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I do - kind of. Since I don't have Firefox set to reopen the last batch of tabs I had opened the last time I was using it, Panorama is kind of useless in my case, since I would mainly use it to keep tabs grouped by content, and it would be a chore to redo the grouping at each restart. Still, it comes in handy to keep reddit/hn on one group and work related stuff on another groups and quickly switch between the two by doing Ctrl - Shift - ~. A big optimization was to set browser.panorama.animate_zoom to false in about:config. That animation was killing the flow in my case.
I'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concerned.

I'd be really surprised if there are still sites that don't use utf8.
The whole NBA League Pass system is flawed and broken in so many ways. Expanding on what you've written up:

1) It's bogus that I need to buy a subscription twice to watch it on my iPhone and my laptop. I'll pay a small fee for an iOS app but it's ludicrous to make me pay double licensing fees.

2) Why in the world would you build an iOS app oriented towards video and not build an iPad version?

3) Why are they burdening users with choices like "do you want to see seven teams or all teams?" This doesn't bother me as a user but it drives me crazy as a designer. They're making the signup flow gratuitously complicated. It's a bizarre segmentation that forces users to think unnecessarily.

4) The black hat UX like auto-renewal and email-to-cancel is irritating and makes me mistrust the service.
I'd like to know what the average age of Microsoft employees is vs Google employees as well.
Civil society is more "structural", while what I mean is more "internal", though (of course) they both complement each other.
No one seems to be interested in Africa and Australia.
Maybe I don't understand quite right but 'beta' would be a good word meaning something is in development and not quite finished.
>Theoretically, you should be able to get your study reviewed not just by a single expert, but by every expert on that subject regardless of geographical location or journal affiliation.

This is definitely a direction I would like science.io to go in in the future
Does anyone have JavaScript performance benchmarks yet against Chrome?
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The Netherlands density of downloads is pretty impressive. Can't find Malta though.
> Why not use Chrome's approach and merge the two of them

I've been asking myself this question many, many times.
You can hide the search field: right-click on the toolbar > customize > drag/drop the search inside the window > done.
I have Pale Moon (http://www.palemoon.org) installed for this reason - it is completely separate from the standard Firefox.
It updated to 4 for me (on Mac), although it goes in sequential order; e.g. if there's any 3.x you didn't get it seems to update that first, then on relaunch another update-check gets version 4.
More importantly: Is FireBug available yet for FireFox 4?
http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location

We perform the lookup using the binary database and the Java client directly off of the web request and only store the location in HBase so we don't keep the IP around in a database.
Yeah, but Facebook is loading asynchronously and shows up long after the page has already rendered.
You're not the only one. I use Seamonkey instead because this and other similar annoyances.
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Aha, genius yes that was it. I thought I had closed everything but obviously not. Cheers.
The QC scenario relies on the superposition of states which collapse probabilistically when the system is observed. It is precisely this superposition which enables the massive parallelism the QC scenario promises. This superposition and probabilistic collapse is a central component of the Copenhagen Interpretation, as I understand it.
I think a more accurate title would be "More Googlers Buy..." rather than "Googlers Buy More...", and for honesty, there ought to be a "Very Slightly" in there somewhere.

The interesting story here is about identity and privacy, though.
> Map is generated using SVG

I thought the map was a static PNG image: http://glow.mozilla.org/maps/world_4.png

Edit: I stand corrected. I missed this call: http://glow.mozilla.org/maps/world_4.svg
Or as a friend of mine use to say when she started out learning .NET "c hash".

PS. She is from the UK.
Ask HN: Any non-programming entrepreneurs & founders? 
Just wondering whether there are folks on here that are involved in startups / projects that are not cs / programming related. If so please share your story.

I personally started a restaurant with four other friends /with money from an old programming job/ that has just broken even after 11 months. And I am sure that there are others like me, so I was interested in hearing your stories.
* Real ad blocking (more generally: real extensions).

Other points (not so major for most):

* Audio api (allows you to synthesize audio)

* Better language support (Chrome on Linux has tons of issues with non-latin languages)
Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.
This is quite a map/page. It reminds me the ApplemApp wall that was installed at WWDC a couple years ago where you were seeing -kind of- real time the downloaded apps from the AppStore, except they were not showing on a world map.
Anyway this FF4 page is in a way a cool dashboard !
I'm not entirely sure about this...what's their timeline? I live in Australia and seeing Australia on the list was a huge surprise.
The geo data comes from MaxMind. They give us latitude/longitude and country:region:city info.
Also - Tree Style Tab [1] is a must have for me (on 3.x for now, just checking if I'll upgrade now or wait for some of my plugins to migrate first)

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
You're right. I completely agree with your last sentence. Although it's really hard for people to buy movies/tv shows for a lot of reasons: when we get a proper DVD with subtitles it's weeks if not months behind the DVDs from the US; if we want to import (because it's cheaper) you have to pay a lot of additional euros for transportation; if you wait to see in the television for 3 or 4 months, you always get into spoilers from friends, the web or even television;

I guess it's hard problem and everyone has a point. Let's wait and see if the situation gets better because they get to win a lot providing a better service to fans/consumers.
Depends on your browser. If it supports inline SVG, you should see an SVG map.

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chuckle This is the exact same thread I used to see years ago, except it was the startup time of vi vs. emacs. Being an emacs guy, I would generally remark something like, "yeah, I remember the ONE time a few months ago I started emacs when the sparc had to be rebooted for new memory."
In my experience, giving any information at all for a Kroger card is completely optional - I picked up a form with a card attached, threw away the form, and the card's worked fine ever since.

I suppose if you talk to a clerk they may be trained to pressure you into giving away info, or it may vary by region/brand, or policy may have been different then.
Thank you for the suggestions! We'll add shortcuts and tooltips. We were rather conservative about it because wanted to collect some feedback.

The IDE will have real-time console for logging.
Different (Chrome-inspired) UI

I would say it is a carbon-copy of Opera, but that's just me: http://imgur.com/IzVxJ
I don't like it, even a little, and I'm a Linux guy in shells 10 hours a day.

The biggest problem is that X is at too low a level to be useful for primitives, and too high a level to be fast.

If the network transparency were written at the GTK/QT level, and said "draw this widget here", it'd be super-speedy, and it'd be kinda kickass. NXservers do this better.

If it were lower-level, like VNC, it could also be pretty sweet. Because VNC is low-level, you can run it FAST, and get usuable results.

Remote X is in a no-mans-land. It uses primitives that were relavent in 1985, but not today, which means It's FAR slower than VNC.

If sending the bitmaps over the wire is dramatically faster, you're doing something fundamentally wrong.

I like the featureset that X provides, but remote forwarding X today just does NOT work well.
Yep. Note also that the royalty terms are apparently different, and significantly worse, than they offer for ebooks. With the Kindle 70% royalty option, you get 70% of your list price, no matter what discount they've applied, unless they're matching a lower price they found elsewhere[1]. With the app store, per the article, you get 70% of the discounted price, or 20% of the list price, whichever is greater.

It would appear that they intend to discount apps heavily, to try to get traction. Which is fine for something intended by the developer as a loss leader, but could really bite hard if applied to premium versions. But of course, they insist on access to the premium versions, if you want to use 'em to sell the loss leaders.

[1] http://207-171-168-158.amazon.com/kdpforums/entry.jspa?categ...
Something that seems to have changed recently is that at least in some Microsoft groups (like Windows Phone), UX design is now treated as a fourth discipline alongside dev, test and PM, rather than being lumped in with PM.
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Even more so in academia where there is a very engrained sense that research and discussion should happen behind closed doors. I can't imagine academics wanting to discuss their opinions too openly for fear of it coming back to damage their reputation later.

There's an increasing amount of it happening, but in a fairly decentralized way (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), organized around various researchers' blogs. Certain areas have slightly more centralized community-hub type discussion forums as well, like Lambda the Ultimate for programming languages research.
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I don't understand why getting anti-aliasing right is so hard. Just render text a few times bigger, use some kind of low-pass filter (box filter will do) and down-sample it. It's what every graphics program does. That would put an end to using Photoshop or Flash for headlines just to make them look decent.
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I don't really think it's bullshit, I think

a) People are interested in YC companies and

b) YC has the connections to get the posts there... If you had the connections, would you not use them?
I'm hopeful for the speed improvements; I was having issues with 3.6.x in that and so far 4 seems good but I've not really stressed it.

Otherwise, confess first impressions are less happy. Moving the tab bar has left it stranded adjacent to neither the edge of the window nor the page which makes it less easy to quickly grab sight of for me, and I seem to have lost the shortcut for the search box which I actually _used_ - if this replicated the old suite's behaviour of location bar searching outside the history I'd mind less, but it doesn't. Having to grab the pointer every time I want to search instead of Ctrl-E doesn't seem a win to me :-(
Thanks for the hint.

FF3 had a problem with gradually slowing down to a crawl. Clicking on the link would take few seconds to register, switching between tabs or from another app to FF would also cause FF to appear frozen for several seconds, etc.

Submitted a ticket regarding this, got multiple follow-up comments from other users, but never from a dev. I realize you have a volume to deal with, but on my end it looks like noone cares.

FF4 still has a milder version of the problem, but in a sub-second range. It now crashes though, so not sure what's worse.

Also, unrelated to the above, for some reason Alt-PrtSc does not work, it's FF4 on XP. It is supposed to make a screenshot of a focused window and put it on a clipboard, and it worked with FF3... which is weird, because it's Windows' native function, not Firefox's.
Maybe it's just me but every FF UI I've seen looks slightly clunky and this one while better is still the ugliest of the next generation browsers (though Safari gives it a run for it's money).

And the menu the Firefox button in the top left brings up is simply horrible.

It's like someone said "I like the fact that the Windows Start button looks and acts differently to every other menu or dialog anywhere, but wouldn't it be good if it looked a bit more like a menu to make it more confusing and was generally a bit uglier and more amateurish".
Everything you type in Chrome's location bar is sent to Google, most likely unencrypted. Every single character.

If you want to turn this behavior on in Firefox, you can do so with a simple add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/omnibar/

but it's off by default because of the MASSIVE privacy implications.
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What do you make of France, which with Ireland has the highest fertility rate in Europe (2.01 in 2010 [1]), while Catholicism can hardly be described as thriving there: 4.5% of French people go to mass at least once a week [2].

Social policies such as benefits for families with two or more kids and low-cost, widely available day-care centers for children under 3 that allow women to work and have kids sound far more important to me than any "residual Catholic natalism".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Demographics

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Religion
Yes!

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It is unfortunate how many times my skills crimping RJ-45 connectors has come in handy.
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Session restore saves your tab groups.
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I pretty much switch from Digg / RSS to twitter as a news aggregator once sufficient sites got twitter accounts to follow. I don't think I am a unique case.
Probably just you. There could be a Flash embed in the page that's capturing the keystroke...
I think this is a better writeup: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208
The most valuable thing I learned in school, kindergarten through university, was how to learn. If my learning had stopped at the time I finished high school, I would have had only enough to survive; if it had stopped at the time I finished college, I would have had enough to hold down a steady job; but in neither case would I be doing what I do today.

In the same way, a developer that can only reuse code from a Google search can survive, a developer that can program decently in a number of languages can hold down a steady job, but a developer that can differentiate themselves by their ability to deeply understand a business need or language or technology can excel.

Learning for learning's sake is useful onto itself--the brain muscles that are exercised when a person learns the violin are the same that become exhausted learning deep domain knowledge.
I don't know about you, but using Chrome has always given me this unsettling feeling that somewhere in Google's server farm, a machine is collecting everything I do and linking it to my other activity (gmail, gdocs, etc). It might now actually be going on, but it's hard for me to trust that it's not. I just don't like giving a behemoth like Google access to my complete internet history, even though the most harmful thing it could collect on me is how many HN tabs I have open during the work day.
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Neat! Seems like a leap in performance then.
... was calling for Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

What kind of uprising? A peaceful, political movement? A forceful, military uprising, or use of terrorist tactics? On one level this could be considered free speech, on another, inciting violence.
Since I tend to have 20-30 tabs open at a time, the tabs are usually too small to read - so I ended up using the Panorama to hold "ReadItLater" tabs. But now that the TreeStyleTab add-on is compatible with FF4, I no longer use it. Btw.. if you have a widescreen monitor, check out TreeStyle tab.
They already have a presence in Washington, DC, and have invested heavily in their newsdesk there. The problem is that no cable network will carry them, even though plenty of people would want them carried.

From my time, I would say that America is a land of free thinking and tolerant people, but not the land, and sadly not the land I had wanted it to be. (Am an Arab who had long admired the USA.)
It's not my main browser but I don't seem to have issues with Chrome on OSX, I'd suggest maybe purging your install (or at least it seems you're experiencing something unusual).
Please help and advice your friends and family to update :)

Lets help mozilla!
Closest thing you can do is put two spaces in front of every line and monospace it:

Nation Total Fertility Rate
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Australia 1.97
Austria 1.41
Canada 1.58
Czech Republic 1.49
Finland 1.85
Ireland 2.1
Netherlands 1.66
New Zealand 2.1
Switzerland 1.46

(Also, I'm just doing the convenience of formatting it in this message. No particular endorsement or independent verification here.)
I've been working as a Product Manager (aka idea guy) for the past 4 years in NYC and would love to help. My e-mail is in my profile.
I'm a little conflicted about the Firefox Sync feature. On the one hand: yay! On the other... it's a lot more difficult to set up sync in Firefox than in Chrome. I got to work today and was dismayed to discover that I couldn't simply login to Mozilla's server and sync up my bookmarks from home, but that I needed the sync key from my computer at home to get this working. Boo. That, or you need to have the devices you want to sync in the same place and use a Netflix-like "Add Device" feature.

I get it. Encrypting locally is more secure, but they've made this system SO secure that it's actually irritating. I wish I at least had the option of foregoing this sync key business.

Anyway, now I know to put my sync key on Dropbox so this doesn't happen again.
Here here. Chrome's tab handling is a nightmare. I hope FF4 will give me a reason to switch back and get access to what should be simple things (vertical tab lists) but appear to be difficult to provide in Chrome.
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Vim has a high learning curve. But once you learn it, it's difficult to use another editor - especially since there are hardly any modal editors out there besides vim.

I went a step further and remap Capslock to Escape on all my systems, thus making me completely inefficient on any other keyboard that's not mine.
Two things:

1. Sync is totally not up to par. It doesn't inform what it does in the background and there is no place to check on the web what it uploads. I am not sure why FF even bothered to release this feature when it is not even ready (there are several people complaining about many things of Sync at the Add-on review).

2. The bookmark/history manager can use upgrade/better features. Ever since the Delicious fiasco, FF could possibly play a better role in adding modern bells and whistles to its bookmarks manager.

Other than above two, I'm not complaining.
Look at fertility in France.
It's not because people here are highly religious, for sure.

Instead, the government simply put lots of programs into place to support family raising -- high-quality free daycare, long school hours (so both parents can get back to work and mothers don't have to sacrifice careers), hefty tax breaks per child, medical care (for birth & pre/post natal, but also pediatric care).

And (a bit more oddly) the medical care a mother gets after giving birth has a heavy focus on getting her back into shape for restarting her sex life -- it's standard to be prescribed a course of physical therapy to retrain the perineums of new mothers for exactly that reason.

All of these programs designed to help mothers keep working, etc. are not because at heart the French are feminists; they are not. Sexism is rampant. BUT they want mothers to have babies, so they figured out how to make that happen.

The system isn't perfect by a long shot, and it's not always ideal to have the state raise your kids as much as tends to happen here, but it's certainly quite successful: the birth rate is about 2 births per woman and slowly rising.
> Please don't since it makes it impossible to tell what you are linking to.

I just assume shortened URLs lead to being Rick-rolled or worse.
I just plugged this in another reply. The latest and greatest can be found at the author's site.

btw... TabCandy is now called Panorama.
Instead of working the way X does, the intent in Wayland is to do all rendering client side (the way things are done in practice under X these days anyway). Did you see the big thread on the mailing list about "Finishing the network protocol"?
If CEO Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, that means Facebook is a Jewish site. By creating a page on it, I can only surmise that you are a secret Jew pretending to be an Arab. Why else would you use a handle like "ArabGeek"? You're just trying to convince us that you're not a Jew, when you really are. We know who you really are. Just another member of the Zionist conspiracy.
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Well, the internet treats "things people don't want" as damage and routes around it, censorship is just one of those things people don't want.
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Why should the archaic "you" or "though" with all those useless vestigial letters be considered somehow more evolved than the variants that correspond more closely to the spoken language? Likewise what's wrong with "lol"? You obviously understood what they meant, and conveying that information is exactly the purpose of language.

Languages have always changed, and grumpy old men have always complained about how those changes are destroying the language. But despite that perpetual cycle of corruption lasting for thousands of years, we are in fact not communicating by pointing and grunting.
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Firefox is much more viable of a browser now that the Mozilla team has addressed memory and performance issues, additionally the new "Firefox button" view gives the browser the slim and minimal look that brought many to Chrome in the first place. I've been using Chrome as my main browser for over a year and I have to say, Chrome's still got issues (i.e. excessive memory use, instability/slowdown sometimes due to orphaned processes). As for IE9, well it won't run on XP, but I haven't used it myself so I can't list any further problems it has, but I'm willing to bet a few exist.

I guess the point is, no one browser is perfect and until that point is reached any serious offering will definitely have a future.
With the disadvantage being it'll be a second-class citizen, like it is on Mac OS X.