skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your opinion is a little hard to take seriously if you couldn't locate the Task Manager.

1. TBD

2. It is that much faster. Check out a couple of the benchmark links in other HN Chrome stories.

3. It does load quickly. Much faster than FF3 on my machine. I have 2 addons (Firebug, Web dev). I also don't keep browsers around all day. I like to break them up into sets of tasks and when all my tasks are done, I tend not to have any browsers left open. Launch speed is extremely important.

4. Importing could still use some work though. Try reorganizing favorites from another browser after importing. It's cumbersome.

5. Non-factor

6. Just because you won't use it doesn't mean it's not a big deal

7. I think this was mentioned because it exists on Day 1. Safari for Windows lacked dev features when it was first launched. So stuff like this is notable.

8. By mentioning that it exists, he's avoiding the inevitable "Chrome doesn't have X" complaints

9. It's a nice feature. Nicer than I thought. IE8b2 launched with something similar last week but Chrome does it better

10. Shift-Esc or under the wrench menu. The "Stats for nerds" page also shows memory usage in your other open browsers. That's cool.
Paul Rothemund details DNA folding
I'd like the ability to tag bookmarked pages. Right now the bookmark tool is too limited to be useful. I'll continue to have to use del.icio.us
Google Chrome and Google Adsense
Try to open http://www.google.com/adsense with Chrome and see what happens...
When I tried it showed red page saying that this is some server that pretends to be Google, but is not. When I clicked to continue anyway - it was the real google adsense service...
I can bet you that I could fix all the problems you have with this story with one teensy little change: allow the OpenID providers to recieve "theme" information (basically a base URL for CSS files and images) from the sender site. Then the registration page would look like it was part of your site. Then, when rendering the login page/div, check whether the user is already logged into the provider using some onunfocus AJAX, and then smoothly drop the password field down underneath it if it's needed. (of course, then, you have to handle sending that password to that provider in a secure way, but we're focusing on user-persoective advantages now, so, like with IE6 support, a lot of sweat is to be expected.) from the user's perspective, if they don't know what the little "OpenID-enabled" icon next to the username box means, they can just go along with their business, and everything will happen as usual.

The only problem at this point is the URL username. To answer that, think about what, for example, gmail does: when you have a gmail.com address, you can drop that part and just use the username part of it. Likewise, I'd allow my users to strip off the domain part of whatever my "preferred provider" was, and just say that the "foreign IDs" basically need a "passport stamp" to get in--an attached domain name.

Still too confusing?
Here you go:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
Or, completely out, perhaps? I mean, the race has been going on for a bit, now.
Thats how these things always start.

... and then people start requesting 'just a couple' of new features.
"good" relationships that could be better served by inviting other parties in? That isn't a relationship, it's enjoyable shared time with a person interchangeable with any other equally qualified outside party. That kind of relationship is simply getting along, having fun, not being alone, having someone work/stay home. It's like a social club that says "no ugly chicks allowed."

I would define a relationship as "intimacy shared only with a chosen partner", that is, "fidelity", or respect/love/affection/preference towards one single person over and above any other. Its very definition is exclusivity: "no one else except this one person allowed, even if you were prettier, thinner, richer, healthier...."
Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome? Build Chromium on OS X
This is pretty close to extraordinary. This thing is pitch-perfect. It's like the best parts of Firefox and Safari and Opera merged. I can't wait for this to come out for the Mac, now.
There will be an extension API. I'm doubtful they'll blacklist extensions. I also doubt Google is worried about the extremely small minority of power users that are blocking ads. So you'll never see ad blocking built in, but I'd bet there will be an extension for it.
The Tag inspector is a Webkit feature, as are the resizeable text input boxes. Webkit has been getting 100% on Acid3 for a few months now, so I'm not sure why your Chrome install isn't.
I'm disappointed at the number of "go to court" and "now go talk to your lawyer" responses here and in replies on the blog article.

Going to a lawyer is expensive. Going to court rarely helps your financial situation. You should do it only when all other avenues are exhausted. If publicizing this behaviour takes care of the problem (i.e., stops the harassment, allows the poster to continue on his new business ventures), then that is an amazingly cheap silver bullet solution, compared with the cost you incur when you cross that law office's threshold.

All the howling for legal revenge to set the world right re-enforces my worst impressions of Californians. Publicizing the details, which may cure the problem in the cheapest way possible, and then making money on something new, re-enforces my best Californian and Silicon Valley impressions.
I don't. Lists are easily maintained on a wiki with a large number of users, which you wouldn't get with a VC company site. Given that the wikipedia article is about a notable company, and the list of funded companies is one of the most important facts about that notable company, it should be included in its entirety. There is almost nothing to be gained by having a partial list.

I would think that either you'd include a list that is as complete as possible, or not include it at all. Doing a partial list because you don't WANT it complete is just warped.
Do you believe this is endemic to heterosexual relationships? As a gay man, where casual sex is normative (and I am not an exception, though I am by nature monogamous and currently in a monogamous relationship), I don't see any of these problems as you suggest.

1. From what I've seen, the player/whore dynamic has minimized in both the heterosexual and LGBT communities. Those who are excessive in community eyes can be shunned (someone who cannot form a relationship, or seems to have no interest in doing so), but regular casual sex is considered normative for all genders.

2. Both my partner and I have alternated between periods of promiscuity and monogamy. Even after over 100 partners, my wires have not been permanently separated. I know partners in open relationships who maintain emotional primacy in their relationships and different levels of openness - playing together, open when one is out of town, to full open relationships. In the gay community, at least, I don't see this concern develop.

3. Love and devotion are certainly part of the equation! Casual sex is considered, at least in some subcultures, as something to do while in between relationships, or as part of a mutually consenting open relationship.

4. This presumes a polygamous male and a monogamous female. In an egalitarian society, we're still talking about a primary partner (or partners, as works quite well with bisexuals, for example.) It does make relationships more confusing as people have to negotiate their own rules, but this doesn't have to be a social regression, unless you're talking about regressing to a common ancestor as the bonobos. :)
Yes I am using the Document ready. It may not be that the CSS is loading slow but I have my doubts when I refresh and it operates the same.
It gives Rescuetime a sales pitch: "Don't you wish Chrome's 'Most Visited' feature was more than a top-ten list?"
Currently, the prerequisites don't fully build so you won't find an executable.

I was less excited when I got to this part.
If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768.

What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.
What about WebMynd, Iterasi?
Thank you for pointing this out. I just want to move on and focus on my new project, and not waste the next two years fighting in court over a botched acquisition.

A civil lawsuit is expensive. Expect to pay $200,000 or more, and to age about ten years and/or develop serious health problems from the process of dealing with people you'd prefer to throw under a bus.

The main reason I went public was so that other entrepreneurs won't make the same mistakes I did. It's no fun to admit that you got taken, but at least others can learn from it.
Looks like they're making an offensive move towards Silverlight. The Silverlight plug-in loads but the way in which Silverlight loads content from the web looks like it is broken. Anyone else get past the "Loading showcase" label here: http://silverlight.net/showcase/
Fair enough, but Chrome does inherit them - I haven't used a Webkit browser very much before because FireFox, in my experience, has been a much superior experience on both GNOME and Windows than their Webkit alternatives.
And Hacker News continues its downward spiral into Diggian/Redditian inanity...
Note to people, the guy who submitted this is a jackass. This will not build a Chrome app for Mac OS X, it'll merely build some non-executable components.
I don't think he's right. At least what he said doesn't match every other place I've researched this topic. For example: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=381608

Which says it goes up by 50%, i.e. an extra 125 calories per hour. He says "But you do not engage that long in such an activity" - maybe he doesn't. But I think most of the people here do.
Thing that I didn't like: No linux version.
Logic gates implemented using dominos
Tracemonkey adopted ideas and pieces of Tamarin.
Competitor thinks that we Dos-Attacked them, but we didn’t 
Guys from competitor startup wrote to us “Please stop Dos Attacking our website. Our website does not work for 5 days. If you won’t stop we will start to Dos you as well. We don’t have any other competitor then you, that is why we are sure that you are doing it.” After couple hours of chat we explained them that we did not attack their website (that is true).Then we started to talk about Dos attacks and how we can protect our website. Our competitor said that professional webhosting would protect website from Dos Attacks. Is that true that pro hosting can protect us from Dos Attack?
This is generally true. However, much to the consternation of my macho dad, I was the weird kid who was more interested in making lanterns from coffee tins than shooting at canoes or chopping wood with rocks.

If the author is really concerned about society going down the tubes it might be worthwhile to not include making things in her stereotype of behavior that isn't "manly." The guys who spent their youth throwing stuff at each other are the ones having the most problems when they grow up. Last I checked, makers do pretty well in adulthood.
Whether religious or darwinist, which is a better mate for desirable child-bearing members of the species?

1) A man who is master of his own body and emotions, who out of respect for himself and fellow human beings, would choose masturbation and self-discipline until he acquires preferable female(s).

2) A boy puppet to the whimsy of his sexual appetite, who out of pursuit of pleasure will use and toss fellow human beings simply because they are "less desirable".
> He's putting some thought into the process

Were I being cynical (it's a hobby:-), I would say that he's asking you to put some thought into the process. He should offer some kind of prize, even if it's not really a big deal... a blurb on the new site, a t-shirt, a bottle of wine... something like that.
Ironically Apple's me.com would probably run better in Chrome, than in Safari...
Is it a debug build? Don't those use a lot more ram?
You don't use any Firefox add-ons?

For that reason alone I'm stuck on Firefox for a while. I tried moving to Safari a few months back when they updated webkit, but I needed firebug, greasemonkey, compete etc.
For port status see http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...
Is that Chromium the system for interactive rendering on clusters of graphics workstations or Chromium the open-source browser project? I guess if you're Google you can take whatever name you want.
Thanks for the name calling. Where's your hacker spirit?
Status of Google Chromium ports
I'm using Chrome right now and it is fine, a cleaned up Firefox, but nothing mindblowing.

What do I sign up for in terms of privacy? I didn't read through the whole deal(who does?) but saw some stuff about ads, does Google track my surfing?

I'm missing the top right Firefox searchbar where I can search wikipedia and other sites though.
In the Air - Who says big ideas are rare?
There's always one isn't there...
IE isn't going away, so I think its in everyone's best interests that they are actively involved in the browser competition.
This sounds like a cut-and-paste from some other Google TOS and it will probably be fixed after enough people complain. (Note: A browser isn't a service.)
Are you trying to index the entire web in your own bookmarks?
get off your high pedestal and just don't upmod the story, will you?
There are no SDK snippets or API details posted. The only references to code are from the Java API and a general snippet of C code that the iPhone happens to support but are simply the BSD socket methods.
Somebody needs a little sweetener.

1. What DOES make it evil, then? Frankly, I don't care if it DOES start you off with Google. I think it would still count as "not evil."

2. It's much faster at running sites in parallel. It's not ugly. Are you kidding me? This is the most aesthetically pleasing browser I've used. Soft colors, emphasis in all the right areas. And it has native open/close buttons. Windows itself doesn't use consistent design other than those buttons, so it all works.

3. Look at the benchmarks. Firefox has had a problem with this. And it's a problem that's been pretty consistent.

I must ask, though: why the hell are you griping about this? If you like Firefox more, you can use Firefox. When you respond to a review of something, it ought to be because you've got important points to make. Like my explaining why a lot of your points are bogus. Griping for the sake of gripe is helping nobody, least of all you.

4. So you're mad at him for saying that he likes things moving seamlessly? And this did away with the opening dialog box that Firefox and Safari offer on Windows, so it's slightly improved.

5. He doesn't rank things. He points out things that he likes. Informally. Almost like, rather than writing an article, he's writing a sort of log of points. A "web log."

6. Again: a lot of people like incognito. Especially single people aged 16-22, in my experience. I also thought the little magnifying glass guy was cute.

7. But not out of the box. And having a light-weight checker is always nice.

Also - can't you CHECK things because you write posts like this? Honestly. Do some firsthand reporting.

8. No, but Google makes it a lot more transparent. And the blank opening page is pretty awesome. I'd say it even tops Opera's.

9. What does Incognito have to do with anything? This is based on Opera's Speed Dial, but it's a bit more complex.

10. So, this browser has two buttons - TWO - for opening menus. That's it. And Task Manager happens to be on the first one, underneath Developer, which was the first place I checked, because it made logical sense.

"My guess..." etc.

There is no Google Kool-Aid. Most people I know are actually pretty critical of Google. I've been displeased with a lot of their stuff lately. Doesn't change the fact that this browser is sublime and better than anything else currently on the market out-of-the-box. They even topped Safari, and Safari had a damn good out-of-the-box showing, even on Windows. I'd pick this on Windows over Webkit on Mac, actually, which is saying a lot.

You can stick to Firefox. This article doesn't talk about how much better Chrome is than Firefox. You're just acting defensive, because something groundbreaking just hit. Fair enough, but please do it in private rather than as a comment. If you've got actual criticisms of this thing, I'd love to hear them.
How to manage long breaks in your software side projects
No mention of Starcraft skills? :-)
it is not uncommon to patch primitives into your language by having special "__primitive" or something such annotations which can be added to call over a language barrier. In this case, you would annotate certain Javascript functions/classes so they refer to their C++ equivalent code.

You gain the advantage that the difference between library code and primitive built-in things blur more so one function can be implemented as a javascript function (because the compiler already produces good code for that part), while another function (un-implementable in JS) is C++.
But, in the mean time...
I thought baazu.com sounded cool, and it means "close/near" in Hindi, which could apply to lots of things. But I don't plan to sell :)
It's available for Firefox. It's slow and occasionally causes crashes.

I love what Aza writes about, but thus far he's shown himself to be much better at conception than at implementation. Even Songza, which is a neat concept and works nicely, doesn't fare well against much uglier sites such as Skreemr. While I read his blog, I do it for his ideas: not because I think he'll ever implement what he talks about.
Or Mac. :-(

It's okay. I have faith in Google. They are happy and love me.
Social sciences have well-developed methodologies for dealing with fallacies. http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Design... is the bible, and is mostly taught to doctoral students. But chances are Mr. Collins has never heard of it, since he's in business faculty. But he might have, and might actually have a solid research design. Just that its hard to tell from the book.

The practice of management in the real world is full of imperfections, because its about people, and people are imperfect.
To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms
When food and sleeping sites overlap, (simulated) animals tend to have polyphasic sleep: one nap, one bite, one nap, one bite. So human of them: reminds me of a lazy Summer afternoon.

This paper has numerous implications for the workplace.
When food and sleeping sites overlap, (simulated) animals tend to have polyphasic sleep: one nap, one bite, one nap, one bite. So human of them: reminds me of a lazy Summer afternoon.

This paper has numerous implications for the workplace.
“Heartland Robotics is combining the power of computation — embodied in robots — and the extraordinary intelligence of the American workforce, to rehumanize and revitalize manufacturing.”

Unless their business plan is based on government subsidies (do the robots run on corn?), this doesn't sound wise to me. Are you a businessman or a politician?
Asylum-Seeker Rejected Based On Wikipedia, Appeals Court Reverts
V8 JavaScript benchmark suite version 1
I think (fuzzily), from what I can find, that string-stream.cc allocates a block of char's for a string. Once the string grows beyond the capacity, `char* HeapStringAllocator::grow(unsigned* bytes)` doubles the size of the allocated buffer. Kind of disappointing after half an hour of reading and C-s'ing in Emacs.

`string.js` is used by `tools/js2c.py` to create a `string.h`, but otherwise I think many of the string functions are implemented in JavaScript and (I'm guessing) compiled later since `string.js` and other JavaScript files are referencing C macros.
It is obvious that the "older" JS-engines were not built for executing applications, but more for running small in-expensive things on homepages. As of the later years, JS has become pretty heavy and people use it a lot more.

The genius here is to recognize that most of the cool work done to Smalltalk and Self applies equally well to Javascript. It feels like cheating, but the V8 team is actually just picking some low-hanging fruit done with research in the 90's. They push the envelope for what we can use JS for and that is a really good thing!
I'm curious to see it in the language shootout. I've been playing with a few stupid benchmarks of my own, and it seems to be pretty fast.
Oh, duh. Brainfart. -1 would be 11111111 not 10000000.

While I doubt that HN's scoring would suffer from signedness bugs, if it did, getting your score down/up to -1 would be the ultimate. It would be an interesting easter egg to build into the system, tho :)
Copy-paste of my reddit response.

Not saying it's all bad, and I realize this is a first release, but if Google wants to avoid the "MS Vista" stamp when it comes to software-making they might consider fixing up the following points:

1. Downloading the "installer" doesn't download the complete software.

2. Installer presents everything in Norwegian, with no choice of English. I want my software in English, end of story. There is no way to select English, so for now I assume this is based on some Windows locale-settings which I will just configure properly after install.

3. Configuration hangs to the point of me almost killing the process. After eating a few minutes worth of 100% CPU time, Chrome launches. No feedback is given during this period that it is actually working on anything at all.

4. Once running, Chrome is still in Norwegian mode.

5. Options (or "Alternativer") shows no way to select a English UI language.

6. The language-pack seems to include a spell-checking. This entire text-box is filled with red lines. Because this is not written in Norwegian.

7. Scrolling trough this small text-box proceeds to scroll down the entire page when I reach the end. With what seems like 200 lines of scrolling per millimeter on my laptop touchpad, this renders the scrolling area basically useless for edits. This also applies to page-down in textboxes. Very, very, very annoying.

8. Scrolling in general scrolling seems way too fast also. Like 2-3 pages on what should be 1.

Out of the box this is not something I am happy with, and this needs to be improved about 100 times from second 1.

A few simple choices (like language) must be added. Better reporting to the user that something is actually being worked on needs to be present. Configurability is shit. It has a task manager for web-page tabs (i.e. "geek stuff"), but wont let you configure basic stuff like if opening links in new tabs should activate them or not.

I'm going to have to uninstall this now and try to get hold of a English version.

Edit: The language thingie evidently can be fixed without reinstalling. I just couldn't find it with the non computing-standard language used in the options dialog.

Edit 2: Now I find that google search always presents me the Norwegian version, not the english, when searching from the url-bar. Despite having "I want google in english" cookies firmly set.

This is bloody annoying. Stop forcing localization on me damnit!
I think its a nice combination of carefully stirring interest without overhyping expectations - and exactly the right amount of humor (a tiny bit!)

Well written.

I was most impressed with the flash question - that's the best way to find a flash person with a clue I've ever seen.

Dev questions are just OK though, the spelling one is fairly easy to google an answer to - maybe it would have been better to go domain specific? Or a real problem you guys have?
http://www.paulgraham.com/bio.html :)
It also defaults to whatever language locale google decides you should have, with no option to change it.

Apart from going back to the download page, and explicitly choosing it there, and then downloading the download-installer which respects that software should be in English.

No, English is not my first language, but Jesus christ things like this pisses me off.