skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made some good money during my college years buying furniture assets from failed/downsizing companies and selling them on CL. And got myself 3 nice task chairs for the home office (two of which I've since sold)... can't decide which I prefer, the Aeron or the Leap... currently sitting in a Leap.
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can somebody say "iphone app?"
can somebody say "iphone app"?
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Maybe those people were searching for "Y Combinator" - the higher order function, instead of "Y Combinator" - the incubator?
You mean like how they used a comic book / cartoon to explain difficult concepts in, oh, "Jurassic Park" or just about any elementary school in the USA?

"This might actually be one of Google Chrome’s biggest innovations."

I love Google, but this is a bit over the top.
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Austinite here... and I know about 10+ locals that regularly visit HN and follow ycom companies.
It is pretty nice; it explains things graphically, but you can read it at your own speed.

Still, I think that Michael is both exaggerating the comic books effectiveness and underestimating the technical merits.
No, not quite what I want. I want to be a provider of merchant accounts, as a intermediary for a bank.
Having an important piece of software that won't crash all the time is a big deal.

Various people tell me that they never experience firefox crashes. Good for them. I do, frequently. And, due to its very design, many bugs in its c++ core are potential crashers.
I think its more of an apprenticeship
Very nice. Works as advertised.
My mistake - but I think I have less responsibility as a commenter than a blogger should have as reporting a supposed truth and then circulating that. I saw the topic looked similar, read the first two paragraphs and thought it was going to be another dialog about how 'bad' the policies are. I wasn't too far off after re-reading it: There is a freaking setting to turn this off. It might be the default setting, but there are a lot of bad default things: Internet Explorer, for example.
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I didn't mean it in general, just as in a way to launch software. I bet journalists from the mainstream media even have more accurate tech details in their stories because of it.
A new EULA has been posted...

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

11. Content license from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
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they're pretty big outside of the US. So it's not exactly another ill-advised VC funding
I would give you double karma if I could, this gave me a good little giggle.

You sir, are both a gentleman and a scholar.
Recommendations come from a number of sources, some good, some evidently not so good. However, the bad sources will get slowly suppressed as the site gets more user feedback.

I'm working real hard on the algorithm right now to get the cream floating to the top sooner, and people's comments on HN have been really helpful.

Thanks very much.
Yeah, that's part of what I'm asking. I'm aware of a possible chicken and egg problem, and what I'm wondering is if MSPs/ISOs are generally underwritten by the providing bank?

It's very difficult to get information on this.
Lack of sleep, especially in the face of the scientific evidence of the damage it does, is not a badge of honor. Go to bed.
I don't deny this at all. That's the glory of capitalism! The problem I have is that I can't find a problem that I could do on the cheap legally. I'm heavily involved with finance and market data. I can think of numerous ways something like Bloomberg could be improved, but the costs are prohibitive when you consider all the data feeds. The only other idea I have managed to come up with is a Digg-like site with a social network aspect attached to it. The idea is people submit just like on Digg but they also make recommendations as to what would happen in the market. They then earn a credibility rating based on whether or not their prediction was accurate. The problem with that is this: I don't think there are enough people who would use it to make developing the site worth my time.
Great story about bay area start ups and... gumballs
On Vista I just get the message "The Tubes are Clogged!" and a blank screen.
So at what point of time do you and your cofounder stop developing Viaweb yourself and delegate it to your employees?
You can charge per transaction fees without needing to be the recipient of record for the transaction. But if you want to get involved in the moneyflow at the bank level, you have to jump through the hoops for being a regulated financial services company.

In my experience, if you are a software developer, it's probably easier and more profitable to be a reseller/affiliate of a financial institution.
They probably threw it over the wall to an apathetic and clueless legal staff. Looks like Google took a server-oriented web application EULA and slapped it on Chrome.
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Same thing on Server 2003
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So is your argument that bad default things are ok if there is a setting to turn them off? or:
That since there are a lot of bad default things already we shouldn't write/care about any new ones?
They could have just taken a shortcut and buy out AMD with their trillion-dollar fiscal surplus. Now would be a good time, with the AMD stock price cheaper than ever

(But of course, the US administration might veto the deal due to strategic reasons)
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yes but where are the teapots?
Chrome's autocompletion in url box a threat to privacy
Assuming that revenue scales with app quality...
Make it private and charge a hefty monthly fee to participate. Apparently in Wall Street scarcity and limited access is what makes people rich.
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Back in the mid 90s, before IE, Netscape was the "only" browser in the sense that every release was a new de facto standard for HTML. That was actually a good time; the web evolved very fast.

It would be cool if Google did that with Chrome. I prefer de facto standards to the type slowly and tediously produced by committees, unless they're overtly evil (i.e. create lock-in for one company), which this clearly isn't.

I've always wished we could go back to the time when someone just made more and more powerful clients, and everyone else had to follow or be left behind.
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I used the word "designed" intentionally. The 1.0s were not designed for web apps. They work, but that wasn't their intent. This is the first browser conceived for the purpose of running apps. It just happens to be backwards compatible.
Only if you're Balmer. Otherwise, you just need to sit in it.
What a masterpiece. Wikipedia at its best. Ia gabario po ruski, tosche.
My argument is neither. I am saying that people shouldn't be complaining about a feature that is common sense: You can't get search results without searching. Plus, it's not by design that you're forced. It's on to benefit the end-user not damper their experience and steal their information (even if that is in fact part of their overall agenda). One might find more to complain about stores and shopping malls that sell your information and purchase history: the only solution to those is to not shop there.
That's what I am trying to avoid. One of the problems I see with Bloomberg is that it costs $1500+/month/terminal. My idea involved the concept: data for the masses.
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In that case, wouldn't you expect the distribution to be more spread out than it is?
This is certainly good news for beginners, but for serious scaling, rails itself is almost never the problem.

The way this test was done was by making postgres sleep between requests -- in reality, postgres would become the bottleneck fairly quickly.

Not trying to rain on anyone's parade though -- it's great news for the small to medium sized rails-powered site.
Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome
I realized there's a PR war going on here.

This blog post is definitely emotional, and that's a very good things. Great technologies come out of emotion-driven work.
i like this, but what's with the odd name?
I did read that last paragraph where you say that I still have ownership over my content. However, I am still granting you a license to do whatever you want with the story. Meaning you can go and sell the top stories to publishers legally. I don't like this. I would make it so that you can only use it for promotions with prior written consent from the author and the only license I grant you is to display it on your site.
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Google co-founder expects Chrome for Android
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It's a big improvement. If they gave me Firebug in Chrome, I'd put a bullet in Firefox. :-P
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It would appear that TraceMonkey does optimization differently, and they both have a long way to go:

Here is what feng (@chromium.org) said on the v8-users list:

V8 has a simple compiler that generates dummy code ;-),
there are a lot of rooms to improve from traditional compiler optimization perspective. It does not even have a register allocator.

What V8 focuses on is the bottleneck of JavaScript: property lookups. You can read papers about inline caches (small-talk, Java, etc).

Some background in GC is helpful too, currently V8 has a generational GC.

From I knew, TraceMonkey is quite different, it does speculative optimizations, which is a very interesting subject of VM and compiler development/research. It requires a interpreter/dummy compiler to fallback when speculation goes wrong. In some sense, both does runtime speculation, but inline cache patches the code if it speculates wrong, and trace jit falls back to safe solution.
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I'm going on vacation soon and I'd like to visit some
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Pretty cool. Had a look at BCN and spotted my house :) Need to be able to zoom. What's it all about?
I disagree. I work with a brilliant coder who dropped out of high school.
Recipe for success

1- Followed link, 2- Like the UI and click on random thumbnail, 3- Started to listen, like the music. 4- Oops I have been listening for the last 15 minutes, Nice Nice.

I would have chosen a different name. What happens when you start to aggregate other services. You could be the FF of MP3s.
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I did consider the effect of investor searches, but I figured the ratio would be low enough to not make a difference of significance.

Then again, I've never been to a Demo Day.
The story behind Google Chrome
Somewhere around here I have an old paper comic book that was an ad for the TRS-80.

More retro than innovative.
Cuil Whipped. Cuil has dropped to almost zero usage share.
I've witnessed solo programmers writing brilliant but inscrutable code in Smalltalk. Bittorrent's code also fit this description for awhile. Someone who writes inscrutable code in J2EE in BigCo might do so because he's hobbled by their coding standards. But he might be one of those folks who is a brilliant coder but has no sense of what is intention revealing to those reading his code.
I expect, additionally, Chrome for Symbian, WinCE, and iPhone.

http://comments.deasil.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-could-be...

Google doesn’t need it’s own phone OS, they just need to get apps onto Symbian, iPhone and WinMob.
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Honestly, I'm still confused how the screenshots on google.com/chrome are KDE screenshots (or at least a Windows skin that looks just like KDE), but there's still no Linux distro.
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for now i want to use a package. been looking at uk2.net.. looks good but i have read so many bad reviews about their constomer relations and hidden costs, im wary. i think this might have been their old managment. they seem to use a new cart system now but it has not been tested much. any help would be appreciated
I've got to say - In my experience, industry-based qualifications are more often than not a counter-indicator.

This was particularly true of the Java certifications during the dotcom boom - it was invariably the sign of someone who really just wanted to cash in... Out of the ten hires I was directly involved with, 6 were Java certified and 5 of those were absolutely terrible.

It might demonstrate a knowledge of Java, but at a very superficial level - even if you take someone with the best vocabulary in the world, it doesn't mean they'll be a good author.

A degree is a bit different. It at least demonstrates - a probable understanding of the fundamentals, the ability to stick at something and a certain level of exposure to broad ideas... Plenty of good programmers won't have degrees, but it's not a bad indicator none-the-less.
According to this you're looking for a Designer not an Engineer.

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Looks like it's down for me.
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Very elegant. It's like the soundtrack to my, um, friends' lives.

Little fold-outs that reveal the text that accompanied each post/mp3 would be handy. Also, being able to save tumbltapes to a favourites list would be nice.

A couple of little bugs. First, it had the same track three times in the playlist, possibly because of multiple edits to a single post. Second, it didn't do a perfect job on extracting the band and track names on some of the songs. Both these bugs are demonstrated here: http://www.tumbltape.com/audiographical

Really good work.
I only use one criteria: demonstrated performance.
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Rather than spend $900 to several thousand on a sleep study, get a wrist or finger-clamp oximeter that measures the level of O2 in your blood - there are $150 ones that can log data for 24 hours and connect over USB. Sleep a couple nights with it on, and if your O2 level drops under ~92% for any amount of time, you probably have sleep apnea or a similar disorder.
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That's a good question. I want to say start with python 2.6 and get the fundamentals under your belt, but at the same time I picked up PHP right in the middle of the transition period to PHP4. That said, my best advice would be to start with 3 and have all the new concepts right away.
I dropped out of highschool too; my point is that a degree in a technical discipline, from a tough school, will filter out many people who are incapable. It's the low bar to jump over. But by no means will all of the brilliant people have degrees, nor even decent looking credentials, on paper.
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I just visited Krakow in Poland - My impression of Poland before going was very biased - I still locked into a communist era view of Poland. When I arrived I was just stunned at how beautiful the place was.

Fits the bill reasonably well. Very prominent in earlier history, but fell out of prominence in 1600.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakow

Despite auschwitz being down the road it escaped bombing in WWII - and whilst the communist era didn't help, recent restoration efforts are simply stunning. Amazing amount of fantastic architecture in a very compact town. The town centre, including the castle is UNESCO listed.

It's one of the nicer places I've been to in Europe. Also.. It's not quite a prime target on the tourist radar yet - which can be a big plus.
It is sad that so many superstitious people keep wasting their money on these snake oil scams.
Normally my friend, I would agree with you.

But with 90 tabs open, 25% of them with heavy JS and the system still stable, Chrome itself very responsive, no mis-rendering of sites so far, flawless import of bookmarks and settings, bookmarklets working out of the box, etc.... I think this one is worth the hype.

To think what Safari or Firefox would be like under such a load, not to mention how it would bring the rest of the OS down with it.....
They do have to have your permission to do any of that - you have to agree to the EULA.
Probably not because the kind of person who would be interested in a Y Combinator would most likely be situated in high tech industries or more esteemed universities which are located in Massachusetts and California.
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The $109,000 price can only be locked-in until the end of 2008. I think it can reasonably be anticipated that the 2010 Tesla Roadster will be $119,000.
Nice read. I hadn't considered the idea of vesting for the founders before. Sounds like a good idea though.
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Every time someone does something like this, I think "that was a good idea! Oh well, there are no good ideas left now".

Will I ever learn?
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Thanks for the bug report. It actually looks like those are 3 separate posts, at least thats how tumblr's API is treating it.

As far as song names, its really tough to extract them, since people actually write content about the audio and its not always as straight forward as artist - track name. We make our best guess, but you can specify a title and track name using our tagging system. On the tumblr post, hit "advanced" and add a tag in this format "tt:artist - track name". That will take privilege over the text guess.

Thanks again. We really appreciate the feedback.
They've recently opened a Tesla showroom on El Camino just north of the Stanford Mall. I wonder if they have any cars to test drive.
next: Google netbook?

It's perfect for Google's client-server model. The only reason they wouldn't do it is if they are happy with what others are doing in the space - such as the eee PC. But Google wants it to be cheaper, because that means more users, which grows the internet market for google.

But as soon as google others aren't doing what would benefit google,
out will come the google netbook - it's surely in development already, just as Google Chrome was.
I don't think we have seen any down time yet. All systems look alright at the time of writing and have been stable throughout the day. Try it again. Thanks!
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On a related note - anyone getting serious with Hadoop can run it on Amazon's EC2 service.
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...

Hadoop is packaged up as an image for EC2, so it's pretty quick to get going.
i think this whole flash killer stuff is still overblown. 1 word: video. how about another: sound.

adobe has a strangehold on web-media and that's not changing anytime soon.

truthfully as a geek i'm excited about chrome, but as a web developer annoyed that now I need to test with another browser.
have you heard of youtube?

looking at the stats, i'd say 100% of youtube users is by far better distribution than anything google could get with a link from google.com
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This is sort of silly. Cuil never got above "almost zero" usage share. There was a horribly ill-timed splash during launch which resulted in a lot of visits for a week or two--they were obviously way too early, since most Cuil searches are disappointments. So, none of those user stuck around.

Cuil was stillborn...it hasn't "dropped", because there was no room at the bottom for it to go lower. The chart just shows a spike like the one that happens to every new startup that gets some press.
So it doesn't apply to Chrome, but they say they use this EULA on other services, which I would think would be just as bad.

Every email I send through Gmail is Google's? Every document I create with Google Docs?
Yeah... Also, my natural instinct when I saw the article was to think "scale and performance aren't the same thing".

Not saying this isn't a good thing in itself, but scale means a lot of other things.
Even for large sites this (combined with other rails/ruby improvements) is a huge gain.

Because each rails app server can only handle a single request at a time, you have to spawn more and more instances of rails. Each of these instances consume 50-200MB of ram. Being able to have a single app server per server means I can stop spending so much on ram (or use it for other purposes).

So at a large scale, this will be a large impact because it will reduce the number of mongrels/thins/... you have to run.