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>If it's not complicated, why do some Android users complain about it? If it's as intuitive as you say, shouldn't everyone be happy with it?

Don't you think this is a silly argument to use against Android's back button when the post we are commenting on is a complaint about iOS's home button? By your logic, that should indicate that the home button's behavior is not intuitive and complicated... you know, because somebody complained about it.
The brand identity inherent in a product's packaging is called "Trade Dress", and it's a protected form of intellectual property just like trademarks.
Yea it was weird that the author kept bringing that up when none of the people in the story had thought about it or seemed to care.
How did OpenID fail (it's widely used)? How is it complicated for the user?

Properly implemented, OpenID looks like this to the user:
http://springpadit.com/login

And something like this for the average developer:
https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth
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I wonder how much longer the big losses at Bing will be allowed to continue.

The Yearly growth in Google's revenue this quarter alone is almost equal to the entire annual revenue of Microsoft's online division.

Google is growing at 25-30+% while MS online grew 14% in the spring quarter.

And it costs MS about two dollars to generate a dollar of revenue online.
can you explain why this is easier than oauth?
"Everytime you judge a person in more than 5 criterias he will be able to do pretty well in one.
ando losy in the others."
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Holy shit people still use Moveable Type?
How to transfer Facebook friends to Google+, but do you really want to?
Do an online poll and ask people "Do you know your openID" vs "Do you know your email". Users are trained to use emails for login, and that's a significant investment already.
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Email is a tool whose value lies primarily in my ability to communicate with other users. Many people (including me) have several email addresses that we use for different purposes. That an email address can be used as an identity is something of an afterthought, and doesn't really fit into the "have multiple email accounts for different communication purposes" paradigm.

My Facebook account is an identity first and foremost. People do not typically have multiple Facebook accounts (a TOS violation). If that account goes away, that identity goes away.

You might make an argument that websites should allow you to aggregate multiple identities (Facebook, Google+, MS, Yahoo, etc) into a single account, or that there should be some sort of an identity provider that creates an aggregate identity across all those services. To an extent some of these websites are already doing something like this peer-to-peer - Facebook is an OpenID consumer, for example. Maybe sometime in the future this will be a big issue. But right now it isn't, and email-as-identity is already an annoying problem.
I've seen several long-term UK contracts for £800 a day. Especially for someone with a niche technology, but also rarely for generalists.

That's a rate as advertised by recruiters, so try and get another 12.5% on top if you could go direct.

That would be about $340,000 a year (allowing for 25 days holiday over the year).
hobby project? nice work
Not sure if this is a username troll, but at this point many people had the stuxnet code, so all that would have happened if they didn't publish their findings is that it would have increase the risk to our power plants because it made it more accessible to the people that are actually in the position of defending our power plants, whereas enemy clandestine intelligence agencies would have the motivation to analyse the code anyway and re-purpose it for an attack.

Furthermore, even if Iran does make WMDs, they do not pose a serious threat to Israel or the United States. Their delivery systems (missiles/rockets) are very antiquated and can be reliably intercepted and a suitcase nuke has extraordinary low yield. And even if they somehow gain the capability to effectively use their WMDs they would not do so due to MAD.
That was a brief failure of communication when OpenID was new.

Have a Google or Yahoo account? Your email address is your OpenID. Of course nobody is going to manually enter an OpenID URL. Why would they need to?
And that "one data structure" is a directed acyclic graph of objects, where an object is one of four kinds:

- blob (like a file)

- tree (referencing trees and/or blobs, like a directory)

- commit (referencing one tree and other commits)

- tag (referencing a commit)
Well, it actually did. Compare the Firefox 1 UI with current FF5 browser you will notice how much the UI has changes, simpler and cleaner, and the history-back buttons are gone.

FF1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox_1_0_8.png

FF5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Firefox5.png

Remember Netscape?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Netscape_Navigator.png
Yep. That is exactly how you solve this problem. I've done this with Lucene and then searched either the regular field or the reversed field depending on the wildcard query.
The issue there is that you're still anchoring your index to one end of the string which means you're not solving the general problem, only a specific manifestation of it.

A general example would be given the string "foo bar baz", your solution could find "foo%" or "%baz" efficiently, but not "%bar%". Its not out of the question if what you really want is a suffix search, but the general problem of finding an internal substring is still less than optimal.

Edit: Formatting
- No need to register your application with browserid.org

- No need to use an oauth library (just 1 GET request)

- Oauth provides access to user data on the provider, while browserID provides no data. Less anxiety for the users.

- No request_token/access_token pairs

- In the future, the user will (hopefully) be able to change his default browserid and as a developer you just don't care.
"My Facebook account is an identity first and foremost."

Now imagine 5 years ago you said "My Friendster account is an identity first and foremost."
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Major healthcare IT companies like Centricity and Epic already provide iPad apps for physicians to use. drchrono says their biggest competition is paper charts because everyone that already has an electronic records system would rather use an iPad app provided by the same vendor.
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Some of us are a lot less than 60k :)
It sounds like Separation of Concerns[1] applied on a larger scale. Software is easier to manage and more flexible if each piece does one thing and does it well, with as little overlap with other components as possible. This is what makes OOP a good system for designing large programs. I helps people separate out the various components so that maintenance is of many small pieces with clearly defined boundaries instead of one large piece with none.

Separating out these services into their own "apps" is like splitting up classes. It's a natural and good way to increase maintainability and flexibility.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
While I've seen the usual batch of tech early adopters, I've also seen a large number of high school and college friends that are not in tech who have accounts and are using them. Granted, it's nowhere near the facebook level of penetration but my actual interactions with friends on it have been of higher quality (I barely use facebook so that may have a strongly confounding effect on my results), largely because I can control who different types of content goes to.

I think the pervasiveness of G+ is going to go a long way in continuing to drive adoption and use. Facebook feels like a place I go to waste time, while G+ is always there when I'm inside of anything google (and between gmail, calendar and search that's at least once or twice an hour).
i was hacking around under the covers of Mixpanel's 'Platform' a while back and if memory serves, they wrapped highcharts into their api for that product.
The implementation at browserid.org returns the email only. So there's no way to change the email without visiting all the sites you've registered in using browserid.
Dude you are a writer for Wired.com. I'm not surprised that you would bristle at my criticism.
Yes, this is legitimate criticism of git's philosophy.

However, in practice i have seen those broken revisions in svn just as well. People forget to add untracked files or they skip the final unit test run. Basically, I believe your criticism is theoretical and no problem in practice.
Fast forward another ten years. Do you really think typical websites will still ask people to create usernames and passwords? I predict that the current trend of "offload that crap to Facebook/Google/BrowserID" will continue. Even BrowserID.org makes that assumption.

The question is whether a BrowserID identity is as useful as one of the established identity providers. You start out with a chicken-and-egg problem; websites won't consume BrowserID if users aren't using it, and users won't use it if websites aren't asking for it. What will overcome this Catch-22? Techwise, the dependence on email seems less compelling than Facebook or Google auth.

Maybe BrowserID can rely on mass distrust of Facebook and Google. I'm not sure that's sufficient though - especially with Google.
"FWIW, I'm not a core contributor or anything like that, I'm just a guy who's made a hell of a nice living using Drupal.
"

Would you mind expanding on that. Do you offer a plethora of services or focus on one or two things? A friend of mine set up shop building small sites for local business with drupal and is always tell me how great it is.
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thanks, I thought you meant it was easier _as an end user_ and could not see why.
Alot of people derive pleasure from seeing a product that they use yield success to its company. They're called fans (or the more derogatory term, fanboys).

Organizations relies upon these types of fans to spread the word about a product, service, or concept that they deem worthy of sharing. It's how our consumerism world goes 'round, and this association gives fans an ego boost when the rest of the consumers catch on to what they're fans of.

Maybe you associate more with the "hipster" type of fan-- one who is an early adopter and decries the product once it "goes mainstream". If you like something that no one else likes, perhaps you jealously guard it, never mentioning it to anyone else. Once it goes mainstream, you trash on it, proud of not "being in the crowd" and (as in this case) shaking your head in disbelief at the humanity of it.

tl;dr: "I liked Google when they were BackRub at Stanford. You'd probably never heard of them."
There's so much more demand in US. They got companies like Microsoft, Google, Intel, AMD, Oracle, etc, plus the combined demand of VC-funded startups.

There's no equivalent market in other developed countries, not even UK, Germany and Japan.
See if you can defer your Harvard MBA for 1 year and try to do TechStars. That way you can try your hand at entrepreneurship and still have the Harvard MBA in your back pocket if things don't work out in a year.

From the Harvard MBA website: How long can I defer my acceptance?
Candidates should submit applications only for the year they plan to enter the MBA program. Postponements and deferrals are granted rarely and are considered on a case-by-case basis.

So it is no guarantee that you can defer it, but if you can, I think the deferral route is the best option.
Good for them and I think the best is yet to come. I view Google's work on robotics and automated vehicles as a secret weapon. Should the future consist of semi/fully automated vehicles (a very realistic possibility) Google is going to have a warchest of patents, licenses and technology that will generate tons of cash.
That's my hope as well. I can see G+ actually being a productivity enchancer, rather than destroyer like facebook.

YMMV on the non-geek uptake. I have family members in tech who are all over facebook, twitter, linkedin, and whatnot who still haven't signed up for an account on G+, so we'll see what happens in the coming weeks.
that's a good comparison. i'm just surprised people are the same with companies - particularly with google. people here in chile are pretty fanatical about football, but i can't imagine them posting the same kind of comments on, say, some mining company's web page. so what's the difference? is this specific to web companies? social media [i guess maybe this]?

thinking more, i guess it's the whole identifying with brands thing. so google is now like apple or nike? again, i suppose it's obvious, but i wasn't aware that google was that kind of company. i guess it changed? what do people own that they've got from google? could it be android that's driving this? what's making people identify with google?

going back to the "hey yeah" feeling. i've felt that with sport, sure. but do people really feel it with quarterly earnings? this isn't just snobbery - you grow up with a football team. i don't think i would have known what quarterly results were until i was, say, 20. can something you learn that late connect in the same way?
I was excited to try it, but the Linux desktop client apparently doesn't work for free subscribers. Tried it on iPhone, but that requires a paid subscription too.

Oh, well. I'll go back to Rdio, Rhapsody, MOG, and all the other established services that do the same thing for cheaper.
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That's nice, will sleep better ;) Seriously, what's your 1-paragraph pitch? Too many general words on your web site.
I'm not saying that identity management won't be an ongoing problem, especially if large repositories of identity rise and fall with fashion.

On the other hand, email is already known to be an unstable key for identity. And the "market" for identity providers is a lot more mature than it was 5 years ago. Besides, what if Friendster had established itself as a public identity provider 5 years ago? Maybe we would be using Friendster instead of Facebook today. Who knows.
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Taking a further look: while just looking at the most popular options' strike prices, there are 10,141 put options at a strike price of $500/share, and there are 7,736 call options at a strike price of $550/share. I find looking at the spread with all the details interesting. I suspect most of the people modeling this are paid to keep it proprietary. I wish I had the talent, because it could probably start a fascinating discussion on a site like this.

EDIT: put option numbers were incorrect. Time stamp is ~6:30 PM EST.
There is a reason the majority of news sites (well, any good news site) limits the width of text; wide text is hard to read. Although the HN version that lists everything with just the title is great, but the actual post display is awful, even though it's supposed to be inheriting how HN displays posts it should still be limited :(
btw, the term "revert" has a pretty standard usage in most version control software, including Subversion, Mercurial, Perforce, Bazaar, Darcs, Monotone, Fossil, and AccuRev. Why did git not only invent a new term for discarding uncommitted changes, but reuse "revert" to mean something different?
I don't read TC much, but this has got to be one of the coolest things i've seen all day.
According the the paper, they used Freeciv, because it is open source and they could modify the source code. Their source code is available here:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rbg/code/civ/
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> On the other hand, email is already known to be an unstable key for identity.

Would be happier if there was only one company that provided email service and you were only allowed to have one address? That's essentially the situation with Facebook.

You're free to apply whatever constraints you like to your use of email. An email address is as unstable an identity as you make it.
Looking at the slide, with my limited accounting knowledge, it seems Google has managed to decrease the total cost of expense which contributed to the increase in revenue from Q1.
Oh that is very very cool. Now Arianna will no doubt sue the crap out of you but still, it makes the site usable which was not something I thought was practical with just reskinning.
that's the kind of criticism i was trying to fend off with the second paragraph. it's more surprise that anyone would do this than disdain for the other team. i think. but maybe i do need to get some skinnier jeans.
You can't pull off a four-finger swipe with one hand unless you aren't holding your phone. Maybe on the iPad, but it's practically worthless for handhelds.
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It is not. Taking the liberty of grouping C with C++, you get the most popular language in existence.

http://langpop.com

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
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If you know how to fix that problem, then you're in the wrong business.

Also, if you want to level that criticism, I suggest you spend a few minutes trying to understand what Vertica.com is offering. :)
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Read through your link, and here's just an observation -

> BrowserID is a decentralized identity system

BrowserID effectively links identity an email service provider, and while I realize that not everyone shares their emails with Google, a vast majority of people still does. That's not that much of decentralization, is it? Practically speaking.

(edit) Added practically speaking... and ease up on that downvoting, distinguished HN comrades. Non-natural post scores hurt my feelings.
Interesting that in the demo video he used in-browser Gmail vs. using Thunderbird.

I realize its nitpicky, but figured for a demo like this Mozilla would use the opportunity to showcase all their offerings in the workflow.
Does Google really have any of that? The automated vehicle tech was entirely from the DARPA Grand Challenge / DARPA Urban Challenge teams who 'solved' the autonomous driving problem years prior. Any patents and licenses are owned by those teams and the universities they come from. From the articles I read way back when it sounded like Google was just working with those people to hook their systems up to Priuses with no mention of developing anything of their own. Maybe I missed it in other coverage.
I can't imagine that Larry had a major impact on the revenue in his first quarter in charge.
Mathematically you're right that every choice of buckets is arbitrary. But with same size buckets it is easier for humans to see what's going on.
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Good way to describe those 1-off/advanced initiatives. It really does seem like a hedged bet in some cases and a great way to keep people inside the company engaged/curious/thinking outside the box.

I thought Google was also doing significant funding (and research?) into high-efficiency solar panels.

To me, all of these efforts smell (in a good way) of some VERY forward-thinking people. Autonomous cars directed by Google technologies (Google Maps, showing Google Ads to the driver while engaged on an Android-based, internet device) and powered by ultra-high-efficiency solar panels is a future you can think yourself towards if you are ambitious enough and sitting there fitting pieces together.

Not saying they are going to get into all those industries, but it's not like these 1-off efforts are focused on optimizing vacuum cleaners to compete with Dyson or making the world's most resilient non-stick pan; there is some tangential connection to a greater future image in all of it, even if it's a vision 20-years-off.

It makes me really happy to know that there are people in this world, sitting around just trying to poke and prod the limits of what we know and drive us forward, even if the future ends up taking a slightly different shape.
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They don't equate with identity but give a way of communicating with the user using a different channel. In a world of passwords this allows that password to be reset.
up to 45% !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Tax_Germany_2010.pn...

But remember that you only pay that on the last step of the income, to get to 40% of real deductions from your wages you should have a monthly pay >20000€
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But it's not like he joined the company last quarter. If the launch of g+ indicated anything, google is speeding up.
That's what I was thinking, especially when I read this part:

"The CMS has to be everything to everybody. Wordpress has to optimize for both the cat-picture faithful and the ring-bejewled, hair-fisted mogul. Moveable Type has to work whether you are running a lad mag or poetry journal. This is an impossible proposition."

Expecting every (?) CMS to be the end-all solution to every possible content situation is ridiculous. It would be nice/neat but that doesn't seem to be quite how it works—is that idea akin to expecting every vehicle to be able to perform every type of situation available? Expecting your family sedan to also be the workhorse carrying materials and whatnot?

What if you only wanted to ride a simple bicycle down the street and not have to worry about a more intricate/heavy one? I use different CMS for different things though admittedly, that makes it harder to master one in particular.

http://www.thesecretary.org/ - For portflio type sites.
http://staceyapp.com/ - For incredibly simple sites.
http://textpattern.net/ - For most other things.

I do feel as if CMS have kind of stagnated for a bit and am a little tired of most so I'm thankful for the author bringing Netsta to my attention—it looks interesting.
That’s not only funny, that’s also why said difference is currently meaningless. The ten million users are also active users. The interesting question will be whether they will still be in a month (or, alternatively, whether Google+ gains so many new users that a few million lost active users don’t matter).