skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This information does not just come from fossil records but also from studying living specimen, who still exist in the world today. The article mention that those people also had time to evolve, but I don't think that is much of a killer argument. Then the question would still remain (speaking of diet, which is only one aspect) why they were able to adapt to their diet and we weren't able to adapt to our diet.
Does anyone know of an extension that adds Chromes feature of highlighting results in the scrollbar when searching through a page (Ctrl+F)?

It's pretty much the only thing I'm missing whenever I try FF again.
Firefox's bookmarking system is actually one of the things I hate most about it, compared to Opera.

In Opera you can right click a link and then select the exact place in the bookmark heirarchy to place it in. In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go.

Opera's bookmark manager is also just much nicer, more powerful, and more intuitive than Firefox's.

Unfortunately, Opera is closed-source software, and has been moving in anti-privacy directions I don't like, so I still use Firefox. But in many ways, Opera is a far superior browser.
Why I Like DST
How do you prepare for an interview?
You also have the option of syncing to your own server.
Same feeling here . But i guess its not that bad after all .
If you loved the music, have a listen to The Eagles' "Journey of the Sorcerer"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rOMGIbY-9s
Dividing the bill: a splitting headache
Chrome syncs history for me, but I could not tell you if this is strictly Chrome or the Google Account web history (which can be managed separately from Chrome). Also: Google Now settings come into play here. It is all starting to feel a bit confusing.
re your "religion brings quite a lot of benefits for a large segment of scientifically illiterate or psychologically "unstable" people":

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/03/08/faith_based_pris...

New Study Suggests Religion May Help Criminals Justify Their Crimes
Just out of curiosity. Do you know of any IDE with an Embedded thesaurus, in MS Word style?

I know that you can do it in vim for example.
That was the behavior in the early development stages. I wanted to include both behaviors for educational purposes (it is very instructive to be able to observe what happens when you change the rendering window and how the frustum adapts - or not).

The scaling in frame rate has to do with the amount of terrain patches that have to be displayed. You can see the same scaling by changing the frustum viewing angle (i.e. without resizing the browser window).

Thank you! :)
I am kinda disappointed though, that the door doesn't sigh and thanks you for opening it and get's rather ecstatic when you close it again.
Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
Earlier it used to be ...-Firefox-Chrome-Firefox-... every 2/3 months but fot that 1 year or so it's been just Firefox, happily.

I switched back to Firefox sometime ago. It got back its speed and crashes less and fries my Mac less than other browsers. Well, on crashing part and getting stuck part Safari is better than all others on a Mac(at least) but for other purpose(for my usage) it's a pretty pretty useless browser. Safari uses more RAM in Mac than Firefox/Chrome and for less tabs it uses more RAM than both combined, it just does that in a different helper process.

Quick releases ensures FF gets thinks out and fixed faster.

Their mobile browser is not still there. I hope it becomes better so that I can replace Chrome on my Android too.

There are things I wish were there in Firefox. Like manage tabs separately. Like in Chrome. Visual tools/API(seems it's not that open, not sure) like Chrome. I really liked Cortex extension of Chrome in Firefox(it was my favourite).

And of course I love those people at Mozilla for always standing against those privacy-killers and keep telling them to suck it up their -----.
I use XUL/Migemo which marks matches in a similar way to what you describe and also allows a a regex search. It also has some Japanese language features (but I'm not interested in those).
I have tried several times to switch back to firefox, but without success. I have to use different computers almost everyday, chrome does the sync work so well besides other functions, when I install firefox on a different pc, the sync configuration is so conplex for me... but there are some excelent addons on firefox I will miss, e.g. pantadactyl
Right; I meant to specifically negate the statement "guns have no useful purpose." I never said guns had any useful purpose in America. :)
Google Scholar to the rescue:

http://www.uvm.edu/~susagctr/Documents/Woodsmoke.pdf

Cute last page in Comic Sans, too ;-)
Disclaimer: I started reading on the paleo diet about a month ago, after friends recommended it as a support for my strength & conditioning routines. I've been loosely following the guidelines for the past 2 weeks. I do see an improvement in my sleep quality and in the past week have noticed a spike in my swimming endurance.

This article highlights one aspect of the scientific community that I abhor, the petty disputes. So on one side we have Cordain, who promotes a new diet that seems to carry some widely documented positive results, but who may be inaccurate in his notion that we haven't had time to adapt to changes in our nutrition in the past 10,000 years and may or may not be extrapolating a bit on other points. On another we have Zuk, hellbent at debunking the former's work, based solely on those arguments. Finally, we have Laura Miller, author of the article, who feels that Zuk's arguments are justification enough to dismiss proponents of the paleo diet almost as a fad.

Yes, crickets managed to adapt to their predator in 5 years, but what of the multiple examples of species that just disappeared, when another was introduced in their ecosystem? Cordain is probably wrong in some of his presumptions regarding evolution, but then Zuk just ends up pointing that out without proving anything of interest herself.

Does Miller really believe that people who eat paleo do so because the diet is from the paleolithic? Who cares when it's from? A month ago I had only a vague idea of when the paleolithic ended. If you asked me I would've said "hmm, 50k years ago?"

What convinced me was its simplicity and results. I read reports and testimonies of people getting better on it and athletes performing on it. Rather than telling me "actually, this isn't quite paleolithic" or "actually, we did have time to adapt", I would be much more interested in a study that debunks those reports, or at least attributes them to something else than the diet.

Also, I've not yet read enough on the diet in details, but from what I've garnered of its main lines, there are some specific reasons as to why certain foods should be avoided. How about looking at those arguments and then debunk them? I for one would love proof that the diet is wrong about cereals and legumes.
The Vogon spaceship interior was a reused set from Alien.
You've obviously never been in a life threatening situation.

It's very unlikely owning a weapon (gun, knife, spray, whatever) will be of any use. "Killers" or "Rapists" (whatever that means) take you by surprise and pulling a gun is not an option (even if you had the mental discipline and self control to do it).

If you care about self defense, learn Krav Maga or another martial art that will condition you to actually increase your odds of survival... After years of rigorous training.

Just for the record, if you live in the 1st world, the probability of dying because of murder is so low that mentioning is a waste of time. Turn off the TV. ;)
>In 2008 there were 376 deaths of "children" (aged 14 and below) by gun. In the same year there was 791 deaths by drowning (all sources).

You should really be using the number who were killed by a gun kept in their home for this comparison. Also, there are other ways to die in a pool aside from drowning.
Yes, it looks like they did need it so they can copy everything even down to its god-awful UI.
Slightly offtopic, but THANK YOU BUNNIE for being an all around awesome person. Not just this one thing, but your blog and all the cool stuff you've done in the past. It's an honour to be on the same planet as you. Welcome to HN.
Agreed, this has been a big thing keeping from switching to chrome. Really surprised chrome doesnt have tagging w/o some hacky addon

I do like chrome's dev tools better imo, so I run both. Chrome for active dev and FF for browsing
Still, if people from traditional societies enter the western world they tend to be afflicted even worse from civilization diseases (obesity, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks...). I think part of the problem is that our foods are engineered to trick the regulation of our food intake. Jared Diamond describes how New Guineans empty whole bottles of salt on their food, because they are much more "optimized" for craving salt.

So the energy in/energy out thing might hold, but it is just part of the problem. The real problem is how to regulate food intake appropriately.

Actually Dimaond also describes traditional people overeating to the extreme when they have meat on rare occasions (some kind of meat festival). So of course abundance of food is part of the problem - if those people had meat all the time, perhaps they would overeat immediately. But so we could still learn about sane frequencies of food intake from traditional societies.
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The post is spot on. Firefox is a great browser, but reading the OP's last paragraphs, users rarely choose software for quality alone.

The most popular alternatives to Firefox are Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. I doubt these alternative browsers would exist if they were not useful for Google's and Microsofts main businesses. These companies produce web browsers to support their main products/services. The rationale behind AOL Explorer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Browser) was similar. In settings like those privacy and other interests of web users are easily sacrificed.

Out of all the big browsers, Mozilla Firefox comes closest to being a web browser for the sake of web browsing.
Due to issues with memory usage on Chrome I recently tried switching back but page rendering and UI response felt noticeably slower. I am also so fluent with web inspector that the burden of re-learning Firebug or the built-in tools was a drag.

So I decided that the easiest way to reduce Chrome's memory usage was to curb my slightly irrational usage patterns - keeping dozens of tabs open that I rarely ever get around to going back to.
Your pool deaths are inflated. The 390 is over 3 years 07-09. And gun deaths spike after age 14 where I presume pool drowning a continue to fall. Further, guns lead to very large injury numbers which I'm guessing greatly exceed pool-related injuries even more. Pools aren't that dangerous.
Stories are today more homogeneous then ever before.

They are? On what do you base that?
And there are droves of scientific literature that show that meal timing is important and even if macronutrient content is similar, a calorie is not a calorie.

The simple fact is: No one was able to prove anything beyond shallow platitudes ("If you eat three tons of flesh each day you will get fat too!" "If you eat nothing for month you will get lean!").
1) Firefox is the new IE7/8 - i having more and more issues with standard css settings, which are f* up in the ff, but are nice and shiny in all other brothers (yes even in ie)

2) "I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web." - haha thats funny :D you know about chromium right? :D its free, you can code on it too if you want too, sure there are might be 1-2 functions in the chrome, which belongs to google, but all in all you can know the code. and google did there learnings after the first versions where they sending stuff to there servers.

and in the end, all browser are logging the same shit, where are we clicking, what are we doing, where we enter this and that. why? because they want to make there money too, and collect a big big big database, which they can sell to other companies. and learn stuff out of it. i guess on this view all brothers are the same crap

3) memory management - yes its true chrome get stuck more and more often, and eating the memory, and it is annoying.
but for me, firefox still is worse. everytime i start firefox for debugging some website or whatever, i'm totally pissed, because this stupid software still needs like forever for the initialised start. and when you keep it open for 2 days, you done :D in my opinion even photoshop has a better memory management then firefox.

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i hope for the chrome too, that the switch from opera to webkit, give them a little ass kick, because that is that what all browser companies needed, an ass kick.

first there was an IE everybody used it, so why should they update it? then there was the firefox, ie was screwed, everybody used ff now, so why should they update it? then there was the chrome, ff was screwed, everybody used chrome now, so why should they update it?

and everybody took there lesson out of it, IE is getting better, FF starts updating there browser after sitting on 3.6 like forever... and thats ok, people now having like 3-4 good brothers and can choose.
Surf with Chrome and use Firefox for dev
I honestly can't give hard numbers, but I really did switch back to FF because of the memory usage. My ancient-by-HN-standards but not-too-ancient-by-normal-standards desktop with 4GB RAM (Ubuntu 10.04 if that's relevant) was starting to thrash like crazy with a moderate number of tabs (maybe 6-12 on average), but most importantly, with a few open for long periods of time. Firefox seemed to really clean up their act wrt memory, where Chromium seemed to grow without bound and keep a lot of it in the working set, doubling the pain.

Firefox isn't perfect, but it seems to be more of a problem with Flash than the browser (clearing out my Rdio tab has the most effect). And measuring memory usage through top isn't perfect, but FF does seem to use significantly less RES even after long sessions.

So, anecdotal evidence, but I was using Chromium as my regular browser for years and ended up switching back to FF because I found the performance on my reasonable-but-aging machine to be far superior to Chromes under regular, long-term usage.
There's quite a lot of research with gut bacteria now and the association with obesity. It's not as simple as caloric intake, it is also the balance of the gut bacteria.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17183312
There is only one vertex buffer per patch that contains all of the vertices. Index buffers are being used, all of them pre-generated of course and uploaded to the graphics card. Rendering a patch then becomes a simple matter of selecting the right index buffer (or index buffers, since stitching requires more than one drawing call).
"Because the rules are already in place, programmers only have to learn what they are and implement them."

I'd really like to see him detail these simple rules we "just need to implement". I bet he's got every detail right.
Sorry, I mis-read that.

Perhaps they can charge for certain items that can be considered premium, such as verified accounts. I still doubt there'll be a couple million of users willing to pay though.
Here we go again! This is a sentiment that is spreading in the dev community, Chrome is starting to lose it's edge.

I'm currently working on a slightly heavy page, and Chrome is the slowest of the bunch to render, despite having smoother animations in most cases after it has done it's thing. Firefox, Safari and even IE9 are visibly faster by a couple seconds.

I feel like it slowly got worse and worse over the years. These days Chrome is the main CPU hog in my machine, uses GBs of memory and is responsible for most system hangs (OSX). The com.google.keystone agent thing even causes the trackpad and keyboard to malfunction every once and a while.
The second part to 2) sounds a little paranoid, can you back it up?

I switched from Opera (then known as the lightweight) to Chrome (then known as the chugging oversized beast) because of Opera's (sudden in v11 ish) memory leaks. Hopefully they fix that and I'll switch abck to Opera for the same reasons as OP did for Firefox.
You're not taking into account the difference in risks between children who live in a home that has a pool and those that don't.
Apparently, people still use bookmarks. I stand corrected.

I've not used bookmarks for years, literally. I even tried to use GReader, Delicious and Kippt but I can not wrap my head around bookmarks. Instead, my "bookmarks" are my history, my most frequently visited websites and the few pinned tabs I keep open on all my browsers through syncing. I am alone in this?
Thank you! Building a GUI is quite challenging and very interesting as well :)
"The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned"

- Douglas Adams on 'Break the Science Barrier with Richard Dawkins', Channel 4, Equinox Series, 1996
What OS? I have noticed that Firefox on Ubuntu (12.04 clean install) looks way worse and feels worse than FF on Windows 7. I feel like Firefox on Windows is still more peppy than Chrome / Firefox on Ubuntu despite my Linux box being way beefier. I feel like the author's post is 1 dimensional (which browser) when it should be a 2 dimensional comparison (browser and OS).
For me the big difference wasn't the browser itself; it has been excessive javascript that's slowing the browsers. Many media sites are loading 20-30 external scripts, and I found that switching back to Firefox with NoScript has made a huge difference in load times and memory usage. The other issue with Chrome was releasing memory. I can close a tab in FF and the memory is recovered.
Thank you. You're right, that's how learning is done :)
In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go.

In Firefox you can click the star in the URL bar to set a bookbar. When you click the star for a second time immediately, you can select where in the bookmark hierarchy it should go without opening the bookmark manager at all.

You can also just drag&drop the tab title to the right location in the bookmarks toolbar and it will create a bookmark there.
They studied what happened to people who switched to agriculture 11000 years ago, via the fossil record. Also you can watch what happens to people who lived in a traditional way and then entered society.

That way I think a lot of things you mention can be excluded - not that lead and fire retardants are not dangerous, but that is another area of problems.
I'm a little confused by the "10,000 years is plenty of time" argument, particularly when the crickets in Hawaii or lactase persistence examples are used as evidence. To me, these were relatively minor evolutionary steps. I'd even go as far as to question whether crickets changing their singing might not be explained by culture or learned behaviour — at least partly? As for lactase, is it such a vast leap from drinking mother's milk in infancy to drinking the milk of other mammals?

Comparing these examples to completely rewiring the human digestive system, insulin response mechanism, and immune system to deal with digesting and utilizing foods (refined sugars, grains) in vast quantities which we rarely if ever encountered before seems like something that might take a bit longer to evolve.

The argument almost seems to say "evolution has been observed on shorter timescales, therefore any evolutionary leap is possible on shorter timescales."
This very well goes with the thoughts I have had about life for some time now. To really be content with what I do, to have the feeling of doing what I'm supposed to do, I have to do something that has an impact, changes the world. After all, I have only a finite number of years to live and I think it's my duty to not waste that time. As I'm young and inexperienced I have come up with only three ways to do so:

1) Build that next big thing everyone uses, which improves peoples lives (which probably only is in the list because I spend too much time on HN)

2) Help people in a very direct manner. A great example for this is Johnny Long, who stopped hacking for money and went to Uganda, using his energy and skills to help those who need it most.

3) Have and raise children. To me this seems to be the most commonly chosen path, mostly because it's only natural. But if you think about it, having children and raising them to be goodhearted, responsible persons with a high moral self-demand [1] is a honorable way of improving the future of our world. Thinking about it this way, though, will probably make the decision of having children myself one day really hard, the responsibility seems remarkable.

That said, it probably comes down to what it always comes down to in life: strike an appropriate balance between all factors of life.

[1] It's really hard to say what makes a good person. I hope you get the idea :)
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Thanks for the link...

[This song completely changed the way I thought of the banjo! :]
> in my opinion even photoshop has a better memory management then firefox.

Too far, buddy.
No? You right click, and get a menu for placing the bookmark in the folder of your choice, or you drag the bookmark to the bookmark toolbar.

Or are you talking about in which order a bookmark is placed inside a folder, accessed from the first bookmark setup window? I am quite sure there is a add-on that do exactly this.
For reference, there are places where this kind of MEDC recreational wood-burning is illegal, and it is easily enforceable without causing other problems. For example (I'm not sure of the specifics), but wood-burning is illegal in built-up areas of the UK. It's pretty trivially enforceable actually - if a police officer happens to see smoke coming out of a chimney, they'll knock on the door and ask you to put it out. There's not a lot of potential for 'underground' wood-burning, and the law has pretty good public support, since in London smogs killed literally thousands of people at a time, in living memory.

See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_1952

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_control_area
There's so much competition chasing so little money that it's hard to see a path to a career for all but the luckiest few PhD graduates. And forget it if you don't have a PhD from a top school.

The problem here is that academic research (at least in math+physics, what I'm familiar with) doesn't have a place for second best. Most academic research produced by people below the top tier is worthless and will never amount to anything.

It's a very different situation from technology, where yet another CRUD app can actually bring huge value to the business.
Makes sense. I wonder if Chrome is particularly bad on Linux? (My desktop runs Windows.)
Allowing languages other than English to participate in DNS may open a can of worms, but it is at least a significant advance that addresses a fundamental flaw in the Internet. (How would you feel if all internet addresses looked like 啤酒女孩和快速的汽車.可卡因, and you just had to deal with it if you wanted to use the internet?)

But in this case, I also fail to see how this really benefits anyone other than those who manage to monopolize and monetize TLD.
Excellent article... At first I wasn't sure whether it was serious or not. I guess many have gotten into the trap of complaining that they don't work like a robot in a robot factory. I have gotten more than once into it ;)