skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious about the same thing and my keyword count script prints this :

chrome : 39
google : 37
startup : 12
web : 11
ask : 11
new : 11
yc : 8
browser : 8
code : 7
chromes : 7
javascript : 7
y : 5
windows : 5
best : 5
game : 5
chromium : 5
v8 : 5
link : 4
combinator : 4
talk : 4
write : 4
language : 4
hn : 4
python : 4
history : 4
technology : 4
programming : 4
twitter : 4
facebook : 4
live : 4
chrome? : 3
project : 3
erlang : 3
market : 3
whats : 3
source : 3
good : 3
friendfeed : 3
things : 3
adds : 3
company : 3
googles : 3
make : 3
job : 3
does : 3
engine : 3
inside : 3
application : 3
business : 3
In-context version:

"It's no coincidence that startups start around universities, because that's where smart people meet. It's not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companies spring up around them. They could sing campfire songs in the classes so long as admissions worked the same."

(http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)
Walt Mossberg reviews Chrome in-depth
Jumping on Google Chrome Bandwagon
YC does not look much like a University. Apart from the application process, there is not much to YC that you can find in traditional academia.

YC looks like what a University should be. YC is a model that is constantly changing and ameliorating itself using what it learned in previous semester.

At YC there are no professors. There are mentors. OMG. Imagine the amount of knowledge students would actually accumulate if they were taught from a young age to find solutions to problems and not take someone else's answer for it.

By the time you get to university you have already developed a curious mind and if you were to use that for 6 years to challenge your own thoughts on any subject and seek your own answers, you will come to the work place with a hell of a ability. Mentors should be available when we need them or to frequently stop and take a look at what students work on and only only suggest how they can do better or how to look at problems in a better fashion

YC tells you "Ok, so you want to be the solution to that problem, go ahead wow me". There is no A or B. There is only a continuous effort to fix the problem and after you fix it, keep improving the solution.

YC is not like a University, but Universities (Heck the entire Schooling system) can learn from this model.
I've not seen Google doing much hyping, just lots of people excited. To an impartial observer, perhaps overexcited, but that's a far cry from over hyped. The whole project has just been rumours for the past x years, and not even very loud ones. Hardly "hype".
The biggest problem I ran into with this was that earlier versions of package managers didn't handle multiple arches installed on the same system very well (claims of package conflicts due to the names being the same, things like that). That seems to have been fixed or is being worked on.
Anyone had any luck getting the help/how to use pages to come up?

Interesting that it still lists the Mayor of London as Ken Livingstone, who was elected out back in May.
Alas, the cost of getting transcriptions made isn't quite low enough to be "negligable". So it would require a bit of thought.
Possibly investors looking for directions to Demo Day.
What's wrong with using JS source as the intermediate representation? It's probably even easier to write a [DYN LANG X] to [WELL KNOWN JS] translator than [DYN LANG X] to [NEW V8 BYTECODES].

It's just a slightly different path to the same final machine code running in the same environment, and neither the conversion to JS nor the alternate theoretical conversion to bytecodes may be a noticeable bottleneck in real apps.

(Also: I'm not even sure his assumption is correct. V8 might use some intermediate representation that other languages could target in preference to JS source. Someone who's familiar with the source/architecture would have to say.)
Market Dynamics Keep Liquidity Preference In Check
The Networking ABCs
If they do their classic strategy, it'll be "embrace and extend" with Javascript. The only problem is that their marketshare has eroded to the point where this might just cause their marketshare to erode even more.
I'm from PA. I'll be writing a sternly worded letter to google on their faulty search insights algorithm.
Russian humor
Not necessarily. AdBlock is the most popular extension for Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:a...

440,000 people download it a week. That's a lot of people not even seeing their search ads!
Delivering a basically feature-complete browser after near complete radio silence is pretty impressive if you ask me.
Don't forget that when you're given some prestigious charge, the human reaction is to try to do something with it.

Much of the difference between hackers at MIT and elsewhere may be that at MIT, they're supposed to perform technical wizardry. Elsewhere, there are a lot of people who could do great things, but for some reason or another, don't.
The #1 and #2 states for startups are disproportionately interested in an early stage investment firm. Not too surprising.

Also, by population, MA & CA are about 14% of the US. By startup population...
Except that you can do things like automatically transform python code into javascript, I've fiddled with that on occasion for form validators.

If you want to go deep in that direction look at http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/js/whatis.html

but really, just learn javascript it's not that bad.
This is search traffic data. I spend a lot of time on HN, but I'm not sure I've ever Googled for "Y Combinator".

The people who will tend to Google the term are going to be folks who don't really know about YC, but have heard the name and want to know more. A lot of those folks are going to be prospective investors, employees, acquaintances, or local media contacts of YC companies and their founders -- YC companies which, by no coincidence at all, are located where YC is located: MA and CA.

But that's just the caveat, intended to keep us from jumping to the obvious conclusion: CA and MA dominate the search results because those are the startup hubs! People who are interested in startups tend to have already moved there!

And just because that's the most tempting conclusion to jump to doesn't mean that it's necessarily wrong.
If anything, from what I have read, it seems more like a university at the graduate level. You know of a problem, you have the tools to tackle the problem, but the solution is a big question mark. Your goal is to create a solution. In essence, you are doing original work.
I'm pretty sure Squirrelfish is still under pretty heavy windows development. For non-windows, they use some special GCC things that aren't supported under VC++, which they use to compile the windows version (AFAIK). Even if it ran, Squirrelfish is slower under windows because they have to cut out some of the optimizations.
the competition between AIR and Gears may not be obvious initially because like what you said, Air and Gears are 2 totally different technologies altogether.

But Gears does affect AIR adoption in some ways. Most AIR developers create AIR apps not as standalone desktop apps but as offline versions of a webapp (eg. Twirl for twitter).

So if you are a developer and you want to offline-enable your webapp (eg. Zimbra), you could do it with Gears or AIR. If Gears is already installed on most of your users' computers, you would more likely do it with Gears. (why force your users to download a piece of sofware to run your AIR app?)

I would say Gears is all about extending the capabilities of web apps by adding desktop-like features like local storages while Air is more of a toolset to build cross-platform desktop software easily.

Each has its own strengths and depending on what your solution requires, one of them would be the appropriate technology choice. But since Google has been hammering the point that the web is the platform of the future, i would expect more developers to develop for the web instead of the desktop (which is a major blow to AIR)
the idea of having separeate processes for tabs is awesome. makes you go duh. javascript performance is simply great. bodes well for web apps. but only two gripes. no adblock plugin yet. and a non standard installer (installs in your documents and settings!)
The Zen TV Experiment
Chrome is, practically, a brilliant new operating system. It has a new permissions structure, built in malware protection, a compiler, a javascript virtual machine, a task manager, a rendering engine, a new process management system, local storage, and is wicked fast. This is the biggest technical jump in browser tech since mosaic.

You'd hear this much about a new windows or mac os, but it would mean far less. Chrome will open the way for web apps that are as good, as robust, and as beautiful as desktop apps. It's more than just hype.
Google Law... now THAT would be an undertaking.

If Google's goal is to organize the world's information, law is definitely some of the most opaque information for non-specialists.
about:internets
Well then by that definition, Google chrome is still not the first "Browser 2.0" because other development teams have included technologies like Javascript and especially ActiveX controls into their browsers, effectively making them application platforms.

I just would like to reiterate that I'm not a Google hater, nor do I think Google Chrome will fail. I think it's a great addition to the web.

I just don't like all this inane hype that's going around and believe me, tech enthusiasts are about as bad as teenage girls when it comes to gossiping and echo chambers.

Remember when Plurk was the Twitter killer because of Twitter always being down? I think we're still waiting on that one.

EDIT - (fixing 5am grammar errors, I'm sure I missed some)
Schooling might not work so well as qualification, but take care not to trivialize the problem. You can't really figure out how good someone is until you've worked with them, unless they have a long string of accomplishments. Schooling might be a little above noise, but at least it functions as a fairly reliable minimum bar.
Google allows you to retain copyright over your content. That's great. So if you send a copy of your manuscript to your publisher using Chrome, you technically will always be "the owner." You can still earn royalties from your content, and enter into contracts with publishers or other parties that want to license your content.

But Google will still have a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through" the browser.

Usually, when we own rights to something, it gives us the power to do all those things without being bothered by someone else.

So in layman's terms, this essentially makes them "co-owner" of your content. They can license it to others, collect revenues (albeit not technically "royalties") from its sale, copy it at will, alter it at will. They don't have to have your permission to do any of this.

And that's just the intellectual property side. Forget about privacy with regard to your personal life or with regard to trade secrets.
Resistance Is Futile: Facebook Wears Down Wary Users With Redesign
Did you ever see a leaked screenshot, memo or email? Everything else is just rumor or speculation.
Latte Index
http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/16/news/funny/latteindex/

I wonder what this kind of variation tells us:

'Starbucks latte and the Big Mac cost $2.80 in the United States. In Hong Kong, a tall latte is $3.22, but a Big Mac is only $1.54'
Now if only Gecko were as fast as WebKit, and the Mozilla team would follow Google's good example and fork each tab to it's own process...
proximity of Y Combinator, it only has a physical presence in two locations. California and Mass.

Also info is out of date:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat&q=y+combinato...

Lastly, Trends orders the states in reverse alphabetical order.
There's an additional component other than filtering that YC serves: it provides a pool of talent and experience that helps you out of jams, but without something like 'formal instruction'. The best features of a finishing school and guild (apprentice/journeyman/master) are represented. A community -- not so specialized as a technical or vocational school, but people who are likely to have common drives and purposes, and whose cross-disciplinary skills enhance the whole environment.

Maybe a question that needs answering, either by pg or by YC veterans (graduates?) is what additional purpose doesn't YC serve that it needs to?
Ya, but the point is that it got actively taken out of MS's base browser product (I'm guessing because of their antitrust issues at the time, but I really dont know to be honest).

The core idea however had so much potential, even if the implementation wasn't the best. It was among the first true implementations of taking the web outside the browser, it was certainly the first I'd ever experienced.
true but check out who's the founder of the site - it's one of the UConnect founders.
If this article is correct: I should make a career change
Resources that I've found moderately helpful:
http://delicious.com/issackelly/MSP
What about Google as the web's command line?

The Awesome Bar provides some stiff competition, but I use my browser search bar (Ctrl K) about half as often as I do the address bar (Ctrl L), and at a macro level like Insights it's safe to say that searches can be a surrogate for collective interest.
They actually don't have the rights to license it to others. They're not co-owners, nor do they pretend to be, hence "You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."

But their license justly protects them from being sued because you uploaded a video to YouTube that became a hit, and then you decide you want to sue them because they're hosting a video you submitted but now want to charge people for.

You can't have your cake and eat it, too.
Maybe instead of reading HN, you should go get some sleep. :)
Not what I was looking for, but very helpful nonetheless. I'll check it out.
You don't want to be an MSP unless you're doing enough aggregate transaction volume to manage the risk adequately.

You can become a reseller for authorize.net or join any of a number of affiliate programs for payment gateways but you should plan on having to walk your customers through the approval process themselves. If your customers aren't large enough ( > $2000 USD/month txvolume ) to get their own merchant accounts you are stuck with one of amazon, googlecheckout, paypal or possibly getting your own merchant account.

Be sure you understand the risk you are taking when you start handling other peoples money, you will be liable for non-delivery and fraud from your customers and your customers customers.
Memory usage is typically similar because ABI compatibility can't be broken - you have to be able to link a debug object file with a release object file; I doubt they'd release it without optimisations (smaller executable, faster code) as it'd be unbearably slow. The thing that might drive up the consumption on a debug build is an instrumented memory allocator or so, but even then the overhead shouldn't be that massive.
Lab Test: Google Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8
To whom much is given, much is expected in return.

For a lot of people, it certainly adds extra motivation.
This has probably been going on since we've had culture.

You know, I just had a weird connection when you mentioned that - I'm reminded of one of the early scenes to 2001: A Space Odyssey... The "dawn of man" scene. Link posted below for reference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2XcPNSeUMQ

One ape wakes up and notices the monolith, starts to make a little noise. This in turn wakes up the rest of the apes and they start to make more noise, their tribe is running quite wild.

Eventually one starts to try and interact with the object, soon more follow and learn from it.

If you think about it, this is pretty much the essence of web 2.0
According to the Terms, Google has the right to "publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute," your book.

They also have the right to "make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships."

Licensing by any other name.
Classy response after some pretty rough comments! Keep iterating and releasing. Good luck.
With Great Suit Comes Great Responsibility
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/34279
That is true right now. Making every integer and every pointer 64 bits is really a net loss performance-wise for most applications because it reduces the number of items that can be cached by 50%.

However, it is much easier to write server applications that assume all data can fit in virtual memory. All of my new server-side applications assume that the entire dataset of every process can fit in the virtual address space of the system. Effectively, my applications now require 64-bit machines to handle more than 2GB of data. This allows me to use mmap() and normal memory management (malloc, etc.) and rely on the operating system's VMM to swap for me. This is a vast simplification over trying to implement your own user-space VMM just to handle large files on small (32-bit) systems. I expect that the next generation of server software will all be design this way, and a lot of desktop software will probably adopt this kind of design too.
OS are going to evolve. Some will see it as a regression...

Me I'm an old school, I like my apps running under my palms and not on a buzz word (The Cloud...) Having say that distributing and sharing are great features (of The Cloud).

I suggest a compromise. A virtual OS, like the blackberry! An OS that its entire API will be run on a virtual machine. It's like killing the middle man. Instead of writing a kernel and VM that will talk to its API, write a VM that directly talks to the hardware.

By doing so we can achieve a stable, secured OS which enable fast app development.

There are some open source projects out there that are trying to prove the concept...
"TinyCrunch" Guys Strike Again: Start Ripping Off Mashable
why the hype? Because it's living up to it. Today while at work, I've been using Chrome. Not because I'm curious about it, but because Firefox 3 is SLOW compared to it. At work I was a lot of JS-heavy websites and apps and I'm just loving it. Reading from Google Reader while having 2 Gmail's open is ... so fast in Chrome
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031703-56.html

I think its semi-official. So you are right :) A cookie for you sir!
That is true. But, it won't be long before IT departments start putting everybody behind script- and ad- blocking proxies for security reasons. This kind of blocking will bubble up from hobbyists and down from corporate IT and could become mainstream as these two groups meet in the middle.
Sounds perfect for giving out your number to someone in a bar. If only telemarketing worked like this...
I've had few customers wanting online stores so I just charge an hourly fee to setup their merchant account for them. That way money from each sale goes directly to them, they deal with that, and I get paid and never have to deal with it again.

But it sounds like you want to allow your customers to set up an online store where you handle all of the payment transactions on their behalf so they don't need their own merchant account. If you did this with Authorize.Net (assuming they allow it after you explain this scenario to them, and good luck with that because it probably violates their terms of service) then all of the money for each captured transaction will go into your bank account, then from there you'll need to somehow send the money to your customers minus your fee. How will you do that? Automatically means you'd have to use an ACH/EFT provider to do wire transfers into your customers bank accounts. I hope you plan on having a lot of fraud insurance.
To be interested - i.e. to search for more information, they would have to hear about Y Combinator first - the average person who limits their information source to Yahoo News may not have heard of Y Combinator. The 1/25 of the U.S. expressing interest in Y Combinator have a starting point of knowledge about Y Combinator already (from other sources).
Count your blessings. I think there would have been twice the hype had they released it for Linux and Mac. Most of the hypemakers are on Macs these days, aren't they...
Yep, there are many other languages that can be compiled to javascript:

Ocaml to javascript compiler: http://skydeck.com/blog/programming/ocamljs-ocaml-to-javascr...

Haskell to javascript compiler: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Javascript

Haxe to javascript compiler: http://haxe.org/doc/start/js

ECMAScript4 to (classic) javascript compiler: http://ecmascript4.com/

Java to javascript compiler: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.g...

I'm sure there are others as well.
Yahoo is a content company, not a "news organization"
Why isn't Google Chrome's licence an OSI-approved license?
You clearly need to focus on a more algorithmic approach as the results you're returning are in no way better than a completely random selection from the same genre

http://theperceptron.com/recommendation/artist/the+rolling+s...
I commute by bike in Atlanta. Few of us make it to the point where heart disease or lung cancer is a real issue. Soccer moms chatting on cell phones will be the end of me.
You're right.

It is also "merely" a brilliant combination of a number of technologies which have been maturing for quite a while. See for instance: "Open Standards Beyond Java:
On the Future of Mobile Code for the Internet" by Michalel Franz at UC Irvine. (1998) http://www.jucs.org/jucs_4_5/open_standards_beyond_java/Fran...
Sorry. This was too funny to not post:

Meeting someone from Harvard, they will undoubtedly display faux modesty and say something along the lines of, "Oh, I went to school in Boston." I imagine they want me to guess MIT, just so they can say "Harvard" proudly in response, but instead, I say something like, "Hmm. You really look like a Northeastern kind of guy. BU, maybe?" This puts them in their place, and they will scramble away, crying crimson tears all over the floor.

More at http://www.radaronline.com/features/2008/07/leveraged_sellou...
Misleading title ;)
They tell you to install a monitoring tool.
true but the diff is that with startups, if you tackle the problem well, you will be heavily rewarded
I'm also interested in a similar scenario - I want to allow people sell stuff over my site and I charge them a small percentage. Anyone know an easy way to get this done?
Thanks for the mention of Standout Jobs, I appreciate it. Startup jobs isn't our focus necessarily, but we do have a lot of great startup companies using the product. And we're not a startup job board; we'd much prefer to turn every startup's career site into its own destination site.
Damn, it's even fast drawing pipes.

I'll say though, this is certainly a hacker news worthy post.
Therein lays the problem. If Adobe would release an affordable version of Flash, or if any of the open source SWF compilers out there could keep up with the latest Actionscript specs, then more developers would get hooked on it. But I guess Adobe is fat, dumb, and happy with cornering the market on graphics tools that it doesn't need to concern itself too much about growing the Flash developer community. Adobe should think it over because the growing popularity of <canvas> and next generation HTML is going to take large chunks of mindshare away from Flash development.
If you go to bed but wake up still not feeling refreshed, maybe you should do your own sleep study.

Dream Recorder for OSX will film you while you sleep.
http://www.dream-recorder.com/