skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To everybody asking what Firefox has that Chrome lacks: The Awesomebar.

I haven't seen it mentioned here but it's by far the thing I miss the most from FF (along with FireBug and TreeStyle Tabs). It practically replaces bookmarks for me because because it searches through the history. In Chrome it feels like I have to re-google everything unless I remember the exact url.
BA jihadist relied on Jesus-era encryption
I have been consistently impressed by the reporting done by propublica: http://propublica.org
I've never seen log^2 x mean (log x)^2. Common notation?
You can search from the address bar in Firefox 4, but you won't get search suggestions as you type. If you want to change this, try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/omnibar/

(And you can use the "Customize toolbars" window to remove the search bar if you want.)

Firefox intentionally does not show suggestions in the address bar by default, because we don't want to send everything you type there to a third party.
Boston Companies Using Ruby on Rails
My biggest complaint with the article was just that. I cannot think of a legitimate reason to do this.
Maximize the window AND disable the menu bar. If you don't disable the menu bar, you don't see the Firefox menu or the tabs in the title bar space.
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Saw it on a poster on BART this morning...
To learn more about us, watch this video.

http://staging.liveset.com/events/11-ben-kweller-denver-co#w...
I read this when it was posted earlier this year, and I see where the author is going ... but I also see how he could be misunderstood.

All he's saying is that you should try new things, take some time out and actually build something in a technology that interests you ... not just read about them.

Its the only way to actually expand your skillset and your programming IQ. The really great developers that I've met do this constantly ... Erlang? Check. Haskell? ... been there! Clojure? ... built a webserver in it last night ... for fun. Node.js? ... built an analytics program in it with mongo db while I was on vacation.

Of course some of us aren't blessed that kind of ability to pick up and be productive in a language in a weekend, but it just means that we just need to be more selective with the things we commit to trying out. As with all things ... doing it more often actually makes it easier to pick up new things as they come up, since you get used to the mechanics of actually trying things out.

What I've found is that the 'cross pollination' of ideas from the different languages/frameworks you use will make you a better programmer across the board.

So yeah, don't wait till you actually need a skill to scramble around trying to pick it up ... do half the leg work up front and you'll reap the dividends down the road. Thats how I see it anyway.
I can't, unfortunately. Here's the INED publications webpage

http://www.ined.fr/en/resources_documentation/publications/d...

It might be one of the "Recent Demographic Developments in France"
Ponies in the Data Center
This is just what I needed. Thanks, drKarl.
Ctrl+k has always worked, it is not new. (And as long as I can remember has been the "primary" short-cut.) They wanted Ctrl+e to be available for tab group functionality: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592183

We can kill old keyboard shortcuts. There are two for focusing the search box (ctrl/cmd + e, ctrl/cmd + k) and technically only one is needed. Many of these things are here for legacy reasons supporting users of IE5 and Netscape 3. That can, thankfully, go away.
We are directly inviting our old userbase but those numbers are not included here.
I've said it virtually every time I've seen Chrome > Firefox comments: Chrome just doesn't match up on the extensions front for me. It doesn't have the same powerful extensions that Firefox does, and for me that's worse. I absolutely love TreeStyleTab, DownThemAll, Pentadactyl and the like, and the Chrome alternatives don't come anywhere close to the tight integration that all these have with Firefox. When Chrome extensions get the power that Firefox's have, then I'll consider switching.

Speed doesn't matter if I can't get the browser to behave how I want.
I think pre-announcing tablets at this point in time is a clever thing to do, it makes sure that nearly every article talking about iPads or tablets in general will mention that comparable products from Samsung are coming very soon.
In regards to competing with Apple, I feel like a lot of people forget the advantage that Apple's retail stores give them. The Apple retail stores give people an opportunity to use iPads preloaded with software in a nice shopping environment.

How will Samsung (and others) reach the average consumer with these new tablets? Will Best Buy just stick them in the middle of 4 other tablets with price tags?
I'm inclined to say the TouchWiz may not be all that bad, in fact some of the tweaks they made and features added could be quite welcome, but I cannot say I am a fan of Samsung getting into the OS realm even if they are trying to differentiate their tablets from other Android based tbls.
This is because this is required if the site uses a legacy character encoding AND it is declared incorrectly or not at all.
On the contrary, if it was a colossal inconvenience for the customer to lose all their songs, they'd make sure you didn't upgrade your old iPod to a competing mp3 player. Sure, they happily bought the first generation iPod and weren't exactly distraught when that meant they'd have to replace it with another iPod, but then most consumers weren't shedding tears over being pushed into using Win 9x/IE in the 1990s.

Apple's defence of course is that the music industry compelled them to create a DRM format which was standard practice at the time.
Flow - Task Management and Online Collaboration for Teams
Really loving the interface and functionality. I've been a beta user for some time and I can't recommend it enough. It's simple yet very powerful.
Mozilla Launches Firefox 4
I Was a Sock Puppet for the CIA
Check out Vagrant - http://vagrantup.com

Quote:

Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing virtualized development environments.

By providing automated creation and provisioning of virtual machines using Oracle’s VirtualBox, Vagrant provides the tools to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable virtual environments.
Ted Dziuba still regularly blogs. It looks like he's switched from writing about shitty startups to generalized shitty startup architectures. Not as fun, but still informative: http://teddziuba.com/
75 US$ (final price for Rails Best Practices) for 5 videos of 10-15 minutes seem a little expensive. Are the non video parts worth the money?
Regurgitating my previous response to this [1]:

a) I can drop-down the list of available search engines and see what's available, without having to remember any key-words to do the searches.

b) (and this is the killer feature for me) If a particular search engine is selected (say, IMDB), I can right-click on any word on a page, and one of the context menu options is "Search IMDB for <selection>..."

Also, horizontal real-estate is not much of a concern on a wide-screen monitor - how much of the URL would I really want to see..?

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2309115
Has anyone actually done any research into exactly what data is sent to Google when you use Chrome?

Not that it really matters anymore, FF4 is faster than Chrome in my experiments so don't think I'll be using Chrome at all anymore.
I wouldn't assume that your app goes viral by default. In fact the chances of this happening are very slim. The guys that made breakup notifier almost went off the new page when they went viral.

What I would do is put it out there and be ready to take the steps you need to, to keep it alive if it does go viral. Planning too far ahead for this is probably a waste of your time as you most likely wont be able to see the weak points before hand. Just move quickly if it does.
I can tune apache s maxClients and most crockfords javascript good practices are just natural now, not to mentional the whole lot in between. but at interview this never helps me.

Everyone interviews for specialists.
This includes their "TouchWiz" UI customizations, so there's definitely the chance for them to make some money from the software side of things or cross-promote more profitable products. Example: Functionality could be bundled in that pushes content to only Samsung-brand TVs.
> but there's basically zero difference between the two

Chrome sports integrated Flash, integrated PDF, and more codec support (though it recently dropped H264 entirely)
The site is down. I think it was attacked by a Zionist bot :)
Simpler than that: It just displays the data in 60-second chunks, delayed by sixty seconds. Here's one of the blocks:

http://glow.mozilla.org/data/json/2011/03/22/16/51/map.json

This would actually be an excellent opportunity for http streaming (ie, the forever frame), too. Long polling is great when you're waiting for a singular event, but not so much when it's ongoing data being pushed down.
Even if winestock compiled a complete list of 195 countries, their religiosity, and their fertility rates, and showed a correlation between them (which it seems is unlikely -- see for example steadicat's post, or my other post), it would still be wrong to conclude, as winestock did, that

> Lack of religion is either non-adaptive from a fitness perspective, or it is strongly tied to traits which are themselves non-adaptive.

There is at least one other possibility, which is that there is no link between religion and fertility, even transitively.
Still my Pareto principle usage of FF: Firebug + Web dev. Toolbar.

If only those extentions functions exactly the same with webkit browsers.If only...Does anybody hearing me?
The base is usually a subscript: log_2(x), and the square is a superscript, log^2(x).

Example of the superscript notation meaning squared: http://www.springerlink.com/content/7n7219tcyxr81gxc/
Facebook hacker/fraudser/thief/idiot jailed for stealing £7 mil virtual crap
Group-buying industry's growth
I never consume or discuss things in the mainstream media. I got my news coverage of 9/11 entirely from the Onion. But distortions about this topic are far too damaging to our future to go unchallenged. Energy policy failure is the only credible existential threat to post-Malthusian society I can think of.
Sync used to give constant information about what it was doing, but this was explicitly removed as unnecessary noise. It does inform you if sync fails, which covers the only case when I'd want feedback.
Nope, it is not a push data service. New data files are generated every minute and available to the client to pull down.

While it is possible to set up WebSockets or something similar to do a truly fancy data flow, we preferred to spend our bandwidth resources on making Firefox 4 available for people to download. ;)
If all religions were gone tomorrow, the burden on society would still be there in another form. There are many people religious about global warming, Linux, the GNU, styles of politics and economics, etc. Even some political figures are followed religiously to a point (where logic and reason are out the door when you try to have a conversation questioning them).

Religion isn't all bad. There are people that take it to the extremes, but many of the things in the bible teach you to be a better person. I like Buddhism too.

..and we also can't forget that nobody can really prove either way about an afterlife, if god exists, if someone created our universe or it was always there.
I have been hearing so much about Ruby on Rails lately. I must be badly behind the times.
The XUL "backends" for Windows and Mac OS seems to work much better in my experience. For one thing these platforms often have less variance in system theming so things like fixed font colors (though as I mentioned these are fixed in some areas, but not all) are harder to detect and aren't really problematic in most usage.
You would prefer to be at the mercy of Apple for your updates?

Software written for a specific piece of hardware can be a very good thing.
Open Network Foundation to Promote New Network Architecture
And I would add the issue of food waste, if you go through the whole chain, a lot of food produced is wasted because of inefficiencies in each steps of the transformation and distribution chain
I love group buying! I even started using the aftermarket of Groupon and LivingSocial for even better deals!

Thank you DealsGoRound.com
Successful entrepreneurs release and sell first, refine later.
LinkedIn hits 100 million users
It can be difficult when you're a big corporate and no-one cares about the CEO sitting at the top of the ladder. You are still a small business, surely you speak to your staff on a personal level still? Next time you all get together for a meeting, tell them you will be sending them a form with a few simple questions, emphasise the fact that it's completely anonymous and make sure you point out what you want to accomplish which is essentially a better place for them to work. Everyone likes to believe that their opinion matters so this is your way of proving it to them.

Also, exit interviews are brilliant. When a member of staff quits, gets fired, comes to the end of their contract or whatever, hold a no strings attached exit interview and let them tell you everything they liked and didn't like about working for you and your company.
Mark Suster on SXSW: Why You Need to be Part of The Magic Midnight Mind Meld
Thank a Bro - Beer + Jerky = Thanks
Google spends $1 million on censorship and throttling detection
Background on Saturday's Rdio outage
How I Chose My First Online Product
And, I'd assume that even if deleting history doesn't shrink places.squlite, someone who wants to create a backup will be compressing it. And a mostly empty but large file should compress to a tiny file, right?
This is nice. I think crowd-sourced analysis is a massive resource that has not been investigated nearly enough. I would love to browse feedback on PubMed papers, as it could really save time.

Perhaps by incorporating a Methods Exchange of some sort, you might be able to draw in the Life Science folk a bit more. Although we are cagey about our pubs, we are pretty open to talk about methodology. That could be a project of its own, but the angle might be worth considering.

Best of luck. Bookmarked.
Chrome 10, Firefox 4.0, or IE9? The Browser Choice
Try Rails for Zombies (free) to get an idea of the quality. I find it worth it.
I fully expect these to be commodity parts made by the likes of Dell or HP inside of 8-12 years.

Setting aside the fact that neither Dell nor HP actually make any of the parts inside their PCs now, I think there are too many separate issues that you're bringing up here. Clarifying,

1. Will netbooks (you mentioned the OQO) be built on modular, user-swappable hardware components.

2. Will smartphones be built on modular, user-swappable hardware components (you said, " 802.11 if it is cheap and efficient enough, but provide a slot for drop-in 4g, bluetooth, DRM ")

3. Will smartphones be build according to a fixed hardware/software HAL that is well specified enough that no OS or driver customization is needed and user-installable and substitutable OS's are possible.

#1 is possible IMHO. A few years ago ASUS was selling a customizable laptop platform that small computer stores could build and sell as their own brand. It was big and bulky and went away quickly, which is always going to be a problem with modular hardware, so I don't see this as ever being very popular. But someone might try it again with netbooks.

#2 is just never going to happen. Forget about it. if you provide a slot for drop-in 4g, bluetooth, DRM, someone else is going to build a competing smartphone with all of that built in but without the bulky connector and housing. It'll be smaller and sexier than your monster-smartphone, and it'll probably have better battery life with the extra internal room for a larger battery. Modularity is irrelevant when you can just include everything that's cutting-edge at the moment and you'll just get a new smartphone in a couple of years under a new contract anyways.

#3 might happen, but I still doubt it. It goes back to what I said about constraints and room for innovation. When something big needs to change with the PC HAL (like USB3), Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and a bunch of others have to get together and formulate something like XHCI to provide a common hardware interface - otherwise every USB3 chip would require a separate loadable driver. In the embedded market and with smartphones, there's no constraint on the hardware interface - you just throw the chip in and then add a kernel driver for it. Time saved, competitive advantage gained.

How much longer would it have taken for NFC to be included in smartphones if Samsung, HTC, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and others had to get together and hash out a common hardware interface for NFC chips the way PC manufacturers do with stuff like UHCI/EHCI/AHCI/etc? A lot longer. And given that no one expects user-installable and substitutable OSs on smartphones, there's no incentive now or in the future to provide one. And given that a smartphone platform that provides a common HAL is going to be at a competitive disadvantage wrt smartphones with custom hardware, there's no thin end to this wedge.
I suggest that religions and fertility are both decreased by education and economic growth. So it could be "strongly tied to traits which are themselves non-adaptive".
Since you need to pass tasks before you get on to the next video, it means you really learn and pick up the skills rather than just watch a video, think you learnt something, and then move on to something new. That's not for everyone but that sort of enforced progress clearly has value for some - only you will know if that approach suits you though.
Review this startup - Gift Certificate Factory
) Stress-test your app by simulating loads of users performing realistic actions on your site. See what breaks first. Optimise that. Start again.

) Offload your static media to a CDN. The cheapest and easiest way to do this is to copy your CSS/images/javascript to Amazon's S3, then change your HTML to reference the new location.

) Put a caching server in front of your current server (which then becomes the "application server").

) Watch Jacob Kaplan-Moss' (one of the core Django devs) Deploying Django workshop [1]. While it is obviously focused on Django, there are loads of useful language-agnostic tips on deploying web/caching/DB servers.

[1] http://ontwik.com/python/django-deployment-workshop-by-jacob...

Edited to add: Forgot the obligatory "don't optimise too early" thing. The time you spend making sure your app can sustain a million uniques per day might be better spent elsewhere.
Workman: SaaS based Business Process Automation (BPA) tool in the Cloud
I've been a Chrome user (OS X) for a while, but switched to FF4RC to see if it used less memory than Chrome (not a difficult feat).

It was mostly great, except the UI would stop responding at random for minutes at a time. So I'm back on Chrome.
Microsoft Preps System Center for the Cloud
I saw this, and though I have no connection to the company I thought I'd see what you all thought. Well, sometimes it's nice to be nice!
I am excited to give this a try. As someone who did not study CS or MIS at school (in fact far from it, accounting & finance) I am open to any resource to assist code education online. I have found a few decent offerings such as w3schools.com, Mozila's p2p school of webcraft, and dreamincode.net but don't know if these will give me all I need..

On a side note if anyone has any other sites I should be considering, don't hesitate to shout them out!
I didn't say that I'm assuming my app will go viral by default. In fact, there's almost a 100% chance that it will not, of course, and I'm very cognizant of that fact. And I definitely do understand that planning too far ahead would be a waste of time.

My issue is that I'm pretty clueless as to all this sysadmin stuff in the first place. If not for my current app, I'd at least like to have an idea on what steps to take should a future app go viral.
Personally, I like Chrome's address bar better than Firefox 4's. In Chrome, I can type g-m-<enter> to go to Gmail. In Firefox, it's g-m-<down>-<enter>. It's a little thing, but it makes a difference to me.

Can't live without Tree Style Tabs though. Firefox is my "heavy lifting" browser.
"Lack of religion is either non-adaptive from a fitness perspective, or it is strongly tied to traits which are themselves non-adaptive."

I think you're missing that population control within available resource constraints is also part of the fitness equation. Also it's very likely that population expansion or contraction is more cyclical over the long term than a two year period of data would show.
Was it inspired by the original Zeus Global Load Balancer UI?

(seen top-right here http://www.zeus.com/products/global-load-balancer/index.html)
Investigate caching, both at http level (and put a caching reverse proxy, e.g. varnish, in front of your webapp) and at component levels.

Ask yourself which database queries are essential for the basic experience and which are for enhancing the experience beyond that. It may be worth doing without the second class of queries (or being more willing to use out of date cached values) when your website is under heavy load.

Ensure your sshd runs at a higher priority than your webserver/database/etc, so you have a chance of fixing things should your site actually crash and burn in the end.
BlackBerry users get free remote wipe, backup and location
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dev-ds1-29412: Okay, fine... but this is gonna delay ActiveRecord integration.

pm-ds1-32542: Fuck. NM. Resolution: Postponed.
I find engadget reviews a bit too quick to praise. While this is actually a problem with most review sites, I notice it an awfully lot with engadget.

I'd like for them to actually use the device, load it with data and let data from regular use accumulate, and THEN make an assessment.

For example: they gave the HTC evo spectacular reviews. And the phone is actually pretty nice. But after a few thousand text messages, a few apps installed, email, etc., the device is very sluggish - not quite what your led to believe from reading their reviews.
Workman: SaaS based Business Process Automation (BPA) tool in the Cloud
This is about a new Saas based business process automation (BPA) tool in the cloud called WorkMan.
WorkMan is a fast, easy and the fastest way to automate your business processes and workflows.

You can check it out the site at: at www.TheWorkMan.NET.
The application link is: www.theworkman.net/workman/workman.aspx

Also demo videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKhmK0gMyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBYRHN_7YBI
My favorite joke about this is, as a TV broadcaster, it's not in their interest to explain radiation.

CNN could correctly say, "living in California, you are exposed to more radiation watching TV on a CRT than from Japan". Then the viewers say "WTF? My TV is giving me radiation? click".
My wristwatch doesn't print either, I'm such an idiot for buying it.
How to address your defaulted student loan
Students need to pay back the loans they take. This is important. Regardless of the difficulties they face a student loan is something which needs to repaid. Therefore, in order to avoid defaulting your student loan, you need to know the elements of how to go about addressing the issue.
Congrats guys! That's a very impressive raise.
Welcome to TechDwellers: An inside look at Seattle’s newest tech incubator
Best part: they quoted Linus where he said the whole affair is about some people's need for attention and that he wished "those people would release their own sex tapes or something, rather than drag the Linux kernel into their sordid world."

H-online then made sure the next words they wrote were "Florian Meuller".
looks great, any plans for courses on Objective C, Cocoa, iOS/Mac development?