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A product doesn't win in the market by not being offensive in some way, but by providing something people want. Google+ didn't commit many of the sins of Facebook, but it also didn't have a compelling use case other than "I hate facebook"

And I say that as someone that doesn't have Facebook account.
Alas, C11 seems to have bungled this.
"web scale is one"

Does "web scale" actually mean anything? I thought it was just a piss take from the "MongoDb is web scale" cartoon.
The quality of the experience can also depend on what routes and/or hubs people use regularly. Airlines also have different grades of presence at various airports.
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> her "the world is going to shit" hypothesis

I see no such hypothesis in the article. Your comments in this thread have taken it in precisely the wrong direction: tedious, predictable, and acrimonious. Please don't.
Yeah you're right. I can see how that would be less overhead.

I guess I'm just frustrated because it seems like another sort of useless thing that is going to draw a lot of money and developer time and effort for what I view as not terribly important, especially for the amount it costs.

Didn't mean to project my frustrations onto you or attack you/your parents personally. Just trying to get to the bottom of why people purchase and use Apple TV, and I see why now. It's easy and requires no thought, which is exactly what you need when you're getting in the mood to relax and watch some shows.
I'm very impressed, I've often thought that Pivotal / Jira / Trello wasn't well suited for more generic tasks.

Have a few points which may or may not be of use to you.

- I'm not a fan of the 'No risks. No credit card required.' subtext to the sign-up call to action. It may be just me, but when someone explicitly states there's no risks, it makes me consider that there might be risks. No need to put doubts into someones mind.

- Love the interface, really intuitive (Just thought that needed its own point)

- I think the permanent call to action to 'Upgrade Today' on the dashboard view is a little too in your face, and takes up a fair amount of real-estate which.

- The 'Add a member' option could also do with having a 'Add a team member' option (it may have it on the paid tiers, but for the free tier it would be a good call to action to upgrade)

- The difficulty field on a ticket doesn't seem like it intuitively will make sense for all tasks, perhaps as an optional field, or allow users to customise the names and values of the fields at the project level. I.e. if instead of high, medium and low priority, I wanted 'Later, Soon, Now and Yesterday' for my priorities.

- I think the Project Tasks and My Tasks could be collapsed into one column, freeing more space to work with, or maybe even a dedicated create task column. Just a filter of 'show my tasks' or 'show all tasks' would work well. Especially on the free tier it's a lot of wasted space.

- I'd shy away from using points and other metrics like that, as most of the time a 1-3 or even 1-8 scoring system becomes restrictive and not representative of the time taken to do a task, over time it just loses meaning to a user in my opinion.

And a minor issue or two:

- If I have two tasks assigned to a project, one high priority and difficult, the other low priority and easy and I complete the high priority task the 'Tasks Completed' in the project overview jumps to 75%, which isn't what i'd expect.

- The text on the 'Time Elapsed' and 'Tasks Completed' seems centred on the progress bar and not the container, and the small white font makes it hard to see.

- You can't access any of the support / terms of use etc.. without first logging out of your account.

Aside from that all I'd do is iterate a little bit on the text of the website, as it just doesn't quite bite yet.

But all in all, very good work. I've bookmarked so I can come back later and see if I can get more use out of it. :)
> Does this new one really push TV forward?

Just a little bit. The fluid UI, iOS foundation, app store and federated search means it's automatically a superior product to competitors such as Roku or Fire TV.

And it is a very nice package. It's very smooth. Apps like Plex and Netflix are a bit rough, but now they have a good foundation to build on, and the app store will change the amount of competition in this space - already there are three competing Plex clients, for example.

I was in the same boat, by the way: I bought the 2nd gen AppleTV, tried to like the 3rd gen, but it was slow and generally terrible. Same with competing products. I bought them and ended up not using them. The new AppleTV I'm actually using. It helps that I have it hooked up to Plex. Unlike the old Plex client you could install into a jailbroken 2nd/3rd-gen AppleTV, is actually very usable.
I have yet to meet a yo e who destroys their originals. Do you? Most people sell or gift them to someone else, which is not only outside of the letter of current copyright laws, but the spirit of those laws as well.

It would be easier to download pirated copies off the internet and exactly as legal.

Mine are all in a box shoved against the wall under my bed, where they don't get it the way but I can prove that I still deserve consideration under the First Sale doctrine.
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This just seems weird to me as a millennial male. I am obviously lacking some perspective, but my advanced and AP math and science classes in high school were always very split by boys and girls. The upper echelon of students in those courses, of which I was consistently part of, were moreso women than men.

But when I look at what my old classmates are doing now, most of those girls went into teaching, law, and business related roles. A couple went into science and engineering and one is a dentist. Of the guys, most of them became doctors, engineers, and pharmacists and a couple work in agriculture and wildlife conservation. All of the women I am referring to know they are smart enough to do whatever they want, but they obviously decided to favor non-technical roles for their own reasons.
I don't think building an AI is the most important task on our plate. We still have those disease, hunger, poverty, and war problems to contend with. If building an AI helps us solve those, then sure, let's build the AI. But I don't think strong AI is necessary to gain traction on the problems that confront the sapient beings we already have around.
I don't think this works in practice.

I cannot see Oracle slowly adding extra features to its database until it becomes an actual CRM system. A CRM is not just a solution to a different business problem but also a logically different layer from a development perspective. You would have to build it as a product that sits on top of the database product.

But as a CRM system it has no value to the end customer unless it has a certain minimum level of functionality. So although you can add features gradually and evolve your CRM offering you will not have a single customer until you have actually added enough features that make it actually usable. Nobody will buy your gradually evolving system until several years have passed and it works for some actual customers. In which case you have already spend alot of money and effort.
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Thanks so much for the feedback and taking the time to write all this down. I really appreciate it! You've made some really good points and I'll be adding them as tasks :)
I have just answered one of those problems here.
http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/20245/subset-of-...
I hope I didn't misunderstood the problem.
For the 5 years I've been using WhatsApp, I've never been charged anything. I always get a "trial extension", even after changing numbers many times and changing countries 3 times.

I don't know if this happens frequently, or I'm just lucky
One: Google+ was a terrible interface, in that it tried to force a "programmers" thought pattern on the user. Circles? OOP in disguise. It looked enough like Facebook that the different, and far more complex, behaviours were confusing to people. Switching would be painful. You may have liked it but most people did not.

Two: G+ kept trying to hook into everything Google did. My Youtube account with all my embarrassing 80s playlists and WoW videos and cats and ... WTF? NO I DON'T WANT TO SHARE THAT. Pretty much every time I logged in I had to say "No I really don't want to do that" until they finally snuck it through at some point. Many people just weren't interested in establishing a network with somebody who didn't understand privacy at all and kept changing the rules for existing services. Coupled with previous missteps, I'm looking at you Buzz, this was a deal breaker for many. Facebook has a bad reputation but at least they are not trying to surface embarrassing info from other sources.

Three: Google+ was tech heavy from the start, which meant it tended to drift "professional" and be considered "for the geeks". Friends and family were already connected to me on FB, G+ tended to be old colleagues who weren't close enough to be connected on Facebook. I just don't have much to share with those people that I'm not already sharing on LinkedIn. For a social network, geeky early adopters is NOT a recipe for success.

Four: Google+ started making other services worse. Youtube comments were a disaster and seriously broke content creators ability to have a dialog with their audience. Google Reader was gutted and eventually shutdown. New services were artificially hooked into G+ for no real reason. Basically, G+ became the punching bag for problems in it's other products.
uggh. As if all the AI programmers out there would instantly join doctors without borders if they decided to stop working tomorrow. These sorts of arguments make no sense to me.
No SNI on Windows XP (IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari), nor Android 2.3 Browser, nor BlackBerry. Windows XP still has 4-5% usage share on the web, which is 1 in 20 people. Lots and lots of low-end and older Android handsets were on 2.3 because 4.0 had new hardware requirements. Combined, it's a relevant number of people for large sites.
Really interesting to think about the skills necessary just to play a modern open-world game such as Skyrim successfully.

NLP to understand dialogue and actions that need to be taken based on what NPC's/quests/item descriptions say, strategies for several different enemies with different strengths and weaknesses, exploring the open world in a logical order.

When you think about the difficulties of such a loosely defined problem, it's hard to buy into the real-world fears of AI.
Interesting! I'm in a very similar situation (congenital profound hearing loss, implanted in left ear at 16), but in a country (Japan[1]) where the primary language is not my native language (English).

> The biggest hurdle in most cases is communication, especially in meetings. That being said, I still do fine in them, because I rely on lip reading as well as vocal cues/context, but I also rely on my coworkers to be understanding from time to time, and they are.

I definitely concur with this. Meetings can be a pain depending on the environment (for example, some people prefer to meet in cafes etc. since meeting space is at a premium here). Body language (looking away, looking down, mumbling into hands, hiding face in papers, etc.) can also make meetings incredibly hard. The hardest part for me, personally, is the sheer stamina required to be "always on" and track everyone's eyes to make sure I know who's talking (in a meeting of ~15-20 people) so I can look that way and try to read their lips.

Telephone communication is also a big problem. No matter how often I tell people about my disability or how quickly I respond to e-mails/chats, they will still insist on calling me for "urgent" things. [Edit: Sometimes I think I should deal with this by simply ignoring all phone calls, but practically speaking I'd rather not exacerbate a potential emergency by not responding. The counterargument is that I could exacerbate an emergency by responding and not understanding ~50% of the content of the call...] My theory is that because I'm largely functional in person, they still subconsciously expect me to be able to use a phone normally.

> this usually comes up around the topic of phone interviews, I can't do them. People appreciate this

Interesting. I almost always have the opposite reaction; people try to be accommodating, but it's almost always still focused around doing voice via electronic connections rather than the text format I request. "What if we use a normal telephone? What if we use VoLTE? What if we use Skype instead? What if we get you a headset? What if we use Skype video or Facetime?"

> I've never had the situation where the job/culture/people fit was there but it didn't happen because of a communication issue.

Same here. For me, typically if it's a communication issue, it's because the people/culture weren't interested in being accommodating.

[1] As a side note, Japanese is extremely hard to lip read because it doesn't use the upper lip much, or at all in some dialects. There's also a lot of cultural stuff that makes life difficult: masks (either prevention or because the speaker is sick), the tendency to cover the mouth, and the tendency to not look at other people during meetings or when having a confrontation -- when communication is really important.
No, it doesn't.

Lets Encrypt certs are equivalent to self-signed certs.

No hassle ==> broken shit.
Good to so I'm not alone. Heck, I've even moved countries like 3 times and I haven't paid a cent.
That's not true, Google+ accounts were not created automatically for Google accounts.
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I have the same issue as well when using Chromium (Version 47.0.2526.111 (64-bit)). Works fine in Firefox.
Project management SaaS is a suuper crowded space. You appear to be targeting businesses, educators, designers, organizers, writers, web developers, logistics planners, therapists, and probably more that didn't fit on the screen. If you're a one man band, you're better off picking a really targeted niche that the existing players in the project management space find too small to care about. Otherwise you'll end up competing with people who have more manpower, more experience and more money.

Apart from that, getting to this stage in three days is really impressive. Congrats on finishing & shipping, and doing it fast.
> Apple is all about social signalling. That's possibly its primary product. The hardware is just a signifier.

It's so often repeated, but this is silly. Sure, Apple is fashionable, but that is hardly the only reason anyone buys their products. Apple products are good - or at least good enough for their customers - and that is why people like them.

Many programmers here on HN use MacBooks, for example. That's not just because it has a shiny apple silhouette on it.
I would say that progress on general AI can solve a lot of the problems we are facing. To take an obvious and down-to-earth example, let's say we "solve" logistics in the sense that we can transport things wherever we want, timely and cheaply. That would help us with a lot of the problems we are facing, such as hunger. And for solving logistics we essentially need the same skills we need as for solving game-playing.
Perhaps initially. Now Google forces you to create one if you want to do various kinds of things. It's not quite automatic, true, but it's almost.
Cpi-lang is a programming language. In case we needed another one of those
I wrote a low-level systems programming language for fun. Still have lots more I'd like to do with it. Would love to hear anyone's feedback, positive or negative :)
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Apple sells iphones. Who makes the iphones? Not Apple.
The technology world has grown so much in the last few years that any niche technology articles simply don't generate a widespread enough appeal, so what we see on YC today is highly generalized -- frequently to the point of sheer stupidity -- bullshit.

>Why is the top of the list this morning?

If anything, HN is basically more like "vaguely technical startup gossip" nowadays. Pretty useless, compared to something like /r/programming.
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I would argue that Snapchat and Instagram occupy VERY different niches than Facebook. Most importantly, virtually everyone who uses Snapchat or Instagram also uses FB. Google thought they had enough clout to win the "general all purpose category" social network - they were trying to compete directly against FB.
Failing to gain traction upstream, not failing to keep the lights on.
> Say buying a $200 desktop with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
Many desktop OSs just don't cater for the TV experience. The UIs are horrid. I tried using a Windows PC with Win 8 on a 32inch TV. I pushed all the accessibility settings to the max, and it still was barely usable. I had to get on my knees in front of it to use it. I tried some of the TV catch up services in the browser, no fun either.
Yes. If you really care about work/life balance, just offer six or more weeks of real PTO.

I internally translate "unlimited vacation" to "as little vacation as possible".
> One of the other things I've found myself struggling with is when to tell someone that I have a hearing loss. I feel like if I do it in the first interview, I'll set off unconscious biases

I completely understand this and have felt the same way, but the trade-off I ended up making in my mind to make me feel more comfortable with being up-front is that if they're not willing to be accommodating for the interview, working there is probably going to be living hell. I try to think of it as me interviewing them as well, to see how they're willing to work with me.
Along similar lines, since AI is considered to be potentially dangerous, by figures from Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking, I would rather our civilization never open this pandora's box. We can solve Earth's problems and even spread to the stars without AI. We can invent fusion reactors and thus nearly free energy without AI. We can engineer biological immortality into our very genes without AI. Why risk playing with a loaded gun?
Similarly, we shouldn't be focusing on (AIDS|malaria) as long as (malaria|AIDS) exists in the world.
> Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence

And here's why they aren't: First-person Shooters.

Why give AI something that's a goal that involves killing things that look like humans or animals for points? That's a recipe for disaster.

Breakout's not much better either. How often do you need to break a wall to smithereens with a ball? Never.
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Google Plus came out years after Facebook with a fraction of the features. No events, company profiles/fan pages or apps. No levity.
I don't know that it would scale up well, but I wouldn't mind travel booking as a personal service:

* Planning the trip: Someone who has expertise in all the sites, options, services, loyalty programs, hidden-city fares, likely delays, smaller nearby airports, fare-tracking, best seats on the plane, best hotels, etc.; who learns my preferences; and who then books everything for me, with absolutely minimal time and effort on my part. I don't want to look through all the sites and gather the options; it seems like a waste that so many people spend so much time gaining a little expertise in the nightmare of travel booking.

* During the trip: Monitor their customer's trips for delays, cancellations, etc., find out before everyone else (i.e., while seats on the next plane still are available) and respond appropriately (find alternative flights, rebook, reschedule ground transportation, obtain refunds, etc., or simply update me). I just want a text message telling me the new plan, or if absolutely necessary, a couple of options.

* At the destination, some concierge service: I need dinner delivered, food waiting in my hotel fridge, a tennis game Wednesday morning, a doctor, another shirt, a bar showing the game back home, etc. It's time consuming to do all that in an unknown town and time is more constrained due to the usually crowded schedule of a traveller.

Every time I have to deal with this stuff, I think about how someone who developed expertise in it would be much more efficient. Just getting to know the resources well would be a big advantage.

As for tech: An app that displays and syncs your current itinerary (including delays, etc.) with the vendor, and with a prominent 'Talk to me!' button that opens an immediate video chat: A friendly, helpful face in a crowded, strange airport, amid cranky flight attendants, during a frustrating trip would make customers very happy. They might pay for that alone.
thanks. I wonder if it has to do with Google Fonts....
Because it can make like infinitely easier. Save an entire population from having to work half their lives just to provide for their family. Why force people into work when we can build the technology that could do it instead? I'm obviously skipping over the societal effects of that, but if it can be done, it is worth trying.
I'm not saying that they didn't have their grotesqueries - but the 50s' ubiquitous racism was far more appalling than the size of their cars or lawns. Please remember that they were facing a radically different set of political, economic and environmental challenges back then than we are today. (It's also worth keeping in mind that most of the people driving big cars and watering big lawns in 1955 had been getting shot at or shot down or blown up just some ten years prior, while they were saving the world for folks like you and me.)

As for your side point: I'm actually rather fond of the idea of people rubbing their bodies together. But I think it's quite a bit healthier for the folks concerned, their families, and society at large, if they happen to be married. Just compare the progress the black community has made since Jim Crow with the regress of the black family. In 1965, 24% of black children were born to single mothers. Now, it's over 70%. If you consider something to be grotesque if it hurts a culture's long-term health - THAT is grotesque. And tragic.
Not really a feedback but... how did you do the landing page? It's so slick! Also you have one picture missing for Designers as your target audience: http://imgur.com/Sq0cFNg (at least on Firefox 43 on Debian).
> something that can be almost trivially handled

One enters dangerous territory when one starts making assessments about how difficult changing a system they're not familiar with is.
I always thought .onion sites are end to end encrypted. "The rendezvous point simply relays (end-to-end encrypted) messages from client to service and vice versa." according to https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
There's even a ticket to add a padlock to indicate this in TOR Browser https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8686
A lot of people creating multimedia works use visual programming languages that have dataflow models.

Some that are fairly mature projects:

vvvv - https://vvvv.org/

Puredata - https://cycling74.com/products/max/

Max MSP - https://puredata.info/
This is really cool. I started reading HPMoR after finding it.

I'm curious: after performing NET on the corpus, how did you filter to find books only? Did you just search on Amazon's catalogue for exact matches, or was more tweaking required?
The IMF isn't about trade agreements? It comes directly from arguably one of the most important trade agreements.