skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DHH Keynote at RailsConf Europe: 'The best programmers write the most legacy software.'
Poll: IQ?
A recent submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=293536) got me wondering: what's the average IQ of Hacker News readers?<p>If you don't already know your IQ, there's lots of free online tests (post good ones in the comments)
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I'm in the same camp. Chrome really needs a decent ad and popup blocker. I think I've grown spoilt on firefox.
Mark Cuban BlogMavrick hijacked?
I went over to http://www.blogmaverick.com and it the content seems so wrong that I suspect it got hijacked...

What do you think hijacked or did Cuban just suddenly care about the insurance industry...
First Edinburgh UK Hacker Meetup tomorrow
Hi,

The first UK hacker meetup in Edinburgh is tomorrow at 7pm. We hope to organize this in conjuction with the Hacker Meetup in London organised by Ian. Hackers from all over Scotland, and UK for the matter are welcome to join us.

If you're interested there's a bit more info here (http://arnavk.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-tech-meetup-in-edinburgh-sept-4th.html).

Hope to see many new techies tomorrow.

Cheers
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...but now it just works after a restart. Googling around seems to suggest that was a .NET related problem.
Try some webapps in it. Scrolling isn't really going to test the js and dom performance.
By "more and more" do you mean your fellow technology-literates?

I just want to point out that I've seen numbers for Linux desktop penetrations ~1%. I doubt that many people know (or care) what scripts are at all.
Waiting for the linux port.
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Online IQ-tests are not standardized. There are online IQ-conversion tables for SAT and GRE scores:

http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/GREIQ.aspx

One can learn more about IQ testing from these books:

http://www.amazon.com/Bias-Mental-Testing-Arthur-Jensen/dp/0...

http://www.amazon.com/Factor-Science-Evolution-Behavior-Inte...
The Flying Boat
A nice metaphor for a common mistake entrepreneurs make when formulating goals and starting a business...
I think the site is awesome! may be the Pandora of stories, interests and "Did-its". Its fast too.
I think writer is saying random since you never know whether the player you're facing on the other side is going to be a lineman on that play or a receiver.
;offensive scheme...
(begin
(display "Your mama is a snowblower")
(newline))
so operah is the fastest then?
There is no good online IQ test. Most drastically inflate scores.
I run windows with location set to Netherlands and language to English. I got Chrome in Dutch.

Fixing language: Options -> tab:Minor Tweaks -> button:Change font and language settings -> tab:Languages

Fixing spellchecker: see language

Fixing search: impossible.

I wouldn't care about the localisation if it did things right and followed my language setting.
Google distributes the installer with that option enabled if you check the box on their EULA that's shown before the download. You probably checked it out of habit without noticing.

That option is not enabled by default.
Lehman: Google Chrome Can Catch Up To Firefox In Two Years
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I can't sorry. Maybe someone else remembers the episode?
Given that this is hacker news, "build" doesn't just mean "compile an app that others have provided for you."

It also means build the application, as in, here is an effort that is in progress to create something, and would you like to lend a hand.
But when you look at the stream of updates, when there is no checkin for a while,you realize that the project is getting dusted. Nothing great, but this one will just make the problem aware.
Just the way these things go - the same happened with features from Opera being introduced to a wider audience through Firefox. Answer: if you want credit for an idea, implement and get it in the hands of millions of people.
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Google Chrome vulnerable to carpet-bombing flaw
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Rails 2.0.4: Maintenance release
Interesting, but it's just some quick notes jotted by someone in the audience. I'd be much more interested in seeing the video feed for this.
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using the internet means a dependence on an external system over which you have no control. OpenID is no less reliable in that regard than the internet in general.
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Judging by his Google Chrome article, it looks like he wasn't aware of Opera's "Speed Dial".

Maybe his "new tab page" was really an idea he had come up with on his own, without seeing Speed Dial.

But maybe he had seen it, and just wanted to play a visionary to the Firefox crowd.

It's mildly annoying to watch Firefox users admire Chrome's version of Speed Dial.
yes, most things are.
Excellent. This is a dangerous pitfall that can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If you've based your businesses around a boat, and you're convinced there's a market for it, then don't go turning it into a plane at the last minute, or you might end up with neither.
Yep, I think just naming the facts in 2 or 3 paragraphs would have been much more effective. Now he looks kind of 'crazy' and rambling about it.

But yeah, what Brian describes sucks. If it's all true the way he told it, poor guy.
We should always take a bit of time to thank the people that make this place what it is.
Google Chrome: Straight out of Compton
Douglas Rushkoff: Investing Into a Dep/recession
Hands-on with Yotify, your personal web secretary
"Recessions are not defined as two quarters of negative GDP. Rather, it's a period of economic contraction."

I've begun to hear this over the last year or so. While I understand the sentiment, unless you have a commonly defined measuring stick for "economic contraction", I think it's a generalization without a point. Just by googling around, it seems pretty clear that the rule-of-thumb is a negative change in GDP over two consecutive quarters.

Now you can argue that GDP changes aren't reflective of the change in the economy, but if you do that, then you're stuck with coming up with a new definition. Not only that, but you would have to retrospectively go back and apply your new definition to historical financial data. Then you'd have to make an argument that the new definition matches up with the actual perception.

I'm still on the fence about this. I think I'll wait until after the election heat cools off to read up some more. I hear you about the indicators you mention, but there are a lot of ways to slice a cake, and growth is growth.
Enjoyed that one! Nice metaphor...
Ask YC: feedback on my music recommendation site
http://theperceptron.com

Enter the name of an artist you like and get back other artists you might also like.

the perceptron's suggestions are based on actual people's music tastes: artists on the same label, artists who admire each other, artists who have played together, artists mentioned together in the press. Further, the site learns your music taste and uses what it knows to adapt its recommendations.

I would love to hear the HN community's thoughts.
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like the cartoon as well
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"The Internet lets everyone be heard" => upmodded for truth. Everyone gets a soapbox and teh right to yell as loudly and as profanely as they like.

"instead of just the "qualified" people who used to get to publish their opinions in the print era" => upmodded for humour. Have you ever read anything in a newspaper owned by Conrad Black? Or anyone else, really? Print media may employ professional journalists.

But their "research" is flawed, they have a habit of regurgitating press releases from their advertisers and the political parties their owners support, and they pander to the prejudices of their readers.

Freedom of the press belongs to everyone who can afford a printing press. The internet is the cheapest, most unencumbered and uncensored printing press in history.
Nope, Chrome is the fastest.

In one test Firefox 3 lead leads with 4 ms versus 6 ms. Those are the closest times in the tests, everywhere else Chrome is faster, and by a wider margin.
A nice reminder. Shit, where did I put that propellor...
These guys are right - chrome is an applications platform. You know what's missing though? The start button with all your applications.
Xsstc: Cross-site scripting through CSS
Nice. Best of luck, your system is slick!
Browser Wars: Episode n+1
Google Chrome: Bad news for Adobe
The anti-captcha for finding Python programmers...
I enjoyed making my bow and arrows and I am sure that would be included fully in her definition of manly. She is moaning about activities and toys that are unmanly, not the process of making stuff.
How Badly Will Chrome Hurt Firefox?
The myth of launch PR
My site uses OpenID, and I'm surprised at how many users actually do understand it.

It's especially true in the case of Yahoo users. All they have to do is type in "yahoo.com" and they're in. Try and explain to me how it's easier to remember a bunch of usernames and passwords than "yahoo.com"

And remember: There are no overarching guidelines on usernames and passwords, so the whole "use the same one every time" almost works...but not quite. One site requires a 6-letter password, another requires 9 with one uppercase letter and a number, while another has no requirements whatsoever. That crap gets frustrating as hell for me and there are several sites that I have to re-request my password every freaking time I go.

As more and more big sites come on as providers, like MySpace and Yahoo, it will only get better. I agree that there are issues with presenting and explaining it to users, but the underlying premise is a good one.
Launch PR can also hurt as well as help... consider Cuil... Great splash, but who cares about them now?
Tokyo is such a weird and (sometimes) wonderful place that it's easy to imagine something like this going on there.
Which is what makes it both the most endearing and the most infuriating timesink ever.
I never thought about the delete access aspect. That's a good point.

Plus, since you never give a password, you don't have to worry about how they're storing it. Plain text in the database? passwords.txt file in the webroot? Doesn't matter because they don't have it.
iGoogle is the synergy. This will become apparent early next year.
What will Chrome mean for us
Using Mix-ins with Python
50 sq km ice-shelf breaks off from Canada - "irreversible"
It's unlikely that adblock will make a dent in google's advertising revenues. A good chunk of their revenues comes from ppc (search advertising). As long as people use google as their search engine, google will always have their main source of revenue.

"Banner Ads" will die, but that's probably a good thing. There have been other forms of advertising that have taken ground already. If you use facebook and you look at the "feed" you'll know what I mean. Good advertisers will know how to promote their products without users even realizing they are being subject to 3rd party goods/brand promotion.
Well written article. With too many blogs/news on chrome, this one provides a decent summary. Not too much technical though.
If he was a real entrepreneur, he would have made it with the boat... Nice story though!
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This supposedly got corrected. Session cookie expiration is now 3 hours, and page uses JavaScript to keep cookie fresh, so it shouldn't timeout if you keep it open.

And you can always submit it, and go back to it later to fill the rest.
"stick your USB stick into a machine, type a 4 letter pin and everything on that machine is authenticated till you take it out."

This is doable now with client side certificates. No body supports getting user creds from client site certs though. Would they be easier to understand than OpenID? Would they be easier to understand than username and passwords?
Richie, are you involved in this project?
I agree. All the other elements are more "checkbox list" items, but this really adds to the daily use experience.
The Great PC RAM Swindle
So, basically, Google is adding more wight to open-source web efforts and that's confounding those that would like to put the web into their proprietary box.

A good amount of the commentary over the past couple days has been about what Chrome means for other open-source projects. It's nice to see an article whose premise (as I saw it) was that Chrome's arrival signals the triumph of the open web rather than competition for current open web products (Safari and Firefox). Sure, some Firefox users may switch to Chrome, but as long as the browsers are open source and have a commitment to standards (HTML, Javascript, CSS), it works out in favor of the open web and all those who are creating the open web (whether they be website programmers/designers or open-source browser makers).
Seriously, WTF! I repeat, WTF! Your 'app' only has one feature, which is music recommendation, right? So it has no other features to make up for it.

I go there and type 'Billie Holiday' and the first result that comes back is 'Iron Maiden'. Then comes a bunch of other seemingly random artists like Michael Jackson, Taj Mahal and so on. I don't see Ella, Louis, Anita or any of the people who usually belong to the Billie group.

You can't release an application with one feature, and that one feature does not work. This is not reverso world where the opposite of working actually works.

This is like a car being released that does not have a roof, and engine or tires. Fix your 'startup' and try again.
Bursting the Cloud
Would Kazaa or Skype have flourished in a platform similar to Apple's or Facebook's?
IRetroPhone iPhone App -- $30,000 Net Profit for One Day's Work
Bet on what Steve Jobs will announce during next week's keynote
well. he did follow the mantra of 'release early, release often'

anyway, like what max said, if you release the app with only one feature, make sure that feature works. (eg. google - search, muxtape - make muxtapes)

The recommendations spewed by your engine is pretty bad honestly. I don't see how a Michael Jackson fan would want to listen to Cyndi Lauper or Taj Mahal. Try bettering Pandora's recommendation engine. They're the ones to beat.
It comes from here: http://blog.accuquote.com/

Looks like the WP databases got mixed up.
Google will try to make switching from FF/Safari/IE as swift as possible, which means they will have to deal with the add-ons. The "Import Settings" thingy is not enough.
Well, then my next startup will be: <html><head></head><body><!--closing tags will soon be implemented-->
Yep, you've made a good point. Billie Holiday -> Iron Maiden != good recommendation. That sort of insanity will be filtered out as more music taste data is collected from users.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
After my experience trying to get flash on ubuntu ppc, i'll take just about anything that hurts Adobe.
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While that may be, scrolling is usually something which matters much more to a web-page than JS and DOM performance.
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I kind of like the idea of a Bille Holiday/Iron Maiden mashup. "Lady sings the UAAAAGGHGHGHGHGH"?
If there is no 32-bit version of Mac OS X Leopard, then why does it need the 8gb hack at all?

And why does Microsoft still sell 32-bit Windows?
Everybody's really fond of their add-ons (I couldn't live without Tree Style Tabs), so either Google will implement them to grab more market share or hackers will add them.
Picasa introduces facial recognition to automatically tag photos of your friends
Looks like someone at google reads scott adams's blog, or news.yc:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216181
Which is good news for us all really!...im fine with hurting Adobe.
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Cuils had a very well orchestrated launch that most start-ups could never get. They received tons of quality press through out the world, not just on tech-sites. They had over 2 million visitors in the first month... 2 million.

The media ate up the Google-killer angle but the product couldn't back up the marketing. If they didn't over sell the product then everyone would look back at how great they launched, but instead if backfired.
The Olympic videos available at nbcolympics.com using Silverlight are beautiful - large, high res and fast.
Thank you. I will try it.
Ask HN: Serious crashes in chrome?
I installed Google's chrome browser last night, and am having quite a bit of trouble with it. It crashes using massive amounts of CPU and has even taken the whole OS down with it on a few occasions. I'm running XP SP2.

Having a browser that crashes five times a day, sometimes taking the whole OS with it is certainly a dealbreaker for me. And for everyone else I presume. This is a shame since I really like its layout and speed.

Has anyone else had this problem?
Congratulations to these guys!! Totally awesome!!

runs to padded room. sound of muffled thuds, screaming.
guy sold 15,000 copies in the first day at $2.99 per
Let's see if there are straight-up clones of all these iPhone apps once Android hits the streets next month.
of course this will only happen once
Paying money to professionals to manipulate someone into marrying you, breaking up a couple in the process? I feel like throwing up. Literally. IRL.
Be patient, and thankful for the sneak peek. I'm sure someone will upload it soon.
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Yes. i'm having serious problems with flash videos.

Chrome constantly crash at Youtube

I'm running XP SP2.
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A pattern is emerging...
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its beta for a reason

i think perhaps people are too used to google's "beta" version of things being so good that they think its a meaningless distinction.
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Isn't Google chrome just a browser? How can this be a threat to a runtime like AIR? Looks like the author is trying to compare a runtime with browser. Does that make any sense? Please correct me if i am wrong.
From his blog - http://teddziuba.com/2008/09/some-cockbite-is-impersonating....
Great, I still think iPhone App building will be a golden mine for some time. Anyway, he must be a great coder to be able to do such an application in only one day - almost unbelievable.
And gestures and google toolbar!
Ah ha! Unfortunately there is no picture but there is a description of it on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_2#Roadlayer
I'm less concerned about competition for Flash/Flex and Air than I am competition for the over-priced and bloated CS3.
Maybe the problem here is that "beta" has become diluted to the point of users expecting a fully working product that only has very minor flaws.
It's possible, but since this only occurs if the hash matches one of the sites on google's malware list, it shouldn't happen all that often.
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Agreed, I would have loved to have had Cuil's PR for my startup (even if it crashed and burned under the stress).
"...hope Python/Ruby/Perl and other languages..." JITing code of these languages surely is possible (compare e.g. with psyco, exceptions might be eval'ed statements and the like...), however, all of these languages take the approach of a simple but fast compiler and having an interpreter as an execution engine (where more optimizations are easily possible), hence the ideas are not directly applicable (as far as python is concerned: their explicit goal is to have the utmost simplicity in their compiler/interpreter)

also, while the JITing part of the v8 surely is nice by itself, IMHO the real runtime performance seems to come from the inlining by what they call "fast property access" -- the papers cited are a very good reference; indepth details can be found via scholar.google.com, though not explicitly mentioned, i figure that PICS, polymorphic inlince caches, are relevant too...

besides that i find the source code very interesting, it seems that it's just a very small codebase (with "ugly" c++ coding standards--given my subjective taste of course; i liked ellemtel guidelines best...); actually, i found myself looking for the "rest" until it became obvious thats all...
True, but in the context of "Jealous of Windows users and their Google Chrome?" it is certainly misleading.
Note: We use OpenID as an optional alternative to a regular username/password. To force users to use OpenID is pretty ridiculous.
Basically the theory behind the offense is that the ball moves faster than any player. So, if you stack the line of scrimmage for a blitz there should be several people wide open on either side of you that you can throw. Also, this is high school where players are much slower. I'm not sure this would work in the NFL (its illegal under current rules afaik).