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I think email needs to be changed from top to bottom, but offering speed alone would be a hard sell to launch with. You can get the Microsoft offering (Exchange Online or packaged with Office 365) starting at $5 a user. Microsoft can afford to spend money on it. I've used it and it is a lot faster than GMail (although it wasn't enough for me to switch).
"Google used to give me a page of the right answers, fast, with no clutter. ... And the pages don't have the clean, sparse feel they used to."

If you disable Javascript and cookies for *.google.(tld), you'll be greeted with Google circa a few years ago: http://imgur.com/LDBLk .
A company would have to become an ICANN registrar to be able to register their own domains, in addition to having to setup registration agreements in every other country TLD that those companies do business in (google.co.uk, microsoft.ru, etc.). That would require a lot more money and overhead than just letting MarkMonitor do it, which specializes in this sort of thing.
>This is critical. I have tried it the other way, and struggled for these very reasons.

It's also the Lisp philosophy of building up from small functional pieces, rather than starting with an overdesigned top-down blueprint.
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His earlier talk in Singapore 13 years ago was a life changing moment for me. And dammit, "dont buy him a parrot" gets upvoted and you and I are getting downvoted .... for what exactly?
Then what's a good way to think? If you can't start from "I would pay for this", then where do you start?

If you wouldn't pay for it, then why would you expect others to pay for it?
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There are a lot of players in this space, but you're right - it's still in the research space with not very many viable products yet.
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Self awareness is a fairly simple concept that even things as simple as squid have demonstrated. I have even seen it argued that bumble bee's have a vary simple language. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/apr/05/danc... However, if your talking about bacteria I would agree that self awareness is probably stretching it.

Honestly, I found the 100 year battery the least likely part of the whole process, but it's a tech demo designed do demonstrate crossing the uncanny valley so I think we might be setting the bar a little high.
I have unlimited 3G data plan on my iPad and it always hated that Apple won't let me update some apps until I'm near WiFi spot... until I bought Galaxy Nexus inserted SIM from my phone with limited data plan and it exceeded my capped data plan in the first hour (OS updates).
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One thing I noticed is that email is a problem for "important" people who receive tons of messages per day. They must read/answer that one vital email right away. Kevin Rose talked about this a few years ago, and I've heard many high-profile investors complaining about this.

For the vast majority of the people on the planet, GMail is just good enough. Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are still doing well.

Perhaps email is perceived as a problem just because it gets tons of "face time" with us every day. I'd leave it alone and focus on one of the countless unsolved problems in the world.
Google can index JavaScript content; they're not necessarily special-casing themselves there.

I can see the Google groups post in an incognito window while logged out. Either I misunderstand or this post is mistaken.
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"The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one."

The future is uncertain, because each person is a variable and chaos is inherent in nature. However, with the sun as my witness and the earth as my ally, there is nothing that will stop my effort to liberate all beings from suffering through my startup. It's all I got left in the world, there is nothing else that matters to me. I am 22 and there is no job I want in the world, so I will create one through my ideals of universal compassion and scientific method. I will post on HN soon, I hope people understand my vision of leading Homo sapiens to become Homo universalis, that may be the only way we can actually have a type 1 or 2 civilization.
"Meanwhile Google, which makes all its money through ads, will find itself reaching its customers through a device made by a hostile rival."

So no change there, at least.
Small nitpick: what does it mean to say "...search queries to be Turing complete"? I didn't think that the SERP defined a set of rules. ;-)
Interesting idea. I think the most intractable part is that many people believe what they want to believe. They gravitate to a world view for various reasons, backfit it to the data, rationalize the cherrypicking of supporting data and discarding of refuting data, integrate it into their id or ego, fight tooth and nail to protect it, and happily accept the political dis/misinformation you're referring to.

I'd imagine you'd have to identify why people do that, why others don't, and whether it's formalizeable and transferable. Pretty sure psychology has done some work in that area, but brain-fried atm and drawing a blank...
Yes we have proxy servers. And yes the connection is encrypted
I think the percentage of users who even know what Javascript is, are negligible to an extent that they don't even matter.

And people who don't know look for a new search engine rather than learning how do disable Javascript.
yes, but i was addressing your claim that android has no plan to support websockets. obviously they can't make all the old versions websocket compatible, but they do have a clear path forward to supporting them.
when the carriers and handset manufacturers pull their collective thumbs out of their asses.
Would you pay for computer support, or extended warranties? I wouldn't, but millions of people do.

It really depends on the context. When thinking about something for the masses, you are one very particular data point. You want evidence that lots of people would pay for something.

If you are building something for people like you and:

- there are lots of people like you, and you can make it very cheap

or

- you ARE paying tons of money for it already, and it could be better and cheaper (e.g. travel)

then you may be on to something.
Well. You could go ahead and use something like wireshark to monitor what packets are being sent out of your system.

But you really shouldn't have to do that. Nor should anyone else for that matter.
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Perhaps, but as Bentley and Gulfstream discovered, there is a tidy profit to be made servicing the niche needs of high-profile individuals.
Well ok, so two developers at half that, that's still 100K. I guess outside of North America/Europe/Japan/South Korea salaries are cheaper, but in most of the market, 50K is low. And most projects have at least 2 people, don't they?
I'd like to think that most people are more successful later in life. We obsess over young prodigies, but many work hard to achieve great things way past their 40's
I'm working on #2, but the solution I've found is not exactly what Paul suggests. I ran into a need while working on my latest startup.

I'm in bed with a large tech investor for my current company, and I'm working on this tech on the side. My term sheet is such that my company owns whatever I create right now, so I'm hoping said large investor isn't too annoyed with me allocating some time on the side; my plan is to ask forgiveness instead of permission.

Aiming to kick it out to the public in a month optimistically.
That's a good question. We'll change that.
No, it's a guy who wants to start a service LIKE this one talking about what happens as a customer support issue when somebody claims someone else is selling their IP.
I have my own to add which I'll tackle if I ever get smart enough. Code is horrible right now. The problem is that code is written linearly, when in our minds it is a graph. It's usually a bad sign when our minds see things differently than our computers do. I think if we could properly abstract the concepts, and change both our linear list of functions and our unsorted list of files to a single graph structure, we could understand our software so much better. I guess I'm thinking of UML diagrams with code, but in a way that feels natural to code in the first place, even for a beginner, not as a commented afterthought.
Given previous comments, I am pretty sure we won't see an Apple laptop with a touch screen.
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I think this is a good point. I don't want people to be needlessly polite, I want them to be truthful in a manner that is also respectful.
IPython has a web-based notebook interface like Mathematica
Maybe i dont understand either but the same thoughts come to mind, i am pretty sure i can get that content and index the content.
GMail is just good enough

It is, but only in terms of what we think of email in today's usage. I think the next step will be where you can make the messages dynamic which would basically allow you to receive/deliver an interface to an app. Of course with all that power comes the issue of how to control it, but that would be an interesting problem to solve. Imagine instead of getting a notification email for an update on a Basecamp todo list, you would see the actual todo list and could manage right from your inbox.
Unless Godaddy offers some service I'm not aware of, its probably just one of those things that happens when you're just getting started. You end up never changing it due to the work required.
Tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of people have been selling digital files for years and years and years. Ever heard of Clickbank? No? Well that's because you're not doing enough research.

The moderately interesting part is the social aspect but considering how many times a person has to be exposed to a thing before they actually buy it, I doubt it will make that much of a difference.

If you're serious about selling digital goods, I'd really look into a different platform. You want something solid that's been around the block for a while, when you're talking about creating a new business based on it. You want more than a couple glossy social gimmicks.

(Note: I do NOT recommend ClickBank, for the skeeve factor. They are a totally legit, well-behaved business, but they LOOK too skeevy for YOUR customers to interact with. There are more modern, classy alternatives.)

FWIW I have sold probably around $200k of digital goods in my career so far. I know whereof I speak.
Rich people have the same number of seconds per day as poor people, except each second is worth more. Right now everyone is driving a black Model-T; there isn't a premium edition of email available, though one is certainly desired (personal assistants and secretaries currently fill this gap).

If the cost of a premium email/task-list system is less than the dollars saved in time, and less than an assistant, people will buy it. Aim for the higher-end market, solve their problems first on their dollar, and later expand downward to everyone else.
I'm basically doing that, actually. Fohr has ridiculous technology, and I'm parting it out (feels like chopping a car) as you describe.

I can do Fohr without the capital, it'll just takes me longer as hardware gets cheaper and my own net worth goes up.

18 month ago, it would have cost over $100 million to operate Fohr, so time is on my side.
I saw a neat Kickstarter a while back that seems like it was trying to tackle redesigning email from the ground up. Looks like they hit their goal too!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1380180715/mail-pilot-em...
From my Fedora 16 laptop:

$ fgrep DNOTIFY /boot/config-3.2.9-1.fc16.x86_64
CONFIG_DNOTIFY=y

Obviously it's true that dnotify is the old junk and inotify the new hotness. But it hasn't been abandoned, by either the kernel or the distros. Again, they take stuff like this very seriously. Old junk runs. Really, it does.
How much time did you spend on your college applications? Why should applying for a good job be easier?

Say it takes 3 hrs to do the application (probably not, but I haven't done one). The resulting candidate pool will be smaller, and consist of more dedicated applicants, who aren't just firing off blanks. I think both the employer and the applicant might get a higher "hit ratio".

If a recruiter has to sift through thousands of resumes, then good talent gets missed, bad talent gets interviews, and 2.5 months later you'll still be unemployed.

Maybe companies could still accept resumes and "regular applications" in addition to the HireArt channel. I think applicants going the HireArt route would be more likely to get consideration/interviews.
for some reason, shades of two-way-rss hype just came flooding back from 2006.
"2. Replace Email"

Google tried this with Wave and they failed. I wish they had succeeded. I think they should have spun it was "Email 2.0" and made the transition easier.
Somehow people manage to pay Dropbox hundreds of millions of dollars a year, in spite of their stingy-ness. The email version of Dropbox would almost certainly be a bigger market.
I use it more as a way to shortcut sites. For example, if I want to Wikipedia "pi" instead of typing www.wikipedia.org, in the address bar, then typing in "pi" in the site's search bar, I enter it in Google and find the link. Firefox's awesome bar is gradually taking over as I can favorite things and "search" for them using that just by typing in a couple letters, but I still use Google for anything I haven't favorited.
I just read an article today or yesterday about the reason that VIM's cursor keys are h,j,k,l or whatever.

I think the reason that code is ASCII text is pretty much the same reason VIM's cursor keys are h,j,k,l. All they had was a terminal so it had to be ASCII.

If you think about it, all information is structured and multidimensional. But people can only make one sound at a time, so information must be serialized to be communicated.

There are some easy starting points for understanding why we should get away from pure ASCII source code. One of them is to try first coding a complex UI with pure text and then build the same UI using a graphical editor with widgets.

Another one is this: just answer this question -- why can't I represent division in my source code using a numerator over a divisor the way that we are taught to write mathematics? Should we continue to pretend that we are required to edit our code on terminals from 1979?
Nice idea. Nevertheless I would rather link to this feature instead: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/stable/interactive/htmlnotebo....
I've been thinking exactly the same thing! My workaround so far has been to use IDEs that have some project management features, and separate the code into separate files.

For example, SAS Enterprise Guide lets you create a project flow like this: http://blogs.sas.com/sasdummy/uploads/egparallel4.png

Note some of the advantages: nice code structure, easy (minor) parallelization, easy code segmentation, ability to examine intermediate data, etc.

I haven't found anything nearly as useful for SQL or more general languages. I would love to see something similar in Clojure/Python.
I doubt they would dump once and never update it... Eventually they'll need to update or the maps will be useless...
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Maybe it is just my warped perspective, but when I looked at the technology this all came to mind immediately, but I just as immediately dismissed it because of the "hosted proxy service": the fee was seemingly "too low".

So, I feel like you've left out the key non-obvious part: it turns out that even if you do the brain-dead un-optimized "let's use Amazon EC2" for your proxies, $30/yr at $0.05c/GB (down: up is free) buys 50GB/mo.

Given that the user is then going to be filing this data over their 3G connections, 50GB/mo is (based on reports of users tethering that complain about rate limiting and caps) at the very high-end of usage.

So, with that aside, the rest of this actually boils down to: "the webpage just makes two outgoing websocket connections; one to a proxy, and the other to an app on the PC, itself providing a custom network driver".
The people "hating" (I haven't seen anyone hate, merely question) are frustrated because everybody around them tells them it's not luck, it's awesome, and that if you build a great product, get popular, etc., your day will come. That it's a meritocracy, as one commenter put it.

But it's not.

This sale demonstrates that.

It's a good time to adjust expectations and decide what, exactly, it is in your best interest to believe in.
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Not really but good guess. We didn't make TetherMe. Maybe you mean iTether?
NB: you're responding to "pge" not "pg" -- pretty sure they're not the same people.
Sure, but why not use any other domain registrar? i.e. any consumer registrar.
My experience is the exact opposite: all networks I've used in the US (Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile; in essence, all of the major ones) and the few I've used in the UK (while roaming) have all had sufficiently few outgoing ports blocked that I've never run into one (and I use my iPhone as if it were a computer ;P). That said, WebSockets is just an upgrade extension to HTTP, so it is going to go over 80/443 anyway.
You're talking about highly-focused, or micro, search. Yeah, Google doesn't seem to do that very well. They have a few segments, like book search and image search, but it's not specific enough.

One thing I search for sometimes are code examples in a particular language. Search for something in C on Google and you end up with lots of stuff for C++, C#, etc... Github, with its large repository of public code, lets you filter by programming language, and is much better than Google in these cases.

Bing copies Google. DuckDuckGo returns different things than Google, but otherwise is a copy. There's no micro search engine for specific topics and sub-topics, outside of site-specific search. Market opportunity...
"Both pages are not indexable." What? Clearly they are indexable. Is this post claiming that indexing JavaScript content is "closing up the web"? That seems pretty arbitrary. I don't understand why making your search engine JavaScript-aware should be considered unfair to "the competition". That sounds like "innovation". I'm sure if Bing doesn't already do this, they're working on it.
Bullshit post... in the case of the Google+ post, he clearly doesn't understand how bots "see" the page and on the Google Groups page he's just flat out wrong because I can see it both while logged out and while using an incognito window.
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I think that the hard part of tackling these ambitious projects is (often) not the actual engineering but rather making the ideas popular and fighting against the status quo. Another hard part is how difficult is the transition from how we do things now to the new way.

So most of these things he mentions, people are working on them, or something similar, or even have functional software. That software just isn't popular. Not because it isn't useful, but because it didn't catch on.

And a lot of these ideas aren't really useful until they reach a critical mass of users, which makes it even harder.

The big ambitious thing I wanted to mention was DONA (data-oriented networking or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-centric_networking). You might be able to combine that with some type of semantic knowledge storage and engineering along with a type of e-democracy. People have working examples of these things, its just hard for people to pick them up and start actually using them and then mention them to others for them to become trends.

Before (or instead of) human-controlled knowledge engineering we may see Google (http://mashable.com/2012/02/13/google-knowledge-graph-change...) (or possibly some start up) come out with a Watsonish system that builds huge knowledge graphs by actually comprehending the semantics of web pages it spiders and then lets you query them more naturally. (Which I guess that type of system does exist, just didn't catch on, maybe because it wasn't quite up to human level comprehension or didn't become popular for whatever reason.)
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Did you try changing your user agent? I work for a company that runs a heavily javascripted site, and we return straight HTML if you are a bot. It's entirely possible that they do the same...
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Would noscript count?

I mean, I use it as more of a security tool than an ad blocker.
Pretty much all of the digital goods sales platforms work this way. This is nothing new. Please don't credit them with inventing it. This technique has been around for literally a decade or more.
As a programmer, I intuitively understand the value of building up from small pieces.

I think what Paul is saying in the first part I quoted is different though. He is saying don't even say you are going to build the "grand vision" because it sets unreasonable expectations and defocuses you from making incremental progress.

The second part I quoted is about avoiding top-down design / blueprints and you are right on the money there.
> Ironically the networks then go and blur out Kate Winslet's nipples in Leonardo Dicaprio's DRAWING when they screen Titanic. I guess murder is more natural than sexuality

yeah, a problem is featured in this doc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c
"I would pay for this" is a terrible way to think for an entrepreneur.

Peter Drucker said: "The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer."

So an entrepreneur tackling this problem would already have at least one prospective customer, thus they'd immediately be in business. And who knows, maybe something "big" grows out of it (e.g. maybe you discover there's a big market for this in the enterprise space).
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They shouldn't. At least if they follow their own rules. They cracked down heavily on sites (like experts-exchange.com) who would display results and answers to GoogleBot, but when humans attempted to browse that page, they had to register/ pay to see the same page.
Undoubtedly, but tidy profit and frighteningly ambitious are two different things.
"The most ambitious is to try to do it automatically: to write a compiler that will parallelize our code for us."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_Extensions
That's known as cloaking. user agent sniffing is never a very good idea from SEO perspective. googlebot also uses normal browser user agent and if it finds that you are returning different content based on user agent then your site can be in trouble.
Takeaway for me: Great ideas will change the world, but you never start with them in the first place