skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I somewhat agree. I saw little JS performance difference b/t chrome (on XP) and the latest nightly build of Safari (Webkit).
How about "That raises the question..."?
"I spent a good half hour on Jay Is Games, as flash games tend to push browser & system perf to its limits"

cringe
Think it's worth it to open up the executable in a hex editor looking for strings along the lines of "pr0n mode"?
I'm not disagreeing with you, but it's interesting how willing we are to cut Google a break. When they do something that sounds evil, we just assume it was an oversight and that they'll fix it. Imagine our reaction if Microsoft released something with this clause in the TOS.
i love appjet. too bad i don't read slashdot anymore :-)
Google Chrome Global Market Share: 2%
Simple command line todo list manager
What do you mean ?

Are you using the standard Windows installer or the buildbot waterfall ?
How can I get in on this scam?
The browser is amazingly fast, clean, well-designed (great Omnibox) but the comic-book-style explanation... really? That little digitomb took away whatever load-time I would have saved the rest of the week.
On a P4/2.4GHz with 768 MB of RAM running XP (spare pc).
JavaScript Performance Tests - http://dromaeo.com/

Google Chrome - 705.00ms (Total),
Firefox 3 - 3303.40ms (Total),
Safari 3.1.2 - 3888.20ms (Total),
IE7 - Crashed the browser on "base 64 Encoding and Decoding v122" test. It was also very slow on the 1st 2 tests.
I own uglyfatty.com, do you want it?
Plugins for Chrome?
I'm interested in what it would take to develop custom plugins for Google Chrome. Has anyone looked into this, and if so, is it possible to create something like Adblock/NoScript or at least Greasemonkey?

I'll be frank about my intentions here... I would first and foremost like to see Chrome subverted to serve users (like me) before anyone else (including Google). I have grown accustomed to an ad-free, relatively secure browsing experience with Firefox. However, a Greasemonkey-like interface would also have some interesting implications for doing more on the client side than was possible before due to V8's performance.
"... it doesn't look native to Windows." Ha! Most Windows apps don't look "native." I don't even know what "native" means, because it seems even Microsoft can't even keep it's apps consistent with each other.
I tried to choose "Add" from my Firefox search bar, and it seemed like it worked, except the results of the search don't actually show up.
"...their client base is certainly not statistically relevant to the Internet as a whole. But"

That's a big ole But
Problem Inversion
Beating Microsoft for their lack of taste is tiresome. But this little case study is something we can learn from when building web applications. What can we do to make the problem our problem and not scold the customer?
Redefining the American Dream
that's an interesting theory... but in the greater realm of the internets, how many people really use adblock, and is it really making a dent in advertising (compared to the likes of click fraud & link farms)?
Your post is misleading. You cannot build a usable application for OS X.

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2008/09/platforms-and-prioriti...
The Evolution of the American Suburb
Question: are you guys offsetting Google's server usage as well? And if not, why wouldn't I just use Google? Seems like it's better to avoid using extra energy in the first place, rather than using and subsequently offsetting it.

Side note: damn Alex, you've got quite the academic resume ;-)
I've been messing with domain names using the word "green" and I'm just amazed they were able to get something that's 2 syllables with "green" in it. Thanks cybersquatters!
Woah! I had no idea about the "application" feature of Chrome! That is so simple, yet so ingenious!

Try this:

Go to Gmail, then when it's loaded, in the top right in Chrome go to Page -> Create App Shortcut and choose a location (say the Desktop). Then go to the location, and "open" the application. It's like an actual Windows app!
Not close to being a startup by then, and it worked out great for them?
It's completely open source. It wouldn't be hard to fork it and add in ad blocking. Google controls their own specific branded instance of Chrome but that's all. Hardly the stuff conspiracy theories are made of, though.
Is Wikipedia Becoming a Respectable Academic Source?
Last year a colleague in the English department described a conversation in which a friend revealed a dirty little secret: "I use Wikipedia all the time for my research, but I certainly wouldn’t cite it"...
Seems a little light on actual content. Hosted version control? It's a good idea, but not exactly 1/2 of a 1-2 punch combo for this sort of thing. Putting your stuff on github won't magically free up more time.
Dear Rob,

Try adding it to your search bar now!

Best, Alex
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Security ROI
Thanks, it's fixed!
What you said might be true for "meat markets" and frat boys involved in contests to see who can bag the most chicks. But that's not all there is to casual sex. Even in meat markets, the "currency" is usually fun, not status. You realize girls like sex too, right?

Most casual sex is not cold and impersonal. In my experience, it is usually between friends with some kind of emotional connection (just not necessarily a romantic one). Sometimes with people we could be monogamous with, but at a different time/situation (e.g., she was 10 years younger). Sometimes you just want to express your feelings physically ("a hug without clothes" is a term I've heard), or perhaps it's just a moment/situation you want to enjoy.

One example: imagine playing ultimate frisbee and having total synergy with a girl on your team, leading to utter pwnage. After the game, you two are still in sync and hopped up on adrenalin, and fun ensues.

That's hardly the status seeking meet market you describe, but it is casual sex. Do you also object to casual sex of this nature?

Incidentally, concerning self esteem and casual sex, have you considered that it might be low self esteem leading to casual sex rather than the other way around?
Exactly.

Some people have this sort of double standard with Apple, too, but it's surprisingly common with Google.
Google Picasa adds tag suggestions based facial recognition
Ask YC: Best hosted comment system?
I need a hosted comment system that supports the following:

1. Import my existing comments from Wordpress.
2. Take care of all the user/spam issues.
3. Be able to fetch the comment list and count via an API.
4. Add some kind of other value (user pages, threading, etc.)

I want to like Disqus. Really I do. I like their philosophy, and their site is nice to use. They seem to do it all so very right. And yet, I find it hard to trust their service when the Wordpress plugin is so badly broken out of the box. (Parse errors that make me wonder how anyone's actually using it with a stock PHP install, not to mention very broken markup.)

Tangler, IntenseDebate and SezWho have also been recommended. I've also contemplated some kind of automated system that would let you choose your favorite social media site (HN, Reddit, Digg, etc.), and then auto-post and just get feedback there.

Anyone with experience with any of these care to share? (Or, anyone from Disqus wanna fix the broken?)
the tabs, buttons, and address bars fall away and the Web app looks pretty much like a desktop app. Welcome to the cloud era.

and also:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292159
Thanks for correcting me. I'd better do some more reading before jumping to conclusions outside my education.
Given the evidence you have, you may be able to find a lawyer who will work pro bono. Given that they've done to you, the settlement might be never work again type money. At least spend some time checking into it.

By blogging you're opening yourself up to lawsuits. Now you'll be spending the same legal fees but with the good result being $0.

You're absolutely insane not to sue if half of what you say is true.
Clearly he's a bit of a donkey. He has multiple exits yet is still broke. He put himself in a situation where this could happen, which is ridiculous in and of itself. And rather than doing the proper thing (suing someone who seems to be clearly in the wrong and violating numerous laws) he's blogging about it and exposing himself to legal action.

To put it another way, there's no way I would hire this clown.
wimmin's lib emasculates men if they choose to listen and accept it.
The BlackBerry Brain Trust (old but interesting)
California High School's Offensive Scheme Adds Randomness to Football
There is a difference and for every non-DOM js benchmarking suite I can find, it's about 3x in favor of V8. It's most impressive.
Lifespan decisions
The Astronomy Blogger
Ask YC/HN: Are there stats on the success of Y Combinator startups?
I'm really curious about two things - how many firms have been through the Y Combinator program (102?) and how many have received some type of funding or been acquired. I couldn't find those stats in some Google searches, but I'm hoping they are as readily available as allowable.
It's open source, and ad blocking is the #1 requested feature of browsers. There's probably a reason why it isn't baked in to start, but it will get added.
You probably want to time against fgrep (grep -F). When you're searching for simple strings, it's often faster than the regex grep.
Or else they just didn't make supporting Silverlight a priority of the initial release.
Great feature. Unfortunately, Adobe have a patent (http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/5546528.html) on dragging tabs to create new windows. They filed suit against Macromedia over it in 2000 (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/2000...).

Hopefully Adobe will be good sports this time...
More and more people are turning to plugins that restrict and/or disable scripts and third-party content like AdBlock Plus and NoScript--not to block ads, but for security reasons. I think Google wants to fix the security problems in a different way so that their Javascript- and third-party-domain- based utilities can function.
Poll: Have you downloaded Google Chrome?
I noticed that at least 10 of the top stories (and certainly the first 6) on HN today were all about Google's new Chrome browser (http://google.com/chrome). I wanted to get an idea of how many HN users had actually downloaded it on the first couple of days after its release.

Additionally, use the comments to let us know if you plan on keeping the browser as your primary browser (at least for a while).
I have downloaded Google Chrome
I have NOT downloaded Google Chrome
Another Month, Another Startup
I did see all 3 tweets you sent about this, but I didn't get a chance to respond yet.

>> Parse errors that make me wonder how anyone's actually using it with a stock PHP install

There was one line that would result in a parse error if your server does not have shorthand support enabled. Syntactically correct, but compatibility oversight. It was fixed a while ago and will be included in the next release tonight.

>> not to mention very broken markup.

What's broken about the markup?
Machine, equipped with AI, goes on to learn how to eat children and other small mammals and print roads
2% market share claimed in 1 day? Thats a great start I say.
I have the same issue. I'm looking now to see if I can adjust it...
It looks like 21/102 so far have died without raising more money. The rest either raised money, were acquired, made it to profitability without raising more, or are currently live and either raising money or planning to soon (e.g. few of the startups from this summer have actually closed rounds yet).

Ultimately the failure rate will be higher than 21%, obviously, but it will be several years yet before we know what it will be, because it takes 3-5 years to be sure how a startup is going to do, and the median YC-funded startup is 15 months old.

BTW, 2 of the 102 (Parakey and Justin.TV) were ordinary asynchronous investments and did not participate in any YC cycle.
Sorry, buy I find this statistic extremely hard to believe.
Its kinda of hard to say. I wouldn't worry about chrome toomuch yet since browser adoption seems to happen very slowly. I'd be a lot more worried if FF3 copies these features.
Woah! I had no idea about the "application" feature of Chrome! That is so simple, yet so ingenious!

It's a feature in the next version of Safari as well: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyctim/2568406483/

It's sorta funny because in the past people complained about sites hiding browser chrome and rejoiced when browsers let you disable that Javascript feature; now it's reversed and we're excited to be able to view sites without browser chrome.
There is no version for Linux, so I haven't downloaded it.
IANAL, but may I humbly suggest (from what little I know) that the poster take this down, seeing as the consensus here is that this post might hurt your case?
There's a report on reddit about poor DOM (specifically innerHTML) performance: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6z9xo/introduci...
That does /not/ say that add-ons are discouraged, merely that they chose to make a browser on their own because current add-ons (and backward compatibility) would restrict their power if they had chosen to revamp current browsers.
That would be the most ridiculous reason they would want to develop a completely new browser for.
God Bless You, Brian McKenzie, Whoever You Are
Although this is true and good, I really really really want AdBlock.
Oh yeah! I forgot about those. Now I can use Opera. Well, I could if I used Windows. Any auto-updating filtering proxies for Linux?

http://www.proxomitron.info/ was the old standby
I fear that in practice it won't dent IE at all and only hurt Mozilla.
I'm assuming it's because Google isn't using webkit's JavaScript implementation.

Also, who knows when google grabbed the webkit source or when the last time they synced with the main site was.
Chrome tops IE, Firefox in Acid3 test
Congrats Nick!
No anecdotes or data to support a priori dismissal.
There's auto-suggest for javascript object names in the Firebug-esque console. Unfortunately you can't drill down into the object as far as I can tell.
Disk is the New Tape
How two students built an A-bomb (2003)
totally disagree. the day will come very soon when you will be able to run heavy apps like Google Earth in Chrome - and we all know that you will NEVER be able to do that in Explorer.

Now, maybe Google Earth is not enough to make people switch, but 1 Internet user in 5 is already using Firefox with no marketing budget and no branding (vs Google being the #1brand in the world)

And if Google Earth is not enough, what about porn with no buffering? :)
Firefox uses more resources than my GNU/Linux installation.
That could equally well describe any essay. An essay is not a report on a controlled experiment. You have to work to decide which parts you agree with.
s/Linux/Macintosh/

(Note: This is a statement of personal fact, not a recipe or a principle. ;)

I haven't had the time to try it in emulation yet.
The splash the pond strategy.
Nope, Linux user. Love chrome love for me.
Platform dependence.
When sites hide chrome, it's bad. When apps do it, it's good. The obvious difference is that (most) webapps don't use the browser chrome e for anything anyway, so removing it just makes the design less confusing and cluttered. Not to say that apps shouldn't make the chrome work for them....
Minor difference:

$ time find * -name '.svn' -prune -o -type f -exec fgrep joe \{\} +
real 0m0.365s
user 0m0.162s
sys 0m0.183s

But that opens up another can of worms--at least 50% of the time, I'm looking for something more complex (sometimes I'll search for the haystack first using a string, and then switch to a regex to find the needle once I know roughly what I'm looking for). From a productivity standpoint, I think just always using one (probably ack since its output is more readable, though I tend to use grep unless I think, since I haven't been using ack for very long, and ten years of habitual grepping is a habit that dies hard).
Web Marketing Checklist
google earth has worked in internet explorer since May.
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-earth-meet...
Google John Aristotle Phillips.

He was a princeton student in the 70s who designed a nuclear bomb as a junior paper, and built a rather realistic mockup in his dorm. It was published and placed in the library alongside the other junior papers, until the FBI came and confiscated it.

http://europeancourier.org/terrorism_05_21_2006.htm
Are you talking about eyeballs for search?

Because that'd be included in the above estimate ($120m p/y for %100 of the market) assuming they're paying mozilla fairly for defaults.

Do you mean something else? Like eyeballs on the browser itself?
Learning some of the secrets of Emacs and its applications for creating magic with numbers
Very interesting. It's long been said that getting the material was by far the hardest part. I guess this gives the exact date for when that was determined.
No need to open up the executable, the source is available, it should be trivial to grep it.
JuicyCampus Expands Its Libelous Gossip Machine
Ustream’s RNC Coverage Embedded Into Google News
140 characters is probably approaching some lower bound of what is required for an interesting story. 140 characters, while conforming to the length of a text SMS, would probably be too brief...
Lest anyone get the wrong idea: Perl has very nearly the nicest and most automagic Unicode support of any language I know of--despite this interesting quirk of Encode.pm. Perl is certainly stronger and more complete than Python, which many consider "good" Unicode support. Ruby doesn't even try, and Lua is about on par with Ruby. I'm unfamiliar with Java, though I imagine it must have pretty good support, and C# is too new not to have had Unicode from the beginning.

It is, perhaps, unfortunate that there are these subtle ways to shoot yourself in the foot in Perl. It's an accusation that is leveled at the language in reference to more than just Unicode, and not always unfairly.
Safari has had the "drag tab for a new window" feature for a few years, and Apple hasn't had any problems... yet. Of course I doubt Adobe would want to mess with Apple, or Google for that matter.
Funny you should mention Digg/Reddit given the nature of your other comment on this thread.
I don't understand how they're not getting sacked left and right with no linemen. 7 yards isn't that far.
I played with it a bit but uninstalled it shortly there after. It's nice and very quick but it doesn't have nearly enough functionality or versitility yet. I'm sticking with FF for the time being.
I have downloaded and tried it on my wife's PC. I use a mac normally so I won't use it until it can do FF style add-ins.
One(actually a couple) thing I noticed in Chrome and felt ugly
Mozilla Firefox loyalists(or fans or simply users) will have a small problem if they want to switch to Chrome. A very important option in Mozilla Firefox is inverted in Google Chrome. The "Open in new tab" option and "open in new window" options that appear during a right click on a link in Firefox have different order in chrome. In firefox the "open in new window" appears first and "open in new tab" appears second. And in Chrome its the other way. The Chrome way is right. Since users would open pages in new tabs often and its placed first. But I have got so used to Firefox that I just can't stop myself selecting the second option in Chrome and I endup seeing a lot of new windows :)

And there's no Google Toolbar to bookmark to my Google Bookmarks (which I would like to do if there are no plugins API for others to develop a Delicious Toolbar)

Google can include another option so that pages can be viewed from Google's cached versions when they aren't available.

So for now I would wait till Google releases a plugin API, so that others would start developing plugins and then switch to Chrome
It's called building a reputation. If a company consistently does the "right" thing, people start to trust it and give it some leeway when it screws up. Unfortunately for Microsoft they have pretty much ruined their reputation as far as I'm concerned (most recent example of a MS screw-up is the OOXML circus).
Downloaded. Nice. But I've got used to Firefox. So not going to switch until there's a plugins API
I'm talking about targeting eyeballs for ads.

By owning the browser, Google (who a media sales company) know more about you, and can generate a better yield for their customers (ie, advertisers).
the "send usage stats and crash reports to google" button was checked by default in my version.
Daydreaming is a part of just creative thinking, using your right side of the brain. You can say its even a form of meditation,
I'll try it when they pry Linux from my cold dead hands. Or when they make a make a Linux version. I'm hoping for the latter.
China aims for petaflop computer in 2010
True. Shows how much reputation is worth.
dev.chromium.org mentions that you can build it from source for Linux. So you can try it out :)
Hah! My identity is not actually secret at all :) But you're right, I'll put up a link to my bio/blog soon enough.
Sigh... pg and I are different people. Really.
Google Chrome initial impressions
Claiming rights to everything that passes though your browser is a stretch even for Google. It can't be right.
they should take an extra day and make it look better
Well the article was saying is that from a developers perspective, it is the bottom chunk of the market (IE6) that determine what he can or can't do, not the top.

Assuming of course, that whatever he's doing needs to run on all computers.
Anyone know which icon is Chrome using when it makes app shortcuts? For my site it used favicon but it definitely used a bigger icon. I've looked at Gmail's favicon.ico file but it's not a multirez one.. it's just a plain little 16x16 icon...
La PSU se mantiene para el 1 y 2 de diciembre - Portal Académico
A Short (and Bloody) History of the High I.Q. Societies
MySpace Logs Record Audience, Adds 2.5 Million Users in July
Justin.tv Teams With Chicago 2016 for "Live Chat With Michael Phelps"
Let's say for the sake of simplicity that there are 1 billion Internet users worldwide. (I believe this understates the population, but I can't find an authoritative stat quickly. [1]) Did 20 million of them successfully download, install, and start using Google's experimental, heretofore secret, Windows-only browser today? 12 million more people than downloaded and installed Firefox 3 on its record-setting day? After the enormous effort expended getting to that record, both in a concerted registration, notification, and PR blitz? Factoring for the late start, relative to many non-US timezones?

I'm going with no -- more specifically, not even close.

1. http://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+internet+users+worl...
The article's title refers to randomness, but most of article deals with the fact that the A-11 formation allows more possibilities of who receives the ball, which seems to be the critical factor that improved the teams win rate.
Another browser. Sorry, no. I'm comfortable where I am.
a11offense.com says it's approved in 40 states. What does that mean? Do the rules of football change from state to state? Would it be legal in the NCAA? How about the NFL?
Ruby on V8
Interview with the creator of Pac-man
I don't think having fewer than 5 linemen is a legal formation. The article is confusing in it's explanation of the formations. If you look at the slides of the plays (link at bottom), there seem to be at least 5 player on the line of scrimmage.
The part about randomness is a red herring. They are choosing from a larger set of plays than is usual. The article implies that this is somehow akin to randomness, but I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I do remember some research on using random selection among plays in football to improve offense. Maybe the value of random selection diminishes as the number of possibilities increases.