skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more on your side of this opinion... but I doubt the majority of the world is.

You'd be really surprised the "ideas" i've seen some throw my way after making me sign an NDA.

Ironically enough, I guess I can't talk about those...
Now that these consumer-facing companies are being pressured to monetize, the fuzzy warm days of everyone sharing everything are over. Now we get to see who's really holding the good cards and who's been getting by on bluffing.

For my money I think Twitter is more dependent on third parties than third parties are on Twitter. Not just Instagram, but the entire ecosystem of apps that grew up around Twitter in the bygone days of warm fuzzies.

Twitter seems like someone throwing a great party who slowly throws out everyone interesting because they want to be the center of attention. Once all the interesting people are gone though, the partiers are trickling out, and the interesting people who made the party hot have moved on.
"unique character with a perspective on the world that few others (appear to) share"

Thats called "being a great entrepreneur". And yes I agree, few people share.
The entire time I'm reading the article and the comments, I'm just mentally jaw-dropped by these comments. We are no where near the top of the 's-curve' for computational or industrial technology.

The entire argument is a straw man by Kasparov. Name a single science which has not been dramatically changed in the last 20 years by the application of computation. Its just boggling to me how Kasparov's argument holds any sway.
this sucks!...that is all
The main problem of the 21st century is and will continue to be energy.

We have the science to do amazing things, but we can't afford the power requirements. We wont be able to advance as a civilization without something radically different in the way of generating power.
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I knew you are finding Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr replacement (￣ω￣)
You wouldn't want to post up something like a "trade secret" on our site, that's for sure. However, living in Silicon Valley I have actually found that most people in the tech community don't have problems sharing their ideas. I like to share my ideas as often as possible, because it helps me evaluate which ones are the best, and often people offer meaningful suggestions. At the end of the day, success comes down to execution, but it's nice to have some confidence that you aren't starting down a path on false premises.
interesting idea, just entered my email there,

one thing though, i tried clicking the area outside the 'pop-up' box there countless time trying to get rid of it and see whats behind it. I initially even entered my email in hope to get rid of the pop-up before realizing how stupid I was.. maybe this is intentional, but still, confusing.
Just to bounce ideas/brainstorm.

The issue is why would people come to this site to click 'I'd use this' or 'I support this'. (Ideas will flow in no problem, they're a dime a dozen.)

So we need to provide feedbackers with incentive.

1. Reward them? Oops…nothing to stop them going around and supporting them everything and game the reward system.

2. Reward them based on their choices (and limit their votes)? Nope…these are just ideas. There's no way you can tell if the idea will be successful even with enough support backers. Takes much longer to develop etc.

3. Give them the option to back good ideas (put their money where their mouth is)? Nope…then it's just Kickstarter.

4. Curate the people evaluating the apps. Gather some people that have skills and well informed about their field. Tech/Design/etc. Then you'll be able to get real feedback from those who knows what they're talking about. It's not a guaranteed hit/miss but I think the result would be better than mass voting from randoms.
Everyone has ideas, and some even have the ability to execute.

We're trying to marry the two.

Full disclosure: My team needs this product. We've built apps no one wants. We don't want to to do that again. We're hoping others are in the same boat.
Don't understand the downvotes, that's exactly what's going on. I alluded to this upthread; this aesthetic is more about Microsoft attempting minimalism to look trendy than than it is about usability, which is why qualified UX folk have been blasting it.
It can show animated gifs??
Your experience definitely doesn't match mine. That said, I was not doing the same sort of work as you, so I will mostly limit my complaints about Notes to general usability. If someone is getting specific functionality out of Notes they couldn't get anywhere else, I can see somebody overlooking all of this.

I don't remember what year I started using Lotus Notes, it was at least 1995, I was using it on Windows 95 and on Windows 3.11. I was working summers during college. What's incredible about Lotus Notes is how we're now in 2012 and it still has some of the same bugs, same UI weirdness, and it's still pretty much just as slow.

I think it's hated for pretty straightforward reasons, things like how it doesn't conform to your operating system's usability guidelines, it still more or less acts like the mainframe application it was derived from; so when you'd press F5 to refresh it would instead close the window (if you want to refresh, you have to press the square in the corner, where you know there's an invisible widget that refreshes--you just know because you've used it for so long.) There's that weird tile screen where you click a tile and it indents like a button being pressed, but then just stays there and does nothing--why??? It's slow no matter how fast your computer is. It crashes. For years when it crashed you had to completely restart your computer of Lotus refused to run (who remembers when KillNotes was invented so you didn't have to do this???) It does things in just plain weird ways that cause weird side-effects, like how selecting multiple documents to delete would clear your clipboard. Bugs that seem unacceptable for an enterprise project, like when I would reply to someone and it would send the reply back to me instead of the sender. Or how selecting documents to archive and archiving them only archives about 85 percent of them, so you get in the habit of selecting the same batch to archive, over and over, as it progressively successfully archives only a portion of the documents you selected, until they are finally all archived. These are only a few complaints, there are many more.

I used Lotus Notes at every job between then almost all the way up until now. Some things got a little better; they fixed a bunch of the bugs, when it (only occasionally now) crashes you don't have to restart your computer. F5 doesn't close your window. You almost never see that near-useless tile screen. And there are the things that Lotus Notes has always done right, like how it's had built in signing and encryption since forever. And the document store, as is the original point of the article, was pretty cool at the time, but IMO you really needed an Notes expert to keep it all together for your business, where document stores now are pretty easy.

Sorry if this was long and negative. But every time there is discussion about Lotus Notes I feel compelled to talk about my long term experiences as a user (as opposed to admin, or content creator) of it. I think there is definitely a reason it is hated.
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I don't understand this often repeated argument. Apple didn't suddenly appear with a million customers/fans, they started from zero.
Neither SSL or cryptography are broken. However, it's widely known that the government has its hands on most root-level private keys. All of cryptography comes down to how well we manage keys, whose weakest link is humans :)

Having the internet's root keys does two things:

1) The government can impersonate as most sites to perform a MITM, which is rare and would only happen on specific, targeted people.

2) The private keys reduce the search space for brute force 128-bit decryption to the point that it can be completed in near real time. If the government were to have direct access to the fiber backbones, then they could monitor SSL traffic as easily as plain-text traffic. Hence, "solved problem." Part of the trick behind this is pre-computing a lot of commercial site's individual private keys ahead of time. If you do nothing but monitor headers you would know the top 90% of hosts to pre-compute first.

To be clear -- I don't know what the government does or does not do. But I know a little bit about crypto and the industry, and I'm inferring what the government does based on 'innocuous' requests it makes regularly to a popular crypto products such as the one I worked on.
My sense from friends and colleagues who have used or developed for Lotus notes is that Users generally hated it but people developing apps for it loved it. I've always assumed the technology was solid but like most things in the category of custom one-off but long lived software for companies the UI/UX was almost always subpar.
Nothing except my own ethics. I don't like to take money from people who haven't consented to hand it over. Smells too much like theft. #dont_be_evil
I'm a (reluctant) Notes/Domino admin at a small company. We use it for email and a few small apps.
My impressions of where it went "wrong":

* It was built before a lot of de-facto standards for UIs came about. So it uses different buttons, shortcuts, styles and UI paradigms compared to other software (mainly Office). This creates friction for most users. Unfortunately they can't "fix" it without irritating the users who've got used to the traditional Lotus way.

* It got too complicated for ordinary users to develop their own apps. So instead of all the users being familiar with its power (and so understanding of its weaknesses), 99% of users just know it as a "buggy email client"

* IBM gave up on expanding its power or fixing any of its bugs, and instead just treat it as a cash cow for the companies which are still using it.
PG, or any mods -

Why did this get downvoted? It was #2 on the front page and is suddenly gone.

Can you please let me know what happened?
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Is twitter now accepted by SEC, or does Tesla need to file bunch of paperwork just because of this tweet?
Awesome feedback. And great/clear thinking. Thank you.
Let's say one month the only business you do is when I write you an IOU for $40k and your expenses are $30k. You have made $10k in profit (since the IOU is worth $40k), but you are cash-flow negative, since you have $30k less cash in the bank.
Nope, no differential. It's more like profit = cash flow (i.e. profit on day-to-day things) + profit/loss on investments/loans (e.g. taking out a loan, paying off a loan, but also cases where you own the same thing as before, but value it higher or lower now for some reason).

So e.g. during the housing bubble, some companies were cash flow negative (i.e. losing money on their day-to-day business), but they recorded a profit for the quarter because the buildings they owned were worth more at the end of it than they had been at the start.
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Liquid Robotics’ robot vehicle journeys 9,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean
I am always amazed by these sorts of articles, in part because it is always nominally 'successful' people who have these sorts of doubts and in part because Toffler's "Future Shock" can express itself in ways that look like the medical condition.

The changes they aren't ready for are the biological ones. You see the whole '10 years of trials from monkeys to humans' thing which limits the application of biological agents is going to change once we understand how the machine, we call a human, really works. We are getting closer. Once we're there you won't have to 'test to see the effect' you will 'design for this particular effect.' That will make things very different.

We're starting to see the leading edge of the carbon age. I pointed out once that if you name the human "ages" by the primary material of their tools, we had stone, bronze, iron, steel, and now silicon. Next up, carbon.

We're about to expand into space. Unlike Apollo which was like a program written to do one thing, SpaceX and others are building space flight capabilities that will mix and match to create space access as a function of money, not expertise.

I've always enjoyed stories where authors imagined the transition from 'now' to 'star trek' like universes. We are in a transition, of that there is no doubt. the next level will be interesting, of that I have no doubt.
I don't know if I agree that your Woz example is the best one...it's one thing to not be able to convince management, it's another not to be able to convince the average Joe.
I do it deliberately, as I have very poor vision and find it impossible to read block text these days.

Please excuse my preference for commenting this way.
Heya, author of the slides here.

Re: 'root causes' -- I find the words somewhat important. Like, if you say you're looking for a root cause, then people tend to be in the sort of moral mindset, and have a harder time seeing it as a collection of contingent events.

Also, in the (truly amazing) "How Complex Systems Fail", he's pretty down on "root cause":

http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fai...

"7) Post-accident attribution accident to a ‘root cause’ is fundamentally wrong"
What kind of legal side can you guarantee to anyone ? Would this work overseas ? Also, ideas are just ideas until someone actually creates it.

Not to piss on your parade, but you can't protect anything.
Linux hasn't won the desktop -- but it will one day when everybody just use an Android tablet.

And nobody will have noticed.
v4.0? Luxury :-) I started on 3.01 with no scripting.

I was at Lotusphere when Mozzie Shore (sp?) demo-ed Notes 4 and got a standing ovation.
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(author of slides here): I actually took the slides I presented, went back and interleaved simple bullet point slides covering what I talked about.

Because I have that same problem -- if someone has nice visual slides, the Slideshare is often kind of useless.
Email is a to-do list made by other people
I think you are the exception to the rule. I could guess what I think it means, but I shouldn't have to.
"Mobile first" is a great way to design your website: design for the mobile web first, and design for desktop web second. Port to Objective-C only when necessary.
Does MSFT's approach make it harder to write rootkits? Doesn't that have value to their users? Is there a plausible alternative that protects their users to the same degree? If not, then even if it makes it harder for users to install Linux as a side effect (or primary effect, if you're feeling cynical), I don't understand why this behavior would be illegal.
Ask PG: How do you go from #2 to #78 in a matter of seconds?
This can be devastating for new ideas trying to get a shot at some exposure... like what just happened to us.

I'm sure there's some logic here, but I'm curious to know what it is.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4876680
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With Kickstarter, though, the "upvoters" get actual returns from their votes (the "vote" being money and "returns" being gifts)
Note, not American so my interest in American tax dollars is pretty slim. But, in general yes it's worth the risk.

America, like most countries, is looking for a new industry to keep the economy moving on up. Manufacturing used to do it, then that shifted away, then the financial sector was the keeping the economy ticking over and that went a bit awry, now there needs to be a next thing. Investing in Tesla is a chancy risk (although I imagine the US.gov has taken steps to minimise the risk), but if it pays off and helps develop a new economic motivation industry with green tech it could help as a job creation strategy and also attract investment from outside the country.

Tesla looks and sounds sexy, they're a new darling with no baggage, they've got this guy involved who's daring and reasonably well liked with huge ideas, the cars themselves are gorgeous. That's much more exciting than Ford making electric cars.

$500m sounds like a hell of a lot of money when it's out there, but the US spent $700b on the military in 2011. Compared to that $500m on Tesla is not a huge amount. Without being glib, $500m is a rounding error on the military spend, if Tesla strapped some rockets and bullet proofing it could slip into the budget.
> but it will one day when everybody just use an Android tablet.

I doubt an Android tablet will __ever__ be able to process my post-production renders in a reasonable amount of time.

This is the #1 thing I do with my desktop computer at home.
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I wonder if a slow-down or plateau-ing of technological advancement would make us focus more on cultural/philosophical advancements that improve: average happiness per-person per-"day lived".

That would be an interesting paradigm shift...

...assuming there are such advancements to be made.
There are a lot of reasons this may be. Your Internet may be faster than your average user's. You may be closer geographically to your server. Different browsers will show different load speeds. The site may be cached for you most of the time.

I know you weren't actually asking, but I figured it's worth stating this for someone else who might experience the same thing. Load times do vary greatly. Digging down into the Analytics can show you where/why they vary. And as you said and as always with Analytics, look for trends more than exact figures.
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Hopefully all this work will only translate to changing the API used by Qt and GTK to draw on screen and not a complete overhaul of X11. They'll take my wm from my cold dead hands.
I feel like most of the comments are reading the title and not the article.

The author is actually suggesting that Thiel and Kasparov are probably wrong, and the current economic situation could be explained by simpler means (results of a financial meltdown as opposed to running out of things to invent).

I'm inclined to put more faith in the economist pushing the simple and previously observed cause than the big names pushing a doomsday scenario.
Canada is still in deficit mode but our debt-to-GDP ratio still looks pretty good.
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The thing that people forget is that 15-20 years ago when it first came out, you couldn't really replicate databases easily and having everybody in a global company access one database in, say, New York was a non-starter.
Or just:

git diff REV1 REV2 >some.patch
patch -p1 <some.patch
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> a bit harder to remove the Windows 8 license you just voluntarily paid for

It's not voluntary as long as the option of not buying doesn't exist. It's coercion.
What do you expect when customers expect apps < $5?

The only way to make a living is to get tons of purchases, which isn't easy.
We live in, presumably, a consumer-spending driven economy. The problem I see is that in the efforts of businesses to become more efficient and to outsource, they're creating a tragedy of the commons effect - if no one is willing to stay in the US and pay US workers highly, US consumers won't have anything to spend.

I think this is fairly evident due to the continuing list of articles about jobs that make the front page here - the "skills gap" that's not a skills gap, but a problem with hiring practices; the one a few weeks ago about the manufacturer that wants to pay skilled math and science students $10 an hour and wonders why they go work in service jobs; the service jobs that are now carefully managed to the minute by software so no one is idle on the job and are 90% part-time to extract the best work from their employees at the lowest cost.

Startups aren't a fix for this, they make the problems worse - how many Saas startups have a business proposition of making something more efficient (Salesforce, Workday as the biggest and most obvious) which results in a need for less people to do that work? How many people does a place like Facebook employ compared to Google, or Google to Microsoft, or MS to GE or Chevron?
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Somewhat related:
Damien Katz has a brilliant blog post describing his experiences rewriting the Lotus Notes formula engine, and dealing with the "bugs".
http://damienkatz.net/2005/01/formula-engine-rewrite.html
Why do one thing well, when you can do many things with tepid mediocrity?

Look what's happening to Microsoft's core business:

http://www.businessinsider.com/mary-meeker-2012-internet-tre...

EDIT: You won me over cooldeal. (robotic voice) Clippy is better than Google Now. I will start using Bing.
MySpace offers the same, believe it or not.
It seems that you have some good points, but please fix the formatting. I can't read it at all on my mobile. You can copy and paste from another editor if you need a more comfortable way to view it.
Another "me-too" product from a once innovative tech titan (yes they still do innovate - just not on this).
Government doesn't bet than society as a whole loses out.

Ideally your government should be attempting to maximize everyone's utility (read:society). Private corporations are attempting to maximize their utility (In the case of modern economies: money).

Having an organization giving money to projects that are a net monetary loss, but provide a social benefit is the core reason why we have a government in the first place.
The other one is Facebook.
agreed. Sometimes it takes you a long time to realize it too. Other times it's right in your face.
"We pay our employees on the 1st and the 15th"

I'm sure there are ways that accounting compensates for that though...
Great tips, but if I remember correctly the Italian movie is called La Vita e bella.
The read's vary from day to day. Sometimes it's technology based, sometimes it's history based, it is very random. I work hard to find a gem of an article everyday.
> ... it's one thing to not be able to convince management, it's another not to be able to convince the average Joe.

I agree with your point, but Woz and Jobs convinced both -- they convinced both financial backers and the public. I'm just saying it's possible, and such stories often accompany noteworthy technological breakthroughs.
> Welcome, you can create your own collage in seconds

What kind of headline is that?
I guess launchsky.com is in competition with ycombinator )
What taxes are you talking about that are much higher than in prior periods? I've heard from a lot of investors that high taxes don't really impact their decisions. A good investment is a good investment. High taxes on middle class people however can have a stifling effect, because they don't have the extra cash to keep circulating in the economy.
I think if you had a marketing person they would be slapping you for letting your site remain down for an hour while you have people interested in checking it out :D

Any idea when it'll be back up? I'd like to check it out.