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or, for these particular people -- just use a fake name. Not starpony76, but Mike Jones or Jane Smith. Google does not need to allow starpony76 to allow you to be Mike Jones or Jane Smith. They will happily allow you to be perfectly safe as Jane Smith.

Conversely, don't post anything publicly and lock down your profile. My profile on G+ has my name. That's it. If someone "found" me on G+, they find my name. If they are stalking me, they already know my name I would guess. They won't get anything else unless I choose to give it to them. Which is broadly similiar to me choosing to email something to them. Don't message your stalker!

There are plenty of good positive reasons in the "pro" camp for allowing any kind of name someone wants to call themselves, including starpony76. But there are also plenty of good reasons to oppose it. Like not having a network filled with ridiculous spammy, crude, borderline offensive names just (primarily) because people like being clever.
Yeah, I agree. The parent post makes it sound like there is some other force in a company that can be blamed other than the employees. I suppose someone might say "management", but to me it's all the same.
It's conceptually identical to electrical heating: an electrical heater is 100% "efficient", in that for every thousand watts of electricity it consumes, it produces a thousand watts of heat.

A "data furnace" would be cheaper per watt of heat produced, if you could find someone to pay you to perform computationally expensive tasks; with the downside of significant upfront cost, and ongoing maintenance. (Replacing fans, harddrives, etc; while an electric baseboard heater is more or less maintenance free.)

Except it's supposed to be a replacement for central forced-air furnaces, not baseboard heaters; which means it's directly competing with MicroCHP[1] in both up-front price and form-factor; a comparison it's going to lose, price/heat-watt wise.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_combined_heat_and_power
Ok, so when someone is being stalked by someone they simply don't get to use the Internet anymore. I guess that really was a pretty clean solution: deleting them from modern society and isolating them from the friends and support groups they rely on, and telling them that they certainly shouldn't tell other people about their problems or oppressions in public, does quite rapidly sweep that whole issue under the rug. Wish I had thought of that one...
If nothing else, Google's recent rework of the way they do apps accounts makes this an instant win for me. It's no longer been possible for me to have my reader open (logged into personal account) and my work email open in the same browser. I'm a new customer for that alone.. and it looks like there are plenty of other things to be excited about here. Thanks!
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I didn't use it much until I found you could interact with it via an API. This is what got me using it: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GRAY/WebService-Google-Reader...
If you're a Google Reader user you may want to checkout this Chrome extension I built that enables full content feeds. It adds readable content or iframing of feed entries. Settings are per feed or folder and are transparently built into Google Reader.

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Thanks latch. You're right. I genuinely feel like an idiot for asking such a vague out of place question in this forum.

To save myself some embarrassment though.. I did outline that my use case was "web analytics" and "real-time". I also suggested I was looking for high level insight.

Still though, I can understand how you might be confused. Let me be clear. I based my expectations on this list:

http://kkovacs.eu/cassandra-vs-mongodb-vs-couchdb-vs-redis
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I figure some of these app companies buy there own in app purchases so they can work themselves up into the top grossing (or other) list in the Apple Store and sell more. The feedback loop then becomes the "business model".
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I'm a member of a private(you have to pay a fee in order to get in) investment forum, where entrepreneurs have the possibility to publish projects and the members can invest in them.

Tracking the projects in the forum is difficult and messy, especially for the people who publish projects(they waste a lot of time looking trough different threads). This produces a lot of communication problems so I think the forum doesn't fit to do this task. Some examples:

- It's pretty hard to measure things about the project.

- Sharing private information.

- Pending requests for information, confirmation...

- If an investor is interested in a project he has to post in a "project investors list thread". This always causes at least two problems: an investor forgets to add the previous entered on the list and someone has to fix it, some investors don't want to appear in the list, so they send a private message to the project manager, and then the project manager has to update the list.

So I'm thinking about building an app to solve this problem and I'd like to know if there are already similar apps in the market. I've made a search but I couldn't find something similar.

I'd also like to ask you what do you think about the idea, I'm improving the problems list and then I'll begin making some mockups before customer validation. Pricing the app wouldn't(there are different ways to charge for the product) be easy but a nice thing is that I'll charge a minimum amount of the money a project receives.

Thanks for your help and sorry for my bad english. Please let me know if there's something you don't understand.
If you don't like someone's name, you don't have to circle them, and you can always block them if they insist on commenting on your public posts (which they probably won't be doing anyway).

(Oh, and if they are spam, please report them as spam: Google cares a lot about ridding spam, and that is an entirely separate issue from "starpony76".)
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A few internal emails detailing possible corruption would be a start.
While I think your statement has good intentions, it is simply not sustainable.

Even Robin Hood needs to eat someday.
That is interesting... I've never heard of this before.

I do wonder, now, if this is a common practice of trying to game the system.
I believe that was a requirement by USPS. The guys in the DC office all prefer MooTools over anything else. Check out elderscrolls.com and some of their other sites.
That visualization is not very readable. It's neat looking, but kind of horrible. A regular2d grid with countries across the top and meanings down the side would be wat easier to read, especially you wouldn't have to look up what the letters/number mean.
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"Crunch is the unavoidable result of poor project management."

Unless it's the result of on purpose project management. I suppose some companies would see a pretty good deal in paying people for three months to get five months worth of work.
Exactly. But I mean, some folks might be 99% happy with it, I'm 60%.
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That's why I'm just some schmuck posting on HN, and Google are the ones with the globe-spanning enterprise - because they're better at finding answers to tricky questions like that than I am.

If I had to guess, I'd say "use the name attached to the circle with fewer members", because I imagine a lot of people will have a few big circles for reading by content, and a number of small circles that represent their actual social circles.
I've been thinking about this lately too. I think it could be beneficial to have something like the co-founder wish list (spreadsheet) where people can post easy tasks they don't have time or skills to tackle (test this app on android, take inline CSS and consolidate it, add Ajax, document this etc). Maybe a twitter hashtag too. Put it together and link to Github through their API. Issues in Github can have labels, so maybe if you submit a repo to the site and have issues labelled (easy) they get pulled in and people can pick off issues they could help with.

Ultimately, of course, this doesn't solve your problem. However, it would address the issue nicely since this question is asked repeatedly in many places around the web.
That's funny because I was planning to set up on documentcloud this week. This is beyond awesome, and if you do not become insanely rich from it then there is no justice. I had grown to dread the Reader page, and you've made it enjoyable again.
Unless the administrator of your work gmail has disallowed it, you should be able to stay logged in to both work email and google reader.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-multiple-sig...
The biggest issue here would be they would then probably have to make google the default browser in ie and phones, making google more money. Also you would have to think there might be something in the yahoo deal to prevent a sale.
May be I have been doing it the wrong way all along. I've used 'ant install' for build/deployment. Is that a horrible way for deployment? Does Eclipse deploy it faster?
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Too many questions. Narrow it to 3-5 actual questions, get a better response rate for the surveys that you put out, then ask more questions individually when your audience is engaged.

Question 8, Price. Nobody is going to answer 50k to your question above without you showing them the pain point. People often do not know what they would pay for things. Especially when they do not know that they need it - yet. Show them a pain point (10M/year spent on customer service phone calls). Show them that your software has saved others money: hard data, testimonials, etc. Now that you have shown them that you reduce call volume by 10% and that you can save them about 1M/year you put a price on it. Now 50k/year for your software seems like a bargain (20X value).
Every single thread I read at G+ would be filled with their names, its not my public posts I'm worried about -- it quite possibly destroys the value of everyone elses public posts for me. There would be no escape from it, I am not going to block every SEO EXPERT XChange, Mr Piddles, Big Johnson, L33tB0Y username that would innundate every well known and heavily followed G+ user. I'll just get annoyed instead.

I am not comparing the trauma of tasteless names everywhere to being stalked -- but it would quite possible keep me from wanting to use the site. Along with a lot of other people. Which also has the effect of causing the person you are talking about not wanting to use it, either.

Any name you want was allowed for Buzz, and was certainly a turn off.
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Yes, but as long as there will be people no knowing about that, there will be room for such freeloaders.
Exactly. I've always wondered why large data centers are not used to heat the office space they are housed in. Last winter, I visited a data center in Norway and was kind of stunned when they answered my question about the excess heat with "oh, we just blow it again out through the aircon duct". By re-using the heat energy of a server farm, you're essentially using the same amount of electricity twice - this should be a real no-brainer (especially considering all those companies who are currently in the process of making their office towers "green").
I think by now the terms vi and vim are all but interchangeable, except in a context where you specifically mean plain old Bill Joy vi.

On some systems vi is aliased to vim, so you would appear to have both, but you really just have vi. Even on systems where full vim is not installed, the "vi" installed is cut down vim.

I worked in Centos for awhile and vi was aliased to vim, but that might have been a local practice.
I've always wondered: isn't travelling to the past the same thing as making matter from nothing? That is, since then there would be two copies of you.
In his latest book "zero history", William Gibson writes extensively about the festo as an urban espionage and tracking device, quite Brilliant.
When I see these comments on HN I usually expect to see 80% of the commenters 'booing the guy off stage.' More often than not there are maybe 2 or 3 comments that represent what is referred to the 'the number of comments/commenters' with other commenters also going 'wtf' to these people.

Is it really that 'disheartening' that in any crowd there will be at least a few people with differing opinions?

Also note that while the one guy rails against it as destruction of property, he also rails against the building designers and the council for not improving the situation. His comment could be summed up as, "there were poor choices made all around."
The problem is that there's no agreement on which applications suit one or the other technology better. NoSQL proponents act like most startups should just use NoSQL by default and the SQL guys say the exact opposite. So who really knows which technology is right for your application?
I'm not sure what I think of the article: many of the points being made didn't make sense to me. But I WILL say that I work for a major bank and we run 100% of our web applications on Tomcat. And it works great. The more expensive options (including JBoss which costs us money based on our contracts with RedHat) offer extra features, but they're not features we want or need.
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There was some real science done. Then the media took it and ran with it.

Spoilers: the real science did not in any way involve time travel.
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The Times misses Microsoft's strategy. You don't need to be better than Google, just be good enough so that when Google screws up, they can swoop in.

Microsoft losing $2.6B is like me dropping $5 on a crapy sandwich.

Microsoft has successfully executed this strategy several times.
Kind of, I always saw it as leaving this universe irreversibly and entering an earlier version of it from out of nowhere. But since atoms don't have unique IDs, it's no problem to have two (almost) identical people beside each other.

Also, contrary to popular fiction, the past isn't changed only because a blundering human is transported into it, it is already altered by the mere introduction of additional matter into a system that would have evolved differently without it. So, if you want to change the past, transport a single proton back 2 million years into some swamp. Of course, that would be pointless because nobody would ever know what changed...

The real conundrum is what actually happens to the "old" universe at the instant of traveling back into the past. Is everything that happened between those two points in time erased? Or does the old universe continue as if nothing happened and a new parallel one branches out that is of no consequence at all? In the infinite universes theory, time travel would merely amount to "jumping" into the "right" neighboring universe (however, personally this whole business with infinite branching parallel universes always seemed like a wasteful and inelegant model to me).

All these theories have one thing in common though: things change only for the time travelers themselves. So for meaningful time travel, you would have to be able to transport whole beings across a doorway in spacetime. Twice. In the right direction. Given the known conditions near theoretically surmised holes in spacetime, that's not an easy task. Atoms: maybe. Huge fragile collections of unstable molecules: probably not.
They called it a battery firmware update, but they meant the pages of settings you can change in flash. I was able to dump raw memory from the chip, but I could never figure out which generic microcontroller the battery controller had been built on top of (at least I assumed it had been built that way), so running code was a nonstarter.
My understanding is that neither Azure nor Office 365 are in the online services division. Azure is part of Server & Tools and Office 365 is part of Office. btw, Hotmail (and the rest of Windows Live) isn't part of OSD either, it's counted as part of Windows. OSD is pretty much just Bing and MSN.
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What kind of support is that, when it can only be provided by a service that is not even one month old? The way you put it, it makes it sound as the only possible way for people to reach out privately to others in their trusted circle is through their computers/smartphones.

The OP is right. If privacy/concern of safety is so important to some people, they should re-evaluate their need for this product.
As best I can tell, cyclist's opinions of me as a driver tend to be directly correlated to how far into my lane they ride.

If there are parked cars, you have to move into the lane or risk getting doored. Near intersections, you have to move into the lane or people will cut you off and turn right in front of you when you're going straight. If the road has no shoulder, you have to move into the lane to dissuade people from running you off the road by trying to pass with insufficient space (and to give yourself some margin in case someone tries). The same holds if the shoulder is full of debris. If you're descending a hill, you have to move into the lane so you can maneuver around turns.

Any safe cyclist will spend some time taking a lane of traffic.
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I'm curious, what problems do they have?
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I've been commuting via bicycle for seven years now. The majority of my experience has been positive. But I can think of five instances off the top of my head where my life was nearly forfeit to dangerous car drivers. Two of these instances I was harassed (profanities + shouting that bicycles don't belong on the road), driven off the road, and expected to be run over. Fwiw, I live in a mid-size city in central CA.
This. If Google went poof tomorrow, the lack of Reader would be the one thing that would leave me bereft. On the iPhone, I use mobileRSS as the UI, but I use the web app directly on the desktop.

I assume the OP question was to establish whether one would use something else, and Plus integration would definitely affect my answer. If there was a tight integration (like, share to a particular circle) I would be less tempted to jump ship, but I have to say I am more wedded to Reader that any other Google product simply because by searching the "Shared" section I can find almost every single thing I have found interesting on the web [I share to one person only, either directly from the RSS feed or to Reader using Shareaholic].
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The OP has made a general claim about /all social networks/, not just G+. In some cases his sentences specifically state "Google+", but none of the arguments are Google+ specific, and his comment ends with an explicitly general recommendation.
I use it to have synced my Reeder app, both on my iPod and on my Mac, great app, hardly recommend to anyone.
Well, does the past currently exist?
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read the post, if you are suspended on google+ due to a name issue, the rest of your account works fine.
Some people at work have had luck with using Chrome private browsing for their home account. Since the cookies are not shared with the 'main' session, you shouldn't run into any conflicts.
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Is this a common complaint about Twitter? I have never heard this as the reason someone won't use Twitter: the argument seems to come from a minority of users who come out of the woodwork to back services like Google+ during issues like this.

(In essence, I find it interesting that you chose to pull Buzz as your first-line example, despite the fact that Buzz failed for all kinds of other reasons against a competitor that seems to have no trouble with an "any name goes" policy.)
In the post he says your Gmail will not be disabled if you used a fake name.
My biggest problem with this is that the biggest problem with Mobile web browsers right now is that they pale in comparison (both feature and performance) to their desktop counterparts. Last time I checked the iPad browser (probably the best tablet browser) was something like 15x slower than Chrome desktop in javascript benchmarks.

This is the #1 blocker to mobile web app adoption. Try viewing a SVG on a mobile browser and see what happens. You're flipping a coin. Why doesn't Mozilla focus on bringing mobile/desktop feature parity before adding device level APIs?
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I'm gathering statistics on words, phrases and a few other things from a medium-sized (about a terabyte) corpus. There are several billion that aren't hapaxes. That's just the initial feature collection pass. Next, I'm looking for correlations among these features. It's a challenge to make it fit in 32GB. A lot of effort goes into bit-twiddling to make things fit and into algorithms that try to be intelligent about what to keep and what to discard.
isn't that HN?

and please don't downvote, I'm being serious.
This is interesting:

I know Apple is sitting on a lot of cash. A lot.

I think it would be fascinating to see Apple purchase Bing and rebrand it. With search built into the iPhone and the future value of mobile search in mind, I think it would be near foolish for Apple to miss this opportunity. Otherwise, no matter how well the iPhone does, Google will still always have its hand in mobile advertising money.

But what do I know?

I think it would place Apple and Google in a very interesting competitive position.
My understanding is that the kernel will be based on Android. Userland code will be rewritten basically entirely, to boot to a gecko-based UI.
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Well, Mr.Swartz should probably thank Anonymous and Lulsec for provoking the US Government. They're fed up and have determined whoever they get their hands on (minor hacking or not) they're going to drag you into federal court and make an example out of them.

This reminds of back in the 90's when there wasn't any laws in place to address hacking. But man, the Feds did not like kids making them look like fools. Once they got the laws of the books, it was open season on hackers.

I'm pretty sure the next few years are going to see a major crackdown on hacking again. Just like the recent arrests of supposed Lulsec and Anon members.

This guy will be lucky to get out of federal prison in 15 years.
Please link to more reputable sources for scientific articles. For an example, the university press release is intended for a general audience and more factual: http://www.ust.hk/eng/news/press_20110719-893.html, and the peer-reviewed publication is here: http://www.phys.ust.hk/dusw/Publication/PhysRevLett_106_2436...
Sine you were downvoted for saying the same thing I about said, I'll comment here. I wanted to make a similar site a while ago, but the following stopped me: 1) why would I put my FAQ page on someone else's site? 2) if I did it via JavaScript, then it wouldn't be easily indexable - less true now that google indexes JavaScript.

Anyway, I wish you both the best!
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