skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chrome, multicore and embarrassing parallelism
Chrome is designed as a share-nothing process architecture where each tab is its own process. It seems like this will be a big deal as processor companies use additional cores to improve performance rather than straight speed gains.

This means that Chrome's lead over other browser may grow as newer chips appear with 8, 16... 128 or more cores.

I've heard many Googlers talk about the fact that the company tries to attack problems that are "embarrassingly parallelizable" -- a term that describes indexing, crawling and ranking extremely well. It meshes well with the skill sets at Google and their amazing server farm technology.

Philosophically, it seems like Chrome is treating the browser as a problem which can be made "embarrassingly parallelizable" when there are at least as many cores as tabs/processes.

Assuming minimal RAM and L[1|2|3] cache contention, performance shouldn't drop as long as n_tabs < n_cores.

Here's the killer piece:

n_tabs is limited by human mental facilities. People can only manage a finite number of tasks.

n_cores is growing exponentially. Perhaps not at the rate of Moore's law, but betting against exponents is always a bad idea.
Google Chrome's evil^9999999 EULA in Spanish is still the same (what about the other languages?)
Here's the text, it's basically the same as the
first EULA in english:

(Warning: Very evil stuff ahead, read at your own discretion).

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11.1 Conservará los derechos de autor y cualquier otro derecho que ya posea del Contenido que envíe, publique o muestre en los Servicios o a través de ellos. Al enviar, publicar o mostrar Contenido, estará concediendo a Google una licencia permanente, internacional, irrevocable, no exclusiva y que no está sujeta a derechos de autor para reproducir, adaptar, modificar, traducir, publicar, representar y mostrar públicamente, así como para distribuir cualquier Contenido que envíe, publique o muestre en los Servicios o a través de ellos. Esta licencia se otorga con el único propósito de permitir a Google publicar, distribuir y promocionar los Servicios y puede revocarse para determinados Servicios, según lo estipulado en las Condiciones adicionales asociadas.
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How do you fake your photograph though? All these fake identity scams fall through as soon as you have to show a photograph of yourself. And considering how good software is getting at recongizing faces, soon it will be near to impossible.
Diversity is never good, though. That's such a lame stereotype of our time. Diverse cultures are dying cultures. But I agree, that's totally the message of Columbus. It's trying so hard to be the most "diverse" and "gay-friendly" place in the Midwest. But the gayness is tired and such a stereotype. It's like, "Enough already!" You'd never see straights behaving like that, or parading around so obsessively. It's gross. I shouldn't be required to like, accept, or tolerate it -- because I don't.
Ask YN: What beta sites (homepages) captivate you?
I'm looking for some interesting examples of homepages or landing pages of beta sites that really capture the visitor's interest and also has the functionality to capture email addresses for those interested.

Any ideas?
And everyone's opinion of google with it's evil EULA. I just hate that EULA, it's the most evil thing i've ever seen, it makes look Hitler as a well intentioned fellow [I'm exhagerating greatly here, please take no offense, i just wanted to make a point].

Google hasn't changed their EULA for the spanish version and i wonder if this has happened for the many other supported languages.
There was a period of time when most of the computer science papers submitted were about some variation on Hashing. You can solve a ridiculous number of problems with it.
Why is Picasa data any better than Facebook (which can leverage the incredible knowledge of your social network as well as user-tags to make highly educated guesses)? or webshots (which is almost exclusively face photos)? or even flickr? or any of the other dozens of photo sites?
I think it was 70% of men past a certain age have prostate cancer. I think in the same study they determined that if you are 65 or older and catch a bought of the prostate cancer, you might as well leave it untreated because you're likely to die from something else before the cancer kills you and the quality of life lost from treatment isn't worth it.
Also http://lessemf.com, which also sells silver mesh boxers.
DreamIt Incubator Holds Funding Day To Commemorate First Graduating Class
> "All these fake identity scams fall through as soon as you have to show a photograph of yourself."

Because no one's ever used a fake photo ID to, say, get into a bar.
In my own work, when I fork threads that are run and executed by the kernel, I still make decisions outside the kernel about how those threads run. I may tell threads to go to sleep, wait for another thread to finish something, or prefer a certain thread to run over others.

Yes, they are still scheduled by the OS kernel, but they are also being controlled by my own scheduling algorithms. I call this scheduling, because it's the same problem as OS level scheduling. And if I have to do it, I imagine Chrome has to do it. In this scenario, if you want to understand the runtime behavior of the threads, you must consider both OS kernel level decisions and my scheduling decisions.

I would also be surprised if there was no Chrome memory management inbetween malloc and the OS kernel.
"REAL ID Act and RFID: Privacy and Legal Implications," a talk at The Last HOPE, tested one such wallet, and determined that while it's closed, it works--but the one they tried sprung open about an inch when placed on a table, and the rfid card inside was still readable that way.

http://www.thelasthope.org/talks.html
http://www.thelasthope.org/media/audio/16kbps/REAL_ID_Act_an...
If I am a threat to the free world, why am I not in prison?

Oh, man, we've got enough indefinite imprisonment without charges going on as it is. Please don't encourage it.

Once upon a time, people's "data shadows" were very thin indeed. In The Fatal Shore, a truly awesome history book about Australia, they talked about policing in Georgian England. The identification of criminals relied primarily on verbal descriptions of their looks:

Official crime records and registers of criminals were primitive, and there would be no fingerprinting until 1885. Artists made sketches, for popular consumption, of famous offenders... but one could no more recognize a felon from such semi-devotional effigies than pick St. Paul from a crowd by consulting a Byzantine icon. Identification of wanted men had to be made from verbal descriptions in the police gazettes, circulated to mayors and magistrates after the early 1770s... Sketchy as they were, such descriptions did produce some arrests, mainly in villages where people noticed strangers. Some officers of the law had long memories. Henry Fielding's sightless half-brother John, a magistrate known in Bow Street as the "Blind Beak," was said to be able to identify 3000 different malefactors by their voices alone. But on the whole, it was easier for criminals to escape scot-free in the 1780s than it would ever be again.

This meant that, once you had caught a suspected criminal, there was no way to release them temporarily without them disappearing, quite possibly forever. So a lot of crimes were punishable by fines (which could be collected on the spot), or by immediate imprisonment (which is what you got if you couldn't pay the fine), or by death. You couldn't really put people on probation, or parole, or release them on bail.

The result, in practice, was that every person who stole a loaf of bread risked indefinite imprisonment or even death. It was so inhumane (and so expensive -- there weren't enough jails) that the English legal system leapt at the opportunity to solve the problem in a novel way: Transport criminals to the colonies, where they would never bother homelanders again even when they were freed. Until 1776 the favorite colonial destination was the American colonies, but after that the English had to invent the Australian penal colonies...
Relatively rich
Chrome, multicore and embarrassing parallelism
Ben Spark - SocialCardsters | SlashBe
From Wikipedia:

"Although the United Arab Emirates is becoming less dependent on natural resources as a source of revenue, petroleum and natural gas exports still play an important role in the economy, especially in Abu Dhabi. A massive construction boom, an expanding manufacturing base, and a thriving services sector are helping the UAE diversify its economy. Nationwide, there is currently $350 billion worth of active construction projects."
Wow, sleep.fm puts in an appearance.
Spore Review
Biggest brands in UK - how many do you recognise?
It seems that a requirement for dreamit, was a 2.0 name :( - I hope this fad soon fades.
Art of Raising Capital
Raptr is quite clear about their value proposition with their frontpage comic.

I personally like http://www.coghead.com/.
Bulk Vote for Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News
You can check out Cross Browser Testing's configuration's here: http://www.crossbrowsertesting.com/configurations.php
Open Systems, Open Data, Transparency
I don't think Django == Betamax, but I do agree it certainly was a quiet release. Hopefully the improvements and the quality of the release will be sufficient to generate some buzz.
It's distributed under BSD license, no EULA can screw that. Every attempt at it could be averted by getting the BSD licensed code and making own builds without any strings attached.

That infamous EULA was intented for other Google services, and was mistakenly used for the browser. Supposedly (I haven't actually read it) it was already changed/clarified.
Chrome gives developers prototype instead of specs
Sleep.fm could be promising, if they ditch the webapp route and made a hardware device that is configured through the web, similar to picwing.
Lack of proper nutrition and exercise will soon make this point completely moot.
This is an opportunity for Scribd, they can now offer their iPaper for the affected companies (excepting competition, I guess).
But this one got all the essential features from the start.
About the origins of the equals sign
We reserve the right to kill accounts we detect using such things.
I like the fact that by default it looks like I always tuned my Opera to look! And it borrowed the home(new tab) page from Opera. Though, on second thought, I turned off this feature in Opera. I hope I can turn it off in Chrome?
'MythBusters' co-host backpedals on RFID kerfuffle
Can we all say hype? Chrome hasn't changed anything yet. More importantly, it comes with one unique and great advance - the fact that each tab is a separate process.

V8, beyond the hype, doesn't seem to do any better than the upcoming javascript engines from Apple and Mozilla. It may be an order of magnitude better than what is currently production, but it's in the same ballpark as what Firefox and Safari will have soon.

Chrome is wonderful and will probably be my default browser for a while, but it's evolutionary, not revolutionary (except for the per-tab processes). It will push the web forward faster as Google has some great minds working on it and it is very nicely polished and efficient. It just isn't game-changing or revolutionary - it's a nice evolutionary step that's a wonderful program to use.
Closest Look Ever At Edge Of A Black Hole | The Astronomy Blogger
A long list of css tricks and techniques
One route to do both would be adapting their app to iphone/android/other smartphones.
Job Interview 2.0: With those stupid Riddles
I may be wrong, but my understanding of the technology was that Scribd iPaper is a wrapper over Flashpaper. I remember reading that somewhere, but can't be sure ...
Meh. I don't want HN to be like reddit. For one thing, we already have reddit. For another thing, it's been overrun by the snarky eternal September hordes.
Split, Croatia is also great it's actually a medieval city built inside a Roman palace:
http://flickr.com/photos/pelle/sets/72157604400174148/

Close by is the island of Hvar, which is also pretty amazing. It was built by the Venetians as a trading outpost:
http://flickr.com/photos/pelle/sets/72157604497939272/

A great resource for someone wanting to learn about how these kinds of places help mold our modern business world, I recommend Nick Szabo's blog Unenumerated. See this post about Genoa for example:

http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2006/10/genoa.html
Why can't they just do the episode and keeping-in-line with past 'sensitive' topics like bomb making, skip over the part where they actually tell you how to do it?

Or would it even be possible given how easy it is?
Tallin is a great example of a fantastic medieval Northern European town.

http://flickr.com/photos/pelle/sets/544023/
Bankers vs Consultants
Yeah, that's speculative.
Also, plain 2D bar charts would be better.
I am doing research (on robotics) outside of universities and government funding channels. I contribute most of my time, and I fund supplies and several silicon valley salaries.

You can't really compare effectiveness against a university. The real product of university research programs is researchers who then go on to build real things in industry. So while in the short term I'm more likely to produce useful robots than academia, they will have more long-term effect by graduating hundreds of smart people who go on to build useful things in industry. The real measure of universities isn't how many things are invented within their walls but how many things are invented by people who were shaped by their university experience. Most people in my company did graduate research, so their respective universities deserve some of the credit for whatever we invent.
It may just be a hacker thing, but isn't everyone taking these interviews way too literally? They don't want someone who will always go for baroque when presented with a problem; they want someone who is at least capable of finding clever solutions.

It's a good proxy for IQ, which they can no longer legally test, but which correlates very strongly with job performance in a variety of tasks.
The cool part about that is maybe they could precompile stuff like prototype, jquery, etc and include it with chrome since majority of websites use some kind of framework. All it would have to do is run a checksum on the prototype js file and if it matches, load a precompiled version.

Then again, it probably wouldn't help too much, since most websites employ fancy packaging tricks to speed up javascript file load times.
That's very true. I'm guessing you used to work for ThomsonReuters/Telerate.

Monitor110 tried to be the Bloomberg killer and they had the street cred to pull it off. But they lack the content that traders want. So at the end of the day, content is one of the most key ingredients of any Bloomberg killer.
The reaction against the EULA is way overblown. It sounds like an astroturf FUD attack against Google by corporate opponents who realize that Google just hit one out of the park.
I have a passport case and a wallet from DIFRWear. I don't carry my passport everyday, but my public transportation card works with RFID and it's definitely not working when kept inside the wallet. Surely it could be read when I'm actually using it to get in the station, but once in my pocket there's no way to copy or read it.
I haven't had the occasion to try the shielding of the passport case either.
Captcha, Turing Test, and Semantic Web
GPS receiver design
This article will cover GPS receiver module design based upon existing chip-set, component and firmware/software sources.
Me and my shadow
Strolling down the avenue
Me and my shadow
Not a soul to tell our troubles too

And when it's twelve o'clock
We climb the stair
We never knock
For nobody's there
Is it just me or are most of those ideas a little boring? I don't see anything that would make me get excited as an investor.
I think you're overestimating the significance of a TC story :-P
ReputationDefender raises $2.6M in 1st round
"twenty-five years is too distant a payoff horizon"

And -this- mentality is what's disastrous to security planning. I hope people actually inside NatSec / InfoSec take a long-term view of things.
It would also be an incentive to stick with an older version of something. I think I prefer the "publicly hosted on a very highly available site" idea, but it's tough finding someone to do that.
Ruby Beyond Rails (IronRuby)
Dojo Multifile Uploader with Flash
Why Chrome is a win-win for Google
Who Wants Seed Money (Atlanta Y Combinator clone discussion)
U.S. Must Buy Assets to Prevent `Tsunami,' Gross Says
True - but too many of these problem tasks one hears about are so stupid that it casts doubt on the technique. I would much rather be asked to tackle a real world problem (in code or as a spoken exercise) Indeed, being asked to solve silly riddles would persuade me to drop a job application. I would class such things alongside graphology and lie detector tests as strong counter indicators.
This was bound to happen. The guy wants to keep his show, right? I certainly want him to keep his show.

And now for something completely different. Apropos of nothing at all, I was thinking the other day about how pretending to be senile and apologizing for it is a timeless legal strategy. It can also work well in family conflicts. I've known a few crazy-like-a-fox elderly geniuses who do a great senility impression. In a real emergency, they might even try drooling a little.
I've never been asked something like this in an interview. How much time do they give you to answer something like this?
That is one hell of a long (10 minute speech) brain fart there.

And my how eager to help all those corporations were, why they sound sad that the segment won't air!

Good news everyone, all the bad publicity has jogged Adam's memory and he now remembers things correctly.
Next up: The script to submit the same story to all sites and have your botnet vote it up.

Shortly followed by all sites being the same, as determined by the lowest common denominator.
To take advantage of multiple cores doesn’t require multiple (heavyweight) processes. A single multithreaded process would do just as well.

Not to say it’s a bad idea, just that we’ve got to remember that multiple processes is nothing revolutionary. A single thread for each tab would probably work just as well from a parallelization standpoint, but you’d lose the ability to kill one without bringing down the entire browser.
Every time I go to the south of France on holiday (I'm British) I'm always struck how many little intact medieval towns and villages there are. I'd recommend just hiring a car and start roaming about (or Train, the French do trains really well). You'll be tripping over them.
Orvieto, Italy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orvieto
That's the way we like it.
The Networking ABC's - A through Z
Google rescinds article of user agreement claiming rights over user generated content using Chrome
I agree. However, it seems like a fundamentally simpler to build a share-nothing system than a threaded one.
I bet that script already exists.
There was a nice documentary about the birth of the calculus, that focused on Newton and Leibniz's notebooks. It was cool to see them making up notation on the fly.

(A quick check of YouTube finds it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwZNg237x1M)
Test your Website: A 57-Point Checklist for Maximum Usability
So you’ve got a website, but do you know whether it’s usable or not? The answer to this question can make the difference between a successful site and one that’s just ignored. Go through this checklist to make sure your site is up to snuff.
That's exactly what I'm planning to do, but I'm hoping to make the process less random.
Hosting app images might become a business like hosting images and other media is currently a business. But hopefully, apps won't get that bloated.
Is our society now particularly corrupt, or has it always been this way?
This is what you want, This is what you get.
Why not just link link our identities to DNA, thumb prints, and other unique features of us? You want to withdraw money? Scan your eye here. You would like to apply for a driver's license? Spit into this jar. Someone will contact you in a week (or however long it takes to process DNA samples).

That way, the shadow can never really be separated from the person (or at least the difficulty increases). BTW, I recommend watching the movie Gattaca for an interesting take on identity theft of the future, when people are engineered and DNA is checked everywhere you go.
Scons - an autotools replacement and chrome's build tool
They may want to standardize grading.

They may want to see how broadly you can apply information (e.g. if I were asking someone a finance question, I would not ask them to talk about stock options -- I'd ask them to talk about trading water rights, or valuing nonsmoking sections in a restaurant).
I love founder stories, and I hadn't noticed they setup the background with a "quest which is romantically appealing to the target market". Do they? It's a great way to appeal to that market. I mean, if your purpose is to inspire, why not make the setup of the inspiration itself inspiring? It's like a comedian telling a series of jokes, which also setup the main joke.

But the "epiphany" in the article is not an answer but a question... It's a problem, a need, an opportunity - the call to adventure that begins a quest. Key is the compelling sense that if I could provide this thing, in this context, it would be fantastic! It's compelling to the target market as it was to the founder.

It's not just an abstract idea ("hey, tasty food!") but (1) customer need, (2) in a specific context, (3) unmet by competitors. What the article calls the "true big idea" is the answer to the question - the "epiphany" is the question.

I'd love to hear some more one-paragraph founder stories, if you have some...?

EDIT who needs founder stories when you can have jumping robots? http://anybots.com/videos.html#dexter_jumps_title
I can't wait to see what MattMaroon thinks about this one.
It may just be me, but what is the point of that???
For New Managers: How To Coach Them Out Instead of Firing Them
I've started two business (SmartFlix.com and HeavyInk.com).

SmartFlix was started sort of as an epiphany, and mostly as an accident - I wanted to watch some metalworking videos, and thought I'd recoup the cost of them by renting them out.

HeavyInk was started in a much more calculated way - we made a list of about 20 things that we could sell in a way that matched our core competencies (ecommerce, datamining, small item fulfillment, knowledge of USPS regulations, etc.), and picked one item off the list. It turned out to be one that was interesting to us (comics), but it was still a bit of a mercenary procedure.
Apple now rejecting iPhone Apps for "limited utility."
Ask HN: What is your work area like?  Cool desk or chair?
Can anyone recommend a desk and/or chair that would be comfortable for day-in / day-out computer work? or, What is your awesome work area like? Does anyone stand when they work?
> Some officers of the law had long memories. Henry Fielding's sightless half-brother John, a magistrate known in Bow Street as the "Blind Beak," was said to be able to identify 3000 different malefactors by their voices alone.

How did they know that he was correctly identifying them?
Where is DreamIt located? I can't find it on their website.
Google Chrome Will Challenge Some SaaS Providers
Oh, nm, I found it deep in their FAQ. Philadelphia? Yikes! (Not saying anything bad about Philadelphia, but it's not exactly known as a startup hub. You really do want to minimize the odds against you in a startup situation.)