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Ask HN: Was there no KeyNote on Day 2 of Google I/O 2013?
No new gadgets? No Nexus 5? No Android 4.3? No new tablets? I was trying to search the keynote broadcast, but could not find it.
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[1] Contains no explanation about how Aaronson is 100% wrong. It is pure FUD. He won't actually argue points because that would allow Aaronson to rebut his rebuttal.

[2] has little information, and no numbers, or comparisons to other techniques. All it says is "Quantum Computing is Cool! And we're working on NP hard problems." It does say that they have a quantum computer from Dwave, but they make no claims as to it's actual power.

Adding emphasis to the main objectives from [2] "to study how quantum computing might advance machine learning." They're still researching things. [1] is a clear attempt to leverage the respectability of Google without actually addressing Aaronson's points.
Whatever we hear from him will be the narrative his lawyers decide to present to the public.
How the FUCK does that get modded down? Because it might distract from a trivial topic with discussion about something serious and real? God forbid...

Of course it's extremely easy to say, the heck with it. I'm just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority and do the best I can within them. Sure, you can do that. But that's not acting like a decent person. You can walk down the street and be hungry. You see a kid eating an ice cream cone and you notice there's no cop around and you can take the ice cream cone from him because you're bigger and walk away. You can do that. Probably there are people who do. We call them "pathological." On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures we call them "normal." But it's just as pathological. It's just the pathology of the general society. -- Noam Chomsky

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -- Voltaire
Qasar Younis is not getting the recognition he deserves, really sharp guy who will add a lot to future YC companies. Overall, congrats to all involved.
Wow, that is incredible. About how long does it take to develop a video like that?
I've known Andrew for years, and I know he's a good guy. If you spent an hour talking to him, you'd be mortified to have said what you just said.
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I think it's very difficult to underestimate just how much good will Google have lost recently, and I suspect it's almost entirely due to shutting down Google Reader.

While it's not the end of the world, there has been a marked shift in the narrative around Google's products and services after that announcement, and you'll notice that every new announcement from Google has some sort of "but how long will it last?" commentary.
Deadlines. I want to be able to take courses and complete them whenever I have time.

Almost all Coursera's coursers have weekly deadlines. If you got busy for a couple of weeks during the course time you will fall behind. And the chances that you would get busy are quite high given that some of the courses last for more than three months.
From concept to completion, about 3 weeks.
> Because just like google needs people to register for security, so do other providers.

That's probably a bad assumption, once you have more than a few parties using this system. I'd be surprised if even Google used the current, apparently manually-reviewed, registration system for long rather than as a short-term measure before moving to a less cumbersome accountability mechanism (and this is more "accountability" than "security".) But even if multiple parties were using that kind of method, there's a clear incentive -- especially for the players that aren't Google, but even Google has some incentive -- to build a facility where a shared registration application can be automatically distributed to multiple parties.
Can I just say that this is really great feedback? I'm not in a hiring position but I just came from jobhunting. I realized I wouldn't just apply to any startup just to work at a startup--it really matters when you believe in the product. That way, you can treat it as your own and come up with ideas how to make it better, and think of your job less as a drag.
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> This is the future of UI in the browser.

Again? There sure seem to be a lot of futures for the UI in the browser.
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I dislike Twitter login for this reason, you can't key off a user's email address.
Have you considered freelancing ? It may provides a salary, with enough free time to keep going on the project without having to sacrifice your free time. You may also learn from it the basic of business, which can help understand or argue with your cofounders.

This would send a clear message to them, too : your project is not my main one anymore because I can't get a living from it, and you're about to loose me.

You can then put a stop on new features building and only focus on bug fixing, until actual money is raised.

If they finally succeed, you can easily stop freelancing. And if they don't, you will have made contacts that make it easier to find a new job not on the corporate side.
Sorry if this sounds harsh, I mean no harm, just asking you to consider...

There are plenty of women out there who would be happy to date you. You are the one filtering them out. Consider women over 40 and women with children. Those groups have huge problems finding men. Works both ways.
I am confused, doesnt google already have Angular.Js, Closure.Js, GWT, and many others .?
dilutive.
I've been in a similar situation.

Go be an employee at a startup that's a real business. A real business is a business that's established enough to pay you a fair salary and benefits.

It should be a job that you enjoy, and similar enough to what you're working on now that you can apply your experience. The people in charge should be businessmen who understand that cash needs to flow in order for this to be a real business.

At this point, you've worked with clowns long enough to know how to weed them out. During your job search, a lot of clowns will try to justify not paying you a decent salary. You've already been there, and know that a business that can't pay you isn't a real business.
Not to mention ABN Amro, which was effectively bailed out and nationalised during the global financial crisis. If only AltaVista had been considered too big to fail...

I say "effectively", because the many mergers and splits it went through in the 00s meant the large parts nationalise in the Netherland and the UK were not identical to what it was in '99 when this analyst was interviewed.
The title is total linkbait -- once you read through the article, it becomes clear that all the author is claiming is that social login buttons weren't the right choice for Mailchimp. They might be the right choice for others though: "Sometimes it makes a lot of sense, and other times it’s just not worth the trade-offs".

Although Mailchimp has a lot of users, it doesn't make sense to generalize conclusions from one SaaS business to the whole web. A private SaaS dashboard is a different use case from most consumer websites, where the goal of logging in with Twitter or Facebook is generally to attach your public identity to your posts or profile on the site, not merely to expedite login. And frankly, a private dashboard is a very strange place to add social login buttons in the first place. Although the "what login did I use?" issue comes up on consumer websites that make good use of social auth, it does so less often, because if you connected a third-party account to one of these sites, you did it for a reason and are more likely to remember.
I don't use my real identity on any website or social media.
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malloc doesn't have to suck: http://www.cs.umass.edu/%7Eemery/pubs/berger-oopsla2002.pdf
They also allow you to plug the inputs of one component into the outputs of another in a declarative way with model-driven views. So, if you have a menu that allows a user to choose a piece of data to work with, you can do something like this:

<select id = 'menu'>
<option />
...
</select>
<x-item-editor item_key = "{{ menu.value }}"/>

I haven't used the library yet, so I'm sure the syntax is wrong, but you can see how x-item-editor can know which item to edit by consuming the select's value property, without needing any glue in the JS.
> I know he's a good guy

That's not an argument. That's what his father would say, or his grandmother.

PS1: What does "good guy" even mean? Most people are "good guys" in that they don't spend their weekends torturing small animals in their attic. Most bad things are done by "good guys" because there isn't enough bad guys to do all the evil that's being done.

PS2: Like many others, I did enjoy / admire his exit letter; but I still have a problem not just with accounting practices at Groupon, but the essence of what Groupon was trying to do.
His father would have a bias that I don't.
I think he was trying to say that current competition is incredibly trivial.

I think the Google streaming service utilizes Google's ability to personalize tastes pretty well. At least, so far, it's exceeded my Spotify and Rdio experiences.
I think that http://cnnfn.cnn.com/1998/06/08/technology/yahoo/ was a much more reasonable purchase. Though just think of how much more that company could have made if they had waited until the market became frothier!

(Don't worry, the founders in that deal are doing quite well for themselves now...)
A cost-based optimizer also needs a way to handle the combinatorial explosion of possible plans. For MongoDB, maybe they can be exhaustive or use a simple strategy. But for a SQL DBMS, the search space is way too huge, and you need a way to navigate it intelligently.

This "try the plan out" idea has come up many times, and it's a reasonable idea, but it's nothing new and not a complete solution. You need a way to evaluate whether a plan has a reasonable chance of being the best one before the whole plan is even constructed, much less executed.

Combinatorial explosion is also one of the reasons that humans generally aren't great at coming up with non-trivial plans, either.

A good optimizer is a combination of many good ideas; so I don't mean to be discouraging, just that one idea is not the full story.

If you are worried about the risk of a changing plan, you are between a rock and a hard place. If you lock the plan down (or hard-code it in the application), and the data characteristics change, that could be disastrous. If you don't lock it down, that's a leap of faith that the optimizer will adapt gracefully.
If i have well read the doc, while angular has new attributes, Polymer adds new tags to HTML. That seems a step ahead apparently.
I think maybe he asked PG to wipe his previous comments or something. He had a series of Ask HN's and other comments from way back when he was just starting The Point, asking for advice on various things. Unfortunately, his posts didn't get much of a response at the time, but it was actually really inspiring to read after the fact and see him facing a lot of the same startup issues other HNers post about every day.
Sounds like a fun project, and a massive win for Netflix too once they get more of these machines in end ISP's. The thing that caught my eye was the massive difference between Rev C & D hardware. They went from 36 x 4TB to 14 x 960GB drives, reduced the chassis size from 4U to 1U, and doubled the 10GbE ports to 4. I'm guessing that the increased streaming speed (>20 Gb/sec!!!) offsets the reduction in storage space?
Thanks for the great tip! I'll be dusting a toughbook off and having a little distro party .. looks like antiX is perfect for my needs! :) EDIT: In case its of interest, if I can get what I need onboard to build and run LOAD81 (see http://github.com/antirez/load81) then I'll be in heaven .. ancient hardware re-tasked with a Lua front-end! Fabulous new old toy!
I really feel for you situation, and I would love to help by chatting. I've been involved in many different startups, from working with friends on no salary, to our current $12 mm series-A endeavor. I've seen tons of startups rise and fall, all sorts, and I think I may be able to lend some advice or just be a sounding board.

Please send me an email if you're interested: carter@gameclosure.com.
This.

And when I decide that it's OK to sign up with twitter/fb there are more things that might turn me off:

1) If the app only gathers some info from my twitter/fb account and still wants me to provide an email/password. Sorry, but I was awaiting something simple like 'click authorize in twitter and receive account'. I didn't expect that much effort and I'm closing the tab then.

2) If the app requests to 'post updates to my timeline' or something like that. I'm using twitter/FB as an authorization provider in this case and have no desire that your app will post updates for me. (Possibly in my absence)
The Internet Didn’t Kill the Middle Class; Laxity and Apathy Did
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I am pretty sure I would have thought "hipster douchebag tool" based on his photo, even without the bombing, rather than attractive, but it's admittedly hard to test this scientifically now that he's so closely associated with the jihadist murders in my mind.
Apart from being a neat project, this is a good demonstration of how far we have come since TTL. Today you can buy a ten pack of 144 forth computers on a single chip (= 1440 CPUs) for USD200 [1]. Each asynchronous CPU has a claimed instruction cycle of ~1.8ns, giving each array of 144 CPUs a peak of 96 billion operations per second with 650mW dissipated.

I don't write this to belittle the Mark 1. I just love the juxtaposition of old and new.

[1] http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/products/index.html
You could always post it on HN :)

I'm a bit older-ish (27) and from my experience, trying to keep your ideas to yourself is not really productive. Ideas are dime a dozen and the best way to get feedback is to hand it out to people (even unfinished hacky proofs of concept will do).

You could always go to family and friends, but there are two problems with this approach:

1. They may not be tech-inclined in which case they won't really "get" it.

2. They are your friends and family. They will, 90% of the time, give you positive reinforcement. Trust me. Nobody loves you as much as your mom does ;)

Finally, I just want to say that random "idea advice" is generally pretty worthless anyway (even from random people on the internet). You won't see any genuine feedback until you have customers, not just some guy flipping through a couple of your pages going "I think the sign-in button should be bluer" or something to that effect. I would urge you to finish an alpha version and test it on a couple of potential/real customers. That's the absolute only way you'll get any poignant advice.

I just want to add that a co-founder should bring something very real to the deal, not just a critical eye (you know what they say about opinions).
Great to see, I wonder if it would be possible to run any iOS app in the browser using this technology?
> "But after some further consideration, we decided that it was a false risk, as the username reminder form already tells you if a username exists"

The solution would be to close that hole, rather than opening the same hole somewhere else. For example, for the username reminder form, if the username can't be found for a given email address, then that can be conveyed to the user by sending them an email message.
I'll start with a general disclaimer for what you're looking for in feedback. When you get a "crickets" or a polite "looks promising" response, it indicates you are currently missing the mark, either in the concept or the marketing(and the two are very, very intermingled). There's a dramatic, intangible, "know it when you see it" difference when something gets the response you need to achieve some real growth. And you do need the broad audience to be sure, because in private, a small group of people can convince themselves to believe anything, no matter how "outsider" they might be to begin with.

Why not, instead of finishing the code, make a video, or at least a nice landing page demonstrating what you intend to build?
There's a bug in your getting started guide. Under "Binding between components and native elements" index.html contains <tk-element></tk-element>, but should contain <tk-binding-to-elements></tk-binding-to-elements> :-)
It's quite true ( and the fact that this condition is little known to french people, meaning many child having it probably go undiagnosed), and you also have to take the educationnal system into account, which follows the same trend : child in school are much less encouraged to express personnal opinions and work on personnal projects.

To sum up i would say it really is a combination of three things :
- different school of psychology ( more focused on diagnosing psychoanalytics backgrounds seeing as the "real root" causes rather than neurobiological ones)
- different educationnal / parenting culture providing a more "framed" environment ( at the expense of personnal initiative development)
- general public ignorance for this condition ( maybe a consequence of the previous two)

Ps : french, nephews and nieces, personnal interest in psychology.
I wish people would give up on the argument that not using your 'real name' causes bad behaviour.

In fact, what encourages bad behaviour is lack of consequences. This is easily avoided by having mechanisms that enable pseudonyms to build up (or lose) reputation.

One of the great benefits of the internet is that as online characters we can be abstracted from matters of sex or race or age. Discrimination is instinctive in huamns, but we can help each other by removing irrelevant signifiers and deal with each other as our actions and our arguments deserve. Why would we want to lose that by signing our posts with an identifier that was forced onto us by others and over which we have so little control?

I believe everyone has the right to construct (and reconstruct) their own identity as they wish. Power over what you reveal to others and how you reveal it seems to me to be one of the more fundamental rights. To force people to use their 'real name' i.e. a name that has been assigned to them by a government organisation is at once creepy and ignorant of the fact that my 'real' name is actually however I choose to be known.
It's addressed in the article. It's a valid concern, but they explain their decision - their "forgotten username" screen is a pretty simple way to check whether a username exists or not, so it's almost a moot point as far as security is concerned.
I don't know about anybody else, but I seriously do not trust my smartphone's OS with my credit card number.
Look into producer and consumer surplus. In any exchange, you'll tend to find that the value of the items exchanged are worth more to the receiving party than the giving party. It's practically essential to agreeing to a trade.

The consumer surplus is the excess value the buyer receives. Think "I would have paid €5 for that drink right now, but they only charged me €2!"

The producer surplus is how much more someone paid than the producer was willing to sell it for.

The same thing can be worth different amounts to different people. Airlines in particular are good at price discrimination: trying to extract as high a price as possible, capturing the possible consumer surplus. Universities too.

Lots of things get no-haggle prices that ignore this difference between price and value.
What is the secure alternative?
I like my Pebble a lot. A had Sony LiveView before it, and, even though it's not color, it cannot even be compared to it (I haven't seen the Sony SmartWatch though). Other grat things about it:

- managed to get 9.5 days out of the battery, having it connected to my phone only during the day

- there are some really cool watch faces available already

- the hardware packaged within is impressive, even if developers can't access it yet (compass, accelerometer, bluetooth 4.0).

I do think they might have trouble with their users hearts. If you read the comments on the Kickstarter campaign, they are filled with dissapointment regarding repeated delays and lack of communication. They haven't done a great job at keeping their backers informed.
This is perfectly normal feeling and reaction: you just have an exceptionally long nerve. Many people would've quit from the dysfunctional culture much earlier.

You either own enough of the company so that you can decide to do things your way or you start demanding paychecks.

You make it or you break it, and when you're no longer so sure then it's the latter.
I can only hope this to be true. I consider such a statement to be aspirational at best.
Remember Angelfire as well?
I have my contact info in my profile. You can find out my legal name by looking at my web site, which is linked in my profile.

Voted as "no" because I felt like following the letter of your request.

I really value the option of anonymity and identity play that the Internet gives us. In no small part because it was very very useful to be able to play around behind a female identity while I worked out that I was transsexual. I've had a bunch of different names on the net that corresponded to different stages of my life.
POST /users HTTP/1.1

username=johnsmith&password=297324khd239723khad7823hksd7gh1h
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We form an opinion on people in the first 10 seconds we meet them; this opinion rarely ever changes.

There was a study where students were asked to rate their professor right while the professor was entering the classroom for the first time, and then at the end of the semester. Opinions from students hardly changed at all after a semester of class.

It's very difficult for you to know if you're biased. It's impossible for me to know you're not.
Congrats on the sale !

Have you got any of the $3.6 billion left ?
If you're really nostalgic you can still get the real thing; ReoCities [1] is an archive of GeoCities pages crawled before the service was shut down.

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True, but then that triggers an email alerting the legit user of an attempt, rather than silence.
Overly enriched environments might or might not matter. But deprived environments in early childhood demonstrably hurts. A lot.

The cause is that in the first few years of life we lose unused connections between neurons. If a child does not have a primary care giver, then a lot of the connections lost are necessary for proper social and cognitive development, and the child is impaired for life in ways which are clear in the physical structure of the brain.

This has been known for decades, yet still periodically someone somewhere that still has orphanages rediscovers this basic fact. (The most recent example that I heard about involved children in Romania.)
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