skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why and why on both those.

As much as I dislike silent majority arguments, I'm going to make one. Most people have had fewer than 10 sexual partners by age 30, and sex outside of a committed relationship is, for most people, far from the norm. It's the sort of thing that might happen once or twice in one's life, and is usually regretted.

People who haven't participated in the casual sex market, either by choice or on account of inability, see no reason to respect it, and generally hold a very negative view of it, and would strongly prefer that their partners not have been involved in it.

As for the psychological consequences, people who participate in casual sex, on average, have lower self-esteem and more difficulty forming committed relationships. There have been myriad studies of college students correlating sexual activity (as measured by number of partners) negatively with self-esteem and academic performance, in both genders.

Who said it is?

In practice, prostitution is pretty degrading to women. I don't think it's worth it to speculate on how "ideal prostitution" might play out, because there's no evidence to indicate that it's even possible.

I don't agree where you take this argument. Caveman dragging Jane to his cave is not the same type of situation as casual sex. One was done for reproductive purposes, one is done for pleasure.

The caveman did it for pleasure, too. Animals seem to have no cognition of the link between sex and reproduction, and it seems evident that they do it primarily for pleasure (homosexuality and masturbation are common in the animal kingdom). Moreover, in some non-industrial, tribal societies, knowledge of this connection is nonexistent or relatively recent.

Being liberal is not about one's own choices - it is about respecting the choices others make.

Then I'm not a liberal by your definition, because I find it obvious that people (and, in fact, whole societies) sometimes make terrible choices. In much of the Middle East, people are choosing medieval theocracy, not being educated about the alternatives.
Its ok, Thanks anyway. I hope Chrome for Linux is out soon.
Chromium Blog: Welcome to Chromium
In other words, when we get a raise, instead of using
that hard-won money to buy the good life, we feel
even more pressure to work since the shadow costs of
not working are all the greater.

Ha! The system work as designed! The most productive ($$$) members of society should not stop working, they should keep on going. This maximizes the economic value for everyone.
Ask a dinosaur, appropriately enough:

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000693.html
Agreed. Also, made-up names allow you to become a verb and extend beyond your original business (e.g. Google).

That being said, I love FriendFeed because it says exactly what it is. I also like Mochi Media because it just sounds cool.
Staction Provides a New View of Project Management
please, allow extensibility in this, like firefox, and I am ready to say goodbye to Firefox!
I wonder how they will expose functionality to extension developers and if that will even be possible.

I didn't stick to Opera nor Safari after Firefox due to lack of support for some plugins I use and wrote.
Chuckle I had originally posted 32,767; but I figured getting to 32768 should really be the milestone.
That seems to somehow crash my chrome tab after it shows the alert?
It depends on what they're doing to earn that money.

It's good for the world that Paul Graham keeps working, even though he doesn't have to. On the other hand, George Dubya would clearly serve the country better on the golf course.

There is a level of richness at which one encounters a class of parasites who are well-rewarded, but detrimental to society. Tech entrepreneurs are awesome, but the country's social/political elite ought to be fired.
I'm all for you standing up for yourself and we all appreciate your posting it here for us to learn from your mistake. At the end of the day, you may be ranting and venting a bit but there's also that spirit of, "Learn from my mistakes so that you don't have to." Thank you, Brian, and I'm sorry I heard to learn of you in this way. Best of luck to you.

Now go talk to your lawyer.
One of the best features of chrome is that it is realed in ~40 languages!! That's great!
Mozilla Not Worried About Google new browser
Well, not sure I'm ringing the bells yet. I think as people play with it, they'll see there's still a long way to go.

The biggest is that it doesn't do extensions yet. It doesn't The first focus sounds like it will be the Flash engines of the world (i.e. binary extensions). Then later they'll add a Firefox-like extension model.

Next they have their other OS's to support. So it's got a lot of catching up to do.

I'm impressed with it so far, but I'm not uninstalling Firefox quite yet.
I wouldn't put that much weight into Kawasaki naming advice considering he doesn't follow it himself.

i.e. his first naming advice is to start early in the alphabet. That post was made on February, 2006. Then July, 2007 he launches Truemors.
It seemed straight-forward and compelling as necessary to me. I'm not sure if the test problems were yours, but they seem fitting as well.
@nickb Very impressive, congrats!
Google seems to live by the maxim "the data is the interface", making their UIs look very staid.

The logo in the title bar is an amazing study in self-discipline. It's a mute color and 13x36 pixels!
There are now three engines vying for the title of the "fastest" JS engine:

* Tracemonkey (Mozilla)
* Squirrelfish (Apple/Webkit)
* V8 (Google)

I would love to see a benchmark comparison (Sunspider?) to see how V8 compares to Tracemonkey and Squirrelfish.
Ran it on XP in Parallels. Installed fine, ran fine. Ran fast.
Actually, I'll give him props for asking. As evidenced by all the technically sound start-ups out there with names so dumb and hard to spell that I'd have to TRY to come up with something worse, being smart and being able to build a good product doesn't mean you can pick a good name. He's putting some thought into the process, which is a lot more than I can say for a lot of other companies out there. If he can't come up with the name on his own, I don't see what the big deal is.
Dude I am working hard to get to 2k.
Here's one helpful tip that served me well: if you are not a good judge of people's character then don't try to judge their character. Instead, always judge their apparent motives.

This works well in business and politics.

How do you know you are a good judge? For example if you are a police investigator with 500 solved cases behind you, you are a good judge - you got experience. If you don't have similarly large experience you're likely not a good judge.
Looks like it doesn't run in Wine, guess I won't get to try it out until I go back to work tomorrow.
The "stats for nerds" page is also good entertainment (available from the task manager or by typing about:memory).

Not only will it tell you where all that memory is being used (Chrome isn't exactly lightweight), but it will also spy on IE and Firefox and let you know how much memory they are using.
It has a javascript debug/console window that is pretty neat. It has auto completion as well. Go to the page menu item, then the developer menu item.
Opera has a check box on the alert which allows you to disable scripts. So I guess it passes.
Haha, incognito mode.

> For times when you want to browse in stealth mode, for example, to plan surprises like gifts or birthdays,

Riiiiight
I think it's a brilliant hack. Now we know who ''they'' are.
Handling static files with Django
I have been grepping through the tree trying to find the implementation of the String class. A part of me thinks they just defined it in string.js and somehow made the rest of the code treat it as a cpp class.
What? Really?

1. "It's not evil." Okay, because it asks if you want a different default search engine, it's not evil. You're entitled to your opinion.

2. "It’s fast, minimalist and clean." Right, but it's not that much faster, it's ugly, and it doesn't look native to Windows. Why?

3. "It loads up quickly." I really have never had trouble loading Firefox. Plus, I do it so infrequently that the startup costs just don't matter.

4. "It seamlessly and quickly imported my bookmarks and passwords from Firefox." Every browser should do this. And I believe most popular ones do.

5. "I love the 3D, industrial Chrome icon and logo." Okay. But seriously, if the logo is one of the top things you can say about a browser, the browser might be in trouble.

6. "You can open a window in incognito mode, just a right click." Incognito is fairly neat, but really, it doesn't make a huge difference to me. I'll never use it.

7. "A quick right click on any area of the page and selecting 'inspect element' allows you to see the code behind it." As you say, Firefox has this. One thing that might make this better, which I haven't checked, is if it shows the _actual source_, rather than a reversed-engineered source based on the DOM like Firefox does.

8. "On startup you can set it to open multiple homepages" Firefox also supports this. Not a new feature.

9. "Choose a new tab and you get option to select from your most visited sites." I do like the visual representation -- good feature. Perhaps other browsers haven't done this because they haven't had Incognito? This feature might actually necessitate Incognito.

10. "Task manager pretty cool for the multiple window & tab freaks." Honestly, I can't even figure out how to open the Task Manager, so I really have no opinion on this other than it might be neat if I could figure it out.

My guess is there's a lot of Google kool-aid being drunk on this one and that if it were developed by anyone else, it would be shoved to the bottom of the news and never talked about.

My opinion? I'll stick to Firefox, thanks.
oh boy. I am already over 10, and most of my partners have been outside a traditional relationship.

The main reason is that I am very picky who I choose for a long term relationship, but less picky for a casual one.

Now, why have casual relationships at all? Can I blame testosterone on this? When you are in your early 20s, there is a huge surge of testosterone in males, and a huge desire to just romp for once and a while. So, I did it, with less desirable females, and it felt good.

If I just waited for the "ideal" partner, then it would just take forever, or I would have done the mistake to just date/marry somebody just b/c sex comes with it.

And I have seen it in the south, time and time again, where people wait to have sex until they get married. And marriage becomes a destination point, to have sex. Unfortunately those marriages don't last long, and the south has the highest divorce rates in the nation.

While places like MA, where people marry later, and have more partners in their life, have much lower divorce rate.
A few miscellanea you may have missed:

* JavaScript is lightning fast. 3x faster than FireFox 3 on the Dromaeo test suite.

* JavaScript compatibility isn't 100%. Fails in RaphaelJS, apparently Facebook and probably more. I'm unsure why.

* The download bar is interesting and different. Opens a bar at the bottom, defaults to Downloads in My Documents. Can drag elsewhere when done.

* It includes sleek a Firebug-esque tag inspector. Right click and inspect element.

* Scrolling up doesn't work on my trackpad. Middle clicking and scrolling up/down doesn't work. I hope this is fixed soon

* The drop-down search bar is neat. Press Ctrl+F to open it. It doesn't work in textareas.

* You can hide the bookmarks bar via Ctrl+B.

* You can drag tabs in and out of the window to form new windows. There's also a lovely animation when you move tabs around.

* There's a task manager for Chrome alone - right click on the main bar and click task manager. 'Stats for nerds' for more info which takes you to about:memory - also shows you memory usage for IE and Opera.

* You can add keywords in the search bar by going to Options, Manage and changing the default keyword.

* Passes Acid2 test. On Acid3, gets a respectable 78/100 on the JS tests, but has a few rendering bugs and linktest failed. Both tests are currently getting hammered - I'm not sure whether this changes the result for the latter.

* You can resize textareas using the bottom-right hand corner

* It includes a spell checker. You can't seem to add new words to it though.

* It supports other search engines other than Google out of the box. It asked me what default to use on startup. It imported my info from FireFox.

* On clicking a link it only changes the status bar to indicate you've done so - other browsers make it more obvious.

* Source is available at http://dev.chromium.org/ - seems to be largely BSD licensed. I haven't downloaded it as it's almost 500mb.
This person's issue is basically (acoustical) noise. He needs to soundproof his home-office. He should visit this website and contact Ted White:
http://www.soundproofingcompany.com

To soundproof, one needs to viscoelastically damp the walls, windows and door, and seal all of the cracks.

Additionally, he should lock the door and never let any other member of the household in. This is mentioned in Robert Patrick Bell's essay on home-offices:

http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/running-your-own...

When setting up your home office, take every last thing out of the room first. You will have to fight with your spouse on this issue, too - but it is a fight worth winning. They will want to make it an "office/guest room" or "office/sewing room" or "office/hobby room". You will have to argue, under threat of divorce, that your office is going to be an office slash nothing. If the spouse doesn't want to go along with this, get divorced now, it will save you a lot of trouble.

Spousal support, by the way, is essential in establishing your own practice. Spouses can kill the whole deal. Your spouse may have married you when you were a rising star associate at a big name firm - and they may be attracted to the status that conveys. Working out of your spare bedroom isn't going to impress your spouses' friends. If that is an issue, divorce now rather than prolong the agony.

The Spouse will probably want to decorate your office too, with a lot of useless fru-fru from some overpriced designer store. Do yourself a favor and lock the door.
Why not just run `grep -r --exclude=".svn" event *` ? I have a feeling that would be even faster than your concoction...

Either way, I still use `ack` for searching source code, and grep otherwise...
Google offers video-sharing for businesses
FWIW, their articles about Russia's invasion of Georgia were incredibly slanted. This makes me seriously doubt their "unbiased" status.
One thing I'd like to see is to be able to embed some of the Google Gadgets from iGoogle into the new tab screen, down the bottom would be nice.

Would useful to be able to keep up with email/rss/news incrementally while I'm doing normal browsing, rather than having to go look for it.
Cherry-picked anecdotes and data to support a priori conclusions.
Techcrunch is down
Be sure to read Google Chrome's fine print
As the father of two boys, this was my favorite part:

"But seven-year-old boys are not interested in making lanterns from coffee tins. They want to shoot bows and arrows, preferably at one another, chop wood with stone-hewn axes and sink canoes, preferably while in them."

All true.
OMG. The speed.
"Why not just run `grep -r --exclude=".svn" event *` ?"

Because it doesn't work, at least not with gnu grep. Try it and see. (Hint: --exclude doesn't do anything with directories...only the files themselves, and .svn is the containing directory. So, using exclude for this purpose merely wastes your time and annoys the pig.)
I love that you can drag browser tabs from one window to the other. That's just crazy cool.
AppJet on Slashdot: AppJet Offers Browser-Based Coding How-To, Hosting
Design elements for Google V8 (Chrome's javascript engine)
Can someone link the .exe? Can't see it on a Mac, and I'm too lazy to spoof my platform.
Perhaps this is why the deaf Beethoven was one of our greatest composers, because he was not limited by his own hearing to that which was already possible and achievable?
I didn't think you were barking up the wrong tree. It's another suggestion. You might need some kind of "yield" statement if you want to see how another Javascript program will act with a background window spamming it with allocations.
Yeah, this is a major bummer. How are we corporate-folk supposed to test? C'mon, Google, give us a regular installer like the rest of the world.
The Networking ABC's - Y is for Yobibyte
I think you mean -32768.
[Inserting obvious link]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

...the Internet is for porn!
Casual sex vs. waiting until marriage = false dichotomy.

I also don't think people who marry early are doing so only to have sex, because a lot of the people who marry early tend also to be sexually active early. Circa 2008, I think very few people wait until marriage to have sex; even if they only have one partner, most people want to know that they're sexually compatible before making a lifelong commitment, for obviously good reasons.
One of them was mine, yes. Thanks for the feedback!
Fast, clean interface but no way to send a link, no highlighting of search terms, redundant delete icon on every tab instead of one on the side for the tab in focus.
Google Chrome - Review
Welcome to WebKit, sir. It's always this fast for those of us that use it.

Part of me is a little irked that google is going to get credit with many people for things like "Inspect Element". But it's entirely Apple's fault for keeping Safari so far behind the state of Webkit.
Interesting information can be found at the about: page.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
On the subject of naming, I think this should be thrown out there:
http://www.thenameinspector.com

Need naming help?
Ask The Name Inspector.
Thanks! Cool!
- Does not support RSS feeds
- Does not scale images when zooming (like in FF3)
This is really more about human task-switching...
Rod Brooks Steps Down from iRobot to Form New Robotics Company
try this:
ctrl-f, enter something (say, firebug) and then take a look at the scrollbar. Nice.
Thank you and please reveal yourself now :)
It's like it's doing to Firefox what Firefox did to Mozilla. Strip away the fluff to have a slim browser that does what you want. They keep harping on how it's open source and that their great ideas will improve the web. Wasn't that the goal of Firefox (née Phoenix)?

I guess they didn't want to deal with trying to have their developers help fix Firefox. Sometimes, it's just easier to start over.
I've seen way too many good relationships broken up in cases where simply having casual sex outside the relationship would act as a release valve and allow the relationship to continue.
Thanks to ALL for the responses.

I will look at those SCIP lectures. I'm not really that noob, but I wanted you to assume that when giving me advice.

Also will check the developer toolbar for firefox.

I have never used IRC, maybe later I will make use of them, thanks.

Thanks for pointing me to Django, that will be later, when I have developed my skills.

BTW: Ubuntu is awesome.
Cuil must be out for vengeance.
Improving Your Windows Experience, 11 Applications
It's On: Steve Jobs "Let's Rock" Keynote Scheduled For Next Tuesday
Now this runs a lot faster:

http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/
Former IAC Exec Mo Koyfman Lands At Spark Capital
Could you give a link for those lectures?
How to Build Data Centers Faster and Cheaper
9. Choose a new tab and you get option to select from your most visited sites. Saving me time already. Why didn’t the others think of that?

Well, others did think of this. In particular, the comic book guy looks like Aza, and talks like him too. The things Aza suggested are a little more complicated behaviorally, too; they're context sensitive.

http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/new-tabs/
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/firefox-google-chrome-new-ta...
The first thing I thought when I saw Chrome was that they want to stop/override programs like AdBlock for their search ads.
Do you think is worth trying Python 2.6 or maybe (asumming it's going to take a while for me, and maybe by that time will be stable) better focus on the new Python 3k?
Chrome's Most Visited. What does it mean for WebMynd, Iterasi, or even Rescutime?
TheChrome's Most Visited paired with its own Search feature. What does it mean for WebMynd and Iterasi, even Rescuetime?
I recommend using the WebKit inspector, it is actually pretty comparable to Firebug (and in Chrome).

*edit: whoops I hadn't refreshed for a while and I didn't realize this was already answered.
And let's hope this pushes MS into the race.
Boy, does it rock :)

I'm writing this from Chrome and I must say it's clean, fast and pretty darn cool :)
I agree, but it's still a counter point that isn't often discussed. Maybe you'll start to see more things supporting the argument now that it's in your mind.
that's the only feature i am sure you will never see on this browser
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."

I'm really confused by the wording of this term. Is this saying that I'm giving Google a license to display anything I submit through my chrome browser? That's pretty scary if I'm reading this right...
You can find the application at [Debug/Release]/TestShell, depending on the selected configuration. Currently, the prerequisites don't fully build so you won't find an executable.

:( what a tease
ff: 1403.60ms

chrome: 393.20ms

leaving a browser that already felt fast in the dust: priceless
Remember to get good body guards :)
I don't think the author's position is new or radical; I've heard it frequently.

Your second sentence describes confirmation bias.
He's clearly trying to avoid getting swiftboated, which is a very real risk.
Where does Tamarin land in this? They're working with Mozilla too, aren't they?
I don't think Rescuetime has anything to be worried about since they're focus is not on search, but on showing you exactly where you spend, which is not what google chrome shows you.
Is google chrome under / partially reporting RAM usage ?
Please tell me I'm not the only person on Reddit & HN to have used Opera 9+ ?

The "new tab page" is Opera's "Speed Dial" with a twist.

Does Firefox have that even as an add-on? Maybe they haven't realized it's an idea worth copying - but Google did.
about:memory
Direct download: http://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeSetup.exe
Wine bottle it.
have you tried http://www.bustaname.com ?
If that's the case, I go to filtering proxies at my end.
It´s the same that comes with WebKit (at least the Mac builds).

Very nice indeed.