skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this is a good thing to add to the poll but I've always had a funny feeling about the importance of experience in programming. Some people learn faster than others and can get 10 years' worth of (average) experience in 5. I think that a more accurate metric would be to find out how many different situations, defined as working with different platforms, languages, markets and libraries, a person has been in. This would probably need to be coupled with the person's IQ to guesstimate how much they gain from each change.
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Have you read the spec? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol

That's essentially what this is... with a verification service and web based UI to help bootstrap it.
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The same could be said about OpenID and OAuth providers like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. The idea of having a centralized authentication provider is definitely not a new one. There are many advantages to using 3rd party authentication providers. The biggest security advantage 3rd party auth providers have is that they do security right and often they implement their authentication service using a commonly defined protocol. Many websites that choose to roll their own systems make many security mistakes and many people use the same credentials on many sites. So if any website is not secure authentication a user's login information is likely compromised across multiple websites because people generally use the same credentials.
Anyone can, but from the looks of it, a site chooses to trust one at a time.
also, i think Jobs will tackle TV just because it is so challenging.

he wants to put a dent in the universe... what better way than revolutionizing TV?
also, i think Jobs will tackle TV just because it is so challenging.

he wants to put a dent in the universe... what better way than revolutionizing TV/computing?
How about just calling yourself a community ("We are a community passionate about liberating and sharing useful data on the web.")? Everyone understand what it means, it has a familiar touch to it and very few would oppose it as being to web2-y.
Nah, I'm not offended. And he was talking "to me": He said "You", which means anyone who reads the piece is being addressed directly even though it doesn't have my name in it. I would be perfectly happy to read a piece by him on why he left his job and such. I imagine that's a compelling story and would most likely go a lot further towards inspiring real change and inspiring the target audience (whomever that might be) towards actual action than this piece which is basically crabbing at them and assuming the worst about them.

Peace.
This is full of fail. Your email address is not your identity. I must be able to change my email address without having to change my identity.
> Well, when comes to UI, the less is better for users.

So you would remove the back button in web browsers, right?
pros:
* good mobile apps
* offline support
* as good a selection as anyone here in Scandinavia
* great shared playlist support
* you can create a link to songs/albums etc..
* facebook connect

cons:
* music can be missing / disappear (guess we should blame the labels..)
* some music can be available in some countries but not others (guess we should blame the labels..)
* you rent and don't own, so if they tank or you quit you will loose "your" music
* "related artist" feature sucks, but there are some last.fm integration web-apps
* a lot of the artist info are missing
* album dates are sometimes off (click on the album and look at the copyright)
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One huge problem: Email address != identity.

I should be able to change my email address (and/or email hosting provider) without changing my identity on a bazillion sites around the internet. Facebook got this right from the beginning. Google is sort-of getting this, although the chasm between Google Accounts and Google Apps Accounts makes this really messy.

Really this product should be called BrowserEmailAddress, not BrowserID. It doesn't serve identity.
It's not interesting to compute nearby place recommendations based on everywhere a user has ever been? And everywhere the user's friends have ever been? In 200 milliseconds or less?

Whatever your bar for interesting is, it must be pretty high.
I'd be down for an online class too!
Sounds like Larry knew what he was doing.
They care about THEIR artists' rights, and by that I mean that they only care after an artist comes to them and agrees to their license. Until then, they'll play that artist and claim DMCA, even though it should be very straight forward to ensure this music doesn't end up on their platform.
Sorry, quick note about your design: your links aren't distinguishable at all from the rest of the text for those of us that are mildly colorblind. I have a page at http://robsheldon.com/colorblind with some examples, if that helps.
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I usually put my credentials in a separate include file and then filter it out with gitignore.
I think it is important to remember that there are many of us on HN that are not very good developers (i.e. inexperienced), but we do have connections in the US (and business experience). I know that I, personally, would be able to mutually help people with talent in situations you describe.

Slightly off-topic sidenote: I live in Boulder, and would give up a room in my house for free for the right person involved in Techstars, if that would help. The trade-off would be help me learn to be a better programmer.
look at the comments on https://plus.google.com/106189723444098348646/posts/dRtqKJCb... (larry page's original post). why do people do this? i'm assuming they're random people on the internet. why do they feel the need to publicly associate themselves with a huge company's quarterly results? is it something like wanting to be seen with the cool kids at school? it goes on and on - pages and pages of "google!!!11!!". their own fragment of the american dream? or maybe people within google jockeying for visibility? perhaps people comment ironically - a bit like photobombing?

i suppose you could respond with "andrew, why do you post on hn asking q like this?". and i guess there's some kind of cachet in not being in the crowd. but i really do find it odd. i can only imagine myself making a comment like that if i was in some kind of super-happy-smashed situation like a great party. the context just doesn't fit. are those people really all "hey, yeah" in their real lives at this moment? weird, man.

also, is g+ going to implement vanity urls?
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Oh, I thought you were saying that you have to sign for NFC but not for swipe transactions. It makes more sense that you don't have to sign for either.
sounds like tracking to me
On the other hand, expertise in information retrieval is a very valuable skill that allows one to penetrate (if not cover) spheres of knowledge previously considered the domain of experts or connoisseurs.

I remember my introductory writing class in college where the professor emphasized how important it is for students to know how to use external sources, libraries, indexes, catalogues, etc. It's funny that nobody would ever question whether using libraries would negatively impact our brain. Why then, in 2011, people still ask this question about Google? Answer: gerontocracy is afraid of being replaced by a younger, smarter generation.

Of course diversity of sources is important, but then any smart search engine user has figure that out already.
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The source article is way more informative: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/language-from-games-0712....
They don't have editors.
Techstars means nothing to the rest of the world. And a Harvard MBA means everything to the rest of the world.
There are two separate things here. Using the terminology from http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works , you have:

1. Primary Identity Authority. This is a host (i.e. the one in your email address) that supports BrowserId. This is fully decentralized.

2. Implementation Provider/Secondary Identity Authority. For now the site has to choose one to trust, but once your browser has support it becomes the IP, and when your host becames a PIA there's no need for an SIA.
Sure, let me dig out the one where I'd win.

(parallel conversations here ;)
It's not just to create scarcity, but for people who want to try it and aren't creative enough to go find an invite, it probably means higher conversion into paid subscriptions.
I agree that email address != identity, but nothing would stop a site that uses BrowserID from allowing a user to change the email address that they use on that site.

It's very similar to the countless existing services that rely on email for identity... you'd just have to verify ownership of the new email address (usually through a confirmation email).
This already exists, but the UX is terrible and there's a chicken-and-egg problem in getting it fixed in every (deployed) browser.

http://www.gnegg.ch/2008/05/why-is-nobody-using-ssl-client-c...
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Was that... was that a blink tag?
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I guess that would work, but before it was just the debugger, so it could fit on the other monitor with a terminal, Adium, and iTunes fine. With all the extra chrome for a full window it will still take up a lot more space.
Ubiquitious facial-recognition software is coming.
Not always. Sometimes Google has the 'Did you mean: x', so you don't even have to do that.
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Thank you. I wasn't writing about dinosaurs :)
Most of the oauth services I used allowed me to create an account with ... an e-mail and a password.

Literally the same thing, here.
This was in no way motivated by a moral consideration on my part. I do not see it in the moral context at all. This was an issue only because of convenience and ease of use for my significant other.
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We don't disagree. However, we've found that hub, community, collaboration are all words that make non-geek eyes zone out.

One of our high-level mandates is to demystify the discussion and use of data so that non-technical people are able to contribute in a meaningful way.

That means no acronyms, no "push requests" and going for familiar idioms.

Again, suspend judgement until you see it!
If all your applications exist in the browser (say you're a lover all Google apps) then yes the back button in the browser might drop you into your spreadsheet, your email, etc.

Google has simply extended the concept from web apps to regular apps -- and that's hardly a big stretch -- especially when all your regular apps can link to each other.
Have you concidering that this ping-ponging is actually people doing natural search patterns that they prefer. That they'd rather not be controlled and funnelled when browsing content. The equality this design gives allows you to emulate the old fashion store experience.
Why don't they just categorize apps like desktop linux on Catorise on the n900?
Looks like they just re-implemented something that's already been done by OpenID... Mozzila wanting their share of the user pie?
(Yes, another reply to one of my own comments.)

After looking at your blog, I see that my example above was basically the geodata version of http://blog.buzzdata.com/post/7535032009/25-great-links-for-... . I think I'm in love.
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I'm happy for Google and it's success, but everyone's measuring the wrong statistics. Raw number of users isn't nearly as important as their interconnectedness. Facebook started at one school, moved to three, etc. Each new user was likely to encounter a number of people they knew using the service, and there was an instant value proposition for them. I don't get that sense from G+. Sure, there's millions of nerds on it, but I don't know many of them. Currently I have 3 real life friends using it, and a few people from school. The rest of my interaction with G+ consists of following people like Matt Cutts and Guido van Rossum. Don't get me wrong, that's an awesome feature, but I don't see it as being sufficient to bring the NORPs on board. I wouldn't be surprised to see G+'s growth plateau after the early adopters have all gotten their invites, until there's some value proposition for the current facebook/twitter crowd.

On a tangentially related note, how awesome is it that there are 10 million early adopters out there?
Off-topic:

You've got two typos. The {first,last} option should be "{Less,More} than {6,20}0K".

I've always wondered about this particular typo. I've caught myself do it but extremely rarely. And that's just me being occasionally erratic. However, since you've got it twice, I'm wondering: do you even know that it is incorrect? I have this theory that those who learned to speak English before learning to write it never had to pay attention to this.
The biggest expense is typically human clinical trial where you're looking at a figure in the high hundreds of millions.
I can do two better:

1. Give us good feedback on the things you care about, and we'll listen. We're a small team and we're listening to everything people tell us.

2. We're specifically not providing tools that create visualizations. There's a hundred startups and software products that already do this. BuzzData is where you put your visualizations and articles and apps when you're done.
Ok, but only In the same way that typing in a username and password on a website allows them to track you.
My thoughts exactly. I actually respect the thinking process which is: rather than invent something from scratch (some new user ID), let's use something that everyone is already familiar with: a traditional e-mail address.
I was the primary developer of Sparkbuy. Dan is one of the most sports-ignorant males I've ever known. I'm just proud he used the term correctly.
Sure, every website can implement this flow, and users could could go to every website they've ever logged into and update their email address... assuming it all works properly even though they might not have access to the old email address anymore.

At the very best this technology offers considerably less value to websites and more hassle to users than Facebook or Google. And it's about 5 years too late.
But they aren't fundamentally different procedures. They are different use cases of the fundamental "change tree" procedure.
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I doubt they're counting once per recipient, but people could easily be sharing 100 items on average if you count photos , reshares, and +1's.
And was already submitted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2762783
fair enough

i think all programs/institutions etc are what you make of them

there are students who go to Ivy Leagues and soak it up and there are others who f* it up

likewise, there are startups who learn a ton and excel in an accelerator and there are others who flounder
Or better yet, the conference paper:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/civ11.pdf

Very interesting.
You are correct in that some shortcuts do require a click, and I suggest you file bug reports with Apple (I've filed a few). I believe that since Xcode 4 is quite new, they just haven't gotten this far yet. I, for one, would love a keyboard shortcut to jump to the definition of the symbol my insertion pointer is in; but I've gotten so used to cmd-clicking the symbol that at this point, I probably wouldn't use it.
I understand the sentiment but simply because a solution doesn't cover all use cases (users must be able to change email addresses) doesn't mean it can't be usable. Also, we constantly use services were you cannot change your email address because that's how the system identifies you, so this dependency of email addresses isn't new at all.

(One work-around would be to use an disposable e-mail address service and redirect your emails as needed.)
That must be how they are counting it. If larry page shares or +1's 10 things, then it would count as 1M shares.
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Something like this already exists. Your browser can already identify itself with a certificate.

The interface is ugly and cumbersome for the non-technical (even in Firefox) and I don't think it's used very often, but I know that MIT issues certificates to students which identify them to all MIT's web applications, as well as third parties like the Apple and Dell student discount pages.
Absolutely. I'm finally able to share techie stuff with people that care, and personal/silly stuff with people that care, and sometimes those 2 sets intersect, and sometimes they don't.
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It's not that simple. They authenticate against your Account at Browser ID. I would assume you can go into Browser ID and add / remove email addresses from your account which makes it even easier when you change your email. Now you don't have to visit 20 different sites to update them.
Safari uses Cmd-Shift-{ and Cmd-Shift-} to switch between tabs, as does Xcode. However, you can change them to whatever you like by selecting Preferences->Key Bindings and searching for "tab"
Your description is too vague to generate an answer to your question.
http://zingchart.com renders in HTML5 Canvas and/or SVG, so it will render on older Androids that don't have SVG support. Also VML for auto fallback to IE6 w/out need for ExCanvas.

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Actually that's an interesting point, because Google Apps don't do that. If you're in Gmail and you open a spreadsheet, it opens in a new Window/Tab, so that it has an independent history. Ditto if you click on a link in an email. This approach gets you separate histories for your apps. You don't get an awkward single history that links across your mail and spreadsheets and random websites. You get separate histories. The exceptions are when you choose to manually enter a new URL, or if you hit back enough it will take you out of Gmail into whatever you were doing before.
Same here. That's basically what I suggested here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677140

Email addresses are typically controlled by a third party, so it doesn't make much sense to me that they should be equated with identity. Would you equate your identity with your IRL work address?

On the other hand, private keys are held only by the person whose identity they represent. They are a better way to represent identity because they do not rely on third parties.
You can try it live at http://textchannels.com/ . I like it , it's pretty simple and neat. Easier than oauth login.
You're implying that a company that encourages open-source contributions sucks at pay, benefits, health plan and stock. You should know that generally startups, which by definition encourage more open-source contributions, have comparable pay, benefits, health plans and stock after their first round of financing. There's more risk in theory, but the numbers since the financial crisis are against this theory.
Isn't one of the advantages of this system is that your password doesn't get stored by the website? Just some type of token? If their database gets stolen or leaked, they shouldn't be able to hash attack your password and gain access to it since it's not there.

I'm just assuming it works this way, as passing the password along would defeat the security of the system and make you more vulnerable.
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A savvy investor would wait for the market to cool off in a bit and buy at a much lower price. We haven't seen $600/share since March, but if you see how these things operate over a duration you will see that after most spikes there is a pull back. Wait for the pull back.

EDIT: Also, options expire tomorrow (3rd Friday of every month), so there is ample manipulation opportunity.You can get an idea of what's going on in the options market here:

http://www.google.com/finance/option_chain?q=NASDAQ:GOOG
They seriously need to work on their communication skills. It took me a good 15min to figure out what this thing actually does. And I'm still not sure I got it right. OpenID failed because it was too complicated for mere mortals. This, I fear, may be too confusing. At least form the way it's presented.

After reading the protocol spec, I have a somewhat better understanding of this. If I got this right, this is basically what this does:

* asymmetric crypto authentication in the backend.

* control over email address == authentication.

* allows a trusted third-party to authenticate the user. This could be a user or a web service (like browserid.org?).

* falls back to regular email authentication we see every day.

I'm still unclear how you can securely verify email ownership thru cryptographic means. Anybody care to explain it?
From the author of the poll further down:

my NYC salary of $176,000

That explains (to me) a lot the choice of ranges for the poll. $176k seems to be on the high-end worldwide.

Overall, because of the buckets and the problem with the wide variations over location, the results will be mostly useless. However, it's still getting upvotes (though much less than actual votes on the poll), most probably because of the fact that most people really want to know how much others are making. Is it because they're not sure they're being taken advantage of?

The salary taboo is an odd thing if you think about it. It's really at the advantage of the employers and employees overall would most likely all benefit from knowing how much others are making. Also, they are a lot of regular people whose salaries are public (engineers, nurses, doctors… working for local governments for example) and their lives are fine :) Yet, it's hard to even ask how much somebody makes, let alone share yours.
I think that part was more about eliminating small frictions. It would be much more difficult for Amazon to convince you to pay for 2-day shipping on every transaction, but by offering you Prime, they're eliminating the small frictions to keep you from paying them extra on top of your other order and still extracting another purchase out of you.

The article wasn't discussing whether or not it was a "good value", it was discussing how Amazon makes you spend more, which it does.
There's a huge trend of engineering managers to take things in control to avoid this. Every time I had an HR person between me and a candidate they managed to screw something up. Here're some better job boards.

http://wearenytech.com/jobs (New York based)
http://careers.stackoverflow.com
For now. There's a hiring crunch on which is driving up salaries. If/when that ends, expect to see them trend toward the population mean.