skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 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...
Isn't that what Chromium is for?
Ask HN: Do you use Goodreads? If so, why?
Springboard: A lightweight but very helpful template for JS projects.
> It might now actually be going on, but it's hard for me to trust that it's not.

Run Chromium. It's fully open source. You can see for yourself that nothing scary is being sent to Google. The same can't be said for Chrome since the source is closed, but there's basically zero difference between the two. The icon is a bit less colorful I guess.
I have two Blu–Ray players, both of which are gathering dust.

I stopped buying Blu-ray discs after one of the players warned that it needed to be upgraded to play the disc, and the other player simply wouldn't play the disc. I don't care what the underlying reasons are, I'm just not interested in playing the upgrade game with a consumer device.

We've gone back to buying DVDs which we can rip to watch on the device of our choice, or we watch video on demand from Amazon/Netflix/etc.
There are lots of great movies on Netflix Watch Instantly, the problem is more the discovery process.

This site is a godsend for that: http://www.instantwatcher.com
SEC warns of pre-IPO Scams
Tap "Alt" and you get the normal menus (including "View"). Not very obvious, but easy once you know.
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Depends on the group. Each team gets morale money ($/head/year) to spend at their discretion on events, swag, and snacks. Your administrative assistant, top-level manager, and group culture will set how things go. When I worked on the Visual Studio Environment team, there were frequently M&Ms, snickers, etc.

When I was leading a team, most were sort of health nuts (even by MSFT standards, where 9/10 people seemed to be avid hikers or ski/snowboarders) so we mainly had fresh fruit and granola bars. And Alaskan Amber beer, though not too often :-)
"Look at fertility in France. It's not because people here are highly religious, for sure."

Not exactly true, see my comment above:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354758
Having seen a fair share of Fox News and Indian media alike, they're on the same platform. Sensationalism exists in Indian media but none of them push an agenda as much as Fox news does.

On the other hand, you could compare CNN here and Indian news channels for the kludges and for relying on "public opinion and insights" rather than partaking in investigative journalism.
Why is title bar there? I was hoping they'd push the tabs up into the title bar like Chrome and give us more screen space.
"There was a study recently that found there was a higher correlation between life outcome and where one APPLIED to college than there was to where one WENT to college."

That is very interesting. Thanks.
Code School now open to the public
IMHO the biggest thing that Firefox 4 has over Chrome is graphics acceleration via Direct2D on Windows and GL retained layers on the Mac. Chrome has neither in stable builds. Graphics acceleration helps scrolling performance in particular and is what allows things like the Panorama zoom animation to look smooth.
Wow, that's strikingly similar, I had no idea (I don't use Opera).
We are talking from an HN user perspective, let's say you are right about YC startups having connections, so now would you stay in a place where people have connections and you don't ? It's like being the only poor in the land of the riches. You might stay for a while, but not for a long time
Why Most Product Launches Fail
Frameworks are the wrong way to solve many problems at once. Frameworks are a disease.

An example of something that solves lots of problems at once well: a language and its compiler/interpreter.
I am curious if Joel's statements still hold. His stories date from more than a decade and a half ago.
Well said. Everyone has great ideas but its entirely the execution of a TEAM that will make or break a huge idea. Struggling with telling people your baby is certainly hard but recognize most people just want to help you. All good ideas will be replicated, its just how do you make yourself hard to imitate thats going to separate you from the rest.
I hope so. I'm seeing strong men and theocracies crumbling the middle east. I'm seeing proud gay men and women demanding basic humans rights in the west. I'm seeing a social acceptance of being non-religious. I'm seeing religious bigots think twice before spewing their hatred in the workplace. I'm seeing young people questioning the faith of their parents. I'm seeing basic science like evolution taught to more and more people everyday. Even while the religious do their best to fight this EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

The casual hatred that religion breeds is at least being challenged. 1st century cosmologies may never collapse,but they're moving more towards the low-information and undereducated types everyday. I'm not sure what the future holds, but the trend looks good.
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.

Approximately three minutes after your reply came another reply

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2354753

that cites sources that may allow analysis of what's going on here.
3D printers in the developing world
If anything, this article gives you an idea of the glacial pace of the legal system. This is almost a non-issue these days.

Granted, I suppose now the lawyers will argue that these tactics gave Apple the upper hand which secured their spot as the US's most valuable company.
Thanks; I wonder why they changed it but didn't put a tooltip on the component advertising the new shortcut? I'm sure that used to be there on at least some older versions of Firefox.
if you took a casual survey of people owning apple products in India, in all probability you'd find that a bulk of those people would say that they procured the product via USA, UK, Singapore, Dubai or Australia and the likes vs. officially buying it from an Apple partner in India.
Cleartype uses subpixel rendering as well, I'm not so sure you can achieve that by simply down-sampling a larger render.
No, I will push that moment into the future as far as possible.

Developers underestimate the trouble of "normal people" to adjust to GUIs and then even more to drastic changes in those. At least half of my "customers" for pc support will be rendered helpless once this upgrade comes.
Web development - HTML, CSS and Javascript - is not hard, but it's a different mindset from PC programming. Your program's state can't live in global variables: it has to fit inside the HTTP interface. Unfortunately circa-2003 ASP.NET was a leaky abstraction over HTTP.

One misconception common among non-web developers is that web development involves low-level Javascript coding, that you have to constantly worry about cross-browser problems, and that all server interaction goes via <form> and POST. This was true a decade ago, but we have really good frameworks now.
Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook all make some bits and pieces of their system available as open-source. You might particularly want to look at Twitter's FlockDB[1], LinkedIn's Kafka[2], and/or Facebook's Scribe[3].

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/flockdb

[2]: http://sna-projects.com/kafka/

[3]: https://github.com/facebook/scribe

FlockDB is designed to deal with the "social graph" connection stuff (who follows who, etc.) and is optimized for that sort of thing. Kafka and Scribe are more about delivering message widely. Poke around, look at their code, chase down and associated papers, and you should be able to sort out an approach... even if you don't adopt any of those codebases directly. FWIW, I'm looking at integrating FlockDB for some stuff I'm working on, but I haven't gotten very far down that path yet, so I don't have a lot more to offer than this.
Actual link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/26866865/Warren_Buffett_to_CNBC_5B_Go...
I'm always amused by evangelistic atheism.
"Correlation != causation" is a warning sign not a stop sign.

I might add that for social causation issues like this, longitudinal data (studies of changes over time) are often much more informative than cross-sectional data (comparisons of different subgroups at the same time). You and the original submitter posted longitudinal data, studied by researchers who have a data model that they are further investigating. That's at least worth talking about here.

After edit: as several replies have helpfully noted, one way to test the proposed model is to look at data from other countries, and another way to test it would be to look at data from different (earlier) historical periods in the same or different countries. Much work needs to be done to accept the causal mechanism proposed in the submitted link, but meanwhile we can check the narrower issue of whether participation in organized religion has the same time trend (reduction over time) as fertility rates in various countries of interest.
To me, what's exciting about SO Careers is the volume of people using it. Like all markets, you need large quantities of both buyers and sellers present to make things interesting.

In the case of SO Careers, the initial traction came from SO (which in turn got its initial traction from the readers of Jeff and Joel's respective blogs.)

Anyone wishing to compete with SO Careers better have a very good strategy for gaining traction (and not depend on the quality of the software, etc. to attract people on both sides.)
> grumpy old men have always complained about how those changes are destroying the language

I'm 24.
The big thing is just the smoothness of handling tabs. Closing a group of tabs in Chrome is a pleasure because of how it moves the tabs when you close one. Also grabbing a tab and moving it into a new window is a very clean/smooth operation.

Firefox has improved a lot. 4 is a fantastic piece of software but it isn't quite as polished as Chrome is.

Despite these issues I greatly prefer Firefox over Chrome. Chrome might be more polished but Firefox is (imho) a much more powerful piece of software and at the end of the day I care much more for power than polish.
Okay, I'll give these two suggestions a try. Sync worked the first time for me but then it just stopped. It no longer brings my stuff over to new profile/install, so I was curious to see if my data is even there or not (which is not a big deal as I have backup and I was just testing). It would help to have an activity monitor somewhere or a way to check the percentage of syncing done.
You could also hook into the Mendeley API. See http://www.mendeley.com/research-papers/
I'm afraid that is just how it is. Hardware-accelerated font rendering through DirectWrite (in both FF4 and IE9) is of a lower quality than the software (GDI) rendering.

The only solution: disable it in Options. Sux.
Security Vendors Vow to Defend Against Cyber-Boogeyman
There's a big difference between a case study and statistics.

A case study is just one big, detailed anecdote.

You can learn from it to the degree that your situation matches the situation described-- but you still don't know if the factors that you are matching on are actually the relevant factors or not in terms of the outcome.

Statistics would be wonderful, if there were a way to normalize for all of the unknown factors. Which there isn't, so they aren't.
I find that Chrome's extensions are quite real, feature rich, and stable. The last time I used FF, massive memory leaks were blamed on "your extensions." Not to mention I'm not even sure which IETab extension is real anymore. One is dead, the new one is nagware, etc.

Oh, and I like that flash is sandboxed and autoupdated. I like a built-in PDF reader. I can't imagine going back to the stone age of browsers with FF or IE and downloading all the various readers and plugins for a basic web experience (Adobe reader, flash, etc).

I'm sure FF4 is good by Firefox standards, but Google is doing something very new with Chrome. The out of the box experience is stellar and end users are secure because they really have no idea how to update flash or adobe reader on their own.
My bet is that in ten years, today's Blu-ray DRM schemes are pretty much as busted as dvd-css is today. It sure shows cracks already, and the bittorrent scene certainly seems to have no problem having high quality bd-rips.

Of course, if these online services become big enough for anyone to bother cracking the DRM, they are likely to be headed for a similar destiny.
I'm noticing a lack of Android-ness with the Amazon apps. For example:

I just downloaded the Amazon store on my Nexus One and started downloading Angry Birds Rio. The first thing I noticed is that, while downloading, there's no ongoing notification like the Android Market has. If I navigate away from the Amazon Appstore there's no indication I'm still downloading anything at all. There was also no notification when it finished downloading; I had to manually re-open the Amazon Appstore, then it gave me the standard "installing an app" screen.

Even though I have the Amazon Kindle app installed and syncing, Amazon hasn't set up an entry in the Android "Accounts" list, as the official Twitter and Facebook apps have.

Also, the "menu" widgets are non-standard. This may seem like a minor quibble, but it just adds to the "We're Amazon, we do things our own way" vibe I'm getting.

I still plan on occasionally using the Amazon Appstore, and I can't speak to the "test apps in your browser" functionality yet, but I can't see it replacing the Android Market long-term.
Not sure what it means, but I just launched Angry Birds Rio and it ran fine in airplane mode.
"* I suppose now the lawyers will argue that these tactics gave Apple the upper hand* "

Uh, well, isn't that true?
Noteleaf (YC W11) pre-meeting briefs - the "right info at the right time"
From the blog post:

it's more successful than StackOverflow Careers on most metrics in the UK. We run more job ads, our jobs get viewed by more developers, we get more applications/job and we have more satisfied customers.

Focusing on one country is probably a good way to compete against a global jobs board.
The new vimperator is out as well, and it's great.
this is way better than crome now.
I can't speak for the other countries, but private polling data in the United States reveals many more people who believe in a deity or who self-describe as "spiritual" than who are affiliated with an organized religious community by regular attendance at group meetings.

http://religions.pewforum.org/affiliations

Christian scholars in the United States have noted that many self-described Christians do not have a set of doctrinal beliefs that accord with historic Christianity.

http://www.barna.org/transformation-articles/252-barna-surve...
When I’m hiring, I don’t look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

- Aza Raskin (@azaaza)

http://startupquote.com/post/4024722708
LinkedIn hits 100 million members
You do not measure "website performance" without doing many repeated (better yet, interleaved) trials! These statistics are meaningless without standard deviations (at the very least). I could perform two one-off trials and conclude that unplugging my keyboard improves the "performance" of your website by X% because there happened to be a fluctuation in network conditions.
Larry Page almost skipped web search for automated cars
Religion is a burden on society, a social trait from civilizations past, they lacked the vast majority of scientific knowledge we currently embrace, this "evolution" was bound to happen sooner or later.

Any rational intelligent being should quite clearly see the fundamental floors of all religions, how they act mearly as placebos at best; but primarily as precursors to wars, hours of wasted time per week on mundane rituals, dark ages, etc.
It's about attracting the right kind of listings, from a quick look it doesn't seem like their quality of listing is overly high. If I was coming to coder stack without knowing anything about the site they don't really sell me with a couple of paragraphs of about us.

I'd add a link to the blog somewhere on the page to, give a bit more of a feel for the site.
Disclaimer: I am a Firefox Fanboi

At work I can only use Firefox or IE so no brainer there - I use Firefox. At home I use Firefox but generally have Chrome open to play the odd Facebook game. The thing that puzzles me is I really don't notice any difference in performance between Chrome and Firefox and never have. I have a 4mb internet connection at the moment but noticed nothing different when I had 8.

The only reason I use Chrome is to play around with any HTML5 stuff and simple curiosity. With Firefox's huge add on libraries, Firebug, Tab controls etc I honestly cannot see why so much fuss is made about Chrome!
OK, igouy, somebody has to defend the Benchmarks game (!?)

Most FP communities (incl clojure) have devote non-negligible blocks of time to code review and benchmarking to make sure that at the very least poorly written code isnt' submitted (and the right hotspot knobs are on).

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_frm/thread/d27...
On my little netbook this is a deal-breaker. It wastes about 1/10 of the screen.
We'll believe it when we see it, but we're definitely rooting for you.
This might be a matter of semantics. When I say "superposition," I mean the view that all we could possibly know about a system is represented in its wave function. This implies an ontological superposition of states until the wave function is collapsed, as is famously embodied in Schroedinger's cat. It is this ontological superposition of states which the QC scenario depends on for massive parallelism: If Schroedinger's cat was the input to your QC function, you would get to run the function with an alive-cat and a dead-cat input at the same time. Of course, you only get to see the output for the state the cat's in when the wave function is collapsed, and a key aspect of search algorithms like Shor's QC factorization scheme is to make sure that all the other states cancel out. (Shor's algorithm basically tries all possible divisors of the target number at the same time, through a superposition scheme.)

But if the probabilistic component of the QM wave function instead merely represents our degree of ignorance about the entire system, rather than some such magical superposition, then the QC system is actually only in one of the many states on which the computation is supposed to be run simultaneously, and the promised massive parallelism is just a fantasy.

(Yes, I think a hidden-variables explanation is more likely than the Copenhagen interpretation. Yes, I know about the EPR experiment.)
The quote uses terms like "Dutch-born" and "German-born." Do those terms include only Christian women who are ethnically Dutch or German? Or do those terms also include the second generation of women born in Holland and Germany, whatever their religion or ethnicity?

I just read the linked article at UPI. It is unclear on the matter.
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Speaking of private data and encryption, do you know which FF file is responsible for History data? I know the Bookmarks json file but I'm looking to keep my history file as a backup too (which I believe FF doesn't backup like it does bookmarks). I hope it isn't places.sqlite file because it gets ridiculously huge even after you wipe your data clean.

I wish to rely on my own backup system for both bookmarks and history data as both of them are important on continuous basis and both of them should be user's own responsibility (unlike what delicious or many other bookmarks syncing services may tell you).
Pi would work if Group B were normal. Correcting for distribution effects, I'd use (1-Pi^2)/Pi.
People are realising more and more that it's ones self who is in control and do not need to channel their willpower thru an external entity to make things happen / hope that things will go well. Same thing being that it's modern medical science that extends people's lifetime and cures illness, Education that teaches us evolution, Etc, Etc.

Besides, Everything has a beginning and an ending so it's hardly surprising.

For everything else there's the dream of "The Empathic Civilisation".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7AWnfFRc7g
Cloud Mashup: Windows Azure, AppFabric, Bing Maps and Facebook
The common argument is that by airing the viewpoints of terrorists after successful attacks, you give extremists an incentive to perform terrorist attacks. I.e., if you pay for something (with money or airtime), you get more of it. Thus, journalists have a responsibility not to do so.

I haven't thought this through enough to form an opinion, just thought the argument is worth stating.
Bug: Thermal exhaust port is vulnerable to external attack that can lead to total system failure

Opened By: qa-ds1-15215

Severity: 1

Fix By: DS2

Comments:

qa-ds1-15215: I was checking out the design and noticed that thermal exhaust port AH-51 is open to the world. Someone could drop an explosive in here and bring down the system. This needs to be fixed ASAP.

pm-ds1-32542: Well, duh. Who in their right mind is going to be dropping explosives into their own system? Resolution: By Design

qa-ds1-15215: Status: Activated. Are you serious? Do you not understand the implications of this design problem?

pm-ds1-32542: Assigned To: dev-ds1-29412.

dev-ds1-29412: Jesus H. Christ, 15215. We talked about this in the hallway yesterday. There's no way we can change the design now, we've got people coming in to kick the tires on this thing. Resolution: Won't Fix

qa-ds1-15215: You too???!!! You guys seriously don't understand what's at stake here. Can we at least look at this in the next version? Status: Activated.

dev-ds1-29412: Fine. Resolution: Postponed.

lukes: Lol
The best type of Entrepruership IMOP is innovation. Dont mistake that for invention. There are already great inventions out there that are not working to their full potential. You need innovation to take these inventions and make them applicable to the present and future.

My advice: Test your idea with human to human interaction. Do you need a website to do what your doing? If you can solve a problem for a person doing it yourself for $5 dollars, well then you have a business! Put it on a website and attract millions, you sustain your business.
How Amazon could quietly become a huge tablet player
Shot: Get latest Dribbble shots on your desktop (Free Mac App)
My facetiousness didn't quite carry across in that last line. I think if it truly was a colossal inconvenience for the customer, you would have seen people stop buying iPods in droves.
Maximize. It puts the tabs in the title bar when you maximize.
It means born in the country. If they had meant Dutch or German ethnic they would have said so. So it's referring to people on the short road to assimilation.
Or you could download it right from mozilla's own website, http://firefox.com and bypass the blogspam.
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The primary reason to use FF is that you like a particular addon, you like FF's expose over Chrome's, or you like how FF does the location bar (which is why I use FF). There's not a ton of differentiation between the two any more.