US?
If I understand your model correctly, the word you are looking for may be a derivative of "developing" or it may be something like "building." You may also benefit from using some qualifiers in your descriptions. Example:
"1) Proposal / Component Request (that's you) -> 2) Proposal Review and Acceptance (that's us) -> 3) Component design & Development -(that's both of us) > 4) Component Release / Public availability."

My confidence in this is low because I'm not really sure what your business model is.
Have they improved the ability to manage Firefox settings in an enterprise environment?
I was surprised also that the UI is so similar to Opera.
I always wanted to go from Opera to Firefox (because Opera's lack of Adblock and some problems with google apps like calendar, gmail), but it was too slow and ugly. Now I give it a good test.
And it was developed during a startup weekend! Kudos to camilleroux!
I had the same problem looking for recurring payment providers and payment gateways in Latin America. I think it's much easier to open a subsidiary company in the US remotely than to process them outside the US/UK/Canada.
Congrats to the team and thank you to everyone who contributed (even the smallest bugfix) to help us all.
Too true. I remember AMD being at $1.80 at the bottom of the trough, and thinking to myself "What a bargain!" Of course, that was the day that Lehman had collapsed and who knew what else was going to go down with it, so I held off. It went up to over $10 at one point since, and today it's around $8.50. Would've made a killing off it :-/

Still, hindsight is 20/20... and for every winner there are scores of others who were severely burned by taking the risk. I don't regret not going for it much.
Nevertheless, nearly everyone in the United States has more purchasing power than most of the top portion by income of the Indian population.

I beg to disagree. Top portion of indian income is a lot of people who can afford a lot of gizmos and $500 iPads are penny change for them.

To come back to the point of smartphones in India, considering that 3G came less than a year ago, http://thinkingaloud.in/ArticleComments.aspx?ArtId=770 says that there are already 8-9 million smartphones before 3G came. So lets throw affordability for the richer as compared to the poorer in America out of the window, shall we?
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Yes, I'm using Tree Style Tabs on FF4 now, it's fantastic once you go over 20 or so tabs.
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Has anyone attended a monthly "Hackathon"?
I'm ramping up my startup more and more and as a sole founder, I would like to network (I use that term loosely, it's more hang out) with other people in a similar situation. I've seen a few meetups in the Philly area for hackathons where it's billed as people coming together to hack on their startups...which sounds exactly like what I was looking to do.

Can anyone speak from experience what to expect at these things? I'll most likely attend next months meetup and would like to get an idea before I head on over. Thanks.
Looks like it's more popular in Europe than the US.
Yes, it's a little more complex than Chrome's sync... but Chrome's sync keeps most of your data in cleartext on Google's servers, and even their optional encryption is relatively weak (low-entropy key derived from your password). I don't like that.

Mozilla can't see your data if we tried -- at that includes if we get a subpoena. Firefox Sync's 128-bit secret key has to be transferred somehow. I think that's worth the extra effort, and you only need to do the setup once.

(If you don't trust Mozilla, you can even run your own Sync server.)

Please don't _keep_ your sync key on Dropbox. It's important!
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Yes ! At Sophia Antipolis (south of France, French Riviera)
I use it incredibly heavily, in the same way that I use virtual desktops. I have a tab group for work, a tab group for play, a tab group for documentation. Makes it very easy to quickly jump in and out of large collections of tabs without having a completely unusable tab bar like Chrome does.
Summary: The AT&T/T-Mobile deal is actually a big win for T-Mobile's infrastructure (nobody is arguing that, I don't think). Author doesn't really establish her point about 'the industry' outside the speculative bubble of what this means for T-Mobile and echoing the article headline:

AT&T and T-Mobile deal has very little impact on the state of the wireless industry as a whole.

Okay, how? If this goes through, the most Android friendly carrier is being assimilated by the least Android friendly carrier, who will also hold the figurative gatekey to GSM with no imperative or motivation for improving GSM beyond scaling their infrastructure.
It seems to work fine for my projects, at least with iframes in designMode, I avoid directly dealing with DIVs.

But I wonder why they chop it out of mobile Safari and mobile Chrome, maybe it adds too much to the executable size.
There used to be a saying among French Catholics: "If the traditionalists win, then the liturgical language of France will be Latin. If they lose, it will be Arabic."

Muslim immigration into France accounts for the high fertility.
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Although I dont have a percentage for you, I think your right. With a new launch, you always want to stay conservative with your evaluation. It also depends on what you have launched. Is your product something thats going to generate a buzz? Does the product pre-launch actually work? Regardless, If your creating an evaluation, I would stay on the conservative side.
The fertility rate in France (as in other parts of Europe) is highly skewed (up) by the immigrant Muslim population.
Sync intentionally doesn't allow you to see your data on the web: it's encrypted. If you could view it through a webpage, it could be stolen or subpoenaed, and we're not willing to take that risk with your passwords and history.

If you want to see what Sync is doing, you can add the Sync icon to the Add-on toolbar. If you really want to see what it's doing, turn on logging and look in about:sync-log!
Congratulation! Share your story in your blog or something. I will be curious and follow your progress. Couple years ago, I almost started like you but then gave up. I am in IT and wanted to get away from it. I started doing research and made a lot progress. The idea was to start a kiosk business at the local mall and then expand. Start up cost was low but it was still too risky. In the process I convinced a retired pilot to start a similar thing and he became very successful but I bailed out :-). My biggest challenge was getting some honest and stable people to work for me. I didn't want to quit my job and wife was and still is busy with kids. The second challenge was getting stuff (and the right/good/real stuff) imported from China. Lost some hard earned money but of course learned some good tricks. There are tons good ideas for kiosk business. At some point in the future, I will probably look into this again. With all the limitations I have, I thought of doing something on the side within IT. I think it's better. So I started a mobile app development business. The first app is built and submitted to Apple yesterday. The same app I am also making it for Android market and will submit soon. I learned the process so now the plan is to outsource everything and I will just manage the high level stuff. I sharing everything thru my blog http://tukulogics.com/blog/ . I even plan to share my income report too, just so everyone knows the end to end process. You can also follow me on twitter @saidulislam
So, what's your point? We have all had this ingrained in us since our first statistics class. Saying that correlation does not equal causation really says nothing. It does not agree. It does not disagree. The only thing this does is easily dismiss something of importance, which by definition has a connection to the discussion.

Correlation != causation is laziness at it finest.
Superposition isn't part of the Copenhagen interpretation, nor is decoherence. Copenhagen is the addition to standard QM (which QC is based on) and states that the other possibilities we don't observe, also stop existing, making there only be "one true world". But it's not predicted by standard QM which predicts MWI: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.1283v1

http://www.hpl.hp.com/breweb/quiprocone/Protected/Lecture_2....
In 200 years they will say:
Irrational and women hating creation memes all died in the 21st Century, and the people became truly civilised.
One issue with that is that solving a template of problems really doesn't solve anything specific.

So what you end up with is a framework that solves nothing that requires a bunch of configuration, or unnatural calls to its API(s) to get your one problem solved.

If your 1 problem took, say, 100 "units" of coding; often the framework will take 400 since it's generic. Then you have to code another 50-75 for your one problem.

Sure, the next guy also has only 50-75 to do, but too often these astronauts have no idea of the ROI of the 400, they just assume that "REUSE IS GOOD!" since that's all they've ever been taught. The ROI may never breakeven, much less get profitable.

Also, astronauts VERY often never have to dogfood what they've written, and have no idea if what they've done is actually any good, or usable.

"Before you design for reuse, make sure you've designed it for use." I'm convinced "reuse" has caused more unnecessary code than anyone imagines.
> It in no way implies that every private venue (e.g. Facebook) is required to accomadate your opinions.

If Facebook is a communication medium it must not hinder free speech.
We are in fact in many cases not communicating at all. Witness the wild misinterpretations on Hacker News, we've all experienced it. Witness the fracturing of language by region, city or neighborhood. Witness my inability to comprehend vacuous television dialog dominated by 20-somethings.

- Grumpy Old Man
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I visit some Japanese websites from time to time (not that I can read or anything .. just clicking on links) and don't remember having many problems with weird characters.
Everybody has opinions. Sometimes the entrepreneur needs a thick skin.
Looks like people are awake in Europe and starting to wake up in the US.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google buy Novell's patents?
CPTN Holdings-a Microsoft-led group that includes Apple, EMC, and Oracle is in the process of buying 882 of Novell’s patents. Given the recent patent-related legal action by MS and Oracle against Android/Google, why doesn't Google bid on Novell's patents? Wouldn't it put Google in a much better defensive position?
That's like an escape. I don't want to need to circumvent the system. I would like to be able to purchase and use the same services in my own right. I would be glad to pay for a service like this, if it provided what it's provided in the US for example.
What AT&T's T-Mobile USA acquisition means for developers
Viewfinder app lets you see video from your own head cam
I really enjoyed Peldi's talk last year. It was entertaining, educational, and inspiring.

My question for Peldi: You waited until the very end to quit your job at Adobe (4 days before launching, if I remember correctly). I'm currently struggling with this issue myself. If you had to do it over again, would you make the same decision, or would you quit sooner? Why?
Google’s Brin wins Doodles patent
I've worked on some medical publications, and you would need a very good rating system. There are all sorts of low-quality manuscripts that uninformed consumers might cling to if its quality (and the quality of reviewers) is not made very clear. This is true about all publications, but especially medical ones where many patients are beginning to look at the sources themselves. Maybe you could even provide two versions of each article; a "professional version" and a summarized "consumer version" for the regular non PhD folk...
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>Disclaimer: I've been using Opera 11 as my primary browser before I decided to give FF 4.0 a try

The top menu left button in FF now looks exactly like Opera's menu button. Of course, now all browsers look basically the same with almost all UI chrome gone.
The primary problem in hiring developers isn't measuring ability (although that is of course an important problem) but in sourcing candidates.

If SO can make SO Reputation the standard way of pre-filtering candidates, then there's certainly potential in that, but it doesn't seem to be what SO is focusing on.
Interesting. Do you have any idea what has caused that change?
Are you thinking on open sourcing it?
TreeStyleTab changed the way I browse completely. I wouldn't be able to live without it now.
If anything it's the other way around. Mozilla works out in the open and the designs of the new UI had been released long before Opera released its software, as Alex Limi points out: http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/. That said, what's wrong with taking the good ideas from other products? It's a net win for the users and the web.
The question now is: is it vertical enough to be kept alive by twitter ?
IIRC in those locales the Character Encoding menu is under the main Firefox menu.
What do you mean by violence? If you mean military or forceful than I don't agree. A land taken by force you get it back only by force.
The idea of Sync is that it Just Works(tm) in the background. Creating lots of UI noise as you browse the web (history, tabs, etc. are all synced!) doesn't seem very helpful nor useful.
Give it time. I'd love to know how many racists reconsidered their world beliefs as a result of their children dating someone outside their race - simply having to deal with something on a regular basis can acclimate you to it and make you think a little more critically about it.
"Correlation != causation" is a warning sign not a stop sign.

If we find a correlation, then that's a sign that we should look deeper. So far, the evidence says that lack of religion is tightly connected with a drop in fertility. If something other than lack of religion is causing the drop then the best place to look for it is by checking those factors that are most common to the irreligious and least common among the religious.

If someone has done this research then I am unaware of it.
UseTheSource shutdown
Already done! We open source everything we do.

http://github.com/potch/glow
There may have been number of storage sites popping up back in the days but didn't Dropbox provide something new and necessary technology to the PC? As in, don't worry about backing up your files? I don't recall even Box dot net - who was much in the tech news - provide such features.
Why?

Are you an atheist with plans to move to the Czech Republic?

Are you a Christian that believes God will smite the Czech Republic down for their disobedience to God?
All I could think of as I read this was that here were two guys that had figured out a very good way to invest in their own normal behavior (i.e. go out, drink, take phone numbers etc.) sort of a entrepreneurial version of 'getting paid to do something I love...'
It not religion per se that's becoming extinct in these nations, it's just some form of Christianity (usually, a very moderate and modernizing form). Detailed demographical studies show that fundamentalist religion (e.g. born again evangelicals and devout Muslims) is definitely on the rise, and associated with by far the largest fertility rates.
> Chrome's still got issues (i.e. excessive memory use, instability/slowdown sometimes due to orphaned processes)

Not to ignite a browser war, since I use and like both (and there's no point bickering about it), but:

I've had my copy of Chrome dev channel, which you'd expect to be a little less stable, open for about a week and I have under 300 MB committed (total) with 7 tabs open. I've closed a few, but here's what I mean:

http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/hn/activity.png

http://dropbox.jedsmith.org/hn/browser.png

Whenever I pitch Chrome to Firefox diehards, I always get the instability argument like you're presenting. I've used Chrome as my primary browser since about v3 when my desktop was still Windows, and the instability has largely disappeared in the last year or so. I wish I could see evidence of the issues that you and others describe, but it just doesn't happen to me on OS X and Linux any more. I haven't had a sad tab or a browser crash in months. And I develop in it!

What's different between you and me? I feel left out from the instability.
I find Vertical Tabs to be much faster; I didn't actually use the tree feature!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs...
No, no.. the construction was always perfect. There just wasn't an acceptance test for that. If PM had wanted Death Star of the poking-it-there-won't-make-it-explode variety, then they should have written a User Story for that. Duh.
Amen to that! :)
Roku, too.
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I'm unaware of any collection of humans in history that did not practice some form of religion. I suspect that religion will become extinct only when we humans do too.
But aren't those all features of Chrome? Wouldn't a happy Chrome user want to know about something FF4 does that Chrome doesn't?

It's very clear that 4 > 3.6, the features you listed are awesome ... they just aren't very appealing to a current Chrome user.
Give Vertical Tabs a shot. It's faster, albeit no tree handling.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs...
Although Im not in SF, I still think you have an interesting idea. My concern for you would be the actual product the chef's produce once you start getting some traction. The more a chef cooks in larger scale, the quality of the product goes down.

As a side night on your business model, I would have the chefs use ingredients that are readily cheap. This way your decreasing your startup costs and at the same time still increasing customers willingness to pay. Just a thought...goodluck. Im in Chicago and I would try it, if it were here.
Ctrl-K seems to work for selecting the search bar in the v.4.0.
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This reminds me of the node.js knockout landing page. I believe there was a map on that one. Unfortunately, I can't seem to dig up that page anymore.
All mainstream religion is, at its core, a fertility cult.
I'm pretty sure that's the case :D

Chrome's location bar provides everything you _type_ to Google, and using its sync feature gives them all of your bookmarks and history.
Thanks for the explanation. Adds to 'creepiness' level of the method.
I find it sort of funny. A startup is making money from the data mined from Google employees and it is being called creepy. I say it is poetic justice :)
All valid points but it would only be a free speech issue if Facebook was a government or publicly-supported institution. Mosques have the right to block Christians from proselytizing on their premises (and vice versa). That's not preventing free speech (they're still totally free to stand on a streetcorner and vent), it's giving the guy who owns the private property the right to use it the way he wants.

People often misinterpret free speech as meaning they get some kind of universal pass but free speech actually has very specific limits (and for good reason).
For a fast and simple vertical tabs implementation, see https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs/
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I'm using it on my AT&T Nexus One right now. Maybe there's some restrictions on actual AT&T-branded/subsidized handsets?
This is horseshit.

he birthrates of Muslim women in Europe have been falling significantly for some time. In the Netherlands, for example, the TFR among Dutch-born women rose between 1990 and 2005 from 1.6 to 1.7. In the same period for Moroccan-born women in Holland it fell from 4.9 to 2.9, and for Turkish-born women in Holland from 3.2 to 1.9.
In Austria, the TFR of Muslim women fell from 3.1 to 2.3 from 1981 to 2001. In 1970 Turkish-born women in Germany had on average two children more than German-born women. By 1996 the difference had fallen to one child and has now dropped to 0.5. These sharp falls reflect important cultural shifts, which include the impact of universal female education, rising living standards, the effect of local cultural norms and availability of contraception.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Analysis/Walker/2008/04/30/Walke...

http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/408410.html
http://historyandfutility.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/why-eurab...
Ask HN: how does Facebook/Twitter manages friend/follower relationships
I'm building a new service that allows users to subscribe to each other's feeds. In real time when publishers and consumers are both online (i.e. me and my friends) I use a message queue to take the published post and distribute it to my friends. However, where I'm struggling is how do I handle those friends that are not currently online? I can simply save new posts to the DB and pull them out when that user comes online, however I don't know the best way to retrieve an older post, check the friends its creator has and then send that message to all of them if they are online. If not don't send them anything. I can do it by storing more stuff in the DB but it becomes very difficult and time consuming to do all these table look ups just to figure out what message needs to go where.

So I'm wondering how does facebook or twitter handles thousands of friends posting tens/hundreds of messages a day, and how do they keep it all synchronized?

Thanks,
Roy
In addition, I think it's misleading to count "no affiliation" as "no religious beliefs."

What about new-age spirituality, alternative spirituality, etc.? Those typically don't show up in these kinds of studies, but they do qualify as religious beliefs.
I just want enough money that I can sleep when I feel tired. :/
The laws of France make it notoriously difficult to gather data on the correlation between religion and fertility, but the best available studies show that in France "[t]he estimated fertility of a woman assisting [religious] offices every week is 24% higher that the expected fertility of a woman who never assist to offices."

http://ideas.repec.org/p/mse/cesdoc/v08089.html
Because that's a very CPU and memory inefficient way of doing it. If you value performance, you don't want to render something "a few times bigger" filter it and then scale it down. You want to render the text and anti-alias it at the same time. And that's not a trivial thing.